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INTIMATE ALLIANCE HEATS UP IN THE HOT ZONE!

Hey everyone. Are you the type of reader who enjoys hot military men? I mean in your fiction novels…unless you enjoy hot military men in your real life, too. (AHEM.)

I’m happy to blog today about my print edition of the first two novellas in my HOT ZONE series here at Samhain Publishing. INTIMATE ALLIANCE comes out August 26, though you can already preorder it at places like Amazon.com.

When I wrote MALE CALL, the first story in my HOT ZONE series, I didn’t intend to keep writing novellas set in a fictional town in Wyoming where military men return home. MALE CALL features the grown relationship between two people that start off friends and find their friendship is so much more. Her sexy letters are his only life line in the HOT ZONE. Eve Carmichael fears for soldier Sean O’Callahan’s life. And oh, how she longs for more of his flirtatious, hot letters. When Sean is wounded, her fears are realized. But fate serves up a wonderful gift that neither of them expected.

After that story, the germination of an idea for another story formed into UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, the second story in the HOT ZONE series. She’s archaeology, he’s Special Ops, and both of them teeter on the edge of the HOT ZONE. Fredricka Bodine returns for her high school reunion and can’t forget the high school prom where she shared a revealing dance with Keith Wallace. Keith doesn’t want her to travel to a hot zone he feels isn’t safe, and the place where his sister was killed years ago. As they grapple with exploding passion between them, their battle of wills may just lead them to the truth living in both their hearts. You can read excerpts on these stories and all my work at www.deniseagnew.com

Generally I enjoy creating long novels. In the HOT ZONE series I felt a need to write stories that were less complicated and short captures of characters lives, their struggles, the things that make their lives meaningful, the loves they encounter through a struggle. I wanted to write novellas that were slice of life and sometimes they included a little adventure and danger and certainly a lot of romance.

If you’ve read MALE CALL and UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, I hope you’ll want a print copy. Plus, I hope you’ll read PRIVATE MANEUVERS and CLOSE QUARTERS, the last two stories in this series. In celebration of the release of INTIMATE ALLIANCE, I have a contest up at my website this September that I hope you’ll take advantage of. Stop by September 1 at www.deniseagnew.com and see what it’s all about! Stop by my My Space page at www.myspace.com/deniseagnew and enjoy the cool song Darlin’ Denise by Val Emmich. I was tickled pink when he stopped by my My Space page and told me I could use his song for my page. How neat is that?

Until next time, live, love and dream.