1–What is the title of your latest release? COUNTESS OF STARS, Book 2 in my Struck By Lightning series. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Desperate to stay near her motherless little brothers, Lady Grace Elliot weds Lucien Harcourt, a ruthless Viscount with a heart encased in ice. She opens his eyes to a world he’s never seen and challenges everything he believes about himself. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Victorian London was the perfect setting.  So much was going on in 1848. It was the year of revolution across all Europe and there were riots in England. People were afraid the rebellions would spread. (And there were plenty of reasons the lower classes were angry). I wanted to show the contrast between the Seven Dials and Mayfair, and that once Lucien actual sees and comes to know a little flower seller and her family, his perspective changed. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I’d love to hang out with my heroine, Lady Grace Elliot. She shares my love of family, my longing to fight to make the world a better place for children, and my passion…

1–What is the title of your latest release? COUNTESS OF STARS, Book 2 in my Struck By Lightning series. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Desperate to stay near her motherless little brothers, Lady Grace Elliot weds Lucien Harcourt, a ruthless Viscount with a heart encased in ice. She opens his eyes to a world he’s never seen and challenges everything he believes about himself. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Victorian London was the perfect setting.  So much was going on in 1848. It was the year of revolution across all Europe and there were riots in England. People were afraid the rebellions would spread. (And there were plenty of reasons the lower classes were angry). I wanted to show the contrast between the Seven Dials and Mayfair, and that once Lucien actual sees and comes to know a little flower seller and her family, his perspective changed. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I’d love to hang out with my heroine, Lady Grace Elliot. She shares my love of family, my longing to fight to make the world a better place for children, and my passion…

Book: PICKET FENCE Character: Cade McDaniel   How would you describe your family?   There’s a reason people around town called us the Fighting McDaniels of Jubilee Point. The Captain— my dad— is forever doing the police force’s job, tackling gang members and basically trying to get himself killed. I mean, he’s almost seventy, for cripes sake. My sister, she’s a wild child. And mom, well… she loved delicate things, you know? Like tea cups and china figurines. Things easily broken. And my family broke alright. After the accident… well, all I wanted was to get away. You can’t fight a secret. Knock it on its ass and be done. Not when you’re the only one who knows something that could destroy your family. I almost got away when I joined the Air Force, but mom died and I’m back home now, still trying to pull my family out of trouble. And the mess I’m dealing with now—it’s the worst yet.   Where do you live? A log cabin out on Jubilee Point, a ways out of town. I built it with my own hands right along the Mississippi River. Solid walls. My own space. No neighbors. I mean, sure,…

Book Title:  ONCE UPON A STORM by Kimberly Cates Character Name: Captain Simon Harcourt   How would you describe your family or your childhood? Happy enough until I was nine.  As an earl’s son, I had the run of Everdene estate, a stable that was pure magic for a horse-mad boy.  My older brother and two sisters filled the nursery with fun.  When my mother visited our tenants, the village was my playground, and the lads there my partners in mischief. My father was grim, but he came to Everdene less and less over the years, his temper fearful (not that I ever flinched from it).  But the year I turned nine all hell broke loose.  My mother fled Everdene, trying to take my sisters with her.  Of course, father caught them.  Cassandra and Jane were sent to aunts in Italy, and mother… well, she vanished. Lucien and I were left with my tyrannical father who beat me whenever I spoke her name.  In time, I quit asking where she was, and my heartbreak turned to bitterness.  As Lucien said, Mother had always planned to abandon the two of us.   What was your greatest talent? Getting into trouble, taking…