Excerpt
Dimitri turned and almost choked on his sparkling water. He couldn’t take his eyes off Adelaide as she floated down the stairs. His mouth went dry. As he came to his senses and glanced around, he realized that the women seemed to have the same effect on most of the men watching them enter.
Dimitri made his way to offer his arm to them as they descended. “Ladies.”
“Hello, Dimitri. You remember my friend Tracey?”
He offered his other arm to Tracey. “I do. Both of you ladies look absolutely stunning this evening.”
He spoke to them both as he led them toward the spread of food, but his heart pounded as Adelaide smiled at him. As beautiful as she looked right now, it was hard for him to remember she wasn’t ready for romance. He’d agreed to wait, but the way she looked . . . his work was certainly cut out for him.
The Darkwater Inn stands tall and proud in the French Quarter, the hub of New Orleans. Bourbon Street is bustling, and General Manager Adelaide Fountaine has her hands full with a hotel at capacity. She, along with everyone else, is shocked when a body is found: a hotel guest stabbed with a kitchen knife.
Detective Beau Savoie, Adelaide’s childhood friend, is on the case. As Beau digs into the victim’s past, he unearths a shocking connection between Adelaide and the murdered guest. Beau is hurt that his friend—the woman he’s quietly loved for years—kept the truth from him. To make matters worse, the stress of the investigation has sent Adelaide right into the comforting arms of her coworker Dimitri. But Beau can’t press Adelaide too hard . . . he’s keeping secrets of his own.
Can Adelaide and Beau afford to hide from the truth with a killer on the loose?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
͞I love boxing. I love Hallmark movies. I love fishing. I love scrapbooking. Nope, I've never fit into the boxes people have wanted to put me in.͟~Robin Caroll is definitely a contradiction, but one that beckons you to get to know her better.
Born and raised in Louisiana, Robin is a southerner through and through. Her passion has always been to tell stories to entertain others.
When she isn’t writing, Robin spends time with her husband of twenty-five-plus years, her three beautiful daughters and two handsome grandsons, and their character-filled pets at home—in the South, where else?
She serves the writing community as Executive Director/Conference Director for ACFW. Her twenty-five books have finaled/placed in such contests as the Carol Award, Holt Medallion, Daphne du Maurier, RT Reviewer's Choice Award, Bookseller's Best, and Book of the Year.
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TOUR GIVEAWAY
Robin Caroll is giving away: - print copy of Darkwater Secrets
- your own key to the Darkwater Inn
- The Darkwater Inn Recipe Book
- an Uptown Stroll candle
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