Book #1 of the Last Stand Series
Read the first chapter of Trust Me.
"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)
Sacramento
Magazine, November 2007Brenda 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.”
August 2007 cover of Romantic Times