Dating and Other Dangers by Natalie Anderson 

Writers often get asked which is their favourite of their own books. This is, usually, an impossible question often likened to being asked to name a favourite child. And generally it is impossible – when I think of each of my books there are things that make me smile about all of them—I love all my characters.

But some stories are definitely easier than others to get onto the page and a very, very few (in my experience) are pure joy from start to finish. Dating and Other Dangers falls into that category for me.

The idea came to me in a flash one night after I’d had a phonecall with my editor. I needed to come up with an idea for a new story fast. I’ve always been net-addicted—reading the news, and I’ve always found forums and social media fascinating (not to mention terrifying). I’d read about some online dating reputation websites and thought this was a very interesting thing. What if I had a heroine who ran such a forum? And what if the hero was one of the guys dissed on that forum?

So I came up with a hero (an extremely successful corporate lawyer) who’s become ‘internetorious’ – labelled as a shameless seducer of women, arrogant and apparent believer that he’s ‘god’s gift’. Ordinarily he’d laugh it off (after all, its only the internet and ‘there’s a lot of rubbish out there’), but he realises those most dearest to him actually believe it of him too and it hits a nerve. So he tracks down the ‘hell hath no fury’ woman behind the website. He threatens to sue (and expose) our heroine as the woman behind the forum. She’s an HR assistant (‘making more people’s lives hell’ in his opinion) and doesn’t want her online persona and her real life to collide – not yet anyway. But she stands up to him, pointing out that the defence to defamation is truth. So he decides to ‘prove’ to her he isn’t that shameless seducer… and she’s to prove this by going on three dates with him.

So it’s a battle of the dates and a battle of the blogs as well—the rest of the internet is ablog about it and their hits go sky high.

But the problems arise when my once bitten, seventy-seven times shy heroine is beyond attracted to the super seducer who’s now playing it so snakily straight… what’s a girl to do?

Writing their blog entries was absolutely hilarious and the story just flowed as I got Nadia and Ethan tangled up in their online battles and real world desires… I hope you find the story fun too!

Nadia Keenan’s first date Do’s and Don’ts: 

1. Do boost your confidence by looking hot

2. Don’t put out until at lease date two

3. If the man is trouble (however sexy!) do report all on www.WomanBWarned.com

After being trashed on Nadia’s website, serial dater-and-dumper Ethan Rush is about to put Nadia’s rules to the test. He’s determined to change her mind about him. She’s determined to prove him for the cad he is.

Let the battle of the dates begin…

Dating and Other Dangers is on the shelves in stores in North America in October and you can also grab it online from Amazon | Barnes and Noble   If you’re in the UK, it’s also just been rereleased in digital form and you can grab it from Amazon UK

USA TODAY bestseller Natalie Anderson writes fun, frisky, feels-good contemporary romance for Harlequin Mills & Boon and Entangled. With over twenty books published, she’s also been a Romantic Times Award nominee & a finalist for the R*BY (Romantic Book of the Year). She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand with her husband, four children and what feels like a million ducks. Find out more at her website http://www.natalie-anderson.com and be sure to sign up for her newsletter there as she often has subscriber only eTreats.

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