{"id":1422,"date":"2009-06-21T22:13:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T03:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:49:21","slug":"sneak-peek-for-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/sneak-peek-for-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak peek at STAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>I\u2019m doing this without my editor\u2019s approval, but hey! I\u2019m feeling rebellious this evening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Stay<\/em> is the second book in the Dunham series. It is not entirely necessary for you to read <em>The Proviso<\/em> before you read <em>Stay<\/em>, but I do recommend it. Now, neither main character is an actual Dunham by blood or marriage, nor are they Mormons (shocker, I know, but there\u2019s still plenty religion, money, politics, and sex), but there is a method to my madness in the series order. If you have read <em>The Proviso<\/em>, you might have (or not) picked up on a hint or two that these (very) minor characters might have rather \u2026 interesting \u2026 histories that were not explained.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the official back-of-book blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>At 12, Vanessa defied her family to save 17-year-old bad boy Eric from wrongful imprisonment and, possibly, death. She\u2019d hoped for a \u201cthank you\u201d from him, a kiss on the cheek, but before she could grow up and grow curves, he left town.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years later, Vanessa is a celebrity chef at the five-star Ozarks resort she built. Eric is the new Chouteau County prosecutor on his way to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Four hours apart and each tied to their own careers, their worlds have no reason to intersect until a funeral brings Vanessa back to Chouteau County, back to face the man for whom she\u2019d risked so much, the only man she ever wanted\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014the only man she can\u2019t have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr class=\"gradient\">\n<div class=\"indent10\">\n<p>\u201cPeople versus Eric Niccol\u00f2 Cipriani. Charges of statutory rape, sexual assault in the first degree, and forcible rape in the first degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Leventen, how does the defendant plead?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHilliard?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemand, your honor. The victim is thirteen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"gradient\">\n<p class=\"center\"><strong>Tentative release date: November 26, 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16049 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/20090720_stay.jpg\" alt=\"The original cover of my novel STAY, with a two hands with fingers enlaced, and is mostly black with a pink title.\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m doing this without my editor\u2019s approval, but hey! I\u2019m feeling rebellious this evening. Stay is the second book in the Dunham series. It is not entirely necessary for you to read The Proviso before you read Stay, but I do recommend it. Now, neither main character is an actual Dunham by blood or marriage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-of-dunham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16893,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/16893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}