Author’s Bio: “Moxie Gardiner” is the pen name of a writer, blogger, and traveler. The name “Moxie” was first bestowed upon her during a rare visit long ago to an upscale bar in her native Buffalo, where posh regulars attempted to describe her rather rough West Side edges. She does have a soft side, however. She loves the smell of warm wood, the sound of insects in the evening, and the flashing underbellies of airplanes flying above the setting sun. After graduating from Buffalo State University, she moved to Washington to pursue a career in journalism that resulted in countless magazine articles. She later became a speechwriter and eventually a policy “wonk.” To date she has visited 46 countries and all 50 states, and still has a lengthy bucket list of places to see and things to do, including books to write. Virgin Snow is the first novel in her planned trilogy. Deliah Lawrence: What inspired you to write your book? Moxie Gardiner: From the time I was in high ...
This is the first romantic suspense I’ve read by Jane Blythe, and I found her style to be captivating. The storyline revolves around a jewelry store robbery, a traumatized store owner, a crazed stalker, and an ex-husband/FBI agent assigned to track down the culprits. Let’s meet Hannah Buffy, a divorced jeweler trying to rebuild her life after a traumatic event that shattered her marriage to FBI Agent Tom Drake. Three years ago, they both endured immense pain and decided to go their separate ways. Fast forward to just a few days before Christmas, when Hannah’s jewelry store is robbed at gunpoint. Overwhelmed by her fear of guns, she fails to give the robbers the safe’s code, resulting in oner of her employees being shot. The FBI is called in to investigate a string of jewelry store robberies across the city, and to Hannah’s shock, the agent assigned to the case is none other than her ex-husband, Tom. Their reunion is fraught with tension, as Tom’s instinct to protect Han...