Sunday Snippet: Judge a Book by Its Cover

It's been a wildweek. Between work and other commitments, I've been frazzled. My sleep scheduleis all over the map and I'm not enjoying the fits and starts of trying to getrest. But … I'll adjust. Hopefully soon.

Our weather hasbeen all over the place. We had a sixty-degree day followed by snow and thirty-fourdegrees. The day after Thanksgiving is supposed to be in the upper teens forthe high. I'm side-eyeing Mother Nature right now.

Work projects arecoming in and I think I'm booked through the end of the year. I'm pleasedbecause December can be a sketchy month sometimes. I don't mind downtime, butI'm definitely not prepared to have limited income this year.

Had a terrible weekof viewing. Too many distractions and said lack of sleep kept me from gettingmuch watched.

I did catch anepisode of Mr. and Mrs. Murder and kind of enjoyed it. Some familiarfaces as guest stars this week. The mystery was a little lackluster but a goodepisode nonetheless.

I also caught somemarathons of Midsomer Murders. I kind of love the streaming twenty-fourhours of one show channels. It's fun to set a favorite and have a go-to comfortwatch whenever I want.

I'm also looking ata few new shows but haven't decided which ones I want to pick up. I'm alsohoping to get back to my rewatch of Battlestar Galactica. My viewingpartner will help determine if that's going to happen. So much more fun towatch with someone else who loves the show as much as I do.

That's pretty muchit for the life update this week. Tonight's post is from Judge a Book by ItsCover, a novella that brings a couple together when they bust up a cheatingring.

Here's theminiblurb:

Zeth Herrickson has to catch the culprits in a cheatingscandal at the academy. Coorah Blair normally sits at the top of his list whenthings aren't right—except she's the one who brings the matter to hisattention. They work together to track down the participants and go after theringleader, who is much closer to both than they'd believe.

And a preview snippet…

Coorah entered Black Satin Coffeehouseand sighed. "Of course, Zeth arrived early." She'd hoped to have afew minutes to collect her thoughts.Zeth lifted his chin, acknowledgingher arrival.Whatever. I'm used to flying blind. Winging it had long ago becomeher default mode.

She ordered a coffee—black, onesweetener, no frou-frou crap—and carried it over to his table.Settling across from him, she swungher legs under the surface and bumped her knees against his. "Sorry."She crossed her ankles under her chair and tried not to focus on the way theirlegs remained touching.Zeth flashed a smile. "Noproblem. These tiny cafe tables are hell for normal-sized people." He swiveledon the chair slightly and stretched one leg out.Coorah's lips curved."Exactly." Considering the coffee shop originally served onlyfairies, the small furniture made sense…But the place also made the bestjava on campus and finally caved in to pressure from the academy and lifted theban on non-little folk. Didn't mean the management had to make any otheraccommodations, though. And they didn't.Coorah popped the lid off her cup."I did what we discussed. Made copies and returned the originals to theproper class folder." She took a long swallow of her drink. "I havethe list of novices who participated, and I'll compare against the next set oftests." She had no doubt the names wouldn't change and figured she mightend up adding more.Zeth nodded. "Good. I've gotsome feelers out for who might be behind the whole deal." He named a fewpeople.Coorah grimaced. "I can eliminateone. Alistar McCabe. I went out with the guy." She held up a hand. "Iknow. What was I thinking?" Shaking her head, she shrugged. "Sellingspells, yes, he'd totally try to make a buck that way. But he's not smartenough to come up with the test thing."Zeth narrowed his eyes for a momentthen bobbed his head up and down.She rather liked he took her wordfor striking McCabe from the list.

Having a lot of funwith this one. Coorah's taste in men is going up a notch, and she's not surethat's a good thing.

 

That's it for thisweek.

Cheers!

Skye