Welcome to the book tour for Quick Fix by Louise Cypress! We're celebrating her book today by sharing an excerpt plus a Q&A with the author. Be sure to ask more questions in the comments sections as you follow the tour. Best of luck entering the giveaway!
Three teens are caught in a bioterrorism plot to destroy Seattle involving a diet drink that kills.
After accidentally breaking up with her boyfriend, Marley is ready to do anything to get her life back on track. When a new health clinic called Quick Fix opens in Seattle offering probiotic elixirs that supposedly burn off extra weight, Marley becomes their willing victim. After her first treatment, she loses five pounds in one week—and becomes so sick that she faints at work. But Marley is thrilled with the results, especially knowing that her ex-boyfriend is mobbed by girls every day.
When Marley’s best friend Ellie finds out the truth about Marley’s sudden weight loss, Ellie is concerned for her friend’s safety. Ellie knows better than anyone that there’s no such thing as a quick fix, but Marley’s not so sure. For Marley, the risk seems worth it—until the elixir takes control. By the time Marley discovers the truth about Thin Shot, she’s almost dead, and the only person who can save her is the last person she thought she could trust.
Melt away unwanted pounds with a probiotic elixir.
Thin Shot—the diet drink that kills.
Read an excerpt:
“Move aside, miss” barked a paramedic. “So we can get to—” The man stopped short when he saw Katie. “Hazmat team needed!” he shouted to his crew. “I repeat, this is a hazmat situation! Someone call the CDC!”
“Ellie!” Marley called again. “We need to go!”
The paramedics sprang into action, and I was clearly in the way. I stumbled toward the locker room, and Marley grabbed the back of my robe and pulled me to the shower. The faucet gushed with hot water. “Use as much soap as possible,” Marley told me, “to get the germs off. And hurry! We need to get out of here before they quarantine the place.”
“What?” I held my hands to my face, too shocked to move.
Marley yanked off my bathing cap and shoved me under the water, robe and all. Then she unhooked a bottle of shower gel from one of the stalls and squirted me with soap. “Clean yourself off, Ellie! I don’t want you to die like Katie did.”
“Katie’s not dead!” I pulled off my robe and rubbed my body vigorously with soap. “The paramedics will save her.”
“Um…” Olivia said from the edge of the shower rooms.
“What?” Marley asked.
Olivia spun around. “There’s no more time for soap. Put your clothes on and let’s go.”
I turned off the faucet and wrapped a towel around me seconds before the paramedics rolled the gurney past the shower area and through the doors to the locker room.
Katie’s body was covered with a white sheet.
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Q and A with Louise Cypress, author of QUICK FIX
Is Louise Cypress your real name?
No, my real name is Jennifer Bardsley. I’m a newspaper columnist and the author of SWEET BLISS and GOOD CATCH, small town romance books written for adults. My young adult books are written under the name Louise Cypress. If you like YA thrillers, you might also enjoy NARCOSIS ROOM which includes the same characters as QUICK FIX.
How did you come up with the name Louise Cypress?
Louise is my middle name and Cypress was the name of the street I grew up on. Try that name generator for yourself and see what you come up with for a pseudonym.
Where did you get the idea for QUICK FIX?
Society brainwashes women into feeling bad about themselves all the time, especially when it comes to body shaming. I wanted to write a book that was entertaining but that also helped readers embrace body positivity.
Do you live in Seattle?
I live thirty minutes north of Seattle in place called Edmonds. Part of the fun writing QUICK FIX was incorporating some of my favorite Seattle icons into the plot, such as the Seattle Center.
Is The Royal Racer based on real life too?
Yes. The Royal Racer, the high-speed catamaran that Cole and Marley Evans work on is based on The Victoria Clipper, which ferries people between Seattle and Victoria, a major city on Vancouver Island in Canada. I’ve been on The Clipper several times and it is super fun.
When did you write QUICK FIX?
I wrote QUICK FIX in 2018, right around the time that NARCOSIS ROOM came out. The publisher and I finished edits in 2019 and planned on an early 2020 release. Those plans were put on hold due to the pandemic. Everything that takes place in QUICK FIX is imagined.
Jennifer writes the column “I Brake for Moms” for The Everett Daily Herald and is the author of the young adult novels Genesis Girl, Damaged Goods, Narcosis Room, and the Fight or Flight and Puritan Coven series. She lives in a book-filled house near Seattle with her family, and poodle, Merlin.
An alumna of Stanford University, Jennifer puts her psychology degree to good use writing fiction. She has a lifelong fascination with mind control. That focus also comes in handy in Jennifer’s role as a mother—but so far her children haven’t noticed.
Book page: https://owlhollowpress.com/quick-fix/
Author Website: https://jenniferbardsley.com/louise-cypress-books/
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16692971.Louise_Cypress
Louise Cypress will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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