Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
OMG, I can’t believe it’s Thursday already! I hope you are all having a great week so far. I had a special day on Monday – another birthday – and I share it with lots of people. Hubby for starters. He’s younger than I am by hours. A best friend’s daughter and a work friend’s daughter. Last, but not least, my nephew and godson shares that special day.
Today’s throwback is a picture of him with my daughter many years ago! What cuties and they both are still gorgeous if I must say so myself.
Good morning! I hope everyone is having a great day! Today’s Man Candy is Joe Fernandez from ROOKIE OF THE YEAR. I love baseball and it was such fun to write a story that gave New Jersey it’s own Major League Baseball team.
I also loved that this was a story about an older professional woman, Alicia the trainer, and how she deals with falling in love with a younger man.
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR is specially priced at 99 cents until the end of this week. The sequel, A WINNING SEASON, will be out before the end of the year.
It’s been a while since I wrote DANGER CALLS in The Calling Vampire Novel series. The hero in that story, Sebastian Reyes, is a computer specialist and definitely not the kind of big, bad ass alpha hero that you see in a lot of paranormal romances.
That was a tough call for me, but I knew that Sebastian was the perfect man to deal with the heroine in that book, Dr. Melissa Danvers. She needed a sensitive man who could understand her and be supportive. A man who wouldn’t mind being younger and dealing with a woman whose profession required a lot of time away from home.
Not to mention a lot of time being the keeper to vampire Ryder Latimer.
Sebastian was very much a beta hero when I wrote him, but morphed into a slightly more alpha hero during revisions on the book.
Jasmine “Doc” Reyes is very similar to Melissa Danvers in some respects. Driven, compassionate and not above risking her life for others. Serious, maybe too serious, at times.
I knew she needed a man who would make her smile and could help her heal. She needed someone strong and protective, but not in that big macho alpha kind of way.
Enter Tommy de Salvo with his big smile and even bigger sense of humor. Tommy is the kind of man who can take away the shadows in Jasmine’s eyes and help her feel whole again.
Tommy is the kind of hero that I wanted Sebastian to be, but just couldn’t get away with in a dark paranormal story.
In ONE SPECIAL NIGHT, a sexy tale of two strangers coming together, it was totally possible to finally explore a very different kind of hero. I hope you’ll take a chance and check out this novella.
