Blood Never Washes Out
by C.C. Scharon
Genre: Suspense, Thriller
A deathbed promise—a secret kept for decades...
Everything about DEA Agent Jake Castillo’s life is a lie and he doesn’t know it. Seeing two fellow agents killed right before his eyes has left him with PTSD and a thirst for revenge on the drug lord who murdered them. He vows to bring El Toro to justice.
When the enigmatic Gabriella abducts him, Jake wakes up a week later in his San Diego home with no memory of what happened. Convinced his kidnapping was not a random act, he ignores department policy and returns to Colombia to unravel the secrets of his past.
But can he live with the truth?
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For
as long as I can remember I loved stories, so it seemed natural that I wrote
them. I can’t pick any specific date when I started, and I guess I’ve never
stopped. My husband sent me on the path of doing it professionally when I
expressed my desire to write a book. He told me to stop talking about it and
get to work. The first novel I completed will never see the light of day, but I
learned a great deal fleshing out a complete book. It was written in long hand
in spiral notebooks that I kept in my nightstand. You never know when a good
idea is going to hit you. It could be the middle of the night. Now I go to my
office and boot up my computer if I must record my thoughts immediately. Several
tries later, I got some viable manuscripts, which later made it into print.
What
I love most about writing is the author’s God-like ability over everything that
happens. What characters do, what dangers they face, who lives, and who dies.
Your story is the only place in the world you can control fate of everyone. The
only limit is your imagination. It is the greatest feeling in the world when
the story catches fire and almost seems to write itself.
A
fan of dark and dangerous medieval Scotland, my first books were Scottish
historical romances that took place in the 1300s. When I visited Scotland, it
captured my imagination and resulted in eight books I later dubbed the Highland Legends series. These were
all published under Connie C. Scharon, while my new venture into mystery and
suspense is penned by my alias C. C. Scharon. I wanted to separate the two
genres as they are for distinct audiences.
When
I begin a book, I start with an inciting incident, the main factor that gets
the whole story rolling. I know then how I want it to end, but little else. As
the story progresses, I begin a rough outline consisting of a few sentences
about what scenes will happen in each chapter. My favorite part to write is the
big finale where all the pieces come together with a few extra twists. After
all, I wrote the whole book to get to it.
A fan of dark and dangerous medieval Scotland, Connie C. Scharon published her first Scottish historical romance in June of 2013. The success of that book led to eight other romance novels, but Connie wanted to mix things up a little.
Her medical background gave her a desire to create stories that wove her hospital experiences, visits to the morgue, and tours of the forensic lab into crime-focused novels.
In 2020, writing as C. C. Scharon, she transitioned from her romance roots into mystery and suspense with the international thriller BLOOD NEVER WASHES OUT.
Connie is a life-long resident of Maryland. She belongs to multiple professional organizations, including Pennwriters, Romance Writers of American, and Maryland Writers Association.
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