Sneak Peek at the Cover for The Shadow Wife
The Shadow Wife, as those of you who’ve been following my blog for a while know, is the new title for Cypress Point. Cypress Point was originally published in 2002 and will be reissued in December. Even though my readers and I agree that it’s a mistake to change titles of older books, this is one of those “I can’t do anything about it” things that happen in publishing. Luckily, I believe The Shadow Wife is an excellent title for this book. It works on several levels, as those of you have read it will understand. As you can see in both the title change and the cover image, the story now looks like it’s about people instead of a place.
I’ve made a few minor changes to the text in the book. I’ve “de-wussified” Liam, who was 
just a little too soft for my 2010 taste and I’ve “de-graphicized” the love scene, which was just a little too, well, graphic for my current writing style. So if you like your books steamy, you might want to read the original version!
Anyhow, it will be a bit of a wait until you see The Shadow Wife on your bookstore shelf, but I like to share my covers with you when I get them. Enjoy the peek!
This sounds like an awesome book and can’t wait till I can read it. Since I like the sound of the changes you have made because of my type of reading, and have never read the original I will buy the new one when it comes out.
I just read the Cypress Point book a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it! I think the new name does match the sotry of the book! My interest is peaked now, and will have to reread this book when it comes out to see the changes in Liam!
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