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Feb/March 2010

Thanks to readers for your enthusiastic response to Pride Mates! It hit the New York Times bestseller list as well as the USA Today Bestseller list and the B&N and Borders lists for weeks. I set up a page for the series, which includes "A Human's Guide to Shifters"; a message from Liam, the hero of Pride Mates; and the first chapter of the book. Click here to go to the Shifter series page. I am now working on the next book--more info on the pub date when I have it (what's on my Coming Soon page is tentative).

Twenty years ago, shape shifters of all kinds banded together and announced themselves to the world, only to be shunted to areas no human wanted ("Shiftertowns") and forced to wear collars that control their hunting and fighting instincts.

Liam Morrissey is currently liaison between the Shifters of Austin, TX, and the humans of the city. Kim Fraser, attorney, finds herself in the unique position of having to defend a Shifter on a murder charge.

She ventures to Shiftertown to seek out Liam's help, and there stumbles across too many secrets the Shifters want kept secret. The un-mated Liam is forced to protect Kim against the wrath of his clan leader and his own father, and to his surprise he discovers a powerful attraction to the sassy, sexy lady.

Coinicidentally, another Shifter story, "Shifter Made" wax out the very same day (1/26/10) in The Mammoth Book of Irish Romance by Running Press.

Next: Thanks to everyone for the enthusiastic response to Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie. The series will continue over at Berkley with Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage in July 2010. Please see: The Mackenzie series page for more info on Isabella and Mac's book.

About the series:

Meet the Mackenzies, rich, decadent, powerful, dangerous:

Hart: The duke, the leader of the brothers. He's a powerful political player with dark secrets in his past.

Cameron: He's a genius with horses, has a scarred face and more scars inside.

Mac: A painter extraordinaire, he gives away his paintings and teaches up-and-coming artists, has a broken marriage and a broken heart.

Ian: The Mad Mackenzie. He spent years in a private asylum until Hart obtained his release. He's eccentric, with a prodigious memory, and is isolated and alone.

Click here for an excerpt of The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie.

Check my Forthcoming page for pub dates for the rest of the series.

And in my other life as Allyson James:

Another new series:

Stormwalker, the first in a paranormal romance/sexy urban fantasy series is scheduled for release in May 2010 by Berkley Sensation. Janet Begay is a Stormwalker, a Navajo woman who investigates paranormal crimes and draws her own power from the desert storms. This series will be a cross between mystery, romance, and paranormal/urban fantasy (think Tony Hillerman meets Charlaine Harris or Patricia Briggs). It also has its own series page: http://www.allysonjames.com/stormwalker.html, which contains an excerpt (Chapter One).

A "prequel" to this story can be found in Hot for the Holidays anthology from Berkley ("A Little Night Magic"). While my Stormwalker heroine, Janet, does not appear, the world and the town she will inhabit is set up, and you meet several characters who will play a major role, including the trickster-god, Coyote.

Plus, I just accepted an offer to do another anthology for Berkley HEAT, which will be connected to the "Mortal" series. Leon from Mortal Seductions has several brothers, so... The anthology will be called Wedding Favors and is scheduled to be out in June 2010.

The Shareem series also continues this year at Ellora's Cave with Tales of the Shareem: Calder (Sept 2009), and Eland, a short story on sale Dec. 14, 2009.

Also, check out my other mystery series as Ashley Gardner (historical, Regency mysteries). More about the series at www.gardnermysteries.com.

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Take care,

Jennifer