Today, I’m interviewing
Liza O’Connor’s sexy pirate, Jacko B. Goodnow.
Melissa: Jacko, it’s so nice to
meet you.
Jacko: Truly? That’s not the
typical response I get from ladies.
Melissa: How do they normally
react?
Jacko: They usually faint. I
cannot enter a house or walk down a street where genuine ladies are taking a
stroll without causing one or more tumble upon the sight of me.
Melissa: Well, you are very good
looking in a dangerous sort of way.
Jacko: *shrugs* I am what I am.
I’ve worked very hard to improve the man I am inside, but there’s nothing I can
do to alter the way people perceive me. They look at my dark skin and see a
gypsy, and as everyone knows gypsies are thieves, pirates, and murderers.
Melissa: But I sense you are better
than that.
Jacko: I’m trying to improve so
that I only murder and steal from bad people. And I will never return to being
a pirate. I was a young boy when I was conscripted into piracy. I had no choice
in the matter.
Melissa: You’ve had a rough life.
Jacko: The first years were good.
But when the English townsmen slaughtered my family, life took a decided turn
for the worst.
My mother had the gift of
foresight. Her tarot cards foretold I would become a good man with many sons,
two loves: one small, one great, and become a wealthy man, so she sent me off
to London to earn my keep at a pub while she and my people were slaughtered at
our camp in Essex.
Melissa: You can’t blame her for
wanting a better life for you.
Jacko: Well, I did blame her for
many years. The trouble with tarot cards is that they fail to mention all the
disasters that occur between your current life and the one promised. For
example, upon learning my mother had died and there would be no further money
for my apprenticeship, the bar keep sold me to a captain as his cabin boy. So
off we go and run into the worst pirate on the seas. Even though the captain
surrendered his ship, the pirate killed them all…except for me. I was taken on
as his cabin boy and beaten and abused for years. When I became 17, the captain
made me his first mate, and once I had the allegiance of the men, I blew his
head off and brought the ship back to London. Discovering no one would pay me a
living wage, I took to stealing, which I have a natural gift for. During one
theft I ran into Xavier Thorn…do you know about him?
Melissa: I do. He’s the finest
sleuth in London England during the Victorian Age.
Jacko: He offered me a job
working for him, where I would steal and murder for the good of the country
rather than for the crime lords.
Melissa: I am aware of that. For
you are in both book 1 & 2 of the Adventures of Xavier & Vic.
Jacko: I’m in more of them than
that. You should get onto Liza O’Connor and make her publish faster. But that’s beside the point. In book one, if
you recall, I fell in love with Lady Anne. Only what you don’t know is that it
went badly, so I returned to London a wealthy, but heartbroken man. In book two, I steal an old woman from Bedlam
and take her back to her daughter’s estate. Do you recall the event?
Melissa: I do.
Jacko: Well I finally thought
things were turning around for me. Alice and I are so in tune that we can
almost read each other’s thought. My love for her is immensely more than I had
with Lady Anne, which it makes me question if I loved Lady Anne at all.
Melissa: I’m glad things have
finally turned around for you.
Jacko: Hold off on the
celebrations, because after granting me the taste of true love, fate is now
determined to keep us apart.
Melissa: What are you going to do?
Jacko: Fight to my last breath.
Now that I have felt the love of an angel, I cannot live without her. I will
reclaim my love or die trying.
Melissa: I wish you good luck. I
think you and Alice are well suited for one another. And for my followers, Liza advises Jacko’s
love story be read after book 2 or 3 of the Adventures of Xavier & Vic,
since his book gives the conclusion both to their courtship and to what happens
to Alice’s evil step-father.
Jacko, a gypsy with a great love for stealing, rescues a
suffragette from Bedlam. Upon returning the elderly woman to safety, he meets
her blue-stocking daughter. Alice has decided she prefers managing her estate
farms over London society. She is resigned to never marry until the handsome
and surprisingly wealthy man with a dark past and several identities steals her
heart.
Alice feared she would never be able to compete with
Jacko’s memory of Lady Anne. She bit her
lower lip. “Was she really that lovable?”
Jacko met her worried eyes. “At the time, I thought a woman
could not be more so. Xavier told me I was wrong. He said I’d be better off
following the tarot cards than my heart. And he has no respect for gypsy
beliefs.” Jacko grinned. “But the cards said the love of my life had yet to
come.”
Alice was glad the cards were against Anne, but she worried
she might fare the same fate. “When did they say she would come?”
Jacko’s eyes sparkled. “After I came into a great fortune,
which I figured would happen soon after hell froze over.”
More than willing to give him a fortune, if that was all
that prevented her from being his true love, Alice leaned forward. “How much do
you require?”
“I have it already. I won’t go into the details, but I was
well paid for stealing a great deal of evidence from a mass murderer who kept
himself untouchable through blackmail.” He met her eyes. “It is not my lack of
money that should concern you.”
A knife drove through her heart. “You still love Lady
Anne…”
“No. Since I’ve met you, I realized Anne was right. Our
feelings for one another were love, but only a little one, not the love of a
lifetime.”
She breathed out in relief. “Then what do you fear?”
“Your contempt.”
His words made no sense to her. “That is not possible. Why
would you fear such an inconceivable thing?”
“Your heart is full of sweet honey. How can you love a
murderer?”
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Liza O’Connor was raised
badly by feral cats, left the South/Midwest and wandered off to find nicer
people on the east coast. There she worked for the meanest man on Wall Street,
while her psychotic husband tried to kill her three times. (So much for finding
nicer people.) Then one day she declared enough, got a better job, divorced her
husband, and fell in love with her new life where people behaved normally. But
all those bad behaviors has given her lots of fodder for her humorous romances.
Please buy these books, because otherwise, she’ll become grumpy and write
troubled novels instead. They will likely traumatize you.
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Mostly humorous books by Liza:
Saving Casey – Old woman reincarnates into troubled teen’s
body. (Half funny/half traumatizing)
Ghost Lover—Two British brothers fall
in love with the same young woman. Ancestral ghost is called in to fix the
situation. And there’s a ghost cat that roams about the book as well. (Humorous
Contemporary Romance)
A Long Road to Love Series:
(Humorous Contemporary odd Romance)
The Missing Partner — Opps! The greatest
sleuth in Victorian England goes missing, leaving Vic to rescue him, a
suffragette, and about 100 servants. Not to mention an eviscerating cat. Yes,
let’s not mention the cat.
The Mesmerist — The Mesmerist can control people from afar and make
them murder for her. Worse yet, Xavier Thorn has fallen under her spell.
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