Hi from Angela Claire

Hi All-
I’m Angela Claire and I’m very pleased to be wiling away a Sunday here with you.  First, just to introduce myself a little further, I’m a writer of erotic romances for SirenBookstrand.  I published my first in January, Saving McCade.  My next was Heart of Stone in March and my latest is To Catch a Pirate.  I have a sequel to Heart of Stone coming out from Siren on June 16.  It’s called Jesse’s Girl.

Saving McCade is a contemporary romantic suspense.  Heart of Stone is a historical western.  To Catch a Pirate is (as you may have surmised) a pirate adventure.  So I guess you could say I’m feeling my way around the erotic romance genre.  Either that or I’m having too much fun to choose just one time period or theme for my romances.  One thing they all have in common, though, is a hot relationship between the hero and heroine.

Saving McCade concerns a man who’s been brought down and the woman who both brought him down and rescues him at the same time.  When you first meet Steve McCade, he’s a billionaire tech executive who is in prison for murdering his wife.  He didn’t do it, of course, which Meredith DeView well knows.  She’s the FBI agent assigned to pose as a prostitute on a conjugal visit to McCade so she can offer him a deal.  If he cooperates with her on an investigation of his old company, the FBI will spring him.  At first, Steve thinks he’d rather just have what he thought he was getting with the hot woman who shows up at the prison”¦sex.   But Meredith offers so much more and a dark secret as well.  Only when they work together at the safe house in Maine does the attraction and the tension between them spring into life.

Sounds pretty intense, doesn’t it?  Actually, though the plot is kind of intricate, if I do say so myself, there’s a fair amount of humor in the book as well.  Heart of Stone, on the other hand, is a simpler story, but still with that lightness.  It’s about a widowed cowboy in the 1870s, Jake Stone, who is left with a baby daughter to care for.  He sends for his aunt from Boston to help him out, but the old gal declines to come out West, sending in her place a lovely young woman, Melinda.  She’s perfect, if Jake can just keep his hands off the innocent beauty.

Then there’s my latest, To Catch a Pirate.  I saw on this blog last week that there was an entry about thirteen reasons to
love a pirate.  What a great piece!  Who doesn’t love a pirate?  My pirate, Jamie Banion, is a gentleman pirate who was raised by Bloody Mary, an infamous woman pirate.  Mary is still a character in the book as is the mysterious Lord Fulbright who is chasing Jamie.  But Jamie has his hands full with Evelyn Paxton, a feisty young widow who runs a shipping concern that Jamie’s raids are frankly interfering with.  So Evelyn goes undercover to catch Jamie.  Needless to say, he sort of catches her.  Then they’re sailing away on a pirate ship.  (Oh, how I wish I could take my heroine’s place for just one day sometimes”¦Calgon take me away!)

So there you have it.  There’s my opus to date.  I’m pretty fond of each of them.  And (like any new writer I’m sure) I get such
a huge kick out of people actually reading them.  Before I was published, my only reader was, oddly enough, one of my sisters.  I have
a slew of sisters (seven to be exact), but only one of them has always seen me as a writer and encouraged my efforts.   I would write a few pages of something and e-mail them to her and she would comment on them.  Not in a critical way, but in an enthusiastic helpful way.  Before I submitted Saving McCade to SirenBookstrand, I was writing a long comedic historical about an earl and a bluestocking.  My sister loved it.  She kept egging me on to write more, even assigning me the task of writing ten-thousand words over one Christmas vacation.  But it was so great to have an honest to goodness reader!  The day Saving McCade was published, my sister sent me flowers.

Anyway, what else can I tell you?  When I’m not writing, I practice law, which is considerably less fun than writing romances.  I’m also married and the mother of two fabulous teenage boys (and I bet you don’t hear that too often about teenage boys!).  My dream would be to write full time, but there’s the boys’ college to pay for first.

So, that’s me.  I’m kind of new at this blog thing.  I don’t even have my own, which I understand is a cardinal sin for an author.
I do have a website, www.angelaclaireromance.com, where you could buy any of my books.  They’re all on Amazon etc. too.  But I digress.  I was talking about blogs.  Since I’m new at this blog thing, I’m not sure when I should shut up.  How about I do so now and if anybody out there is following this and has any questions, just chime back in.  And if anyone has read one of my books and would like to discuss it or ask a question or comment, I’d be thrilled!

Thanks!