Okay, I’m going to tell you a secret.
Today. Just now. I finished Book 3 of an epic new series I’ve been hinting at for weeks, and I simply cannot hold it in one more second: Roy and Ziggy: Against All Odds.
Seven books. All releasing in 2027. International, high-adventure, slow-burn spy romance with two people who are —(and I know, I know, this is new) — trying to save the world. Think The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone (minus the time travel, sorry) meets PJ Sugar (except Ziggy’s a little more international), with a parade of old friends walking back onto the page, (waving to you, Jonas Marshall, and Pete Sutton, and Shep and London and Logan Thorne…) a dozen tiny threads finally getting answered, and two people who cannot, for the life of them, manage to be on the same page at the same time.
It’s the kind of swoony I live for. (Yes, I know. I’m supposed to be objective about my own books. Sorry. I just love these guys. And I love discovering their story. I’m a hot mess right now.)
Oh, and also? I wrote it in two weeks.
Yep. Because we leave for vacation tomorrow and I wanted it done. So: 12-14 hour days. Up until 3am last night. I am — and I say this with love for myself — a complete disaster today. Bleary-eyed, my hair a mess, and I *might* be wearing my pajamas.
I look a little like this:
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(The rewrite is going to be an adventure of its own. Who knows what I actually wrote at 3am? Yikes!)
But there’s a real joy in writing something fast, in the cauldron of creativity as I call it — everything hot and bubbly in your brain, and when you finally lie down to sleep you don’t really sleep, you just… keep going. You dream the story. You might as well get up and write it, right?
This is exactly how I wrote the series, The Hunt for Alan Martin — North, East, South, and West — last year. Same magic– old friends reappearing, the Jones, Inc. team finally (hopefully — fingers crossed) closing in on Alan Martin. (And there’s so much more! IYKYK.)
Which brings me to the actual reason I’m emailing you today, because while Roy and Ziggy Copenhagen adventure cools on the counter…
SOUTH is out. Right now. On Amazon.
Here’s the tea: They’re spies, lying to each other. But for the first time….they want to tell the truth.
At the Honolulu airport, Jayden Pierce picks up the wrong bag — a simple mistake, until she opens it and realizes someone on her Sydney tour group is planning to assassinate the President. Dakota Rivers is hunting that exact threat, and when he finds Jayden holding the evidence, every instinct says she’s the enemy.
His stupid heart says something else entirely.
So he makes a calculated, completely insane gamble: a fake engagement, two weeks touring Australia, and a race to find the real threat before the Sydney summit — all while trying not to notice that somewhere between the Great Barrier Reef and Sydney Harbour, the fake part of “fake engagement” is getting a lot less fake.
(Yes, I wrote this based on my trip through Australia last year!)
The Hunt for Alan Martin continues today!
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GRAB SOUTH HERE!
Okay. I’m off to shower (It’s uh, non-negotiable at this point, if I want my family to like me), pack, and — because apparently I don’t know how to stop — dream up Book 4.
Have a beautiful, relaxing weekend!
Lotsa love,
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P.S. — One more thing before I go collapse into a suitcase… NOTHING BUT AIR, Book 3 in the Summer Rangers series I co-wrote with the wildly talented Tari Faris, is out in the Sunrise Shop! So if you’re needing something epically adventurous and perfectly romantic this weekend…I got you.
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The Grand Canyon is closed, treasure hunters keep getting themselves killed on the cliffs, and Ranger Dispatcher Eden Garrison — a former championship climber who swore off death-defying heights — gets pulled right back into the vertical world she left behind. Add in Teague Hamilton (adrenaline junkie, quietly in love with her all summer), a family heir chasing the same treasure, and an old climbing friend who isn’t what he seems, and you’ve got heights, heart, and a mystery that turns deadly fast. Don’t look down. (and it’s at the preorder price! Bam!)
Grab NOTHING BUT AIR HERE!