Cynthia Eden Giveaway

Happy summer to you all! My boys have just two days of school left and then they're home with me for the entire summer, so I'd best get all the work done I can today and tomorrow. I'm *this* close to being done with Gage's story, then I'm moving on to Sean's. Woot!

Ignited is off to a great start, and the lovely Cynthia Eden was kind enough to host me on her blog last week to talk about the book and the Titanium Security Series.

Today I'm giving away a digital copy of her hot new romantic suspense release, Mine To Take, to a commenter here on my blog. Tell me your favorite thing about romantic suspense to enter. This contest is open to Kindle and Nook readers, and will close at 5 pm EST this evening.

Sometimes you want someone so much...

Sometimes you need someone so much...

Lust can become love.

And love can turn into a deadly obsession.

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Skye Sullivan knows that someone is watching her. Not just watching--stalking her. Months ago, Skye was involved in a dangerous car accident. The accident ended her dancing career and sent her fleeing back to Chicago. Skye is convinced that her stalker caused the crash, and she fears that he won't stop pursuing her, not until she's dead.

When someone breaks into her apartment in Chicago, Skye turns to the one man she believes can protect her--Trace Weston. Once, Trace was her lover. Two lost souls, they'd come together in a firestorm of need and desire. But then Trace had pushed her away. He'd joined the military, vanishing from her life. She'd put all of her emotion into dancing, and she'd tried to forget him.

Now Trace is one of the most successful men in the United States. Rich, driven, and carrying dark secrets, he agrees to help Skye. He'll protect her from the danger that lurks in the darkness, but Trace wants more than to just be a guard for Skye.

He wants her. And he'll take her. The years have changed him, hardened him. He's not just a poor kid from the streets any longer. Now, he can have anything--or anyone--that he wants. And the one woman he has always wanted has just come back into his life. He won't let her go again.

But with the threats mounting against Skye, she suspects that her stalker may be intimately close. He's a man who knows her too well. As his attacks grow ever more dangerous, she realizes that if she trusts the wrong man, she could be making a fatal mistake.

Lust. Love. Obsession.

Just how far would you go in order to possess the one person you want the most?


Author's Note: MINE TO TAKE is a sexy romantic suspense novella--it contains approximately 41,000 words. MINE TO TAKE is intended for adults. Sexy situations and adult language will be found within the pages of this story--please consider yourself warned.

Titanium Security Series Launch

A few weeks sooner than anticipated, my new Titanium Security Series launches today with book #1, Ignited! I'm super excited about this series, which will have at least four books, each featuring one of my ex-Spec Ops band of brothers heroes.

Book 2 (Singed) will be out in August, and book 3 late this year.

When her father is murdered by a Taliban cell in the tribal regions of Pakistan, Khalia Patterson reluctantly steps into his shoes to carry on the legacy of Fair Start Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to furthering the education of girls. There she meets Hunter Phillips, the ex-SEAL and head of her Titanium security team, and quickly learns that coming to Pakistan might prove to be a deadly decision.

Battling demons of his own, Hunter grudgingly leads Khalia’s protective detail as a favor to his boss. From their first meeting it’s clear she’s going to be trouble, and that the cell that killed her father is hell bent on taking her out as well. Keeping her alive is one of the toughest assignments he’s ever faced, yet through one harrowing situation after another she continually impresses him with her strength and inner courage. Even though he fights his feelings for her, it’s a losing battle. And when the job is over, he doesn’t know how he’ll let her go.

Available now at:

Amazon (Kindle)

Barnes & Noble (Nook)

Happy reading!
Kaylea :)

Twitter Party

I'm throwing another Twitter party! This one's for The Vacant Chair, and it's tomorrow, Tuesday June 4th from 7-8pm Eastern Standard Time. I'll be giving away lots of prizes for both pre-registration and during the actual party itself, including paperpbacks, ebooks and an audio CD for Cover of Darkness. Details below, and I hope to see you there!

Kaylea

It’s a Twitter Party Celebration!

• Do you love your historical romance rich with romance and woven with historical accuracy?
• Looking for a time period that isn’t heavily represented in the romance genre?
• Do you love your romance heroes all sorts of sexy?

Now’s your chance!! On Tuesday, June 4, from 7-8pm EST, author Kaylea Cross, will be hosting a Twitter party to answer reader questions and dish out some exclusive teasers and info on this new historical romance that is gaining reader praise!

Back Cover Blurb:

The Civil War has torn Brianna Taylor’s family apart and made her a widow. Determined to ease the suffering of the wounded crowding the Union hospitals and honor the memory of the man she loved, she embarks on a career as a nurse. But then he arrives—a patient who makes her feel alive again in spite of her resolve to stay detached.
Captain Justin Thompson understands the cost of war all too well, yet he felt compelled to fight for the Union his father died defending. Wounded at Cold Harbor and left to die at a military hospital, he owes his life to Brianna, who seems determined to guard her professional boundaries despite his best efforts to breach them. Just as he’s winning the battle for her heart, he’s forced to return to the front of a cruel war that could very well separate them forever.

Genre: Historical Romance
Tone: serious
Heat Level: hot (not erotic hot though)
Elements/Tags: Civil War, military
Publisher: Kaylea Cross
Publishing Date: May 2013
Format: digital
Words: 97,000

Pre-Order Your Copy Today!

Meet Author Kaylea Cross:

Kaylea Cross writes edge-of-your-seat military romantic suspense. Her work has won many awards and has been nominated for both the Daphne du Maurier and the National Readers’ Choice Awards. A Registered Massage Therapist by trade, Kaylea is also an avid gardener, artist, Civil War buff, Special Ops aficionado, belly dance enthusiast and former nationally-carded softball pitcher. She and lives in Vancouver, BC with her husband and two sons.

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Twitter Party Information:

When: Tuesday, June 4, 2013; 7pm – 8pm EST
What: Twitter Party to celebrate the release of The Vacant Chair! A new Civil War period romance rich with romance and woven with historically accurate content. Love historical romance? Love the Civil War era? Come celebrate Kaylea Cross’s latest release for a chance to win lots of great prizes!

Hashtag: #TheVacantChair
Hosts: @KayleaCross   |  Moderated by: @lit_connect
Prizes:
Pre-registration Prizes:

• (1) paperback copy of The Vacant Chair;

• (2) digital copies of The Vacant Chair;

• (1) digital copy of Cover of Darkness;

• (1) digital copy of Relentless;

• (1) digital copy of Deadly Descent

Twitter Party Door Prizes:

• (1) CD audio book of Cover of Darkness;

• (2) digital copies of The Vacant Chair;

• (1) paperback copy of The Vacant Chair;

• (1) digital copy of Cover of Darkness;

• (1) digital copy of Relentless;

• (1) digital copy of Deadly Descent

Pre-registration

Pre-register & be entered for a chance to win one of the pre-registration prizes by utilizing the following widget.

• You do not have to pre-register to attend the event!

• The randomly drawn winners of both the pre-registration and door prizes will be announced during the Twitter party.

• All winners will have 24 hours to respond in order to claim their winning before a new winner is selected.

• News Article: Follow a #Hashtag and Join a #Twitter #Party

The Vacant Chair Tour

It's Memorial Day in the States today. Since it was first known as Decoration Day and started as a tradition to honor the more than 600,000 dead of the Civil War, it's highly appropriate that my blog tour for The Vacant Chair kicks off today.

At the end of the tour I'll be giving away a $50 gift certificate to either Amazon or Barnes & Noble, and there's also going to be a Twitter party on June 4th where I'll give out lots of prizes for participants.

Today I'm a guest over at Ex Libris, talking about my strange obsession with the Civil War. Come by to enter the draw for the gift certificate!

Wherever you live, please remember your nation's fallen warriors today.

Justin Is Here!!!

The print copies of The Vacant Chair arrived last night and I was so excited to hold the book in my hands! Since I started writing this book back when I was 14, that makes it my first book and thus Justin was my very first book boyfriend. And so I thought it only fitting that I slept beside him last night :).

I woke up big weasel to show him the book. He smiled, studied the cover for a second and said, "That's supposed to be you and Dad, isn't it?".

O_o

I can understand why he'd think that, since his father dressed up in a Yankee cavalry uniform for our wedding reception and I wore a white lacy wedding gown. I love that kid!

Here's a shot of DH and I just after he proposed in the military cemetery atop Marye's Heights at the Fredericksburg battlefield in Virginia. We look like babies! He caught me completely by surprise by popping the question there, and it's still the most romantic memory of my life. I caught myself a good one :). (I said yes, by the way.)

Book Trailer

The Vacant Chair is live and available in both digital (only $2.99) and paperback! I've already ordered a few copies for myself and can't wait to hold them in my hands :). (It's an author thing.)

I got the most extraordinary e-mail from a reader the other day. She sent me the link to a Youtube video of a book trailer she'd made for The Vacant Chair. I was astounded that she'd go to such trouble, and extremely grateful that she did.

Here it is:

So cool! I plan to post many interesting things about the research I did for the book in the next few weeks leading up to my blog tour which kicks off May 27th.

Hope you enjoy it!
Kaylea 

The Vacant Chair

May 1st is supposed to be the official release date, but I uploaded the files for The Vacant Chair yesterday and it's already up at the Kindle store. I'm in the process of formatting it in paperback version as well, but that will take a while still, as will the e-book version appearing in other retailers such as Kobo and Barnes & Noble.

But hey, it's out!!!

I put so much work into the research for this one, more than in any other book, including my Bagram Special Ops series. I can't wait for you all to learn about the Michigan Wolverines and the ugly part of the war they were involved in. You'll also learn a lot about medicine during the Civil War, and what it was like for the citizens of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, when the city fell to Union forces.

I'll be doing a proper blog tour at the end of May as well as a Twitter party, but in the meantime if you know any historical romance fans, I'd sure appreciate it if you helped spread the word about The Vacant Chair.

In other news, I finished up the first book of my new romantic suspense series (Incendiary), which I'm going to publish in July. This week I'm starting on the second of the series, so stay tuned for more details.

Happy reading!
Kaylea :)