Contest winner and new cover!

Yay! Jennifer and I have a winner for our OLDIES FOR NEWBIES blog contest!

It's Susan, schaballa. Congratulations Susan! Thanks everyone who entered the contest. And for all those who are itching for another contest, I'm running one on my website and giving away a handmade jewelry box. Click here to get more information.

In other news, I FINISHED the book! YAY! My second Nocturne is done! It's tentatively titled Enemy Lover and is Damian's story from The Empath. It's set in New Orleans. Love that city. We visited back in April and did everything from riding the street car to City Park to eating at Brennan's.

Oh yeah, got some great news this week! Found out The Empath, my first Nocturne, made Bookscan's list of Top 100 Bestselling Romance! Yay!

My next release after The Empath, which is officially out this month, is The Scorpion& the Seducer. Another Egyptian historical. Here's the cover. Let me know what you think. It's Nathan Kemp. I like how he's staring at her like he's really conflicted. Should I? Or shouldn't I? Scorpion is Jasmine's story from The Cobra & the Concubine. And the seducer is Lord Thomas Claradon, an earl's heir who falls in love with her, but it's a forbidden love as she's outcast from high society.

Have a great Sunday. I'm going to celebrate finishing my book by cleaning the house and hunting down dust bunnies.

ENTER OUR OLDIES FOR NEWBIES CONTEST!

Five years ago this month, Jennifer Ashley and I published our first romance novels with Dorchester. Jennifer's book, PERILS OF THE HEART, was a pirate romance. My book, THE FALCON & THE DOVE, was a sheikh romance.

So we decided to mate pirates with sheikhs and our new venture is a sheikh who sails the sands and ends up wandering the shelves of a large mass market merchandiser as he searches for himself. We're calling it PERILS OF THE WALMART.

Just kidding. But we ARE celebrating the anniversary of our debut books. So we're running a very special blog contest.

All you have to do is list in either this blog's comment section or Jennifer's blog comments section the name of the heroines in each of the following debut Dorchester author books:

Forecast by Jana Tara
Grace by Deneane Clark
Divorced, Desperate, and Delicious by Christie Craig
Star Crash by Elyssa Hendricks

To give you a hint, here's a link to Dorchester's new releases page.

One lucky winner will receive one free book from both my backlist and Jennifer's. For my backlist, this includes the Spanish copies of either THE FALCON & THE DOVE or THE TIGER AND THE TOMB.

As a bonus, Colleen Thompson has offered to throw in one of her backlist books as well. Book lists can be found at Jennifer's website and my website and Colleen's website.

Contest ends November 30. Happy hunting!!!