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For By Grace, Fallen From Grace, Grace Through
Redemption
Adrian J. Smith
Series: Spirit of Grace, book 1-3 – should be read in order
Adrian J. Smith is in the hot seat…tell us everything!
I’m a writer who lives in the middle of
nowhere. I’ve been published for about three years now and still absolutely
love it. I worked for years in security and alongside with the local sheriff’s
department, which helped inspire this book series. I wanted people to know what
real cops dealt with, not what is shown in
television shows and movies.
Describe your book to us.
The
Spirit of Grace series is a police procedural that turns into a
mystery/thriller. Deputy Grace Halling isn’t someone who likes to cause
problems or stir things up; she really just wants to do her job and go home at
night. She also has this bad habit of finding trouble. During the course of the
first book, several officers are killed in the line of duty. Grace thinks they
may be connected but can’t really convince any of her superiors that she’s
right. This continues in the second book, where she finally convinces her
supervisor the murders are all connected and a task force is created. The third
book is the conclusion and we find out if they are or are not all connected and
just exactly how everything is resolved.
Grace
is very closed off emotionally because of her past. She’s rarely open with
anyone other than her BFF Crystal and her mentor Daniel Mason Brady. When Amya,
a Police Chaplain, steps into the fray of her life, she’s really not sure what
to do with her or how to be in a relationship with someone. She’s quite
inexperienced on the relationship scale and is constantly worried she’s doing
something wrong. She also is stubborn because she’s afraid being in a
relationship will force her to lose her independence. So while there is a
relationship in the series itself, it is on the slowest burn possible because
Grace is a stubborn woman who needs someone to smack some sense into her.
Have you ever read something that made
you think differently about your genre? Can you tell us what it was?
Every
time I read something else in my genre I think differently about it. I think
about ways I can be more creative, ways other authors are bringing the genre
itself into the writing and also ways I can cross genres. I love the idea of
crossing genres, but I’ve only done it on rare occasions.
Tell us about your character’s family
life?
Her
family is her mentor Daniel Mason Brady and his wife, Carol. To share the rest
is a bit of a spoiler.
Compare yourself to your main
character.
Hahaha.
We look somewhat similar, though Grace is a good 5 years or so older than I am,
and definitely in far better shape. We’re both stubborn as hell, we both love
to snack almost constantly. We both also love to help other people out,
particularly children.
My
past week? Well, it was rainy and windy on Sunday, all day long and into the
night. Monday wasn’t much better and happened to be joined in with some sleet.
Tuesday included hail. The weather was awful for these three days straight, so
by the time Wednesday rolled around, we were all pretty much snowed in but had
to dig ourselves out. Because of the hail and sleet, the streets were icy and
there was some damage to vehicles around. By the end of Wednesday, the clouds
covered the sky so quickly no one knew it wasn’t even sunset yet. Thursday was
the first day the sun was allowed to shine, melting some of the ice and snow
left over from the start of the week. Friday started well, with sun shine, but
a massive wind storm took out the power lines and forced residents into hiding
as electricity shocked anyone who passed by. Saturday, the power lines were mostly
fixed, the sun was out, and the forecast for the upcoming week looked
fantastic.
Blurb:
For by Grace
Being
a Sheriff’s Deputy is not all about saving lives and arresting criminals, and
each day Grace wonders if she’ll make it home.
While
kids at the schools Deputy Grace Halling visits see her as the knight in
blue-cotton armor, people involved in the cases she is dispatched to have a
different opinion. She has every confidence in her ability to do her job and arrest
criminals. She easily takes down a knife-wielding woman and a drunken combatant
teenager without hesitation. Everyone—victim, suspect, or witness—has a story
to tell or to lie about, and Grace is never perturbed by their tales.
That
all changes when she looks down the barrel of a gun. She loses confidence in
her ability as a deputy, she loses trust in herself and fellow officers, and
she struggles to stay afloat as shift after shift passes. Grace cannot find her
rhythm of being a deputy again. And when the Police Chaplain unexpectedly
barges into her life, her personal and professional lives are flipped upside
down. Grace struggles to find her even ground, worrying that the next time she
stares a murderer in the face will be the last.
Parables
and riddles can’t undo the confusion Deputy Grace Halling experiences after her
close call with death. Each morning she wakes up, puts on a uniform that feels
far more like a target, and goes out to enforce the laws and protect the
innocent. While her comrades in blue are murdered one by one with each passing
month, Grace pushes for a call to action from her Captain. Her worst fear has
become a reality.
Grace
doesn’t know if she’s next.
Grace through Redemption
Learning
to trust herself again wasn’t easy. Deputy Grace Halling is back patrolling,
and after a few months of quiet, murders of her comrades in blue begin again.
Scared and determined, Grace follows every lead she can until she finds herself
face to
face with the barrel of a gun, only this time her finger is on the trigger.
Categories: F/F Police
Procedural/mystery
For by Grace – 257 pgs
Fallen from Grace – 294 pgs
Grace through Redemption – 287 pgs
Publisher: Supposed Crimes LLC
Cover Artist: Heidi DeCausemaker
Excerpt:
(From Grace Through
Redemption)
Opening her eyes, she was thoroughly
disappointed. The guy, with his dark, curly hair and olive complexion was
probably dream of a looker for any straight woman or gay man. He had his dick
hanging out of his pants and his fist firmly wrapped around it. Grace held her
breath high in her lungs and knocked on his window.
When it rolled down, she glared. “Sir—”
“Yes?” he cut her off.
She wasn’t even sure what to say. She balked
and swallowed, trying to start over. “Sir, what’s going on?”
He at least had the grace to blush. His
mouth opened then closed twice before he shook his head, his hand still wrapped
firmly around his dick.
“Sir, I pulled you over because you were
driving erratically. Over the speed limit, then under it, then over again, and
you couldn’t stay in a lane.”
“I understand.”
Grace shook her head. That wasn’t the excuse
for poor driving she normally got.
Normally there were excuses thrown at her,
the number one being, “I had to pee, Officer!” She blanched and put her hands
at her sides.
“I need to know why.”
“What kind of issues?”
“Well, I…” he trailed off and looked down at
his dick.
Grace was impressed with the fact he still
hadn’t stuffed it back into his pants. She tried to look anywhere except down
at his lap, but her gaze kept being drawn in that direction. Of all officers to
get that call, why couldn’t it have been a man? She sighed and looked at his
face again. He hadn’t looked at her since he’d first rolled down the window.
“I was masturbating, okay?” He sounded
exasperated and completely embarrassed. His cheeks flashed redder than they had
been before, and Grace snickered. He did need to blush. At least that meant he
had some emotions going on under his mask of “what the hell is going on.”
She shifted onto her left foot and more snow
melted down the side of her boot. “Sir, you can cover yourself up.”
“Oh good.” He slid his dick into his slacks
and zipped them closed.
Grace shuddered. What guy would need
permission to cover up when pulled over by a cop? She shook her head, not
wanting to answer her own question. She bit her lip, trying to figure out where
to go with the situation next. In all of her nine years as a beat cop she’d
seen some extraordinary and embarrassing things—this one had to top it all. She
licked her lips.
“You were driving erratically,” she
repeated.
“I couldn’t—I couldn’t get off, and it was
getting hard to focus.”
“Sir—why were you jerking off while driving
a motor vehicle anyway?”
His mouth opened, but Grace put her hand out
to stop him.
“Wait. Don’t answer that. I don’t want the
answer. Give me your license and registration please.”
Buy the book:
For by Grace
Fallen from Grace
Grace through Redemption
Let’s talk about the author:
Adrian J. Smith, or "AJ" as she is
often called, is a part time writer with an epic imagination, sharp wit, and
kind heart that gets her into a bit of trouble when it comes to taking in all
the neighborhood stray cats. Being obsessed with science fiction, Smith often
goes off on tangents about the space-time continuum. She is also a part time
lunatic with a secretive past. It's been rumored that she was once a spy for
the government, but anyone who has gotten close enough to know the truth has
never lived to tell the tale. When traveling around the world on various
classified tasks, Smith requires the following be provided: buffalo jerky,
mimosas, and eighty six pennies. This is all we know about the reclusive woman.
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