I’m so EXCITED! Karin Harlow a.k.a. Karin Tabke is hanging
out today to talk about her awesome books! She has also been kind enough to
bring along an autographed Enemy Mine for
a lucky commenter.
Would you like to start off by telling us a
little bit about yourself? First I want to say thank you, Vanessa for the invite to
hang out with you today! So, about me
now? Hmm, I’m a very happily married mom
of four great grown up kids, and grandma to one amazing little girl. My bliss
is my family and from them I find my inspiration. That and hubby is a retired cop, so writing
hawt cops is easy peasy!
· I know you that you write several different series.
Would you like to tell us a bit about them?
As Karin Tabke
I write the Blood Moon Rising series, think Sons of Anarchy meets Rise of the
Lycan. Vera sexy. I’m also going to be continuing my beloved
Blood Sword Legacy series, which features eight knights of William the
Conqueror. As Karin Harlow, I write the
L.O.S.T. series, (Last Option Special Team) we pitched it as The Dirty Dozen
meets Mission Impossible with a paranormal twist. It’s a paranormal action adventure romance
series.
Of the above mentioned series do you have a
favorite that you enjoy writing, or perhaps a favorite world? I love all of my stories but will admit my medievals are
always on my mind.
· Can you tell us about your current work in
progress? I
just wrapped up BLOODRIGHT, book two in the Blood Moon Rising trilogy. And OMG!
Talk about a wild emotional and sexy roller coaster ride! I still get goose bumps when I think of that
story. ;)
· While reading Enemy Lover I got the impression that Gage had a bit of a crush on
Jax. He obviously didn’t get that girl. Do you have intentions of giving him
his own L.O.S.T. book? Gage definitely had it bad
for Jax, but even if there had been no Marcus they would not have gotten
together. No fraternizing! I hope to write many more L.O.S.T. books. Gage will
have his own story. His background is
tortured and messed up. I can’t wait to get to know him better!
· How many books do you have planned for your
L.O.S.T. series? Right now, I’d like to write Gage’s story, Mr. Black’s story, as well
as Joran and Rurik’s story, which will be more of spin offs since they aren’t
part of LOST.
·
Blood Law has
an ending that has me (and I’m sure numerous others) dying to get my hands on
the next book Bloodright. Without
giving anything away does the beginning of Bloodright
at least let us readers know exactly what happens after “Then all Hell broke
loose.” Oh, yes, BLOODRIGHT picks right up with Hell
breaking loose all over the damn place! J
·
Your characters include knights, vampires, cops,
lycans, special ops and demons, did you find any of these more difficult to
write than other, or did one come more easily to you than another? I write character
first. I think I write pretty complex
and flawed characters. To me it doesn’t
matter what they are, when they lived or where they come from because I strive
to create the character of each character. Does that make sense?
(this comes out Tuesday October 4. I do believe that is the very sexy Paul Marron on the cover!)
·
If you were to write yourself into one of your
series which would it be, what role would you pick and why? Oh, wow, hmm, I’d want to be Jax in ENEMY LOVER, Jade in
JADED, most def Falon in all three Blood Moon Rising books, any one of my
ladies in MASTER OF SURRENDER, MASTER OF TORMENT or MASTER OF CRAVING. I can go on and on and on and on…
If you could have a romantic dinner with one of
your uber sexy heroes which one would it be and why?
I honestly could not pick just one. I
love them all so much and I’d want to be the main dish!!!!
·
How did you celebrate the publishing of your
first book? Champagne in the hot tub! Cheers. J
·
What is one thing about you that your readers
would find surprising or never guess about you?
That I find
reptiles fascinating and used to raise red tail boas!
For your chance to win the autographed copy of Enemy Mine just comment below with email
address. Giveaway is open to US only. I will announce the winner on Saturday October 8.
ENEMY MINE
Book two in the
L.O.S.T. series.
Lovers from
opposite worlds reunite in Karin Harlow’s explosive, erotic new L.O.S.T
adventure...
While tracking
uranium-spinning centrifuges in Kyrgyzstan, L.O.S.T. operative Nikko Cruz is
ambushed and left for dead. Which means he must be hallucinating when the only
woman he ever loved—the woman he was sentenced to death for killing—comes to
his rescue.
Half-daemon Selena
Guererro has secrets she’d kill for. The most important one, she’s already died
to protect. Now she’ll do anything to keep her daughter safe. But she can’t
just leave her lost love to perish. She injects Nikko with immortal blood
serum, putting herself in grave danger.
When Nikko comes
to, he is superhuman and super pissed. The mother of his daughter—the one he
thought killed their child—is alive. He wants answers. He wants blood. And
despite his best intentions, he wants Selena. He traces her to a mysterious
terrorist cell where the spun uranium has surfaced. First, he must retrieve the
deadly material. Then he’ll take revenge on his beautiful ex. But when nothing
goes as planned, Nikko and Selena find themselves burning with desire . . . and
blowing the roof off their separate worlds, human and daemon alike.
EXCERPT
The Gold Coast at
midnight had come alive. Like a living, breathing rock star high on cocaine, it
pulsated with vitality and energy unlike any other.
Nikko stood across
the street from Lost Souls. Scents and sounds swirled around him, blending into
an indistinguishable blob. But he didn’t need to be told Selena was inside. He
could smell her. Exotic and sultry, her scent overrode all others. He had
thought that learning she was alive, then seeing the proof positive in
pictures, had elicited a strong reaction from him at the compound, but the
reality of it now created an emotional maelstrom inside him. Longing, hate, and
betrayal jockeyed for the top spot in his heart. Worming itself between all of
those feelings was the unmitigated desire to hold her again, to make love to
her—not the cold-blooded killer she was today, but the innocent girl he’d
fallen in love with so long ago, before she—Nikko mentally shook himself. He
allowed the hatred and his need for vengeance to take control. That would get
him through this mission. Keep him sane as his body, his mind, and his soul
continued to evolve into something and someone so foreign to him, he would admit
only to himself that it terrified him. He was unpredictable even to himself. He
battled impulses he had always had control of. His emotions raged. It was
becoming unbearable, this thing inside him. He sneered, wanting to bend her to
his will, to—he squeezed his eyes shut, not wanting to acknowledge the visions
of his taking her until she screamed for him to stop.
No, his desire
wasn’t simply to fuck her again. Since his arrival in Miami that morning, a new
hunger had taken root. For blood. Anyone’s would do, but he craved Selena’s
blood most of all.
Nikko struggled
for composure. He was Ice, damn it. He would not blow this mission apart. Put
this team at risk. Or himself.
“You smell her?”
Cross asked from Nikko’s left.
While Nikko did
not have the nuances of a vampire that Cross possessed, he had enough of the
primal part to make him dangerous. His senses were honed, his strength
impressive, and now his desire for blood was driving the vampire in him. Once
he had looked at Cross as a freak, one without feelings or humanity. Now,
walking in his shoes, Nikko understood what drove him as a man and a vampire
and was impressed at how Cross managed to maintain his iron control. Nikko was
having extreme difficulty with that.
“Yeah.”
“Marcus and I will
go in first and get the lay of the land,” Cassidy said from Nikko’s right.
He nodded,
fighting the craving to get to Selena first. Get her alone. At his mercy. The
things he wanted to do to her were inhuman. But hadn’t what she’d done to him
made her a monster? Nikko set his jaw. What he had done to her made him
every bit as much a monster.
He had dived
headfirst into love with Selena. Given her every part of him. Only to be
betrayed in the most heinous way a woman could betray a man. He had reacted
viciously. He had paid for it with his soul. Now his only regret was that she
was still alive. How long that would continue was up to him, and he wasn’t
feeling particularly generous at the moment.
“Cruz, I don’t
like that look,” Cassidy said, staring up at him, her face wrinkled in
consternation. “Plot your revenge later. After we get what we came for.”
Nikko set his jaw.
His revenge would be slow, methodical—
“Cruz, if you give
in to the bloodlust, it will destroy you,” Cross quietly said. “It’s like a
drug. If you don’t control it, it will control you.”
Nikko closed his
eyes and only saw red. “I just want to tear her apart.”
Cassidy touched
his hand. He looked down into her serious but compassionate eyes. “I know you
do, Nikko. I don’t blame you. But if you can’t get a handle on your emotions,
millions of lives could be on the chopping block.”
Nikko exhaled.
Cassidy was right. This mission was bigger, much bigger than his hatred for the
woman who owned Lost Souls.
