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TRUST ME
Available May 27, 2008

Book #1 of the Last Stand Series

Read the first chapter of Trust Me.


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"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."

--Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)




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Sacramento Magazine, November 2007

By the Book

Brenda Novak

If you’re into romances at all, you know who Brenda Novak is. In August, when we talked to her, her new romantic thriller, Dead Right (third in the Stillwater trilogy), had just made No. 7 on the Borders/Waldenbooks best-sellers list—the latest in a string of awards and accolades earned over the course of her almost decade-long fiction career that includes 21-and-counting Harlequin titles.

Novak, a Carmichael mother of five, quit her loan-officer job when she was pregnant with her fourth child after discovering her day-care provider had been drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep. Realizing she needed to work from home, Novak taught herself the craft of writing.

“It was like somebody tied my hands, threw me into a swimming pool and said, ‘Save yourself,’” she says.

Novak did that and then some. Her recent titles include Coulda Been a Cowboy, Once Upon a Christmas, Dead Silence and The Other Woman, and she’s completed another romantic suspense trilogy, due out next summer, titled Trust Me, Stop Me and Watch Me. She says her strength lies in “characters that really jump off the page and come to life.”




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Sac BeeWincing at the term "bodice rippers", local writer Brenda Novak firmly corrects the myth that romance novels are all about sex. "It isn't true," claims Novak, who prefers the term "mainstream women's fiction." "The genre has really matured...most of the bestselling contemporary writers are coming from romance."




Sac BeeYOU'VE LIKELY READ IT BEFORE: the romance author who never in a million years imagined she'd ever be a writer and then...well, you know. You've even heard the sad tale of authors who become "orphaned" after signing their first contract because their editor gets sacked. But how many of them start with a single-title and go on to a successful career in series? Yet such is the story of Brenda Novak...




Sac BeeAs the mother of five children between the ages of two and thirteen, Brenda Novak knows all about the miracle of birth. However, this lady is excited about a different kind of special delivery this month as her first novel, the aptly titled Of Noble Birth, published by HarperCollins, hits bookshelves.




Sac BeeTips on love from experts -- romance novel writers.

He poured two glasses of chilled white wine, set them on the makeshift coffee table and turned on some soft jazz, which he'd come to appreciate. Then, he went into the bedroom and lit vanilla-scented candles in preparation for what he'd hoped the night would bring ...




Sac BeeSMALL PACKAGES, a story by Brenda Novak, appears in More Than Words. The story is inspired by Tera Leigh's heartfelt program. To find out more about the Memory Box Artist Program, visit www.memoryboxes.org.



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