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A huge thank you to all you wonderful people who put "Savannah Fire" on the editor's desk in August. Bless y'all.

Thanks to all who contributed to getting "Savannah Passion" well-edited and onto the Editor's Desk in December.

ABOUT ME:

Al writes Southern suspense. He has finaled in the Single Title Contemporary, Women’s Fiction and Mainstream categories of numerous RWA contests and has placed first in a half dozen. A member of Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of America, he has presented writing workshops at three RWA National Conferences. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He and his wife live in Coastal South Carolina.

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WRITING:
Journal of a Novel by John Steinbeck
On Writing by Stephen King

BEST SELLERS (recent):
Of Love and Evil by Ann Rice
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
South of Broad by Pat Conroy

ROMANCE:
Nora Roberts
Suzanne Brockmman
Sandra Brown

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Savannah Oak

Alan Chaput

When Savannah socialite Hayley Falcon intervenes to rescue her adult daughter from her abusive boyfriend, everything Hayley holds dear is threatened in the ensuing mayhem.


Meet Hayley Falcon, a gun-toting matriarch, and her defiant daughter, Maxine, whom she loves unconditionally. Meet obese, sociopathic Tater, a computer technician who has lived with and exploited Maxine since she graduated from college. Follow Hayley as she is plunged into chaos in order to rescue her daughter from self-destruction. Watch as Maxine’s amoral and purposeless life blows up, literally.

Plot twists abound in this contemporary Southern suspense novel. Think "Dallas" meets "Fatal Attraction."

Advisory: Adult content.

Revised: October 19, 2011

 

Savannah Fire

Alan Chaput

Patricia Falcon, a gun-toting socialite, uses wealth and stealth to combat Savannah's social problems ... until hidden forces get in the way.


A homeless stranger is watching Patricia's every move, but she's oblivious to the fact. When she befriends the stranger, she sets in motion events that will bring her face to face with a dark secret she has tried to leave behind.

"Savannah Fire" bridges three Savannah cultures, the church, the elite and the homeless. The story lifts the curtain on some of Savannah's deepest secrets. Secret societies. Hidden tunnels. Powerful alliances. Scum. Greed. A nightmare world, veiled from your sight ... until now.

"Savannah Fire" blends the thriller intensity of Coben, the southern imagery of Conroy and the storytelling of Brown.

Revised August 30, 2011

 

Savannah Passion

Alan Chaput

It only takes a blink, mere days, for Hayley Falcon’s charmed life to collapse into deadly chaos. Out of the mayhem a new Hayley emerges.


Hayley Falcon is a gun-toting socialite from a deep-rooted Southern family. She is bound by tradition and driven with the ambition that has lifted her family to prominence for centuries.

Unknown to Hayley, her husband, a mob-lawyer, and her father, her mentor and foundation, both lead double lives. Her increasingly distant husband is a government deep cover operative. Her father is a member of a secretive group who has protected Savannah for centuries. Lurking behind the scenes is a powerful, ex-judge bent on revenge for past sins committed against him by the Falcon family.

How much change can Hayley take? Separation from a lying husband. A two-faced father. Public slander of her family. Attempts on her life. The threat of extermination of her entire family.

Inextricably caught in something that can destroy her, Hayley’s only hope is help from the very family members who betrayed her … and the gun she carries inside her designer purse.

“Savannah Passion” is a blend of the southern imagery of Pat Conroy, the thriller intensity of Harlan Coben, and the storytelling of Sandra Brown interlaced with all the page turning elements: love, betrayal, bloodshed and redemption.

Revised December 28, 2010

 

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