The Game’s AFoot by Ruth A. Casie:

It was merely a plot for their new story–until someone overheard, and bullets started to fly.

Former best-selling romantic
comedy author Beth Alexander is reinventing herself, using her real name, Beth
Holmes, changing genres, and collaborating with bestselling adventure author JD
Watson. Since their first meeting last Christmas, Jarred (JD) has made her
heart race. Plagued with self-doubts caused by her nosedive off the best-seller
list, Beth fears she’s unable to craft a heroine worthy of Jarred’s hero. Will
their collaboration be a liability to his skyrocketing career? Their
relationship?

 Jarred Watson is in love with Beth no matter
which last name she uses, and had been long before they’d met. Since reading
her first novel, he suspected the heroine was based on the flesh-and-blood
author. Those qualities made him fall in love with both the fictitious and very
real woman. After meeting her last Christmas he confirmed he had it right. But
Beth’s recent lackluster success leaves her doubting her writing ability. How
can he convince the woman he loves she’s as great as ever and the vital piece needed
to make their collaboration a success?

The plot
thickens…                 

Determined to up her writing game, Beth records a core
plot idea for their new collaborative effort while at a local pastry shop in
Havenport. Unbeknownst to her she actually intercepts a conversation about a
real drug deal. Can she and Jarred use the deductive reasoning of their
namesakes and figure out the whodunit? Bullets fly when Beth’s abducted—and
Jarred is the only one who can save her. At the standoff will it be the hero or
the heroine who sacrifices everything to save the other?

RUTH A. CASIE is an author of swashbuckling
action-adventure time-travel romance about strong empowered women and the men who
deserve them, endearing flaws and all. Her Druid Knight novels have both
finaled in the NJRW Golden Leaf contest. Ruth also writes contemporary romance
with enough action to keep you turning pages. She lives in New Jersey with her
husband, three empty bedrooms and a growing number of incomplete counted
cross-stitch projects. Before she found her voice, she was a speech therapist
(pun intended), client liaison for a corrugated manufacturer, and international
bank product and marketing manager, but her favorite job is the one she’s doing
now—writing romance.