About a year ago, USA Today Bestselling Author Tasha Black reached out and invited me to write three books for the Intergalactic Dating Agency's Fall 2020 season.
For those of you who don’t know, the IDA is a shared
concept, which is different from a shared world. Shared concept means
the authors write whatever stories they want within the community’s guidelines.
In this case, the stories must include a dating agency that matches alien males
with Earthling females. A shared world allows the authors to write stories
within an already existing world created by someone else. (S. E. Smith’s, The Worlds of Magic, New Mexico is an
excellent example of a shared world.)
So, my IDA stories could be set in my Prophecy series
universe, or I could create a whole new universe and series. I, of course,
chose to start from scratch. Because why use something that already exists when
I could drive myself crazy creating something brand spanking new in less than twelve
months? (Crazy being the operative word in that sentence.)
And to take crazy to a whole new level, I made my heroes and
heroines over fifty. There are not a lot of Silver Foxes in Sci-Fi Romance at
this point, which needs to change. Someday you younger folks will thank me for
this!
The planning stage was going along swimmingly. I had three
novella length stories to write, and the first two were flowing from my fingers…until
the hero in book one decided that what he really needed was a set of wings. And
the heroine got all hot and bothered by this idea. And then, the other
two couples chimed in their agreement.
Of course, any author reading this blog is nodding because
they already know that there was no way I was going to win that argument.
This is how my Silverstar Mates series was born. Book one, Above the Storm, released
last Friday. Book two, Wingand a Prayer, will release October 19, 2020. And Book three, Trial by Fire, is scheduled for
a November 12, 2020 release. (Books 2 & 3 are available for preorder now.)
So, without further ado, meet Kyzel and Robyn, my couple
from Above the Storm!
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Love can be as elusive as stardust.
After thirty-five
years married to a controlling husband, Robyn Martin Donahue now has her
freedom, friends, and a job she adores. And there’s still room in her heart for
a special someone. Where in the galaxy can she find a man who will love and
respect her, not try to rule her?
By law, a
monarch cannot govern alone.
Recently
widowed Kyzel Raptorclaw, the remaining sovereign of his clan, is on the hunt
for a new mate. This time he wants more than just an ally; he wants love. But
breaking with his peoples’ ancient mating tradition comes at a personal price—one
his new mate may not accept.
Can Kyzel
convince Robyn they are better together, or will their happily ever after crash
and burn before it has a chance to soar?
Welcome to the
Silverstar Agency, specializing in intergalactic love matches for those over fifty.
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Excerpt from Above the Storm
(Setting:
Robyn has just gotten home from work, is going through the mail trying to clear
her mind of an annoying text conversation with her ex. Little does she know, she’s
about to have her first startling close encounter.)
The rap of knuckles against her front door drew a groan from
deep inside. Guess Kevin wasn’t finished talking. Once an idiot….
No, no, no. She’d sworn she’d never treat anyone the way
Kevin had treated her, and that promise had included Kevin. But that didn’t
mean she couldn’t give him a piece of her mind.
She stomped toward the door, grasped the knob, and yanked
the door open. “Why, Kevin? Why can’t you just…? Ohh.”
Man-nipples. She was looking at man-nipples, not Kevin’s
face. How…unexpected.
A vaguely nutmeggy scent floated on the subtle evening
breeze as she tipped her head back…and back, and back. Her gaze roved over the
leather straps across the smooth, bare chest, until she met the piercing
ice-blue gaze of her rather enormous…and ridiculously handsome…visitor. The guy
had to be pushing seven feet; too tall to pass through her doorway without
ducking.
And his hair—which wasn’t really hair, it was thin, sleeked-back
feathers that ran over his head from a widow’s peak back—looked a lot like a
bald eagle’s, with more varying shades of gray than white.
“Good evening, Ms. Donahue.” Her ridiculously handsome
visitor had a ridiculously deep and sexy voice. The kind of voice that reached
out and caressed her in all the places she hadn’t been caressed in, well, way
too long. And never properly.
A subtle motion drew her attention to something big, silver,
and feathery behind his broad shoulders.
Her breath hitched in her chest. “OhdearGod!”
She slammed the door.
Breathe, Robbi. Breathe.
But the guy has wings!
Honest-to-God wings. What was she going to do with
this?
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September’s IDA releases
To learn more about the authors and stories of the IDA,
check out the website.
~Lea Kirk
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USA
Today Bestselling Author, Lea Kirk, loves to transport her readers to
other worlds with her sci-fi romances.
When
she’s not busy writing about the blue and green aliens of her Prophecy series, she's hanging out with her
hubby, five kids (the nerd herd), and their spoiled yet adorable pup.
She is currently working on the fourth book in her Prophecy series, and her Silverstar Mates series featuring age 50+ protagonists for the Intergalactic Dating Agency.
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