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"Pimping the Ride!" "Boom goes the dynamite!"  Picture me saying that over and over again while spiking an imaginary football and doing a little victory dance, and you'll have a pretty good idea of how I've been acting the last couple of days - much to my infinitely patient husband's chagrin.  But why am I so excited, and what the heck am I celebrating?  Well, nothing less than the release of Thrill Ride , the fourth book in my bestselling romantic suspense series!  Yep, you heard me right.  It's time to strap on your side arm, shrug into your motorcycle jacket, and slip on your biker boots.  Because the Black Knights are back in action!  And to wet your whistle for Rock and Vanessa's roller-coaster ride to happily-ever-after, I'm sharing with you some of my favorite quotes from the book.  On your mark, get set, ready… go! "'They say he’s gone rogue.'  Like a bad smell, the sentence seemed to hang in the air....

THE TOP FIVE THINGS I LEARNED AT A COVER SHOOT Okay, so I have a confession to make.  I went to a Sourcebooks cover shoot a couple of weeks ago, and I drooled... just a little.  All right, so you got me.  It was a lot.  But I was in the same room with the man who posed for this... THRILL RIDE hits shelves April 2nd. ... so how could I NOT suffer from a lack of salivary control?  That wasn't a rhetorical question.  I'm really asking in the off chance I get to go to another cover shoot.  I'll wait while you think...  Yeah, you couldn't come up with any way to combat the ol' stare-and-slobber routine either, could you?  *sigh*  I guess I'll just have to remember to bring a very large hankie if and when I find myself surrounded by romance cover model beefcakes again.  And just in case you think there's a lot of photoshopping going into those pictures, I'm here to tell you that, unfortunately for us mere mortals, there'...

It's the holidays.  And you know what that means?  Family time!  Otherwise known in my family as the time we remember, recount, and reenact one another's mistakes, misfortunes, and misadventures. Sounds mean-spirited, doesn't it?  Well, maybe it is.  But it's also... wait for it... HILARIOUS.  We're talking roll-on-the-floor, hold-your-belly-and-wipe-away-tears funny.  And, yeah, so perhaps that means I come from a brood of sadists.  But I can assure you, it's an atmosphere of equal opportunity heckling where only the strongest survive, and since we're all still alive and kicking, I like to think the good-natured ribbing isn't so much sadism as it is well-intentioned strengthening of character.  After all, if you can't laugh at yourself... Like the time my father was riding his lawn tractor down a treacherously steep hill when the brakes failed.  He bailed out at about 25mph, and the dismount?  Flawless.  His legs were ...