Rich
Janet Elizabeth Henderson
(Benson Security, #5)
Publication date: April 23rd 2020
Genres: Adult, Thriller

Rachel Ford-Talbot has nothing to do with her family or their pharmaceutical business. And she likes it that way. As one of four partners who own an internationally renowned security business, Rachel prefers to leave her past, with all its secrets, deeply buried.

But when a series of thefts reveal that the family business is being targeted for industrial espionage, her father begs Rachel to investigate. His illness makes it hard for her to refuse, but Rachel wonders if he truly understands what he’s unleashing on his company. Because she isn’t the same bright-eyed graduate that walked through their doors years earlier. Now, she’s strong, powerful, and somewhat terrifying. A woman who doesn’t suffer fools lightly and who is afraid of nothing.

She also isn’t alone.

This time, she has the might and expertise of Benson Security at her back. And an ex-CIA agent at her side—because Michael “Harvard” Carter has appointed himself her bodyguard for the duration. Even though Rachel doesn’t need, or want, the annoyingly sexy man’s help. But while the world sees a first-class bitch when they look at her, Michael sees only someone who intrigues him. Which makes him the biggest threat of all.

***This is a standalone novel. You don’t have to have read any of my other books to enjoy it.***

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“A typical day in the life of the author” (Guest Post by the author)

Okay, here’s a typical day in my life, but I warn you, it isn’t very exciting!

9 a.m. I’m not a morning person. So, unless hubby is on early shift as a nurse at the hospital and I have to take the kids to school, I stagger out of bed around 9. And then the feeding begins—not me, the many animals we’ve rescued over the years. It takes quite some time to feed 4 cats, one dog, a turtle, 7 guinea pigs, 6 chickens, three alpacas and two miniature horses. At least the sheep feed themselves.

(Morning caffeine is Pepsi Max. And I know how bad it is for me!)

Mid-morning: By this time, I’m knee-deep in replying to emails, posting on social media, writing blog posts or doing interviews, setting up giveaways, sorting out my newsletter, booking advertising, designing ads, designing book covers, updating my website, emailing my agent, and a whole load of other admin or marketing tasks. Also, depending on whether hubby is working the morning shift or not, I generally have to deal with a million interruptions from him too. Then there’s shopping for groceries, paying bills, cleaning up cat puke, chasing the chickens out of the house because they’ve broken in again, answering the phone a million times, sorting things the kids need for school, tidying the house…and trying desperately not to snack continually through all of this!

Lunch: Is usually at my desk, something snacky that I can eat while working. Sometimes, if I’m getting too many interruptions to think straight, I’ll drive to the beach (ten minutes away) and work in my car while eating. Often I’ll stay there until it’s time to pick the kids up from school.

After lunch: I get into writing and editing. Either rereading what I wrote the day before, or rewriting, or just plain writing the draft. If I have a whole bundle of edits I need to get through for my publisher, or editor, I work on that instead of writing a new book. This can happen at my desk, or in my car somewhere—depending on how much peace I’m getting at home. If one of the cats decides she needs to sit on my keyboard, I work in the car! Or if hubby keeps interrupting to ask how the book is going, I work in the car…it’s either that or bury him on our hill!

3 p.m. until about 8 p.m.: I pick the kids up from school and transport them to whatever after-school activity they’ve got going on. Sometimes, if I have to wait for them, I’ll work on my laptop in the car. Then it’s back home to make dinner or order takeaway. (I seriously miss takeaway and plan to order in every night for a month once lockdown’s over!) Then it’s help the kids get sorted for school, tidy the house, supervise homework, feed the animals all over again, get lunchboxes sorted for the next day. In between I message my friends and family to catch up with them. Or hang out with hubby, if he isn’t on a late shift at the hospital.

8 p.m. to midnight or later: I write. Stopping for the usual interruptions from family and animals. But generally by ten everyone, including hubby, is asleep and I have peace to concentrate until I get too tired to think straight. This is the time slot where I do most of my writing, editing and thinking about my books. I put on my headphones and listen to a playlist called “writing songs” that I loop endlessly, or listen to the sound of rainfall in the Amazon, or waves on a beach. When I get too sleepy to think straight, I head to bed and read someone else’s book for a while.

2 a.m. Unable to sleep because the story is going around in my mind, I get up and write down everything that occurred to me. Sometimes I solve plot problems, or some great dialogue pops into my head. Once or twice, I’ve had to get up and write a scene that was so funny it made me laugh out loud and wake my husband! Then it’s back to bed ready to start all over again the next day.

Author Bio:

Janet is a Scot who moved to New Zealand fifteen years ago. Among other things, she’s been an artist, a teacher, a security guard at a castle, a magazine editor, and a cleaner in a drop in center for drug addicts (NOT the best job!). She now writes full-time and is working on her 19th book. Her books have won several awards, including the Daphne du Maurier award for excellence in mystery and suspense. When she isn’t living in her head, she raises two kids, one husband, and several random animals. She survives on chocolate and caffeine.

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