The Mad Monk’s Treasure
by Kris Bock
Free until 12/2!
Genre: Romantic
Suspense
Book heat level: PG
(no explicit sex or swearing, action scenes with mild violence)
Praise for The
Mad Monk’s Treasure:
“The action never
stopped .... It was adventure and romance at its best.”
“Great balance of
history, romance, and adventure. Smart romance with an ‘Indiana Jones’ feel.
Well-written with an attention to detail that allowed me to picture exactly in
my head how a scene looked and played out.”
“I couldn’t put
this book down. You’ll love it.”
Get it here: Kris Bock at Amazon
Excerpt:
What
better way to spend the summer, than hunting for buried treasure?
Erin shook her head. Who would’ve thought
that she, the quiet, studious girl who’d spent her entire adult life in
academia in one way or another, would be planning such an adventure?
She checked that the front door was locked,
a habit left over from living in bigger cities, grabbed her bike helmet, and
went out the back.
Erin wheeled the bike around the front of
her house and mounted. At the corner, she paused and looked both ways. The long
frontage road was dangerously narrow, with a cement wall on one side and a
ditch on the other. Fortunately, traffic was normally light, and at this time
of day the road lay empty. Erin pushed off, still grinning from her find. She
rode on the right side, by the ditch, instead of facing traffic, because it was
just too frightening to ride alongside the wall when a car passed.
She’d gone a block when she heard the hum of
a car engine as it pulled out from a side street behind her. She rode along the
very edge of the pavement, even though the car would have plenty of room to
pass her without oncoming traffic.
Erin glanced over her shoulder. The black
SUV 20 feet behind her hadn’t bothered to pull out into the road at all. Jerk.
When would drivers learn to share the road with bicyclists? Erin pulled onto
the two-foot wide gravel strip between the pavement and the ditch. She couldn’t
stop without risking a skid, but she slowed so the SUV could pass.
The engine roared. Erin glanced back again.
Black metal bore down on her. Her heart
lurched and the bike wobbled. This guy was crazy! She whipped her gaze forward,
rose up in the seat, and pumped the pedals with all her power, skimming along
inches from the ditch. He was just trying to scare her. She’d get his license
plate and—
She felt the bumper hit her back tire. The
bike seemed to leap into the air, and she went flying. The dried mud and weeds
of the ditch seemed to rise up to meet her.
She didn’t even
have time to scream.
The Mad Monk’s Treasure, a fun romp through the Southwest, is free on Kindle until December 2. Check it out, and if you like it, please leave a review (and maybe try some of my other books too).
Kris Bock writes novels of suspense and romance
with outdoor adventures and Southwestern landscapes. The Mad Monk’s Treasure follows the hunt for a long-lost treasure
in the New Mexico desert. In The
Dead Man’s Treasure, estranged relatives compete to reach a buried treasure
by following a series of complex clues. In The Skeleton Canyon Treasure,
sparks fly when reader favorites Camie and Tiger help a mysterious man track
down his missing uncle. Each book stands alone with a couple who reaches their happy ending.
Read excerpts
at www.krisbock.com or
visit her Amazon page. Sign up for the Kris Bock
newsletter for announcements of
new books, sales, and more.
No comments:
Post a Comment