Welcome Meghan Carver to the Yankee Belle Cafe

This is turning out to be a wonderful week to focus on Love Inspired books and authors, so what better time to welcome Meghan Carver to the Cafe than the week of another Love Inspired pitch?

Meghan sold to Love Inspired Suspense as a result of the Killer Voices contest.

A Treat for a Heroine ~ Fudgy Brownies

Greetings! Meghan Carver here. What a treat { } to be in the café today! Many thanks to Cate Nolan, my writing friend and sister Killer Voices author, for allowing me to visit!

My Love Inspired Suspense out this month, Under Duress, features a heroine who loves brownies. {Who doesn’t, right?} There is a scene in which she and the hero and her ten-year-old ward are hurrying through a super center, on the run from the bad guys. They hide in a terrific place, and I had such fun writing that scene…but that’s beside the point.

So, as they rush down the main aisle, she spots a display of brownie mixes and wonders if the hero’s idea of a fun evening might be brownies and a movie.

Brownie mixes from the box are good, and quite frankly, that’s what my teen daughters make most. And if teenagers want to get in the kitchen and bake, I’m not going to complain. But if you want a from-scratch version, this one is wonderful!

Ingredients:

2/3 cup butter or margarine

2/3 cup cocoa

2 cup sugar

4 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup flour

Directions:

In a large saucepan, melt the butter. Remove from the heat. Stir in cocoa, sugar, and eggs, one at a time. Add all the other ingredients, folding in the flour last. Pour into a greased and floured 9x13 pan. Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes

 

 

Chocolate and a good book? Sounds heavenly to me!

Bon Appetit!

About Under Duress ~

FAMILY ON THE RUN

Criminals are trying to kidnap attorney Samantha Callahan’s adopted

daughter, Lily—and she has no idea why. So when bullets start flying,

Samantha and Lily speed off in her car…and crash right into help.

Ex-cop Reid Palmer is shocked when former law school classmate

Samantha rear-ends his car and then climbs in with her daughter and

begs him to drive. Now they are on the run, and Reid will do anything

to protect them and figure out why kidnappers are after Lily.

As they struggle to evade capture, Reid begins to realize that

Samantha is more to him than just a woman in trouble. But

with the enemies closing in and their motives finally revealed,

will Reid be able to make sure justice is served?

 

By sixth grade, Meghan Carver knew she wanted to write. After earning a degree in English from Millikin University, she detoured to law school, earning a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University. She then worked in immigration law and taught Comp 101 at the local college. Now, she homeschools her six children with her college professor husband. When she isn’t writing, homeschooling, or planning the family’s next travel adventure, she is active in her church, sews for her kidlets, and reads.