First of all, thank you so much for having me! I’m thrilled to be here with my new contemporary romance Take the Edge Off.

One of the main characters in Take the Edge Off is a professional driver, and ex-semi-professional car thief. So inspired by that (and by the fact that a friend of mine’s husband chants ‘I’m a bus, I’m a bus, I’m a big red bus’ whenever he ends up in a bus lane) I am going to answer a question that I know you’re all dying to know the answer to: What would these characters be like if they were cars?

When people–even the ones who love him the most–see Van coming they groan. Cal Tate’s ex is intelligent, good looking, charming, and if he’s not after money then he needs an alibi. Trouble dogs his heels, and so do the cops.

Despite all his flaws, though, Van’s a hard man to just leave in the past. Bad as he can be for people, he is an exhilarating ride to be on. Kind of like a roller coaster that’s mostly dips, but has a few dizzying climbs too…and at least one inversion that leaves you unsure whether you’re up or down.

The happiest day of El Tate’s life was when his little brother finally–finally–cut Van out of his life. Like any habit though, he’s scared that Cal will slip back into his old ways.

Which is where I stalled on working out what sort of Van would be if he was a car. The other characters insisted that Van wasn’t a car, he was a car crash. Exciting, bad for your bank balance, someone is going to get hurt, and even after the cracks have been spackled over nobody is ever quite the same again.

Van is the reason that insurance companies don’t call them car ‘accidents’ anymore, they call them collisions. Why, because someone is always at fault. In Van’s life, it’s always him. He’s a one man wrecking crew, but he’s always the one that walks out of the mess with money in his pocket and someone there to swear he wasn’t really to blame.

Title: Take the Edge Off

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Release: 11 June

Cover Artist: Bree Archer

You don’t end up an ex-car thief and ex-con because you’re good at resisting temptation… and Cal Tate’s rich new boss is very tempting.

Cal has always been the bad boy lovers don’t bring home to Mom, but now he’d like someone other than a debt collector waiting for him at home. He has a legit job as a driver with his brother’s company, he’s got a doctor on the hook, and he still can’t help crawling into bed with Joseph Bailey.

Joe has never met anyone as easy in their own skin as his new driver. Or as ridiculously beautiful. He’s in London to downsize the family business… and to investigate the abusive emails that imply a dark secret around his mother’s death. But unpicking the lies he’s been told makes Joe realize he isn’t sure who is without them.

When his life falls apart, the only person he can be himself with is Cal. But with the anonymous stalker’s threats increasing, Joe worries that someone will finish the job they started over two decades ago—and end any chance for a happy future between him and Cal.

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TA Moore is a Northern Irish writer of romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and contemporary romance novels. A childhood in a rural, seaside town fostered in her a suspicious nature, a love of mystery, and a streak of black humour a mile wide. As her grandmother always said, ‘she’d laugh at a bad thing that one’, mind you, that was the pot calling the kettle black. TA Moore studied History, Irish mythology, English at University, mostly because she has always loved a good story. She has worked as a journalist, a finance manager, and in the arts sectors before she finally gave in to a lifelong desire to write.

Coffee, Doc Marten boots, and good friends are the essential things in life. Spiders, mayo, and heels are to be avoided.

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