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3rd Look, 3rd Character in The Hazard of Secrets

Writers can tell you that sometimes the story will take hold, and they're just along for the write.

One of the ways that the story takes hold is when a minor character demands more participation in a story. That character enters with a strong voice and full-blown personality and lobbies for scenes that belong solely to him.

In The Hazard of Secrets, that's the character Vic, a boy running the streets at the Liverpool waterfront. Enlisted by Clarey, he becomes a crucial part of the early story and returns for the last third, playing yet another crucial role.

Vic opens the novel. Here's his introduction.

Prologue ~ The Hazard of Secrets

2nd 1st Look from The Hazard of Secrets

Time for a look at the second protagonist in my newest book, The Hazard of Secrets.

Jem Baxter is hiding from past misdeeds with an assumed name when he encounters Clarey Parton and three members of a press gang working on the Liverpool waterfront in 1814.

And that's not even the major mystery of the story!

Here, meet Jem and Clarey joins forces to escape his impressment and her trafficking into a brothel in a very rough look at the second chapter.

Chapter 2 ~ The Hazard of Secrets

1st Look at Hazard of Secrets

June 30 was my wishful publish date for The Hazard of Secrets, but a life roll and additional characters have pushed publication back, either to July 10 or July 15.  I'm currently 93% finished!

I'll announce publication with a buy link on this page, on Writers Ink Books, and on my M. A. Lee Facebook page.  Watch for it!

As for now, here's a first and very rough look at my chief protagonist, Clarey, who has more than a few secrets when she encounters unexpected danger in the Liverpool of 1814.

First Chapter ~ The Hazard of Secrets

Free Fiction: 1st chapter in a fantasy novel

Click over here to read the first chapter in Remi Black's fantasy Dream a Deadly Dream, book 2 in the Enclave series.

free fiction: opening of Key for Spies by M.A. Lee

Here's the opening 25 pages in The Key for Spies, M.A. Lee's 7th book in the Hearts in Hazard series.  Watch this blog for publication information!

Prologue ~ Two Officers

1^st April 1813, Thursday

Thieves night, his older brother had called it, back when they’d run together.  They’d taken to the dark streets, smashed locks to steal pastries or sausages, pried open windows to climb into dark rooms and stolen locked boxes with their stashes of coins.  Pierre never knew who Mattias worked for.  Belly stuffed with iced rolls or spiced sausage, he had trailed behind his brother.  Until the gendarmes caught Mat with a hand stuck in the alms box.

Hidden behind a dark column, he’d frozen when the gendarmes appeared.  Then black wings flapped before his face.  Pierre ran until his sides hurt and his too-tight shoes split along the worn sides.  He’d abandoned his brother, a betrayal that had never left him.

The next day he ran on to Marseilles and re-invented himself as Pierre LeCuyer.

Free Fiction: M.A. Lee's first chapter for Digging into Death

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