1.
What inspired you to write your newest book? Ashby and Gabriel would
not leave me alone. I just knew they would be next in the series.
2.
Who is your favorite character in the book? Why? Actually, I liked
Roman the best. Someday I would love to do outtakes from this book from
his perspective. I love his deadpan, dry sense of humor.
3.
How do you pick your titles? Half the time I know the title before I
start. It usually is a theme that runs throughout the book.
4.
What is your current project? Finishing up book six, Fated Surrender,
Connor's book. Then immediately jumping into my Christmas book for
Arkadia. I've been dying to write it. I actually increased my production
schedule to get the Christmas book in, so the timelines would be right.
5.
If you interviewed yourself, what question would you ask, and what
would
you answer? I would have to say "What is your favorite thing about
writing?" I could ask myself this question every year and probably get a
different answer every year. At first I loved creating new worlds and
seeing what my characters would do. But now, I would have to say I love
my readers. Every fan email or review makes all the coffee seem worth it
:)
Blurb:
Ashby Fairfax has always looked for love
in the wrong places. His last attempt left him running from an abusive
boyfriend. Since coming to Arkadia, life has been great. He finally has
the family he has always craved. Only one thing is missing, his mate.
But how can a small-town fox shifter be mated to a vampire prince?
Prince Gabriel has led his people through
the ages and into the twenty-first century. He is on the verge of
losing his soul when he catches the scent of what may be his mate. Once
Ashby is confirmed as his, it seems their troubles begin.
Someone is after Ashby. Gabriel’s entire
coven rallies around their new prince, and for the first time in his
existence, Gabriel experiences bone-numbing fear. Can he find the
strength to send Ashby to Arkadia to ensure his safety? And will he be
able to eliminate the threat before he loses his reason for living?
Excerpt:
Rebecca frowned and swung her head back to Ashby.
“Did he hurt you, Ashers?” she said,
making sure she made eye contact. He looked away and shrugged. She
grabbed the hem of his shirt and manhandled it up over his head. It got
stuck around his ears, but she had somehow managed to get his bruised
arm free.
“Kate! Look at this. That asshole Marcus
Evans has hurt Ashby, we need to arrest him!” she said, waving Ashby’s
arm around. Ashby got his arm free and managed to pull his shirt down
from where it had been lodged around his head and put his arms through
the sleeves.
“It’s OK, Moe ran him off. Even Marcus isn’t stupid enough to mess around with Moe,” Ashby said grinning.
“No kidding, Moe would eat him for breakfast before coming to you for his banana split,” Nic said, laughing. Kate snorted.
“Mojo,” She chortled.
“Kate, it can’t still be funny,” Bran
said from across the diner, where he and Caleb waited for their order
holding the trio’s twin sons, Landon and Lucas.
“Mojo, Jojo,” Kate giggled. Rebecca, whose anger was fading, smiled.
“OK, it is kinda funny,” Rebecca said.
“As long as it doesn’t hurt his feelings,
it could hurt him to hear something like that all the time,” Ashby said
quietly. Rebecca nodded. Kate grinned.
“Ashby you’re so sweet,” Rebecca said hugging Ashby’s arm. He blushed.
“He’s OK with it because I told him that
he was totally hot and that’s why it was so funny, because it was
completely opposite to how he looked. The man is downright fuckable,”
Kate said and two ominous growls were heard from the counter. She blew
kisses to her mates. Rebecca nodded.
“I’d totally do him,” she said without
thought, and a long low rumble echoed from the door. Rebecca turned in
her chair and her eyes brightened.
“Hi, baby, how was work?” she asked, turning her face up for a kiss.
“Do who?” Aleks demanded and he stalked over to where his tiny mate sat and kissed her lovingly.
“Moe Jones. Kate and I agreed the man is fuckable,” Rebecca said.
“Girls, language!” Ma yelled from the kitchen.
“Yes Ma!” both women called out and then grinned at each other.
Aleks looked down at his mate frowning.
“You don’t need to think about doing
anyone but me,” Aleks said, bending down to stare his mate in the eyes.
She looked up impishly.
“Aleks, Marcus Evans went into Ashby’s
shop and hurt him today. He has bruises on his arms. I’m getting a bad
feeling about him,” Rebecca said as Aleks easily lifted her up, sat down
in her chair, and settled her in his lap.
“Ashby, do you want to press charges?” Aleks asked, concern on his face. Ashby shook his head.
“No. He has never done anything more than
harass me. I have a feeling if I press charges it would only escalate
the issue. As long as he keeps his hands to himself then I don’t want to
press charges,” Ashby said.
“If he hurts you again, I’ll shoot him!” Rebecca said and Aleks looked down at her panicked.
“Becca, baby, did you bring your gun?” he
asked gently as if approaching a wild animal. All of the shifters at
the table picked up on his edginess and subconsciously scooted back a
bit.
“Of course! It’s not going to do me much
good in a box under the bed is it? The next time hyenas come to town
it’s open season,” she said, patting her purse.
“Is the safety on this time?” Aleks
asked, inventing new shades of pale. The purse had shifted down between
their bodies and was resting in his lap.
“Of course it is,” Rebecca said, picking
up the purse and patting it. She dropped it to the floor and a loud bang
echoed throughout the diner.
“What in the hell!” Connor demanded coming out of the kitchen. Rebecca stared down at her purse and then looked up at Aleks.
“OK, I swear the safety was on.” She tilted her head the way she normally did when she was thinking.
“Maybe…” She looked around the table and
Nic and Kate were trying not to laugh. Ashby was trying to get his heart
to stop beating out of his chest. Aleks began to shake.
“Aleks, are you OK?” Rebecca asked. At the sound of her calm and rational voice Aleks snapped.
“That’s it! That. Is. It! No more gun for
you. That is the second time you have almost killed someone, the first
time was when you tried to show me your cowboy stance. I can’t do this! I
can’t think knowing you have a weapon!” Aleks roared and bellowed.
Rebecca sat on his lap calmly petting his chest as he ranted.
“Don’t worry, I’m getting better, see
this time I wasn’t holding the gun when it went off, so technically I
didn’t shoot it,” she said as if that made all the difference in the
world.
Ashby watched the interaction between the
mated pair. He could see Aleks’s hands shaking, he didn’t know if it
was from fear or from the effort it took not to shake some sense into
his tiny mate.
“Connor!” Aleks yelled.
“I’m here,” Connor said, walking over to
the table and picking up the purse. He opened it up and pulled out the
gun, he slid open the chamber, checked the barrel, put the safety on and
tucked it into the back of his pants.
“Hey that’s my gun!” Rebecca protested.
“We’re going home!” Aleks said, as he stood and swung his mate up in his arms.
“When we get home we’re going over gun
safety, again. And this time the lesson will stick. You hear me?” Aleks
demanded. Rebecca got a dreamy look on her face.
“Yes, sir,” she said as Aleks carried her out of the diner.
“Oh my God did you see the look on his
face?” Connor said, doubling over laughing. That set off the entire
diner. Kate wiped her eyes laughing.
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