Pivot
by
Kat Martin – Rebecca Zanetti – Alexandra Ivy
In PIVOT, three friends, each survivors of a brutal childhood, grew up together in foster care.
Now as women, they’re fighting for their lives again.
When Meriwether Jones and her young daughter run from trouble in L.A., that trouble follows. By the time Meri reaches Spokane, she’s out of gas, money, and ideas. Her prayers are answered when ex-cop Ian Brodie hires her to help his aging father. But Meri is keeping a dangerous secret—-and Ian is in danger of losing his heart.
Melanie Cassidy finds trouble when she tries to save a young boy from being kidnapped. The last thing she expects is former love-of-her-life, Detective Gray Hawkins, to appear and rescue them both. But her good-Samaritan efforts pull her and Gray into a conspiracy of drug dealers and dirty cops –and forces them to examine the relationship they’d once abandoned.
Michelle Peach is one of Meri’s closet friends. She’s finally content in Portland—-until two rough men break into her home and threaten her life. The last person Michelle wants to see is Evan Boldon, a former Marine turned sheriff. But this time Evan is going to stop the trouble stalking Michelle-—and win her heart for good.
“The three novellas featured in this high-octane romantic suspense anthology form a captivating whole … Remarkable tonal consistency and interlocking elements ensure that these twisty, sizzling love stories flow seamlessly together. Readers won’t want to put this one down.”
—Publishers Weekly
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Guest Blog Post: An Interesting Concept by Kat Martin
My upcoming release, PIVOT, began as a novella that I wrote to sometime back to introduce my BOSS Inc. series. Ian Brodie was the owner of the security firm, a tall, good-looking blond man, one of the Brodie cousins. The novella was AGAINST THE HEART, a romantic suspense set in a rural area of Spokane, Washington.
A year ago, Alicia Condon, my editor at Kensington, came to me with an idea for a collaborative novel that would include novellas by two other authors. Their stories would revolve around Ian Brodie and Meriwether Jones, the hero and heroine of AGAINST the HEART. The idea intrigued me and we decided to go forward.
Alexandra Ivy and Rebecca Zanetti, both bestselling authors of romantic suspense, came on board and started writing, taking sub characters from Ian and Meri’s story, telling their own stories, and giving us a glimpse of Ian and Meri’s life going forward.
In PIVOT, Alexandra and Rebecca started with the premise that the three girls involved in the stories shared brutal childhoods and grew up together in foster care.
Now as women, they’re fighting for their lives again.
When Meriwether Jones and her young daughter run from trouble in L.A., that trouble follows. By the time Meri reaches Spokane, she’s out of gas, money, and ideas. Then her prayers are answered when ex-cop Ian Brodie hires her to help his aging father. But Meri is keeping a dangerous secret—-and Ian is in danger of losing his heart.
Melanie Cassidy finds trouble when she tries to save a young boy from being kidnapped. The last thing she expects is former love-of-her-life, Detective Gray Hawkins, to appear and rescue them both. But her good-Samaritan efforts pull her and Gray into a conspiracy of drug dealers and dirty cops—-and forces them to examine the relationship they’d once abandoned.
Michelle Peach is one of Meri’s closet friends. She is finally content in Portland—-until two rough men break into her home and threaten her life. The last person Michelle wants to see is Evan Boldon, a former Marine turned sheriff. But this time Evan is going to stop the trouble stalking Michelle-—and win her heart for good.
I hope you’ll give this fun read a try. And if you haven’t read the BOSS Inc. series, INTO THE FURY, INTO THE WHIRLWIND, and INTO THE FIRESTORM, I hope you will. Till next time, happy reading and all best, Kat
My Review of Pivot
There are three short romantic suspense stories in this book: Against the Heart by Kat Martin, Shaken by Rebecca Zanetti, and Echoes of the Past by Alexandra Ivy.
In Against the Heart, Meriwether Jones and her daughter are on the run from the girl’s father (Joey Bandini) who wants money Meri doesn’t have and will do anything to get it. Fleeing from Southern California and heading to Portland, she somehow ends up in Spokane and meets Ian Brodie. I have to admit the geography took me aback a bit, but the story kept me going. Being familiar with the other Brodie stories made it more enjoyable.
In Shaken, Michelle Peach is an old friend of Meri’s. Joey Bandini comes to her along with fellow thug Kowalski to find out what Michelle knows of Meri’s whereabouts. Her mother, an addict, further complicates the issues when she betrays Meri over and over throughout the story. The hero is Evan Boldon, a member of the Deep Ops team, one of Zanetti’s series. This, to me, was the strongest story in the trilogy.
In Echoes of the Past, Detective Gray Hawkins goes undercover to find some dirty Seattle cops. The source of the information is Kowalski and the heroine yet another friend of Meri’s, Melani Cassidy. As in the other two books, the two become involved as they figure out how to save themselves from danger. This book doesn’t seem to be associated with any series.
I enjoyed all three stories, and found them fast reads. I’ve read books by Martin and Zanetti before, but Ivy is a new author to me.
About Kat Martin
Bestselling author Kat Martin, a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, currently resides in Missoula, Montana with Western-author husband, L. J. Martin. More than seventeen million copies of Kat’s books are in print, and she has been published in twenty foreign countries. Fifteen of her recent novels have taken top-ten spots on the New York Times Bestseller List, and her novel, BEYOND REASON, was recently optioned for a feature film. Kat’s next hardcover, THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL, a Romantic Thriller, will be released on July 28th.
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