Sharon’s posting while Sandra’s playing

June 28, 2008 at 9:04 am | Category: blog

Good morning, everyone!  Today I am your guest blogger while Sandy is at the amusement park with her kiddies.  Happy Saturday to all!  Don’t know about you, but in Ohio it’s stormy and yucky.  The weather pretty much squashed my plans to take the kids to the pool.  Sigh.

This summer has been busy for me with three (yes, three!) books coming out, so I’ll get down to business.  My favorite type of heroes are tortured heroes.  The more tortured, the better, IMO.  Luke, my hero in my July release, Deception, is definitely tortured.  Literally and figuratively.

Here’s the blurb:

The true threat lies within the heart…

Kate McAuley once thought Lucas Barone loved her, and returned that love for all she was worth—until the day he walked away without a word. Now, four years later she answers a knock on her door and finds Luke on her doorstep, broken, bleeding and unconscious. He brings with him all kind of emotions, and all kinds of questions. Where has he been? Why did he leave? And what’s an accountant doing with wounds like these?

As a covert ops specialist with the U.S. government, Luke deceived, betrayed and conned so many people he couldn’t keep them straight—except Kate. Their time together was magical, until the call came and he was forced to walk away. For four long years, memories of her have kept him alive and sane. Now, hunted by his own government, desperate and injured, Kate is the only one he can trust.

Kate’s innocent phone call for help sets in motion an evil that reaches the highest echelons of political power. With accusations of murder and treason hanging over their heads, it’ll take every ounce of Luke’s training, intelligence—and Kate’s trust—to keep them alive.

And the Excerpt:

Kate wanted to close her eyes and pretend none of this had happened. There wasn’t a dead man lying in her living room. She wasn’t sitting in her car with Luke after he’d killed the dead man lying in her living room. It was all a dream. A nightmare.But it wasn’t. Luke had returned and killed a man, but that almost paled in comparison to what he was asking now. She rubbed at her aching temples, hoping she wasn’t getting a migraine when her migraine medication was at home with the dead guy. On top of that was this horrible sense of betrayal. She’d lived with Luke for nearly a year, given him everything she had to give, only to learn they’d been living a lie. The concept was so overwhelming it made her head hurt.“Kate?”She dragged her gaze back to his, took in the light sheen of sweat on his face, the circles under his eyes, the tightness around his mouth that told her he was in pain. And despite the betrayal and the deception, she actually considered going with him. “What are you going to do?” she asked. “What plan do you have?”“Find out what happened back at your house. Figure out why someone wants me dead.”Her gaze skittered over his body and his arm held protectively over his bruised ribs. “It’s nothing I haven’t lived through before,” he said, apparently reading her mind. His words were a reminder that he’d lived a life she’d been unaware of, that he’d deliberately lied to her for months while professing he loved her.“I need an answer, Kate.”She closed her eyes as her heart began to race again. An image of that man sliding to the floor, a bullet in his chest, played over and over in her mind. 

“Please,” he whispered.

I hope you enjoyed the blurb and excerpt of Deception and I hope Sandy is enjoying her day at the amusement park.  Please feel free to hop on over to my website and visit me any time you’d like at www.sharoncullen.net or subscribe to my newsletter.

If you’re interested in purchasing Deception, it will be available through Samhain Publishing on July 22.

Also, check out my other July release, A Forever Kind of Thing, at The Wild Rose Press.  A Forever Kind of Thing is a rerelease and was nominated for best book of the year in 2005.

  Thank you, Sandy, for allowing me to be a guest blogger! I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Sharon

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Fangirl Friday: Amelia & Jonas

June 13, 2008 at 7:51 am | Category: blog

This week, I’d like to honor my little ones.  I’m a total fangril of these two.  Yes, they can be trying at times.  And perhaps a little snippy–we’re working on that.  But as a whole, they are very well behaved and funny and just the loves of my life.

This has been a very busy week…actually, it’s been a very busy year for us.  However, this week in particular has been crazy.  Jonas and Amelia have recently joined the swim team.  Three times a week, they swim for an hour and a half.  The problem is, this is also crunch time for dance and choir.

So for the past week, we’ve been running from extra dance rehearsals for this Saturday’s recital, and preparing for last night’s choir concert, and of course we can’t forget the swim practices that overlapped said dance rehearsals which in turn overlapped said choir concert…Gah!

I was run ragged.  I can imagine how Amelia and Jonas were.  But they have held up like the little troopers they are.  And if the choir concert last night is any indication, it was all worth it.  I am so very proud of my little tykes.  This past week has been crazy and they’ve shined.

After Saturday’s recital, they will be getting a much needed break and we’ll only have to focus on the swim team.  Their first meet is coming up in a few weeks and I for one am uber excited.  They’ll certainly have a number one fangirl rooting them on!

Did you run around like this when you were a kid?  I know I didn’t.  Though, I do wish now I had been involved with extra curricular activities back then.  My kids seem to really enjoy their accomplishments and I know I certainly do.

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Dayna Hart’s Done it Again!

June 10, 2008 at 6:28 pm | Category: blog

Has a new release, that is.  Check it out!

A cult of sex faeries start taking men hostage…including Claire’s boyfriend.

Book Two of the Curtain Torn Series

When Myrna Terrence’s husband is abducted from her dream by fairies, she asks Claire for help. Claire investigates and discovers other married men of Four Corners have been kidnapped. Men who share enough similarities to suggest the kidnappings may be related.

She learns the abductions are the work of The Aeval, a cult of sex faeries whose mission is to ensure women are pleasured by their husbands. Dell decides he and Claire should go under cover—under the covers. By pretending to be a married couple who are having trouble in bed, they hope to lure The Aeval to them.

The plan works almost too well. They don’t have to fake the chemistry between them, nor the resulting frustration when they stop themselves from going too far. The Aeval take the bait, and Claire must confront a goddess, the truth, and her fears about Dell in an effort to save his life.

But if she succeeds, those same truths may be what sends him out of her life forever.

Warning: this title contains the following: hot nekkid men with wings, regular nudity, and prolonged sexual tension followed—finally—by explicit sex. And the faeries who punish husbands for not “pleasing” their wives are entirely fictional (sorry!).

Excerpt available…here

And you can buy it here

“Ms. Hart has created a beautiful, romantic love story set within a magical world that is both whimsical and crystalline pure. The chemistry between her two main characters is spellbinding and ethereal.” – Cerri Ellis

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Fangirl Friday: Good Omens

June 6, 2008 at 6:00 am | Category: blog

Recently, there was a question posted to the Romance Divas Forum that brought to mind one of my all-time favorite books.  It might surprise you to know it isn’t a romance.  Just because I write it, doesn’t mean that’s all I read, people.  Though, I do stick to fiction.  I’ve got enough non-fiction going on in my life, it’s nice to have a little escape now and then.  You know?

Anyway, back to this week’s Fangirl Friday.  The question at Romance Divas had to do with the book or movie that has been just as good the second or even third time around for you.

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett popped to mind immediately.  Of course, with it’s dry humor and twisty plot–for which I had to get pen and paper to keep track of Baby A, B, & C…well, I digress–it might not be for everyone.  For me, however, it is truly at the very top of my read, read, and read again list.  Hmmm…For a while there, I’d pick it up at least once a year.  And more recently, I’ve been thinking about it quite a bit.  Looks like it’s time for another read. 

So, tell me, what is that book or movie you find just as good or even better the more you’ve read or seen it?  �

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