About the Book
Book: Lethal Danger Author: Jerusha Agen Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense Release Date: April 24, 2025
This K-9 team is trained to eliminate threats. This threat could eliminate them.
Being a loner is getting old. Jazz Lamont still can’t fit in at the Phoenix K-9 Agency, and she’s losing her best friend. At least providing security with her K-9 partner at the Tri-City Fair will mean revisiting the only place where she once belonged. But a series of accidents threatens her beloved fair and puts lives at risk.
Thriller author Hawthorne Emerson suspects foul play after the first “accident.” Moonlighting as fair security to investigate the death of his sister’s boyfriend, he’s eager to find the truth. He doesn’t expect the task to lead him to the cult he escaped.
Finding the culprit behind the sabotage is personal for Jazz and Hawthorne. But someone else has a personal stake, too. Someone who wants Jazz dead. When everything she thought was true is dismantled, can Jazz risk trusting others—including God—to survive?
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About the Author
Jerusha Agen imagines danger around every corner but knows God is there, too. So naturally, she writes romantic suspense infused with the hope of salvation in Jesus Christ. Jerusha loves to hang out with her big furry dogs and little furry cats, often while reading or watching movies.
More from Jerusha
THE DANGER OF COLORED GLASSES Have you ever felt left out? Maybe someone you care about never accepts you or loves you, no matter how much you try to please that person? One would think Jazz Lamont, the heroine of Lethal Danger, would never have experienced such feelings. After all, she’s a beautiful security agent who trounces bad guys without breaking a sweat, doesn’t fear danger, and has an incredible K-9 partner. She was chosen to join the elite Phoenix K-9 Security and Detection Agency, which means she’s one of the best in a dangerous, challenging line of work. But though she doesn’t bat an eye when she faces threats and bad guys, Jazz is far from confident when it comes to social interactions. Thanks to a series of rejections in her childhood, Jazz is pretty sure most people won’t like her or want to accept her. So far, her life seems to be proving that assumption true. As I discovered Jazz’s character while writing Lethal Danger, I was intrigued by how much her fear of rejection colored her point of view of basically everything. Sometimes, a comment that a gal on the Phoenix K-9 Team made would seem like a put-down to Jazz, though I knew as the author that the other agent hadn’t meant the remark that way. Noticing Jazz’s tendency to see everything through rejection-colored glasses made me take a hard look at myself. What fears of my own are skewing how I see and receive things? Is my desire for approval making me misinterpret others’ remarks as critical when they aren’t intended as such? Do my insecurities make me misconstrue or internalize social media posts or friends’ jokes? Perhaps my worries about finances or dangers to my physical safety make me see hazards where there aren’t any or avoid doing what the Lord wants me to. How about you? Have you thought about the harmful ways in which your experiences, fears, and vulnerabilities might be coloring the glasses through which you view life? Let’s all take stock together and then bring those burdens to Jesus Christ. He’ll remind us that the only point of view that matters, the only one that is accurate, is His. And He’ll help us begin to see the world through His perfect eyes.Interview with the Author
- What helps you to write? Do you eat snacks, listen to music?
Both! My creativity is fueled primarily by movie soundtracks and chocolate. Lots of chocolate!
- If you could travel back in time, what time period would you go to?
Hmm, I think I would go back to the time when my Savior, Jesus Christ, walked the Earth in physical form. How incredible it would be to see and speak with Him face-to-face. That’s something to look forward to in heaven!
- What is your favorite hymn and why?
Oh, there are SO many wonderful hymns! My very favorite is “It Is Well.” The lyrics are a prayer for my soul during every trial, and the melody is poignantly beautiful. Knowing the story of the tragedies that prompted Horatio Spafford to pen the lyrics lends them a power and spiritual depth that forces me to be able to also say (or sing), “It is well with my soul,” no matter how hard my circumstances become.
- What inspired you to write this book?
Everyone wants to feel loved and find a sense of belonging with someone in this life. But for many of us, that belonging and love seems elusive.
Sometimes, even a person like Jazz Lamont, the heroine of Lethal Danger, can feel unloved and like she’s always the odd one out.
Jazz is beautiful, smart, and has incredible fight skills that make her fearless in the face of danger. But what does make her sweat are social situations—needing to figure out how to get someone to like her or at least not think she’s lame.
Beginning with a childhood filled with rejection, Jazz can’t seem to find the acceptance and love that others around her seem to get so easily.
I wanted to write a story that would show how all of us, no matter how rejected we might be by the people around us, can have the belonging and love we crave. As Jazz discovers, everything she’s longing for is found in God and His Son, Jesus Christ.
- Share with me a few of your favorite things.
This question makes me think of The Sound of Music and “raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens!” Thinking of whimsical favorite things along those lines, I’d say snowflakes on dogs, crunching snow under boots, crisp wind on cheeks, glassy sparkles on a winter wonderland’s surface, ice-encased branches, and thousands of tiny, white works of art held in the palm of my hand. In case you can’t tell, I love winter!
Blog Stops
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Guild Master, August 10 (Author Interview)
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Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, August 11
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, August 12
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, August 13
For Him and My Family, August 14
Blogging With Carol, August 15
Devoted To Hope, August 16
Simple Harvest Reads, August 17 (Guest Review from Donna Cline)
Holly’s Book Corner, August 18
Fiction Book Lover, August 19 (Author Interview)
Mary Hake, August 19
Books Less Travelled, August 20
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Jerusha is giving away the grand prize of a signed paperback copy of Lethal Danger, $25 Barnes and Noble gift card, Lethal Danger tote bag, magnet, notebook, and keychain!!
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