I'm drafting the back-cover blurb for my second-in-series romantic suspense novel. It's too soon to post it here for comment, maybe later. Right now I'm wondering, would it be a good idea to make reference to the protagonists' adventure/ordeal/exploits in Book 1 in the blurb? I don't mean naming Book 1 by title, just giving a general nod to what happened in it. Something on this order of: After their adventure in Outer Mongolia, all Fricka and Frack want is a little peace and quiet. But danger is looming, danger that will . . . (etc., etc.). That's made up for the sake of example, but you get the idea. At the moment, my draft includes no such thing. But maybe it should, 1) to show how close Book 2 follows on Book 1, meaning the characters likely haven't totally gotten over the stresses of that experience, and 2) to raise the stakes for their wanting to preserve the new status quo and avoid getting into another unwanted adventure. Or is it enough to begin with where they find themselves at the start of Book 2, and go from there?
Works for me, but I'd have to go looking for the first book is I hadn't already read it, which means I'd put book two aside until I scored book one.
Oh, joy. I was almost hoping everyone would say to leave it off. I'm not quite sure how to describe the mess they got into in the first book! Not in a single phrase, anyway.
