ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm back in the saddle again!

After a few antsy weeks waiting to hear on the submission of my partial to Berkley Heat, I am antsy no more … except for the writing part and the deadline part and the will readers like these stories part and the do I remember how to ride a bike part … ;)

The call came from my lovely agent on May 31 (and I've kept quiet for over a WEEK!). This is the announcement sent to Publishers Marketplace. It hasn't posted yet but I CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER MOMENT now that I have the go ahead to share:

Alison Kent's UNDENIABLE and a second book in her Dalton Gang series, where three hellraising cowboys return to Crow Hill, Texas to revisit the past, stir pots long settled, and cause more trouble than ever for the women in town to Wendy McCurdy at Berkley Heat by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.

Here's a brief overview of the Dalton Gang series (name subject to change) some of which was copied above for the deal listing (because why rewrite what worked!):

Summers in Crow Hill, Texas belonged for years to the Dalton Gang—three hellraising teens who spent weekends and vacations working on Tess and Dave Dalton's ranch. Dax Campbell, Boone Mitchell, and Casper Jayne were friends as well as enemies. They drank too much, took half the care shooting off their mouths they took with their guns, and never met a saddle they couldn't talk their way into. A decade after graduation, the three inherit from the childless Daltons equal shares of the ranch. They return to Crow Hill to revisit the past, stir pots long settled, and cause more trouble than ever for the women in town.

Since these books will be under the Berkley Heat imprint, they'll be HEATED and more so than my Bravas were. Definitely more so than my Blazes were. Probably even more so than AT HIS MERCY. Plus, they'll be longer … and deeper and harder. ;)

The best part of all? They'll be about COWBOYS! Yee-haw!