About the book: (from author’s website)
Where special powers and super sexy collide…these are not your brother’s superheroes!

ISBN: 978-1-60777-142-5
Publisher: Ravenous Romance
Release Date: April 2009

Brains. Attitude. Beauty that brings men to their knees—if their Jujitsu moves don’t do it first. The women of the private investigation firm Stilettos, Inc are not your average PIs. Each armed with a special power, there’s no case the Stiletto Girls can’t crack—until Specials start vanishing in growing numbers.

Darian Lorring is an agent for the Specials Intelligence Agency, a secret government organization of humans with special powers. His unit’s latest mission is to track the Stiletto Girls and determine their role in the assassination attempts on the president. But it’s hard to keep secrets from a Stiletto Girl. His best defense? Keep sex on the brain. And Darian will eat and breathe sex to protect his country…having Paige in his bed again is just an added bonus.

Empath Paige Sykes hopes solving the missing Specials case will answer unresolved questions of her mother’s disappearance ten years ago. But one sexy, chauvinistic SIA agent continues to get in her way—and in her bed. How can she trust what she feels around Darian when his ability allows him to project emotions and physical sensations? How can she trust any man when her ex, Collin Raines, appears to be tied to attempts on the president’s life?

About Lexi: (from her website)
Lexi Ryan lives with her family in a small Indiana town. When she’s not chasing after her young son or cheering on the Colts with her husband, Lexi enjoys losing herself in fun, sexy stories featuring mouthwatering men, smart women, and happily-ever-after. She loves to hear from readers.

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Falling in love…

First, thanks so much to Shoshana for having me here today. I’m excited to share a FREE digital copy of my debut, Stilettos, Inc. with one lucky winner!

Today, I want to talk about falling in love…with secondary characters. With every book I write, I find the secondary characters are these amazing little surprises. They’re like sirens, calling to me from the shore, “Write my story!” they say. And to tempt me, they show pieces of themselves to prove they’re much more complex than I ever bothered imagining.

I wasn’t necessarily intending on writing a series when I started writing the first Stiletto Girls book. I was open to it, of course, but I wasn’t invested in the secondary characters yet, so I wasn’t sure. However, I wasn’t far into the first draft before I knew I’d return to these characters, and the Stiletto Girls series was born. The first book is Paige’s story. Paige is an empath who runs the Stilettos, Inc. investigation agency with her friends Josie and Chrissie. They’re beautiful PIs with sharp tongues, special powers, and big hearts.

As I wrote about Paige, I learned more and more about Josie and Chrissie…and knew I wanted to tell their stories. I learned that Chrissie spent her teenage years on the streets and that her troubled relationship with Rider was much more complicated than I imagined. I learned that Josie, who can see pieces of people’s futures, had lost her family when she was young, and that she blames herself for not preventing their tragic murder. For her, seeing the future is a double-edged sword. She doesn’t like to share what she sees because then she’s responsible when people change their course (which, in turn, changes everything). On the other hand, when she sees something tragic on the horizon, she feels responsible if she can’t stop it.

These girls remind me a lot of my sisters. They give each other hell, but at the end of the day they’d sacrifice anything to protect each other. Paige couldn’t have grown as she did in the first book if it weren’t for her friends (and the hero, of course!), and Paige and Chrissie play an equally important role for Josie in the second book of the series, Flirting with Fate (coming this fall).

To whoever wins the free copy of Stilettos, Inc. – I hope you enjoy these characters half as much as I enjoyed writing them.

To everyone reading – May your life story be filled with “secondary characters” worth falling for who keep you laughing, living, and believing in your worth!

Please visit me on my website to learn more about my books or to read an excerpt: http://www.lexiryan.com

Stilettos, Inc. can be purchased at Ravenous Romance: http://www.ravenousromance.com/breathless/stilleto-s-inc.php

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About the contest:
Open worldwide. 1 winner will be drawn on July 22. Winner will get a digital copy of this author’s debut novel.
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