Joyce Lamb is a TRUE SHOT

When I read paranormal romances, I"m a happy woman. When I read romantic suspense novels, I'm a happy woman. But if you put those two subgenres together, and you give me paranormal romantic suspense–I'm so excited you almost need to slap me.  So get ready for some slapping.

My next guest is a woman who perfectly blends paranormal romance and romantic suspense.  Perfectly. I devour her books and look ahead eagerly for her next release. The lady in question? Joyce Lamb–and one commenter is going to win a signed copy of her new book, TRUE SHOT.

Hi, Cynthia's readers! And congratulations, Cynthia, on your release day! I can't wait to read Angel of Darkness.

I'll be celebrating my own release day Dec. 6, when the third book in my True trilogy, True Shot, comes out.

Romance writers who embark on writing trilogies are advised to save the best story for last, and I definitely did that. I so looked forward to writing True Shot that I sometimes had trouble focusing on writing the other True books!

Here's a little about True Shot:

Samantha Trudeau is a psychic spy for a secret government agency that she's recently discovered has gone rogue. She goes on the run and ends up at the Trudeau family cabin at the same time as a vacationing Mac Hunter, a burned-out journalist and good friend of Sam's estranged sisters. The bad guys show up to reclaim Sam (for a sinister purpose, of course), and things go from bad to worse when a drug wipes out Sam's memory, leaving her dependent on the un-spy-trained Mac to get her to safety.

Mac and Sam are a hoot together. Sam has a serious, down-to-business, where's-my-gun attitude, while Mac fights his battles with words and humor — not something that works all that well when you're dealing with ruthless rogue government spies. Though it is pretty entertaining.

I love Mac and Sam together! Especially when Mac comes out swinging, completely counter to his nature, to protect Sam. Sigh. I've fallen hopelessly in love with all of my heroes (as it should be!), but Mac is the one I most wish actually existed.

I hope you'll get a chance to check out True Shot. To help you out, I'll give a signed copy to a commenter here!

Oh, and while I have you: I run a new-ish romance novels blog at USA Today, called Happy Ever After (happyeverafter.usatoday.com). HEA is planning to review Cynthia's Angel of Darkness AND we're going to run an interview with her in December. I hope you'll get a chance to stop in and say hi!

Thanks for having me, Cynthia! You rock. : )