Today we would love for you to help us welcome back Kris Jayne. Kris is here to share her contemporary romance, Kisses & Kismet. Kisses & Kismet is part of Kris’ Thirsty Hearts Magical Romance Series. Welcome, Kris! We are all really excited to hear more about Kisses & Kismet.
Q&A with Kris Jayne:
Why do you write romance and why your genre of romance?
I started writing romance because I’ve read romance since I was little. My mother used to go to the library and get their cast-off Harlequin Presents romances. One summer, I read my way through an entire trash bag full of them. I might have been too young to be exposed to the Greek shipping tycoons and their violations of English virgins, but it made me fall in love with reading and then writing.
Today, I like reading and writing heroines with more independence than those women in the ‘80s romances. Strong, funny, contemporary women are the most interesting for me to write. My latest book has a touch of paranormal because right now, I’m fascinated with mystical women–psychics, tarot readers, etc.
What are you working on next and when can we expect to see it?
My next book is a continuation of a holiday novella that comes out this November. The holiday story is called Christmas for Two, and it features a boss who falls for his ex-administrative assistant. At the end of the story, some complications arise, and the next book will follow Griffin and Delilah’s story. That one is slated to come out in the summer. I also have a story in the works for a couple who falls in love while climbing Kilimanjaro. I’ve been wanting to write about traveling to Africa for a while, and so I put it on my list to finish next year.
How do you spend your free time?
In my free time, I love cooking, reading historical romances, and hanging out with my friends. My favorite pastime is travel. I love visiting new places and writing about them. I borrow from my travel fun for my books. Two of my books feature experiences I had in Paris and London. I’ll feature my Kilimanjaro trip in one of my upcoming stories.
About Kisses & Kismet:
A psychic. A ghost. A hero with a sly secret…
Lilith Carver will do anything to help her estranged foster sister, Kali, and prove her loyalty—despite a past that has kept them apart. With Kali’s lover dead and her sister facing eviction, Lilith will even tap into her repressed mystical gifts to find out what the man’s son is hiding. She’s on a mission, and she won’t let Jamie’s magnetism—or dark inklings about her sister—keep her from winning.
Jamie Wylde has a chance to right the wrongs of his father and send the man’s mistress packing. With one clandestine maneuver, he can exclude the homewrecker from the Wylde fortune and reinstate his mother in their family home. He knows how to handle Kali, but her provocative sister is another story. Somehow, Lilith senses the truth, and she’s on a crusade to stop him.
Lilith and Jamie sharpen each other’s swords as soon as they meet, sparking more than anger. With battle lines drawn, their growing connection becomes as impossible to ignore as it is to sever. They soon discover that winning might mean losing their one shot at happiness.
Equally matched in every way, can they triumph in love?
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An excerpt: from Kisses & Kismet:
Jamie lifted his chin to a haughty angle, but his evasive glance told me I was right. Preston was trying to tell me something. If I wanted to help Kali, I would have to set fire to the carefully reinforced walls at the edges of my psyche and listen.
“And you should be more careful of the truth,” I snapped.
“No. Your sister should.”
“What does that mean?” I edged closer to him.
“Ask her.”
“You’re deflecting.”
“I don’t have to listen to this.” He flipped the watch at his wrist to eye level. “Shit. I’m supposed to be somewhere.”
“You can’t run away. This isn’t over, you know.”
“Oddly, I do,” he grunted with a grim smile. “You’re relentless.”
I took another step forward and poked the center of his chest. The grumble of my own voice through gritted teeth shocked even me. “You have no idea.”
His gaze snatched down to mine as he took a half step back, trapped against the open door of his fancy car. The electricity between us crackled on my skin. My breath quickened.
The dim light of the parking garage played with the angles of his face. The perfection crumbled. A rogue curl of dark hair slipped to his forehead. The arrogant mask he wore fell away revealing confusion, trepidation, and hurt.
He straightened his shoulders, adding to his height as he stared down at me, and sneered. “Is this your plan? You corner me in a parking garage and start touching me and giving me your best siren’s eyes?”
“Siren’s eyes?”
He cackled and lifted his hands up as if touching me might give him some incurable disease. “God, you and your sister are alike. But I’m not my father. I’m not going to let a little horniness make me lose my mind.”
I covered my mouth and mockingly wretched. “Ugh. I’m going to lose my lunch.”
“Really?” He snickered under his breath. “Yes. That’s why you touched me.”
“I was making a point. If you’re horny, that’s your problem.” Still, I stepped away from him. “Understand this: I’m not going to let you railroad my sister.”
I spun on my heels and stormed away, not totally sure where I parked or if I was even on the right level of the parking garage, but I didn’t dare risk looking confused. I kept walking to the other side of the elevator. Finally, the screech of his car down the exit ramp pierced through the roar of rushing blood in my ears. I closed my eyes, clenching and unclenching my fists to relax.
If I was going to fight for Kali, I needed to control my emotions. Because when they controlled me, that was a disaster.
About the Author:
Kris Jayne is a devoted writer, reader, and traveler. She spends her days blissfully sweating out the writing process in the Dallas area with her dogs, Otis the Shih Tzu, Rocco the Terrier, and Red the Foxy Mutt.
Her passion for writing is only matched by her passion for the adventures of travel. In 2008, she let a friend talk her into sleeping outside for the first time in her life when she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
P.S. If you’re buying her a gift, she has a penchant for single-malt Scotch and scarves.
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