{"id":11,"date":"2015-04-02T01:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T01:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2015-04-07T23:53:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T23:53:16","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Laura Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman living alone is caught in the crossfire when a young man seeks revenge on relatives who stole his inheritance. As the intrusions into her life escalate, her emotional state becomes increasingly erratic. One thing she knows with certainty: She’ll never feel safe in her home again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Available now at these ebook retailers.<\/h4>\n

Amazon\/Kindle<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kobo<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n

Coming soon to:<\/h5>\n

Apple,\u00a0 Nook, and\u00a0 FlipKart<\/p>\n

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Under the crystal blue skies of the Mojave Desert\u2026<\/h2>\n

A woman hides from her past<\/h3>\n

When life unravels, everyone needs a place of safety while rewinding the string. For Laura Poole, a divorce meant trading the familiarity of suburban Detroit for a cozy house on the fringe of a small Nevada town. Her therapy is simple: Single-minded attention to teaching history at Silver Creek High School by day and tranquility at night\u2014alone in the sanctuary of her home. But when she returns from work one evening and finds a vase of roses in her living room, she knows someone was inside her house. The next night she discovers her furniture and clothes rearranged. The police find no evidence of forced entry, nothing is missing and Laura\u2019s increasingly erratic behavior raises questions about her emotional state. As the intrusions escalate, Laura realizes she might never feel safe in her home again\u2014but she won\u2019t give in without a fight.
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A widower is adrift in the present<\/h3>\n

Scott Eastwood had it all: a successful accounting practice in Las Vegas, a celebrity-wife and a pair of wonderful kids. Unfortunately, he picked his son\u2019s birthday to get wrapped up with a client and come home late\u2014without the cake. An argument about family versus career followed and his wife stormed out, bakery-bound. An hour later, Scott got the call. A drunk had run a light. With a new focus on family, Scott moves his kids to Silver Creek, the small town where he grew up. Romance wasn\u2019t on his mind, but a chance meeting with Laura triggers an unforeseeable chain of events and personal chemistry that leads Scott and his children to become increasingly involved with this strong woman who fills an empty space in their lives.
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A young man races to his future<\/h3>\n

Brad Colton was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His father was Avery Colton, retired judge and patriarch of the<\/i> Colton family, boasting East Coast roots back to the American Revolution. Imagine the family\u2019s horror when Avery, in a fit of late-life rebellion, married a Las Vegas showgirl who, eight months later, produced an additional heir to the family name. When Avery died following Brad\u2019s twelfth birthday, \u201cAunt\u201d Victoria immediately blackmailed Mama into signing a backdated pre-nuptial agreement. Short on money and options, Mama takes Brad to live with her father on his broken-down ranch outside Silver Creek and Brad, who grew up with private tutors in Paris, Lisbon and Rio, must transition to public schools and ranch chores in rural Nevada. He\u2019s never forgotten how Victoria changed the trajectory of his life and now that he\u2019s eighteen, he\u2019s ready to return the favor. Unfortunately, Victoria lives in a high-security environment. To reach her, Brad needs a surrogate: the unsuspecting Laura Poole.<\/p>\n

\u2026three lives will collide.<\/h2>\n
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If you are a thriller or suspense fan, take a side trip to the Mojave Desert in this character-rich and compulsively readable first novel by breakout author Steve Friday.<\/p>\n

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A woman living alone is caught in the crossfire when a young man seeks revenge on relatives who stole his inheritance. As the intrusions into her life escalate, her emotional state becomes increasingly erratic. One thing she knows with certainty: She’ll never feel safe in her home again. Available now at these ebook retailers. Amazon\/Kindle,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kobo,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Smashwords … Continue reading Selling Laura Poole<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevefriday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}