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All answers can be found in the excerpt of Her Own Best Enemy: http://www.cynthiaju...own-best-enemy/ 1. What is Keith’s job in the Special Forces? 2. What is the name of Grace’s son? 3. Who took Grace’s son? 4. What was Keith’s nickname for Grace in high school? 5. What’s the name of the bar where Grace and Keith are supposed to meet? answers will be announced on March 26. Each subscription to the newsletter will also be counted as an entry. You can subscribe here .

Please Welcome Cynthia Justlin and her wonderful book

Smoke wafted through the air, tinted pink and yellow by the flashing neon lights. Two scantily clad women undulated up on the bar’s silver stage. Grace scowled, sliding deeper into the velvet-lined booth. “So, tell us a bit about why you’re both here.” The interviewer from WAZT had to shout over the unrelenting bass emanating from the Cheshire’s loudspeakers. “He picked this dive,” Grace said, hitching her thumb in Keith’s direction. Keith’s jaw tightened. He tugged the baseball cap further down on his head. “This is strictly off the record, right? No one can know I’m here.” “This isn’t about you,” Grace slung back. Her son’s life was on the line, and he was worried about his own neck? “If I’m locked up somewhere, how is that going to help your son?” A bright strobe light cut across his features, illuminating the gold flecks in his hazel eyes as he stared at her. Something hot and tight lodged in Grace’s chest. Not now. Even at his cruelest, Keith had always ha

Please welcome Heather Haven

The Alvarez Murder Mystery Series In my twenties and thirties, I spent my writing career in New York City creating short stories, comedy acts, plays, television treatments, ad copy, and commercials. I even ghost-wrote a book once. The idea of writing my own book didn’t occur to me until I was in my early forties. What can I say? I’m a late bloomer. I read my first Nancy Drew book at the tender age of nine and have never looked back. I love a good mystery, in particular, humorous mysteries. Most of the time when I read a book, I like it to be on the humorous side. If I want to cry, I can pick up a newspaper and read the real estate or financial section. Tears will spring to my eyes immediately. So I decided to write a funny murder mystery series, beginning with Murder is a Family Business. After all, a writer lives inside her or his head and if I have to be in there 24/7, I’d like to have a few laughs along the way. Also, I felt my mystery series had to include two important th