I’m so excited to share that I’m getting ready to start a new series with Revell. It doesn’t have a series name yet other than the one I’ve given to it – The Female Bodyguards series. Terribly uninspiring, I know, but Revell has a wonderful team that will come up with a fabulous name for it. I’ll give input, of course, but after 100% satisfaction with their series titles and book titles, I just sort of leave all that up to them. ☺

I’m hoping to try something new with this series. I want to chat with you while I write the book. I know that may seem kind of weird, but I’m thinking that this way you can some input into what goes into the story!

So, here’s part one:

The characters:

WADE Savage – (hero) – dark eyes, dark skin, Native American heritage mixed with Caucasian.

OLIVIA Edwards (heroine) – straight blond, shoulder length hair and blue eyes: Calm, cool and collected. Nothing much rattles her.

Olivia is hired by Wade Savage’s father, Bruce Savage. Wade (hero) and his father are very close, especially since both were widowed young. Wade’s mother was a famous actress back in the seventies. Wade grew up hearing stories of his mother’s accomplishments. Bruce lost his wife to a freak car accident when Wade was only two years old. Bruce is certain she was run off the road by a crazed fan, but it was never proven. He raised his son with the help of his mother and sister, but never remarried. He managed to live a boring enough life that soon the media and fans faded away and Wade had a relatively normal upbringing.

Wade married his high school sweetheart when they were both eighteen. His wife had their daughter a short year later then decided she didn’t want to be tied down to a baby and ran off. Two years later she was dead. Wade is now raising his sixteen-year-old daughter with the help of his sister and his sister-in-law.

Wade is a clinical psychiatrist with his own live radio show from midnight to three in the morning. He suffers from insomnia so figured he’d be creative with the hours he can’t sleep–and maybe help someone in the process. He takes calls on marriage issues, parenting issues (although he can sometimes feel like a hypocrite because he’s definitely not the perfect parent) and pretty much anything else people want to talk to him about. He doesn’t have to work as his father had made wise investments with his mother’s money and Wade inherited several million when he turned 21. But the money sits in his account. He lives comfortably, but rather simply. He has a stalker on the air, she calls several times a night. At first he felt sorry for her, but it seemed to encourage her. So he started ignoring her and that seemed to escalate her. Now he’s started getting the gifts.

Five months ago, a woman he thought he could be serious about died in an apparent suicide. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise, but Wade can’t believe he could date someone for almost six months and not pick up on suicidal tendencies. But he didn’t and he feels guilty and concerned that something is lacking in his judgment.

So…here’s where you come in if you want to play…can you think of any suspenseful scenes that might fit somewhere in the story? What happens when Wade finds out his father secretly hired a female bodyguard to watch out for him?

What’s Olivia like (other than the description I’ve given you above.) Does she have any siblings? What’s her background (has to be some kind of law enforcement). Why did she get out of that and decide to be a bodyguard? What’s her relationship with her family? What’s made her put up walls and keep her distance from men? Why does she want to let her walls down with Wade?

READY? SET? GO!