“Be prepared to swoon, giggle, sigh, get hot and bothered, cry and have all the feels with this book. Shaken Dirty certainly go through a lot in this book but they do it together as only they can. Jared, Quinn, Ryder and Jamison all get behind Wyatt as only a band like Shaken Dirty can. This reader for one would love for this band to be real.”—Book Ninja She’s one addiction he can’t resist. Wyatt Jennings has been called a lot of things by the media. Bad-boy rocker. Intense drummer. Addict. Finally out of rehab and desperate for a fresh start, Wyatt rejoins his mega-platinum rock band Shaken Dirty as they prepare for their world tour. But Wyatt’s demons are never far behind, always nipping at his heels for one. More. Fix. Enter Poppy Germaine, the band’s new social media consultant. A beautiful bombshell who somehow manages to get underneath Wyatt’s skin, Poppy’s an addiction Wyatt can get behind. And even though she’s with the label—and therefore off-limits—he craves her. Needs her. Except Poppy isn’t actually a social media consultant. She’s the daughter of the label’s CEO, sent undercover to babysit Wyatt and keep him from falling off the wagon…

Fresh Pick for Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 is BACK BLAST by Mark Greaney #WhatsNewTuesday the Gray Man returns About BACK BLAST From the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels, comes an all-new explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man Court Gentry was the CIA’s best agent. Until the day the Agency turned against him and put out a kill on sight order. That’s when the enigmatic international assassin called the Gray Man was born—and Court has been working for himself ever since. Now, Court is back in Washington looking for answers. He’s determined to find out what happened all those years ago that made the Agency turn against him. On his list to interrogate are his former partners and the men who sent him on his last mission. What he doesn’t realize is that the questions that arose from that mission are still reverberating in the U.S. intelligence community, and he’s stumbled onto a secret that powerful people want kept under wraps. And now, they have Court in their crosshairs. Court Gentry is used to having people on his trail, but this time, it’s on U.S. soil—the last place he…

Hi Fresh Fiction fans! It’s so exciting to be here with a chance to talk about one of my favorite subjects: the animals in my books. I’m slightly obsessed with putting furry critters in my stories, but I am definitely not alone in that infatuation. Romance novels are filled with animals! I have a hard and fast rule when it comes to casting my dogs, cats, and horses. They aren’t allowed to purr, sit, or gallop around purely for decoration. They have to play meaningful parts in the arc of the story. In my new novel THE BRIDE WORE STARLIGHT there are five important animals. I’d like to introduce them, and show how they are integral to the journey of their humans, Joely Crockett and Alec Morrissey PENNY is a quarter horse mare we never get to meet. She belonged to Joely, who was bringing her home to Wyoming, when they in a serious car accident. The tragedy left Joely permanently injured and her beloved horse dead. Losing Penny is was one too many failures for Joely to absorb. She’s suffered a miscarriage, lost her marriage, and now has permanent, visible scars—devastating because all her life she’s literally been a…

I’m every woman… Admit it. You’re singing with me, aren’t you? Whitney Houston could sing the heck out of a song, and whenever I’m jamming out to this one in my car—I have mad car-dancing skills, y’all—I can’t help but think, I am every woman, Whitney! Don’t tell me I’m alone in this. One of my favorite things about being an author is the ability to truly run with this concept. On any given day, I can become a chef, a fire fighter, an event planner, or more recently, a budding marketing genius for a country music label. While there’s a piece of my personality and soul in every heroine I write, there’s so many new things I get to experience only through them. While I have a lot in common with Arabella Stone, the heroine in YOU’RE STILL THE ONE, there are some noticeable differences. For example, we both had starry-eyed crushes on celebrities and wrote embarrassing fan fiction during our awkward preteen years, but sadly, I never grew up to meet (much less skinny-dip with!) Jordan Knight or Donnie Wahlberg from New Kids on the Block. The real me is much too boring for that. Also, Arabella and…

Love at first sight. It’s a wonderfully romantic notion, but does such a thing actually exist? When I first met my husband many moons ago I can remember experiencing a whole range of emotions, but love certainly didn’t come into it! He was distant, brusque and definitely not my type, but there must have been something about him that intrigued me because roll on 20+ years and we’re still happily together. In my latest romantic comedy, MOLLY MATTHEWS MEDDLES IN MARRIAGE, my hero, the international film star, Rory Campbell, is a firm believer in love at first sight. Not that he’s ever experienced it for himself, but he can clearly recall his father telling him about the first time he set eyes on Rory’s mother. ‘I walked into the dance hall and there she was, over the other side of the room, talking with another man. I can still picture her now, laughing. She was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen. She was wearing a red dress with white spots and it had a big bow around the middle. She had the most gorgeous strawberry-blonde hair and the bluest of blue eyes. When she turned to look at me…

“Surprise” parties. It’s just not a good idea to have a bunch of people hide in a dark room and when he walks in, jump out and shout “SURPRISE” to him. There’s no telling how he’d react, but you can bet it wouldn’t be with a blush and a stammered ‘thank you.’ If you want to surprise your Delta Force soldier, maybe having him find you on your bed with a flirty negligee would be a better option. Flirt with the bartender. Okay, so your man is an Alpha to the bone. He goes on missions to rescue, kill, and get intel on bad guys. Maybe you are just being nice and humoring the guy behind the bar, but if your Special Forces soldier sees it, you’re just going to set off his ‘me Tarzan, you Jane’ persona. You’ll find yourself kissed within an inch of your life, or backed against a wall, or have him jump you as soon as you walk in the door of your house later that night…all to remind you why he’s your man and why it’s not smart to even give a hint to another man that you might be on the market…oh wait…this…

If you’re like me, you enjoy historical romances with frequent twists, loads of action, bedroom scenes to die for, danger at every turn, and a hero that will leave you breathless. In other words, the whole enchilada. Or what I like to call a vacation from my totally boring life…which is a trip I take every day I write. In my make-believe worlds, I pour on passion and danger, sometimes with a twist of deception. Why? When I read a romance, I want loads of conflict. Where’s the fun if the couple falls in love on page five then get it on like hormone-soaked teens for the other two or three hundred pages? Face it, conflict makes sex and love far more interesting, as any country song can attest. With an historical romance, a writer has tons of obstacles that can easily muck up the course of true love. Everyone’s read stories about the lady of the estate swooning over the stud who works in the stables. Can’t blame her for wanting him rather than her old and gross husband. Now, imagine living in the medieval era when men truly ruled and women were basically chattel with love the least…

Taking you away to Vegas and Hotel Rodeo with Victoria Vane in TWO TO WRANGLE. You know we like to tease our readers, so here’s a bit to set the stage so to speak! TWO TO WRANGLE EXCERPT “Ty, this is Evan Hirschfeld Davis. Evan is …er…a good friend of mine.” Monica finished awkwardly as if unsure how to classify the relationship. He was no longer her boss and they weren’t engaged anymore. Ty’s gaze dropped to her left hand to be certain. Nope. No ring. “Evan, this is Ty Morgan,” she continued the introduction, visibly flustered. “He’s the new CEO of Brandt Morgan Entertainment.” “Ty,” Evan nodded and stood to clasp his hand. Ty still held the height advantage but not by as much as he’d thought. Evan’s gaze was steady and his hand shake firm and confident. It said no bullshit. Ty could at least respect that in the man. “Did I interrupt something?” Ty asked, adding silently, like you making a move on my woman? “Not at all.” Evan replied just as evenly with a ‘fuck off’ smirk. “It seems I’m the gatecrasher here. Monica said she had a business meeting this evening.” “Is that what she…

Welcome. Let’s discuss one of our favorite types of heroes—the rake. The word rake came into use during the Restoration as a wealthy, fashionable gentleman of promiscuous and dissolute habits. The most famous rake of this time is the rake in a series of engravings done in 1735 by Hogarth called, The Rake’s Progress. These pictures document the rake’s progressive deterioration by womanizing and all around self-indulgence. From the 19th century to today, we use the term to define a ladies’ man and more than likely a libertine. There is a multi-volume set of books written in 1825 called, The Lives of the Rakes, by Edwin Beresford. The most famous rake of the Georgian to Regency-era was the Duke of Queensbury, also known as “Old Q.” He kept successive Cyprians, but he also pursued many young ladies. He famously moved to Number 17 Arlington Street, because it was next door to a Miss Frances Pelham. His addresses were rebuffed, so he built a bow window in his house to view the window of Miss Pelham’s, thereby continuing his ardent courtship via window. Yet while that courtship failed, because of his wealth and unmarried status, many women still found him an…