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Release Day!!

My second Intrigue, NIGHT MOVES, is out today. Go buy it (please, please, please…)

Snippet Saturday!

This week's theme is "an author favorite scene" and, man, do I have a bunch of those. Since my second Harlequin Intrigue, NIGHT MOVES, officially comes out Tuesday (June 8th – and, yes, you should go buy it), I thought I'd pick a scene from that one.

Liam didn't know Maura's level of experience, but he assumed she was slim in that department. She went to college before she could drive, graduated from graduate school before she could legally drink. That sort of detachment from her age group...

Into The Future

The first SciFi/Futuristic romance I remember reading was the novella Roarke's Prisoner by Angela Knight. It was in one of the Secrets anthologies put out by Red Sage Publishing. Last year I found Lauren Dane's series – The Federation Series – and fell in love. Check out the cover for Book #3, INSATIABLE, and see if you can resist it.

Yesterday I found an upcoming release in this genre by a debut author. The book is ENEMY WITHIN by Marcella Burnard.

After a stint in an alien prison...

Countdown to Intrigue

I am countdown mode to the release of my second Intrigue, NIGHT MOVES. The book comes out next Tuesday, June 8th.

It is about a brilliant scientist heroine and an unemployed cop hero. Sound like they have nothing in common? In a lot of ways they don't but they're a bit too busy trying to stay alive and figure out what they feel for each other to figure that out.

If you like fires, chases, gun battles, false accusations and some handy work with a stun gun, this is for you. It's also...

Brava Blogging

I am blogging at the Brava website and talking about IMPULSIVE, my November Brava release. It stars Eric Kimura (who had a small role in HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO) and a wild child named Katie Long who drags this good boy to the dark side.

And let's gaze at this lovely cover one more time, shall we?

Release Day!

Late last year Lori Foster asked if I wanted to be a part of a charity anthology. Easiest answer ever: yes!! I love a great cause and this is one. The proceeds from THE GIFT OF LOVE go to the Conductive Learning Center of Greater Cincinnati to help kids with spina bifida and cerebral palsy.

Families come in many configurations, and every one is unique, made up of the personalities of each member. But the love that connects families is universal. Whether it is the love of parents for their...

Winner!

Every month I do a drawing for a Amazon gift certificate from those who comment on my blog. We have a winner for May. It's…

Lois M. (comment #5 on the Taking Stock post) – Congratulations!!!! I sent the gift card to your email address. Enjoy!

Memorial Day

It is so easy to forget the real reason behind Memorial Day. Aspiring author and Army officer Jessica Scott summed it up best on her blog:

My daughters will one day be able to look up their dad and me and find our military records out there. My grandfathers were part of World War II. My husband and I are both part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

With any luck, by the time they're old enough to understand all that, the wars will be viewed as having been worth it. As having been the right thing to...

Snippet Saturday

This week's topic is summer. I've written several books set in Hawaii. Is a sort of perpetual summer there, so I thought I'd offer an excerpt from one of those. This is from IT'S HOTTER IN HAWAII. Here's the pretty cover:

Cal kept trying to pull Cassie back to the car, but she dragged her feet and slowed him down. His dark burglar outfit had helped him blend into the night but it would soon be a hindrance. In a few hours the warm Hawaii sunshine would roast him like pork chop.

Cassie...

Tell Me More

I was interviewed the other day for a newspaper article. The reporter asked me to tell her something about my life/self that would surprise readers. The request made me smile. With blogs, online interviews, Facebook and twitter I'm thinking people already know more about me than they want to know.

Now, I'm not an over-sharer. I'm actually really careful about what I say and where I say it. Sure, I mess up now and then, but I do try to stick to boundaries. There are authors who, in my...