Contest Winners : Dark Hunger by Rita Herron

Silly me completely forgot to pick winners for this contest! I happened to be choosing a new review book, and came across this one and off went the lightbulb! So without further ado...

Congratulations!

• Shawna
• enyl
• Belinda M
• Beth
• Jake Lsewhere

Winners will have until Sunday Morning to respond to all emails with their snail mail. If by chance you have already won a copy of this book elsewhere, please inform me so I can choose another winner. If they fail to respond, I will have to choose new winners.

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Blog Tour & Contest : Dark Hunger by Rita Herron

Dark Hunger by Rita Herron

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Description from Hatchette Books :

Reporter Annabelle Armstrong will go to any lengths to deliver a story, even track down Quinton Valtrez, a man she believes is a coldhearted assassin. Yet the truth about the darkly sensual Quinton is even more shocking...and the overwhelming desire he ignites is one she vows to resist.

Quinton has fought his demonic powers since he was a child. Now using his gifts for the good of national security, he can't let himself be distracted by the beautiful, determined Annabelle. But his need for her is sudden, fierce--and could soon cost Annabelle her life. For a wicked enemy is out for vengeance, a demon who wants to draw Quinton into a life of pure evil and is willing to use Annabelle as bait. To save her, Quinton must achieve the near impossible: tame the sinister force that is both his inheritance and his curse before it claims him forever.

About the Author :

Author Website

Rita Herron is an award-winning author of more than 30 romantic suspense novels for Harlequin and Dorchester. In 2007 alone, she was nominated for two Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards, including a Career Achievement Award.

Five Fun Facts

1. I set Dark Hunger in three of my favorite cites, Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans because they’re all haunted and possess an eerie atmosphere – perfect places for the Death Angel. The B & B with the outdoor garden where Annabelle stays in Savannah is fashioned after a B & B where my husband and I stayed. And Shayla Larue is modeled after a voodoo priestess I met at the RWA conference in New Orleans.

2. Emily Nelson, the social worker in the book, is named after my daughter who’s a dedicated social worker in real life.

3. The idea of the Death Angel taking a vulture’s form came from a brainstorming session with two author friends at a writer’s retreat near Charleston. I’d been flirting with other forms but, when the vulture idea came up, I knew it was perfect—creepy and symbolic of bad luck, evil and death.

4. Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds inspired me as I was writing Dark Hunger. I also envisioned David Gray’s song “One With the Birds” as the soundtrack for the movie.

5. When I was a child, I knew a preacher who inspired me to create Reverend Narius. He was a hellfire and damnation type who yelled and stalked up and down the aisles during his sermon. It was as if he was singling you out to let you know you were going to hell. I was terrified of him!

Giveaway :

Thanks to Anna Balasi of Hatchette Books, I am able to give away 5 copies of Dark Hunger by Rita Herron! Along with those 5 copies, winners will each receive a signed bookmark to go with their book! Isn't that great?

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Deadline September 5th, 2009 @ 11:59pm Est.
US & Canada Residents Only. No PO Boxes.

Friday 56 - July 24th

The Friday 56 is hosted by Storytime With Tonya and Friends!

Rules :

* Grab the book nearest you, Right Now!
* Turn to Page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Post that sentence (along with one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog , and post back to Storytime With Tonya and Friends.

Here's my Friday 56 :

The cave where his mother had burned to death.

He swalled hard, emotions churning in hid chest as the memory became clearer.

It had been a hot day, yet another in a sereies of vicious and cruel beatings. His mother had tried to protect him, but his father had raged and dragged her into the woods, into the Black Forest.

Insatiable Desire by Rita Herron