That's the second book in the Maggie Bennett series, available free from Amazon today, and in it I broke the cardinal rule of romance writing. I didn't want to, but I was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Let me explain. I'd agreed to write a three-part women's adventure series, and the stories were going to be about three sisters. I had it all worked out, everything was cool, and I wrote the first one, ESCAPE OUT OF DARKNESS, and was happy. Except then my editor told me the publisher had...