Author Interview: Charmaine Gordon shares about her books #RB4U #Romance @charjgordon

Can you tell us a little bit about where you are from?

I was born in the big bad city of Chicago where you could hear the rat-a-tat of machine guns in the night. Later, when Father came up in the world, we moved to a nice home in the outskirts called Albany Park. Al Capone and his gangsters were gone.

What does your writing desk look like? What would we find on it right this minute?

I raised my grandbaby in this room. Crib and all with toys galore. As she grew up, Daughter, a teacher, gave me hand –me-up cats so now I’m looking a two cats, one twenty years old who sits behind me, the other an adorable kitten and then there’s Tony, the cop at the door ever vigilant.

Do you have any news you’d like to share with us?

I’m definitely not pregnant. Don’t laugh. After six kids, enough already, I say. Of course, at my age, 84, yes, I said it, my youngest grandchild is plenty.

My news is, I sleep write. A story comes in the night and in the morning I begin. In January, The fourth book in the series Reconstructing Charlie will be released. Titled Together Again, it completes the Costigan family and the wonderful aunt and uncle Stuart and Eleanor Alfred who embraced them and gave them a home in Chicago. Also a Valentine’s story is in the works.

When and why did you begin writing?

I was an actor for many years in NYC; daytime drama, stage, movies and commercials. One evening toward the end of a run in a terrific play, I noticed my voice was way off. Scary for an actor, I went to a voice specialist who gave me bad news. I have spasmodic dysphonia and need botox injections every 3 months in the larynx. Bye, bye acting. Creative juices flowed but what to do? A friend said write a book. Great, but I didn’t know how. A story came to me and somehow I wrote it and actually found a publisher who offered a contract. I’ve been with Vanilla Heart ever since.

At what point did you first consider yourself a writer?

When I signed the contract!

Do you have a specific writing style? In other words, are you a plotter or a pantser?

This pantser doesn’t know enough about plotting so I just barrel along and hope I get it right. The titles jump out as do the names of the characters.

Is there a message in your book(s) that you want readers to grasp?

Survive and Thrive is my motto in life. Take one step and then another.

How much of your book(s) have a bit of you in the characters?

All of them-just a bit.

What book would we find you reading right now?

Stephen King Mr. Mercedes YIKES!

What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?

Untitled Valentine’s Day story. Bear with me. The main character is a not so mature woman, kind of goofy who opens a card shop on funny 4^th Street in NY.

“Happy Birthday to me,” Joanne sang to herself while arranging the last shelf of greeting cards in her new shop in a funny little corner on Fourth Street in New York. Let the customers race in to watch me design some unique cards. Oh Yeah. Valentine’s Day approached in a week and she hadn’t started but ideas flowed in her creative mind.

 She rolled up her pristine white sleeves, tied the big painter’s apron around in the back and began. On a cream colored blank card, she wrote in a fine script using red ink, ‘I see London, I see France, I’d like to see your underpants.’ Joanne shook her red hair and wondered, “Does this work?” With care, she added ‘Happy Valentine’s Day to my loved one.’

“Perfect.” She designed eleven more; let them dry and set them in a rack aside from the regular cards she ordered from a supplier. The sign above the cards said Original cards by Joanne Daniels.

“Now for the next one. ‘Come with me, Climb a tree, I’ll help you up holding your B cups.’ Happy Valentine’s Day to one who is stacked.’ She laughed, clapped her hands and thought, I’m a nut. These poems are stupid and I’ll be out of business in a month. Forty eight years old and still scrabbling along. Harvard Business School be damned.

Any comments? And then a guy comes in and laughs.

Can you share a little of your current work with us?

Here’s a blurb from When Double Becomes Single. This is a Survive and Thrive Story. I’ve been there. Blurb:

Before that awful night, Sharon Michaels had never even driven by herself at night. . .eaten at a table for one. . .or made plans on her own. Alone after losing her husband-her rock- she’s left with a business to run, a great son and his wonderful wife and children-far way in Denmark, a bad son and his nasty wife and two teenage grandchildren she barely knows. Step by step, she finds her way into the world of singles and learns to Survive and Thrive!

Purchase from Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Double-Becomes-Charmaine-Gordons-Survive/dp/0692507213

Who is your favorite author and what is it that really strikes you about their work?

John Sandford. I love his books, his clever way of phrasing and description.

Do you have any advice to offer other writers?

Write, write and write some more.

Do you have anything else you’d like to add?

Don’t give up. Love the life you live.

Fun Stuff

Who I am - A fun loving mature woman

What genres I write in - Romance/Suspense

Favorite genres to read - Murder and Mayhem

Favorite TV shows - Ray Donavon series

Chocolate or Caramel - DARK CHOCOLATE Yum.

Rock N Roll or Country - Country Music

Lumberjack or Police Officer - Love the Police Officers!

Tropical Island or Winter Cabin - Tropical Island-Oh yeah!

More about Charmaine

I kissed my acting career goodbye, leaving on a high note with the lead in an Off Broadway play, “The Fourth Commandment” by playwright Rich Knipe.  “It was great fun and time to move on since my voice was gone, kaput, bye, bye,” Before that, I had a full schedule working on movies like “Working Girl”, “Road to Wellsville” and having the pleasure of Anthony Hopkins’ company at lunch.  I worked with Mike Nichols in “Regarding Henry” and sang outside with Harrison Ford during “Working Girl”, cried with Gene Wilder over loss on another set, and sang ‘It Had to be You’ with the whole cast of  “When Harry Met Sally”.  There were lots of fond memories; “Especially my first job as a stand-in leg model for Geraldine Ferraro in a Diet Pepsi commercial with Secret Service men guarding Ms. Ferraro and her daughters.  Eleven years on One Life to Live, a few years on All My Children, Another World kept my calendar full.”

Charmaine’s Social Media links 

Website/Blog http://authorCharmaineGordon.wordpress.com

Twitter https://twitter.com/charjgordon

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorCharmaineGordon

THANK YOU FOR THE CHARACTERS! BOX OF YUMMY DELIGHTS AHEAD!

Release Party! December 10

Just finished my new novella, Nashville SEAL, for our December boxed set, Holding Out For A Hero. Just so happens I've been writing short pieces for anthologies, and then publishing the print and audio versions while the anthology is out. These novellas get pregnant and birth bigger books several months later. Well, I've got 3 very pregnant series going on right now. Somehow, it is a perfect fit for me. I never get bored, and I can bedroom hop.

My contribution to Anthology

I love the variety of my characters. With a shorter book, you date them, sleep with them, and then can leave them (I'm such a fickle lover) quicker. My younger years were never like that: lots of drama and BIG DEALS, so I find this type of writing refreshing, enlivens my spirit and is just plain fun. I get to do something I never did in real life. I think that's why I love to write so much!

Nashville SEAL (novella) begins in a bar, with my hero, Jameson Daniels, crooning on stage to a crowd of mostly women, and loving every part of his life. From the quickies in the dressing room to the steady flow of "10s" that come knocking on his hotel room door, Jameson gets to play all night, and then literally play all night. He might get up and write some tunes, but his life is pretty perfect and the envy of many.

I used real Nashville performers as my basis for this book, which is FICTION, by the way. But part of writing I love the best is hearing the stories. I've always been fascinated with the whole rock star phenomenon but didn't think I could write one. I met an author at a signing this summer who said she wrote rock stars, and that the rock band was coming to her signing! I was impressed! And then when they showed up, they looked about 16 and skinny, and didn't fit the mold I expected.

Available now

But it doesn't take much imagination to create a fantasy hero as a muscled, handsome man of about 25 in a cowboy hat and boots (which is the closest thing I'll have to cowboys), tall, jeans he fills out nicely in, has a raspy, sexy singing voice and bright blue eyes. You throw in about 1000 females removing all manner of intimate garb and throwing it at the young singer, a bar owner who is in lust with his biker gal bouncer, an old crooner at 45 still looking for his first record deal, and a bunch of Navy SEALs, and we have a party!

I've learned a lot about the way the music business works. If we think we have it tough as writers, getting a big producer to buy your music or sign you to a label isn't as easy as they make it seem on Nashville. You have to be seen, which means you have to play. But if you play too much in bars and clubs, you are playing for whisky and not fans. The rejection is horrible, and the temptations everywhere, so if a person wasn't the strongest of character, they could be brought down by the whole scene before they had the strength to leave it behind.

My Jameson is a very good man, one that nearly every woman could imagine spending a wonderful evening with. He's like the Love Doctor. He can't help it if those handsome blue eyes make women forget their names. I wanted to write him such that women could walk away from a brief, intimate encounter with him, feeling cherished, have a smile on their face and a memory to last a lifetime. He was such a fun character to spend time with. I can't wait until I tell his longer story next year.

Sharon Hamilton is a NYT and USA/Today bestselling author most known for her SEAL Brotherhood series. She also writes a Golden Vampire and Guardian Angel series.

A lifelong organic gardener, Sharon lives with her husband in the Wine Country of Northern California, where most of her stories take place. When she’s not writing, she’s getting verra verra dirty in the mud, or wandering Farmer’s Markets looking for new Heirloom varieties of vegetables and flowers.

Sharon Hamilton

Life is one fool thing after another.

Love is two fool things after each other.

Author Page ** Sharon's Blog ** Sharon's Website ** Facebook**Twitter

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Guest Blog: Berengaria Brown @EvernightPub @BerengariaBrown #EroticRomance #RB4U

Berengaria Brown’s Best Party Ever

I was in the Fifth Grade when I discovered James Bond. My teacher that year let us read when we finished the set work, and I spent a lot of the year reading. My Dad had all Ian Fleming’s James Bond books, and I read them one after the other. Yes, I know, likely not appropriate for a little girl but my dad never tried to control my reading, and my teacher didn’t either.

I’ve been half in love with James Bond ever since. Who could resist Sean Connery? Or Pierce Brosnan? Or Daniel Craig?

So today I’m throwing a party. Each of the James Bonds will be arriving at the height of their movie perfection. Sean Connery as he was in “From Russia With Love”. George Lazenby from “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”. Roger Moore from “the Spy Who Loved Me”. Timothy Dalton as he was in “License to Kill”. Pierce Brosnan from “Golden Eye”, and Daniel Craig from “Quantum of Solace”.

And I’ll be there as well. Just me and arguably the six sexiest men on the planet. There’ll likely be some martinis (shaken, not stirred), and I definitely plan to drive a brand new Aston Martin very very fast at some stage of the evening. Other than that, I’ll leave the rest of the evening up to your imagination!

Like many writers, I’m fascinated not just by sexy men, geeky gadgets, and fast cars, but also by “what if” questions. “What if North Korea really did carry out its threat to bomb America? What if the Islamic State did establish a Caliphate? What if some idiot set loose bacterial warfare?”

The “Born to Rule” series of books follows the stories of Terah, Raine, Flame, and Skye, women whose destiny will only be discovered after the world as we know it has gone forever. The planet Mu Arae 7 sends warriors to Earth on a mission. Each warrior must find his bride to complete his mission.

“Born to Rule” Book 1: “Earth": Every twenty years a small group of warriors from Mu Arae 7 come to Earth to find their brides. Andreas captures Terah on the hill near where his spaceship lands and knows he has obtained his bride. He claims her immediately because he knows she’s the only woman for him.

Terah's running from trouble when she’s captured to be an alien’s slave. There’s nothing she can do to escape...but would she even want to?

Buy link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/earth-by-berengaria-brown/

“Born to Rule” Book2: “Fire”: Flame was standing on the hill looking down at the village when the aliens captured her. She was locked in a room in the spaceship until evening when they were all fed. After the meal a black-haired man claimed her and she was taken to his room to be his slave.

Chad was so excited at finding his bride so soon after arriving from Mu Arae 7, that he couldn’t wait and made love to her before he’d even gotten to know her. But the next day he has to work out how to show her he doesn’t just own her, he also cares about her.

Buy link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/fire-by-berengaria-brown/

“Born to Rule” Book 3: “Water”: Duncan is filled with rage. All through the long journey from Mu Arae 7 he’d envisioned his bride as an opulent, curvaceous, dark-skinned beauty, and he’d ended up with short, thin, light-skinned Raine. He wants to ignore her but the call between them is too strong. So he takes her to his room and claims her with lust and desperation, not love. Raine accepts that she’s his slave, but she’s also determined to explore the underground well. With or without his permission.

Buy link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/water-by-berengaria-brown

“Born to Rule” Book 4: “Air”: None of the huge aliens from Mu Arae 7 has chosen Skye to be their slave. Not that she wants to be a slave, but she’s lonely now all her friends have been taken. Then Gabriel holds her and warms her up and claims her. For an alien, he’s kind to her even though she doesn’t always understand what he wants. But Skye feels hopelessly inadequate, and so much less worthy than anyone else here. Gabriel knows he wants Skye, but how can he convince her to trust and accept him when he’s captured her? And will she develop a power?

“Air” releases TODAY!

Berengaria Brown Bio:

Berengaria is an award-winning, best-selling, multi-published author of erotic romance with over one hundred published digital, print and audio books.  She writes contemporary, paranormal (magic, ghosts, vampires, fairies, dragons, and werewolves), futuristic, medieval, and Regency-set historical. She loves to read all different kinds of romance so that is what she writes: MMF, MFM, FMMM, FFM, MM, FF, and MF. Whatever the characters need for their very hot happily-ever-after, Berengaria makes sure they get it.

Berengaria Brown’s links:

Blog: http://berengariasblog.blogspot.com/

Bookstrand: http://www.bookstrand.com/berengaria-brown

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Berengaria-Brown/e/B00541R3YQ/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/berengaria.brown?fref=ts

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BerengariaBrown

ARe: http://www.allromanceebooks.com/storeSearch.html?searchBy=author&qString=Berengaria+Brown

Website: http://berengariabrown.com/

Some smiles for you!!!

Too many ideas in my head today. I feel like I could write ten posts instead of just one.

But since I'm limited to one will make this post humorous.  Doesn't everybody enjoy a boost in spirits now and then? And with the holiday season bearing down on us we can all use a smile or two.

Here are 12 epiphanies on everyday life.

1.  Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.

2.  People who say they can't cook are basically confessing that they can't follow instructions.

3.  The first guy who heard a parrot speak must have freaked.

4.  In gaming, the start button is mostly used to pause the game.

5.  When the first child is born on Mars, we will have to add Planet of Birth to our passports.

6.   If I ever start my own dog training business, I'll call it Sit Happens.

7.   Pizza crust is an edible places to keep your meat and vegetables on.

8.   If people don't recognize Clark Kent as Superman because of his glasses, does his eye doctor know his true identity?

9.   Gyms are full of heavy stuff that you pay to lift repeatedly.

10. Wallets are packets that we put in our pockets.

11. Slang is slang for "short language".

I like all kind of humor, subtle or overt, and enjoy keeping a folder full of different thing to make me smile.

Another thing that makes me smile is the release of the RB4U anthology, Entice Me! This is now available for 99 cents at Amazon and other sources. My contribution is Desire's Dilemma, and it's a Regency with lots of twists and turns.  I've got five more books coming soon as MuseItUp,  and one of them Guilty Secrets, is to my mind the best book I've written. Definitely more about that when I get a release date. I'm on all the usual sites, or write me at jswriter@earthlink.net.  I love to talk to readers.

Guest Blog: The Key to it All in One Question by Karen McCullough #RB4U #Mystery @kgmccullough

The Key to it All in One Question

By Karen McCullough

As an author, plotting has always been my biggest problem. I’m a pantser who tends to start a project with some idea who the characters are, a pretty clear picture of how the story gets underway, and some vague notion of how it should all come out. That’s about it. Beyond that I tend to wing it.

And inevitably at some point I get bogged down and have to take a break to figure out what to do next. And that’s where things start getting hairy. I make lists, consider options, and try to figure out what my hero and/or heroine would do in the situations they’re on.

Obviously they’ve got problems. It wouldn’t be much of a story if they didn’t. And just as obviously, they have to try to figure out how to handle the issues they’re facing. Usually I’ve got several options and I’m trying to puzzle out which of those would be the best way to go with my story.

Then someone told me the secret. She gave one great piece of advice that has helped me make sense of plotting and character development issues. 

She said to figure out the one thing your character would never do and then create a situation where they’re forced to do just that. You build your plot backwards from that one piece of information. Somewhere early in the story you have to let the readers know what that one thing is. Every decision you, the author, make along the path of the book leads to that moment when the character has to decide to do the thing they least want to do.

It forces you to build in both serious conflict and significant character development, because obviously it’s going to take something serious and desperate to make your heroine do something she’s always said (to herself at least) she would never do.

Good examples from movies include Indiana Jones and the snakes, Luke Skywalker turning off his lightsaber during the climactic battle with Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi, Dorothy confronting the witch in The Wizard of Oz, etc. I’m sure you can think of many more examples if you try since it’s such a fundamental piece of storytelling.

Remember how near the beginning of Casablanca, Ricks says, “I stick my neck out for nobody.”? And then of course, in the end, he does just that, giving up everything, including the woman he loves dearly, for a higher cause, by allowing her to escape with her husband.

The higher the stakes, the greater the potential loss, the more difficult the decision is for the character, the more powerful and gut-wrenching the story becomes.

I tried to do this in my mystery novel with romantic elements, A Gift for Murder. The heroine, Heather, has a job she loves as assistant to the director of the market center. Her main role is being the troubleshooter during shows and exhibits, and she’s good at it.  But when a murder occurs and Heather begins to sniff out the motives for it, she’s forced to risk more and more to get to the bottom of it and see justice done. Initially it’s just the irritation of the people she works with, including her boss, threatening her, but as the show moves on and time gets short, she’s warned that she’ll lose her job if she doesn’t stop asking probing questions. She’s forced to ask herself if finding the answer is worth losing her job and the decision isn’t an easy one. And in the end she has to risk even more…

A Gift for Murder

For fifty-one weeks of the year, Heather McNeil loves her job as assistant to the director of the Washington DC Market Show Center. But the Gift and Home trade show, the biggest show of the year at the center, is a week-long nightmare. This year’s version is worse than usual. Misplaced shipments, feuding exhibitors, and malfunctioning popcorn machines are all in a day’s work. Finding the body of a murdered executive dumped in a trash bin during the show isn’t.  The discovery tips Heather’s life into havoc.

The police have reason to suspect the victim’s wife killed him, but Heather doesn’t believe it. She’s gotten glimmers of an entirely different scenario and possible motive, but questioning exhibitors about the crime doesn’t make her popular with them or with her employers. Still, other lives might be at risk, and if she doesn’t identify the murderer before the show ends, the culprit could well remain free to kill again.

Her only help comes from a company executive with ulterior motives and the Market Center’s attractive new security officer, Scott Brandon. Despite opposition from some of the exhibitors, her employers, and the police, Heather seeks to expose the killer before the show ends.  To solve the mystery she will have to risk what’s most important to her and be prepared to fight for answers, her job, and possibly her life.

• Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGKYNT6
• Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gift-for-murder-karen-mccullough/1100204419?ean=2940016665269&isbn=2940016665269
• Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/308556
• iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-gift-for-murder/id641857648?mt=11
• Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/A-Gift-for-Murder/book-5L2aq9_WEkWGv_Jz7hBgzQ/page1.html?s=h5XtGABwv0WxX_DLMA81fw&r=1

Karen McCullough

Karen McCullough is the author of more than a dozen published novels in the mystery, romantic suspense, and fantasy genres and has won numerous awards, including an Eppie Award for fantasy. She’s also been a four-time Eppie finalist, and a finalist in the Prism, Dream Realm, Rising Star, Lories, Scarlett Letter, and Vixen Awards contests. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and numerous small press publications in the fantasy, science fiction, and romance genres. She has three children, three grandchildren and lives in Greensboro, NC, with her husband of many years.

Author’s links:

Website: http://www.kmccullough.com

Blog: http://www.kmccullough.com/kblog

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kgmccullough

My Best Party Ever by Suz deMello

I'm a lucky person. People have remarked upon that regularly and I believe it. I was fortunate to be born into a middle-class, well-educated family full of creative, smart people and lots of fun times.

Sure, I encountered my share of lumps and bumps on the road of life, but for me, things have a way of working out.

And I've attended and thrown a lot of great parties. Unfortunately, due to my incredible age (ask me about the Inquisition!!) we didn't have picture-taking cell phones at most of them, and in quite a few, we were too ripped to find a camera, let alone take a picture.

And even now--few pix exist of our parties. See "too ripped", above. If I can remember to take a picture at a party, that means I'm not having enough fun. I'm not sufficiently engaged in the moment. And if I can find my phone--well, that shows that something's wrong).

But here's a couple of party pix:

This was in Matera, at the Women's Fiction Festival in,
I think, 2008. They throw the BEST parties! I'm in the middle.

My grand-niece's birthday party in 2014.
Someone actually had the presence of mind to
take a group photo! Wow. I'm in the front on the right.

But my best party ever was my 60th birthday party. (See, I told you I was old). At my request, it was a slumber party at my brother's home, a place perfectly suited to partying, especially a slumber party. Two rooms with huge sectional couches and great TVs. Extra bedrooms. Big kitchen where everyone congregates to drink my sister-in-law's infamous Evil Pink Brew--a lethal mixture of vodka, lemonade and Grenadine, meant to imitate Cosmos but on a grand and sloppy scale, and the EPB will make you grandly sloppy if you're not careful. I've learned to cut mine with plenty of 7-up.

Potter movies were playing on a continuous loop in one room, while something I can't remember was playing in the other (See, I told you it was a great party). Friends new and old, young and older came. It was great.

And no--no pix. Everyone was having too much fun.

Red or White Chrysanthemums: Love, Truth/Fidelity...Like in Romance Stories!

By Marianne Stephens 

Either white or red in color, the meanings behind the colors of chrysanthemums are in romance stories.

White: absolute truth and fidelity

Red: love

Romance stories are always about love. And, many times, truth or fidelity play a part in the theme or conflict. Both are so important in making a relationship grow and turn into love.

If you can't trust your partner to tell the truth, how can you continue to love him or her? If your partner can't be faithful or loyal, there's no trust.

In my story OPERATION MAN HUNT, not knowing the truth...those little white lies that get in the way, or omissions left uncorrected...create a final showdown between the hero and heroine. Sometimes, things said are not fully interpreted the way the speaker meant them to be understood. All create confusion and sometimes lead to hurt feelings...and mistrust.

Operation Man Hunt is part of the ENTICE ME - Luscious Love Stories Anthology now available:  BUY LINK

  

 

In my book STRIP POKER FOR TWO by April Ash, the heroine omits telling the hero of the competition she's in with another woman...that involves getting men. She's after a vacation prize, but soon decides she doesn't want to use the hero. However, she doesn't tell him. And, the black moment evolves when he hears about the competition and assumes she was only using him. Hurt feelings. Trust gone. Of course, since it's a romance story, they work out their problem...gotta have that HEA!  BUY LINK

 

Some romance books create a lack of those white Chrysanthemums before the red ones can happen. Or, the hero/heroine fall in love, suffer through the pain of hurt feelings because they discover the truth behind lies told/or what they're given the impression about by their partner, and love teeters of the brink of evaporation.  

Marianne Stephens:

http://www.mariannestephens.net

http://www.aprilash.net

Photos:Flickr:rahelgreenbelt, Diane Phillips, and bhaarat dudeja's photostreams

 

Thanks for Anthologies!

Continuing with Gemma's post from yesterday, this fall has been anthology season for me as well! This Thanksgiving, I'll be grateful for the opportunities I was offered. Here are the three anthologies I hope you'll take a look at!

First, if you haven't taken a look at RB4U's incredible bundle, Entice Me, you're really missing out! I loved getting to revisit a favorite medieval story and revamp it for this anthology. Find it here, or at you favorite e-tailer.

 

Next up: Hopefully, Nov. 16: The very first anthology from the authors at HERE BE MAGIC! More details coming soon! I'm so excited to be part of this project with some of my own favorites authors! My story, Devil of Bourbon Street, is a fun paranormal romance with a dash of suspense. Or is it romantic suspense with a dash of paranormal? Either way, I hope you'll all be looking for this coming in the very near future!

Blurb: Here be eight wonderful stories of magic and the paranormal, brought to you by eight outstanding authors, headed by New York Times and USA Today best seller Rebecca York. You’ll thrill to high adventure, deep emotion, and that all important happy ever after. Travel from the eastern shore of Maryland through magic realms that will stir your imagination and your senses.  From sweet and sexy to high drama and heart-warming, the stories will leave you wanting more from these masters of the fantasy genre.

 

 

 

 Finally, I was priviliged to work with some fantastic authors on a really HOT anthology--not just the romance, but the stories themselves which all feature firefighters. 

 

Blurb: Firefighters. The word ignites bold images of heroes in dust covered helmets and ash stained turnouts who defy the odds and press on in the presence of danger.

Men and Women of Valor. A dedicated brotherhood of first responders whose honor, strength, and courage overcome obstacles to save lives.

Into The Flames. Eight NYT, USA Today, bestselling and award-winning authors offer romantic suspense, contemporary, historical, and paranormal tales of tough, iconic heroes who risk it all for their communities—but at the end of the day, seek the tender embrace of the one they love.

 

Check it out here or at your favorite e-book seller.

 Wishing everyone a warm and happy Thanksgiving!