Expecting to Die

Stay home. Be a full-time mother. At least for a while. Until Bianca finds
herself. Until Tucker is old enough to enjoy preschool.
Her thoughts drifted back to the Good Feelings Preschool, when Bianca was a
toddler. All those innocent babies, all now nearly grown, some now dead, others
in prison, still others, like Bianca, forever scarred.
Was that what life was? A series of childhood scars that molded a person into

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adulthood?
The baby gurgled and opened his eyes to stare up at her with his dark Santana
eyes. “You’re an angel,” she told him as she picked him up and walked him onto
the deck. Autumn was in the air, the night crisp, the moon rising. This, living
here, was a little slice of heaven. A perfect place to raise a family.
And yet . . . as she gazed across the water, watching the breeze ruffle the
surface, she imagined that there was danger lurking in the shadows, a malevolent
presence that threatened their peace.
You’re being paranoid.
Turning to go inside, she spied her husband walking into the bedroom. Her
heart swelled at the sight of him. Yeah, he could still turn her inside out. She
slipped through the French doors and walked into his embrace.
“You okay?” he asked.
“Never better.”
His smile was familiar, a crooked slash of white against dark skin that caused
her heart to skip a beat. He kissed her, then, just a brush of his lips over hers,
then did the same to the crown of his son’s head.
Yeah, life here was good. Secure. Regan Pescoli had never been happier, but
when she turned back to the doors and cast one final glance to the darkness
beyond, she felt a tiny chill, like an icy needle pricking the edge of her heart.
Tonight, she locked the door.

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Dear Reader,
I hope you liked Expecting to Die! I’ve had a lot of fun with the series set in
Grizzly Falls, Montana! Detectives Alvarez and Pescoli are a couple of my
favorite characters. They, along with their families and the citizens of the
community continue to come up with stories for me to write, including the next
Willing to Die in which Pescoli is still wrestling with her decision of retiring
from the force and staying home with her newborn. What will she do? Willing to
Die is scheduled to be published sometime in 2018.
Meanwhile as I write Willing to Die, I’ll have some other books you might
enjoy. You Will Pay is my next hardcover and will be on the shelves at the end of
May. An excerpt for this book is on the following pages, as is an excerpt for
Dangerous Behavior, my sister Nancy Bush’s next novel which goes on sale at
the end of April. Also look for Ominous, a book written by Nancy Bush,
Rosalind Noonan and me and is a sequel to Sinister. It will be out this August.
You Will Pay is a stand-alone thriller set in a co-ed camp along the forested
shores of Cape Horseshoe on the Oregon Coast. Twenty years earlier, a girl
disappeared, another was presumed murdered and everyone associated with the
camp was considered a suspect. The homicide was never solved, but now, when
all of the kids who’d attended years ago are adults, a body is discovered and as a
lone detective tries to solve the crime, he has to hide his own involvement and
disguise his own passions for some of the girls, now women, who have returned
to the scene of the crime at his behest, unknowing that the terror of the past has
resumed.
Dangerous Behavior is a thriller played upon the seemingly tranquil
backwater bay of a cozy little Oregon town. But the calm is only a fragile veneer
that covers a turbulent and dangerous threat to the families who reside along that
bucolic waterway. An evil tides has come to their community, unearthing all
their secrets and leaving a destructive wake where no one will be safe again.
Ominous takes place in Prairie Creek, Wyoming and is the story of three girls
who lose their innocence in a seemingly innocent midnight swim. Who would
think they were being watched, even stalked? On that fateful night, the girls are
changed forever and their lives shattered, their friendship destroyed. Years later,
as adults, they all return to Prairie Creek to repair their lives and with danger
around every corner, finally unmask the hideous truth.
I think you’ll like these three novels!
To keep up with my releases and appearances, please go to my website at
www.lisajackson.com
. I’ll keep everyone informed about upcoming books and
current releases. To find out more about my life as a writer, anecdotes about the

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books, how I deal with three stubborn but loveable little dogs and my life in
general, just join the conversation at my Facebook page, Lisa Jackson fans.
Thanks for all of your comments, wishes and general support. I truly love
writing these books!
Turn the page for the excerpts and always, keep reading!
Lisa

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