New Release: Desperate Measures Edited by Elizabeth Coldwell
I’m happy to announce another new release! This time, I’m appearing in an eBook anthology from Xcite Books, called Desperate Measures. My story is the title story, and it’s about a woman who was made redundant from her job and finds a very interesting way to earn a little more cash.
Here’s a snippet from the story:
Recession. Credit crunch. Inflation. Poppy was fed up of hearing the words. She didn’t need to keep seeing the news reports to know the depressing truth. She – and many other people besides – was broke. Before the financial crisis hit, Poppy had been doing just fine. Really well, actually. She’d had a great job as a project manager with a firm that worked with chain supermarkets. Granted, it meant there were occasional late-night phone calls she’d had to deal with, but the money had been good enough that the interruptions were worth it. The nice house, car, and luxurious holidays had also kept her smiling through the busy periods when she was ready to rip some incompetent contractor’s head off.
Unfortunately, money problems had affected everyone and made them tighten their belts, including the supermarkets. As a result, Poppy was out of a job. Various schemes she’d paid into over the years ensured that she still had a roof over her head, thankfully, but the luxuries she’d previously enjoyed were no longer an option.
Naturally, she’d thrown herself into job hunting as soon as she’d found out she was being made redundant. But people with her skill set and experience were expensive and companies were getting rid of expensive and not-absolutely-necessary people, not taking them on.
The monthly repayments on her mortgage were high and while she was on jobseeker’s allowance they were being paid for her. Poppy was no snob, but she couldn’t afford to take just any job because as soon as she became employed again, the insurance company would stop paying her mortgage. Therefore, if her new job paid a lot less than her previous one, she’d end up even worse off than she was now. Poppy had a serious dilemma. If only she could find a way to earn some extra cash while she was looking for a job, then she wouldn’t have to dip into her hard-earned savings.
One evening, as she surfed job websites looking for possible roles, Poppy sat back in her chair and sighed with resignation. Her search was proving fruitless, and it was really beginning to get her down. But then, as her gaze landed on the gadget hooked on to the top of her computer monitor, her eyes narrowed and inspiration hit. She snapped back to the screen and began frantically Googling. A little while later, Poppy’s genius plan was in action.
See the book page for the other authors in the anthology, and where you can bag yourself a copy.
This book is a first for me on two counts – it’s the first of Decadent Publishing’s 1 Night Stand series that I’ve read, and also the first piece of Liia Ann White’s work. I give a big thumbs up to both.
For those of you that haven’t yet got your hands on a copy of Uniform Behaviour, I have good news! Amazon have dropped the price, making it much more affordable to read these deliciously dirty stories about men and women in uniform.
When I was stalking the Amazon pages for Uniform Behaviour (there’s no point in denying it, you know what I’m like now!), I came across a new review. Happily, it’s another good ‘un! Yay!
