
2014 was the year of my first burn out. I'd worked so many hours and so hard to get us out of the Silver mess, that I had pushed way too much and ended up losing much of 2014 with various amounts of depression and anxiety. This wouldn't be the last time I overdid things either.
Books included: The Incubus Agenda, A Reason To Stay, The Third Kingdom, The Ex Factor, Capture The Sun, Last Marine Standing, Heat, Texas Fall, Ellery Mountain Volume 1, Ellery Mountain Volume 2, Ellery Mountain Volume 3
I carried on with my Bodyguards series, with one of my favorites – the Ex Factor – and started the new Heroes series with A Reason To Stay and Last Marine Standing. Texas Fall was the only Texas book I wrote, and I started a new duology with Chris Quinton.
Funnily enough, it was the Heroes series that I dropped for a long time because 2014 became such a mess. It would be a long wait for book 3, Deacon's Law. Somehow the depression became wrapped up in that series, but the feeling of achievement when I finally published book 3 a couple of years later was amazing.
With respect to my mental health, I was really glad when 2014 was over.
Competition
The Ex Factor, a book in my bodyguards series, is a take on a stalker who follows a talent show winner, and the bodyguard who keeps him safe! If you could have any actor/characters as a bodyguard, who would it be? Comment below for a chance to win.
Prize: An e-book from this featured year, or your choice from my backlist
Kingdom Volume 2
The Demon's Blood
When Simeon, a mountain lion shifter meets Asher, a blood demon, there is instant attraction. But, how can they act on the way they feel when there is an entire kingdom at stake?
The Incubus Agenda
When Nicholas Tarrant sees a broken and bloody Brody Lennox dragged into the Werewolf Coalition he has to decide. Stay under cover or help the incubus live. His decision is simple. Can Nicholas save Brody? Or is Brody too broken to be saved?
The Third Kingdom
An alpha needs to accept his role, a blood demon has to become the King he was meant to be, and the Vampire twins have to end the war.
More info →Heat
An arsonist is burning their way through the cathedral city of Salisbury. Can Lewis and Devon overcome their mutual dislike to fight for Laurels and their lives?
Betrayal and grief have left Master Chef Lewis Mandineau a broken man. As the primary carer for his sister, injured in the crash that killed their parents, she is his priority, and nothing will stop him from creating a safe place for her to call home. But, when an ex-lover embezzles from the company accounts, his fragile hold on life disintegrates. However hard he works, he can't balance the books and his only solution is to sell the family restaurant to an American hotel chain.
Hard-headed businessman, Devon, heir to the Trelawney Hotel empire, is sent from the US to assess the viability of Laurels. Debts swamp the restaurant, and his first reaction is to sell the real estate and call it a financial win for his family. He understands tradition, but sentiment has no place in his business plans. Until he meets innocent Rachel with her love of beautifully simple things, and Lewis, who shows him that anything is possible with enough love.
More info →Capture The Sun
The past has a powerful hold on Mitch, but meeting Isaac makes him desperate for a future filled with love.
Isaac is desperate to break into the world of fashion design and be seen as something more than just an airhead model with no imagination. Set to debut his new collection, he has the models, the clothes. All he needs is a location, and he turns to an industry trouble-shooter for help.
Mitch’s latest client needs an exotic location for a model shoot, and he happens to know someone with the very thing—Sapphire Cay. What starts as just another job turns out to be more exhilarating than winning any multi-million-dollar contract, particularly when he connects with Isaac again, who is far from the airhead model he presented as. As the fashion shoot gets underway, Mitch has to contend with complicated feelings for his old flame, Dylan, and the growing love he has for Isaac.
More info →Last Marine Standing
When the people you trusted turn on you, when you are the last one standing, should you take your secrets to the grave? Or make the murderers pay?
Former Marine Recon, Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Jackson has secrets. The things he did for his country, the things he saw, must never be spoken about. Until that is, his team is targeted. A shift in political alliances means one particular mission undertaken by Mac and his Fire Team needs to be wiped from the history books. Starting with the team itself.
Forest Ranger Samuel Larson wants to find the Marines who saved his life. He just wants to say thank you. What he can’t know is that he's walking into a firestorm of betrayal and murder.
When Samuel arrives at Mac's place he throws Mac's plans for hiding out of the window. Abruptly Mac has to protect a man who threatens his heart, only this time he can't be sure he will succeed in keeping Sam alive.
More info →A Reason To Stay
“A sexy and fast-paced romantic thriller.”
It takes a Navy SEAL's training to keep them alive, but when the mystery on the mountain is solved, will Viktor and Aiden's love story survive the fallout?
Viktor left small-town Vermont to become a Navy SEAL and had no intention of tying himself down or falling in love. A succession of men and women share his bed, passion and danger are his addictions, and he's the first of his team to run headlong into trouble. When his nephew witnesses a murder, Viktor returns home to protect his family and lands in the middle of an active case led by none other than the man he left behind. He can handle getting punched out by Aiden, but teaming up with the sheriff to find a killer is not on the cards. For Viktor, love is dangerous, makes a man vulnerable, and one mistake could get Aiden killed.
Aiden never expected to find lasting love with a decorated active SEAL, but he didn't anticipate Viktor would leave his bed never to return. Even two years later, disappointment simmers below the surface, and he never wants to see Viktor again. But, when seemingly unrelated deaths draw Viktor back home, Aiden has to find a way for them to work together despite their past. With Viktor's training and Aiden's local knowledge, they partner to work the case, but Aiden isn't just fighting the bad guys and mother nature; he's falling in love with a man who will surely leave him again.
What links the string of deaths in the Green Mountains? Can hate and distrust turn back to love? And if they make it down from the mountain alive, can Aiden persuade Viktor he has a reason to stop running?
More info →Angel in a Book Shop
Can a broken man trust in the impossible?
'Chapter One' is an antique book shop and is the last tangible thing Josh and his mom have left of his dad. Nestled in a quiet square a few steps from London’s St Pauls Cathedral, it is boarded up with whitewashed windows and no new stock. The place is a sad reminder of loss and it has to go, but destroying a business that has been in his family for generations is not a role Josh is looking forward to.
Michael is the owner of Arts Desire, the shop next door. With his rainbow pride mugs and his sunny positive outlook, he is the complete opposite to what Joshua thinks he needs in his life.
But, when Josh and Michael become friends, Josh learns that finding true love starts with making big decisions; and that everyone deserves their own Christmas miracle sometimes.
The Ex-Factor
Trapped in an abusive relationship, Daniel is desperate and there's only one man he can call: The sexy bodyguard who promised he could help.
When Bodyguard, Ben Collins, finds Daniel Lincoln in a room, hiding and hurt, he doesn’t immediately think Daniel is the victim of abuse. Daniel is good at pretending and as a finalist in a TV singing competition he seems like he has a bright future ahead of him.
But something about Daniel calls to Ben’s need to protect, and he hands Daniel a card to contact him if ever Daniel needs him. Abruptly, after one frightened phone call, Ben is racing to Daniel’s aid and what he finds is a horror he can’t imagine.
Daniel is trapped in a relationship where anger and controlling hate are the only emotions he is given. When his boyfriend crosses the line and leaves Daniel vulnerable and broken there is only one man that he wants to call: Ben.
Texas Fall
Jack and Riley’s peaceful family life is shattered when a dangerous cartel entangles Riley, threatening everything they’ve built, while love and life unfold for the rest of the Double D family.
Jack has poured his heart into building an equine therapy program for children with special needs, balancing it alongside his thriving horse training and breeding operations. He and Riley have settled into a quieter, more grounded family life, finding joy in the everyday moments—and occasionally making full use of the barn with the door.
But calm skies rarely last long.
Everything unravels when Riley and his new assistant head to Laredo for an exploratory mission that takes them across the border into Nuevo Laredo. What begins as a routine trip becomes a nightmare as Riley finds himself entangled in a dangerous cartel conflict. Suddenly, the peace Jack and Riley have built is shattered, and Jack must face the terrifying possibility of losing everything he holds dear.
Meanwhile, Vaughn and Darren’s story unfolds, alongside updates on Robbie and Eli, Liam and Marcus, and Sean and Eden—complete with a long-awaited wedding that may not go as planned.
More info →
It would be Sam Elliott because he’s sexy AF and I’ve always had a thing for him. If he’s not available, then the Rock because I could hide behind him. ☺
Jason Statham! He’s got that intense vibe going on and looks smoking hot in a suit!
Jason Stathom
Sam for me please. I enjoyed this series
Karl urban
Real life it would be Jason Momoa or Dwayne Johnson. But if we’re doing book cuties it would be Jack, Viktor, or Ben. I love all 3.
Jason Momoa
Chris Hemsworth
Viktor for me please!
The team from SWAT tv show, Mark Harmon 🥰 ( Gibbs from NCIS) and Sam Elliott 🥰
I think I’d pick the original Magnum PI – Tom Selleck was hot then and he’s still hot. I also think we’d have fun while he kept me safe.
The power duo from Psych! Sure, I’d definitely get kidnapped because they’ll be distracted by a ridiculous argument, but I’ll be found!
Apparently I’ve joined the choir for Jason Momoa! 🙂
jason momoa or dwayne johnson
I would love to have to be Henry Cavill.
I’d want someone I could feel comfortable with…someone I could talk to…someone I could trust…fit but not unrealistically fine…funny and down to earth…
My top choices…Martin Sheen, James Earl Jones, Tommy Lee Jones or Ben Kinsley.
Diane, you’re a winner, email rjscott.team@gmail.com
Jensen Ackles