I’m so very pleased to announce the sale of my first romantic suspense to Kensington Publishing Corp.  This book is near and dear to my heart for many reasons. First, it takes place in a city I love: I spent my most formative years in Charleston, with its glorious church steeples, cobblestone streets, majestic live oaks draped with Spanish moss and oyster-rich harbors. And no matter how far from Charleston I roam, that inexplicable scent, unique to its marshes and coastline and its historic charm speak to my heart like a familiar lover. In this first of three books set in Charleston, I think my love affair with the city shows.

I’m also very happy to be penning, not only my first full-length contemporary, but a suspense about three sisters, heiresses to a newspaper dynasty, who reunite at their mother’s funeral, and resolve to solve the decades-old mystery of their youngest brother’s disappearance. Not many people know this, but although my first published book was a romance, the first story I ever began writing was a mystery. I only wrote three chapters before I read Whitney My Love by Judith McNaught and fell in love with the world of romance. Although I scrapped that first story, I never outgrew the desire to write a suspense and have incorporated a little mystery in many of my books throughout my career. Perfect In My Sight was probably the first book I wrote where I felt serious pangs to branch out.

Finally, I’m pleased to be working with Alicia Condon at Kensington, whose guidance and eye for a great novel have earned her an impressive reputation. But I’m also quite pleased to be writing for Kensington, because CEO Steven Zacharias is a long time friend. Our friendship has spanned nearly my entire twenty years in the publishing industry, and here’s a toast, Steven, to twenty more!

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With much love,

Tanya Anne Crosby