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She Has No Choice But To Surrender
Hi everyone!
I’m not exactly awake this morning because for some reason I couldn’t go to sleep until 2am this morning. So I’ m a bit frazzled. Beyond that, though, I’m doing the happy dance because the second story in my HOT ZONE series is now available.
I know that many romance readers love military heroes. There are some super military novels out there by such writers as Suzanne Brockmann, Cindy Dees, Candace Irvin, Catherine Mann, Amy Fetzer, Marliss Melton (and definitely a host of others.) I’ve enjoyed creating heroes in many of my books who used to be or are still in the military. Earlier this year I woke up to the idea of writing about a hero who is in the Army Reserves and is shipped away to Iraq and leaves behind a female best friend who promises to write him. In particular, I wanted them to exchange hot letters that also brought them closer together emotionally. Boy was that fun! The story evolved into MALE CALL (Samhain Publishing www.samhainpublishing.com). I didn’t now it would be the first story in a series. I surprised myself by realizing that my fictional town of Clarksville, Wyoming didn’t want to let me go and neither did other military heroes that just kept cropping into my imagination. I knew that I had ideas for a few stories all set in this town and that they’d all be novellas. So, the HOT ZONE was born. All these tales deal with active duty military, reservists, or former military and the lives they try to carve for themselves when they visit or return to Clarksville.
In the second story, UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, I used the theme of old friends coming back together after twenty years and renewing not only their friendship but discovering a simmering romance. She’s archaeology, he’s Special Ops, and both of them teeter on the edge of stepping into the HOT ZONE.
There will be three other stories in the HOT ZONE series: PRIVATE MANEUVERS, CLOSE QUARTERS, and MISSION: LOVE. I hope you’ll join me for the ride.
As always I’m just happy to be here with all of you.
Denise A. Agnew