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Blurb for BELIEVING AGAIN:
As the youngest woman ever to make detective in the Portland
Police Bureau, Danny Hartmann has racked up an impressive record. It doesn’t
keep her warm at night, but it does make up for feeling she’s somehow disappointed
her family with her career choice. Called to the scene of the murder of a
homeless veteran in a transient camp, Danny doesn’t expect it to be anything
other than another case she clears.
Then she meets the man who made the 9-1-1 call and everything changes.
Jake Abrams, a volunteer doctor at the Veterans Medical Services Clinic, doesn’t have much faith in anything other than his work and the vets he cares deeply about. Not shy about voicing his opinions, even to the cops investigating the murder of one of his patients, he annoys Danny with his snarky remarks.
However, working the case, she has to rely on Jake to help her find her way around the transient camps under the bridges and in the city’s huge wilderness park. As they work together, their attraction becomes mutual and passionate.
But Jake has demons. Like the vets he cares for, he carries scars both mental and physical from his service in the National Guard in Iraq. He fears Danny will turn from him in disgust when she discovers them. She’s afraid his experience in Iraq makes it impossible for him to love someone who does what she does for a living.
When the murderer of the homeless vets comes too close to Jake, it’ll be up to Danny to save his life. It’ll be up to their love for each other to save them both.
Then she meets the man who made the 9-1-1 call and everything changes.
Jake Abrams, a volunteer doctor at the Veterans Medical Services Clinic, doesn’t have much faith in anything other than his work and the vets he cares deeply about. Not shy about voicing his opinions, even to the cops investigating the murder of one of his patients, he annoys Danny with his snarky remarks.
However, working the case, she has to rely on Jake to help her find her way around the transient camps under the bridges and in the city’s huge wilderness park. As they work together, their attraction becomes mutual and passionate.
But Jake has demons. Like the vets he cares for, he carries scars both mental and physical from his service in the National Guard in Iraq. He fears Danny will turn from him in disgust when she discovers them. She’s afraid his experience in Iraq makes it impossible for him to love someone who does what she does for a living.
When the murderer of the homeless vets comes too close to Jake, it’ll be up to Danny to save his life. It’ll be up to their love for each other to save them both.
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Danny Hartmann is woman who takes her job seriously. She lives, breathes, and thrills at being a cop. She long ago decided that any man who wants to be part of her life must accept this or hit the road. All of this becomes first, and foremost, in her thoughts after she meets a handsome doctor who not only takes his job as a surgeon as seriously as she does hers as a detective, but also takes caring for his patients just as seriously as she does protecting them.
Jake Abrams, a veteran
himself, introduces her to a world unseen by most but currently the center of
her investigation as well as the delights of a relationship with a man willing
to give his all to her in the same way he does his patients. Fearful that she
may lose herself in his world, his family, and his love, Danny pulls back when
he tries to convince her there’s more to life than being a cop.
When the danger of the
case encroaches closer to Jake and the veterans that they both try to protect,
Danny must trust her skills, her instincts, and the love she’s developed for
this stubborn, relentless man or risk them all losing their lives.
BELIEVING AGAIN by Peggy
Bird is a poignant, action-filled, suspense romance that unlike the others in
the series that are truly second chances at love, this one takes us through the
beginnings of love, only to have it fall apart but then gives this matched pair
a second chance at love in the end. Jake and Danny together is
a match made in heaven. Each is stubborn, sharp-witted, and accepting of each
other’s fears yet individuals with their own way of looking at the world. Jake reminds me very much of one of my favorite heroes created
by Peggy – Tony Alessandro from TOGETHER AGAIN. Like Tony with Margo, Jake isn’t willing
to give up on Danny and their happily-ever-after. Once he decides that she’s the only woman for him, he will
stop at nothing, including giving her up, to prove to her that they are meant
to be together. This endears Jake Abrams to me in a way that other hero-types can’t.
Actions really do speak louder than words.
The suspense of the
murder mystery behind the romance keeps the story tight and the reader on the
edge of their seat as Danny and Sam try to find out who is shooting up the
homeless camps and why the victims are all Jake’s patients. The clues are there
but I was still surprised. That’s a good thing.
I highly recommend
BELIEVING AGAIN, book five in the Second Chance series by Peggy Bird for anyone
who loves a good suspense story, the thrill of falling in love, and experiencing
those first moments in a love affair as well as the fear that it’s not going to
work out. Thankfully, it does and you’ll love the way it ends. Jake is one patient
man and so sensitive, you just want to hug him - all the time.
Happy Reading Everyone!
About the Author:
Born in Philly, Peggy
Bird spent most of her adult life in the Pacific Northwest where she has
happily grown webs between her toes and moss
behind her ears. She pursued a
number of careers—nurse, legislative staffer, lobbyist, public affairs
consultant, non-profit association executive, workshop teacher, oh, and mother
and wife—before deciding to leave it all for what she loved through every stage
of life—writing. She’s been published in anthologies, magazines, newspapers and
in the brochures, newsletters, and reports of her consulting clients and
employers. Unless you count speeches for politicians, she’d never written
fiction until a cast of characters began inhabiting her daydreams. A glass
artist and a gallery owner were there. So were a sculptor and a jewelry
designer. When some dead bodies showed up, a couple of cops and a deputy DA
arrived. Soon they began to fall in love with each other and work for their
happy-ending. Bingo. Peggy was a romance writer.
If you’d like to learn
more about Peggy Bird, please feel free to visit her website, and follow her on
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Goodreads. She loves hearing from her
readers.
GIVEAWAY:
Peggy is giving away a
$10.00 Amazon or Barnes & Noble Gift Card to one lucky person tour wide so
feel free to enter for a chance at winning – you can buy her books! Please use
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BELIEVING
AGAIN, a Second Chance novel by Peggy Bird, Crimson Romance, available in ebook
formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobobooks.
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4 comments:
congrats to Peggy on the new release! Thanks for sharing ;)
Congrats on your release! I can't wait to read it!
Hi,
I enjoyed reading blurb for "Believing Again". And, the background for Peggy. I've not read any of Peggy's books but I definitely plan to change that.
many thanks for your time.
ginger
Ginger,
I recommend this entire series. Each book is its own even as the characters from one to another sometimes interact but trust me when I say, there's not a bad one in the bunch. I'd truly be hard pressed to pick one that is my favorite because each is so different from the one before that you fall in love with the current one even when you think Peggy can't beat the last one. :-)
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