The Kiss and Thrill blog, where this was originally published, will soon be disappearing, and I am republishing my Kiss and Thrill posts here to keep a copy. This one is from December 2012.
I’ve been a Kat Martin fan since I first picked up NOTHING BUT VELVET in 1997. Her historicals always had a well-crafted suspense element, which must have made it natural for her to switch to writing contemporary romantic suspense. If you’ve never read one of her suspense novels, you are in for a sexy, fun, thrilling treat! As a long-time fan, I’m delighted to host Kat on the blog today.
Kat is giving an autographed copy of AGAINST THE ODDS to only lucky commenter.
MINING FOR STORIES
by Kat Martin
All year long I am searching for a new and interesting story. Each year, they seem more elusive. Tomorrow, AGAINST THE ODDS, the seventh book in my Against Series that started with AGAINST THE WIND, will be released. As I began to conceive the story, I knew that Alex Justice and Sabrina Eckhart would be thrown together in a tale of greed and murder, but I wasn’t exactly certain how the story would play out.
Or who would be the villain!
I first met Sabrina and Alex in AGAINST THE SUN, where they showed up as friends of Jake Cantrell and Sage Dumont, the woman Jake was hired to protect.
I liked Alex and Sabrina right away, but it wasn’t until SUN was well underway that I realized Sabrina and Alex just had to have their own book. I wasn’t sure how I was going to put them together, but little by little, a plot began to unfold in my head.
Even half way through, I was still finding my way, trying to figure out who the real bad guy was.
I was particularly happy to be able to write both Alex Justice and Ben Slocum’s stories (Ben’s is AGAINST THE EDGE, book eight of the Against series), since I fell in love with them as I was writing AGAINST THE SUN.
As AGAINST THE ODDS begins, Sabrina receives an inheritance from her uncle–an abandoned silver mine in the West Texas desert. Running out of money, Rina is determined to find the mine and make it productive, even if it means putting up with the cocky jet jockey she is determined to dislike but finds ridiculously attractive.
G.Q. handsome and obscenely wealthy, Alex is a private investigator and an ex-Navy pilot. Alex is just the man she needs to fly her safely into the desert in search of her late uncle’s property. It’s a sexy tale of survival, murder, betrayal, and intrigue that kept me writing long after I should have been done for the day.
I hope you’ll watch for Alex and Sabrina in AGAINST THE ODDS, out in time for Christmas on December 18.
Have a wonderful holiday,
Kat
P.S. What gifts will you be shopping for this Christmas?
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