Title: Exit 22
Series: Black Swamp Mysteries Book #1
By: P.M. Terrell
Blurb
Political strategist
Christopher Sandige is driving along Interstate 95 in North Carolina when he is
involved in a one-car accident. Stranded for the weekend, he meets a beautiful
but mysterious woman and is immediately pulled into a double homicide. Now he’s
on the run from law enforcement—and a hired assassin. As he falls deeper for
Brenda Carnegie, he begins to
wonder if she is the killer. As he pieces everything
together and comes closer to the truth—time
runs out.
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Title: Vicki’s Key
Series: Black Swamp Mysteries Book # 2
By: P.M. Terrell
Blurb
Following a flawed CIA mission, Vicki Boyd
leaves the CIA to begin a new life in a new
town assisting an elderly woman. But when she arrives, she
finds Laurel Maguire has suffered a
stroke and her nephew has arrived from Ireland to care for
her. Vicki quickly falls in love with
the charming Dylan Maguire, but all is not what it seems to
be at Aunt Laurel’s house. And when
the CIA arrive to recruit Vicki for one last mission, she
finds her past and her future are about to
collide… In murder.
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Title: Secrets of a Dangerous Woman
Series: Black Swamp Mysteries Book # 3
By: P.M. Terrell
Blurb
Irishman Dylan Maguire is back and in his first assignment
with the CIA, he must interrogate recently captured Brenda Carnegie. But when
she escapes again, it’s obvious that she’s had help from within the CIA’s own
ranks. Psychic spy Vicki Boyd assists him in locating
her again—but when he discovers Brenda’s true identity, he
realizes his mission has just become very personal.
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Title: Dylan’s Song
Series: Black Swamp Mysteries Book #4
By: P.M. Terrell
Blurb
Dylan Maguire returns to his native Ireland with psychic spy
Vicki Boyd. Their mission: to locate and extract a missing CIA operative. But
when Dylan receives word that his grandmother is dying, his mission plunges him
into a past he thought he’d turned his back on forever. Now he must confront
his past before it results in murder. And as Vicki discovers the real reason he
left Ireland, she is harboring a secret of her own.
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Character Bio
Separated from her older sister Vicki Boyd when their
parents were killed in an airplane accident, Brenda grew up in Robeson County,
North Carolina. She is equally at home trudging through alligator-infested
swamps as she is shooting a gun, tending a bullet wound, evading police—and
committing computer crimes.
Brenda is an opportunist, especially when it comes to
hacking into websites and secure databases, participating in shell companies
and cybercrime, and amassing a fortune that must, for her own preservation, be
held in off-shore accounts and out of the reach of the United States
government. She’s quick, she’s street savvy, and she’s often sexually charged.
She also doesn’t trust anyone. She prefers the dark side,
living life on the edge, moving through her life alone and capable of changing
her plans on a moment’s notice. She has a very high tolerance for pain which
holds her in good stead on many a gritty occasion.
She made her first appearance in Exit 22 when her
partner-in-crime is murdered by a hired assassin—and the hitman comes after
her. But her real secrets begin to spill in Secrets of a Dangerous
Woman—secrets that reach to the highest levels of government and beyond, and
which could very well get her killed.
And if the Black Swamp Mysteries series was made into a
movie, who would play Brenda Carnegie? My pick would be Lindsay Lohan, who
could play this bad girl very well.
Christopher Sandige is an anti-hero, a guy who is more at
ease behind a desk constructing political strategies for his Congressman boss
than he is running for his life through alligator-infested swamps with Brenda
Carnegie.
He told himself he didn’t want a woman, a marriage, a
typical family life in the suburbs. His hours were long and often began with
coffee at his desk and ended with pizza delivery to the office. All that
changed when he met Brenda.
The woman awakened in him desires he didn’t think he had—a
longing to be with her, a need for romance, a desire for intimacy, an urge to
protect her—even when he knew she was quite capable of protecting herself. He’d
never really had eyes for anybody other than Brenda and though he knows she is
dangerous, he can’t seem to tear himself away from her.
When push comes to shove, it turns out he is quite capable
of handling a gun, of fighting off an attacker in hand-to-hand combat, of
working in a team that often finds itself at the wrong end of a barrel… and of
crossing the line without a look back.
If the Black Swamp Mysteries series was made into a movie,
who would I want to play him? My pick would be Tom Weston-Jones.
Vicki Boyd had a normal, happy childhood until the day her
parents died in an airplane accident—one she saw weeks before it happened.
Overnight, she and her three siblings—a younger sister and two younger brothers—were
orphaned and placed into foster care. And overnight, she received national
attention for her premonitions.
Not just the media and fascinated public were watching. The
CIA was watching as well; specifically Sam Mazoli, the supervisor of an office
working with psychic spies. For the first time, he had an opportunity to take a
child and mold her into a psychic operative. So when Vicki arrived home from
school one day, she found a strange man waiting for her; a man who had adopted
her but brought her to an imposing, secure facility resembling an institution.
During her teen years, she didn’t have school and girlfriends, proms and
boyfriends, and her thoughts didn’t range from getting the keys to the car to
hanging out at the mall.
Her teens and early twenties were spent learning how to be
the best psychic spy the CIA had ever employed. With just a simple latitude and
longitude, she could travel in her mind to any location on Earth, providing
information to operatives on nuclear facilities, threats to governments,
blueprints of enemy weapons—or anything the CIA wanted but couldn’t physically
reach.
But when she is sent on a mission deep in the Amazon jungles
and it results in the deaths of innocent children, she’s had enough. She quits
the CIA and is determined to start life over in a small town helping an elderly
lady who advertised for summer help. It’s her first chance on her own, but she
isn’t alone for long… Between Irishman Dylan Maguire and the CIA, who refuse to
let her go, she’s in for the ride of her life.
Dylan Maguire never had a normal childhood. Though his
parents were from Ireland, he was born in New York. Unfortunately, he never met
his father—he’d abandoned his pregnant wife and simply disappeared. Unable to
provide for her son and herself in a strange country, his mother packed them up
and brought Dylan back to Ireland when he was just three years old. In and out
of bars and with dubious pastimes, his mother wasn’t a mother to him at all.
Dylan was raised by his grandmother, a woman he called Mam.
She was the only family he’d ever known—that and the home of his neighbor and
best friend, Thomas Rowan.
Dylan has a mysterious past when he arrives on Laurel
Maguire’s doorstep the summer that Vicki also arrives to help Laurel with her
freshwater angelfish business. He seems to be a jack-of-all-trades, from
teaching Vicki the angelfish business to remodeling the old, rambling—and
haunted—house, to cooking up traditional Irish meals and looking after Vicki.
He is a hopeless romantic who makes CD’s with all his
favorite romantic songs… To taking Vicki on an intimate boat ride down the
natural and secluded Lumber River… To picnics in the park and romantic,
candlelight dinners.
He is also capable of violence—of defending what is his and
of killing when the need arises. He is an opportunist; a former kickboxing
champion, a man known as “The Butcher” who channels his anger into his fists
and feet.
If the Black Swamp Mysteries series was made into a movie,
who would I want to play Dylan Maguire? Assuming he could play the role with an
Irish accent, Eduardo Verastegui is a dead ringer.
There was never any doubt in my mind who would play Sam
Mazoli, the head of the psychic spy program for the CIA, Vicki’s boss—and also
the man who adopted her—as well as Dylan Maguire’s boss.
I always pictured Robert De Niro when I thought of Sam. Sam
is brusque, no-nonsense, the kind of boss that you don’t joke around with and
you don’t even attempt to take liberties. He is experienced, jaded, a cynic and
a skeptic. He also has an eye for talent, whether it’s taking a 12-year-old
girl with psychic abilities and turning her into a spy—or recognizing the
opportunistic, chameleon-like qualities of an Irishman who can pretend to be
someone else.
There is much to Sam just below the surface but carefully
hidden lest people discover his true nature. He can make life-or-death
decisions, interrogate suspects, turn a blind eye to torture, and appear bored
even during the most sensitive and gut-wrenching missions. But he can also rescue
a cat down-on-her-luck, care for angelfish and their babies, recognize an
illegal immigrant’s dilemma and give her a job, and help care for a dog who
needs a friend.
Sam first appears in Vicki’s Key and continues through the
rest of the series, sometimes making life difficult for everyone involved,
sometimes lending a hand when it’s least expected… and always arriving with a
new CIA mission in hand.
About the Author
p.m.terrell is the internationally acclaimed, award-winning
author of more than 18 books, including Vicki's Key, a 2012 International Book
Awards and 2012 USA Best Book Awards finalist and River Passage, winner of the
2010 Best Drama Award. A full-time writer since 2002, p.m. previously founded
and operated two computer companies with a specialty in computer crime and
computer intelligence. Her clients included the CIA, United States Secret
Service and the Department of Defense as well as local law enforcement
agencies. Her expertise in computers and intelligence often finds its way into
her books. She is also the co-founder of The Book 'Em Foundation and founder
and chair of The Book 'Em North Carolina Writers Conference and Book Fair,
which raises money to increase literacy rates. As a hobby, she raises
freshwater angelfish - the same thing her characters do as their front for the
CIA. For more information about p.m.terrell, visit www.pmterrell.com
and for more information on the upcoming Writers Conference, visit www.bookemnc.org.
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