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DANGER REVEALED
Romantic Suspense
BY TERESA LaBELLA
Blurb
Displaced by force. Haunted by their past. Fear for the future.
Tori Deane gets no answers from the Canadian consulate when her diplomat lover Lucas Dominguez goes missing. Chicago police won’t help her. The UnMatchables private investigators Eddie Emerson and Kelly Gillespie are Tori’s last hope.
Eddie and Kelly uncover evidence that Lucas has returned to the country of his childhood that was ripped apart by the Dirty War. An undeliverable money order sent to Buenos Aires from a bodega in a neighbourhood Kelly dreads may be the lead they need to heat up a cold case.
The danger revealed points to the sordid underworld of human trafficking ruled by a ruthless crime boss who hides his past behind an alias. Argentine refugee Rayen Vasquez is desperately seeking a way out and away from Octavio Hernandez, aka Otto Hermann, that only Lucas can give her.
Time isn’t on The UnMatchables side.
Canada has deployed an elite law enforcement team with orders to recover their diplomat. Chicago PD has spread a wide net to snare smugglers and cripple illegal transport of guns, drugs and people.
Hermann is on the run. His reason for keeping Rayen alive is about to expire.
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DANGER REVEALED
Romantic Suspense
BY TERESA LaBELLA
The Story Behind the Story
The tragedy of human trafficking was brought home to my Iowa hometown while I was working as a freelance journalist covering county government. The busiest truck stop along Interstate 80, which moves traffic across the U.S. from Boston to San Francisco, is located in Walcott, Iowa. The series of articles I wrote from interviews with local police, politicians, business owners and victim advocates, as well as a documentary produced on the victims trafficked from Iowa to Chicago, inspired the story of Rayen. Reading My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, a novel by Patricio Pron, prompted my interest and research into the Dirty War in Argentina. The horrors and atrocities of human rights abuse, past and present, became linked in the layers of plot and people struggling to connect and make sense of it all in Danger Revealed.
About Author Teresa LaBella…
Teresa LaBella grew up in Davenport, Iowa where the Mississippi River runs east to west. The people she interviewed as a journalist and met in her work in the arts and with nonprofits coloured her future fiction writing canvas and sharpened her love for telling a good story. Teresa published her first contemporary romance novel in 2013 and jumped genres with the October 2020 publication of Danger Noted, her first novel in The UnMatchables romantic suspense series. The second novel in the series, Danger Revealed, was released by Purple Porcupine Publishing in July 2023. Capital Strings, the author’s uniquely Canadian political thriller set in Ottawa, published in April 2021. Teresa chose Canada in August 2019 and resides in Nova Scotia with her rescue fur baby family Rosie and Ellis.
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Links to Teresa’s websites, blogs, books, #ad etc.:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/48mzx6V
Barnes & Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book/1143828579?ean=9781738899531
website: www.storyteller30.com
email: teresa@storyteller30.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/storyteller30/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7792630.Teresa_LaBella
Amazon Author Central:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Teresa-LaBella/author/B00HH1CC88?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
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Thanks, Teresa, for sharing your book with us!
Don’t miss the chance to read this book!
Good morning, wow, your book sounds and looks very intriguing!! It really sounds like a Must read! Thank you for sharing about it. Have a great week.
How timely and fascinating the theme of your story is. Thank you for writing a book and putting this topic out there.
Love it. Its a great book, love the story.
A dreadful situation, like everything else, how does it get stopped?
Welcome back to Karen’s Killer Book Bench, Teresa. Your book sounds hard-hitting and intriguing. I think human trafficking is one of the worst crimes. Love seeing cold cases solved. This one’s going to be gnarly to unravel! Thanks for sharing your book with us today!
Human trafficking is such a terrible thing, I looking forward to how this story ends.