Thack’s Angel is my newest release, and the latest book in the multi-author shared Midnight Rodeo universe. It’s a stand-alone story featuring the demon chute boss at the Darque and Knight rodeo company and his lost angel, who literally drives his Harley onto the rodeo grounds.

What was your inspiration for the Midnight Rodeo series?

*cackles*

Well, one evening at some convention (which I can’t remember right off the top of my head), Julia Talbot (aka the wife), Kiernan Kelly (aka my good twin), and I were bullshitting, and I said, “Y’ALL! What if there was a rodeo and the bulls were contained DEMONS!”

Julia tilted her head and said, “Werewolf bullfighters would be hot.”

Kiernan said, “Can the owners be a demon and a vampire that are star-crossed lovers?”

Midnight Rodeo was born. Boom.

Never ever EVER let me, J and K together in person for any amount of time. Trouble ensues.

Ask Kiernan’s hubby.

How much research went into rodeo for you to write with such conviction?

I grew up on a ranch, my brother was a bullrider, my other brother trains horses. My daddy is a cowboy, through and through. Then I married a woman who’s grampa was a cowboy and who was a huge rodeo fan, especially the roughstock events. We hit ever rodeo in a stone’s throw, and some we have to fly to. I admit to calling Daddy every now and again with weird questions – Daddy, would a demon-bull have lips or a muzzle? Daddy, if I needed to run mustangs in Texas, where’s the best spot? Daddy, I need a little town close to Lake Tawakoni?

Do you write every day or do you take a day off?

I write every weekday. I usually take Saturdays totally off, and I play on Sundays (I toodle on a book if I want to, if the boys are loud, if the deadline is looming). I’m pretty religious about my workday because I write at the pace of a turtle. I’m not one of those folks that can write 10K a day. I’m slow and steady – if y’all know me, you know that this is a perfect description of me, in a nutshell – but I’m determined to give every couple their HEA.

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Quickfire questions

Favorite movie – The Wizard of Oz

Favorite book – IT by Stephen King

Ideal snack – POPCORN!

Cats/Dogs – Allergic to cats. 4 hound dogs. 😉

Tea/Coffee – Yes. Coffee all morning, iced tea all day, hot tea in the evening.

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Thack’s Angel, Midnight Rodeo Book 12

Can a demon’s love save an angel, or will it damn them both?

Demon Thackery has been running the actual rodeo show at the Midnight Rodeo since anyone can remember. He has a damn good life on earth: he loves his job, he has good friends, and he has a personal assistant who understands that a good horn rub has nothing to do with sex. Only one thing is missing. His angel Uri, who disappeared years ago without even a goodbye.

When Uri rides into the Midnight Rodeo on his Harley, he has the sense that he’s been there before. And when the regulars see him, they know that the proverbial stuff is about to hit the fan. Thack is going to lose it when he sees Uri. Except that Uri can’t remember anything about his past, and he has no idea why he left.

Uri knows one thing for sure when he sees Thack; that the big demon is his mate. Period. Even if someone wants to keep them apart, now that Uri is back, there will be no separating them. Or at least that’s the plan. Can they get Uri’s memory back and keep everything else together?

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Competition

I’d like to give away a package of my previous ebooks in the Midnight Rodeo series – Welcome to the Pack, Tails and Whiskers, Above the Fold, and Brownie’s Sway. Just let me know what kind of paranormal beastie would be the best type of roper!