WIP Wednesday

This week I’m diligently working on Cozy Bend 7. I have a working title, but it certainly won’t be the one I use. It’s Her Younger Lover. For now it works. I’m almost half done but I’m not rushing to the finish. 

I am having fun with this. It’s another May-December almost as I said before. I’m playing around with a with a few that I’m not sure will stay in, but that’s what the second draft is for cutting out what doesn’t really work. 

The supernatural angle is one of those things I’m working with to close an arc I introduced before. Well, I won’t close it fully until the next book. What does strike me as interesting is that I’m nearly thirty thousand in and no sex yet. These ladies are doing a little bickering and hot and cold. A little angst not much. 

Over the weekend I’ll be going into a little smexy I hope. Maybe not until next week. I don’t want to rush them to act. I want it to be natural and smooth.

I do have a bit of an excerpt to share this week. Only a small one because I have other news to share.

This is the excerpt.

“You’re doing okay?” he asked. “Keeping
late hours by the circles under your eyes. Rae, do you remember what we talked
about?”

Damn. He was blaming her?

She hadn’t seen Mira in two days.

“Sir,” she said.

“Dad, it’s not Rae’s fault.”

“Then, if she’s not to blame you’re
working to hard and not spending enough time with your new girlfriend.”

The room got so quiet Rae could hear a pin
drop, and Mira’s breath brushed her cheek as it whooshed from her.

“I thought you were done hiding?” he said as
he took the chair across from Rae. “You aren’t ashamed of my daughter are you?
That’s not why she’s losing sleep is it? She’s crazy about you and you’re too
ashamed to be seen in the daylight.”

“Oh, my god,” Mira whispered, and straightened.
A delicate pink flush started in her cheeks and spread to her entire face.

Now, my other news. Release date for The Nefarious Madam is June 23. I do have the cover art.