September 2010 On Sale: September 1, 2010 Featuring: Paige Turner; Torrian Smallwood 224 pages ISBN: 0373861796 EAN: 9780373861798 Paperback $6.25  Add to Wish List Romance, Multicultural RomanceBuy at Amazon.com August pre-season football needs a little romance. Buy for your e-reader! Huddle With Me Tonight by Farrah Rochon All Paige Turner wants is to be taken seriously as a journalist. The entertainment columnist and blogger extraordinaire gets more notoriety than she planned when her scathing review of NFL superstar Torrian Smallwood’s memoir sparks an online confrontation. But that’s nothing compared to the sensual heat that tackles her when she meets the heart-stoppingly sexy athlete face-to-face…. Torrian can’t let Paige derail his dream of a new career as a restaurateur. Even if the sassy, sultry writer is making America’s favorite wide receiver yearn to be on the receiving end of her desire. And with a reality TV cook-off propelling them into the spotlight, Torrian can no longer hide his passionate secret goal—to build a future with the woman who’s making an end run around his heart…. The perfect romantic read to kick off the NFL season Excerpt Paige rounded the corner of Mancini’s Grocery and spotted the owner in his usual spot,…

From my childhood through my young adulthood, my mother wore the mask of the “Perfect Mother, Girl Scout Troop Leader, and Sunday School Teacher.” But her behavior when at home, away from the scrutiny of other adults, was anything but perfect. One of the first short stories for which I won an honorable mention from Spinetingler Magazine (yes,  horror!) was called Goody Two Shoes. I’ll let you read the story so as not to spoil the surprise, but it was my first public foray into exploring the roles women play and the masks women wear. My first full length erotic romantic suspense novel, DESIRE AND DECEPTION, explores these same themes. Similar in heat levels to noir movies like Body Heat and The Postman Always Rings Twice, DESIRE AND DECEPTION differs from these notable noir examples because it ends on an upbeat note. In DESIRE AND DECEPTION, polar opposites sex siren Isabel (Izzy) Ramirez and goody-two-shoes Sarah Wright-Rosen become fast friends and seem destined to be BFFs until Izzy’s terrible secret is unearthed–literally and figuratively. Convinced that she is unworthy of redemption, because she believes she cannot be anything but the “bad girl,” Izzy goes down a take no prisoners’ path,…