The Heist
July, 2014
B&B
Publishing
ASIN: B00LNE7366
Romantic
Suspense, 81,000 words
Heat
rating: Three Flames (Warnings: explicit sex, m/f; light bdsm; sex toys)
BLURB
A heist? A murder? It’s villain’s
choice.
A
special-order art theft? Tedious, but seamless – until small town museum
director Kara Daniels calls in the experts. Furious her favorite trio of
priceless impressionist paintings has been stolen from its traveling exhibit on
her watch, Kara is determined to save not only the paintings, but her future in
the art world. She’ll stop at nothing to entrap the thief.
Ted Springs
knows the underbelly of the criminal world a little closer than he might
like—but he’s turned it to good advantage, first as a police officer, and now
as detective for the Upper Midwest Arts Council. His job? To guarantee the
security of the valuable paintings in the Council’s traveling exhibits.
Heat
sizzles when Ted and Kara collide—can they work together, before it’s too late?
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EXCERPT
“I and my
staff have already done fairly thorough background checks on all the museum
employees,” Ted said.
“Oh.” Kara
scowled. “I’m not sure I like that.”
“But you
expected it?”
“Of course.
At some point.”
“I believe
in being efficient. Even before certain added incentives.”
“I can
always change my mind. I don’t know a thing about you.”
“You know
enough. I have large hands.” Ted chuckled when she winced. “I’ve worked for the
Upper Midwest Arts Council for five years.”
“And before
that?”
“I was a
Chicago cop.”
“Oh.”
“I went
into the army right out of high school and completed my BA degree at U.I.C.
while on the force. Funny, isn’t it? While you were working on your MA at the
University of Chicago, I was patrolling the streets of Hyde Park and South
Chicago.”
“Really?”
“That’s
right.”
“Maybe we
bumped into each other.”
“I highly
doubt that. I wouldn’t forget bumping into you. Remember?”
“Oh,
right.” Kara’s flush returned.
ABOUT ADRIANA KRAFT
Adriana
Kraft is the pen name for a husband/wife team writing sizzling romantic
suspense and erotic romance. The award-winning pair has published over thirty
romance novels and novellas to outstanding reviews. Romantic pairings include
straight m/f, lesbian, bisexual, ménage and polyamory, in both contemporary and
paranormal settings.
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OPTIONAL
POST
Planning a
heist
Our latest
release, The Heist, got its start on
a rainy Monday a while back, when hubs and I attended a behind-the-scenes tour
at our small Iowa town’s exquisite art museum. A new exhibit was about to open,
and we were treated to detailed descriptions of the process of locating and
ordering traveling exhibits, shipping them, storing them, uncrating them,
hanging them, insuring their safety, and repacking them.
You must
know by now that hubs is a criminologist
by profession. It didn’t take us long to be looking for vulnerable spots
in the museum’s process, and by the end of the day, with a little internet
research on the high stakes world of stolen paintings, we had our basic plot
sketched out.
Our next
problem was—what painting should be stolen? Clearly, we couldn’t go with an
existing well-known piece of art. We opted to create The Three Maids, an entirely fictional trio of medium sized
Impressionist portraits, based on what we knew about Monet, Manet, Renoir,
Caillebotte, and the women they painted. We’ve put so much detail into the
paintings’ descriptions that I keep expecting to see them when I enter an
Impressionist display. If no one has painted them yet, I definitely think
someone should!
I’ll leave
the details of how the actual heist was planned, carried out, and (we hope)
foiled for readers to discover—we hope you enjoy reading The Heist as much as we enjoyed creating it!
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