First off, here's the Daily Deal. My first historical romance (as opposed to regencies and gothics) is a Desert Isle Keeper from AAR, might have been a RITA finalist (there was that year I was up for 4) and possibly the first very very dark hero I ever wrote. It's 99 cents at Kindle, Kobo, and Nook, just for the day.

Pretty classy, eh? That was the only cover where I had to find my image among stock photos, and very few stock photos show tension between the hero and the heroine. Since the b...