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The Darkest Hour ARC Giveaway

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It’s been one year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly last saw his wife Rachel alive. Overwhelmed by grief and guilt over his failures as a husband, Ethan shuts himself off from everything and everyone.

His brothers have tried to bring Ethan into the KGI fold, tried to break through the barriers he’s built around himself, but Ethan refuses to respond… until he receives anonymous information claiming Rachel is alive.

To save her, Ethan will have to dodge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise. And even if he succeeds, he’ll have to force Rachel to recover memories she can’t and doesn’t want to relive—the minute by minute terror of her darkest hour—for their love, and their lives, may depend on it.

The Darkest Hour kicks off my new action/adventure romantic suspense series that focuses on the Kelly family. I’m super excited about The Darkest Hour. I’ve waited a long time to tell Ethan and Rachel’s story. Right now there are plans for at least six books, and I hope to do more :)

Ali, a reader on the Writeminded Readers loop, asked for recommendations for books that involved a husband and a wife who for whatever reason were forced apart and the story focused on them coming back together. I always call them marriage in jeopardy stories and I LOVE them. It’s a particular favorite theme of mine. So tell me what you think of them? And if you’re so inclined, share some of your favorites! I’ll choose one winner at random from all the comments posted. The winner will be asked to provide their mailing address so I can ship the autographed ARC. I’ll leave entries open until this coming Sunday and I’ll post the winner Sunday night.

Good luck to everyone!

Summer?

What summer? Half of it is gone already. I’m flabbergasted over the idea that my kids will be back in school and a grade higher in just a month. When I was a kid, summer seemed interminable. Now? I blink and it’s freaking gone. I blink twice and an entire year has flown by *sob*

It’s not fair. Time should slow down as you get older. Not speed up to freaking speed of light.

I’m feeling pouty and grumbly today. My babies are growing up and I want them to stay right where they are.

4th of July

Hope everyone stateside is having a wonderful holiday weekend! We got back from vacation late Wednesday night but we’ve been running ever since. My daughter’s all star team was still in the running so my daughter had a game the very next day. And they won 23-6! So practice on Friday afternoon but I had to run her into town to get new cleats and a new bat. My shrimp has had a major growth spurt in the last few months. She went from a size 4 shoe to a woman’s size 8 (boggles my brain)

So anyway, my husband and I were pitching to her before she had to leave for practice and she NAILED me with a line drive. Hit me in the elbow and omg PAIN. I sent her and dad on to practice all the while pretending it didn’t hurt because my daughter was CRUSHED that she hit me. As soon as they left I started whimpering like a girl. When they got home, my husband took me into the ER to get it x-rayed because the pain and swelling had only gotten worse. Good news was nothing broken. They put me in a sling and sent me home but good grief it hurt. Still hurts days later!

We have another game tomorrow night against the only team that has beat them so far. I told my daughter I’d forgive her trying to kill me if she’d hit like that in the game :)

Right now the kidlets are off buying fireworks with their dad and I just rubbed down the meat that’ll go on the grill when they get back. I’m SO bummed that our pool still isn’t finished. That would have made our weekend perfect. It’s taking forever and I’m getting impatient. We’re down to the last two steps and hopefully they’ll jump right on it Tuesday. But I’m not holding my breath.

I’m off for St. Croix

and lots of sun and sand and relaxing beach….ahhh I can’t wait! I’m actually out the door at the ass crack of dawn tomorrow morning, but I’ll be at the ballpark all night tonight which precipitated shopping early this morning and now I have to go pack for five people. Kill me now!

I won’t have internet on the island, and I’m not all together sad about that. I’m looking forward to turning everything off and enjoying 10 days with my kiddos and basically forgetting the world exists around my little cocoon.

We’re renting a house right on the beach and it’s supposed to be a PRIVATE beach and I cannot tell you how much I am hoping that is true. I don’t even want to look at another person while I’m on vacation lol. Hermit? Me? Nahhhhh.

Hope you all have a wonderful rest of June. I’ll see you in July!

Sweet Addiction it is!

Have spoken to my editor and we weighed the responses. Sweet Addiction gets the nod :) We’re both thrilled with the outpouring of opinions. Thanks so much!

News and need your opinion!

Okay, for you Cole fans out there, I’ve discussed it with my editor and we’re going ahead with a sixth Sweet book, which will be Cole’s story :) His story will follow Connor’s story (Connor’s story is Sweet Possession and will release in April 2011) Tentative release date for Cole’s book will be the following April of 2012.

Now for the opinion part. We’ve been discussing titles and we’ve narrowed it to two we really can’t decide between. So I decided to let you guy wade in with an opinion.

Our two options are Sweet Addiction and Sweet Satisfaction

Which is your favorite? I can’t give you details on his story because it’s still burning a hole in my brain and it’s likely to change multiple times before I actually sit down and write his story, however, I will say that it incorporates some of my fave themes in romance and I love, love, love his story already and I love his heroine. :)

Book news!

Blurbs for Hidden Away, book 3 in the KGI series, and Sweet Possession, book 5 in the Sweet series, have been posted to my coming soon page!

Hope everyone has a terrific weekend! I’m on vacation countdown. One week and counting!

Colters’ Lady print release date

Colters’ Lady will release in paperback in June 2011. I’m going to leave this blog post up for awhile so that hopefully everyone sees it. I’ve been inundated with emails asking about the print release, and I apologize, but with my current deadline, I just don’t have the time to answer each one individually.

I do not have a release date for Colters’ Daughter, either in ebook or print. I haven’t written the book yet. As soon as I know, I promise, I’ll post the details far and wide :)

Love,

Maya

Pool progress!

Today was inspection after rebar and plumbing yesterday. Tomorrow is gunnite!

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