GO HOME AND DIE

"Sounds kind of mean," someone said of my April 1, 2010, release title, but it fits. Jack Porter's friend and business partner is only home from Vietnam a short while before he's stabbed to death in an alley. Other vets suffer the same fate: they "go home" from the war "and die" soon afterward. Jack wants to know who killed his only friend, and why.

Enter Carrie Walsh, a prim young woman who knows that her life is in need of change. She hates her job, her mother suffocates her with criticism, and she feels she's missing the liberation that other women in the late 1960s have demanded. To the dismay of her mother and her former bosses, she decides to help Jack open the private detection firm he and his fellow vet had planned.

Carrie and Jack sense a chemistry between them, but events intervene. Jack has secrets that shock and hurt Carrie, and soon those same secrets put her in danger. She has taken a step toward a more exciting life, but that step could be one too far. Carrie, too, may go home and die.

Tomorrow, I'll explain the inspiration for GO HOME AND DIE. Leave a blog comment any day between now and April 1 and get a chance at a free copy of this e-book!