โ Scribed by Orr, Elaine
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Christa Heckertt did not expect to interrupt an intruder trying to steal parts from the computers her Iowa City fourth-grade class won in the mayor's competition. And the last thing Officer Kirk Reynolds wanted was to be called from a drug surveillance to investigate an attempted burglary at Buckingham Elementary School. But the burglary throws them togetherKirk who wants enough evidence to convict a drug dealer who sells to kids and Christa who wants to keep her students safe and get control of her life again. The thieves who want the newly won computers will stop at nothing. They'll kidnap, run cars off the road, steal, and threaten worse. Their attraction to each other is growing, but Christa and Kirk are too stubborn to admit it. Will it get in the way as they try to decipher an encoded file and learn what the bad guys want and why it's worth killing to get it? On Halloween eve, Christa is kidnapped by a drug dealer who wants to use her as leverage to get what he wants. Will she escape in time to work with Kirk to keep the dealer from making that delivery and find out who his partners are? Can she and Kirk trust the right people to catch the dealers?
Searching for Secrets has evolved from a book that focuses as much on romance as mystery to one that now highlights the mystery. What does that mean? In the proverbial nutshell, the Kindle edition is different than the paperback issued in 2006.
As a technical writer for many years, I revised constantly. I revise my fiction, too, but generally only before publication. After a lot of thought, I issued a new version of Searching for Secrets as an e-pub. Why? I didn't like the earlier version. The romantic elements seemed forced and took away from the story. I liked the story itself, so I reworked parts of the book. The book is much the same, but with less focus on the characters' thoughts about one another. It flows better.
Is this sacrilege? Maybe. Am I happy with the new version? Definitely. A friend's note confirmed that the revision was a good decision. He had just finished reading Appraisal for Murder and said, "It is a good read; much better than your first effort Searching for Secrets." Only a good friend will tell you something like that.
This will be the only time I publish a revised piece of fiction. My skills are at a level I'm happier with -- doesn't mean everyone will like my writing, but I will. And I may let some of it sit longer in a drawer before putting it out there.
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