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Fresh Pick | CLAIMED BY A DEMON KING by Felicity Heaton
Fresh Pick / March 4, 2014

March 2014 On Sale: February 22, 2014 Featuring: Sable; King Thorne 356 pages ISBN: 1909306614 EAN: 9781909306614 Kindle: B00IJYPH70 e-Book Add to Wish ListRomance ParanormalBuy at Amazon.com What’s new Today? Claimed By A Demon King by Felicity Heaton The moment the demon King Thorne of the Third Realm set eyes on the mortal huntress Sable, he knew she was his fated one. The fiery, dangerous female awakened hungers he had never experienced before, a dark craving and passion that has consumed him in their time apart. As the lunar cycle wanes, she enters his world again and nothing will stand in the way of him claiming his forever with her—not the relentless assault from the Fifth Realm or the dark elf male determined to seduce her out of his grasp. Intent on achieving the coveted position of commander at Archangel, Sable leads her small team into the dark underworld and the Third Realm, to a war where her allies are the very creatures she normally hunts—vampires, werewolves, and demons. Her eagerness to lead the deadly mission has everything to do with winning her promotion, and nothing to do with the kingdom’s brash, lethally seductive demon king—a king who stirred fierce…

Adrienne Giordano | Building a Man
Author Guest / March 4, 2014

Call me crazy, but I love to write alpha males. There’s something a whole lot of fun about a guy who can walk into a room, not speak a word and still let everyone know he’s the big dog. As much as I love alphas, they are challenging. They can be stubborn and arrogant and bossy. Most of the time, the good ones listen to reason. The good ones also march into battle with no idea if they’ll come out and they don’t care. All they want is to fix whatever problem lies in front of them. For me, that strength is the lure of the alpha male. When I began plotting my new Harlequin Intrigue, THE PROSECUTOR, I knew I wanted an alpha as the hero, but I wanted someone…well…different. This hero would be a prosecutor in his early thirties and wouldn’t have a military background. He wouldn’t know how to clean a gun or survive in a jungle for extended periods. But he had to be strong. Strong, but not overly-aggressive. He had to be ambitious, but not to the point where that ambition became a negative. In short, I wanted a guy who craved a courtroom battle…

Donna Thorland | A Rebel Pirate
Author Guest / March 4, 2014

Today we’re visited by Donna Thorland, author of THE REBEL PIRATE. She’s on a tour and we have an exclusive Q&A with her. What are your top 5 romance/women’s fiction novels of all time? I’m going to cheat a little, because some of my favorite books are part of a series… Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles is actually six books, but every one of them is a non-stop adventure with meticulous historical detail and extra servings of swashbuckling romance. There’s a love story at the center of it that doesn’t resolve until the last page, but when it does, it creates a true partnership of equals. In second place I’d put George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman series. Flashman, the bully from Tom Brown’s School Days, is a cad, a rake, and an errant coward and his adventures simultaneously skewer and celebrate Victorian mores and British imperialism. They’re absolutely irresistible . . . except on the rare occasion when Fraser is describing cricket. I’m a Jersey girl at heart, so Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books deserve a place on the list. I ended up studying Classics in high school because I was fascinated by pre-Hellenistic Egypt but hieroglyphics weren’t on the syllabus, so…

Jennifer Faye | Spreading My Wings
Author Guest / March 4, 2014

I must admit that I’m a stickler for routines. I find routines to be easy and comforting when everything else is out of control. And between you and me, I usually have so many ideas and characters running through my mind that I’m obviously walking through life a little distracted. 🙂 Thanks to my routines I can get things done that I’d most likely otherwise forget while I’m daydreaming aka working (the benefits of being a writer). I actually get some of my best ideas while doing mundane daily tasks. Talk about your multi-tasking. Well, it just so happened that my writing was starting to take on a pattern of its own where I wrote about nothing but small towns and sexy cowboys. What can I say, I enjoy those stories immensely. Then one day my editor called. She wanted to talk. They were making major changes to Harlequin Romance / Mills & Boon Cherish. She wanted to know how I felt about writing stories with an urban/global/aspirational feel. I will say that my stomach literally quivered at the thought. I had so many small town/cowboy stories floating around in my mind. But there was that lure of trying something…