Carpathain #1 March 2011 On Sale: March 8, 2011 Featuring: Mikhail Dubrinsky; Raven Whitney 496 pages ISBN: 0062009621 EAN: 9780062009623 Hardcover $25.99  Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Expanded version, started a new craze Dark Prince by Christine Feehan Author’s Cut Special Edition William Morrow welcomes a stellar new name to its bestselling list! For the first time in hardcover, the expanded author’s cut special edition – including 100 extra pages of new material – of the popular first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s bestselling Dark series Enter the enchanting world of the Carpathians, where dark adventure, mystery, and love await, and the desires of two daring hearts unite in one irresistible passion. A telepathic hunter of serial killers, Raven Whitney helps catch some of the most depraved criminals. But her work keeps her from getting close to others, and has drained her body and spirit. In need of rest and rejuvenation, she embarks on a vacation far from home. Mikhail Dubrinksy is the Prince of the Carpathians, the powerful leader of a wise and secret ancient race that thrives in the night. Engulfed by despair, fearful of never finding the mate…

I write hot. Steamy, burn the bed [or insert alternative J] down hot. They’re romances first and foremost though. For me, I really believe the love/sex scenes of a book are crucial to the developing relationship in a romance novel. Yeah, you guessed it. You won’t find any closed doors in my books LOL. It’s during these most intimate moments people are perhaps at their most vulnerable and it provides tremendous opportunity for a writer to further the story and develop the characters. What they say, how they touch, their reactions, how they’re effected…all provide rich insight into the characters, their histories and how they’re changing at that moment. A love/sex scene should be important to the story, perhaps a turning point, but at a minimum divulge something about one or both of the characters either to the reader or to each other. It shouldn’t be included ‘just because’ it’s about time they got down and dirty. No, it has to have a specific purpose. At least in my view. AND it also has to be completely consistent with the characters and who they are. This is kind of a pet peeve of mine as a reader. Whatever the characters…