SEDUCTION: NINA BRUHNS TURNS UP THE SUMMER HEAT!

Join me in welcoming Nina Bruhns to the Adventure forum where everything is about love and suspense.  I looking forward to your week with us.

wj

Hey all!

Thanks for the intro Wayne!

SEDUCTION SUMMER is a fabulous new SRS mini-series featuring some of the hottest authors in Romantic Suspense. After my KILLER TEMPTATION is released on June 1, comes KILLER PASSION by Sheri Whitefeather on July 1, and wrapping up on August 1 with Cindy Dees' KILLER AFFAIR.

These are really fun, really sexy books which I know you'll love! Trust me, the perfect beach reads :D. Along with the emotion and sizzle you've come to expect from a great Silhouette book, this mini-series also has some great suspense!

So, have at it with any questions you might have about the series, about SRS, or about writing in general (or anything else...I'm easy ;D).

Hope your summer is starting to heat up! Mine is ;D.

Nina

I can't remember if I bought this one or not so I'm going to have to check when my order arrives. I may have to go buy this at the store this week. I like the sounds of the book and the series.

Gail

At the top of the page click on the Silhouette Suspense releases, Gail's book will be under May when you click on her book you'll see EXERPT.

wj

Thanks for all your sweet comments! It's always so great to hear that someone out there actually reads my books and enjoys them! Sometimes, slaving away at the computer all by yourself day after day, you wonder if you just send this book off into the Great Void and no one ever sees it, and that the copies you see at the local Walmart are just clever illusions. It's always a thrill to hear from honest-to-goodness readers!

As for how I came up with the idea...well, my editor called and asked if I'd be interested in kicking off a very fun and sexy summer series along with Sheri and Cindy, so naturally I jumped at the chance to work with these fab authors. The series mandate was simple: sex on the beach and lots of it! Oh, and maybe a little suspense thrown in.  Okay! We can do that! LOL.

The first place everyone associates with paradise is Fiji, So we thought, yeah! Let's set the series there! I had actually visited Fiji a couple of years ago with my son on the way to New Zealand, and it was absolutely gorgeous. What a great setting for a heroine to meet her dream man and fall in love! And what better place than a romantic bed and breakfast tucked away on a tiny island in the middle of nowhere?

That's where we came up with the idea of secret hotel evaluators, and gave that job to our heroines so they could all be tied in, but could end up in different places (to make it less complicated to set up the "world").    

But naturally, there had to be a fly in the ointment, so to speak. So Jayne, to answer your question, I just pictured Zoe arriving at this idyllic, wonderfully amazing place and standing there in awe. What could possibly go wrong? Yeah, a dead body in the hammock would be fun! And better yet, have it the hero! From there it all just practically wrote itself. This was one of the most fun books I've ever written, for sure.

So sit back, relax with a bloody Mary, or the umbrella drink of your choice, and enjoy!!!

Nina

Thanks for the inspirational pics, Nina!  Now I'm ready for summer.

Hi Nina,

First off, I just have to say...you amaze me.  You're like a Renaissance woman.  I'm in awe of all that you done and continue to do.

Secondly, how do you balance the romance and the suspense in your books?  Do you write two separate stories and weave them together?

Makes perfect sense Nina!

For me, I always have to weave one into the other.  When I wrote Blood Secrets the mystery and crime elements were front and center and I had to go back and weave much of the romance back in.  With Dark Lies it was the opposite, the romance was front and center for me in my mind, and I had to go back and weave in the crime parts.

I always start with setting, and I've heard Gail say she does the same.  I need to know where my characters are, and have some kind of visual backdrop, before I begin to flesh out who they are.

I set all my books in San Diego, where I live, so sometimes doing research is as easy as jumping in the car and driving to the beach! 

Hi Nina!  Can't wait to read your latest book!  It's going to be my relaxation read for when my sister and I go to the beach. I know it will be great - your books always are!

Cheers~~

Cathy

I hadn't ordered this one so I must've missed it. But I bought it at BN the other day.

first book and it is really good.  Sets up the series and introduces some interesting people.  Hope that we see a little of these two in at least one of the next two books.