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Tina Gabrielle | The Sex-Appeal of Spies
Author Guest / November 12, 2014

Hello to everyone at Fresh Fiction! I’m so excited to be here on the launch date of A SPY UNMASKED. It’s the first book in The Crown’s Secret Service series and introduces a master spy and safecracker and the feisty lady inventor who captures his heart. I have always loved romance novels with lots of intrigue. Romances with spies are one of my favorites. I was excited when I came up with the idea for my new historical romance, A SPY UNMASKED, but before I sat down to write the series I thought of all the reasons why spies are so popular. They’re mysterious and dangerous You never know what they’re thinking. Is our hero good or does he side with the villain? Spies blur the lines leaving the reader with an irresistible need to unearth all their secrets and find out the truth. They’re also dangerous and can hold their own in a fight and have training far beyond the average person. They have close calls, narrow escapes, but somehow they always end up escaping. Of course, it helps that they’re athletic and the men are always well-built. I also love when the intrigue surrounding the spying is interwoven with the…

Kelly Long | Why THE AMISH BRIDE OF ICE MOUNTAIN Is So Hot
Author Guest / November 12, 2014

1. I devised one of the best heroes I could conceive to fit the story…(Forget that he’s modeled after Chris Pine) Looks are important, yes, but Jude Lyons needed to be complicated from a psychological perspective—He comes from money but doesn’t have a driving need to pursue it. He’s gentle and loving but suffered extreme emotional abuse as a child and young adult. He’s so intellectual at times that his body needs to remind him of the blessings of living in the physical world—including being married to a stunning nineteen year old Amisch girl. And he’s determined to remain celibate with her but doesn’t count on the simmering desire that mounts against his innate practicality. 2. Mary Lyons, the heroine and bride, is genuinely innocent in an otherwise tricked out world. When she has to leave her beloved home on Ice Mountain to live in Metro-Atlanta, she faces Jude’s devious and manipulating ex-fiancée’ but finds the internal strength to counter the other girl through her faith and plain wanting of her handsome husband. Mary’s gentle tenderness is tinder to Jude’s masculinity and she can turn heads without even giving it a second thought. She longs to love her at-times unlovable…