Yasmin Angoe is the award winning author of the Knight is Her Name series.
It was so much fun to chat with Yasmin about her latest release, NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS. Yasmin is delightful and it was so much fun to hear the joy in her voice as she talked about this new book–so unlike her Nena Knight series about an international assassin.
In Not What She Seems we are transported to the beautiful low country of South Carolina, where the marshes and swamps create a unique atmosphere. It is a small town series with universal truths. The feisty heroine of the book, Jac Brodie, fled the town of Brook Haven and returns only to see her beloved grandfather. Her homecoming is not met with cheers. There are people in town with long memories and sharp tongues ready to bring up old rumors. 
Yasmin creates an atmospheric book that draws on the beauty of the low country and the darkness underneath. Beautiful in the sunshine, like the faces of the people who smile at you during the day, and unforgiving as the darkness falls over the swamps and marshes. There are dangerous things out there.
A very talented author, Yasmin has created a psychological suspense that shines a light on old secrets and new dangers.
This book is being promoted as standalone. The Nena Knight series is now three books–although I am sure there will be more books in that series. Especially now that it has been optioned!
But one has to be ready to change one’s mind. After I read the great Prologue to this story, which features Jac’s grandfather MONTAVIOUS BRODIE, JR., I am hoping that Yasmin will write a prequel. Sometime one character in a book, like an actress who steals a scene in a movie, becomes really unforgettable. I adore Montavious. His past military service and rise to the ranks of an agent in South Carolina’s State Law Enforcement Division, are intriguing. I want to know more about him. I hope that Yasmin, who loves him, will write more of Montavious’ story. A truly remarkable man. (I would say ‘character’ but he just came alive to me. That’s great writing!)
About the Book:
Jacinda “Jac” Brodie was twenty-two when she fled her home when she fled her home in Brook Haven, a small town in South Carolina’s low country. She didn’t miss it or the problems that forced her to pack up and leave. The suspicions of the people, the unforgiving rumors that she was responsible for her own father’s death. She didn’t want to return, but when her beloved grandfather, Montavious Brodie, Sr., was in the hospital she gave in. He was such a special person in her life. A former police officer, he was a strong presence in her life. He loved her without reservation. She needed him. She owed him.
But Brook Haven was filled with memories that she didn’t want to stir up. As if anyone in town would let her forget. There were still dark memories and dark forces in her hometown. Under all the smiles there were hidden secrets, behind her back there were always rumors. And the low country with its marshes and swamps can be an unforgiving place.
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