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My favorite author of the moment, Jill Shalvis has great news! With the success of her last three books in the Lucky Harbor series, Shalvis is contracted for three more books! Wheee!!! The next book will be called...drumroll, please!.. IT HAD TO BE YOU!! Such a great title!

IT HAD TO BE YOU is Luke's book and will release on May 28, 2013 (*whines*). Check out the cover!

*Annie makes grabby hands* WANNNNT!

Here's a fantastic teaser excerpt to further torture  indulge readers....

Lieutenant Detective Luke Hanover had been away from the San Francisco Police Department for exactly one day of his three week leave and already he’d lost his edge, walking into his grandma’s Lucky Harbor beach house to find a B&E perp standing in the kitchen. 

She sure as hell was the prettiest petty thief he’d ever come across, at least from the back since she was wearing nothing but a white lace bra and a tiny scrap of matching white lace panties. 

“You have some nerve you… you ratfink bastard,” she snapped into her cell phone, waving her free hand for emphasis, her long, wildly wavy brown hair flying around her head as she moved. 

And that wasn’t all that moved. She was a bombshell, all sweet, womanly curves, barely contained in her undies. 

“I want you to know,” she went on furiously, still not seeing Luke, “there’s no way in hell I’m accepting your break-up message. You hear me, Teddy? I’m not accepting it because I’m breaking up with you. And while we’re at it, who even does that? Who breaks up with someone by text? I’ll tell you who, Teddy, a real jerk, that’s who– Hello? Dammit!” 

 Pulling the phone from her ear, she stared at the screen and then punched a few keys before whipping it back up to her ear. “Your voice mail cut me off before I finished,” she said. “You having sex in your office while I was in the building? Totally cliché. But not telling me that you weren’t planning to resign the lease? That’s just rotten to the core, Teddy. And don’t bother calling me back on this. Oh, wait, that’s right, you don’t call – you text!” She punched the “off” button on her phone and tossed it to the counter, hands on hips, steam coming out her ears. Then she thunked her forehead against the refrigerator a few times before going stock still, her head pressed to the cool, steel door.

Had she knocked herself out? Luke wondered. 

“It’s just one bad day,” she whispered, still in the perfect position for him to pat her down for weapons. 

Not that she was carrying – well, except for that lethal bod. 

“Just one really rotten, badass day,” she repeated softly, and Luke had to disagree. 

“Not from where I’m standing,” he said.

*Excerpt courtesy of Jill Shalvis's blog.

If you haven't read this series, then I highly suggest you do. You are seriously missing out! Since I have my pimp hand out, I might as well point you in the direction of this....SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE, book 1 in the Lucky Harbor series is currently 99 cents!!!! You can purchase your copy now.

Simply Irresistible (A Lucky Harbor Novel)

In other great news, Sarah MacLean recently released the cover of book 2 in The Second Rule of Scoundrels series, ONE GOOD EARL DESERVES A LOVER. What do you think of the cover?

I think it's very elegant and pretty! I'm very much looking forward to this book! According to MacLean's website, ONE GOOD EARL DESERVES A LOVER is set to release on January 29, 2013.

Kitty Rocks the House is the 11th book in the Kitty Norville series, set to release March 26, 2013!  This might be my favorite "picture" of Kitty.  Can't wait to read what troubles Kitty will get into next.

And in HOT AS HELL cover news.... NIGHT RESURRECTED by Joss Ware will release February 26, 2013.6th book in her Envy Chronicles series and a "must-have-on-my-shelf" book because that guy is ...PERFECTION. *Francesca needs a moment*


And last but not least, Larissa Ione has revealed the NEW cover of ROGUE RIDER! This is Reseph's book set to release this November! What do you think of the brand new cover?

*New cover first revealed at Happy Ever After blog.

ARC Review: Night Forbidden by Joss Ware

Night Forbidden

by Joss Ware

(Envy Chronicles # 5)

OK so Joss Ware has changed my mind. I've never picked up a apocalyptic book but I have to say that she made me like this genre. I tend to think of I am Legend when thinking of apocalyptic stories. So this is my first book in the Envy Chronicles that I have read, but after reading this book I'm continuing on to book one.  

"Fence took a healthy gulp of beer. That was, at least, one thing that hadn’t disappeared since the Change. Man hadn’t forgotten the important things in life."  My girls would love this. LOL

Can you imagine a world like this "And by “number,” Elliott meant room number. No one had phones anymore, or even email, and definitely not Facebook." I can do without Facebook, but emails.... really. I pray that there's books, or I'll go stir crazy.

In this book we see that the world is overpopulated by Zombies and the western part of the USA is GONE. And get this there's Merfolks (I love Merpeople sorry) 50 years into the future we meet Fence and a couple of other guys who were trapped in the Sedona cave, they’d somehow time-traveled or slept through fifty years without aging. And if you ask me that's cool. Some of the men came out of the cave with special abilities. Fence not being one of them but he still kicked major ass. 

Loved how Fence and Ana were good for each other. They were like a puzzle that fit so well together. Ana was a cool heroine and I really liked her and her ability (being able to breathe under water).  She wasn't a damsel in distress, so in my book she was also kick ass.

I'm really excited to start this series from the beginning and continuing when the next book comes out. I would recommend this book/series to anyone looking for a little twist to paranormal romance and a kick ass story.


*ARC provided by publisher

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Interview and Giveaway with Joss Ware

Joss Ware

Thank you so much for stopping by UTC today!Thank you so much for having me!

Did you always know you wanted to be an author when you grew up?
I did! Laura Ingalls Wilder was my hero. I wanted to grow up and write stories just like she did. My mom used to say things like, “You’re going to be just like John-Boy Walton, aren’t you?” (I’m aware this reference might be lost on the younger crowd.)

What made you decide to write the paranormal genre?
I’ve always loved stories with a ghostly tinge to them—Nancy Drew mysteries and Scooby-Doo (even though they always ended up having a human behind the “supernatural” element). I am a firm believer that there are things that we don’t understand in this world—ghosts and angels and different layers of consciousness. With that in mind, I felt that the sky’s the limit on imagination when it comes to writing.

Since you write under different pen names, what are some of the reasons authors choose to do this?
Often times the publisher likes an author to differentiate the genres or series he/she writes by using different names. It could also be because a different series might be written for a different publisher, and for whatever reason, they want to launch the author/position the books in a certain way. At the end of the day, most of the time a writer writes under a different name is because the publisher has requested it.

For readers who are new to your writing, can you please tell us about the Envy Chronicles?
The Envy Chronicles is a paranormal romance series set about fifty years after the earth is destroyed through cataclysmic events. Most of the population died, and civilization was disrupted.

The series centers around five men who were trapped in caves in Sonoma, Arizona, during the events. Somehow they were either frozen in time or time traveled fifty years into the future, emerging from the cave well after the Change. They find themselves in a new world, having lost everything they ever knew. The series is about these men as they struggle to find a new life, and a purpose for their survival, in this new environment.

The paranormal element comes in with the time travel and the fact that each of the men seems to have acquired a superhuman ability during the “sleep” in the caves.

Each book focuses on one hero and his heroine, although there are over-arching romance and suspense plots throughout the series.

The best way to describe the books is Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooters meets LOST and I Am Legend.

Congrats! NIGHT BETRAYED, book 4 in the Envy Chronicles recently received the 2012 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in the Fantasy/Futuristic/Paranormal Category!!! What was your first thought when you heard of this wonderful news?
I was ecstatic! This series is such an unusual setting and type of romance novel that I think people are sometimes put off from reading it. They’re afraid it’s going to be too depressing, reading about a “changed” world. The news that Night Betrayed won the contest gives me hope that more people will take the chance on reading the books. I’ve had nothing but positive feedback from readers and reviewers on the series, despite the “dark” elements of the books.

In a series, how do you figure out which heroine will end up with each hero?
Ha! That’s a good question. Since this is a hero-centric series (ie, I started with the heroes), I generally construct the heroine to “match” her hero—to complement him and/or be a foil for him and his backstory. However, before I did that, I had a few women characters in mind (eg, Zoë, the smart-mouthed zombie hunter, and Sage, the quiet, computer-genius librarian)…and so I had to figure out which hero made the most sense (ie, the most interesting story/conflict) and which heroine would bring that hero to his knees, so to speak.

Each of these men are so conflicted and destroyed because of their grief and guilt for surviving the terrible events that the women he falls in love with has to fill the void in that man’s life.

When writing a series, how do you figure out who gets a book next?
That is always difficult. Sometimes it depends on how soon I want elements of the plot to be revealed. For example, Theo, who wasn’t in the cave with the other five guys, but who has his own “ability” couldn’t have his book until certain plot events for the over-arching storyline were revealed. And Wyatt, whose book I’m writing now (the 6th book) had to be the last of the five Sedona men because of his backstory—he had a wife and kids he lost in the time travel/Change, and he had to have time to work through that loss before he could be ready to love again.

Is there one particular heroine of your books that you most identify with?
Each of my heroines has an element of “me” that I identify with. And in each of them, it’s a little bit different. But the one over-arching, consistent thing about every single one of my heroines—regardless of which story, series, setting, etc., I’m writing—is that she finds a life/love partner who accepts her for who she is, who accepts her strengths to his weaknesses, who allows her to be stronger or weaker than he in certain ways, and who allows her to be herself. That is the part of the heroine I always identify with.

If you could read one book again for the first time, which one would it be?
The Harry Potter series.

Quick fire questions:

What was the last movie you watched? The Avengers!!! W00T!! Loved it!

What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
Read, cook, watch TV/movies, and garden.

What is the last book you read?
What Angels Fear by C. S. Harris

Morning person or Night Owl? Depends whether I’m on deadline or not! LOL. I am really neither. I am a middle of the road girl, except when I’m on deadline or hanging out with friends. Then I stay up later.   
Website: http://www.joss-ware.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Joss_Ware
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joss.ware

Regency London – a dizzying whirl of balls and young ladies pursued by charming men.

But the Woodmore sisters are hunted by a more sinister breed: Lucifer's own.

Voss, also known as Viscount Dewhurst, relishes the sensual pleasures immortality affords. A member the Dracule – a cabal of powerful, secretive noblemen marked with a talisman that reveals their bartered souls – the mercenary Voss has remained carefully neutral ... until Angelica.

Angelica Woodmore possess the Sight, an ability invaluable to both sides of a looming war among the Dracule. Her very scent envelops Voss in a scarlet fog of hunger – for her body and her blood. But he is utterly unprepared for the new desire that overcomes him – to protect her.

Now Voss must battle his very nature to be with Angelica ... but this vampire never backs down from a fight.

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