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Fresh Pick | SLEEPWALKER by Karen Robards
Fresh Pick / January 28, 2012

January 2012 On Sale: December 27, 2011 Featuring: Micayla Lange; Jason Davis 384 pages ISBN: 1439183724 EAN: 9781439183724 Kindle: B004T4KRQU Hardcover $25.00  Add to Wish List Romance Suspense, Thriller Buy at Amazon.com No one does it better than Karen Robards Sleepwalker by Karen Robards She’s a rookie cop. He’s a professional crook. Natural adversaries, their only common ground is mutual dislike and distrust—and the fact that the same killers are now hunting them both. Sparks fly and passion flares as they run for their lives New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards’s thrilling contemporary romantic suspense novel featuring an electric attraction between a cop and a thief. It’s not that Micayla Lange is afraid of the clinking she hears on the first floor of the empty mansion where she’s housesitting for her Uncle Nicco. She’s a cop, after all. But she’s alone on New Year’s Eve, wearing pajamas and wielding a Glock 22 as she zeroes in on the source of the sound: Nicco’s private office. Jason Davis steals things for a living, so unexpected developments are a natural part of the job. Getting caught red-handed by a hot police officer in a gangster’s deserted house is just one more…

Natasha Hoar | The mysterious power of plastic ponies
Author Guest / January 28, 2012

I rediscovered My Little Ponies in my early twenties. My folks were going through a divorce, and I wasn’t taking it too well. If I had to sit down and do a bit of self-analysis, I guess I could say I it was a subconscious need to reconnect with happier times that drew me to eBay, and that first fateful search for My Little Ponies from the eighties. I proceeded to get into not one, but two bidding wars, the second one a little more dramatic than the first. However, I wasn’t going to let that never-removed-from-box baby sea pony get away. No sir! (Especially not when I hadn’t had one as a kid.) Ah, the thrill of victory! And the start of a habit that has served my writing in the most roundabout fashion. Turns out I’m a tactile, emotional collector, which is a nice way of saying I don’t mind if the item of my affection has a bit of play wear (that’s what Mr Clean Magic Erasers and kiddie shampoo is for), and if it comes in a box, it won’t stay that way. (Unless it’s a Comic-Con collectible. Then it stays mint-in-box, by order of my…