A few weeks sooner than anticipated, my new Titanium Security Series launches today with book #1, Ignited! I’m super excited about this series, which will have at least four books, each featuring one of my ex-Spec Ops band of brothers heroes.

Book 2 (Singed) will be out in August, and book 3 late this year.

When her father is murdered by a Taliban cell in the tribal regions of
Pakistan, Khalia Patterson reluctantly steps into his shoes to carry on
the legacy of Fair Start Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to
furthering the education of girls. There she meets Hunter Phillips, the
ex-SEAL and head of her Titanium security team, and quickly learns that
coming to Pakistan might prove to be a deadly decision.

Battling
demons of his own, Hunter grudgingly leads Khalia’s protective detail
as a favor to his boss. From their first meeting it’s clear she’s going
to be trouble, and that the cell that killed her father is hell bent on
taking her out as well. Keeping her alive is one of the toughest
assignments he’s ever faced, yet through one harrowing situation after
another she continually impresses him with her strength and inner
courage. Even though he fights his feelings for her, it’s a losing
battle. And when the job is over, he doesn’t know how he’ll let her go.

Happy reading!
Kaylea 🙂

I’m throwing another Twitter party! This one’s for The Vacant Chair, and it’s tomorrow, Tuesday June 4th from 7-8pm Eastern Standard Time. I’ll be giving away lots of prizes for both pre-registration and during the actual party itself, including paperpbacks, ebooks and an audio CD for Cover of Darkness. Details below, and I hope to see you there!

Kaylea

• Do you love your historical romance rich with romance and woven with historical accuracy?
• Looking for a time period that isn’t heavily represented in the romance genre?
• Do you love your romance heroes all sorts of sexy?

Now’s your chance!! On Tuesday, June 4, from 7-8pm EST, author Kaylea Cross, will be hosting a Twitter party
to answer reader questions and dish out some exclusive teasers and info
on this new historical romance that is gaining reader praise!

Back Cover Blurb:

The Civil War has torn Brianna Taylor’s family apart and made her a
widow. Determined to ease the suffering of the wounded crowding the
Union hospitals and honor the memory of the man she loved, she embarks
on a career as a nurse. But then he arrives—a patient who makes her feel alive again in spite of her resolve to stay detached.

Captain Justin Thompson understands the cost of war all too well, yet
he felt compelled to fight for the Union his father died defending.
Wounded at Cold Harbor and left to die at a military hospital, he owes
his life to Brianna, who seems determined to guard her professional
boundaries despite his best efforts to breach them. Just as he’s winning
the battle for her heart, he’s forced to return to the front of a cruel
war that could very well separate them forever.

Genre: Historical Romance
Tone: serious
Heat Level: hot (not erotic hot though)
Elements/Tags: Civil War, military
Publisher: Kaylea Cross
Publishing Date: May 2013
Format: digital
Words: 97,000

Pre-Order Your Copy Today!

Meet Author Kaylea Cross:

Kaylea Cross writes edge-of-your-seat military romantic suspense. Her
work has won many awards and has been nominated for both the Daphne du
Maurier and the National Readers’ Choice Awards. A Registered Massage
Therapist by trade, Kaylea is also an avid gardener, artist, Civil War
buff, Special Ops aficionado, belly dance enthusiast and former
nationally-carded softball pitcher. She and lives in Vancouver, BC with
her husband and two sons.

Website | Blog | Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook

Pre-register & be entered for a chance to win one of the pre-registration prizes by utilizing the following widget.

It’s Memorial Day in the States today. Since it was first known as Decoration Day and started as a tradition to honor the more than 600,000 dead of the Civil War, it’s highly appropriate that my blog tour for The Vacant Chair kicks off today.

At the end of the tour I’ll be giving away a $50 gift certificate to either Amazon or Barnes & Noble, and there’s also going to be a Twitter party on June 4th where I’ll give out lots of prizes for participants.

Today I’m a guest over at Ex Libris, talking about my strange obsession with the Civil War. Come by to enter the draw for the gift certificate!

Wherever you live, please remember your nation’s fallen warriors today.

The print copies of The Vacant Chair arrived last night and I was so excited to hold the book in my hands! Since I started writing this book back when I was 14, that makes it my first book and thus Justin was my very first book boyfriend. And so I thought it only fitting that I slept beside him last night :).

I woke up big weasel to show him the book. He smiled, studied the cover for a second and said, “That’s supposed to be you and Dad, isn’t it?”.

O_o

I can understand why he’d think that, since his father dressed up in a Yankee cavalry uniform for our wedding reception and I wore a white lacy wedding gown. I love that kid!

Here’s a shot of DH and I just after he proposed in the military cemetery atop Marye’s Heights at the Fredericksburg battlefield in Virginia. We look like babies! He caught me completely by surprise by popping the question there, and it’s still the most romantic memory of my life. I caught myself a good one :). (I said yes, by the way.)