The Thrill of the Chase

by Mary Burton, guest blogger and author of Dying Scream.

The average daily chase for me doesn’t have a whole lot of thrill attached to it. I’m usually chasing my miniature dachshunds, Buddy and Bella, through the woods because they’ve gotten onto the scent of something. I’m chasing a deadline or I’m chasing down a recipe for another kind of cookie or bread. All good stuff, but not so thrilling.

However, when I pick up a book, especially a romantic suspense, I can really sink into a thrilling chase. Not only is there a sense of the romantic chase (the chemistry, the tension, the energy that hooks the hero and heroine together) but there is the added layer of a very literal chase—the race to catch a killer. It’s this double pursuit for love and justice that drew me first as a reader and then as a writer to romantic suspense.

In DYING SCREAM, the hero and heroine don’t seem to be in any kind of chase when the story opens. If anything, they are running in opposite directions. Adrianna Barrington and Gage Hudson are not only former lovers with far too many unresolved emotions, but they quickly find themselves on opposite sides of a murder investigation. There are so many reasons why these two would never make it and yet the Pull between them, which they thought was long dead, is so strong that the race toward true love quickly begins.

And if the emotional struggle is not enough for these two, they also have a serial killer that is quite literally chasing Adrianna. If Gage can’t out guess this dangerous killer, he will lose the woman he has finally come so far to find.

So, if you’d like to escape the mundane and sink into a book that feeds your need for a thrilling chase, consider DYING SCREAM. It was great fun for me chasing after these two characters as their story unfolded and I hope you’ll find their journey as thrilling as I did.

Mary Burton
www.maryburton.com

Buy: Dying Scream