It’s my birthday party, but I won’t dare shed a tear! Birthdays are all about spreading joy, so guess what? I’ve got a treat for you! Drop a comment on my Facebook Fan Page and tag your bestie (one per comment) for a shot at snagging a copy of my upcoming May 21 book SABOTAGE OPERATION and a $15 Gift Card. Hurry, the magical deadline is midnight EST on March 9! Oh, and here’s a little bonus for everyone: grab the At the Shore Box Set with three sizzling romances for just 99 cents! Dive into tales of enemies turned lovers, second chances, and friendships blooming into love. Get your hands on the box set at https://amzn.to/3vQaASW and let the birthday bash begin! P.S. – If you don’t want to wait and see if you win SABOTAGE OPERATION, you can pre-order it at https://amzn.to/46h5lIf.
So excited that so many people shared their hometowns during the giveaway! It was so nice to learn about where you all live and see some of the lovely photos. Thank you! The winner of the giveaway is Capri Gay! Congrats!
And now I’m sharing a teaser and excerpt from Trapping a Terrorist, my 25th release for Harlequin. It’s a story with adventure, suspense, romance and tortured heroes. I hope you’ll enjoy this little look at it!
Teaser
An FBI agent puts everything on the line…
To keep a deadly threat at bay.
When FBI agent Miguel Peters and his father land squarely in the crosshairs of a bomber terrorizing Seattle, the last thing Miguel wants is to also entangle a lovely stranger in a terrorist’s web. Yet while Maisy Oliver might look innocent, her father’s one of the most notorious men in Washington State. Miguel knows Maisy will do anything to help him and his team catch a killer. But does that include confronting a past she’s worked far too long to forget?
From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.
Discover more action-packed stories in the Behavioral Analysis Unit series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:
As soon as they were through the door, he released her hand and they stepped apart, gazing at each other, obviously uncomfortable. He broke the tension with a flip of his hand in the direction of the Murphy bed.
“I’m going to be working and you’re probably sore. Maybe you should take the bed tonight so you’re more comfortable.”
She opened her mouth, as if to object, but then just nodded. Clasping her hands before her, she said, “Thanks. But there’s room for you as well.”
And there was the eight-hundred-pound gorilla in the room again, and he might as well address it. Walking up to her, he cradled her cheek and stroked his thumb across her creamy skin. So smooth. So soft. His gut tightened at the thought of all that skin against his and she was more than he could resist.
Bending closer, he brought his lips to hers until only the space of a breath was between them. “This,” he said, whispered his lips across hers and shifted back barely an inch. “This is why that’s not a good idea.”
In answer, Maisy reached up and cupped the back of his head, keeping him close. “This,” she said, repeating his earlier action, her lips a butterfly kiss against his. “This is why we have to share that bed. Whatever happens, I don’t want to say that I ran from this. From us.”
A low groan escaped him, and he couldn’t fight it anymore. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her close, her softness crushed to his hardness. Every inch of her fitting to him as if they were two pieces of a puzzle.
Over and over they kissed, until their breaths became one and almost ceased to exist as they strained toward each other.
But then something registered. Sound. Vibration.
“Damn,” he said and fumbled with the phone in his jacket pocket, dropping it with a thud.
That sound killed the desire as effectively as a cold bucket of water.
“SSA Peters,” he said, and mouthed an apology to her.
“We’ve broken through one of the shell companies and like you thought, it’s part of Rothwell Industries,” Dashiell advised.
“That’s great, Dash. We’re one step closer to Rothwell. I’m sure he’s the mastermind behind this,” Miguel said.
“I agree, Miguel. We’ll keep on working to break past the other shell. Hopefully it’ll lead to Rothwell also.”
“I don’t doubt that it will and if we can get Adams into custody, maybe he will flip on Rothwell. As for the licensed blaster, I think there’s one on our list that’s at Rothwell’s current construction site. If you can get an address for him, I’ll go with Madeline to interview him.”
“We’ll try to get it ASAP,” Dashiell said and ended the call.
Miguel tossed the phone onto a nearby tabletop and it clattered noisily, making Maisy jump and take a step away from him.
“You need to get to work,” she said and smoothed her hand across his chest.
“I do. Why don’t you—”
The phone rang and vibrated noisily on the tabletop.
“Again?” Miguel muttered in frustration, swept up the phone and answered, “SSA Peters.”
“We’ve got the address for the blaster from his license application and his photo from his driver’s license,” Madeline said.
“Great. Meet me in the lobby. We’ll speak to him and see what he has to say,” Miguel directed.
Facing Maisy, he said, “I have to go.”
“I understand. I’ll be waiting up for you.”
The last bit of emptiness inside him disappeared at the thought of Maisy waiting for him at home. A home and not just a place to lay his head between investigations.
“That’ll be nice. I’ll make sure an agent is at the door while I’m gone,” he stated and rushed to the door, Maisy following.
At the door he faced her, bent and kissed her, a long, slow kiss filled with promise.
I love writing stories with intense action, tempting romance, and tortured heroes. Trapping a Terrorist has all of those us with an exciting storyline about an FBI Agent fighting to stop a serial bomber in Seattle and a woman who may hold the key to his investigation. Not to mention that both the hero and heroine are battling the wounds of their pasts. The hero’s mother was an FBI Agent killed in the line of duty and the heroine’s father is a bomber in jail for eco-terrorism. So today I’m sharing a teaser and excerpt from Trapping a Terrorist.
Teaser
An FBI agent puts everything on the line…
To keep a deadly threat at bay.
When FBI agent Miguel Peters and his father land squarely in the crosshairs of a bomber terrorizing Seattle, the last thing Miguel wants is to also entangle a lovely stranger in a terrorist’s web. Yet while Maisy Oliver might look innocent, her father’s one of the most notorious men in Washington State. Miguel knows Maisy will do anything to help him and his team catch a killer. But does that include confronting a past she’s worked far too long to forget?
From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.
Discover more action-packed stories in the Behavioral Analysis Unit series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:
As soon as they were through the door, he released her hand and they stepped apart, gazing at each other, obviously uncomfortable. He broke the tension with a flip of his hand in the direction of the Murphy bed.
“I’m going to be working and you’re probably sore. Maybe you should take the bed tonight so you’re more comfortable.”
She opened her mouth, as if to object, but then just nodded. Clasping her hands before her, she said, “Thanks. But there’s room for you as well.”
And there was the eight-hundred-pound gorilla in the room again, and he might as well address it. Walking up to her, he cradled her cheek and stroked his thumb across her creamy skin. So smooth. So soft. His gut tightened at the thought of all that skin against his and she was more than he could resist.
Bending closer, he brought his lips to hers until only the space of a breath was between them. “This,” he said, whispered his lips across hers and shifted back barely an inch. “This is why that’s not a good idea.”
In answer, Maisy reached up and cupped the back of his head, keeping him close. “This,” she said, repeating his earlier action, her lips a butterfly kiss against his. “This is why we have to share that bed. Whatever happens, I don’t want to say that I ran from this. From us.”
A low groan escaped him, and he couldn’t fight it anymore. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her close, her softness crushed to his hardness. Every inch of her fitting to him as if they were two pieces of a puzzle.
Over and over they kissed, until their breaths became one and almost ceased to exist as they strained toward each other.
But then something registered. Sound. Vibration.
“Damn,” he said and fumbled with the phone in his jacket pocket, dropping it with a thud.
That sound killed the desire as effectively as a cold bucket of water.
“SSA Peters,” he said, and mouthed an apology to her.
“We’ve broken through one of the shell companies and like you thought, it’s part of Rothwell Industries,” Dashiell advised.
“That’s great, Dash. We’re one step closer to Rothwell. I’m sure he’s the mastermind behind this,” Miguel said.
“I agree, Miguel. We’ll keep on working to break past the other shell. Hopefully it’ll lead to Rothwell also.”
“I don’t doubt that it will and if we can get Adams into custody, maybe he will flip on Rothwell. As for the licensed blaster, I think there’s one on our list that’s at Rothwell’s current construction site. If you can get an address for him, I’ll go with Madeline to interview him.”
“We’ll try to get it ASAP,” Dashiell said and ended the call.
Miguel tossed the phone onto a nearby tabletop and it clattered noisily, making Maisy jump and take a step away from him.
“You need to get to work,” she said and smoothed her hand across his chest.
“I do. Why don’t you—”
The phone rang and vibrated noisily on the tabletop.
“Again?” Miguel muttered in frustration, swept up the phone and answered, “SSA Peters.”
“We’ve got the address for the blaster from his license application and his photo from his driver’s license,” Madeline said.
“Great. Meet me in the lobby. We’ll speak to him and see what he has to say,” Miguel directed.
Facing Maisy, he said, “I have to go.”
“I understand. I’ll be waiting up for you.”
The last bit of emptiness inside him disappeared at the thought of Maisy waiting for him at home. A home and not just a place to lay his head between investigations.
“That’ll be nice. I’ll make sure an agent is at the door while I’m gone,” he stated and rushed to the door, Maisy following.
At the door he faced her, bent and kissed her, a long, slow kiss filled with promise.
This is one of my fav books of all time. Glamorous Monaco. Hair-raising suspense. A cat burglar and crown jewels waiting to be snatched. A prince in hiding and of course, romance. I just loved writing TO CATCH A PRINCESS and I hope you’ll take a moment to check it out at https://www.caridad.com/books/suspense/to-catch-a-princess/.
I have to confess that I only watched the first few seasons of SUPERNATURAL, but I feel your pain at losing your show after so many years. It’s how I felt when Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended. It was so hard to know that there would be no new season to watch. One of the reasons I watched SUPERNATURAL was for hottie Jensen Ackles. He’s just so handsome! I tried to imagine if Jensen could be the hero in any of my books and decided he could definitely play Jase Hart, the military hero in JUST ONE NIGHT, or Jonathan Pierce, the tech guru from WHAT HAPPENS IN SUMMER. If you’re a fan of Jensen, don’t fear! You’ll see him in 2021 playing Soldier Boy on THE BOYS.
Photo Courtesy of Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Happy Friday! I am so excited about the re-release of HONOR CALLS, one of the novellas in The Calling is Reborn Vampire novels. This story features vampire slayer Michaela and FBI ADIC Jesus Hernandez and it’s a very emotional and sexy story that sets up Jesus and Michaela’s full story in DIE FOR LOVE. In HONOR CALLS you get to see the vampire underground in New York City and experience how Jesus doesn’t believe in things that go bump in the night until he sees Michaela stake a vampire right before his eyes. Even then it’s hard for him to accept what’s right before his eyes, but he can’t ignore it or Michaela who intrigues him on multiple levels. If you’d like to check out HONOR CALLS, it’s free over at Kindle Unlimited. You can find it at https://amzn.to/33nXtru. If you do read it, please take a moment to leave an honest review as these really do help authors.
I loved Diego and his faithfulness to his lover when he first showed up in DANGER CALLS. I knew he had to have a happy ending after things went badly for him in that story. A Spanish nobleman who converted during the Inquisition, he was betrayed by his wife for his infidelity and died but vowed to be a better “man” as a vampire. Diego has truly kept that promise so his story was a pleasure to write! If I had to cast Diego in the movie version of BLOOD CALLS, I think the right actor would be Danilo Carrera. He just has that elegant look that I would expect from a nobleman like Diego! Also, don’t forget to enter the Grab Bag Giveaway by following me on Bookbub! You can get the details at https://www.facebook.com/Caridad.Author/posts/10157154578330913. Photo Credit Caleb Castillo / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).
