Kindle | nook | iTunes | Kobo | Amazon | Barnes and Noble From debut author, Traci Andrighetti, comes a tale of murder, mayhem, and meddling Sicilian grandmas… A Franki Amato Mystery “Traci Andrighetti’s Limoncello Yellow had me tickled pink! Her smart, sassy heroine wacky cast of characters, and vividly original settings had me glued to the page. I can’t wait to read more from this author!” – Gemma Halliday, New York Times bestselling author Francesca “Franki” Amato is a tough-talking rookie cop in Austin, Texas—until an unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces her once and for all that she just isn’t cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica’s detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. But Franki’s hopes for a more stable life are soon dashed when Private Chicks is hired by the prime suspect in a murder case to find out what really happened to a beautiful young boutique manager who was found strangled to death with a cheap yellow scarf. When she’s not investigating, Franki is hoping to seduce handsome bank executive Bradley…

Renegade Royals #1 e-book Kindle nook | iTunes | Kobo Paperback Amazon Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Powell’s Books IndieBound Book Depository “If the remainder of Kelly’s Renegade Royals series is as arresting and entertaining as this kickoff, then Regency romance fans are in for a royal treat… Kelly combines diverting dialogue, delightful surprises, and finely tuned pacing to make this a winner.” ~Starred review, Publishers Weekly Now on shelves—Vanessa Kelly’s Secrets for Seducing a Royal Bodyguard! I confess that I’ve always been fascinated by British royalty, especially bad boys like Prince Harry.  After all, who doesn’t like a handsome prince, especially one with a bit of an edge?  And so I developed The Renegade Royals, my new Regency-set romance series featuring heroes who are the illegitimate sons of England’s royal princes.  In SECRETS FOR SEDUCING A ROYAL BODYGUARD, book one in the series, my hero is the bastard son of that famous royal scoundrel, the Prince Regent. Unlike his father, however, Aden St. George is a loner who rejects a life of privilege for one of danger as a British spy.  Aden is about to embark on his most dangerous mission yet—rescuing the beautiful and brilliant Lady Vivien Shaw from…

I received an email today that made me positively giddy. No, I didn’t get a great review. Well, I did, but that’s not what caused the main giddiness for this morning. I got an email from my 9 year old’s school. I get an email every time he takes a test on a book he has read. It’s called an “AR” test, which stands for accelerated reading. It’s kind of like book reports used to be when I was young. I would read a book and write a report. Well, now they read a book and take a quiz, and they get points for each quiz. My son’s school emails me every time he takes a quiz. He used to take the quizzes and I would get emails about how poorly he did. He hated reading worse than he hated taking a bath. And that’s saying a lot. He hated it worse than cleaning the bathroom. Or washing dishes. The tests came back at 20%. 40%. 60%. They were low enough to rock a writer’s world. Imagine the horror of having a kid who hates to read. You can’t, can you? I make my living on books. I grew up…

I remember watching Romeo and Juliet on TV for the first time and loving it. This was a long time before the Baz Luhrmann production (which I also really like). The one I first saw was the Zeffirelli version. I was about 14 at the time so of course the idea of having this amazing love was fascinating. However I always hated the ending. I love a happily ever afters. Years later I discovered Tristan and Isolde (another love story that ends in tragedy). I love the film and hate the ending. I want it to work out for the lovers. They’ve struggled so much they deserve to be happy! Both tales are about forbidden love. I think they are meant to be a morality tale about crossing lines and loving the wrong person. Personally I see them as epic love stories that ended in tragedy because of a few bad decisions. They could have been together if they’d done it differently. When the idea for Lord of the Hunt first came to me I knew that Taryn and Verden shouldn’t be together. And I knew the black moment was going to be the point where Romeo and Juliet, and…