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Welcome to Coffee talk with Zoe Harrington, an elite Bronx investigator. I'm your host for today's talk, Claire Neal. Good morning Zoe, thanks for sitting down to talk with me today. Zoe: No problem. There have been some rumors going around that I’d like to clear up. I’m willing to answer all, well most, of your questions. Interviewer: Then let’s get to it. Are you working a case with FBI agent Carver Banks? Zoe: Next question. Interviewer: You two have been seen together and after he arrested you. . . Zoe: Like I said, next question. Interviewer: How is your twin, Zach, doing? Zoe: Very well. He and his wife Chante are living a nice quiet life in Charlotte. Interviewer: You’ve made quite a name for yourself as an investigator. What has been your most important case? Zoe: Probably uncovering some of the hypocrisy in the NYPD. The year that I spent as a cop taught me some tough lessons. Shook my beliefs in law and order. But worse than the police ...

Mainstream media and I'm clearly looking at the New York Times right now, doesn't respect romance novels. If it wasn't clear when the NYT stopped counting mass market books for the coveted best sellers list , which is how most romance novels are published, then this week's Roundup of This Season's Romance Novels  proved without a doubt that this paper shows no love to romance. The hundreds of romance novels — perhaps thousands, if you include the self-published ones that constitute their own phenomenon — just published or due to appear in the next few months essentially fall into two categories. There are the Regency romances (descended from the superb Georgette Heyer, whose first one, “Regency Buck,” appeared in 1935). And there are the contemporary young-woman-finding-her-way stories that are the successors to the working-girl novels that for decades provided comfort and (mild) titillation to millions of young women who dreamed of marrying the boss. This form...

Guess what Publisher's Weekly said about Deadly Rumors?  The bible of the publishing industry only named my upcoming novel one of the top ten romance novels of the fall. Give me a second, I'm still doing my happy dance and I'm out of breath. This is the last book in the Rumor series and it focuses on Zach Harrington's twin sister, Zoe. (Zach's story was I Heard A Rumor) Chante and Zach's story.   I Heard A Rumor Zoe is a bad ass private investigator who join the police force to spite her twin (Zach) and their overprotective father. Back blurb:  Elite investigator Zoe Harrington isn't about to be fooled twice. She knows all the tempting by-any-means-necessary games FBI agent Carver Banks will use to close a case. So when he needs her help with a missing persons case, she's happy to charge him double the fee—and keep his sizzling moves at arm’s length. But when the search strikes too close to home, Zoe finds the passion between them reign...

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