Love Bytes says hello and welcome to author Kim Fielding joining us today to talk about newest release “Ante Up”.
Kim tells us about how the story came to excistence and brought a giveaway to participate in!
Welcome Kim 🙂
Where the Bodies Are Buried
Okay, it’s kind of a cliche: mobsters dumping bodies in the desert near Vegas. Only it’s not really that far from the truth. The Mafia really did once run the city, and the desert makes a handy place to get rid of those who cross you. In fact, plenty of victims have been discovered in the vast Mojave, and given the size of the area and the lack of population, it makes sense to assume that many more victims lie undiscovered under the Joshua trees.
The town of Primm consists of a few casinos and an outlet mall about 40 miles from Vegas. When Amy Lane and I made a quick stop there, it wasn’t such a stretch for us to joke that it’s where lazy mobsters dumped the bodies. After all, there’s a huge parking lot, but when you drive around the back of the casinos there’s nothing past the lot except a whole lot of desert. Handy, right? We joked about it before continuing on our way. A year later, I ended up spending the night in Primm, and I have to say there’s something just slightly off about the place. Makes it easy to imagine weird things happening.
In my newest book, Ante is a 180-year-old Croatian vampire and Peter is not exactly human. They’re fleeing vampire gangsters from Vegas. Ante’s sunlight sensitivity means our heroes are facing a time-crunch. They need a place near Vegas to temporarily hide out. Aha! Primm! And once I got them in Primm, I remembered what Amy and I had said. So Ante and Peter encounter some major surprises while they’re there.
Is there a creepy spot you’re familiar with? Please share in the comments. And don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter below.
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Blurb:
Love is a high-stakes game.
A century and a half ago, Ante Novak died on a Croatian battlefield and rose three days later as a vampire. Now he haunts Las Vegas, stealing blood and money from drunken gamblers and staying on the fringe of the powerful vampire organization known as the Shadows. His existence feels empty and meaningless until he meets beautiful Peter Gehrardi, who can influence others with his thoughts.
An attraction flares instantly, bringing a semblance of life to Ante’s dead heart. But the Shadows want Peter too, and they’re willing to kill to get him. As Ante and Peter flee, they learn more about themselves and each other, and they discover that the world is a stranger place than either of them imagined. With enemies at their heels and old mistakes coming back to exact a price, how can Ante and Peter find sanctuary?
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Kim Fielding is the bestselling author of numerous m/m romance novels, novellas, and short stories. Like Kim herself, her work is eclectic, spanning genres such as contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, and historical. Her stories are set in alternate worlds, in 15th century Bosnia, in modern-day Oregon. Her heroes are hipster architect werewolves, housekeepers, maimed giants, and conflicted graduate students. They’re usually flawed, they often encounter terrible obstacles, but they always find love.
After having migrated back and forth across the western two-thirds of the United States, Kim calls the boring part of California home. She lives there with her husband, her two daughters, and her day job as a university professor, but escapes as often as possible via car, train, plane, or boat. This may explain why her characters often seem to be in transit as well. She dreams of traveling and writing full-time.
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Website: http://www.kfieldingwrites.com/
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Email: Kim@KFieldingWrites.com
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A complete list of Kim’s books: http://www.kfieldingwrites.com/kim-fieldings-books/
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