Men Who Walk the Edge of Honor #1 May 2011 On Sale: May 1, 2011 Featuring: Dare MacIntosh; Molly Alexander 384 pages ISBN: 0373775717 EAN: 9780373775712 Mass Market Paperback $7.99  Add to Wish List Romance Romantic Buy at Amazon.com Beginning of a new series… When You Dare by Lori Foster When loner and mercenary Dare MacIntosh agrees to rescue his friend’s younger sister from a human trafficking ring holding her hostage in Tijuana, he gets more than he bargained for. Among the hostages he rescues that night is beautiful Molly Alexander – a bestselling suspense novelist and the estranged daughter of a wealthy and prominent businessman who just doesn’t fit the profile of the other women who were kidnapped. When Dare rescues her from her captors, Molly confesses her suspicion that someone paid the traffickers to hold her hostage. But she doesn’t know who, or why – she only knows that there’s nobody in her life she can trust right now. She offers to hire Dare to help her look into who might want to bring her harm. When a second kidnapping attempt is made the morning after her rescue, Dare realizes just how dire her situation may be and…

Sharon Ashwood and the Dark Forgotten series Imagine a world where the vampires, werewolves, and everything else that goes bump in the night comes out of the closet on a network TV talk show. With computers, security cameras, and Facebook to deal with, it’s too hard these days to eat a village and skulk into the night.  So, the fanged and furry have signed on for credit cards and Netflix. But, just when humans are getting used to the monster next door, a portal to a prison dimension called the Castle opens up in the downtown, and all the OTHER monsters—the ones too dangerous to roam free—threaten to escape. Not all of them are guilty of a crime.  Now no one knows who is safe to set free, who is evil, and who has gone mad from thousands of years in darkness. But, if the wrong monsters invade the human world, a wholesale backlash against the “regular” supernaturals will wipe out any chance of survival, much less a comfy existence with delis catering to werewolves. This is the world of the Dark Forgotten, of sentient houses that threaten to eat their visitors, of vampires whose venom gives an orgasmic high,…

Thanks to everyone at Fresh Fiction for having me here today! I’m Kaylea Cross, and I write romantic suspense featuring deliciously alpha male military heroes. Why? Because they’re hot, and because I admire the hell out of people serving in the military. Specifically, I write mostly about Special Ops heroes. For me, there’s just something about a covert warrior that makes me all gooey inside. Obviously they’re dedicated and brave, disciplined and smart. They don’t give in easily, and they’re pretty much guaranteed never to give up on anything they’ve dedicated themselves to. When they apply that kind of skill set and tenacity to pursuing a woman in a romantic relationship…whoa. Makes my toes curl every time. Well that, and knowing that no matter what crisis occurs, they can and will handle it. It’s that very “I got this” attitude that makes them such amazing characters to write about. I read Special Ops non-fiction books all the time, and I’m an admitted war and military documentary junkie. If it involves SEALs, Special Forces (not the same thing as Special Ops, by the way–people get them confused all the time), Delta Force, Air Force Combat Controllers and Pararescue Jumpers, I’m so…

April 2011 On Sale: April 5, 2011 Featuring: Minny; Aibileen; Skeeter 528 pages ISBN: 0425232204 EAN: 9780425232200 Trade Size (reprint) $15.00  Add to Wish List Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Must Read for the Summer! The Help by Kathryn Stockett Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds…

Operation Neptune Spear seems an appropriate name for the raid that ended Osama Bin Laden’s life.  In Roman mythology, Neptune is the god of water and the sea.  It’s common knowledge that SEAL Team 6 of the United States Navy conducted the raid.  The Navy SEAL emblem contains a trident, Neptune’s preferred hunting weapon. So who are Navy SEALs?  SEAL teams are the primary special forces of the Naval Special Warfare Command.  The SEALs were officially established during the Kennedy Administration, but their roots can be traced back to WWII.  The acronym is derived from Sea, Air, and Land.  Although Navy SEAL teams comprise the maritime component of the United States Special Operations Command, they’re often used for land based missions. The term “special forces” has evolved to encompass military and civilian units that are deployed for use in high risk missions that standard units aren’t equipped to handle.  Although technically not special forces in the military sense, the FBI, ATF, DEA, and other federal law enforcement agencies employ domestic SRTs (Special Response Teams) in much the same way as the military uses its special forces overseas.  It’s not my intent to make any kind of comparison between civilian SRTs…

April 2011 On Sale: March 22, 2011 Featuring: Lexi Baill; Jude Farraday 400 pages ISBN: 0312364423 EAN: 9780312364427 Hardcover $27.99  Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Night Road by Kristin Hannah Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone’s needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. But senior year of high school brings unexpected dangers and one night, Jude’s worst fears are confirmed: there is an accident. In an instant, her idyllic life is shattered and her close-knit community is torn apart. People—and Jude—demand justice, and when the finger of blame is pointed, it lands solely on eighteen-year-old Lexi Baill. In a heartbeat, their love for each other will be shattered, the family broken. Lexi gives up everything that matters to her—the boy she loves, her place in the family, the best friend she ever had—while Jude loses even more. When Lexi returns, older and wiser, she…

Over the past several years, I’ve had the amazingly good fortune of working closely with the FBI.  I’ve consulted with the Bureau’s Crimes Against Children Unit, the Asian Criminal Enterprise Task Force, the Crisis Negotiation Unit, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (a la “Criminal Minds”), members of various Evidence Response Teams (the Federal equivalent of “CSI”), the Art Crime Team, and more.  I’ve visited several field offices and resident agencies (smaller, local offices), and I’ve toured FBI Headquarters in Washington DC.  I’ve learned how to shoot a Glock, how to handle a hostage negotiation, and how to speak FBI (hundreds of acronyms!). And then there’s Quantico.  I’ve made more than one trip down there—I even did a book signing at the FBI Academy bookstore.  It’s a world unto itself, with extensive training grounds, an impressive shooting range, and the legendary Hogan’s Alley—a man-made town that feels as real as your home town, except that it’s populated by FBI agents, new agents in training, and actors who are hired to bring simulated crime scenes to life. Last fall, I was asked by the Newark Field Office (they’re responsible for the entire state of New Jersey) to be their celebrity keynote speaker at…

October 2007 On Sale: October 16, 2007 Featuring: Harry Potter; Ron Weasley; Hermione Wranger ISBN: 0545044251 EAN: 9780545044257 Hardcover $195.00  Add to Wish List Young Adult Adventure Buy at Amazon.com Time to re-read to prepare for final film Harry Potter Hardcover Boxed Set (Books 1-7) by J. K. Rowling These books are housed in a collectible trunk-like box with sturdy handles and privacy lock. Bonus decorative stickers are included in each boxed set. Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1997) What did Harry Potter know about magic? He was stuck with the decidedly un-magical Dursleys, who hated him. He slept in a closet and ate their leftovers. But an owl messenger changes all that, with an invitation to attend the Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches, where it turns out Harry is already famous… Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been unleashed on the school. Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) For twelve long years, the dread fortress…

If you’ve been looking for an engaging contemporary or an engrossing paranormal to take to the beach or the pool this summer, you are in luck. June is bursting out all over with both fun and frightening reads. Paranormal Reads There’s no shortage of books for lovers of a good fantasy themed novel, starting with HOURGLASS by Myra McEntire. Emerson can travel through time, which catches the attention of the mysterious Hourglass organization, and handsome Michael Weaver–who needs her for a task only she can accomplish. It’s a time travel book for people who don’t think they like time travel books–but do like mystery and suspense and romance. I caught up with author Myra McEntire to ask her about writing the book. RCM: Myra, I love this concept of this book. There’s time travel and romance and mystery all rolled together. How did you come up with this idea? Myra McEntire: I made it up as I went along. That sounds like a smart aleck answer, but it’s true! It was so freeing to follow the whims of the story/characters and see where it all led me. Of course, I had to rewrite the heck out of it several times…

The temptation to trade places with my heroine is great and the reason obvious: when the candles have been doused and the book closed, Emmie Farnum gets to end up with Devlin St. Just! The temptation to trade places with Devlin St. Just is even greater: He heals from a tremendous load of grief, pain, and heartache to find true love, a way back to the family who loves him, and a way forward to his happily ever afters. And then there’s Winnie… A happily ever after bestowed on a child has to rank right up there as one of the best things about crafting a novel. She also gets a dog of her own, and if early warnings are any indications, she’s soon to have her own pony too. But… I am the author, and so if I had to pick one character to be, it would be Lord Valentine Windham, whose job as a secondary character is love everybody in the story. This most closely approximates my role as author. I observe, as Lord Val observes. As he does, I ache for my story people as they suffer their travail, I yearn for their happiness and I do…