Guest blogger Liz Kelly talks about her heroes and an AWESOME boxed set bargain!

                        Dueling Heroes

Our fabulous hostess, Mara Jacobs, and I participated in an anthology together titled Countdown To A Kiss. In my portion of the story, I needed a couple of characters to egg my hero, Duncan, into taking a bet where he would be pitted against my heroine, Annabelle. So I created his two best college buddies, Brooks and Vance, to do what college buddies are so good at—egging best friends into all sorts of trouble—to help get the romance for Duncan and Annabelle rolling.

Mara and I worked together to add her story’s hero, Lewis Kampmueller, to this mix of “buddies” which was great fun entwining the stories a bit. And, it turns out that Mara’s heroine just happens to be Brooks’ kid sister. Who knew?

So Countdown To A Kiss gets written, and I’m trying to decide what to write next, when Mara suggests she’d like to see my college buddies, Brooks and Vance in a 3-way.

A 3-way? Really?

Do I even write 3-ways?

Regardless, the idea was definitely intriguing. So, I started working with the premise of what if they wanted a 3-way, or what if one of them wanted a 3-way, or what if there was a 3-way romance. A love triangle, involving two best friends who have been through too much together to have a young, pretty, long-legged brunette come between them.

Only she does.

Yeah, what if that happens?

So now you have two heroes—dueling heroes—in one story. Kinda tricky because as the author, I love them both, and I want you, as the reader, to love them both too. And you do know how this romance thing works, right? In the end only one of them is going to get the girl.

So now the dilemma is—how is that a satisfying ending for readers who hopefully love both of the heroes?

So I kept writing and kept writing until both heroes were happy. Only that didn’t make Mara happy. Mara loved hero number two so much she insisted he have his own full-length romance. (Lord what I won’t do to please this woman.)

So, my book Good Cop, Bad Cop became two full-length romances. Good Cop and Bad Cop. And if you think you might like reading about dueling heroes, I have a great deal for you.
For a limited time, Good Cop is available as part of the ebook Passionate Kisses Boxed Set where you get ten full-length contemporary romances all for the mere price of $0.99.

Here are the links, and may your favorite cop win.

Passionate Kisses Boxed Set at Amazon Kindle Store  Barnes & Noble  or iTunes