Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Stephanie Queen - An Author Interview in the HBS Author's Spotlight

Today our blog puts the Spotlight on USA Today Bestselling Author Stephanie Queen. She is the author of the Scotland Yard Exchange series, Small Town Romance series, and the Beachcomber Investigations series.

Author: Stephanie Queen

Author Genre: Mystery, Romantic Comedy

Website: Stephanie Queen
Author's Blog: Quirky Quips Blog
Twitter: @StephanieQueen
E-Mail: stephanie@stephaniequeen.com
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Author Description:
About USA Today Bestselling Author Stephanie Queen

Once upon a time, there was a young story teller in the kingdom...er, queendom. Then she grew up and... er, no... she never actually did grow up. That's not to say she didn't get old, or more old, but not terribly old, more like middle-aged really. Okay, so she was no longer short and cute.

But really, I always did like to make up stories. Still do. Still live in my own little world--where I'm Queen. Of the Queendom. Hence, the name. (Or whence the name?) Oh, what's in a name anyway.

Now I'm sure you're wondering how I manage to live, but I assure you I am quite competent. Except I couldn't get the crown to actually sit on my head in the picture to the left. Still learning...

Oh, about me. I love cats. I have a girl cat, a princess technically. Named Kitty. No, I'm serious. Long story. No, I don't have time. Or space.

Okay, so I do not have the inclination.

More about me. I spend hours, days, weeks, months (you get the picture) sitting at my desk, looking out the window of my castle/bedroom and writing complete fabrications in a romantic whimsical vein. Alright, if you insist, you can call the writing quirky. But I do keep myself amused.

Yes, it's true, and entirely believable, I do have a college degree. I'm not saying when I obtained said degree, however. Go UConn!

Where do I live (for real) you ask? Among the picturesque lake-filled hills and dales (not sure what a dale is) of New Hampshire (the Granite State) (Live Free or Die) (Tough choice, but there's a lot of tough people around here).

What else do I do besides write presumably fabulous romantic stories with noble heroes and amazing, warm heroines who you want to be just like? As if that's not enough, I sometimes deign to teach, cook for the two gigantic very well-muscled sons and try to make sure Kitty doesn't take over the house while I'm away in the Queendom. (That's no joke. The cat's a control freak.)

I actually have a very rich non-imaginary life. Right at the moment, however, I can't think for the life of me what else it's all about. Maybe I'll think more about it later and get back to you…


SPOTLIGHT Questions and Answers with the Author

Congratulations on your book: Margo & George Forever? What do you have on the drawing board next? Do we have another novel from the Beachcomber Investigations series coming or another Romantic Comedy? Can you tell us the timeline for its release and give us a little tease?

Thank you, James. Next up is book 9 in the Beachcomber Investigations romantic detective series, BEACHCOMBER GONE. It will be out on November 25th on all platforms. Here's the snap on the story:

Just when Dane thought they would marry, Shana's gone…

After years of trying and denying, PI partners Dane & Shana are ready to tie the knot. But their visit to Shana's home in Australia goes terribly wrong when old enemies track her down.

Do you do any book signings, interviews, speaking and personal appearances? If so, when and where is the next place where your readers can see you? Where can they keep up with your personal contacts online?

I'll be speaking next at Hampstead Public Library and others in early February with other romance authors to celebrate Valentine’s Day with local romance readers.

I also love speaking at local writers groups, at conferences and book clubs when I have the chance. Writing and books are my favorite topics of conversation!

The best places to keep up with me are Facebook, my website, or BookBub

You have great covers. They carry a theme and your brand with them. How does your book cover creation process work? Do you hand over the basic theme or do you have more of a hands-on approach? Do you get your readers involved in its development?

Thank you! I love my covers and developed the theme/brand over time. I work with Cover Designer Michele Hauf who is a saint and a genius. We work very closely on the design. I often find the photos of the people and backgrounds. And it's funny you should ask about reader in put--when I'm prevaricating on more than one version of a cover, I will often ask the members of my Stephanie Queen Team for their input. We have a Facebook Group for team members and it works very well. We've improved our designs and made tough choices with the help of my great team.

You have a great book trailer for the Beachcomber Investigations Series. It looks very professional. Do you know how much impact it has had on your series’ success? Tell us about the process that you used to create your trailer? Do you use the trailer in your character development? Are the pictures and background the way you see your characters and scenes?

I did have one professionally made and also made a number of them myself. I'm not sure about the impact on success, but I enjoy book trailers and have a Youtube channel which I've been working on populating because it's one of the more enjoyable social media places for me. Beachcombers Book Trailer

As for creation, I've used everything from iMovie (which is difficult and powerful) to Kizoa which is quick and easy movie-making platform.

Several of your novels have been converted into audio books. What has been the impact on your regular sales? Has the audio books gained a new audience for you?

I love audiobooks. As a big consumer of them, I recognize their value and wanted to get as many of my books into audio as possible. I'm still working on getting my Beachcomber Investigations series into audio and will be releasing Let It Snow in audio for this Christmas season. It's a fun, but time-consuming process. I'm not sure about a cross-over audience, but I know there is a ravenous audio audience since I'm one of them!

You have written several novellas. Can you tell us if they had an impact on the sales of your novels? Are shorty’s one of your styles of writing or are they created to give readers a sample of your work? Do you feel short reads are a product of our email and smart phone age?

I resisted writing novellas and in fact, I used to write very long. But as I've gained writing experience, I've found it easier to do and enjoyable. I write novellas chiefly to keep series readers happy, but also to contribute to multi-author boxed sets, especially around the holidays. I've found the multi-author box sets in particular to be a good way to introduce my writing to new readers.

Short reads do seem to be more popular these days, maybe as a by-product of busy, segmented lives. It's fun to be able to finish an entire story in one short sitting. So many people don't have the luxury of endless hours for reading!

What is your primary genre? What has been your best marketing approach to this group?

My primary genre is romantic suspense with contemporary romance a close second. The line often gets blurred here I've noticed and there's lots of cross over. I have an good sized mailing list targeted to these genres and this has been the main focus of my marketing, in addition to multi-author boxed sets target to these genres

Do you maintain a reader list? What are the methods you use to find your readers and create the list and the relationship? Do you use social media, forums, newsletters and/or support groups to build your list?

My reader list, or newsletter list has been built in a variety of ways. Some purely organic, some people I meet at in-person events, some through rafflecopter contests and giveaways. I haven't found social media to be a great way to build lists, but advertising does.

I like the idea of Author bundles. You are a part of a several novel collections including Love Under Fire with twenty other authors. What a great group of outstanding people. (Many have been interviewed on this blog). What was your main objective in bundling your works with other authors? How do you communicate? How did you get involved with this group?

Author bundles or box sets are terrific fun for me. It's a chance to work fairly closely with a group of authors over a few months and really get to know them. So even if these sets didn't help with cross promoting readers among the authors--which they do--I would still be involved with them. We communicate through a private Facebook Group. I regularly network with other authors, mostly in my genres and that's how I found the Love Under Fire group, It's one of the most professional, hardworking, ambitious and all-around-nice group of authors I've worked with--and I've worked with quite a few. I've been in more than 15 multi-author box sets including 3 USA Today bestselling sets.



Author's Book List
Margo & George Forever? - a Romantic Comedy
There was no question in Margo's heart of hearts that she loved George. She really did want to marry him--scratch that--she really did want to be married to him.

There was a difference.

She hoped to heaven that the teeny-tiny distinction wouldn't be their undoing...

The stage is set for the wedding of the year in New York City featuring poor sweet beautiful Margo marrying the most eligible (read that: handsome and wealthy) bachelor, Regal Stores heir and CEO, George Regal, III. The Regal family has long presided over the social and fashion scene in Manhattan and they have embraced the marriage with enough enthusiasm to create a circus.

That could be why Margo feels like she's in the center ring and about to be swallowed by a lion.

But the best things about George, the strong powerful CEO, are the ones he's not known for, like his small thoughtful gifts, the crystal angel Christmas tree ornament he'd given her, the way he holds her hand at odd moments, the way he bear-hugs his grandma whenever he sees her and the way he speaks with misty eyes about his late mother.

Of course Margo wants to spend the rest of her life with him... if she could just get past the family’s ‘enthusiasm’ and THE WEDDING.


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Beachcomber Danger - Beachcomber Investigations - Book 8
The trouble with being crazy-in-love is that it makes you crazy. And you have your whole world to lose…

Dane Blaise was once a special ops legend, so he'd been in danger before. But not like this. This time it counted for all the marbles. This was about saving the President. And to do the job, he would become the target.

Shana was not going to let Dane take on this assignment without her, though she knew he wanted to. With the risk off-the-charts high, there was no way she would let Dane keep her from having his back.

The only problem was, when someone was out to assassinate the President of the United States, things got complicated. They had a way of spiraling out of a man's control until legendary status meant shit.

And in the end, there was nothing left but you fighting for the life of the one you loved most…


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Beachcomber Test - Beachcomber Investigations - Book 7
Shana everything she wants?

Ex-special ops legend Dane Blaise is staking his life on passing every one of Shana's tests for him. For instance, his desperation to keep her with him made him crazy enough to agree to take a divorce case.

He'd sworn never to take a follow-the-cheating-spouse case since the day they'd started Beachcomber Investigations together.

She was tough and gorgeous, but Shana George never expected much from men romantically speaking. Then again, she never thought she'd quit her dream job at Scotland Yard to work as a private-eye on Martha's Vineyard. There was no explaining how Dane made her crazy enough to hope. Too many times she came close to leaving. Now she can't live through another round of dashed hope without leaving for good. This case could be her last.

But even a simple divorce case turns dangerous for Beachcomber Investigations while Dane & Shana's resolve to stay together is tested to the end.


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Beachcomber Reckoning - Beachcomber Investigations - Book 6
Special ops legend Dane Blaise made a lot of enemies in his violent career, but none more dangerous than his first; the enemy he made before he'd been a legend, the one he made at the age of sixteen.

Local juvenile delinquent, Dagmar Hunt had the bad luck of running into Dane at the wrong time and wrong place. Dane knew he couldn’t let Dag get away with what he’d done. Dane was only a kid, but he’d been determined to make Dag pay. He went after Dag and succeeded in getting the notorious badass thrown in jail for a violent crime.

Dag never forgot his need for revenge against Dane. Over the years, while Dag was in and out of jail, he'd held his grudge. As he became more powerful and notorious, Dag made the ultimate threat to get his retribution.

Dane's past is finally about to catch up with him and now he needs to protect the ones he loves most from paying the price.


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Beachcomber Wedding - Beachcomber Investigations - Book 5
While Dane and Shana call an uneasy truce in their relationship battle, an old friend who happens to be a retired Russian spy calls for help. After receiving a serious threat from an unknown arms dealer, Anatoly Ivanov hires Beachcomber Investigations to protect his granddaughter and to keep everyone safe at her wedding on Martha's Vineyard.

As the stakes rise, time ticks down until the wedding and Dane isn't sure which is more dangerous--the threat from the arms dealer or Shana's threat to his heart.


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Beachcomber Heat - Beachcomber Investigations - Book 4
This summer's heat wave on Martha's Vineyard is breaking records--and so is the crime wave. A rash of jewel thefts creates a demand for more security than the police can handle.

Shana insists that Beachcomber Investigations take a case to protect the Gable's jewels because she's desperate for the big fee from their rich client.

Dane will do almost anything to keep her happy--and to keep her with him on the island.

Almost anything.

But the case turns dangerous when a dead body turns up and they find their ruthless old enemies are behind the thefts. Dane has to decide how far he'll go to catch the thieves--and how far he'll go to keep his partnership with Shana.


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Beachcomber Trouble - Beachcomber Investigations - Book 3
Out of the blue, ex-special ops legend Dane Blaise receives a CIA coded message for Trouble. It's a call to action to help an old associate and friend of his—Oscar. Dane didn't know that his young and gorgeous partner Shana George, ex-Scotland Yard detective, knew the CIA man too. Even though they both suspected Oscar’s CIA handler was not exactly trustworthy, they answered the call to help their friend.

But Dane had no idea that the trap was set and the trouble was about to go from Bad to Big and Bad ..


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Beachcomber Baby - Beachcomber Investigations - Book 2
Dark and dangerous Dane and shamelessly sexy Shana team up like oil & water on a mission to save a baby while they wage a personal war of love & hate between them.

Ex-special ops legend Dane Blaise doesn't like cases involving babies. In his experience, they always end bad. Really bad.

When Father Donahue hands Shana a baby and the mission is to find the baby's mother, the ex-Scotland Yard detective can't resist taking the case. Shana convinces Dane to help her, but he'll only go so far.

Once they discover that the priest dragged them into the tip of an iceberg full of trouble with an ex-Russian KGB operative turned-criminal and his comrades involved in a baby farm, things look bad. Really bad.

To keep Dane on the mission, Shana will need to uncover the secret of his terrible baby case from the past. Can she convince him to put aside his fears to save this baby--and save their partnership too?


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Beachcomber Investigations - Beachcomber Investigations - Book 1
Ex-special ops legend Dane Blaise is desperate to recruit Shana George, but he'd never let her know it.

She's too gorgeous, too smart and too much like him. But he needs her.

She has impressive skills and if he’s honest, he needs her to keep him grounded. Most of all, Dane wants to keep Shana on the island because he can't get past his insane longing for her.

With the lure of money and a laid-back lifestyle, Shana quit Scotland Yard to partner with Dane.

Let's face it, she made her choice with her gut--or more accurately her heart--rather than her brains. She and Dane may be good partners in crime-fighting, but they are all wrong for each other in every other way possible.

He's soulless and lost and likely has more wounds from his past than the bullet and knife scars scorching his body. But she's crazy. About him.

Headquartered in Dane's beach shack, Beachcomber Investigations specializes in impossible odds and last ditch efforts.

Their first assignment is to protect Dane's old special ops buddy, Acer. They need to find whoever paid a sniper to take a shot at Acer--before the sniper takes another shot and doesn't miss.

Dane and Shana need to be on top of their game to keep Acer alive, and not on top of each other. But each of them is secretly worried whether that’s possible--and worried about what will happen if it’s not.


Book Trailer: Beachcomber Investigations

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The Beachcombers - Prequel
Ex-special ops legend Dane Blaise takes on a new partner for a kidnapping case, gorgeous Scotland Yard detective Shana George. Mistake? Maybe.

Dane Blaise

When he walks by you, you feel the heat of his energy and then you turn your head and meet his intense eyes.

If you're a woman, you shiver with anticipation. If you're an enemy of any kind, you shiver with fear.

Because you know he’s the kind of man who would lay down his life for the woman he loves.

He’s a protector, the kind of man who would have been a swashbuckler with in the days of pirates, or a knight in shining armor in the days of castles and kings.

Now, seemingly invincible and legendary, he leads the life of a loner mercenary. Unimpressed and un-phased by most, the last thing Dane needs or wants is a partner …

Shana George.

Shana is who every woman wants to be, strong and knock-out gorgeous, a wonder woman style crusader—protector of the helpless and fighter for justice. Working in law enforcement for Scotland Yard, she’s a match for any man with her confidence and skill—and long ago stopped looking for that man who would inspire her to lay everything on the line for him.

Will Dane be that man? Will Shana be a match for the legendary Dane Blaise?

The fireworks between them could get them killed before they have a chance to find the missing heiress and whoever is behind the kidnapping. They need to find the heiress before they let their relationship compromise everything. Or is it too late?


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Beachcomber Love - Beachcomber Investigations Series Novella
Beachcomber Love is the latest installment in the Beachcomber Investigations romantic detective series.

Dane plans a special valentine celebration for his PI partner Shana. But he'll not only need to overcome the intrusion of Shana's old flame, the two investigators find themselves embroiled in protecting their friend's establishment, The Lucky Parrot from an underworld shake-down.

But when the shakedown turns out to be a set up and Dane learns an old special ops team member is out to get him, he's worried about more than missing their Valentine date.

Can he get them out of town before the stroke of mid-night or will an old score need to be settled?


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Beachcomber Billionaire - Beachcomber Investigations Series Novella
Megan O'Toole and Jack Collins collide literally and temperamentally on Martha's Vineyard of all places. Megan feels duty bound to carry out her assignment as protector of the billionaire CEO Jack, the cool hunk--a man who would be the last to be described as vulnerable or in need of her protection. She was no body guard, but as a recently ex-marine, she had nothing else lined up at the moment.

Not that Jack would let her off the hook any more than Megan's conscience would, especially when the threat became all too real and she started carrying her gun.

But the real danger was to Megan's heart as this billionaire player made it clear she was in his sights--and he always got what he wanted.

Now it was time for Megan to figure out what she really wanted…


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Falling for Captain Hunk - Beachcomber Investigations Series Novella
Captain Colin “Hunk” Lynch is tempted past his ability to withstand his sizzling attraction to the wrong damsel-in-distress. Breaking his long-standing rule forbidding involvement with a fellow law-enforcement professional could be the mistake of his life. But more importantly, he hopes to hell it doesn’t compromise his ability to save hers…


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Let It Snow - Beachcomber Investigations Series Novella
An old friend sends a stranger to visit Dane to help wrestle him from his soul-crushing despair. His life of righting horrific wrongs has cost him a very high price, and worse, it cost someone he loved her life. But how can a stranger help when even Shana, his partner and lover., has failed. Can the stranger use a Christmas Eve snow storm to create the ultimate test for Dane & Shana?


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Beachcomber Santa - Beachcomber Investigations Series Novella
Dane finds the perfect excuse to celebrate the holiday season with Shana when Jim the butcher hires Beachcomber Investigations to find the Missing grocery store bell-ringing Santa--Rusty Gates. The local cops may think Rusty took off with the money he collected for the church to give the needy, but his family wants to keep him out of jail. Dane and Shana need to find him--and the money before the church Christmas party in three days.

Meanwhile Dane wants more than a kiss under the mistletoe for Christmas from Shana, but when he realizes she's homesick for Australia, will he let playing Santa at the church party go to his heart and give Shana her wish?


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Beachcomber Valentine - Beachcomber Investigations Series Novella
Ex military special ops legend Dane Blaise and ex Scotland Yard investigator, gorgeous Shana George, team up to find the long lost love of a mystery client.

But of course there's more to this easy-money case than flirting with the dangers of romance and Cupid to rekindle an old flame.

Once Dane and Shana find out that the "lost love" is involved with an FBI sting--and involved with their best friend, state cop Captain Lynch, their suspicions kick into high gear.

Dane and Shana end up with far more than a dinner date on Valentines Day…


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Small Town Christmas Baby - Small Town Romance Book 4
Julie and Jack want nothing more than a peaceful Christmas while they wait for their new baby to arrive. But what's Christmas without family?

Julie wants to give Jack the most special Christmas gift she can--a warm relationship with his mother. But her mother doesn't like the idea.

Will secrets from their past keep the two mothers-in-law from a harmonious Christmas--and keep them from enjoying their new grand baby?

Not if Jack can help it. He promises a Christmas miracle for Julie and she delivers a miracle for him.


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Small Town Hot Shot Bride - a Novella
Tammy Murphy may be a hot shot in a small town, but she's tired of getting left behind by guys just passing through.

Roark Donovan arrives for the summer to find himself irresistibly drawn to this feisty hot shot--and in the process questions his dart board approach to life choices.

In spite of their shared Irish heritage they have nothing in common. She's a hard working girl from a normal family and he's from a silver spoon family with the world as his playground.

Will Tammy foolishly get swept up by charming out-of-towner Roark and his runaway train attraction? Or will she derail him for good?


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Small Town Glamour Girl Wedding - a Novella
First comes love, then comes marriage and then comes happily-ever-after. That's the way Julie always thought it would be.

She never dreamed she'd feel like Cinderella, never dreamed she wouldn't like it.

Julie and Jack are over-the-moon in love, but their soon-to-be mothers-in-law are pulling them apart with their different ideas about the wedding plans.

Should it be the small town affair at the Inn Julie and her mother always pictured? Or should it be the elegant and glamorous affair at Jack's mansion the way his mother wants?

Once a stunning secret from their mothers' past is revealed, they realize their differences could be deeper than where to hold the wedding.

Jack and Julie must re-think their plans after all. Will they or won’t they say I do?


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Small Town Glamour Girl Christmas - Small Town Romance Book 1
Julie loves her small town life. She loves her family run Inn. This much she is sure about--especially after her misadventure as a big city big glamour model parading as an Audrey Hepburn look-alike a few years back.

But what she's not sure about is if she really loves her boyfriend Neil. Especially after Jack returns to town for the big Christmas celebration. Julie and Jack had a special connection a long time ago as kids, but does he remember that time--does he even remember her? They were young and sheltered then. Now that they're all grown up, Julie is all too aware that Jack is a billionaire city boy from London. The magic and charm of the small town Christmas rekindles the connection, but Julie is uncertain if she and her small town life would ever be enough for Jack.

What chance does a small town glamour girl have at a romance with a big city billionaire boy?


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The Romantics - The Scotland Yard Exchange Book 3
Big bad bodyguard Joseph Allario keeps his biggest fear a big secret until a so-called cupcake assignment takes him to London to play undercover babysitter to Lady Veronica Douglas. Ronnie made a deathbed promise to her mother to redeem her father’s reputation and prove he was murdered.

Now Joe finds himself falling for Ronnie as he tries to stop the killer before the killer stops her. Even if it means facing the one thing he fears most…


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Between a Rock and a Mad Woman - Scotland Yard Exchange
Prequel to the Scotland Yard Exchange Series

Madeline Grace was alwlays expected to do great things, but she discovers the price of destiny means running for governor--against a man who was once her lover.

In this world of politics, romance wins over cynicism and the good guys finish first. Not since JFK, has a political candidate used his wit and charm to such an advantage as Peter “the Rock”. On the other hand, there hasn’t been a woman so admired as a crusader against corrupt power since Joan of Arc… until “Mad” Madeline. Madeline is running for Governor of Massachusetts against Peter. Madeline and Peter were once in love—before she broke his heart.

In the midst of the campaign battle they reignite their volatile relationship, but on warring sides of the ticket, they can’t afford for the media to find out too. As they fight each other for office they find they have an enemy in common. When their enemy drives up the stakes, Peter must decide if he’ll risk his career and fight with Madeline to overcome the political crisis. Madeline has to decide if she trusts Peter—and whether she still loves him


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The Hot Shots - Scotland Yard Exchange Book 2
Would you jump off the USS Constitution into Boston Harbor with a perfect stranger? You would if that stranger was hot shot Scotland Yard detective Chauncey Miller, the usual tall-dark-handsome type, especially since he has an assassin with a score to settle who just caught up with him…

Decorator Sophia Alano’s career gets side-tracked from the moment she meets hot shot Chauncey. He's on the run from a madman terrorist out for revenge when Sophia ends up targeted too. Now he must protect this spitfire while they're hunted wherever they go. They escape to London to outwit the madman. But once Chauncey catches their would-be killer, how do they go back to the lives they had before?


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The Throwbacks - The Scotland Yard Exchange Book 1
She’s a vivacious, light-hearted young beauty from Beacon Hill.
He’s a world-weary not-so-young exile from Scotland Yard.
She’s an orphaned decorator who longs for a family of her own.
He’s a rogue detective with a superhero complex.
She’s smitten with this superhero who is the last man she sees in the picket-fence picture of her future.

He’s smitten with this fluffy young romantic who he sees as kryptonite to his career and well being.

But if you saw Grace and David in a room full of people, and you had to pick one man and one woman who belonged together, you would pick them. They would be The Throwbacks.

Vivacious young decorator Grace Rogers sets her sights for that picket-fence life she longs for with the unlikely world-weary British exile, the not-so-young David Young. The ex-Scotland Yard detective joins the Boston Police Department to salvage his career. He hires Grace to decorate his Beacon Hill townhouse to salvage his life.

But this rogue detective’s plans for a new beginning are threatened when he can’t resist the seemingly unseemly romance with his too-young bombshell decorator. Grace turns out to be a key witness in his high-stakes kidnapping case--and like Kryptonite to his career and his well-being with her romantic notions of family life.

David put his life on the line to save her from the kidnappers, but now is Grace willing to put her dreams on the line to save her real-life superhero from himself?


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Playing the Game
A Sexy Sports Romance

When Roxanne Monet’s ex-husband is found dead, under a cloud of suspicion, she loses her money, her job & her reputation. Now all she has left is her cause.

She enlists the help of superstar athlete Barry Dennis to save the medical research project for treatment of seriously burned children--including his daughter.

From the start, there’s more than a good cause between them as they play the game of seduction, losing themselves in their obsessive attraction.

They use each other to escape the stress of his daughter's treatment, Roxanne’s impending bankruptcy, the sinking basketball season, and the media spotlight.

But can she count on him to be on her team when she's arrested for murdering her ex-husband?


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Ace Under Fire
Jeremiah Acerman was a badass back in the day, but he long ago traded in his guns for a computer keyboard. That didn’t stop him from saying yes to a call for help--not when it was from that one woman in his life he let slip away and lived to regret it.

Isabella was worth risking his neck. She might even be worth risking his heart. Now the question was whether he was up to the challenge of going up against some new young badasses south of the border. There was only one way to find out...



LOVE UNDER FIRE
From around the edges of every day existence lurks mystery, betrayal, greed, and death.

With every turn of the page, feel the heat of adrenaline as fear lights up the night. Fight alongside the tenacious heroes and heroines as they battle for survival. They'll put everything on the line to thwart the evil coming after them.

They want to trust in the power of love. But is it enough?

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