{"id":9171,"date":"2022-05-20T01:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T05:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=9171"},"modified":"2022-05-20T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T11:40:45","slug":"c-becker-saving-euphoria-character-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=9171","title":{"rendered":"C. Becker: Saving Euphoria Character Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Character interview questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome, Hailey Langley. It\u2019s good to have you on the blog today. Let\u2019s start off by telling everyone about yourself. If I searched your name on Google, what would I find?<\/p>\n

Hailey: Thank you for having me on your blog today. Wow! You go right for the tough questions. LOL! I doubt the Internet has my name. I was born in California and then lived in Texas for a few years\u2026(whisper<\/em>) working as an agent for the Special Crimes Agency (shhh!<\/em>)\u2026<\/em>before I ended up on the East Coast. I went to college in Maryland, met the love of my life, Mark Langley, and we moved to Virginia. Now I have two great kids. My son Ethan is in high school and a daughter in middle school. Mark passed away last fall.<\/p>\n

Oh, I\u2019m so sorry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hailey: Thank you. Sniff.<\/em> His death was unexpected. Mark worked for the Drug Trafficking Agency in Washington, D.C. and was working on a case. I knew his job was dangerous, but this came out of nowhere. No one can explain what happened. All I know is he died in a fire.<\/p>\n

That has to be so difficult to lose your spouse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hailey: It\u2019s been hard. Mark was my best friend. We told each other everything\u2026well not everything. I\u2019m learning that Mark had a few secrets that he kept from me. Visiting his former girlfriend in prison. Contacting a travel agent. Meeting our neighbors and never mentioning it. Lately, I\u2019ve been talking to my former coworker, Officer Tom Parker. Going out to dinner. Doing activities with the kids. I\u2019m trying to convince him to help me find out what happened to Mark. Something doesn\u2019t\u2019 feel right about Mark\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Which family members are you close with?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hailey: I\u2019m close with my in-laws. Mark\u2019s parents treat me like a daughter, which is nice, especially since my parents died when I was a teenager. Mark\u2019s best friend David comes to visit every Friday for pizza night. He misses Mark, too. Parker thinks David is hiding something, but I told Parker that David is as honest as people get. He works for the CIA. (Laughs<\/em>). He\u2019s not doing anything shady.<\/p>\n

Tell me about your kids.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hailey: I wish I could say they\u2019re doing great. Right now, my kids see a counselor to help them cope with losing their dad. My doctor prescribed anti-anxiety medicine for me, but I\u2019ve had a lot of side effects. My son has been acting out, hanging out with the wrong crowd. I found a strange-looking pill on the carpet the other day. My friend Bruce Hanover is a researcher. I sent the pill to him to analyze it. My daughter Anna stays away from home a lot, playing with the neighbors. My family is a mess.<\/p>\n

Do you work outside the home?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hailey: I used to work as an undercover agent, but stopped when my in-laws got sick. I want to investigate my husband\u2019s death, but my former supervisor won\u2019t let me come back part-time. I need to be home for my kids, especially now. Last fall, I accepted a job at a university in town. I teach adjunct classes. Biology and biochemistry. It pays most of the bills, which is helpful since the coroner won\u2019t declare Mark dead yet.<\/p>\n

What do you mean\u2014won\u2019t declare him dead?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hailey: Mark\u2019s remains were burnt beyond recognition. See I told you. My life is a mess and I desperately need answers.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s do something easier and go into a speed round of questions. I\u2019ll ask and you just shout out your answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. What\u2019s your favorite movie? Ghost<\/li>\n
  2. What TV shows do you watch? Any comedy sitcom.<\/li>\n
  3. What do you like to do for fun? Play board games with the kids. Monopoly. Scrabble. Life.<\/li>\n
  4. Do you have any hobbies? Running\u2014it relaxes my nerves.<\/li>\n
  5. What\u2019s your favorite flower? Roses. Mark used to bring me red roses all the time.<\/li>\n
  6. Which dead person would they most want to meet? My Uncle Henry, my dad\u2019s brother who died in college before I was born. There is something suspicious about his death and no one talks about it. I think my friend Bruce Hanover knows, but he\u2019s too busy researching his Euphoria plant to leave his lab.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"\"Book title: Saving Euphoria<\/p>\n

    Author: C. Becker<\/p>\n

    Genre: Romance Thriller<\/p>\n

    Blurb: Hailey Langley and her children struggle to cope with the shocking and mysterious death of her husband Mark. Her teenaged son is rebelling, and Hailey is dealing with physical and mental challenges as well.<\/p>\n

    Tom Parker, Hailey’s former partner from the Special Crimes Agency, comes back into her life. He warns her to trust no one even as he tries to rekindle the flame that connects them.<\/p>\n

    Everyone has secrets, even Parker, and some of those from the past threaten to destroy the present. Hailey fights to move forward after losing Mark, but she needs to figure out if she can trust Parker and risk taking another chance on love.<\/p>\n

    Buy links<\/p>\n

    Amazon: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B09SVMXYZT<\/a><\/p>\n

    The Wild Rose Press: https:\/\/www.thewildrosepress.com\/bookauthor\/c-becker<\/a><\/p>\n

    B&N: https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/saving-euphoria-c-becker\/1141022852<\/a><\/p>\n

    https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/saving-euphoria-c-becker\/1141022852<\/a><\/p>\n

    iTunes: https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/saving-euphoria\/id1612065577<\/a><\/p>\n

    Contact info:\u00a0 https:\/\/cbeckerauthor.wixsite.com\/cbeckerauthor<\/a><\/p>\n

    \"\"About the author (bio): Becker is the author of Finding Euphoria<\/em> and Saving Euphoria<\/em>. She is currently working on the third book to the Euphoria trilogy. As a medical technologist in a former career, Becker has never outgrown the attraction of using science in everyday life.<\/p>\n

    Becker enjoys hanging out with her family and Jack Russell, playing the piano, reading, and gardening.<\/p>\n

    Social media links:<\/p>\n

    Website address: http:\/\/cbeckerauthor.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbeckerauthor<\/a><\/p>\n

    Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CBeckerauthor\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    Instagram https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beckercee\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    Goodreads https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/19026691.C_Becker<\/a><\/p>\n

    Excerpt PG:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

    He moved closer, his breath warming her face. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be a friend. I want more.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Her eyes blurred. \u201cIt\u2019s only been six months since Mark died.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cLife goes on, Hailey. Mark\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cSix months, Parker.\u201d Tears burnt like acid splashing in her eyes. Six months was not nearly enough time to let go.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I didn\u2019t mean to say it that way.\u201d Parker reached over and held her hand.<\/p>\n

    The tenderness in his touch made an instant connection to her heart. Ashamed at her heart\u2019s betrayal, she yanked her hand away and wiped a tear off her cheek.<\/p>\n

    He held her hand again and whispered. \u201cI love you, Hailey. I always have. Somehow, life or fate, or whatever it is you want to call it, got in our way. I kept my distance when you married Mark, but I never stopped loving you.\u201d He tightened his grasp on her hand. \u201cNow I feel like an idiot because I waited too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cParker, please. I\u2019m not sure I even want<\/em> to get involved with someone again.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cYou\u2019ve become so miserable. You\u2019re a strong woman.\u201d His face hardened. \u201cMark wouldn\u2019t want you to waste your life grieving. He\u2019d want you to go on\u2014and at least try to be happy.\u201d He caressed her cheek with his thumb. \u201cI think deep down, you know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Few people had her pegged so well. She bit her lip, \u201cI do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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