Thank you all for being here to help us celebrate the release of The Naughty Nine. Im Karen Fenech and Ill be with you right until the party ends tonight at 11 pm. Joining me will be my awesome guest New York Times Bestselling Author Caridad Pineiro! Yay, Caridad! Im thrilled to be part of this boxed set. How do we describe our collection of stories and the men who star in them? We say these heroes know how to work undercover and under the covers! We love them and think you will too. My book in the set is SNOWBOUND, Book 2 in my Protectors Series. My hero, Gage Broderick, is a man haunted by a traumatic event in his recent past but hes a Protector to his core and will fight to the death to find and apprehend the leader of a human trafficking ring and to protect the woman he cant help but fall in love with. Ive posted the back cover copy and a brief excerpt for SNOWBOUND that I hope youll enjoy. Gage is a bad boy hero. Theres something about a bad boy that is irresistible. : ) Lets have some fun with that! Tell us in the comments: Who is one of your favorite Bad Boy Heroes? He can be from TV, movies, or books. Heres one of my favorites—Damon Salvatore from TVs The Vampire Diaries. Damon doesnt always start out being the hero. Sometimes his actions appear downright villainous : ), but in the end, Damon comes through. And who could forget his line to the love of his life, Elena, after one of his actions was called into question. Damon to Elena: Let me be clear about something ... I will always choose you. Wow and :Swoon: Yeah, hes a bad boy hero, all right. : ) Heres the back cover copy for SNOWBOUND ... When her cover is blown in a criminal operation to apprehend a human trafficker, FBI Special Agent Mallory Burke is put in a car destined for a mountain cabin to be tortured and killed. But a snow storm results in an accident that leaves all but Mallory dead and she finds herself in the midst of the raging storm and in the care of Police Captain Gage Broderick. Mallorys relief that Gage is a cop is short lived. He has secrets of his own. Gage is haunted by an incident in his recent past. The last thing he wants is to become embroiled in Mallorys investigation - or to feel this powerful attraction to her. But the lives of twelve women depend on Mallory and Gage working together to stop this man - the womens lives and now Mallorys life. He knows about her. He knows where she is. And he wants her dead. Heres an EXCERPT. Gage crouched by the fireplace and took wood from the crate. He struck a match, and brought it to several pieces of kindling. As the flames caught, one by one he tossed each strip of wood into the fire. Mallory shivered. She left the couch and moved close to the flames. Gage added more wood, a few thick logs that looked like they’d burn for hours. “We’re going to need to stay close to the fire if we’re going to stay warm,” Gage said. He went into the bedroom, dragged the mattress in front of the fireplace, then took several blankets and comforters from the linen closet and added them to what was already on the bed. “All yours.” Mallory lowered herself onto the mattress and got beneath the mound of covers Gage had provided. For himself, Gage moved the armchair from the living room and brought it to the hearth. He put on the other parka then took a seat. A silence ensued in which only the wind and the pop and hiss of the logs in the fire could be heard. For her part, Mallory couldn’t have made conversation if she’d wanted to. Though Gage had placed the mattress as close to the fire as possible, she was still freezing. Her teeth chattered nonstop and her body trembled from the cold. Gage rose from the chair with a creak of leather and then his shadow fell across Mallory. “We need to get you warm.” He joined her on the mattress, setting his gun down within easy reach. He lifted the blankets briefly while he got under them with her, then lay on his side and put his arms around her. Mallory hesitated, battling with awkwardness at being pressed up against a man she hardly knew. It was ridiculous to feel embarrassed after she’d been so exposed to him while he’d tended to her injuries and treated her illness, yet she did. But the delicious heat he offered overrode her embarrassment. Meeting his gaze, she nodded and leaned into him. He hadn’t fastened his jacket and now wrapped that around her as well. She was snug in his arms. Her cheek rested against his hard chest. Though they were both fully clothed and also wore overcoats, their position was unquestionably intimate. Pressed tight as they were, light couldn’t pass between them and when her gaze traveled upward, she saw each individual whisker that darkened his strong jaw. She lowered her gaze not liking that her eyes had wandered. Well, okay, what else was she supposed to look at? Gage filled her range of vision. Or so she told herself . . . Amazon US amazon/Naughty-Nine-Nina-Bruhns-ebook/dp/B00KIYL908/?tag=prmsautofyaou-20 Apple/iTunes: bit.ly/Naughty9iT Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/Naughty9BN Kobo: bit.ly/Naughty9Ko Amazon UK: bit.ly/Naughty9AMZUK
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:01:20 +0000