I was alerted to this review of Criminal Promises recently.   “Nikki Duncan’s Criminal Promises is brimming with passion and promise! This thrilling story gives the reader tons of emotion and edge of your seat suspense. Harte and Maggie are both quite complex characters.”   Have you read the book? What did you think of it?

I’ve decided to share some fun quotes or exchanges my characters have. To kick off this new blog event, I’m pulling something from my current WIP Her Miracle Man, which is scheduled to release from Samhain Publishing this holiday season. Jennalyn is about to learn if she can really trust her gay best friend when he wants to make an introduction.   “I have someone I want you to meet. A man.” “Evan.” She tried to warn him. They’d shared [...]

A heads up… Gwen Reyes (@ReelVixen) will do a 4 minute segment on Good Morning Texas called Buy The Books (original, no? LOL) with their co-host Amy Vanderoef on Wednesday, May 2nd. She’ll be talking about books with the same themes as 50 SHADES OF GREY but not hard core erotica. In other words, she’s talking ROMANCES, you know that new fiction everyone’s reading? In PUBLIC!!!! If all goes well, and I have complete faith in Miss Gwen, she’s very [...]

Some books are harder to write than others. Just as with everything in life, that’s a given. The same is true for inspiration. Sometimes it comes to us more easily than others. Most recently, inspiration hit me in the way of a singer. Typically I fall for one song or another by someone, but this guy… Chris Mann is a classically trained opera singer we’ve been watching on The Voice. To say he is amazing puts it mildly, but there [...]

Medusa Blurb: It’s said love can change a person. Medusa wasn’t always a monster… Medusa is ruled by duty, to her Titan father and the Goddess Athena. She’s no room for the tenderness her warrior guard, Ariston, stirs. When Olympus frees her from service, her heart leads her into the arms of the guard she loves… and curses her as the creature with serpent locks. Ariston goes to war with a full heart… and dreadful foreboding. He learns too late [...]

As the days have ticked away to today’s release of Illicit Intuitions, I’ve been thinking about how fun it might be to live in a world where paranormal elements were more readily accepted. Of course I know that would mean we’d likely have to deal with thingslike vampires and zombies and demons for real, which I wouldn’t necessarily like. I was thinking more along the lines of empaths and magicians and fairies. Not that they’re necessarily all good either. Even [...]

This is by far one of the funniest things I have seen in a very long time. No matter how many times I watch it, it doesn’t get old. I LOVE her first answer. The one about football games is pretty good, too. I guess this just goes to show that we never know how we’re going to react under pressure. I hope you got a good laugh.

Criminal Promises is the first book I ever wrote and for that reason alone it holds a special place in my heart. I’ve rewritten and changed this story several times over the years, but finally I think it is ready for the public. To make sure, I have been through a few rounds of editing with an editor. The most fun though has been the cover. Even that isn’t fully predictable. It was awesome to have Scott Nova do a [...]

In working on my Christmas story for this year, I realized I needed to do some personal research, because sometimes the Internet just isn’t enough. With this in mind, I found myself loading my kids and my mom in the car for a road trip to Indianapolis over spring break. In Indianapolis we visited family and got together with my editor Tera to do our research. Our first stop was the Indianapolis Zoo where I primarily wanted to get the [...]