Create Some Mayhem!

By Cathy Perkins

Malbec Mayhem has joined the world!

Usually when an author releases a new book, it’s nerves and
excitement and a ton of planning and nerves…

Did I mention it can be nerve-wracking? Will people like the
book I spent however many months writing? Will they “get” the characters, the
theme…

Will they hate it?

Will my publisher look at the numbers and tell me to go
away?

Malbec Mayhem is nerve-wracking for me because it’s a little
different. It’s a novella, revolving around one of the secondary characters in
the Holly Price series. Alex had been bugging me for ages to give him a second chance—and
this story is his opportunity to grow up and get things right. The mystery takes a back seat to the grown up version of coming of age.

Whew! Most readers enjoy it:

5 Stars: “Alex get a second chance at love,
but in fighting for what matters most he discovers his truest self.”

5 Stars: “Perkins … successfully develops her
characters and put more than enough twists and turns into its pages.”

Double whew!

Now to tamp down the rest of those nerves!

Malbec Mayhem

Successful restaurateur Alex Montoya’s charmed life has hit a
snag. His trusted business partner turned out to be not exactly trustworthy,
and Alex could be facing jail time over some of his partner’s shady financial deals.
As if that weren’t bad enough, creditors are calling in loans he didn’t know he
had and he’s desperate to prove his innocence before all his businesses are
repossessed.

After a career-building stint in Napa
Valley, Sofia Pincelli has returned home to eastern
Washington to take over the family’s winery. Running the family business,
however, means dealing with her ailing father’s constant micro-management—and
his disapproval of Alex. Her father’s condemnation of Alex’s rumored involvement
in his business partner’s schemes runs so deep, it threatens Alex and Sofia’s
blossoming romance…along with the Pincelli family’s signature red wine. Sofia
needs Alex’s crop of Malbec grapes to show her father she has what it takes to
make award-winning wine—and save the reputation and finances of the Pincelli
winery.

When the Malbec grapes go missing,
Alex and Sofia must join forces to find the fruit before it spoils—or risk
destroying both of their businesses and their hearts.

An award-winning author of financial mysteries, Cathy Perkins writes twisting dark suspense and light amateur sleuth stories. When not writing, she battles with the beavers over the pond height or heads out on another travel adventure. She lives in Washington with her husband, children, several dogs and the resident deer herd. Visit her at http://cperkinswrites.com or on Facebook

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She’s hard at work on Peril in the Pony Ring, the sequel to The Body in the Beaver Pond, which was recently presented with the Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award.