I love smart men and women playing dangerous cat and mouse games. But which one is playing which role? Scientist Stacy Kimball is looking for a cure for the blood disease that will eventually kill her, as it did her mother. Mysterious philanthropist Louis Redman could provide her funding . . . and the answer to immortality. All she needs is a sample of his rare blood type. What Stacy doesn’t know is they share the same driving interest. He wants her blood, too. Here’s a peek at MIDNIGHT REDEEMER.
The Excerpt
Stacy shuffled through the pictures once again, her breath quickening with agitation, for in each numbered square, one figure was conspicuously missing.
Louis Redman didn’t like to have his picture taken, not because he wasn’t photogenic, but because he didn’t show up on film.
“Sensitivity to light, my hind leg,” she muttered, studying the oddly empty photos, her stomach tightened with alarm and more strongly, with excitement.
Piece by piece, she was gathering evidence that Louis Redman was . . . what? A creature of the night, the undead? Her scientific mind rebelled against those superstitious labels as the toothsome image of Nosferatu played against more basic reason. But he was something, all right, something not quite natural that presented both threat and promise tied up in a mysterious and attractive package.
She would start unwrapping those layers tonight.
Until then, she would learn all she could about the sample from the dead girl.
Results that proved startling, and exciting . . . and unbelievable.
I loved writing this book because it’s got a bit of everything I like to read: A paranormal love story, a Who Done It mystery, Frankenscience ethics, sneaky government ops, and a return of characters and complications I adored from previous books (You don’t have to have read them to appreciate them here). And a setting that’s almost another character – Seattle-the site of my first romance writers’ conference waaaay way back. All this for only $0.99 through the end of the month!
Midnight Redeemer (Touched by Midnight Series - Book 6)
Besides this fantastic sale, I’m updating (not rewriting!) the books in my “By Moonlight” series that I’ve gotten the rights back to. Talk about walking in two very different worlds. Vampires or Shapeshifters – which is your favorite?
I plan to spend the rest of this sunshiny hint of spring day visiting your excerpts before the cats start yowling for their first trip into the great outdoors (need a few more degrees for that! Try telling them that!)
Happy Spring! Write On, fellow Warriors!!
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Two opposites from two very different worlds: A deadly huntress bound by a blood oath – An honorable outcast held by a long-ago vow. By the time they find each other, they’re denied the unexpected pleasure they’ve discovered together by other paths they’ve sworn to follow. What could possibly go wrong? Only everything.
NANCY GIDEON RETURNS TO HER STEAMY NEW ORLEANS PRETERNATURAL WORLD WITH AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW SHAPE-SHIFTER ROMANCE.
The secrets he knows about her could get him killed.
Transferring to the New Orleans Police Department, Detective Silas MacCreedy has a hidden agenda: to secure his clan’s place once again in the Shifter hierarchy. What he didn’t count on was stumbling upon a sexy assassin who could shred his best intentions and lead him into a dangerous dance that threatens to engage his heart.
But the ones he doesn’t know . . .
Monica Fraser knows just how to make a man beg—for his life. But she has no clue how to fight her attraction to the fiercely intense detective who seems determined to get in her way, both professionally and intimately.
. . . could kill them both.
When emotional attachments to the past and an unexpected glimpse of a different future have her questioning her deadly purpose, Nica must discover the truth about her secret abilities in order to free herself from the forces that control her. But that freedom comes with a price—trusting those she’s been ordered to eliminate.
The Excerpt
“Silas, what if you were to bond with me?”
His head reared back as if she’d stretched across the table and slapped him hard.
“What?”
Nica held his stare, not flinching, laying out what she’d come up with over the course of the long afternoon in her desperation to keep him. “If you mate with me, if we’re bonded, our abilities will be joined as well. I’m powerful, Si. I could share things with you that would make you as strong as Savoie, maybe stronger, since Lottie is a human. Think of it. You could have what you want, you could take what you deserve, and I could help you.”
“Why would you do that?”
( . . . and a bit more . . .)
“Bonding is no casual thing, Nica. It’s permanent. You can’t try it on to see if you like it then cast it aside.”
She shrugged. “We like each other, we’re sexually compatible. Most matches are made between strangers who don’t have that luxury. We’d be starting off far better than most.”
Something in his face changed, shock giving way to distress. Or was it distaste. Her heart began to race. Panic squeezed about her chest.
“I want more, Nica.”
He wanted someone else.
It’s no secret: I ADORE Silas MacCreedy! He’s the ultimate hero in his struggle to do the right thing. Wearing an NOPD badge of honor to keep its citizens safe yet bound by a pledge to his own supernatural clan that owns him body and soul—but not heart. A heart promised to one and captivated by another. I love me a bad boy but there’s something about a true hero struggling to do the right thing for all concerned that’s simply irresistible!
I’m busy working to get all the “By Moonlight” books back out in print and e-format and HoS is next in line.
While you’re waiting, here’s a little something else you can sink your teeth into. MIDNIGHT REDEEMER, Book 6 in my “By Moonlight” vampire romance series, is on sale for just $0.99 until the end of the month. Here’s a link to tease you. More about it in next week’s post . . .
Midnight Redeemer (Touched by Midnight Series - Book 6)
Hunt or be hunted . . . A centuries-old obsession stalks a noble family fighting to hide their dark secret from an ever-changing world. Sink your teeth into Nancy Gideon's Touched by Midnight series.
Will his dream . . .
Centuries-old vampire Louis Redman is desperate to believe an inquisitive researcher's claim that she's close to finding a cure for his age-old curse. Determined to become human again, he must trust the lovely geneticist who has pushed her way into his guarded life . . . and heart . . . not to betray him to the government agency that wants to uncover his secrets for their own purposes.
. . . be the death of her?
Scientist Stacy Kimball discovers potential fame and the answer to immortality in a murder victim's blood sample. But as she gets closer to the truth, danger stalks her from the shadows. Who wants to silence her from making the breakthrough of a lifetime? Is it the agency that funds her work? The killer who's terrorizing Seattle's night scene?
Or the mysterious Louis Redman, whose kisses seduce her beyond caring . . . ?
"A rare treat . . . this exciting thriller will keep you up all night as Ms. Gideon weaves her spell." — Romantic Times
"Nancy Gideon is one of the best supernatural writers on the market today!" — Midwest Book Review/BookWire
Hope you had a great St. Patrick’s Day and didn’t wake up “green” this morning!
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The writer in me LOATHES Daylight Savings Time. An extra hour to work in the morning before the family gets up, LOST. I’ve always been a morning person who put in a day’s work at the keyboard before going TO work. Not so much now that I’m retired, but I still savor those hours of quiet time (after feeding the cats, of course!). I’m an early to bed, early to rise creature of habit. Spring ahead, Fall back upsets my creative Chi.
As far as my fictional life goes, this saying takes on new meaning. In order to kick my writing life into gear, I’m falling back ten years to reissue my “By Moonlight” dark shapeshifter series that I’ve gotten the rights back to. And I’m having a blast! This is my favorite series (well, maybe tied with my Texas historicals). I’m loving spending time with Max and CeeCee and their expanding circle of friends in steamy New Orleans in anticipation of my own trip back there this fall. Here’s a taste from SEEKER OF SHADOWS, Jacques and Susanna’s story . . .
NANCY GIDEON CONTINUES HER COMPELLING, SENSUAL NEW SERIES WITH A SEDUCTIVE TALE OF FORBIDDEN ALLEGIANCE AND REDISCOVERED LOVE.
His town.
Susanna Duchamps came to New Orleans to settle a debt and to temporarily escape the controlled constraints of her life among the Chosen. What she finds is an opportunity to make miraculous strides with her research into Shifter genetics . . . and an unexpected, but never forgotten, man from her complicated past.
Her rules.
Shifter club owner Jacques LaRoche is fiercely protective of his freedom. Stripped of his memories of a former life, he longs for the mate he lost . . . until the enticingly familiar presence of a mysterious stranger from the north ignites a primal, nearly uncontrollable need to release the untamed beast inside him.
Their last chance.
Susanna dares not tell Jacques it was she who sacrificed his past and her future years ago, to protect him and the secret she carried. But her arrival in New Orleans comes with consequences. When a bloody confrontation erupts between their enemy clans, will she betray her lover once again—or throw her own life on the line so they can finish what they started?
The Excerpt
He was exactly what she feared.
A rude brute, an unmannered beast, an untamed animal, growling, grabbing at what wasn’t his to take or desire. A primal, inferior species unable to harness his carnal needs.
Jacques started to reach for one of the jewel-like bottles stacked in tempting rows, but let his hand drop away as he stared at the face in the mirror behind them that had been that of a stranger when he’d first seen it seven years ago. He’d had no idea who those features belonged to before that moment. He could have been anything, anyone. What he’d become had been born in that instant of non-recognition.
What he did know was that he’d belonged to them, to those pitiless users in the north, who’d obviously trained him and directed him to serve their capricious whims. The scar between his shoulder blades told him that much. Had he pleasured their females, hunted, and killed his own kind the way the Tracker who’d died in the hallway had? Had he been a mindless drone who went about their business with a blind obedience, so conditioned to their commands that he had no self-control even now?
( . . . and a bit more . . .)
Resentment simmered as he paced, movements dangerously predatory even as his thoughts panted in raw confusion.
Why can’t I get a grip? This isn’t me. This isn’t what I’ve made of myself. Why am I letting her get to me? She’s one of theirs, not one of mine. She belongs to one of them, not to me. Not to me.
So why was every primal pulse of his blood denying that fact?
When I was a kid (even when I was a college student!), I hated the start of Daylight Savings Time. Losing an hour to sleep in. Who would want that, right? Less time to play outside with friends even though the sun was still shining. But as an adult, it comes with the grumpiness of old age. Set the clocks ahead or turn them back, which is it? That’s why the oven clock is an hour behind for half the year. What a pain in the neck. Thank goodness for digital watches, computers, and clocks that do the work for you. Are you in a DST state or do you stay the same all year? Love it or hate it?
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Imagine, if you will, being so different that a life alone is the only future you can imaging for yourself. The happiness you see in other couples around you can never be more than a dream for one such as you—one so different, so unnatural. Then, someone unexpected, so opposite everything your own life is based upon turns your world and your emotions upside down. Do you thank your lucky stars . . . or are you living on borrowed time?
POLICE DETECTIVE CHARLOTTE CAISSIE AND HER SHAPE-SHIFTING PARAMOUR MAX SAVOIE THOUGHT THE PAST WAS BEHIND THEM. BUT IN NANCY GIDEON’S IRRESISTIBLE NEW ROMANCE, THEY DISCOVER IT MAY NEVER LET THEM GO. . . .
THEY SWORE THEY’D BE TOGETHER FOREVER.
Detective Charlotte Caissie is suddenly sharing drawer space and making local news with her shape-shifter lover, Max Savoie. He’s determined to be accepted by her peers—so how can she ask him to return to his criminal roots to help her solve a complex case?
BUT THOSE THEY TRUST THE MOST . . .
Working undercover with her partner to find the serial killer who’s kidnapped a colleague’s daughter, Cee Cee is caught between her job and her fiercely possessive lover. And when she calls on Max’s preternatural talents to aid his hated enemy, she crosses a line that strains their relationship to its limit.
. . . WILL DO ANYTHING TO TEAR THEM APART.
With his secret spreading, Max is forced to protect his family and his clan. The only certainty is his love for his human mate . . . unless the loyalties that define them divide them forever.
The Excerpt
He’d dreamed of her for so long, the reality of her soft and naked next him sometimes took him by surprise upon waking. He’d find himself frozen with dread, fearing somehow it was just some cruel trick, that she wasn’t really there. So he’d carefully sniff at her hair, cautiously taste her warm skin, slowly curl himself about her as if expecting her to leap away in alarm. The sound of her contented sigh, the feel of her snuggling into him was every prayer of a lonely life answered.
Now he lay awake in the early dawn hours in solemn study of the scars marring the slope of her shoulder—the marks he’d put on her to claim her for his own in a savage taking he could scarcely recall. He’d been out of his mind for her, out of control. She’d pushed him to it, goaded him into throwing off the human guise he wore to become the beast that lived inside, to prove to them both that she was strong enough to be his match as he’d taken her with the primitive violence of his kind. He’d feared she’d regret it, surrendering herself to something so foreign, so different from what she knew and was. But she said no, and he believed her. Except on nights like this one when old worries haunted him, whispering through his soul with a spectral chill.
Shapeshifter Max Savoie and NOPD detective Charlotte Caissie are as opposite as guns and roses, but both are determined to make their unusual and some would say, unnatural, romance last a lifetime. I’m so excited to get BOUND BY MOONLIGHT, this fourth book in my “By Moonlight” series (unfortunately the first three are unavailable) back out to readers. I’m in the process of going through my original manuscript for additional scenes and picking out steamy (hey, it IS New Orleans, sha!) cover art. Once that’s done, it’s off to my virtual assistant so she can do that formatting hoodoo the she do so well.
What a wild few days here in Michigan as our weather has gone from blizzardy ice and snow mix to gorgeous sunshine and melt runoff. Winter to spring in the blink of an eye . . . then back again for at least the rest of the month (Spring begins on the 20th but here that’s just a suggestion!). Let it do what it will says this retiree, as long as we have heat and internet!
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Our Insecure Writers Support Group question for March is the reason I sometimes have trouble getting my own writing done. Our question:
Have you ever read a line in a novel or a clever plot twist that caused you to have author envy?
Oh yeah! Sometimes, I find myself simply lost in the elegant beauty of words strung together in a not so simple sentence. I read it, reread it, then just wallow in the creative genius of it. Words are powerful. They’re sexy, strong, emotionally devastating, painful, terrifying . . . and I love it when they catch me by surprise. I’ll dissect them, study the order, the complexity and/or simplicity of their arrangement. Sometimes, I confess, I’ll pout and stew and grumble, wishing I’d written them. And the best thing, when it happens, is when you realize YOU wrote those words. YOU created that bit of brilliance that sets that bar so high for your next paragraph, your next chapter, your next novel.
On the flip side, words can be SO clever that they pull you out of the work you’re reading. Especially when the author tries too hard to impress with their vocabulary or imagery. If I’m continually pulled out of the story by a confusing turn of phrase or by wording so convoluted that you have to construct a sentence diagram, the author has lost me. Story should suck the reader in, not shove him/her back into 12th grade composition.
Hunt or be hunted . . . A centuries-old obsession stalks a noble family fighting to hide their dark secret from an ever-changing world. Sink your teeth into Nancy Gideon's Touched by Midnight series.
Will his dream . . .
Centuries-old vampire Louis Redman is desperate to believe an inquisitive researcher's claim that she's close to finding a cure for his age-old curse. Determined to become human again, he must trust the lovely geneticist who has pushed her way into his guarded life . . . and heart . . . not to betray him to the government agency that wants to uncover his secrets for their own purposes.
. . . be the death of her?
Scientist Stacy Kimball discovers potential fame and the answer to immortality in a murder victim's blood sample. But as she gets closer to the truth, danger stalks her from the shadows. Who wants to silence her from making the breakthrough of a lifetime? Is it the agency that funds her work? The killer who's terrorizing Seattle's night scene?
Or the mysterious Louis Redman, whose kisses seduce her beyond caring . . . ?
"A rare treat . . . this exciting thriller will keep you up all night as Ms. Gideon weaves her spell." — Romantic Times
"Nancy Gideon is one of the best supernatural writers on the market today!" — Midwest Book Review/BookWire
If you like a taste of dark paranormal romance, MIDNIGHT REDEEMER, the 6th book in my “Touched by Moonlight” series is on S*A*L*E for only $.99 from March 16-31. You needn’t have read earlier books to enjoy this vampire vs serial killer on the dark streets of Seattle tale that will keep you up at night.
Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!
Posting: The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Post your thoughts on your own blog. Talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. Visit others in the group and connect with your fellow writer - aim for a dozen new people each time. The awesome co-hosts for the March 1st posting of the IWSG will be Diedre Knight,Tonya Drecker,Bish Denham,Olga Godim, and JQ Rose!
Let’s rock the neurotic writing world!
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