It started just like any other story I’ve ever written. I was in the car, driving my kids to school, when a ten-second newsbyte on the radio caught my attention. A decades-old letter was found behind a desk in a Pennsylvania post office–a letter that went undelivered for forty plus years. I imagine the radio guy said something else, that he filled in a few more facts…but if he did, I didn’t hear him. Because I was stuck on the letter… What if the letter had carried news of an inheritance or condolences over a lost family member? What if it had been a cry for help? Before we reached the school parking lot, I knew I had the makings of a new book. As a writer, you just know these things. Over the course of the next few months, the story percolated in my mind. What should the letter say? Who sent it? Who was the intended recipient? What happened as a result of it not arriving at its intended destination? I considered characters–good guys and bad guys. I considered potential motives. I even gave thought to murder weapons. But no matter how hard I thought about the letter…

Bound Hearts #11 January 2010On Sale: January 5, 2010Featuring: Kahlid Mustafa; Marty Mathews320 pages ISBN: 0312541864EAN: 9780312541866Trade Size$14.99 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Guilty Pleasureby Lora Leigh The sizzling new erotic tale from New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh Marty Mathews had always known about the secret, forbidden pleasures that the women she had grown up with enjoyed. Women whose husbands or lovers were members of the exclusive “Club,” where they took a selected “third” into their beds. And there is one man — a dangerous, forbidden man — who is part of this world and who has haunted Marty’s dreams for years. But she had been the FBI agent assigned to shadow him, making him completely off limits. . . That is until Khalid is cleared and Marty is released from her assignment. Now, all bets are off. . . The beautiful, fierce Marty Mathews is the one woman Khalid hungers for like no other and is the one woman he dare not let himself have. His past dogs his every step and danger lurks around every corner. If he wants to keep her safe, he must stay away from her. But the power of their desire…