Blog Bash Day 15 with Patti O’Shea + Giveaway

Happy blogoversary, JoJo!

Congratulations on two years and thank you for inviting me to be part of the celebration.

When I write, I like to have pictures of my main characters at hand. It takes me about 6-8 months to write a book and this way I don't have to worry about the description of my hero or heroine changing midstream. My characters make me work, though, and I have to find just the right picture or I get sarcastic comments.

What can I say? Some authors get nice, cooperative characters. These authors get to pick their names, what they look like, what kind of home they live in, and they might even get to tell them what to do. Me? I get dictated to by my imaginary people. But that's another story.

I'm always on the lookout for images, and when I saw this magazine cover online, I knew I'd found my hero for Enemy Embrace (part of the CRAVE THE NIGHT anthology coming out in October). Dak is a demon and he's assigned the job of executing a vampire who's been murdering humans. The problem is that his heroine, Nicole, wants to kill this vampire herself and neither of them is willing to stand down for the other.

(The model's name is Terence Lortan. Not all of the pictures I found for him are right for Dak, but this one most certainly is.)

For Friday's Forgot About Finds, there are so many books I could mention here that I've read and loved enough to reread again and again, but I think I'll go with BAD TO THE BONE by Debra Dixon. It was released by Bantam Loveswept in the mid-90s and it's my favorite category romance of all time.

BTTB is an edgy story that really pushed the envelope at the time. The heroine, Jessica, is a retired assassin, the hero, Sully, is a small-town detective who used to police the mean streets of Houston, TX. They're brought together by a twelve-year-old girl whose father has been kidnapped and they end up working together to save him.

There's awesome banter between the hero and heroine and also incredible chemistry. These are two wounded characters who need each other to heal, but they don't trust easily. Their relationship isn't simple and things become more complicated once they become lovers. Truly a great read!

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Shadow's Caress

by: Patti O'Shea

A vampire trapped in a hellish limbo has one hope of regaining his life as the undead—the hunter who tried to kill him.

Former vampire hunter Cass Lanier didn't think vampires could become ghosts...until the shade of Malachi James comes to her, arousing her with his erotic touch. Malachi was the last vampire she killed—an act she always regretted. Now Cass is his only hope of being brought back to life.

Then Cass discovers Malachi isn't the only one following her. Other hunters have learned she can resurrect the vampires she put to death, and they want to kill her first. Will Cass survive long enough to save Malachi and finally experience her phantom lover's caresses as pleasures of the flesh?

*~* GIVEAWAY *~*

So let's do a giveaway. I have a copy of

 THROUGH A CRIMSON VEIL for one random commenter.

The  W?!? question is:
What's your favorite book that's out of the ordinary or edgy?

*** Giveaway ends tomorrow night 8-20 at midnight, winner named here

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