#FuzzyFriday Interview Time with…Yogi!! (Faithful buddy to author Cynthia Eden)

Behind every great author are four paws and a wagging tail. New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Cynthia Eden is no exception. For Fuzzy Friday, her fur baby Yogi is being interviewed by my cat, J-Dog.  Here is what he has to say:

What is your human reading?

Who knows? The woman is always checking out her iPad. She was muttering about serial killers the other day, so could be that she’s researching again. Once she’s done with the research, though, I know she wants to read SHATTERED DUTY by Katie Reus. She’s mentioned that about 100 times lately.

What was the most recent thing you did to get in trouble (because dogs are always getting in trouble)?

  

Um, Cynthia *may* have been trying to write today when I realized that—obviously—the lawn guy was there to destroy me.  So perhaps I was a bit overzealous as I threw myself at the front door—again and again—and tried to let that guy know he was NOT welcome in my territory. She said my frantic barks distracted her. Totally ungrateful. I saved her life.

My mom Heather is always talking about how good your human's books are when I am trying to get her to put down her Kindle and give me treats. They must be awesome because I don't know she resists my cuteness.  What is your human's writing process?

  

She stares at her computer screen—a lot. She talks to herself. She makes weird faces. And she drinks way too much Red Bull. That *is* her writing process.

What is your human currently writing?

I know this!! She’s working on a new romantic suspense. BEWARE OF ME. When she first said that, I thought she was trying to warn me to stay away from her, but no…it was just her book title.

Why should people buy your human's most recent book?

People should buy DEAL WITH THE DEVIL because it’s got shifters and vampires and monsters. I LOVE monsters. Did you check out the pic of me in my Sleepy Hollow costume?  Monsters—beware!

Thanks for interviewing me, J-Dog—Yogi, out!!!!

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DEAL WITH THE DEVIL – Blurb:

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Cynthia Eden spins a hot new paranormal Purgatory story with…DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. 

Eric Pate is used to making his own rules—as the director of the PARA Unit, he is the boss. Everyone rushes to obey his commands, and no one knows his secrets. No one ever gets too close to him. But then he meets her. 

Ella Lancaster is tired of being a prisoner. She escaped one hell just to find herself in another, though Eric doesn’t consider her containment with his agents as punishment. He actually thinks it is a form of protection. But Eric is so very wrong. Ella doesn’t need protecting, not for anyone or anything. 

When the PARA Unit comes under attack, Ella and Eric both find themselves battling a supernatural beast that they never expected. Forced to join forces, to make a deal, Ella and Eric are soon fighting side-by-side, and their attraction for each other can’t be contained or controlled. Hot. Wild. Consuming. Ella’s deal with her devil is soon taking over her life. 

And as Eric falls deeper and deeper under the mysterious Ella’s spell, his legendary control begins to crack. The beast that he has kept chained so carefully inside rises to the surface. Unfortunately, when the devil loses his control…there is real hell to pay. 

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Award-winning author Cynthia Eden writes dark tales of paranormal romance and romantic suspense. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Digital Book World, and IndieReader best-seller.  Cynthia is also a three-time finalist for the prestigious RITA® award. Since she began writing full-time in 2005, Cynthia has written over fifty novels and novellas.

Cynthia is a “hybrid” author. She has published extensively with New York (her New York publishers include Avon, Kensington, Grand Central, and Harlequin), and she has also enjoyed success in her indie writing career.

Cynthia lives along the Alabama Gulf Coast. She loves romance novels, horror movies, and chocolate.  Her favorite hobbies including hiking in the mountains (searching for waterfalls) and spelunking.

Cynthia’s website:  www.cynthiaeden.com

Cynthia’s Twitter handle:  www.twitter.com/cynthiaeden

Cynthia’s Facebook page:  www.facebook.com/cynthiaedenfanpage

Dangerous Dragonflies: Meet the 2015 Golden Heart Romantic Suspense Finalists

Danger. Heat. Romantic suspense delivers thrills and chills with a happily ever after. It is my pleasure to introduce the 2015 Golden Heart® Romantic Suspense finalists. They are sure to be rising stars in the genre.




Jessica Darago

Jessica Darago is a two-time Golden Heart finalist, an American Title Finalist, and a Golden Pen winner. SCANDAL was inspired by her 30-year love affair with the Sherlock Holmes stories and raises the question no other adaptation of "A Scandal in Bohemia" has: "What if Irene Adler was framed?"

A modern retelling set in a gritty underworld of rogue spies and freelance terrorists operating just beneath London's glamorous surface, SCANDAL follows Renee Norton, a successful American actress with a murky past, and Will Gillette, a former MI6 operative whose brilliant mind and personal demons do daily battle. When Renee's diplomat ex-boyfriend accuses her of blackmail, Will thinks catching the woman will prove his worth to his former superiors and get him back in the game. But when the chase turns deadly, and Renee proves a worthy (and intriguing) adversary, he won't just have to stop Renee, he'll have to win her over to his side. Because he's no longer just trying to stop a scandal; if Renee's secrets get out, millions of lives will pay the price.

Social media:
Twitter: @justjayj


Brynn Kelly

Brynn Kelly is a New Zealand journalist and author whose Golden Heart-nominated debut manuscript will be published by Harlequin's HQN single title imprint in 2016.

DECEPTION ISLAND is a romantic thriller in which a rogue French Foreign Legion officer and a Californian conwoman reluctantly team up to fight modern-day pirates and slave traders in the azure waters and steamy jungles of an Indian Ocean paradise.

Find her at www.facebook.com/brynnkellyauthor, on Twitter @brynnwrites, and at brynnkelly.com.


Arlene McFarlane

They say write what you know. Arlene owned and operated a full-service salon for thirteen years, and because she loved reading comic mysteries, she combined her knowledge of all things beauty with all things comedic, and the Murder, Curlers series was born.

Blurb for Murder, Curlers, and Cream: Valentine Beaumont is in for a hair-raising shock when her spoiled client, socialite Portia Reynolds, is strangled right under her nose. Unfortunately, a dead customer in the beauty industry is not exactly a drawing card, and Valentine feels obligated to find the killer. She learns Portia had more kinks than curls in her personal life and, as she untangles the mystery, she finds out just how nasty Portia was. With Guccis on her feet, a bag of tools-of-the-trade over her shoulder, a hard-nosed cop on her back, and a kooky cast of characters in her midst, will Valentine survive her own investigation?

Arlene is currently seeking representation.

Website: www.arlenemcfarlane.com


Tracy Poole

A Shot Worth Taking blurb: After stopping terrorists from detonating a dirty bomb, Special Ops soldier Tony Vincenti and FBI linguist Angela Hoffman intend for their next joint mission to involve under-the-covers work, only someone wants to cash in on a contract on Angela’s life. With little evidence to support their suspicions of who is trying to kill her, Tony must convince Angela to violate her own ethics to expose the would-be assassin before they can get a shot at a future together.

Tracy is currently unagented, but seeking representation.  She is working on book three of her series about the Bad Karma Spec Ops -- who's love lives are just as dangerous as their missions.

You can find Tracy spending too much time on Facebook at Tracy Poole (she'd love for you to Like her page *:D big grin)  and occasionally remembering to tweet @BadKarmaWriter.


Sharon Wray

A librarian/archivist who also studied dress design in the couture houses of Paris, Sharon is an eight-time RWA Golden Heart Romantic Suspense author (who is a double Golden Heart finalist this year) repped by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency. In her spare time, she snaps photos of her family and her garden while negotiating backyard territory rights with her dog Donut. Sharon lives in Northern Virginia with her three biggest supporters — her amazing husband and twin teenagers. As she waits for the “call”, Sharon writes stories of adventure, suspense and love and blogs at some of her favorite romance sites:

www.sharonwray.com

www.kissandthrill.com  (Romantic Suspense and other things that do the night-bumps!)

www.ghfirebirds.com  (where she joins her 2012 Golden Heart class for all things romance writing)


She can also be found on:
Facebook: Sharon Wray Author
Twitter: @sharonbwray
Pinterest: Sharon Wray
Instagram: sbwray

Book 1: Hope Craves an Execution

When Sarah Monroe, a strong-willed historian, attempts to solve the last unbreakable Revolutionary War cipher, she draws the attention of a ruthless arms dealer. Now her life, and the secret hidden within the cipher, is at the mercy of ex-Green Beret Major Nate Walker, a man who suffers from seizures, memory loss, and regret. A man whose SF unit is serving life sentences for murders they didn’t commit. A man determined to do anything to save his men, prove their innocence, and take down the arms dealer, even if it means betraying the woman he loves.

Book 2: Every Unworthy Thing

When Madeleine Ashton, a Charleston, SC couturier and socialite, is targeted by an arms dealer in search of a 17th Century secret hidden in tunnels under her city, her last hope to save her family is Alex Mitchell: ex-con, ex-Army Ranger, and the baddest boy she’s ever met. Alex, besides being forsaken by his family and damned by the price on his head, has a secret — he used to work for the arms dealer. And when he’s given the opportunity to do so again, he must choose between a life of unlimited money and power and the prim and proper woman who’s stolen his heart. 

Buford of BookEnds Literary Agency Takes Over #FuzzyFriday with his Human Jessica Faust

Buford loves to sink his teeth into a good mystery

J-Dog is thrilled to welcome the best nose in the literary world, Buford of BookEnds Literary Agency to #FuzzyFriday!  Check out this great interview between him and his human Jessica Faust: 

They say Buford is a St. Bernard mix, but we at BookEnds are a little skeptical. With a head and smile like that we’re thinking there’s a little more Pit to that mix. 

Since Buford isn’t much of a writer (although the neighbors will argue that he’s quite the talker, er barker), he’s opted to answer some questions instead of free-writing his own post. Of course, let’s be honest, it’s because Jessica Faust (his person) is too lazy to think of anything off the cuff and answering questions is easier.

What is his human currently reading?

The Yard by Alex Grecian. She’s been on a historical mystery kick lately (well for the last two books).


What was the most recent thing he did to get in trouble?

Wandered off. Buford is a wanderer and there have been a few times he’s escaped the fenced-in yard. As any pet owner knows, this is terrifying, especially terrifying since he seems to go deaf the minute he finds freedom. 

Early one morning Buford took himself for a little walk. Almost immediately we sent out search parties, and after 30 minutes and still no sign of the lug we posted alerts on Facebook and notified Home Safe, his microchip service (everyone should have this by the way). Another 15-20 minutes went by and we still had no clue where he could have gone. We were starting to wonder what to do next, we needed to get going on our day and, understandably, panic was setting in. Just as we picked up the phone to call the police another call came in. I knew immediately he had been found. Apparently our dear sweet 75-lb, giant-headed dog went on quite an adventure. He made friends with one neighbor’s toddler before leaving her behind to chase another neighbors’s cat straight into the house while the poor mother was trying to get her three children organized for school. 

By the time we got there to retrieve him, three different families were giving him love in the driveway, the police had shown up and I’m pretty sure that cat might never feel safe again.


What are his observations of an agent’s process?

Mostly he snores and curls up under Beth’s feet. He does get really excited when a new box of books arrives thinking it’s a box full of snacks. 

Buford does spend most of the day in the office with us, it’s the perk of owning a Literary Agency. If I had to see what we do from his perspective I imagine he wonders why we stare at these screens all day and tap these little keys. Much of the day is spent with email, reading and phone calls to discuss things like edits, marketing plans, contracts and other things that any good dog would find horribly tedious. 


What does he think his agency may be looking or in submissions?

Buford knows for a fact that the best thing any querying author can do is read the agency’s submission guidelines: http://www.bookends-inc.com/submit.html

That being said, the most exciting thing happening at BookEnds right now is the addition of our newest agent Moe Ferrara. That means there are now five agents at BookEnds, all hungry for a variety of work.

• Jessica Faust is open to all submissions in mystery, thrillers and suspense including, but not limited to, psychological thrillers, historical mystery, cozies, romantic suspense, YA thrillers and anything with a strong female protagonist. She’s also looking for contemporary YA, sports-themed romance, and women’s fiction. All other genres are accepted by referral only.
• Kim Lionetti is open to all submissions in historical and contemporary romance, women's fiction, cozy mysteries, and contemporary new adult fiction and young adult fiction.
• Jessica Alvarez is looking for romance (but no paranormal at this time, please), romantic suspense, female-focused erotica, and women's fiction.
• Moe Ferrara is interested in fiction for adults, young adults, and the middle-grade reader. She's particularly looking for all subsets of science fiction and fantasy, contemporary or historical romance, and LGBTQ romance.
• Beth Campbell is accepting submissions in urban fantasy, science fiction, YA (no middle grade), suspense, romantic suspense, and mystery. She is particularly interested in stories with diverse characters across all the above genres.

Why does Buford think readers should buy some recent releases from BookEnds authors (besides the obvious fact that pet treats aren’t cheap)?

Vet bills are worse.

Do I need to come up with a reason other than the fact that they are great books? 

BookEnds represents such a varied group of authors and genres. It makes it fun for us and for readers. 


Why should people should find their fur family members at shelters like St. Hubert's?

Because they are the most amazing dogs ever. Buford is Jessica’s third rescue. Each was distinctive and wonderful. Sweet, loving dogs who only needed homes. 

I’ve long been a very strong advocate of adopt don’t buy and Buford is just another example of why this is so important to me. All three of my dogs were in tough situations (born to a mother rescued from a fighting ring, found wandering the streets of Newark, and trapped in a Newark shelter). All were rescued by people and organizations who cared and cared enough to find not just any home, but the right home. Sure Buford wanders occasionally, but I can’t guarantee another dog wouldn’t do the same and, frankly, I couldn’t ask for a better dog to spend my day with. Just ask Beth Campbell. She’s a cat person through and through and yet spends every day with Buford curled on her feet. Literally on her feet.


Despite this adorable post, Buford cannot read or write and, frankly, has no interest in submissions. He does however love the taste of a good paperback mystery.

The International Flight of Dragonflies: Meet the 2015 Golden Heart Contemporary Romance Finalists

Sassy. Sweet. Sizzling. Sexy. The stories that are finalists in RWA®’s 2015 Golden Heart® contemporary romance category have it all.  I am thrilled to introduce this international flight of Dragonflies to you:


JoAnne Banker

Jo Anne lives in the eclectic Montrose area of Houston with three overly pampered cats. She has owned a bookkeeping service for thirty-five years, and finds balance to the mundane through the creativity of her writing. She enjoys the theater, good books, good food, good friends, and her family.  She loves reading anything by anything by Nora Roberts, Jayne Ann Krentz, Sarah Maclean, Sharon Sala, & Shana Galen, and her most recent favorite is Heroes Are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.  She is a Golden Heart finalist with manuscript Homecoming.


Susan Bickford

Susan is a self-employed decorative artist and a co-owner of a vintage retail shop, The Painted Dragonfly, She does most of her writing while waiting for paint to dry. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and college-freshman daughter. She's a proud member of Music City Romance Writers and loves living in a city full of great artists, musicians, and writers.

Currently, she is seeking representation for her Contemporary Single-Title, The House of D’Innocenzi, in which a young widow fights to keep her business afloat after her husband’s accidental death. She’s offered the career opportunity of a lifetime by a man she suspects is nothing but trouble. She has no idea how right she is. Her would-be hero is a mob defector on the run, but he’s a man needing redemption. Saving her from bankruptcy is a small thing, even if he doesn’t need her kind of complication. In no time, he's in her business, she's in his, and the pull between them is hard to resist—until his past comes calling. She learns there’s more at stake than her business and her heart. Her savior may cost her everything.



Jennifer Brodie

Jennifer Brodie is a Scottish transplant who lives in New England with her Scottish husband and their two boys. She is fiercely guarded (from the men in her house) by her butterfly-eared, fluffy piranha of a dog named Buster. When not lost in story land, Jennifer can be found mowing the dandelions or scaring her boys with a new recipe.

Blurb for Mace, Men and Margaritas:

A choca-slimma-holic with a secret aversion to exercise, curvy physiotherapist Emma Hughes resolves to transform herself into a kick-ass Charlie’s Angel, after her ex develops an unhealthy obsession with her. However, lacking both discipline and the ability to coordinate her body parts, the transformation does not go smoothly… Emma’s always believed The Universe had great things planned for her, but she’s approaching thirty, her supply of eggs is dwindling rapidly, and when her lease expires next month, she’ll be going back home to live with her parents.

Seasoned bachelor Dr. Mark Falconer has returned home on a pit-stop to check on his ailing father, but home is the last place he wants to stay – despite Ballacrae’s white sandy beaches, ruined castles and coastal golf courses. In an attempt to avoid his meddling sisters - who’d love nothing more than to see him settle down with A Nice Local Girl - Mark throws himself into work, helping the local hospital get their surgical waiting list down. He’s determined to stay focused on the surgery and not get sucked back into small town life, but his physiotherapist has other ideas.

He’s traveled the world and isn’t ready to come home. She’s a homespun jeans-and-wellies girl who’s never ventured out of mainland Britain. He’s not looking for a wife and she’s certainly not looking for a confirmed bachelor, but now they’ve found each other, letting go isn’t an option.


Kimberly Buckner

Kimberly Buckner is active with RWA as a PRO member, and has used what she learned to teach at local writers' meetings and conferences. She won the 2014 Maggie, and the 2015 Emily,  and is a 2015 RWA® Golden Heart® Finalist. After fourteen fabulous years below the Mason-Dixon, Kimberly now makes her home in Denver.

She can be found online at:

www.kimberlybuckner.com

www.facebook.com/kimberlylinbuckner

www.twitter.com/K_L_Buckner

www.instagram.com/kimberly_buckner

Blurb for Call Me Mrs. Whitlock:

Della was wicked close to her dream of opening a wellness studio, when her boyfriend disappeared with all her money. With no leads and no help from the police, she must go to his small southern town and convince his friends and family she’s his wife so they’ll help her track the goob down.

Jude, a reluctant new fire chief, knows he’s the last person to be called a hero, but will do whatever he can to protect the people he loves. Even if it means keeping an eye on the mysterious woman who shows up claiming to be married to his AWOL former best friend. Della wants something, but clearly doesn’t plan to stay forever which should be fine. And yet, the longer she’s around, the less willing he is to see her leave. But Jude can’t let himself fall for Damien’s wife. Not again.

As Della and Jude become closer, its hard to deny their growing attraction. If she comes clean, will he help her find Jude? Or lead the party to drive her out of town?


Alice Faris

Alice Faris grew up in a small community in Northern California that proudly boasts of having more cows than people. She raised Guide Dogs for the Blind, is dyslexic, and can shoot a gun and miraculously never hit the target (which at some point becomes a statistical improbability). Alice also publishes science fiction and fantasy under the pen name Tina Gower, has won the Writers of the Future, and Daphne du Maurier Award for Mystery/Suspense (paranormal category).

@tinagower
@tinaalicefaris
blog: www.smashedpicketfences.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gowertina

Alice is represented by Rebecca Strauss at DeFiore and Company.

Blurb for Good Girl's Guide to Talking Dirty:

When budget cuts slash her school psychologist job, relationship-shy East Winters lands an interview across country for her dream job. She breaks all her strict rules and works as a phone sex operator to finance the trip. Worse, she hitches a cross-country ride with a hunky, emotionally unavailable truck driver. Soon she's counseling him for his intense anxiety issues from surviving a school shooting. Close quarter ignite an attraction that forces her to decide which is more important, her job or her heart.


Kelly Farmer

Kelly has been writing romance novels since junior high. In those days, the heroes were star quarterbacks on the high school football team who drove Corvettes and were named Brad. Now, she writes down to earth stories about the guys and girls next door. Her current manuscript, Puppy Love, takes place at a small-town animal shelter in a fictional southwest Michigan resort town.

When not writing, she enjoys walking her two spunky senior Labrador retrievers and following NHL hockey. Kelly lives in the Chicago suburbs, where she complains about the weather 300 days a year.

She is represented by Melissa Jeglinski at The Knight Agency.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellyfarmerauthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KellyFarmerAuth

Puppy Love:

Welcome to Serenity, Michigan, home of Two Hearts Pet Sanctuary. The animal shelter is a haven for cats and dogs and a cast of quirky characters. It’s “Where Two Hearts Become One”. Where two lost people find their way in Puppy Love.

Maggie Day has moved to small-town Serenity to start a new life as the veterinarian for the Two Hearts clinic. She’s hoping to find professional satisfaction and a place to call home while avoiding thoughts about her noncommittal ex-fiancée. Trevor Hart is trying to get back to his orderly, private life in Chicago. He’s been helping his mother at Two Hearts since his father’s sudden death. An established law career and peace and quiet await him in the big city. Brought together by a three-legged dog named Jenny, Maggie and Trevor learn that letting go of past hurt and the idea of a perfect life will lead to the home and contentment they’ve been searching for. Puppy Love is a story about finding yourself and true love where you least expect it. And Kurt Russell movies--it’s definitely about Kurt Russell movies.


Jen Gilroy

Jen Gilroy writes heart-warming contemporary romance about finding home, family and
happy ever after, and finding yourself too. She lives in England with her husband and tween daughter, but small-town Canada is still her heart’s home and writing inspiration. She loves cats and dogs (which find their way into her stories), ice cream and vintage style.

Port Fairlight Summer

What if everything you ever wanted is in the place you left behind?

Globe-trotting journalist Charlotte (Charlie) Gibbs isn’t into roots. Or family. Or reminders of Port Fairlight, the Canadian resort town where she spent childhood summers. But when her  last assignment almost kills her and she comes back to recover and sell the family cottage, she’s intent on letting go of the past she’s spent years avoiding.

Sean Carmichael is all about roots. And family. He had his heart broken by Charlie once but  the sexy single dad has moved on. Running the boat building business that’s been in his family for three generations, he likes his life just fine. All Sean wants is to stop Charlie from selling the cottage to a developer, and turning his ordered world upside down. The last thing Charlie and Sean expect is to still have feelings for each other. And when their no-strings fling turns serious, can they change enough to get what they both really

Agent: Represented by Dawn Dowdle, Blue Ridge Literary Agency

Website: www.jengilroy.com

Twitter: @JenGilroy1


Arianna James

Arianna James lives in the aptly named Valley of the Sun with her husband and their genetically ambiguous rescue dog. When not typing dictation for the voices in her head, she can be found baking, singing at the top of her lungs, or avidly consuming all types of fiction.  

Blurb for Caught on Film:

Having grown up hounded by paparazzi, Gwen Blackmore shuns the limelight and her famous parents’ help scaling Hollywood’s ladder of success. But her moment has finally come. After years toiling as a production assistant on America's #1 reality singing competition, she's offered a promotion with an up-and-coming network drama—as long as she makes it through the competition's current season without incident, that is. So when a harried escape from an overzealous fan sends show star Luke Grayson headlong into Gwen’s life, she can't risk offending the popular mentor, no matter how much she despises his rock star sense of entitlement and baffling efforts to be the most dated celebrity in Hollywood. Yet as their forced refuge continues, Gwen finds herself falling for the man beneath the public image. Too bad they can’t hide from the paparazzi forever—nor from the person whose obsession with Luke has taken on a sinister edge.  

Arianna is presently unagented and seeking representation.

Website and social media links:

www.ariannajames.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arianna-James/275178892662653
Twitter - https://twitter.com/AriannaRJames


Priscilla Kissinger

Pris is a romance writing, sports loving, beach going, super busy Latina single mom of three. Her  contemporary romances have a hearth and home tone, with a Latino flavor.  One of her  favorite mantras is: Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.  She loves pretty much anything by Suzanne Brockmann, love Tracy Brogan's contemporaries.

His Perfect Partner shares the love story between two people headed in different directions—one to the bright lights of Broadway, the other determined to lay down roots in their close-knit community. Until their paths collide.

Yazmine Fernandez is an experienced Broadway dancer struggling with the need to meet her family’s expectations and the personal sacrifices her career demands. Tomás Garcia is a single father and advertising whiz that has convinced himself his daughter and career success are enough.

When his nanny is called away for a personal emergency, Tomás realizes that instead of a nanny, he needs a partner to help parent his daughter.  But after his ex walked out because she valued her job more than family, he vowed never to fall for a woman who would view him and his child as a weight slowing her down. For Yazmine, changing her career plans would negate everything her ailing father sacrificed for her, every plan she’s ever made for herself, leaving her uncertain of who she is and where she belongs. But when she steps in to help care for Tomás’s daughter, her relationship with them both deepens. She and Tomás experience family life together, from every day ups and downs to a heart-breaking tragedy, and attraction sparks from initial awareness to a soul-stirring intensity. In the end, Tomás and Yazmine must choose between the separate paths they have been stubbornly trying to forge and a new one that could ultimately lead to their Perfect Partner.

Pris is represented by Rebecca Strauss with Defiore and Company.

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/prisakiss   @prisakiss

website:  www.prisakiss.com

Instagram: @prisakiss


Kelly Sikind

A small-town girl at heart, Kelly moved from the city to open a cheese shop with her husband in Northern Ontario. When she's not neck deep in cheese or out hiking, you can find her, notepad in hand, scribbling down one of the many plot bunnies bouncing around in her head.

Blurb for Chasing Crazy:

Pininfarina's rise to shame began the moment her father branded her with those five syllables. Predictably, her reinvention as Nina, non-disaster magnet, tanks within seventy-two hours. In New Zealand. All it takes is scalding soup and a picture-happy mean girl. Then there's mayhem-inducing Sam. Falling for his infuriating self has no place in her fiasco-free life plan. Not when her coordination nosedives in his presence, and landing him means owning her crazy.

Kelly is represented by Stacey Donaghy of the Donaghy Literary Group




Not to keep you on the edge of your seat (see what I did there?!?!?!), but drop by next week to meet the ladies who are the Golden Heart Romantic Suspense finalists!