Hello! Thank you for joining us! I’m very excited to be here today, celebrating the release of BROKEN DAWN, an exciting new stand-alone novel in my Immortal Guardians series. If you like powerful preternatural heroes, strong heroines, action scenes that will keep you flipping pages well past your bedtime, and romance that is alternately steamy and sweet and laced with humor, then I hope you’ll pick up a copy. If you’re new to the Immortal Guardians series, don’t worry. You can easily dive into this one without feeling lost.
To give you a hint of what you’ll find in the series, I thought I would have Sheldon, one of the humans in the series (and a favorite of many readers, thanks to the comic relief he provides) interview Nick and Kayla, the hero and heroine. :-)
Sheldon: Hi, guys. Thanks for agreeing to sit down with me for an interview.
Nick: We’re happy to do it.
Kayla: *offers him a hesitant smile* I’m sorry. I’ve met a LOT of new people here at David’s place and don’t remember your name.
Sheldon: No worries. I’m Sheldon.
Kayla: Nice to meet you. Are you human, gifted one, or immortal?
Sheldon: Human. I’m Richart’s Second. *sighs* Man, I WISH I were immortal.
Marcus: *snorts as he walks past* The rest of us don’t. You wreak enough havoc as a mortal. I shudder to think what chaos you’d create as an immortal.
Sheldon: Oh, ha freaking ha. Ignore him. Where were we?
Nick: You were about to interview us.
Sheldon: Right.
Marcus: *passes by again with a bag of chips* While the rest of us shudder at the thought of you as an immortal.
Sheldon: Aren’t you supposed to be hunting psychotic vampires or something?
Marcus: Seth gave me the night off.
Sheldon: *mutters under his breath as Marcus disappears down a hallway*
Kayla: *looks at Nick* What is this interview for, anyway? I thought the whole Immortal Guardians, vampires, gifted ones thing was supposed to be hush-hush.
Nick: It is. The last thing we need is for the military or more mercenary groups to find out about us.
Sheldon: *nods* This is just a thing I do for Network employees. Some of the humans who work for the Immortal Guardians never actually see them in person, so I like to do interviews like this to help them get to know the powerful men and women they help.
Kayla: That’s really nice.
Sheldon: *preens a little* Thank you. So . . . Kayla. You’ve lived next door to this guy *jerks a thumb toward Nick* for six years, give or take. Didn’t you ever suspect he might be . . . different?
Kayla: No. I just thought he was a friendly, funny, hot guy who worked security and frequented most of my illicit fantasies.
Nick: *eyes her speculatively* Most?
Kayla: *grins* All. I didn’t want to give you a big head.
Sheldon: Too late.
Nick: *laughs and loops an arm around her shoulders* I had a heck of a time hiding what I am from her.
Sheldon: Because she turned you on and made your eyes glow?
Nick: Yes.
Sheldon: Kinda like they’re glowing right now?
Nick: *swears* Yes.
Kayla: *laughs*
Sheldon: Wait. You aren’t telepathic, are you, Kayla? Because I’ve had to cut many an interview short because I couldn’t keep the couples from talking dirty to each other telepathically.
Kayla: No. I’m not a telepath.
Sheldon: Good.
Kayla: *sends Nick a heated look* But I do have empathic abilities and am picking up on some pretty interesting emotions from Nick here.
Sheldon: *scowls at Nick* Down, boy.
Nick: *laughs*
Sheldon: Nick, all Immortal Guardians were born gifted ones with advanced DNA that gave them special gifts even BEFORE they were infected with the vampiric virus.
Nick: Correct.
Sheldon: What gift were you born with?
Nick: No comment.
Sheldon: *blinks* What?
Nick: No comment.
Sheldon: Really?
Kayla: *smiles* He’s a little . . . uneasy about revealing it to others.
Nick: And some of my fellow immortals warned me not to tell you.
Sheldon: *frowns* What? Why?
Nick: They said once you find out what an immortal can do, you always push for a demonstration.
Sheldon: No, I don’t.
Nick: *arches a brow* Did you or did you not ask Dana to try to see your future?
Sheldon: I did. But that doesn’t count because she didn’t see my future. She saw my past.
Nick: And now she can’t look you in the eye without blushing.
Kayla: *laughs* Really? Why?
Nick: Apparently he’s into some very—
Sheldon: My sex stuff is not that weird! *flushes a deep red*
Kayla: *eyes widen* What?
Nick: *laughs*
Sheldon: Nothing. That was just an . . . aberration.
Nick: The sex stuff Dana saw? I agree.
Sheldon: *frowns* Not the sex stuff. My asking Dana to employ her gift.
Nick: Didn’t you routinely ask Richart to teleport you all over the world until he refused to ever do it again after the incident in France?
Sheldon: You uh . . . you heard about that?
Nick: EVERYONE heard about that.
Sheldon: Okay, there’s an explanation for that.
Nick: And did you not ask Seth to shape-sift into a dragon so you could climb onto his back and ride him like a pony?
Sheldon: I did nnnnnn—
Nick: *narrows his eyes*
Sheldon: —nnnnot realize you heard about that, too. Okay. Next subject. Kayla, I hear you can kick ass.
Kayla: *eyebrows fly up* Oh. I don’t know about that.
Nick: She does. She kicks ass. It’s a total turn-on.
Sheldon: Yes, it is.
Nick: *scowls* Not to you it isn’t.
Sheldon: Not to me it isn’t. Absolutely. I meant women in general kicking ass is a turn-on. I love strong women.
Nick: *smiles down at Kayla* I do, too.
Kayla: *leans up to kiss him*
Sheldon: Nope. Nuh-uh. No mushy stuff until I ask my next question.
Nick and Kayla: Okay.
Sheldon: While we’re on the topic of strong women . . . Kayla, you thought you were older than Nick, right?
Kayla: Right. *frowns* Wait. What does that have to do with strong women?
Nick: *whispers* I think he’s talking about Tracy.
Kayla: Who’s Tracy?
Nick: Lisette’s Second.
Kayla: Oh. Right. I met her. She’s nice.
Nick: She’s also Sheldon’s girlfriend.
Sheldon: *nods* She’s nine years older than me and kind of fixates on that. I was hoping to get some advice on how I might her past that.
Nick: Are you sure she’s fixating on that and not the weird sex stuff?
Sheldon: Hey, Tracy is fine with the sex stuff. She just doesn’t like that she’d older than me.
Tracy: *calls from down the hallway* Dude! You told them I’m older than you?
Sheldon: *eyes widen* Oh crap. I, uh . . . *jumps up* I’m gonna have to go take care of that. *hurries down the hallway* See you later!
Kayla: *smiles up at Nick* You think he’s going to employ some weird sex stuff to make it up to her?
Nick: *grins* I don’t know. But I wouldn’t mind employing some weird sex stuff myself right about now.
Kayla: *laughs and gives him a kiss* Sounds good to me.
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