Chocolate This one’s a “duh”, right? A lot of people love chocolate, the rich melt in your mouth, ooey goodness. My best orgasmic chocolate experience was a box of Belgium truffles a friend brought me fresh off the plane from Belgium. Oh—My—Gosh—I rationed those things for a week. Each time I put one in my mouth, I seriously had to close my eyes. It was an instinctive response. Of course, watching the look on my husband’s face when he ate one… now, that was fun. Pastries I’m partial to croissants, specifically, you guessed it, the chocolate kind: a warm pain au chocolat where the outside crunches into little flakes but the inside oozes in your mouth. The variety of pastries is endless, the variety of flavors and ingredients even more endless, and my favorite part… you can eat them for breakfast. Ice Cream It’s hard to find ice cream that isn’t good, but the kind of ice cream I’m talking about is one so rich in flavor, it literally blows your taste buds. My ultimate ice cream experience was a vanilla cone in northern France, from a street vendor, no place special and it… oh wow. I’ve had lots of…

Hi Everyone! I’m Eve Devon and I’m here to celebrate the release of my romantic suspense: HEART OF STEEL. I have to tell you that writing alpha-geek Adam Steel and his assistant, reformed-rebel Honeysuckle Hawk, was an absolute pleasure. Born out of the complicated working relationships I love to see developing, Adam and Honeysuckle already have a tentative friendship. You know the kind I mean – the sort of relationship where without paying too much attention, the couple working so closely together, have fallen into a certain rhythm. They know each other’s habits. Each other’s foibles! And there’s an unwritten understanding between them, forged from an outstanding chemistry… Yep, I’m an absolute sucker for this kind of duo. Whether it’s a romance or a bromance, the myriad shifts in these types of relationships are exciting to witness. There are plenty of wonderful examples of complicated working relationships in books and films, but I’ve chosen my top three TV duos (because getting to watch these couples work out what they mean to each other week on week is fabulous entertainment). No. 1 Josh Lyman and Donnatella Moss from The West Wing During the nineties it seemed like the whole world was…

I loved writing Sophie in BOUND TO THE BOUNTY HUNTER. How cool to be a female private investigator. It also got me thinking. When I was little I dreamed of being a flight attendant. I’d fly to glamorous places, eat exotic food and flit away the days at beaches with talc sand. A charming prince would whisk me back to his castle and I’d live happily ever after. Oh, to be under ten again. The reality is flight attendants work extremely hard, and zoom around in a tube of metal that could potentially crash. I salute you flight attendants. That career choice was scratched off my list pretty darn quick when I took my first flight at eighteen. Olympic show jumping on my pony Chevy was pretty high on my list when I was twelve. How on earth I thought my 14.2 hand high pony or I would get over one jump is baffling. We would have ploughed through every jump. Scratch that for The Chevers and me. There was one person I knew who was living his dream. My brother, Bix. He’d come home from university chatting about the most amazing rocks. Bix took to rocks like I took…

We’ve all heard of these. Magic buttons, or at least spots that can lead to magic. And while they’re a bit of a cliché, there’s also some science behind them. Even better, for those of us who like to be amused, there’s some side notes science forgot. And here they are. Ear nibbles. Shivery and delicious, right? But equally awesome are sweet nothings, such as “You’re beautiful” and “I’ll load the dishwasher tonight.” There’s also nothing wrong with “Do you mind if I clean the entire house” and “I’ll take the kids for the day so you can do absolutely nothing.” (If there are any men reading this, let me assure you those last two are next level erogenous. You’re welcome.) Better known as the nape of your neck, though I’m not sure where the other napes are. People just like to specify, I guess. Anyway, there are a bunch of nerve endings there that are supposed to make nape touches amazing, and that’s probably why accidentally pulling hair out with a pony tail holder hurts so much. Which brings me to this: hair pulling should be done by the fistful. Which should be an erogenous zone by itself. A…

There are so many fun summer reads in the July Fresh Fiction Box Not to Miss, check them out! July’s Print Books: Everyone received at least 3 of these summer releases! Everywhere and Every Way by Jennifer Probst A Texas Soldier’s Family by Cathy Gillen Thacker Colton Cowboy Hideout by Carla Cassidy Puppy Love for the Veterinarian by Amy Woods Now and Then Friends by Kate Hewitt Nacho Figueras Presents: Wild One by Jessica Whitman The Billionaire Bachelor by Jessica Lemmon The Beauty of the End by Debbie Howells The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler July’s eBooks: Every box included all 4! The Vintner and the Vixen by Alexia Adams Remember the Night by Nicole Leiran Burn Down The Night by M. O’Keefe The Geek Gets The Girl by Michele Hauf Vixen’s Tale Every month, until June 2017, each box will showcase a new adventure featuring our mascot, Vixen. The tale is illustrated with a collectible postcard and button set. Vixen’s Tale #2: Bought by the Italian Magnate, A Billionaire Contemporary Romance Vixen was so clueless, she never imagined not learning the local language would get her in this much trouble. At least he had a beautiful smile under…

This book is…not ordinary. I think it’s powerful. And emotionally compelling. And I hope so much you give it a chance. I can tell you why I think this, and hope this. I can describe Jem to you. He’s the hero of my heart. But I’m afraid if I say too much, you’ll move on without giving him a chance. Jem’s a construction worker. Okay, yeah, he owns the business, and wears a shirt and tie to work every day. But he wears them with jeans. And he learned the business with his hands before he ever considered being the brains behind it all. He’s alpha all the way. And he’s a single dad to a four-year-old who I wish I could hug. He’s a good dad. Involved. Aware. And firm, too, when he needs to be. And…Jem is…well, I hope you’ll give him a chance. I can’t imagine a romance reader not being glad they did. Then there’s Lacey. Sometimes I wanted to just do her hair and make-up, force her into an attention getting outfit and push her out the door. But she has Kacey for that. My job was to be patient. To let her have control….

Beck Townsend, retired Marine Corps special operative, is co-owner of a historic building in downtown Tucson, Arizona. The building is two-story, with retail stores in the front of the first floor, the Red Eagle Group offices in the back on the first floor, and condos on the second floor. The building I referenced while I was writing was the real historic Hittinger Building. I haven’t been inside the building, but I fell in love with the style of the outside. Anton Hittinger owned the property where this building was erected. It was a general-use commercial building for a variety of specialty shop tenants. Its elaborate facade ornamentation in the Italianate style was characteristic of the Victorian era. This style was very popular in the United States from about 1840 to the mid-1880s. The First Hittinger Block, as this group of buildings came to be called, with its large arched windows and dual-color brickwork, is an unusual and probably late example of the style. Also part of the truth-behind-the-fiction story is Mt. Lemmon, located on the north side of Tucson. The mountains in the Southwest are called Sky Islands. (If you think about it, “regular” islands are actually mountains surrounded by…

Howdy, Fresh Fiction fans! In my latest release, the friends-to-lovers erotic romance COWBOY PLAYER, Clark MacKinnon is a cattleman who’s working hard to make his family’s ranch a success. His childhood best friend Melody Santos has moved back to town. She needs a little money, so Clark hires her to help with the business. Problem? She’s all grown up and he can’t stop thinking about her. Sparks fly between the BFFs and soon they face a conundrum: stay safely in the friend zone or give in to passion and risk losing each other forever. Clark is the third MacKinnon brother from my Cowboy Cocktail series. He’s appeared in previous books as a flirt and prankster, the one who delivers the inappropriate line and unknowingly hits on his brothers’ girls. He is so much fun to write, not only because he’s a sexy, dirty-talking goofball, but because underneath it all he is steady as a rock, and just the dependable kind of man Melody deserves. Like all red-blooded American cowboys, Clark loves a good steak. I’d like to have him share his steak recipe (which coincidentally is the recipe I use at home). Take it away, Clark… CLARK MACKINNON’S STEAK RECIPE…

For some unfortunate reason, many libraries are becoming increasingly noisier places, not at all the old “shhh” environments that existed years ago where wrinkled librarians waggled their fingers back and forth at you for even thinking too loud. Despite this change, there’s something about libraries that puts me in the mood to write, not to mention the mountains of traditional research that can be scoured up. This morning I was doing some work at a library in a relatively large city. I have generally found that periodicals rooms are the best places to get things done as the number of people that read physical newspapers continues to decline, leaving these areas the quietest. I normally try to write 1500-2000 words per day. Sometimes, hitting my goal takes as little as two hours and as many as ten to twelve. This morning I was off to a pretty good start, knocking down my first 1,000 in a little over an hour. That’s when I heard these two women talking to my left. We were separated by a book shelf, so I couldn’t see them. I try not to listen to other people’s conversations, but sometimes it’s hard not to, particularly in…

Can Supergirl kick Superman’s butt? I say yes, and here’s why: I live in a household of females. I believe God has done this to build my character, and not as a cruel joke. So I know firsthand the strength and battle prowess of women. Hence this post about My Favorite Female Superheroes of Pop Culture. Let’s start with Supergirl. She was created in 1959 to be Superman’s female counterpart. But in 2016, Supergirl became a force that overshadowed even Superman with the TV show Supergirl. Supergirl’s real name is Kara Zor-El. She is Superman’s cousin, and technically, an illegal alien. The Earth’s sun gives her amazing power—unimaginable strength, x-ray vision, heat vision, ice breath, invulnerability to nearly any human weapon, and the awesome capacity to fly. Like Superman, she is vulnerable to Kryptonite. Supergirl lives in National City under the name of Kara Danvers, and works for media mogul Cat Grant. Her true identity is masked by her geekish demeanor and, of course, glasses. To prove my point about the battle prowess of women, I am compelled to point out that Supergirl defeated Reactron, whom Superman could not. Wonder Woman’s real name is Princess Diana of Themyscira. She is…