I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

He wanted to wake up to her smile every day for the rest of his life, like some stupid coffee commercial on TV.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

...there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.