stealth UPS guy was stealthy...

[lagilman]

and now I have a Box o' Books!

For those of you who like a little paranormal romance in your reading mix, I present "Anna Leonard's" newest, The Hunted


When Beth Havelock is approached by a handsome stranger on the streets of her New England home, she has no idea that he is a selkie, one of the sea-faring shapechangers. All Dylan knows is that she is the one he was sent there to find, drawn from his ocean home to the confusing, complicated world of humans.

Neither of them know that someone is watching them. Someone who wants what they have - and will not stop until they are dead.

BN.com / eHarlequin eHarlequin e-book

So for those of you who didn't gt enough romance on Valentine's Day, here's a hair of the dog that, hrm, smooched ya. :-)

All you have to do in order to win a copy before it's on sale is tell us the most romantic thing you ever did (for someone else, yes). Contest will run until Monday, March 8th, and a jury of deeply biased judges will pick the top three responses.



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Also available:

DREAMCATCHER - an e-novella BN eHarlequin
THE NIGHT SERPENT (digital only) BN eHarlequin
MIDNIGHT CRAVINGS (an anthology, hardback and digital) BN

And coming in May: FIREBREAK -- an e-novella exclusive from eHarlequin

Comments

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My husband, Jason, always made it clear that he looked forward to having kids someday. I was a bit more hesitant. With Jason in the Navy, I knew I'd have to single-parent and cope on my own.

Sure enough, soon after he started on sea duty, I suspected I was pregnant. I waited until he had an full day of duty on the ship, and then I took the test. Positive. ACK. I immediately called my mom. She squealed and almost had a heart attack.

I spent the rest of the day debating how to tell my husband. I had to tell him. First of all, I'm rotten with big secrets. Then there was the fact he would be going on sea trials within a week and going on full deployment the next year.

I didn't tell him on the phone that night. I kept cool, somehow. He arrived home the next morning.

"I was going through some stuff from our move and found something you've been looking for for a few years," I told him. "I stuck it in your underwear drawer so the cats wouldn't get it."

"Really? What is it?"

"You have to go see," I said.

We went into the bedroom. He opened up the drawer. I had made a full drawing with big words reading, "You're going to be a Daddy! Next March!" and used ribbons to fasten the pregnancy test to the sheet. He held it up and just stared, then set it down and turned to me, sobbing. My big six-foot-four lug of hockey-playing sailor man, sobbing.

Yep. That was pretty special.

(The deployment happened much sooner than planned and he was gone for six months of my pregnancy. He returned home in time for the birth. Our son turns 5 on the 30th of March.)