Blog Tour: Fatal Chaos by Marie Force

Today we are celebrating the release of FATAL CHAOS, a romantic thriller title that is part of the Fatal series by Marie Force.

Book Blurb:
First the calm. Then the storm…
Escaping DC during the dog days of summer is one of the smartest moves Washington metro police lieutenant Samantha Holland ever made. Beach walks aren’t quite as romantic with the Secret Service in tow, but Sam and her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano, cherish the chance to recharge and reconnect—especially with a scandal swirling around the administration.
No sooner are they back home than a fatal drive-by shooting sets the city on edge. The teenage victim is barely older than Sam and Nick’s son, Scotty. As more deaths follow, Sam and her team play beat the clock to stop the ruthless killers. With Nick facing his greatest challenge—one that could drastically change all their lives and even end Sam’s career—will the mounting pressure deepen or damage their bond?
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EXCERPT
Chapter 1
“‘WHAT DID THE president know and when did he know it? That will be the
question Congress faces as members return to Washington from the summer recess.
Hearings begin next week, investigating President David Nelson’s potential involvement in his son’s sinister
scheme against Vice President Nick Cappuano and his family.’”
Listening to her brother-in-law Spencer read from the
morning edition of the Washington Star, Sam looked across the breakfast table
at her husband, Nick, and saw a flash of dismay cross his handsome face. He
dreaded the hearings, the attention, the renewed interest in the scandal that
had rocked the nation’s capital earlier in the summer. Sam and her Homicide
squad had uncovered the nefarious plot hatched by Nelson’s son Christopher in a failed effort to discredit Nick, all because
Christopher had presidential aspirations of his own.
The sitting president claimed to have no knowledge of
what his son had been up to and continued to proclaim his innocence throughout
the dog days of summer. In the meantime, Nick was left hanging, waiting to hear
if Nelson would be impeached or forced to resign.
Sam knew exactly what Nick was thinking. As much as
they wanted Christopher Nelson to fry for what he’d put them through, the last thing Nick wanted—the last thing
they wanted—was to see the president forced from office. Because that would mean… No. It was too
much to even think about, and Sam refused to allow that stress to creep into
her relaxing vacation. Standing, she said, “I’m going to take a walk.”
Nick jumped up. “I’ll go with you.”
“Was it something I said?”
Spencer asked.
“Duh,” his wife, Sam’s sister
Angela, said as she fed their daughter, Ella, who was seated in a high chair at
the end of the long picnic-style table. “You think they want to talk about that BS?”
“Sorry, guys,”
Spencer said. “I wasn’t thinking.”
“No worries,”
Nick said. “It’s not going away, as much as we wish it would.”
“But you don’t have to deal with it this week,” Spencer said. “My bad.”
“Don’t sweat it.”
Nick held out a hand to Sam. “Let’s walk.”
She took his hand and followed him through the sliding
glass doors to the deck, where several members of his Secret Service detail
were gathered at a table, drinking coffee.
John “Brant” Brantly Jr.,
the lead agent on Nick’s detail, stood when he saw them coming. “Good
morning, Mr. Vice President, Mrs. Cappuano.”
“Morning, Brant,” Nick said. “We’d like to take a walk on the beach.”
“Of course, sir. Give us a few minutes to make that happen.”
Sam watched Nick’s jaw tighten
with frustration. He hated having to ask permission to do something as simple
as take a walk with his wife. She dropped his hand, slipped her arms around his
waist and rested her head against his chest, hoping to give him something else
to think about.
He put his arms around her and kissed the top of her
head, his body relaxing in stages as the agents conferred and planned for a
simple walk on the beach. Except nothing was ever simple. Not anymore. Well,
that wasn’t entirely true. When it was just the two of them,
alone together, it was still as simple as it had ever been, even as the world
went mad around them. As they did when the madness swirled, they closed ranks,
spent as much time alone as they possibly could and weathered the storm the
best way they knew how, by keeping their heads down, their mouths shut and
their arms wrapped around each other.
The press was desperate for interviews from either, or
preferably both, but other than a perfunctory statement issued from Nick’s office after Christopher Nelson’s arrest, they
hadn’t said a word about the controversy swirling around
the president and his son or how it affected them. Nor had they offered any
speculation on what it could mean for them if Nelson was forced to resign.
They were taking it one day, one hour, one minute at a
time.
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AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Marie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance, including the indie-published Gansett Island Series and the Fatal Series from Harlequin Books. In addition, she is the author of the Butler, Vermont Series, the Green Mountain Series and the erotic romance Quantum Series. In 2019, her new historical Gilded series from Kensington Books will debut with Duchess By Deception.
All together, her books have sold 6.5 million copies worldwide, have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list many times. She is also a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller, a Speigel bestseller in Germany, a frequent speaker and publishing workshop presenter as well as a publisher through her Jack’s House Publishing romance imprint. She is a two-time nominee for the Romance Writers of America’s RITA® award for romance fiction.
Her goals in life are simple—to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can and to never be on a flight that makes the news.
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