Hello to everyone at Fresh Fiction today! I’m so glad to be here for a visit with all y’all today. It was absolutely wonderful to see you guys in California at the RWA Conference this past summer. At that time the release of A COWBOY CHRISTMAS MIRACLE seemed so far away but it’s on the shelves now. With each book in this series, it became more and more difficult to create something the readers liked as well as the previous book. As the books found their way to the shelves, I kept wondering how on earth I’d end a feud that had been going on for a hundred years between the Brennans and the Gallaghers. Then in ONE TEXAS COWBOY TOO MANY someone wondered aloud what would happen if a Gallagher fell in love with a Brennan. I’d never written a Romeo and Juliet story but as Declan and Betsy talked to me (yes, I hear voices and they tell me the most wonderful stories) it all started to come together. Betsy wanted to make her cousin happy with a Christmas play at the church. Declan needed to win a bet he made with Betsy’s cousin. My eyes misted when…

This is a question I am often asked. As I begin a new book I always seek out a gorgeous, hot guy, from actors to male models, to inspire me and help me create my hero. Liev Dragunov, the hero of TO BLACKMAIL A DI SIONE was no different. What was different in this case was that I wrote the story as part of The Billionaire’s Legacy and was given character details and story outline. When I read about Liev, a very famous and very hot male actor came instantly to mind as inspiration. Daniel Craig, especially in Casino Royale, was that male actor. The powerful determination he exudes in that movie and the subsequent 007 movies was exactly what I envisaged Liev needing. So in my mind the James Bond of Casino Royale infused with all I knew about Liev Dragunov to become exactly the right kind of hero to match Bianca Di Sione’s frostiness. Liev has a score to settle, or rather revenge to seek. He lost his mother and father when he was a young boy after the collapse of his father’s business. The young Liev, alone in the world, found himself in many difficult situations as…