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Cozy Winter Reads - January

Thankful to live in the Pacific Northwest where the outside cold means I can get cozy indoors even through the spring time! Here are the Cozy Winter Reads I have been recommending on Facebook & Twitter this month.
Trust No One by Jayne Ann Krentz Buy eBook or Print Copy
Jayne Ann Krentz is fantastic! That's why she is one of my autobuys. Trust No One is a romantic-suspense novel. 

"Wonderfully appealing protagonists, a clever, skillfully crafted plot, soul-stirring sensuality, and delicious flashes of humor."—Library Journal

The Secret His Mistress Carried by Lynne GrahamBuy eBook or Print Copy
This Harlequin novel" The Secret His Mistress Carried" by Lynne Graham. 

"The ink is barely dry on Giorgios Letsos's divorce papers, but there's only one thing on this unstoppable Greek's mind: finding Billie Smith, his mistress before his marriage. But the sweet, pliable woman he once knew slams the door in his face!"

Heart of Ice by Diana PalmerBuy eBook or Print Copy

An old favorite of mine, "Heart of Ice" by Diana Palmer, has been released into eBook format. If you've never read this book and are a Diana Palmer fan like I am, you have got to pick this one up.





Viper Game by Christine FeehanBuy eBook or Print Copy

Those of you who love paranormal romance will love "Viper Game" by Christine Feehan"GhostWalker Wyatt Fontenot knows the price he paid for the secret military experiments that gave him his special catlike abilities. After all, he left his bayou home a healer and came back a killer. While Wyatt and his GhostWalker brother Gator may have known exactly the sort of game they were getting into, Wyatt never anticipated where it would lead—or to whom."







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Humpday Hottie - Waxed or hairy heroes?

Do you like your heroes with smooth or hairy chests?
I've written mostly smooth chested heroes, like Simon in The Real Deal and hairy chested ones like Myk in Watch Over Me, but I don't think I've ever written a hero who waxes.

Humpday Hottie - Favorite Superhero?

Who is your favorite Superhero and the actor who plays him/her (if there is one)?
I adore Superman because I've always considered Hubcap *my* very own Man of Steel. Christopher Reeve is still my favorite actor to portray him.

Humpday Hottie - Spies and Secret Agents

Who is your favorite spy/secret agent hero?
I've always been intrigued by them, which is why writing my Goddard Project and Atrati books was so much fun!

Humpday Hottie - Long hair...or short?

Long or short hair?  What do you think? 
I admit, I can't decide. :)

The Real Deal eBook Release

Available now in eBook!
THE REAL DEAL by Lucy Monroe
September 2004 (tradesize) ISBN 0-7582-0860-XJune 2005 (mass market) ISBN 0-7582-0861-8January 2015 (eBook re-issue) ASIN B00RAX5E8S
Like a classic Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn/Doris Day-Rock Hudson movie-but with plenty of steamy heat-Lucy Monroe's debut novel introduces a pair of delightfully sparring opposites whose undeniable attraction is about to take them beyond the edge of reason...and right into the throes of delicious passion...
SHUT UP AND KISS ME
The most important thing in Amanda's life is negotiating a successful merger between her company and Brant Computers, a family-held competitor. It should be a done deal: Company president Eric Brant is on board with the idea. But when Amanda arrives in Eric's office, it is his cousin Simon Brant who greets her-and Simon is anything but agreeable. He's not about to give up control of the family company or lay off loyal workers. Squaring off against the sexy, brilliant, sexy, obstinate, sexy, eccentric, not to mention sexy Simon is completely frustrating-and a total turn-on. And when he walks out on her presentation, sidetracked by another one of his brilliant ideas, Amanda is shocked...and intrigued...no, furious!...and...and...and so attracted she can barely enter data into her tablet...
Simon has never met a woman as passionate and driven as Amanda, or as devastatingly attractive. He can't decide if he wants to put her on the next plane home-in the cargo hold-or kidnap her and spend a long weekend showing her exactly the kind of negotiating he likes best. Come to think of it, if the lady wants war, maybe they should engage in full-on battle...in the bedroom...and see who will be the victor. But when intimacy leads to an explosive passion, it might be time to think of a different, more permanent kind of merger...one that's less about business and all about pleasure...
Lucy Monroe knows her romance and The Real Deal is it. - Nicole Hulst, Cataromance Reviews
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Awards:Reviewer's Choice Award 2004 Contemporary Romance - The Road to RomanceReviewer's Choice Award 2004 Contemporary Romance - CataRomanceOne of Lori Foster's Top 10 Favorite Books of '04Awarded DIK status on All About Romance by Laurie GoldNominated for the Golden Rose AwardRecommended Read FAR
Cover Artist: Chantilly WhiteCover Model: Jason Aaron Bacca

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Humpday Hottie - Happy New Year's Eve!

Hoping your New Year's Eve is filled with joy and all kinds of good fun!

Humpday Hottie - Merry Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas Eve!  Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday - The Greek's Christmas Baby

The Greek's Christmas Baby
by Lucy Monroe
(Connected to The Greek's Innocent Virgin)
ISBN #0-3731-2506-2
November 2005

The only proof that Greek tycoon Aristide Kouros has that he is married is a piece of paper. Aristide has no memory of his beautiful wife Eden – although his body remembers the desire he feels every time she comes close…

Eden loves her husband and it’s breaking her heart that he has no recollection of their love…But Eden is keeping a secret one that will bind Aristide to her forever…


The Inspiration Behind the BookThis was originally posed in a blog in December 2005
I wrote "The Greek's Christmas Baby" after my mom had a stroke. She woke up and had forgotten her family...her kids mostly. But she remembered her husband in this vague way and he is obsessive compulsive (not very nice on a lot of occasions - can be very emotionally abusive). My sisters and I were so hurt and it took weeks for Mom to start remembering us. During that time, I came up with this story idea. What would happen if a husband woke up having forgotten only his wife?

I think a lot of my own pain is in that story and I loved both Eden and Aristide because in their own ways, they were fighting the good fight. They just got confused sometimes about who the enemy was.

I remember sitting in the chair by my mom's hospital bed (I spent *a lot* of time at the hospital because I'm the only daughter who works at home, so I worked there and just hung out with her a lot) and taking tons of notes on her condition. At one point she asked what I was doing and I told her I was taking notes for a book. She gave me this look, a conspiratorial one - for a brief flash, she remembered that about me, not that I was her daughter but that *everything* was fodder for my books. She smiled and winked and I blinked back tears. A few hours later she remembered out of the blue that she had six children. She still didn't recognize us, but she remembered that she'd had us. It was a good moment.

The funny thing was, the doctors couldn't understand the amnesia at first. They said the part of her brain affected by the stroke should not have impacted her memory. It was only after a second MRI that they saw how massive the stroke really had been. But you see...so many of the themes in that book played out in my mom's hospital room and later. And now I'm getting all emotional thinking about it. It's good to have her remembering us...not a gift we're ever likely to take for granted.

Hugs,
Lucy

Humpday Hottie - Heroes in Suits

What do you think?  Heroes in suits...hot, or not?
I've got to admit I have a fondness for them, which is why Hubcap has always had more than one good suit in the closet - even when his job in no way required it. :)