Amazon Category:  Drama Publisher: PublishAmerica ISBN-10:  1413764177 Type: Fiction Pages: 200 Copyright: 2003 Cunning Proposals is an adult fictional romance/detective story. The characters' lives intertwine, resulting in an entertaining story that involves crime, love, drama, and murder. Cunning Proposals is a story involving a plan initiated by the Governor encouraging community leaders to submit proposals in the hopes of utilizing appropriated funds earmarked for Chicago.  As the story unfolds, certain community leaders and individuals develop creative ways to misuse these funds. One of the main characters is a real estate tycoon who has ties to the Mafia.  He opens an illegal casino and convinces his innocent employee to manage it, and she becomes caught up in this underground world.  The casino operates for over a year and a half before the authorities discover unusual occurrences in its vicinity. The female attorney from the State Attorney’s Office is a career-oriented woman and tries hard not to fall in love with the special investigator also assigned to the case.  The characters’ lives intertwine, resulting in an entertaining story that involves crime, love, drama, and murder.    Excerpt How could he reveal to her that he was accompanying the Mafia to provide entertainment for them in Acapulco? This was going to be the final assignment that would free him from his obligations to them. He had been married to one of the line dancers at the Flamingo Casino. They were madly in love, and after a couple of years of marriage, his wife, Susan, had gotten pregnant. She had been so happy planning for the baby. One of the Mafia’s sons, Nick Breeze had started frequenting the Flamingo and became overzealous with Susan. She tried her best to fend off his venerations toward her by explaining that she was happily married to Darren, but that didn’t lessen his obsession for her. At the time, Darren was working for the MGM as the evening manager of the casino. Nick had a previous run in with Darren because he had too much to drink one night and caused havoc with the customers and staff. It resulted in Darren having him escorted out of the casino. When Nick found out that Susan was married to Darren, his semantics worsened. Harassing her even more, he waited for her after the shows and insisted she join him for drinks and dinner. He saw he wasn’t making any progress, therefore, one evening he waited for her in the parking lot, grabbed, and kissed her. She made a big fuss and slapped him, which embarrassed him in front of his men. She didn’t want to tell Darren because she knew he would be upset. Whenever Susan left the building, she made certain co-workers or security accompanied her to the car. One evening Nick followed her, cut her off the road, forced her out of the car, and drove off with her to a sleazy motel outside of Vegas. He slapped her around, when she wouldn’t cooperate with him. He ended up raping her and practically beating her to death.

Cunning Proposals by Carole L. Piller - PR Web Press Releas
Carole L. Piller is a native of Chicago. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother who currently works as a legal secretary at the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. She has written short stories and speeches, but Cunning Proposals is her first novel. Besides writing, she finds pleasure in digital photography, creating greeting cards, undertaking home construction projects, fishing, and gardening.

Cunning Proposals is a romance/detective drama where the characters’ livers intertwine, resulting in an entertaining story that involves crime, love, drama, and murder.