This week our Feature on Author: Dani Collins. She has a new book out, Maid to Marry.
Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling author
Dani Collins thrives on giving readers emotional, compelling, heart-soaring romance with some laughter and heat thrown in, just like real life. Mostly she writes contemporary romance for Harlequin Presents and Tule’s Montana Born, but her backlist of ninety books also includes self-published erotic romance, romantic comedy, and even an epic medieval fantasy. When she’s not writing—just kidding, she’s always writing. Look for Dani’s latest Presents, Maid to Marry, out now!
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What do you normally read?
I read romance, but also some nonfiction around a lot of different topics. Sometimes they’re research or self-improvement, other times they’re just something I heard about in passing and thought was interesting.
Any special book you read recently, which made you stop and think?
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.
Who is your favourite author/authors?
Too many to count! I love my fellow Harlequin authors, but I read all over the map so if the book keeps me entertained, then the author is my favorite of the moment.
Tell us about your book...
Stella reads romance! Most of my heroines do, but I had fun with her reading material in this one. Here’s a snippet of Stella talking to Atlas’s sister, Carmel, about them when they pick her up from rehab:
Carmel set aside a romance novel and found her sunglasses, putting them on her nose. Then she picked up the romance novel and waved it at Stella. “Thank you for these. I haven’t finished this one, but I got through everything else and left them in the library. It’s a nice change from all the Positive Thinking Solves Everything dreck that’s in there.”
“I’m glad you enjoyed them.” Stella had ordered boxes of books for Carmel three times, mostly to let her know she was thinking of her. “I started reading romance to improve my English, but they always make me feel better if I’m having a rough day.”
“Did you read the one where the hero is a minotaur?” Carmel dipped her sunglasses down her nose to peer over them.
“Oh, I know!” Stella couldn’t help laughing. “It’s good, right? But also, what?” The premise involved milking bulls.
“Group therapy turned into book club over that one. Does he know you’re reading books like that?” She thumbed toward Atlas.
“What book? What minotaur?” Atlas frowned between them.
“Shh,” Stella admonished. “What he doesn’t know is not hurting him. At all.”
“Are you saying my brother is reaping the benefits from you reading sexy books? Ew… No. Too much information.” Carmel pushed the bridge of her sunglasses up her nose and tossed her hair, but she wore a reluctant smile of amusement as she sailed out the door.
“Do I?” Atlas asked in an undertone as he held the door for Stella to follow Carmel.
“Are you complaining?”
“Not at all. But I draw a line at putting on animal costumes.”
“Your loss,” she teased.
Dani Collins latest book...
How to avoid scandal?
Marry the Greek!
An illicit kiss with Atlas Voudouris got chalet maid Stella Sutter fired. When she bumps into him five years later, she’s still furious! Except as she accuses him of ruining her life, long-dormant desires come alive…
Atlas is about to announce the convenient wedding that will secure his inheritance. However, once paparazzi photos of his and Stella’s heated encounter go public, Atlas is left short a bride. The only answer?
Make Stella his wife! But are his diamond and their dangerous passion enough to bridge the gap between their very different worlds?
