Sons of Chance #5 July 2011 On Sale: June 21, 2011 Featuring: Emily Sterling; Clay Whitaker 224 pages ISBN: 0373796285 EAN: 9780373796281 Paperback $5.50  Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary, Romance Series Buy at Amazon.com Short and sexy…with a cowboy to boot! Best summer reads Cowboy Up by Vicki Lewis Thompson “Never fall in love with a cowboy.” These words were drilled into Emily Sterling’s head since her parents divorced over twenty years ago. But now Emily has returned to her father’s ranch…only to find herself face-to-face with jaw droppingly hot rancher Clay Whitaker. Clay is the resident stud expert at the Last Chance Ranch and isn’t so keen on “spoiled” city slickers…until Emily arrives. Now he’s showing Emily just what a ranch—and a cowboy—has to offer. And it’s an offer Emily can’t refuse. After all, she’s not falling for a cowboy—she’s just getting hot and naked with one. Yeah, right…. A visit the Last Chance Ranch is great way to spend an afternoon. Excerpt July, present day The stallion’s scream of sexual frustration ricocheted off the walls of a shed that smelled like fresh lumber and honest sweat, both human and horse. The Last Chance Ranch baked under a…

Somebody once asked me which of my characters I’d most like to trade places with. In THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR the answer is…none of them! Sly is a vampire whose maker Vorigan Malvant is after him. Morgaine is Sly’s honey who Vorigan kidnaps as bait to lure Sly. Roz and Konrad moved to a private school in Newton, run by werewolves. Merry is pregnant and Jason’s father had another heart attack, taking him away to Minnesota in the dead of winter. Gwyneth is fighting with Morgaine and Nathan is well…Nathan. Everyone’s favorite character seems to be Chad, the ghost. I love him too, and the idea of being the proverbial fly on the proverbial wall has its appeal, but to be so limited by the lack of a  corporeal form would be frustrating. No wonder he’s snarky! Sly and Morgaine have been friends for years and already know each other’s paranormal secrets, so that bit is out of the way. Morgaine didn’t have to freak out over Sly’s vampirism the way Merry and Roz did when they discovered the men they loved were shapeshifters. But no two characters were more flawed than Morgaine and Sly when they first considered (and…