Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #10

UPDATE: The Scavenger Hunt is now closed. The winners from my own give-away are: Tayler Carlisle, Mandy Thomas, and Stephanie Carlson. Congratulations ladies! Please check your email for a message from me! Thank you to everyone who participated in the hunt!

Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all 27 stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes!

• The hunt BEGINS on 3/14 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com.
• Hunt through our loop using Chrome or Firefox as your browser (not Explorer).
• There is NO RUSH to complete the hunt—you have all weekend (until Sunday, 3/17 at midnight MST)! So take your time, reading the unique posts along the way; our hope is that you discover new authors/new books and learn new things about them.
• Submit your entry for the grand prizes by collecting the CLUE on each author’s scavenger hunt post and submitting your answer in the Rafflecopter form at Stop #27. Many authors are offering additional prizes along the way!

It is my honor to host Rachel Dylan, attorney and, quite fittingly, an author of legal romantic suspense! Here’s a brief summary of her new book, Breach of Trust, the third in her Atlanta Justice series: Corporate litigator Mia Shaw suffers the shock of her life when she finds her colleague and friend brutally murdered and vows that she will do anything to make the killer pay. The man accused of the murder is a friend of security tech guru Noah Ramirez, but the evidence just doesn't add up, and to save his former ATF partner, Noah needs to convince Mia that the real killer is still on the loose. Can Noah win Mia over to his side and protect her from ever-growing threats?

“Objection, Your Honor.” The Thrill of Legal Suspense

By Rachel Dylan

Back in 2010, I was working in a large international law firm and given the long hours and stress, I decided I needed to do something outside of work. That’s when I first started writing novels. When I wrote my first manuscript, it wasn’t about a lawyer. But once I hit manuscript number two, I thought, I’m a lawyer, so why not write a legal story! I would say the rest is history, but it’s a lot more complicated than that. I actually owe a lot of my writing career to the fact that I was, and still am, a practicing attorney.

I’ve had people ask if it gets tiresome to work as a lawyer all day and then still write legal stories. But there’s a big difference in what my daily life as a lawyer is like and the books I write. I get to take liberties in writing books that I could never take in real life. While I want my stories to be realistic on the legal front, it’s equally important to make sure I keep readers on the edge of their seats. I like being able to take the most exciting and interesting parts of my experiences as a lawyer and supercharge them into a fictional world of danger, drama, and intrigue. I’ve lived, eaten, and breathed the law for years, so it’s natural for me to create stories with legal plotlines and characters.

I really enjoyed writing Breach of Trust, book 3 in the Atlanta Justice series because out of my three leading ladies in the series, I identified the most with Mia. Like Mia, I also worked representing large companies in big litigation. Fortunately for me, however, I’ve never had the streak of tragedy and danger hit me like what Mia faces. After Mia finds her friend murdered, she will stop at nothing to find his killer and make sure justice is served. But Mia has her own legal battle to fight—and it involves taking over the case of her murdered friend. As the stakes get higher, Mia doesn’t know who she can trust, but she knows she must get to the truth. I hope as a reader that your pulse will be pounding as you flip the pages trying to unravel the tangled legal web.

About Rachel

Rachel Dylan is an award-winning and bestselling author of legal thrillers and romantic suspense. Rachel has practiced law for over a decade including being a litigator at one of the nation’s top law firms. She lives in Michigan with her husband and five furkids--two dogs and three cats, and you can find Rachel at www.racheldylan.com.

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Here’s the Stop #10 Skinny:

You can order Rachel’s book at your local bookstore, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD and more!

Clue to Write Down: about

Link to Stop #11, the Next Stop on the Loop: Rachel Dylan’s own site! 

Bonus Give-away

But wait! Before you go, I’m offering a free novel to three entrants (USA only)--winner's choice. Take a look at my list of fiction works here to see which one you'd like! I'll announce the winners on March 18. Please use the Rafflecopter form here to enter.

By the way, my Christy Award-winning novel The Mark of the King is currently $1.99 or less at Amazon, BarnesandNoble, ChristianBook, and Kobo. It's about a wrongly imprisoned French midwife who trades a life sentence in Paris for exile to the rugged colony of New Orleans in 1721.