Braving The Heat is new today and is the latest action-packed romance in the Escape Club Heroes series from Harlequin Romantic Suspense!
Okay, you caught me. Technically, Braving The Heat released in ebook yesterday, July 1st, but I’m trying to be better about taking Sundays off. Y’know that whole life-work balance thing. It’s an ongoing process.
Anyway – this is a standalone story, but you will catch a glimpse of familiar characters if you know the series. The best news is the paperback should be hitting store shelves in your neighborhood on Tuesday! Good news all around!
One man wants her dead.
Another will do anything to protect her.
Firefighter Kenzie Hughes never thought saving lives would make her a target. When someone rigs her car and sexy Stephen Galway offers to be her bodyguard, the flames of danger burn red-hot. Stephen lost his fiancée to violence years ago, but he can’t resist Kenzie. Can he keep Kenzie safe and out of his arms when they’re forced to confront what they fear most?
You can pick up your digital edition at Amazon or your favorite bookseller today! (Look for the paperback in stores this week!)
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We’re celebrating the release of Braving The Heat on Monday July 2nd at my Facebook page with fun games and giveaways. It’s a come as you are, whenever you can sort of event and we’d love it if you dropped by!
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Stephen holds a special place in my heart because he showed up all grumpy and gruff, his grief buried by his work, while I was writing Safe In His Sight, my first novel for Harlequin Romantic Suspense. When my editor and I were discussing options for the book, I mentioned how much I wanted Stephen to find happiness and she agreed. Even better, readers familiar with Safe In His Sight were excited when they heard Stephen would get his own story. Discovering that readers care about the characters as if they’re read is always a great feeling!
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Monique says 5 stars! “…it might possibly be Regan Black’s finest book to date!” (You can check out her full review at Goodreads)
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Enjoy an Excerpt:
From Chapter One
Standing at a prep counter in the Escape Club kitchen, Kenzie Hughes stuffed the last bite of her sandwich into her mouth and added her plate to the rack loaded for the dishwasher. She thanked the cook and slipped the strap of her backpack over one shoulder. Pausing at the doorway to the main floor, she scanned the empty stage, looking for Grant Sullivan, owner of the establishment.
The extra personnel Grant had brought on for the summer concert series were resetting for the evening show. Leaving them to cover her workload through the afternoon changeover didn’t sit well with Kenzie, but her landlord had called. She had only a few more hours to clear out whatever she didn’t want exposed to termite fumigation and the dust and debris from the repair process.
If she hustled she could get to her apartment and back again before the doors opened for the evening session. That would please her as much as it would please Grant. It wasn’t as if she had anything better to do with her time, other than finding an affordable place to crash for a couple weeks.
Though her pay from the Philadelphia Fire Department had continued during her current administrative leave, storage units and short-term room rentals added up fast. She’d asked both her union representative and her lawyer if she could visit her mom in Delaware while her apartment was out of commission, and been told she had to stay in Philly. Both the union rep and her lawyer implied that her leaving town could be perceived as an admission of guilt.
“Can’t have that,” she muttered to herself.
If there was anything Kenzie dreaded more than the potential outcome of her current legal trouble, it was having nothing productive to do while she waited out the process.
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Remember the release day party is over at my Facebook page -hope to see you there!
Live the adventure!
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p.s. The previous Escape Club Heroes novels are: Safe In His Sight, A Stranger She Can Trust, and Protecting Her Secret Son
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