About Risky Pursuit by Nancy G. West:
High school senior Decker Savage, convinced the man with his mother is key to the disintegration of his family, follows him through dark streets, to the wrong side of the law, into unexpected relationships, and into danger that tests his courage and threatens everyone he loves. An inter-generational thriller for all ages with characters you won’t forget.
After Decker follows the mystery man inside a dark house and hears him attack another man, the culprit escapes. Decker begins to receive anonymous notes threatening him, his family, and his friend. If he does what the note writer demands, his future and family will be ruined. If he refuses the attacker’s demands, the assailant promises to destroy them all. How can he save them all?
“A gripping, page-turning mystery filled with tension and high emotional stakes. Proof that even young-adult heroes can have hidden heart and stores of great courage.”
__James W. Ziskin, author of the Anthony, Barry, and Macavity award-winning Ellie Stone mysteries
A soccer coach at a recent book event told Nancy that for students more interested in sports than reading, RISKY PURSUIT was the book that would spark them to read more.
“It’s a race against time to identify the assailant before he attacks again while destroying Decker’s future. Sharply-paced and full of twists and turns, Risky Pursuit leads the reader on a thrilling journey before it reaches a thoroughly satisfying conclusion.” Amazon & Goodreads. Keller
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Author Bio:
When Nancy was seven years old, she and her mother wrote poems to each other on special occasions. The poetry was awful, but Nancy learned that written words have value.
In high school, Library Journal’s Pegasus published her poem, “Time to Lie,” a feat she ranked beneath cheer-leading. At eighteen, with journalists underpaid and English major graduates selling lingerie, she slogged through spectacularly unimaginative courses in Business Administration at the University of Texas and earned a BBA. Fortunately, she took a creative writing course.
She married, had two daughters, read numerous books on writing, and wrote articles, poetry, and the biography of artist Jose Vives-Atsara (Shoal Creek Publishers). She formed the Texas Publishers Association (aka Book Publishers of Texas), produced the association’s trade journal and promoted members’ books for seven years as their Executive Director.
Returning to college to earn her MA, she studied English literature and began writing NINE DAYS TO EVIL, a novel of psychological suspense, Shakespeare, and nonstop-action – a Clue Award Finalist and winner of the Blether Gold Award.
Her poem, Time to Lie, featured on “Theme and Variations,” was broadcast on NPR.
For three years, she wrote San Antonio Woman’s Book Shelf column and articles for other publications. She was honored by Friends of the San Antonio Library with the 2012 Arts and Letters Award, and papers from the Texas Book Publishers Association and her novels are in Texas State University’s Southwest Writers Collection at the Alkek Library in San Marcos, Texas.
While writing her first suspense novel, NINE DAYS TO EVIL, Nancy and her serious graduate-school protagonist, Meredith, needed humor in their lives. Meredith’s “mature” classmate, Aggie Mundeen, provided it. She fascinated Nancy through four Aggie Mundeen Rom-Com Mysteries. Each book in the series won or was nominated for an award.
Her book, THE PLUNGE, a suspense novella, takes Aggie and Detective Sam to a lakeside cottage on the Guadalupe River in Texas, a few hours before the river unexpectedly floods. This book is based on the actual event – Nancy was there! She learned that people who manage to survive a catastrophe are forever changed.
THE PLUNGE propels Aggie Mundeen in a new direction, and Nancy is working on book two of the Aggie Mundeen Lake Mysteries.
Her most recent novel is an inter-generational family thriller. In RISKY PURSUIT, an Adult/YA crossover, resourceful high school senior baseball player, Decker Savage, depressed by his parents’ impending divorce, has to find and stop the anonymous mystery man threatening him and everyone he loves before the culprit destroys them all. Drawn to Decker Savage, Nancy is contemplating
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