HelenKay Dimon is guest blogging & giving away a copy of “COPY THAT”

Thank you for inviting me here today to talk about my newest release, COPY THAT, from Harlequin Intrigue.

I love connected stories.  You know the ones.  They’re the books that share a common set of characters or a plot point or both. I’ve written those both in single title and for Harlequin Intrigue. I’m thinking it’s the idea of building a community that appeals to me.  You bring this group of people together – for me, “people” usually means men – and create a sort of Band of Brothers feel.  As a reader, I race through this sort of set-up.  As an author, I look forward to writing them.

So, naturally, I wrote COPY THAT as a standalone. The idea was to write a totally self-contained story. The plot would end.  The characters would be done at the end of the book. Some folks might email and ask about stories for other characters because that happens all the time, but I would be done. That’s what I did with all three of my Intrigue releases this year, this one and WHEN SHE WASN’T LOOKING (my May release) and SWITCHED (the one coming out in November).

In COPY THAT, the hero is a twin.  Jeremy and Garrett Hill are tough rescuer types. When Jeremy, the Border Patrol agent, comes under fire (literally) while on vacation at his brother’s house, the question is whether someone is coming after him or his Defense Intelligence Agency agent brother, Garrett. There is a twisty, double-cross kind of suspense, a main romance for Jeremy and a reunited-lovers romance for Garrett. I finished and loved everything about the Hill brothers, the women they fell for and how the suspense wrapped up.

And then it happened. See, there were these two guys who did contract work for Garrett.  Brothers working for one of the twins. The poor copy editor even wrote in the margin, “this story has two sets of brothers!” and – boom! – I was hooked. COPY THAT is a standalone, but I loved writing brothers so much that you’ll see two secondary characters here in their own books in 2013. The best laid plans…

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Returning from his latest Border Patrol assignment, Jeremy Hill seeks sanctuary in his twin brother’s home. The last thing he expects to find is an armed man already inside, or Meredith Samms, a gorgeous tenant caught in the cross fire. Then he discovers that the gunman’s attack is meant for his twin brother, who is nowhere in sight, and Jeremy must take matters into his own hands.

Searching for his brother while trying to protect this girl next door, Jeremy finds himself caught up in the danger he’d become all too familiar with. In his world, everyone’s a target and anyone can be a suspect, so Jeremy has no room for emotions. But what Meredith stirs within him may complicate this unexpected mission to the point of no return….

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