Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Taylor Hahn!   Writes:   Insightful, hilarious, heartwarming women’s fiction fizzing with witty characters, sexy chemistry, and lots of love. Taylor Hahn’s debut novel, THE LIFESTYLE, follows Georgina as she dives headfirst into New York City’s swinger scene in an attempt to save her marriage. Does she know what she’s in for? Spoiler: Not even close. Georgina soon finds herself lost in New York’s most elite sex clubs, role playing with Matthew McConaughey, and handcuffing a complete stranger to a bed post. But it’s not all fun and games: THE LIFESTYLE takes an intricate, thoughtful look at marriage, friendship, ambition, and the so-called “perfect” life, asking whether it’s okay to get wild and take risks in the pursuit of true happiness.   About:   LA transplant but New Yorker at heart. Dog lover would be an understatement—I am obsessed with my dog. Lover of morning coffee, big windows, and Bridgerton. I read multiple books at a time and usually have one going on audio…

In your latest book, UNTIL DEAD, your unknown villain is a bomber. As a writer, what draws you to these types of thrillers and suspense stories? Thank you for inviting me. I enjoy books with a ticking clock. I also like to create an antagonist that is equal to my protagonist(s). In Until Dead, A Cold Case Suspense, my bomber is actually more than a bomber. He’s a Jack-of-all-trades’ assassin. He’s an explosives, weapons, and IT expert who no longer goes by his given name but calls himself The Tradesman.   How would you describe Special Agent Brian DiPietro to readers who may be new to your books? Brian is a stand-up guy (says the woman who created him). He’s a good supervisor, although he hates the idea of supervising because of a tragedy that happened in his past. He tried to leave the Bureau afterward, but his superiors convinced him to take a demotion instead. So, Brian is no longer Supervisory Special Agent Brian DiPietro but Special Agent Brian DiPietro. As I said, Brian balks at supervising others. Unfortunately for him, and the fun part for me, is to ensure he doesn’t get his way. By his experience and…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Tracy Gardner! Writes: Hi there! I write mystery novels laced with romance. Whether set in a small town or the big city, my books have a domestic vibe and plenty of focus on interpersonal relationships. In PERIL AT PENNINGTON MANOR, the characters all know each other directly or via a few degrees of separation. Much of the story takes place in a modern-day castle, with noble and kind Duke Nicholas Pennington distraught at the escalating danger in his summer home while Avery’s team investigates the antiquities on site. PERIL is book two in the series that began with RUBY RED HERRING, nominated for the 2022 Mary Higgins Clark Edgar Award and named a best book in New York Public Library’s Best 100 of 2021. About: I am a slightly awkward introvert, a fiercely loyal friend, and a terrible procrastinator. I have a passion for making up stories and then zooming out in search of the big picture. Every book I write has come about…

1–What is the title of your latest release? BAYOU BOOK THIEF: A Vintage Cookbook Mystery 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Young widow Ricki James-Diaz starts a new life in New Orleans, where she opens a shop selling vintage cookbooks and kitchenware in a Garden District mansion-turned-house museum and is thrust into sleuthing when a sticky-fingered coworker is found murdered with a vintage kitchen item from Ricki’s own shop. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve been madly in love with New Orleans ever since I transferred to Tulane University in the middle of my sophomore year. I love all south Louisiana. That’s why I set my Cajun Country Mystery series in… three guesses where. I even transferred my NOLA love to our daughter. She just graduated from Loyola University, Tulane’s next-door neighbor. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely. We share a love of New Orleans and of vintage cookbooks. In fact, her passion for them was inspired by my own. I have at least a hundred, some dating back to the 1800s. Plus, I now live in Los Angeles, and she grew up here, so we…

1–What is the title of your latest release? WELCOME HOME TO MURDER, first in the Hometown Mysteries series 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Tessa Treslow has retired from the U.S. Army and gone home for a visit. She’d like to just hang out and work on old cars with her Aunt Edna, but she soon finds out that a visit home can be murder… 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Having lived in multiple areas of the US, I had been struggling with the location for the small town for my book, literally for years. That is, until a visit to my parents, who had recently moved back to my birthplace. Being in my original hometown, it struck me like a lightning bolt that this is where the story was supposed to be. It just felt right. So, a small rural town in the Palouse region of Idaho became Tessa’s hometown too. 4–Would you hang out with your sleuth in real life? Absolutely. She is my kind of people. I won’t say she’s me—she’s much tougher—but sometimes I feel like she is who I could have been had I stayed in…

Greetings from Texas! My name is Karen Witemeyer, and I’m delighted to share my latest story with you, IN HONOR’S DEFENSE. What do you get when you mix a rugged Horseman hero, a bookish heroine, her troublemaking nephew, a suspicious neighbor, a gang of rustlers, and a secret murderer with a hidden agenda? An action-packed adventure filled with danger, romance, and unseen twists that will keep you reading long into the night. Since I love word games, I jumped at the chance to introduce you to Luke and Damaris’s story through a title acrostic. Here we go! IN HONOR’S DEFENSE I is for Invisible. This is how Damaris Baxter perceives herself. An introvert who prefers books and needlework to human interaction, she secretly longs to be seen. “What would it be like to have someone in her life who could be counted on always to be there, always to take her side? One who saw her even when she was at her most invisible?” N is for Nineteenth-Century Texas. The setting for my story is in Madisonville, TX 1895. H is for Humorous Moments. I love to laugh, so I always sprinkle my stories with a generous dash of humor…

I guess you could say I was born a dreamer. I read that even babies dream, so perhaps my dreams to write stories began way back then. Who knows? But stories became real to me when people began to read to me from books. And even more when my first-grade teacher, Mrs. Coalbucket (real name, not kidding), taught me to read. Since then, I have devoured books. After my mother died, in her special box of treasures, I found a story I had written in the fourth grade, written in cursive, in pencil. In high school English classes, when given assignments to write stories and read them aloud, other students would sidle up next to me to ask, “What happened next?” The dream to write horse books for girls took up part of my heart. Skip ahead to a bunch of years being married, raising children, farming, and living in reality, including writing letters, articles for church newsletters, and poems—writing I took for granted. All those experiences led to attending a writers conference at Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon, when my three children were teenagers. Inspired by the conference, I stepped into a new world with definite dreams of…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Kristan Higgins!   Writes: Funny, heartfelt, women’s fiction and romance with the occasional cathartic ugly-cry. Always ends books with the happiest, most fulfilled feeling you can imagine. OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE SKY: The night before her son graduates from high school, Lillie Silva finds out her husband has been cheating and plans to leave her for a much younger, much wealthier, and irritatingly gorgeous widow. Heartbroken? Well, sure. Furious? Absolutely. As she wreaks a little havoc on Brad’s new life, Lillie starts learning that she’s more than a mother, wife and nurse…she’s also an impressive badass with more allies than she realized. Life isn’t done surprising her with new forks in the road, from redefining her relationship with her glamorous older sister, to taking a new look at an old acquaintance. Can it be love? It sure can. About: Hi, I’m Kristan, and I love to laugh, play with dogs and babies, and eat dessert. I’m an avid reader, a fan of yoga…

“Yer gonna have ta calm down, Lillian. Yer scarin’ them kids.” Miss Tilly was beating eggs for the meringue topping on her strawberry pie for supper with Father. She paused only an instant to speak the words quietly, her eyes fixed on Lillian. “Am I? Scaring them?” “Yeah, I think ya are.” “Oh dear.” There’d been so much to worry about. Lillian had momentarily forgotten to try to appear confident for the sake of the children. Her heart had fluttered uncomfortably for much of Saturday afternoon and by now her stomach was churning. Her long-awaited reunion with Father was fast approaching. “I’ll try.” “With as many folks as are lookin’ north just now, I wouldn’t doubt but them kids’ll be home ’fore ya know it.” Lillian groaned. “I do hope you’re right.” In spite of the strain of it all, supper was being prepared. The table had been set. There was no way to know if Grace and Ben would arrive home before Father and Delyth appeared, but there was no way to postpone the meal. Lillian was suddenly aware that the children should have been her most important focus at the moment. “Would you mind, Miss Tilly, if I…

1–What is the title of your latest release? KISS OF DARKNESS – Curse of the Guardians Book One 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? He hates all black witches, and yet he’s forced to protect the one that fascinates him. What could possibly go wrong? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I wanted to use a familiar city, so I chose London 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Of course! 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Powerful. Strong. Broken. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? That I have very little patience and rush myself 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Edit as I draft because I’m impatient 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Cookie dough. Could eat it by the bucket. 9–Describe your writing space/office! A sofa in my living room! 10–Who is an author you admire? Nalini Singh – love her work 11–Is there a book that changed your life? I’m still looking for that book 12–Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published) I decided…