- Veil of Deception
A romantic suspense novel written by Michael Davis and Candace Morehouse. Publication date: January 1, 2010 at Champagne Books.
- About the Collaboration
It all started back in the summer of 2008. Little Candy was working on the manuscript for the second contemporary romance book in her series, The Women of Phoenix, and she asked Big Mike for his take on how the male character in her book would respond to the heroine.
After emailing suggestions back and forth, Big Mike came up with the idea of writing a book together. The concept involved bringing each gender’s viewpoint to the work, thereby creating a very honest and candid portrayal of the hero and heroine and how would they act/react.
Veil of Deception, as our first collaboration, began with a book idea Big Mike had rolling around in his head. He presented it to Little Candy and provided a skeleton outline of the plot and characterizations.
Little Candy did a major overhaul of the heroine’s characterization and added some scenes based on this.
Along the way, there was a lot of compromise. Most of the characters had their names changed. Little Candy fought for proper spelling, grammar and formatting. Big Mike fought to keep his initial idea intact – and made his hero resist the charms of the heroine until Little Candy was tearing her hair out. But all in all, it was a fun process and it resulted in a manuscript we are both proud of.
In fact, according to our publisher, the group of three readers who review every manuscript in the publishing office all RAVED about it! We sure hope that when it is released. all who read it feel the same way.
We are looking forward to working on another collaboration. Except this time – Little Candy is going to be on top!
- Blurb:
There’s something suspicious going on at Spenser Lake. People are disappearing and their bodies are never found. The fear and uncertainty of who will be next is affecting every resident of the tranquil community, but especially Kurt Hawkins. Two years after his wife goes missing, there are no clues, only the nightmares of what happened in her last moments. The constant guilt that somehow he was responsible precludes any thought of a normal life until he meets Danielle Gillette, a reclusive author with a rather large skeleton in her own closet. When the secret is finally revealed, they both discover that sometimes the truth cuts deeper than a lie.