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COVER REVEAL!

Here’s the wonderful womb-busting, “oh, my ovaries” cover for This Baby Business.

When I first saw it I thought the guy looked a little bit like Justin Timberlake.

Hope you like!

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10 Things you didn’t know about Airman to the Rescue

The hero’s name was originally “Petey,” but “Matt” had a nicer ring to it.
The working title was “On A Wing and a Prayer.”
My favorite title would have been, “Built for Love” but that was taken.
Of all three “Heroes” books, this was the romance that practically wrote itself. Matt and Sarah were already very much alive to me in Breaking Emily’s Rules (the first book).
My editor emailed me to say she’d fallen in-love with Matt.
I also fell in love with Matt.
I would cast Chris Hemsworth as our hero, Matt Conner, and that’s who I pictured while writing the book.
I used some of my former experiences with my youngest son as inspiration for Matts teenage son, “Hunter.” Such as ordering a milkshake “like a man.”
Originally Hunter’s friend, Megan, was going to discover her parents were having an affair. But that was changed so that Hunter could have an experience that taught him a lesson.
The photo that went viral of Hunter’s mother’s boyfriend, and caused all the uproar, was originally far more troublesome. So we changed it.

 

Yet another teaser…

He deepened the kiss, and she got lost in the sensation of his tongue teasing hers over and over again. She craved him completely, his kiss and his taste. Every single cell of him. More than she’d wanted or needed any other man in her life.

His hand slid down her spine to the small of her back and he broke off the kiss.

“I’m not sure what you’re doing to me, but I think I need to stop kissing you.”

“I’m not sure I agree with you.”

Airman to the Rescue

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A Teaser

“This is all I need. Just you. More than ever.”

She reached up and pulled on his neck, trying to bring him close again. Being that he had the rock-solid strength of a building, he didn’t budge.

He still studied her, almost as if he caught something in her eyes, too. “You don’t know how glad I am to hear that. Because I’ve been watching you all week, and I swear I got hard every time you even looked at me.”

Oh boy.

Finally, he allowed her tugging and he bent down and kissed her again, slowly and more deliberately. He stopped kissing her only to grab her wrist and pull her out of the shed.

“Inside.”

Airman to the Rescue

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Airman to the Rescue

He took a step toward her as if he’d only now realized she stood, waiting, for something from him. A signal, anything that showed what had happened in his office meant as much to him as it did to her. Everything around them seemed different now, the air charged with a different level of electricity that felt far more intimate.

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Airman to the Rescue

She’d just passed the couch when she was summarily spun and tugged down by her waist onto the couch. She wound up splayed on top of an edgy and sexy Matt. Perfect.

“We spent our first night together right here,” he said.

The unexpected romance behind those words sliced right through her. She straddled Matt and smiled as she slowly unclipped her hair.

“I remember.”

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Forever my Girl release day!

While you’re all waiting for Airman to the Rescue this June, and believe me, I’m foaming at the mouth to bring it to you, here’s a new little something from me. A novella in the St. Helena Vineyard world of Marina Adair, which was an absolute joy to write from start to finish.

When Marina asked me to the first round of releases back in October, I had to decline. Smashed up against deadlines and my own Christmas release (Crazy for You), I couldn’t manage it. But then she asked me again for the Spring pairing, and I was able to say: YES! YES! YES!

Kind of like Meg Ryan with that famous diner scene in When Harry Met Sally.

I hope you love to see photos of your favorite bestselling authors. Here’s one of me, #1 national bestseller Marina Adair, and author Grace Conley (who has two novellas in the St. Helena Vineyard world now) after we stuffed our faces with a late breakfast. Yes, we all live within driving distance of each other in our northern California Bay Area.

When I first set out to write in Marina’s world, I had no idea what I’d do or who I’d write about. It’s one thing to write in my own series world, but another to jump into another author’s established world. But here Marina was, asking me to do it! Once I read Need You for Mine, book three in the Heroes of St. Helena, I had no more doubt whom I’d write about.

The secondary character of “Baby,” who was caught in a compromising position with the hero at the start of the book, begged to be told. I love a story of redemption, and when I can look behind the curtain and see why a character behaves badly. There’s always a reason. So, with Marina’s blessing, I gave “Baby” a name and a past. And then, just because I can, I gave her a DeLuca of her own. David DeLuca is a Colorado DeLuca and a ski bum turned Army Ranger. When he meets Mallory aka Baby, he won’t know what hit him!

I hope you’ll pick up your copy today, and please do let me know what you think I always love to hear from you.

FOREVER MY GIRL

 

 

~ Cover Reveal ~

Love the new cover for book two of the Heroes of Fortune Valley series, coming June 1, 2017. I think it’s lighthearted, fun, and romantic. I hope you all like it, and that you’ll be ready to read all about Matt and Sarah’s romance come this June. I loved writing their HEA.

Friday Shenanigans

I was on the phone with a government agency this afternoon, and because that usually means being on hold for manymanymany minutes, I had the call on my iPhone speaker. I was in the kitchen trying to write book 3, and waiting to speak to a representative. But suddenly the lady comes on the line and I begin to pull together my information. We start talking. Still on speaker phone. On my iPhone. Which I don’t know how to use all that well, given I’ve had one for a little over a year now.

My son comes in the kitchen and waves at me to take her off speaker phone. I am annoyed. I give him the “Mom look” but I do attempt to pick up my phone at which point I nearly drop it. I do, however, save the iPhone from falling and shattering its screen as they’re known to do. It looks a little like a “pratfall.”

“F%#@!” I say loudly to the government representative.

“Sorry?” The nice woman says.

Son dissolves into laughter to the point where he has to physically leave the room. I cough and try to contain my own laughter. I pretend the reason I can hardly speak is because I have a bad cough. She seems to buy it.

Once we get off the phone, son has returned and says: “How do you pratfall with a phone?”

It takes talent.

 

Release day jitters

It’s release day eve and I’m excited to hear what you think of Breaking Emily’s Rules. Drop me a line and let me know what you think. Stone is one of my favorite Alpha heroes. A kind of stoic but strong man who feels a lot more than he’d like to admit.

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She didn’t speak when he moved the hair from her neck and kissed the tender spot under her ear, then licked it. In fact, she went so far as to moan, a little sound that coming out of her meant he must be doing something right. And she did her magic again, fingers threaded in his hair, pressing even closer. Yeah, this was so much better than talking. Talking was for chumps.

~ Breaking Emily’s Rules, Heroes of Fortune Valley