Christmas in Dogtown
by Suzanne Johnson
Genre: Sweet Paranormal
Romance
Publisher: Story
Vaul
Date of
Publication: December 2012
ASIN: B009RBKTSG
Number of pages: 30
Word Count: approx.
11,000
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Book Description:
A woman who spent years escaping her rural past learns that
Dogtown, Louisiana, hides more family secrets than just the recipe for boudin
blanc…..
Resa Madere’s on the verge of losing it all. The
boyfriend’s gone. The job’s history. Her beloved house is on the brink of
foreclosure. She’ll do anything to save it—even spend a long Christmas holiday
working in St. James Parish, Louisiana, helping her uncle run the family meat
business. But the community of Dogtown, which has been home for seven generations
of the Madere and Caillou families, has deep roots and deeper secrets. For
Resa, going home is one thing.
Getting out might not be so easy.
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Short Excerpt:
“You are stupid,”
Resa told her reflection in the tiny, scratched mirror of the White Castle’s
rose-pink bathroom. “Stupid, ridiculous, and absurd.”
She’d been wrestling with her curly
black hair for a half hour, and the brown eyes that stared back at her from
beneath freshly plucked brows and carefully applied eyeliner looked more jittery
than sexy. “And idiotic.”
First, it had been almost a week since
Chan had asked her to the Saturday night community dance, popping the question
almost shyly as they hacked at the bodies of gigantic dead fish. They’d both
been covered in blood and smelled like they’d been rolling in bait, which
should have tipped her off that anything in Dogtown reeking of romance, well,
reeked.
Second, her potential date had left
immediately after asking her out so he could catch an alligator that had eaten
somebody’s poodle in one of those backwater houses near the swamp. He burned
rubber out of the Madere’s driveway after making sure he had enough duct tape
to wrap around the gator’s jaws. Adequate duct tape was not an attribute she’d
ever sought in a man.
About the Author:
Suzanne Johnson writes urban fantasy and
paranormal romance (under the name Susannah Sandlin) from Auburn, Alabama, on
top of a career in educational publishing that has thus far spanned five states
and six universities—including both Alabama and Auburn, which makes her
bilingual. She grew up in Winfield, Alabama, halfway between the Bear Bryant
Museum and Elvis' birthplace, but was also a longtime resident of New Orleans,
so she has a highly refined sense of the absurd and an ingrained love of SEC
football, cheap Mardi Gras trinkets, and fried gator on a stick. She’s the
author of the Sentinels of New Orleans urban fantasy series and, as Susannah
Sandlin, the Penton Legacy paranormal romance series.
Website: www.suzanne-johnson.com
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