Tempest Blog Hop! Giveaway!
Hi! We’re Lisa Henry and J.A. Rock, the authors of TEMPEST. We’re
touring the web taking about our influences, our processes, anything we can
think about actually, and even giving you guys a sneak peak or two! And what
would a blog tour be without a contest? Check out the details at the bottom of
the post to see what you can win!
In this excerpt from TEMPEST, Henry is schooled in the art, sorry, the
science of disguise by Cory, Mac’s niece.
A thump from upstairs brought him back to reality. He shook himself like
a dog coming in from the rain. Set his glass down and headed to Cory’s room to
see if she and Vi wanted to learn three-card monte. He knocked on the door.
“Come in!”
He entered to find Cory wearing a sparkly silver top hat and a fake mustache. Viola had on a cape. Cory’s laptop was open, a BIOHAZARD sticker faded next to the trackpad. They both glanced at him, giggling.
“You two look very nice,” he said.
“I’m teaching Viola about the science of disguise,” Cory announced.
“Oh?” Now there was a science Henry could get behind.
“It’s easy to fool people into seeing something—or someone—they don’t,” Cory informed him.
No kidding. Maybe he didn’t have to teach the kid three-card monte after all. He wouldn’t be surprised if she already knew how to play.
“It’s about expectations,” Viola added.
“Yes.” Cory removed her glasses and rubbed the lenses on her shirt. “You can disguise yourself as someone other people expect to see.”
Like your twin sister. He thought about the fiasco at St. Albinus. Or a detective at a crime scene.
“But sometimes,” Cory went on, “you can disguise yourself as the unexpected. Instead of focusing on who you actually are, people will focus on how they never expected to see anyone like you.”
Like Henry Page. Poor Mac. Never expected to get saddled with Henry.
Except Mac had focused on who Henry actually was—to an uncomfortable extent. He had thought that being unfamiliar, unpredictable, and thoroughly annoying would keep Mac away from the truth. And yet Mac had homed right in on the parts he most wanted to keep hidden.
“That’s pretty smart,” he said. It was Conning 101, and Cory knew her stuff. “I certainly didn’t expect to see a magician and a magician’s assistant when I came up here.”
“Which one of us is the magician?” Viola asked.
“I’m not sure.” He looked them both up and down. “I mean, you have a cape, but Cory has a top hat. Which one of you is hiding the rabbit?”
About TEMPEST:
Something
wicked this way comes.
FBI Agent
Ryan “Mac” McGuinness and con man Henry Page are on the run again. This
time they’re headed back to where it all began: Altona, Indiana. Population:
some goats. Henry’s not happy about lying low at the McGuinness family farm,
but they’ve got nowhere else to go.
While Mac
fights to clear his name and Henry struggles with whose side he’s really on, a
ghost from the past threatens to destroy everything. And those aren’t the only
storms on the radar. Cut off from both sides of the law, Mac and Henry must
rely on their tenuous partnership to survive.
If Henry can
convince himself to let Mac see the man behind the disguises, they’ll stand a
chance of beating the forces that conspire against them. The course of true
love never did run smooth, but for the two of them, it might be their only
hope.
The Giveaway: Thanks for following our tour! To celebrate our release,
we’re giving away an awesome prize – an ebook copy of a novel of your choice
from either of our back catalogs. We’re also giving away a $20 Riptide gift
voucher, and some comfy items picked especially for you by Henry: a pillow
shaped like a donut, and a pair of donut-themed socks.
All you have to do is leave a comment on this post with a way for us to
contact you, be it your email, your twitter, or a link to your facebook or
goodreads account. Please put your email in the body of the comment, not just
in email section of the comment form, because we won’t be able to see it
otherwise! On March 20, 2015, we’ll draw a winner from all eligible comments!
Be sure to follow the whole tour, because the more comments you leave, the more
chances you have to win the prize!
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