Karen’s Killer Fixin’s
**AUTHOR SPECIAL**
with REBECCA YORK!
Welcome to my Friday bonus feature called Karen’s Killer Fixin’s **Author Special**!! Today, in lieu of one of my own recipes, I’m going to introduce you to a new author who will share one of her favorite recipes. Not only will you and I occasionally learn how to make something new and delicious, but we’ll get a chance to check out some wonderful authors. Introducing author, REBECCA YORK, and her favorite recipe for GRILLED BEEF WITH PEPPERS!!
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FIRE ON THE MOON
Decorah Security Book 19
BY REBECCA YORK
Blurb
When Francesca Turner visits her estranged uncle’s estate in Florida, she doesn’t know she’s stepping into a death trap. Only the cunning strategies of werewolf Zane Marshall can save her. But as the two of them are hunted down, they must fight for survival and the happily ever after they both desire.
FIRE ON THE MOON
Decorah Security Book 19
BY REBECCA YORK
Excerpt
Francesca has escaped from her uncle’s killers and the fire they set in his house. Now she’s running down the beach, trying to get away.
“Wait, I saw what happened. I want to help you.”
Saw what? The fire? The gun? The dog? Still afraid to trust anyone, she looked toward the houses that ran along the shoreline, wondering if she could slip between them and get away. The movement slowed her and the man who had called out put a hand on her shoulder.
“Stop running.”
The hand sent a zing of reaction through her, but she simply couldn’t give in to it, not after everything that had happened. When she tried to wrench herself away, she stumbled. She would have landed in the sand, but the man caught her, pulling her against his body. He felt solid and well built, well muscled without being a weight lifter type, and his arms around her were reassuring in a way she couldn’t articulate. He could have easily locked her in his grasp, but he wasn’t holding her tightly. The knowledge that she was free to step away from him kept her standing in his embrace, comforted by the sturdy feel of him.
As his hands soothed over her shoulders and down her arms, she struggled to stop trembling.
“It’s okay. I can help,” Zane said again, hearing the thick quality of his voice. His natural impulse had been to help a victim. Yet as he cradled this woman in his arms, he was feeling a lot more than the need to offer aid.
She didn’t answer, and he understood why she couldn’t rely on him, or anybody else right now. She’d escaped from a burning building, only to see two men try to capture her. They’d been taken down by what looked like a large dog that had appeared out of nowhere. She didn’t know the dog was a wolf, and the wolf was him. And he couldn’t tell her he was the one who had rescued her. He wouldn’t give away that information to anyone he didn’t trust implicitly.
He’d left the men rolling on the ground, bleeding and nursing major bites. And he’d made sure some of those bites were in their hands so that firing a gun would have been almost impossible. As a wolf, that had been the best he could do to disable the thugs without killing them. Then he’d found his running shorts, shirt and shoes where he’d left them in the bushes and changed back to human form, pushing through the transformation before taking off after the woman.
She raised her head, looking dazed, and maybe that gave him his best chance.
“Let me help you.”
She focused on his face, and he knew she was trying to get a sense of him beyond the superficial exterior of a lean, fit guy in his early thirties who had come dashing down the sand after her when nobody else had turned away from the fire.
He tried to project honesty and calm.
“Who are you?” she asked in a shaky voice.
Your life mate. The answer leaped into his mind, stunning him. Yet he pushed the crazy notion down into the depths of his soul as soon as it had surfaced.
She spoke while he was still feeling dizzy with the possibility of truth.
“Why would you help me? What’s this to you?” Her question only reinforced the emotions clanging through him.
By an effort of will, he kept his gaze steady. He couldn’t deal with the life-changing idea that had slapped him in the face, but he knew he had to cope with the immediate situation.
“It’s my job. My name is Zane Marshall. I’m a private detective. I work for an agency called Decorah Security.”
Meet Author Rebecca York…
A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly best-selling and award-winning author, Rebecca has written over 145 books and novellas. In 2011 she became the dozenth author to receive the Romance Writers of America Centennial Award for having written 100 romantic novels. Her Killing Moon was a launch title for Berkley’s Sensation imprint in June 2003. Five more books in the series have followed.
Rebecca has authored or co-authored over 65 romantic thrillers, many for Harlequin Intrigue’s very popular 43 Light Street series, set in Baltimore, and many with paranormal elements.
Her many awards include two Rita finalist books. She has two Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times: for Series Romantic Suspense and for Series Romantic Mystery. And her Peregrine Connection series won a Lifetime Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense Series.
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Links to Rebecca’s website, blog, books, etc.
I hope you enjoy the recipe Rebecca is sharing today on Karen’s Killer Fixin’s. Happy Eating!
Karen
P.S. We’re at 435 recipes and counting with this posting. Hope you find some recipes you like. If this is your first visit, please check out past blogs for more Killer Fixin’s. In the right-hand column menu, you can even look up past recipes by type. i.e. Desserts, Breads, Beef, Chicken, Soups, Author Specials, etc.
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This recipe is from Ruth Glick’s book, Fabulous Lo-Carb Cuisine, which is quite heavy on meat. <g>
What to feed your werewolf.
As soon as Francesca and Zane start sharing meals together in Fire on the Moon, she notices that his diet is heavy on meat. She remarks that cooking for him would be hard. After their HEA, she spends a lot of time trying to find recipes that will work for both of them and won’t be the same thing day after day. Here’s one of her solutions, grilled steak with an Italian flare. He can eat the meat, and she can eat the meat and vegetables.
GRILLED BEEF WITH PEPPERS
[Makes 3-4 Servings]
1 1/2 lb sirloin steak, cut 1-in thick
1/4 cup chopped onions
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1 Tbsp Italian seasoning
1/2 Tbsp Dijon-style mustard
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp salt
2 sweet peppers (green, and red, yellow, or orange) seeded and sliced
1. Place steak in a zip-lock plastic food storage bag. In a small bowl, combine onion, oil, vinegar, Italian seasoning, mustard, garlic, and salt; and stir to mix well. Pour into bag with steak, distributing evenly over meat. Seal, lay on a large plate, and refrigerate 6 to 8 hours or overnight, turning occasionally.
2. Adjust rack 5 inches from broiler. Preheat broiler. Transfer meat to broiler pan. Broil meat for 11 to 18 minutes, turning once, until desired degree of doneness is reached.
3. Meanwhile, transfer onions and marinade to a large skillet. Add 2 tablespoons additional oil. Add peppers, and cook over medium high to high heat, stirring frequently, 7 or 8 minutes, until onions and peppers begin to char.
4. To serve, slice meat on the diagonal, and arrange on a serving platter. Surround with pepper-onion mixture.
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Thanks, Rebecca, for sharing your book with us!
Don’t miss the chance to read this book!
Oh my gosh this recipe sounds yummy! Thanks for sharing! I’m also excited for the newest Decorah Security book!!
Glad you like it.
How could there be 19 of theses and I’m just hearing of them? Wow!
And a great recipe, too!
Thank you, Karen and Rebecca.
I hope you’re hooked.
Good morning, Rebecca, and welcome to Karen’s Killer Fixin’s! I love your books and somehow 🙂 they always end up on my Keeper Shelf for second and third reads. 🙂 I cannot wait to dig my teeth into this book. Thanks for sharing it with us today!
Thanks! Yes, digging your teeth in is highly appropriate.
🙂 🙂
recipe sounds tasty
I do love marinated meat.
Hmmm the recipe sounds good… thanks for sharing it and about your book! 🙂
Thanks
The recipe sounds yummy! Thanks! And your book sounds intriguing. I have only read a very few shape-shifter books (the first being the Harry Potter series, of course), but yours sounds very interesting. I might have to give it a try.
You are welcome.
To me, werewolves are the ultimate alpha males.