Standing Out from the Crowd: Authors Reveal What Makes Their Story Unique

“The Suspect Next Door isn’t your average romantic suspense—it’s sprinkled with chuckles amidst the chills. Set in an apartment building with more secrets than residents, the hero and heroine are neighbors by chance and become sleuths with a spark, infusing humor even as Petra leads herself and sexy neighbor Ryan into more and more danger. The characters are down-to-earth, each with wit sharp enough to cut through the tension…both dangerous and romantic.” – Rachel Astor

“It is a tale as old as time.

This is where the pleasure comes from reading series romance. The sameness and yet, uniqueness.

The nuance comes from the characters. How Angelo, hell-bent on ignoring his forbidden desire navigates resisting Natalia. And how Natalia reaches inside Angelo’s heart, and yanks them forward to a happily ever after.

(I hope) I made this love story the same, and yet different, by amplifying the nuances of the characters.” – Lela May Wight

“PERIL IN THE SHALLOWS is the second book in my New York Harbor Patrol series. The setting is fairly unique – each book features police divers working in the waters around New York City. Police-set romance already carries high stakes and the setting provided great tension for my hero, Detective Arlo Prescott, and heroine, Officer Kerrigan Doyle. The added physicality and risk with Kerrigan’s dive work helped push those stakes even higher – leading to romance!” – Addison Fox

“Grace hated Theo before they had even met, and the feeling was mutual!

When they do meet in the flesh and on the page their worlds are rocked, but not in the way they anticipated, and not always the way I anticipated either!

My willful characters deserved the wildly romantic setting of a Tuscan Palazzo and I had such fun literally building a castle in the air and seeing it come real on the page!” – Kim Lawrence