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The Star Trilogy is being released all at once at an extremely economy friendly price of $4.99: In order, they are: The Star King, The Star Prince, and The Star Princess

Setting: Los Angeles, Arizona, and in the stars on faraway worlds

Subgenre: oooh, baby, get out your tall, frosty glass: this trilogy is a delicious, refreshing genre-blending cocktail of paranormal, contemporary, futuristic, and science fiction romance!

Heroes:

The Star King: Rom B’kah
The Star Prince: Ian Hamilton
The Star Princess: Ché Vedla

Heroines:

The Star King: Jas Hamilton
The Star Prince: Tee’ah Dar
The Star Princess: Ilana Hamilton

One sentence summary:
The Star King:
Ex-fighter pilot and divorced mom Jas Hamilton embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when she hitchhikes into outer space and falls for the exiled king of the galaxy.
The Star Prince:
When finance major Ian Hamilton unexpectedly becomes the crown prince of the galaxy, a princess-in-peril lands in his arms, on the run from the very laws he’s pledged to uphold.
The Star Princess
This fun, Sex And The City meets Avatar plot brings together a tradition-bound prince who wants to “find himself” and a wild, very independent single filmmaker who really needs to settle down.
Scenes you like most and would never cut:

The Star King: lovemaking on a giant snail
The Star Prince: The tree scene after the Harley ride
The Star Princess: The pepper spray incident on the stairwell

What is your heroine’s occupation:
The Star King: Jas is a military veteran and artist
The Star Prince: Tee’ah is a runaway princess
The Star Princess: Ilana is a filmmaker

What is your hero’s occupation?
The Star King: Rom is the ousted king of the galaxy, currently making a living trading in illegal goods
The Star Prince: Ian is a finance major at the University of Arizona who goes to work for his alien space-king stepfather
The Star Princess: Ché is a galactic crown-prince whose goal is avoiding an arranged marriage at all costs

What you think readers will like best about these books:
Think about everything you love about a Saturday night at the movies and that’s what you’ll find in this series. The Star books are romantic, refreshing and popping with adventure, and each story has a fully fleshed out heroine who can more than hold her own with her space rogue hero. I like to think that these groundbreaking books helped pave the way for the romances we read today where heroines of all ages, colors, and even species are totally cool!

The person that readers want you to write about but you haven’t yet:
Klark Vedla! My readers know how much I love to redeem my bad guys. Klark evolved into such a cool character over the course of the Star series that I’m determined to give him his own book someday. It will be titled The Star… Oh, shoot, I don’t know. What do you think?

What’s next?
Sureblood, my space pirate book from HQN, comes out this August! Two rival space pirate captains with a past must put aside their mistrust and join forces to protect their clans–and their precious son.

For more than 10 years I’ve been writing about civilizations beyond the stars, and alien invasions–and making it romantic, and sexy, too. But, forget about other worlds. How about those otherworldly men? Who better to make your breath catch than a good-looking hero from far, really far away? So, is it Anakin or Darth? Han Solo or Luke Skywalker? Spock or Kirk? (Spock girl here, just for the record). Or, can there be any example of the male species more delicious and endearing than Jake Sully’s avatar in the blockbuster sci-fi movie Avatar? A button-nosed, 9-foot-tall BLUE guy…with a TAIL. Scrumptious, I tell you. So what otherworldly man sends you to the moon?

I hope you’ll “come fly with me” at my website www.susangrant.com where you’ll find links to my blog, books, my Facebook page, and my new contest to celebrate the re-release of the Star Trilogy!

Borders Giveaway — Books from Sue’s Stash to 2 US randomly chosen commenters.

http://www.susangrant.com/contest.htm

OUR LITTLE SECRET by Starr Ambrose

Setting: Washington, D.C.

Subgenre: romantic suspense

Hero: Drew Creighton, son of powerful Senator Harlan Creighton

Heroine: Lauren Sutherland, sister of Sen. Creighton’s secretary

One sentence summary: When Lauren’s sister and Drew’s father disappear, their search for the couple uncovers risque photos, a blackmail scheme, and an attraction for each other that grows hotter as the trail grows colder…

Scene you like most and would never cut: Definitely the tense action scene at the climax of the story! Lauren is in serious danger from…well, I can’t tell you, but while she has to rely on her wits to get away, Drew is racing through the streets of D.C. in a panic to get to her, while proper, efficient Gerald is stranded out in the woods, the only one who realizes some agents are about to walk into a deadly ambush. Fraught with tension! Also a few laughs, because I can’t seem to write without some character slipping into smartass mode.

Thing your heroine would never be caught dead doing/saying: This is an interesting question because Lauren changes during the story from rigidly proper to happily uninhibited. She has always tried to set a good example for her wild sister. Then she meets Drew Creighton and realizes that her dependable fiance is really dull as dirt and a prude to boot, and her fun-loving sister had the right idea all along. But even when they seemed like polar opposites, Lauren would never, ever turn her back on her sister, which is the reason she ends up in Washington, D.C. dodging kidnapping attempts and faking her way into an embassy ball.

Scene in the book that moved you the most as you wrote it, or made you the most happy? My favorite scene is the final one, because I felt so much sympathy for my hero. Poor Drew has spent the entire book convincing Lauren that she needs to loosen up, ditch her stick-in-the-mud fiance, and explore her wild side by having a fling with him. He succeeds admirably, and falls helplessly in love with the new, un-inhibited Lauren. But now that he’s convinced her not to tie herself down with a permanent relationship, that’s exactly what he needs to persuade her to do, with him. It was fun to make him squirm a bit before getting that happy ending!

Have you learned or found any bizarre facts while doing research? One big, scary one: I learned that it would be far too easy to blackmail senators and representatives into compromising their votes, thereby allowing one corrupt person to control what becomes law in our country. You really don’t want to think about this one too much, because it’s nearly impossible to prevent. (Hope this answer hasn’t put me on several watch lists.)

Ancillary character you had the most fun with: Oh, this is easy - I adore Gerald, the senator’s personal assistant! He’s easily the most efficient person in Washington, D.C., and loves nothing better than to put AGA’s in their place. That’s Arrogant Government Assholes. He practices this philosophy repeatedly on a certain Secret Service Agent with a sour opinion of civilian interference. Their clashes were enormous fun to write!

What is one thing in your history that has influenced your writing, whether it’s a character, your work habits, or your favorite plot conflict? Gotta be reading. I read everything. Therefore, I want to write about everything. Sooner or later, I will.

Your hero’s favorite hobby: Hiking and skiing in the Colorado Rockies. It’s both his passion and his profession. He’s out of his element in Washington, D.C.

What you think readers will like best about this book: It’s fast and fun, and relies on my favorite situation - corrupt people in positions of power.

The person that readers want you to write about but you haven’t yet: But I did! Two secondary characters from my first book, LIE TO ME, caught many readers’ interest. They wanted to hear their story, and so did my editor. That will be my next book, THIEVES LIKE US, due out next fall. And they were right, it turned out to be a fantastic story!

What’s next: We all love romance and adventure, but come on, admit it - we also read romance for the love scenes. Longing and lust are fun; fulfillment is even more fun. So be honest - how many of you have ever read an inventive love scene and were inspired to replicate it with your partner? And if you’re brave enough to share, what was it?

Giveaway: A signed copy of both LIE TO ME and OUR LITTLE SECRET, to two people chosen from comments below!