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What would you like
to tell readers about yourself?
A long time
ago, my husband-at-the-time got into riding Harleys. I loved the exhilaration of being on the back
of the bike. I had a jacket with red flames and our bike was painted cherry
red. I even took a three day course to
get my motorcycle license, and I passed…even though I laid the bike down
twice.
So when I
write about what it feels like to be on a bike…I’m doing that from memory.
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What book are you
going to tell us about today? Is it part of a series? If so, what's the order
the books should be read in?
Along Came
Merrie is the first book in the Red Wolves Motorcycle Club Series. It’s what I would call the prequel to the Red
Wolves trilogy. It sets up this world
and lead into the over-lining arc of the human trafficking story.
The series
of the books, in order, are: Along Came Merrie, True North, When Dove Cries,
and Lily Roar.
I’m also
working on two follow-up books: Violent Delights and Violent Ends.
How'd you/your muse come up with this
story?
I love the
tv shows Sons of Anarchy and Longmire, so my brain started to crossbreed the
two. I didn’t want to do the obvious,
though. One of the hardest things to
deal with is the fact that the men are outlaw bikers. On one hand you have to stay true to the
ideas set forth for one percenters but on the other hand, it’s a story where
the heroes needs to be redeemable. On
SOA, they’re gun runners, drug runners, and have no hesitation killing
someone. I decided to focus on a smaller
club setting, more of a family. The
first book is pretty tame, but the following books are focused on human
trafficking, so things escalate.
Who's your favorite character in the
book & why?
I think my favorite is Leo, because he was interesting to
write. I had to do a lot of research on
the Shoshone nation, so he came as the full package. Back story, history, thoughts, feelings…he’s
really the opposite of Braden, which makes them work well together.
What's your favorite
line in the story?
Okay, this is two lines, and really
doesn’t have anything to do with this
story, but sets up nicely for the next book:
“I can’t imagine sharing a woman in a
long-term relationship. A one-night stand, sure, but no woman is worth being in
bed with another man’s junk for the long haul.”
BLURB
Merrie Walden is in
the wrong place at the wrong time. She’s
attacked by a vicious outlaw biker bent on shutting her up permanently when she
sees something she shouldn’t, but luck is with her and she manages to escape by
jumping out of a moving car. She’s found
by horse rancher Braden McClintock, who takes her to his adopted brother, Leo
Cloud Dancer, for medical attention.
As she heals in the home of the two men, Merrie begins to
realize that she’s falling for both of them.
Braden is taciturn while Leo is outgoing and both reach a deep seated
need that she hadn’t even realized she had.
But before she can figure out if they can share a happily
ever after, she has to survive the biker who’s found out where she is. Because even if she doesn’t know what she
witnessed, he sure the hell does.
And he wants her silent.
EXCERPT
She could see he wanted to
believe her. But there was a world of hurt in his eyes that she didn’t know how
to banish. Hopefully, time would help whittle away his insecurities.
He cupped her face. “You’re so
young.”
“Not so young I haven’t lived,”
she replied. “Not so young that I don’t know what I want.”
“Would you like to try to make
this work between us?” he asked.
Once again, she looked between
both men and read the sincerity in their gazes. Happiness swelled inside her as
well as uncertainty. She’d never considered a ménage relationship and had no
idea how to navigate the waters.
“Have you ever done this
before?” she asked.
“No,” Leo said. “But learning
is half the fun.”
Braden swung her up into his
arms and she squealed with delight. She wrapped her arms around his neck. He
marched up the stairs with Leo following. At the top, he hesitated and glanced
at his brother.
“Mine,” Leo said. “I’ve got a
king-size bed.”
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