Grand Rapids, MI (March 30, 2022)
When you hear the words Secret Service, what do you think? The men in suits strategically spaced around the President of the United States, right? Did you know that the original purpose of the Secret Service was to catch counterfeiters and thwart their schemes to make money at the cost of the nation’s economy? It would be more than three decades before the agency would protect their first president. When author Crystal Caudill first read a story and learned that fact, she became hooked on the fascinating history of the Secret Service. In fact, that fascination became the inspiration for her debut novel, Counterfeit Love (Kregel Publications), and she hopes her readers are lured in by the history as well.
Combining rich history, danger, suspense, and romance, Counterfeit Love launches Caudill’s Hidden Hearts of the Gilded Age Series with a bang. Readers will find a strong faith thread as well. “I rarely know what part faith will play when I start writing a book. Sometimes I have an idea, but rarely does it stay the same,” Caudill admits. “For me, writing is an act of holding my hand open and saying, ‘Okay, God. What do you want to do with this story?’ Oftentimes, it ends up paralleling a growing experience in my faith. For example, in Counterfeit Love, Theresa wrestles with whether or not she can trust and love God, even if He strips everything away from her. It was the same question I struggled through as I wrote the story and experienced two of the hardest years of my life. I’d never been so stripped of my faith, and neither had Theresa. We all walk into our faith with preconceived notions of how God shows love to us. But He is always good, and His ways are not our ways. We all reach a point in our faith when we must decide if we will choose to love and trust Him in those ‘even if’ seasons of our lives.”
Counterfeit Love
Hidden Hearts of the Gilded Age Series #1
Crystal Caudill
Kregel
Genres: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense
Release Date: March 15, 2022
ISBN-10: 0825447402
ISBN-13: 978-0825447402
Book Summary:
Can this undercover agent save the woman he loves–or is her heart as counterfeit as the money he’s been sent to track down?
After all that Grandfather has sacrificed to raise her, Theresa Plane owes it to him to save the family name–and that means clearing their debt with creditors before she marries Edward Greystone. But when one of the creditors’ threats leads her to stumble across a midnight meeting, she discovers that the money he owes isn’t all Grandfather was hiding. And the secrets he kept have now trapped Theresa in a life-threatening fight for her home–and the truth.
After months of undercover work, Secret Service operative Broderick Cosgrove is finally about to uncover the identity of the leader of a notorious counterfeiting ring. That moment of triumph turns to horror, however, when he finds undeniable proof that his former fiancée is connected. Can he really believe the woman he loved is a willing participant? Protecting Theresa and proving her innocence may destroy his career–but that’s better than failing her twice in one lifetime.
They must form a partnership, tentative though it is. But there’s no question they’re both still keeping secrets–and that lack of trust, along with the dangerous criminals out for their blood, threatens their hearts, their faith, and their very survival.
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