We are just ONE WEEK away from the release of my new Christmas romance, HOLDING OUT FOR A HOLIDAY HERO!

But if you want to get started reading right now…I’ve got the first chapter up on my website.

Ho, ho, ho!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween! Be spooky and have fun!

It’s book release day!!! My new romantic suspense, WHEN HE PROTECTS, is available now!

“This is fun, smexy, romantic suspense at its best!” – Carvanz, BookBub Review (Thank you, Carvanz!)

I loved writing this book–and I so hope that you will enjoy it! It’s 80,000 words, has a guaranteed happy ending, and, of course…plenty of danger, steam, and humor are packed in the pages.

Super protective U.S. Marshal hero (He takes protecting and defending to a whole new level…)

Bad girl heroine (Though she prefers the term “slightly shady”)

Pretend relationship/undercover bodyguard situation (You have to be careful with those pretend relationships. You blink, and they might just become real.)

Only one bed situation (How did that happen??)

Opposites attracting at a red-hot rate (Be careful–someone may get burned.)

Small-town romance/Fish out of water (Welcome to Asylum, Alabama.)

Touch her and he will unalive you before you can blink. (He’s really good at that sort of thing.)

You can read the first chapter right now.

WHEN HE PROTECTS will release on 10/29…but you can read the first chapter right now! I’ve got it up on my website.

He knew she was trouble from the moment they met.

Esme Laurent is a con artist. An accomplished liar. A world-class thief. And probably the most beautiful and intriguing woman that Tyler Barrett has ever met. Sure, he has to arrest her at their first meeting, and she absolutely hates him, but…well, he has a job to do. And Tyler always gets the job done.

Turns out, she is the new job.

The people in charge want to use Esme to bring down a very dangerous criminal operation. And in order to do that, Esme has to stay in the land of the living. She needs protection, she needs a new identity, and she needs to disappear, immediately. Because Esme has more than a bit of power, she makes her own deal…her protection needs to come in the ever-so-gorgeous, ever-so-dangerous, and ever-so-law-abiding form of U.S. Marshal Tyler Barrett.

They’ll disappear into Small Town, USA. And they’ll pretend to be newlyweds who just can’t keep their hands off each other.

No, absolutely, this cannot be happening. But no matter how much Tyler protests, the new job is, in fact, happening. He’s being sent to Asylum, Alabama, with the delectable Esme. He’s supposed to be her husband—a role that will give him twenty-four, seven access in order to protect her. He needs that access in order to make sure that Esme doesn’t run from the authorities and that she stays alive. But what Tyler doesn’t count on is the consuming desire he feels for a woman who should be off-limits.

She’ll test every limit that he has…

Esme doesn’t expect her attraction to the rule-following Tyler. He’s big, he’s buttoned-down, and he’s absolutely…delicious. She also suspects that he may be carefully controlling a wild side—one that she would love to see erupt. Oh, if only.

When danger comes calling, Tyler is more than ready to handle any threat. Who knew that falling for the good guy could be so tempting? And so very…heart-breaking. Because there was no way a guy like Tyler would want to stay around once they stop pretending. Everyone knows the bad girl never gets to keep the good guy, especially when she’s still working a very long con.

We are less than three weeks away from the 10/29/24 release of WHEN HE PROTECTS, so I wanted to start sharing teasers with you!

“I want you.” In so many ways. For so many things. “That’s a non-negotiable point in any deal that is made.  I want you. You’ll be my bodyguard. My shadow. My hero. My protector. My twenty-four, seven companion until all the danger has passed. It will be you and me. Until the bitter end.”  Now she did smile at him. “Doesn’t that sound amazing?”