Hey, y'all, there's a new podcast I want you to check out.
Let me tell you a little bit about it. Dan and Nancy reside in
the peaceful suburbs just outside of Portland, where they're living out their golden years.
And though they met later on in life, their marriage spans over two
decades and it's seen as a pillar of the community. It's a love story
pulled right off the shelf. Now Nancy, she's a struggling romance novelist.
She likes to write about betrayals, sex, and even murder. Dan he's
a chef and a culinary instructor, and he likes forging through the woods for
fresh mushrooms and growing edible flowers. But when Dan is shockingly found dead in
his classroom, Nancy's once simple life is turned upside down because as the investigation
unfolds, Nancy finds herself at the center of a murder case that could be
ripped from the pages of her novels. Listen to Happily Never After Dan and
Nancy, a story about what happens when the line blurs between fiction and reality.
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to play a clip from Happily Never After Dan and Nancy. You can follow
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podcasts. There is a link provided in the description. It will take you
directly to this podcast. Nicole Herman was lounging on a beach in Croatia with
a perfect view of the ocean. It looks a lot like Oregon, with
the exception that the water is like turquoise. It was nice and sunny,
exactly how Nicole pictured her honeymoon. Nicole's new husband got up to take a
swim, but she didn't join him. She was in the middle of a
novel. The man on the book cover had a square jaw and a come
hitherstare All day, Nicole had just been waiting to get back to him.
He sat on the floor and gestured for her to sit between his legs.
He showed her how every gun worked, then loaded and unloaded each of them.
Are you showing me this so I can kill my husband? Travis spoke
slowly, choosing each word with care. Maybe in the beginning you met Sunday
to him, but now you're just another loose end. You will know a
hundred ways to kill you and make it look like an accident. She pressed
her forehead against his and closed her eyes. Don't like you. I'd rather
you were a knuckle dragging me under thal unless I'm dead and this is over
leaving, But I do plan to use your body until I leave scandalous.
I was probably reading anywhere from one hundred and fifty to three hundred pages a
day. Nicole had been laid out on the beach for hours reading. She
was already on book number two in the Wrong Never Felt So Right series,
and she was determined to get through all five books by the end of her
trip. Every book was more or less the same burly former Navy seal comes
to the rescue a beautiful young woman on the run from her dangerous husband.
It was an odd choice of reading for a honeymoon, but away from the
beaches of Croatia. Back home in Portland, Oregon, Nicole was a deputy
district attorney. Those are things as a prosecutor that you somehow want to get
ahead of and in front of, And for months she and her team had
been trying to solve a murder, but progress had been slow. Direct evidence
kept eluding them. As the pressure mounted, Nicole and her team had turned
to an unlikely lead, a series of romance novels written by the dead man's
wife. It was a little bit meta in terms of what we were dealing
with. Her books were packed with details borrowed from their own lives as a
local Portland chef and a romance novelist, details that the Das had no other
way to get their hands on. So now Nicole was doing homework on her
honeymoon. I wasn't so sure there would truly be anything, but it was
sort of in the back of my mind. What if something similar to this
has played out in one of her novels and it's all written right there for
us to find. More shirts were going to be unbuttoned, More dresses we're
going to get unzipped, and every new chapter, every new scene, could
potentially be the one to crack the murder case that was waiting for her back
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