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Book Description: First, I Love
You
If Mario
Puzo and Jane Austen crossed the time-space continuum and mated, “First, I Love
You” would be their literary baby. Imagine being a detective with a mobster for
a father, or a mobster with a straight arrow, good cop for a son. This is a
relationship that is tricky on its best day. Add in some well-meaning meddling
from a mob princess sister, an arrogant DEA agent, and gangsters running a
human trafficking ring and you have a recipe for a book that refuses to follow
the rules. Told from the perspective and point of view of each the six main characters
this is the first novel in a trilogy about love, loyalty, revenge and
redemption.
Omaha
Detective Tommy Gates has kept his gangster father at arm’s length his whole
life. Mickey Downey has spent the better part of the last two decades trying to
find ways to get back the son he lost through Witness Protection. Now Tommy has
taken an opportunity to work on a Federal Human Trafficking Joint Task Force in
Chicago where his father lives. Tommy’s sister Kiki and his mother Mary see
this as an opportunity to build a relationship between the two. Tommy’s new DEA
partner James Hoffman sees it as an opportunity to gain leverage over Mickey
Downey. Tommy’s other partner, FBI Agent Ginny Sommers wants to keep Tommy’s
family as far from the case as possible. When Kiki and James join forces,
sparks fly and it sets fire to a maelstrom of unexpected consequences for
everyone involved.
One part The
Godfather, two parts Emma and a dash of Casablanca mixed together, “First, I
Love You” isn’t a detective novel, a gangster novel, a mystery, a romance or a
family saga. It’s a little of all of the above.
Purchase Link: Amazon/ Smashwords
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Fun Facts about Mickey Downey
1) He loves museums about technology, hates museums about
art (even though he carves artwork himself).
2) He only listens to ragtime jazz.
3) He started collecting guns at the age of 15.
4) The first time he stole something was at the age of 7
when his mother wouldn’t let him have a pack of gum. He pretended he had
dropped his glove, went back in and lifted the gum. Then he sat back in the car
and apologized to his parents for ‘whining for a pack of gum’.
5) There’s only been two people in his entire life that he
truly counted as friends.
6) He once put a contract out on his sister Rosa’s boyfriend
after Luciano put her in the hospital. She stopped speaking to Mickey after
that.
Fun Facts about Kiki Downey
1) She secretly loves her full name Katherine Anastasia.
Even though it’s a bit stodgy, it’s always made her feel regal.
2) She loves dogs of all shapes and sizes but has felt it
would be cruel to have one in her apartment or without kids to play with it.
3) She majored in business at Elmhurst College before she
quit, but she told everyone she was taking art classes after the first few
people she told thought she was kidding.
4) When she was six she wore a tiara for five solid weeks
(even slept with it) until one of her cousins broke it.
5) She blogs about fashion trends but would really love to
run her own event planning company.
6) She hates traditional Irish music, the one thing she has
in common with her grandmother Maeve, who loves to mock anyone that assumes
just because she’s from Galway that she ought to listen to reels and jigs all
day.
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Book Description: Second of All
“…for there is nothing so perfect as a thing with no ending and no
beginning such as a family of souls intertwined…”
This introspective sequel to First, I Love You
takes you deeper into a tale of interwoven roles, divided loyalties, and
personal conflicts.
Detective Tommy Gates and Agent Ginny Sommers
struggle to balance their growing personal relationship with their task of
finding his father. Back home, Kiki Downey and James Hoffman are facing their
own internal and external pressures. After Mary Gates is led on a different
trail by Mickey's Irish kin, they are all given pieces of a puzzle that it will
take the whole family to solve. Interlocked within the narrative are glimpses
into how Mickey Downey became the man he is today.
Throughout their journeys, past and present,
they all must struggle with what loyalties and loves come first, and what
comes... second of all.
Purchase Link: Amazon/ Smashword
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Genevieve Dewey is the author of The Downey Trilogy
(First, I Love You & Second of All) and the short stories Bird Day
Battalion & V-Day Aversion. She is a wife, mother, sister, friend and
Anthropologist. She was raised mostly in Nebraska, partly in Arizona. She has a
Master’s in Anthropology and worked as an Applied Anthropologist for years
(even ran her own research company for a while) before deciding to be a stay at
home mom. She loves passionate (rational) debates, reading, and libraries… oh,
and Chicago and high-heels and chocolate and target practice and gangster
flicks and anything with the FBI in it and run-on sentences. She lives in
Nebraska with her three brilliantly diabolical children and one incredibly
funny husband.
You can find Gen online at:
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