Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye [Paperback]

E. C. Sheedy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 25, 2007

She knew him only as the dark-eyed man, the one who put her in that dank basement. She was only nine years old when she stared into those eyes and understood that something unspeakable lived in them. Though she was saved at the last minute by an unlikely ally, she's never forgotten that fear. And fear has not forgotten her...Now the woman who rescued April from that living hell long ago has disappeared, and it's no accident. Whoever came after her wants April - dead. April has one chance to save her guardian angel before it's too late. But to do that, she'll have to break the promise she swore she never would and contact the one man she knows she shouldn't...Joe Worth's horoscope said he was in for trouble, but the woman sitting in his office is the kind of trouble any guy would welcome - mile-long legs, blond hair, gorgeous face. She's also scared. Very scared. Protecting people is Joe's business, but this time it's also personal: the woman April wants him to find is the mother who abandoned him. He can only say yes, and that could cost him. A stone-cold killer is out for vengeance - a man who will do anything to keep his dark, twisted past behind him. Anything.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Brava (September 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758215630
• ISBN-13: 978-0758215635
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,207,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

EC Sheedy lives and writes on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. With the ocean a few steps from her door and Zuke, a 110 pound Rhodesian Ridgeback, sleeping on the sofa in her office, she considers herself one lucky writer. But her real luck is being married to Tim, her first and final husband.

EC writes romance and romantic suspense, the latter because sometimes a nasty and conniving villain pops into her head and she just has to get him out.

She blogs occasionally on the Pen Warriors blog http://www.penwarriors.com and she noodles around on Twitter, never quite knowing why. She has a Website www.ecsheedy.com with her all her books listed--and some wonderful photos showing the views from her office window.

EC hopes you'll try some of her books--and enjoy them.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Read, October 4, 2007

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Elaine C McTyer "avid reader" (Dawson, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Paperback)

I have just finished this book and I had to let you know how good it is. It is great!!! IF you have read her other book OVER HER DEAD BODY you will recognize April as the sister of Gus. She was sold by her mother to her drug dealer when she was 9. Gus has searched since then for her. I adored OVER HER DEAD BODY and KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE is wonderful.

April Worth has lived with Phyllis and Cornelia Worth most of her life. Phyllis rescued her from her buyer's house when she was a little girl and raised her. When Phyllis had Corny 15 years ago April was there to be a big sister to the little girl. She will do anything for them. April has gone to college and is working as an apprentice to a designer. Phyllis, whom she calls her mother, works at a design house with a friend, since she no longer works as a showgirl. April loves both Corny and Phyllis and now Phyllis is missing. April approaches the one man who may help her find Phyllis. He is Phyllis's older son, Joe Worth. Phyllis left him in an ER when he was three.

Joe is a Bodyguard. He and a partner have their own business and the last person he wants to hunt for is his long gone mother. But Alice tempts him and when he finds out he has a sister he has never known about, he decides he needs to find his mother and tell her just what he thinks about her.

How hard can it be to find his mother? As Phyllis is on the move, the killer is after her because only she knows where April is. He needs April to be able to blackmail the man who sold her, who is now a big wig with alot of money. Joe is certain there is a connection between Phyllis running and what happened to April and the deeper they dig the more they find out about his mother's life. Everything started with the death of one of Phyllis's former lovers.

We are led on a wild and wooly ride to reach Phyllis and save her and April from a date with death. The romance was wonderful and the story touching. I loved it. Just what romantic Suspense should be. Do not miss it.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, October 11, 2007

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K. S. Perry "future romance writer" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Paperback)

I love this author, and her skills as a writer. I almost envy her wit, and the way she can make a complex story come to life. When I first heard about this book by E.C. Sheedy I made sure I put my copy on order right away. Her books are rare, I think, and she doesn't come out with many as quick as some other authors do. She takes her time, I think, and the end results are always amazing!

With this book, I have to admit it was hard at first to get into. All these characters were thrown at me at once and I wasn't really sure which way to go. So, I kept reading, and reading, and reading and I fell in love with the book. Again. Like always.

And then to come and think of that THIS WAS APRIL'S STORY! She is Gus's sister from "Killing Bliss", and "Over Her Dead Body." I didn't know that at first. I read Gus's story so long ago, and I remember he had a sister he had been trying to find for a long time, and her name was April. I just never put two and two together until I read April say something about her brother she hadn't seen in so long. Wow! I was shocked, happy, and thrilled by the end of the book they finally get to meet each other!

Joe Worth, I fell in love with from the beginning. He was this man who was thrust into the family life by his pretend to be sister, and finds his actual real half-sister, Cornie, along the way.

But my heart really went out to Phyllis Worth, and her long-lost romance. It was so great to read she finally went back to him, and they fell in love all over again. I would say that was my favorite part of the book. Their old romance.

Bottom line, this book gets better and better as you read it.

Go "read" for yourself!!

4.0 out of 5 stars A page-turner with terrific villains, February 19, 2012

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Hooked (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Paperback)

Plot summary:
Ex-Vegas showgirl, Philly, with a shady past, flees a hit man. Her adopted daughter April and estranged son Joe look for her. Meanwhile, villains Mercy, Charity, Castor and Quinlan trip over each other to blackmail, kill, and outsmart the others in their quest for money -- all while tracking Philly and April to cover up evidence of a 30-year-old child trafficking ring.

Pros:
I enjoyed the complexity of the plot a lot, and the unexpected twists. I like Sheedy's writing style a great deal. Her characters are well defined and she uses some funny turns of phrase. (This is my second read by Sheedy. I got clued to her from a short story "After the Lovin'" in the anthology "Baddest Bad Boys". It had a hilarious villain/hit man phone conversation worth the price of the book.)

This book really excels in its villains and their interactions. They're each well-developed and unique. For me the villains outshined the romantic leads by far. The romance was ok, and I disagree with the reviewer complaining about too much sex. Perhaps she got that impression because there were two scenes back-to-back, but the sex scenes each served a purpose and were not gratuitous, or even plentiful. I thought they were well done.

Cons:
Someone pry the "1/!" key off Sheedy's keyboard!!! The overuse of exclamation points -- sometimes five per page -- was very distracting. Poor editing by Kensington to leave these in.

The reason Philly abandoned Joe remained unanswered.

Without giving too much away, I was perplexed at how Philly, without a disability, didn't learn a basic thing - even while raising a school aged daughter -- and was able to cover it. I found it odd that a team as smart as Charity and Mercy, would choose the harder path to money, when Charity was in such a unique position to extract it. It didn't make sense that she didn't exploit it the legitimate, old-fashioned way.