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- I grew up in Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, then lived in Denmark and traveled throughout Europe before coming back to Colorado. I have two adult sons, whom I cherish. I started my writing career as a columnist and investigative reporter and eventually became the first woman editor of two different papers. Along the way, my team and I won numerous state and several national awards, including the National Journalism Award for Public Service. In 2011, I was awarded the Keeper of the Flame Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism. Now I write historical romance and contemporary romantic suspense.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
It's Raining I-Team! Plus a giveaway!
1. The ebook edition of Breaking Point (I-Team Book 5) has been marked down to $1.99 for one week only on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Kobo!
2. First Strike (I-Team After Hours), the super-sexy prequel to Striking Distance (I-Team Book 6) is only 99 cents and getting great reviews.
3. Striking Distance (I-Team Book 6) will be out on Nov. 5 and is still on sale at special pre-order prices on Amazon for $4.79 (paperback) and $5.99 (Kindle)!
That’s what I mean when I say it’s raining I-Team. You wait more than a year for me to have a new novel, and all of a sudden there’s a new novel, a new novella and a HUGE markdown on one of the most popular and critically acclaimed books in the I-Team series.
It’s the perfect storm of I-Team, an I-Team orgy, an I-Team extravaganza.
It’s a chance for those of you who haven’t read Breaking Point to get caught up on the series before Striking Distance comes out.
Breaking Point was honored by Amazon as one of the Top Books of 2011 and has 99 five-star reviews on Amazon. It also received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Apart from that, it’s known for its completely drool-worthy cover. I want you to know that it was my idea to make the model all sandy and dirty. You’re welcome!
You can read an excerpt or head on over to take advantage of the sale for yourself or for a stubborn friend who hasn’t listened to you when you’ve told her she needs to read this series. Grab it before the sale ends on Oct. 30. Here are the links:
Kindle: http://amzn.to/16rdJX1
Nook: http://bit.ly/17eGjeR
Kobo: http://bit.ly/HgsOi1
iTunes : http://bit.ly/1gD3sv7
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First Strike, the erotic prequel to Striking Distance, just came out on Monday, A 17,400-word novella, it tells the story of how Laura Nilsson and Javier Corbray, the journalist heroine and Navy SEAL hero in Striking Distance, meet and share a mind-blowing weekend of no-strings-attached sex that changes both of their lives forever.
This was my first foray into writing erotica, and I had a lot of fun with it. For those who are a bit skittish about reading something labeled “erotica,” let me just say that it does not involve dinosaurs, step-fathers, animals of any kind, whips, fluorescent light bulbs, chains, more than two people, or anal sex. What else is there, you ask? You’ll just have to read it and find out!
At 99 cents, it’s a must-read for those of you who are waiting breathlessly for Striking Distance. So far, the cover has gotten my ads for it banished from Facebook — beheadings are apparently okay, but people in underwear embracing are not — and readers seem to enjoy looking at it. I guess that matters more to me. Right now, the story has 24 five-star reviews on Amazon, and it just came out Monday.
You can read an excerpt or follow these links to one-click your heart out.
Kindle: http://amzn.to/1gwJHFw
Nook: http://bit.ly/16p0el8
Smashwords (all ebook formats, including Kobo and iBook): http://bit.ly/16p0nVV
Last, but certainly not least, is Striking Distance (I-Team Book 6), which will be out on Nov. 5 — less than two weeks from today!
This full-length novel tells the rest of Laura and Javier’s story, carrying them through to their happily ever after. One of the most difficult books I’ve ever written, it took almost a year and half for me to finish the story. I was thrilled when I learned the book had received a Top Pick from RT Book Reviews.
Striking Distance will be released in mass market paperback, ebook, and audiobook on the same day. The talented Kaleo Griffith is once again narrating the story, so those of you who need a Kaleo fix to help you with your OKD (Obsessive Kaleo Disorder) are in luck!
Read an excerpt, or head over to one of these links to pre-order a copy. Amazon currently has a sale on pre-orders, cutting $3.20 off the paperback price and $2 off the regular retail ebook price.
Here are the links:
Audible http://bit.ly/16r9kxZ
Kindle http://amzn.to/1b8Fhh7
nook http://bit.ly/1b8FT6v
iTunes http://bit.ly/175u3uW
Amazon http://amzn.to/1aAPFfX
Barnes & Noble http://bit.ly/1bQClXr
Books-A-Million http://bit.ly/GYBbPE
Powell's Books http://bit.ly/1bQCv0Y
IndieBound http://bit.ly/1aANlWl
And there you have it — a harmonic convergence of I-Team. I hope it helps make up at least in part for the fact that I’m such a slow writer — and the fact that you’ll be waiting a while for the next I-Team novel.
To make this more fun, I’m giving away five more copies of First Strike! Just share the news, tell me where you shared it, and leave your email address below. I’ll pick five winners a day today, Thursday, and Friday!
Coming soon:
One last pre-release excerpt from Striking Distance.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
FIRST STRIKE is out! Celebrate with a giveaway!
Today is one Monday that will suck just a little bit less. First Strike is out — one day early!
The story is available on Kindle and Nook, as well as Smashwords, which offers all ebook formats without international restrictions. It will soon be out on iTunes and Kobo, as well, though both of those formats are already available on Smashwords.
For those who’ve missed prior posts about this 17,400-word e-novella, it is the erotic prequel to Striking Distance (I-Team Book 6), which will be out on Nov. 5.
It was originally one of the prologues to the story. I cut it, saved it, and have expanded it for release as a stand-alone novella that introduces us to Laura Nilsson and Javier Corbray, the heroine and hero from Striking Distance, and takes us along for the crazy weekend when they meet in Dubai City—and can’t keep their hands off each other even though it means risking a flogging and prison.
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Here’s the description:
Just a weekend…
Laura Nilsson knows what she wants: a successful career as a broadcast journalist—and a little fun between the sheets now and again. What she doesn’t want is marriage or kids. When a ripped and sexy stranger intervenes to stop a couple of drunks from harassing her in a hotel bar in Dubai City, all she can think about is spending the rest of the weekend with him—in her bed. There’s just one little problem. Unmarried sex is illegal in Dubai.
… of no-strings sex …
Navy SEAL Javier “Cobra” Corbray is on his way home from a rough deployment in Afghanistan when he finds himself having dinner with “the Baghdad Babe.” What she wants from him—sex with no strings—could land them both in prison. Still, he’s more than happy to oblige her. She’s confident and sexually assertive, and he’s secure enough to lie back and let her make the first strike. But, as she’s about to find out, he’s more than her match.
… or the beginning of something more?
Yet, neither Laura nor Javier has any idea what lies ahead—or how this weekend of mind-blowing sex will impact their emotions. Will they act on their new-found feelings in time, or will they let something special slip away… perhaps forever?
I had a lot to work with before I started working on First Strike. It was already very long—for a prologue. And it helped that I knew everything there was to know about Laura and Javier’s story, having just finished Striking Distance.
But what took me by surprise as I wrote it was how poignant the story felt to me, knowing, as I did, what lay in store for them. I found myself getting choked up several times. I suggest reading it again after you finish Striking Distance, and you’ll see what I mean. The last sex scene actually made me cry. And be warned: This story ends with a cliffhanger, binding it to the action in Striking Distance.
I hope you enjoy it! I am so excited to share this story with you and absolutely giddy to think we’re only two weeks and change away from the release of Striking Distance, which completes Laura and Javier’s story.
Without further ado, let’s get down to the giveaway! To celebrate the novella’s release, I’m giving away FIVE ebook copies of the story. What do you have to do to win? If you want to help spread word about the story, that’s great. Otherwise, just comment below, leave your email address, and tell me what you think makes a love scene in a romance sexy.
Simple question, right?
Have a fabulous day!
Sunday, September 29, 2013
FIRST STRIKE excerpt
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First, the bad news — I bumped the release date for First Strike back to Oct. 22 after some people expressed concerns about the month-long wait between the prequel and Striking Distance. There is a significant cliffhanger at the end of First Strike. With the Oct. 22 release date, there will be only two weeks between the two stories.
For those of you who missed it — this novella was kind of a surprise to everyone, including me — here’s the scoop on how this story came about:
By the time I finished Striking
Distance, I had perhaps two discarded pages of text for every manuscript
page I sent to my editor. While some of the material is going to find its way
here as little blog extras, some will never see the light of day. The
story’s original prologue, however, has been transformed into an erotic novella.
First Strike tells
the story of how Laura Nilsson and Javier Corbray meet in Dubai City—and lose themselves
in a weekend of no-strings-attached sex. Since unmarried sex is illegal in
Dubai, their time together comes at a risk. But the bigger risk may come in the
form of feelings they didn’t expect.
Here’s the book’s blurb:
Just a weekend…
Laura Nilsson knows what she wants: a successful career as a
broadcast journalist—and a little fun between the sheets now and again. What
she doesn’t want is marriage or kids. When a ripped and sexy stranger intervenes
to stop a couple of drunks from harassing her in a hotel bar in Dubai City, all
she can think about is spending the rest of the weekend with him—in her bed.
There’s just one little problem. Unmarried sex is illegal in Dubai.
… of no-strings sex …
Navy SEAL Javier “Cobra” Corbray is on his way home from a
rough deployment in Afghanistan when he finds himself having dinner with “the Baghdad
Babe.” What she wants from him—sex with no strings—could land them both in
prison. Still, he’s more than happy to oblige her. She’s confident and sexually
assertive, and he’s secure enough to lie back and let her make the first
strike. But, as she’s about to find out, he’s more than her match.
… or the beginning of
something more?
Yet, neither Laura nor Javier has any idea what lies
ahead—or how this weekend of mind-blowing sex will impact their emotions. Will
they act on their new-found feelings in time, or will they let something
special slip away… perhaps forever?
First Strike will
be available as an ebook only through the usual ebook retailers. At 17,000 words, it’s too short to justify publication in
print. The cost to readers would truly be unfair. Fortunately, both Amazon and
Nook have downloadable applications that enable people without e-readers to
read stories on their computers.
Now how about an excerpt?
I thought you’d never ask! Here you go.
From Chapter 1 of First Strike: The Erotic Prequel to Striking Distance
What was it about men who gave off
that “don’t fuck with me” vibe that made Laura want to do just that?
“You didn’t like Jumeirah Beach?” For a man who’d come to
Dubai City to see the sights, he didn’t seem very impressed.
“Nah, not really.” He raised his beer mug and finished the glass, Laura’s
gaze drawn first to his flexing bicep, then to his moist lips. “Growing up, I
spent summers at my grandmother’s place in Humacao. You want to see a beach,
come to Puerto Rico.”
So he was Puerto Rican—probably a mix of TaÃno Indian, African, and
Spanish.
“I’m sure it’s beautiful.”
He nodded, smiled, looking into her eyes. “A lover’s paradise.”
A bolt of heat shot through her belly, her pulse skipping.
He made the words sound erotic, pronouncing every syllable slowly, the
warmth in his eyes signaling that he wanted her as much as she wanted him.
Surprised by the intensity of her own physical reaction, she raised her
glass to her lips, only to find it empty.
“Let me buy you another.”
She set the glass down. “I’d like that. Thanks.”
She watched as he made his way
through the crowded restaurant toward the bar to get another glass of wine for
her and another beer for himself, his perfect, muscular ass shifting beneath
the denim of his jeans as he walked, his movements sleek, confident.
People stepped aside for him, as if
they knew instinctively that they shouldn’t cross him.
But he wasn’t arrogant. Most men who were ripped and sexy like Javier had
egos to match, standing at the center of their own vain little worlds. But
Javier hadn’t shown a hint of swagger. Instead, he’d asked her a half-dozen
questions about her job, seeming genuinely interested in her answers. He even
knew about some of her bigger stories—her exposé on the Pentagon’s failure to
supply soldiers with body armor, her investigation into the group of servicemen
who’d been running a protection racket in Baghdad. She sensed something deeper
in Javier, something that went beyond his good looks and charm, something real.
God, he turned her on.
From the moment he’d sat at her
table, her mind had begun spinning sexual fantasies of the two of them
together. Everything about him seemed to draw her in—his smooth skin, his
voice, the stubble on his square jaw, his clean scent, those full lips. What
would they feel like when he kissed her, tasted her, went down on her?
The very thought made her wet.
She’d always been careful about the
men she allowed into her bed, sometimes going months and even years between
lovers. Her job put her in the public eye, and the last thing she wanted was to
leave a trail of men who would watch the news, point to her, and say to their
buddies, “Yeah, I slept with her. I fucked the Baghdad Babe.”
Her career didn’t leave a lot of
time for men, anyway. She had dreams of one day being a news anchor or perhaps
even hosting an evening news program. She had no desire to get married, settle
down, and have kids, and that meant she needed to steer clear of men who might
mistake her interest for something more than sexual.
She watched as he paid for the drinks and then
started back toward the table, another glass of chardonnay in one hand, a mug
of beer in the other.
Would he be good in bed?
Pondering that question made her
ache inside.
Oh, yes, he would be.
She couldn’t say what made her so
sure of that. Maybe it was the way he paid attention to every word she said.
Maybe it was the way he moved, so in control of his own body. Maybe it was the
heat in his eyes when he looked at her. But she had a feeling that if she ended
up in bed with him, he would make it well worth her while.
She crossed her legs, squeezed,
trying to appease the ache, but that only made it worse, the feeling of arousal
between her thighs impossible to ignore.
Pull
it together, Nilsson.
Of course, there was no way for
them to hook up—not here. Unmarried sex was illegal in Dubai. It was even
illegal for unrelated men and women to be alone together. They couldn’t just
get into the elevator, head to her room, and get it on. If they were caught,
they’d go to jail, maybe even be flogged.
And wouldn’t that make for a nice news
teaser?
Laura
Nilsson arrested in Dubai for illicit sex with man she barely knew. Hormones to
blame. Film at eleven.
She ran the words through her mind
and found herself wondering again what Javier did for a living. Was he Delta
Force? An Army Ranger? A Green Beret?
Most U.S. servicemen trusted her
enough to tell her what they did for a living, but Javier wasn’t one of them.
That meant the work he did was highly classified—or that he worked for a
private contractor that specialized in covert ops.
He
could be an arms dealer for all you know.
There was no doubt. He was dangerous.
Somehow that thought left her
feeling even more aroused.
You
need to buy a battery-operated boyfriend.
Even if she’d had one, she wouldn’t
have been able to bring it along on her travels. She was pretty sure she’d get
into less trouble if she were caught smuggling an AK-47 into Dubai than if she
were found in possession of a vibrator.
Javier handed her the wine glass,
his warm fingers grazing hers, striking sparks off her skin. He slid into the
seat across from her. “This place gets crowded.”
She glanced around them. “It’s
Friday night. Most of the city is shut down. Expats have to do something with
themselves.”
“Cheers.” He raised his beer glass
and drank.
Her gaze locked with his, desire
for him driving all other thoughts from her mind.
She set her glass aside, leaned
toward him, lowering her voice to a whisper, her pulse spiking as she shared
what she was thinking. “Will this conversation get awkward if I tell you how
very much I want to fuck you?”
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Cover Reveal! — FIRST STRIKE: The erotic prequel to STRIKING DISTANCE
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Remember how I’ve been promising you something to hold you over until the Nov. 5 release of Striking Distance? Well, here’s your first glimpse. I hope you like it!
First Strike, which I’m working on right now, is the erotic prequel to Striking Distance. And here’s the story of how it came to be.
When I wrote Striking Distance, I originally started with a prologue set in Dubai City in 2009. The prologue would tell how Javier Corbray and Laura Nilsson, the hero and heroine from Striking Distance, met and show the intensity of the attraction between them — some sensuality to hold us over through the action in the earlier parts of Striking Distance.
But the prologue didn’t work. For starters, it was too long. Also, it created a situation where another prologue was necessary to launch the story — that’s the current prologue for the book. Rather than have two extraordinarily long prologues, I realized I had to cut this one.
It was the right decision.
Laura, a dual U.S. and Swedish citizen who works as a journalist, and Javier, a Puerto Rican-born Navy SEAL, both think back to this weekend throughout Striking Distance. It was supposed to be a no-strings-attached fling, and yet both of them left Dubai City wishing wanting more — a way to stay in touch, a phone number, an email address. Before they have the opportunity to reconnect, the horrors of war intervene, and Laura is kidnapped by insurgents.
Given how important the weekend was to them, I decided before I even finished Striking Distance to take take this first prologue, to develop it, and to tell the full story of how Laura and Javier met and that first weekend when they got to know each other rather well.
Here’ what Javier remembers of the weekend early on in Striking Distance before he and Laura are reunited:
He’d been touring Dubai City on his way home after a long deployment. She’d walked into a hotel bar where he was having a steak and a beer and had sat at a table nearby. He’d recognized her instantly. When two big Russian men had wandered over and started hassling her, he had intervened. It had pissed her off—but it had also gotten her attention.
What had followed was a weekend of the most amazing sex Javier had ever experienced. She might have seemed cool and reserved on the outside, but beneath her skin Laura Nilsson had been pure fire, igniting Javier’s blood, sending him into a kind of sexual meltdown, the two of them risking not only their careers, but also flogging and prison time to be together. Unmarried sex was illegal in Dubai, even for foreigners.
If he closed his eyes, he could still taste her, still feel the softness of her skin, still hear the breathy sound of her cries as she came. She’d been a fantasy come true, more woman than Javier had ever hoped to hold in his arms. He was nothing more than a kid from South Bronx who’d enlisted in the Navy to give some meaning to his life, a simple man who drank beer and played guitar when he wasn’t deployed. She’d been classy, refined, and sexy, all silk and sophistication.
She had blown his mind.
The only thing that had kept Javier from calling her and trying to see her again was their agreement that the weekend came with no strings. Laura had told him flat out that she wasn’t interested in marriage or motherhood. That had been fine with Javier. He already had one divorce under his belt—a hazard of being a frogman—and didn’t want another. He’d flown back to the U.S. hoping they could get together again.
Two months later, she’d been gone.
First Strike will be out by October 1 as an ebook-only special. My first erotic novella, it will be about 15,000 words long and only 99 cents. It will give readers the full story of that wild weekend when Laura and Javier risked everything as they gave in to their attraction to one another.
I’m writing the story right now and am eager to share it with you and to introduce you to the two characters who’ve taken up all my time and all the space in my imagination for the past year and half.
Stay tuned for updates on First Strike, Striking Distance excerpts, and I-Team games!
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