Today we have the cover reveal for AJ Elmore’s upcoming romantic suspense, Cadillac Payback: Rising Tide. Check it out and be sure to catch up on the series today!
Title: Cadillac Payback: Rising Tide
Author: AJ Elmore
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: April 15th
About Cadillac Payback: Rising Tide
It has been a year since the fire in the Ninth Ward that solidified Maria's place in the ranks of her grandmother's operation. Though tensions are high among her remaining crew, things seem to be going well...until Abuela starts moving pieces and changing the ranks. Suspicions ride even higher when Isaiah shows up well after he left the life behind, and without an explanation. Will Maria be able to hold it together, or will she lose Joshua and Frederick, as well? What part does Isaiah play?
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Exclusive Excerpt:
Her obvious shock is like a PTSD trigger, and it blindsides me so that for a moment, I can't move either. I don't know that I've ever seen that look on her, and somehow I expect that if I turn around, I’ll see her brother risen from the dead. Josh moves closer to her, so that he's almost touching her, and he glares past me. The voices behind me die, and so does the movement. Abruptly, I'm right in the middle of a silent firefight that I don't comprehend. I step to the side as I turn around, so that I'm at her other shoulder. Abuela's directives be damned, I will always be her right hand. I fight the urge to draw arms within these walls as my vision lands on the offending party. For a moment that lasts longer than I would ever admit, he looks like just another guy – an uppity thirty-something in a snob's clothes, not packing any heat on his hip or shoulder. But the moment passes, and those angular cheeks and broad jaw are too familiar. He's barely been gone long enough for me to forget that I took his seat only because he left. He's a bit thinner, a lot browner, and all kinds of dressed up. I can't say I was torn up when he left us, but he did leave us. He turned his back on what was supposed to be his crew. Never mind that I was willing to do the same thing, on one tiny difference of condition. I wouldn't leave without her, but he did. It made sense, but that didn't make it OK. Then the details begin to click into place like a well-oiled machine. The man beside him is Jorge, our most recent heroin hero, on the scene with a deal to end all deals. The guy worthy of a family dinner in his honor. Jorge is skinny, greasy, and appalling in a general sense. He wears his long hair in a slick, low ponytail, and sports a long, equally greasy goatee. At the moment, he's standing half a step behind Isaiah, openly assessing the threat that hangs vaguely between the other four people in the hallway. Isaiah, here, in one of the most guarded and secret locations under Abuela's extensive network. With Jorge, who just made a really impressive connection and got a pat on the back. What the fuck has Izzy been into this past year? Isaiah isn't armed, so there's no threat, but Josh and I are formed up on Maria as though a SWAT team is about to storm the windows and doors. Whatever internal hang-ups we have be damned, nobody from the outside will ever get a glimpse of that. We stand together. Except this isn't even my division anymore. Izzy's eyes scan over the three of us, slow and methodical as one might expect, and brave. He looks each of us directly in the eyes. He doesn't shove his hands in his pockets. He doesn't walk away. There's no cigarette in his hand. He just stands his ground. He's different in his stature, more comfortable, less cautious.
Catch up on the series with Cadillac Payback, with a gorgeous new cover, today!
About Cadillac Payback:
An old Cadillac and a gun are all she has left of her brother. Three men stand ready to follow her into the darkest pits of hell to avenge him. The Cadillac leads them down a swamp road lined with ghosts, consequence and the tangled web of business and pleasure, into the underbelly of New Orleans crime as she fights for vengeance for her brother. Joshua was just a rookie, a kid caught up in a drug ring. It’s fun and dangerous, all easy, until it kills his best friend and drags what’s left of his companions into a war. All he knows is he would walk into hell with her, and she might ask before it’s over… Isaiah thought he’d seen everything—but watching Charlie die tore the world apart. The regime is changing, and with the new leader come more questions than answers. He was Charlie’s right hand, but what will he be to her? Frederick came up on the streets, learned fast and hard and dirty. His past has always been a sticking point for the group, but one person has never questioned him, and he’ll do anything for her… Maria never wanted to take over Charlie’s operation. But with her brother dead, and vengeance the only thing she has left, she makes her first decision: drag Charlie’s killers down. It might just be her last.About AJ Elmore:
AJ is a beach migrant and part-time muse. She enjoys the exploration of genres vast and the search for untold worlds. A writer-for-fun since childhood, she has also been known to be a superhero, a gunslinger, and, occasionally, a waitress. She lives on an island, has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and some tattoos. She is most easily found at the water’s edge.
AJ is a beach migrant and part-time muse. She enjoys the exploration of genres vast and the search for untold worlds. A writer-for-fun since childhood, she has also been known to be a superhero, a gunslinger, and, occasionally, a waitress. She lives on an island, has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and some tattoos. She is most easily found at the water’s edge.
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