I'm pleased to welcome guest Bella Andre to Happy Endings today. Bella has a hot, Hot, HOT! new book coming out that kicks off her HOTSHOTS: Men of Fire series. (Really, need I say more?) And this cover…..yowza.
Okay, enough with the drooling… welcome, Bella!
In WILD HEAT, the first book in Bella Andre's HOTSHOTS: Men of Fire series, Logan Cain is a firefighter addicted to risk. Maya Jackson is the sultry beauty he never saw coming, targeting him as her number-one suspect in a string of deadly wildfires. But when Maya's life is threatened, Logan vows to protect the woman sworn to bring him down. And as desire ignites, nothing-not the killer fire or the killer hot on their trail-can douse the flames….Allison Brennan called it "a breathtaking, terrific, hot, hot, hot romantic suspense." Brenda Novak said, "WILD HEAT has one sexy firefighter – and a love that burns up the pages." And according to Catherine Coulter the book is "a roller coaster ride. Don't miss it." http://www.bellaandre.com/
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Bella, I LOVE that story.
Last year, I was contacted through my website by my best friend from childhood (who incidentally is also named Jeannie. lol) We became friends in 4th grade and sometime just after college years, lost touch. It was so wonderful to reconnect with her again after so much time. Friends are absolutely a happy ending worth consideration. 🙂 Great post!
And I can’t wait to get my hands on some hot firemen! (Hmm…that sounded bad. LOL)
Welcome, Bella. I’m retired from the fire service and I can tell you from personal experience that there are some REALLY hot firefighters out there! (Pssst – don’t tell my DH – lol)
Best friends are forever. My BFF and I have been on that rollerscoaster, too, and though we don’t visit on a daily basis, all I have to do is pick up the phone and she’d drop everything to get here, and vice versa. We hated each other freshman year of college, roomed together sophomore year, stood up at each other’s weddings and suffered through raising our kids and burying our parents together.
I’m definitely going to check out your books! Out of curiousity, do you have a background with the fire service or did you just do a lot of research?
Hey Silver! 🙂 I wonder if there is a set of best friends who has NOT been on some sort of roller coaster, that likely included time apart?
My best friend Maria (who I’ve known for ten + years) and I are exactly like that. We live a few hours apart, but see each other whenever we can. And we had a little time apart, as well, but when we found our way back to each other, it was like nothing had changed… but everything had changed, because we were stronger for it, better for it, and our friendship was even more solid.
Girl power, baby! 🙂
Bella, I love Happy Endings and yours is one of the very best. About two years ago my best friend called me. It had been over thirty years. We met in 2nd grade, went through grade school and her parents moved when we started high school. Another school mate had contacted her an invited her to a monthly luncheon they’d set up. She said when she walked in people started asking her about me. We were so inseparable that is we weren’t together one of us was sick.
In the past few years her husband and her had moved closer to where I am and where we grew up. So she called me, we met for lunch and I thought oh joy, we’re going to have about 15 minutes and run out of things to say. It’d been so long we would be strangers. WRONG! Two hours later we finally made it out in the parking lot and were still jabbering away. Never will we let each other go again. This is someone who remembers our first dates.
If you haven’t read Between Friends by Debbie Macomber you might want to pick it up. She tells this story in a remarkable way.
Thanks for the post
Lavada
Welcome to Happy Endings, Bella. It’s so nice to reconnect with friends, isn’t it? My happy ending story begins with four women, meeting online five years ago and becoming critique partners and best friends. Last year, for the first time, we went to RWA Nationals in San Francisco. Can you imagine the nerves as we met for the first time? We slipped right into our friendship – after only a few pauses to get used to a ‘live body’ conversation and spent most of the conference nights talking in our jammies – true slumber party fashion. I don’t know what I’d do without them. I certainly wouldn’t be published.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
You know you have a true friendship when, after not seeing each other for years, you pick up where you left off. And you never run out of things to say.
Good luck on your release! I come from a long line of firefighters. My Grandfather was honored 2 years ago for 72 years of service. Now THAT’S a hero 🙂
~Maggie
Belle, you have a name that a romance writer would kill for…or maybe an exotic dancer! ;~D Seriously, I found your story of friends reunited very touching.
Jeannie, I think it must be a rule of BFFs or something. In my case, there was a man who came between us. Isn’t that often the way? LOL We drifted apart but stayed in “loose” touch. One day, we both reached out and it was like time had never passed. We joke that neither of us could call the other to bail us out of jail because we’d be sitting side-by-side in that cell! 😉
Jeannie – Thanks again for having me. It’s great to be here! And I got what you were saying about getting your hands on some hot firemen! 😉
Silver – I’m not surprised by your roller coaster relationship with your best friend. Sounds very similar! We also missed each other’s weddings, but realized later that we’d gotten married within 2 weeks of each other. Amazing stuff.
As for your question regarding my experience with the fire service, none personally, but my husband was a volunteer firefighter in a rural area and I did a ton of research. I swear I must have every book ever written on wildland firefighting! Riveting stuff, too.
Lavada – Thanks for sharing your story. And I will definitely pick up the Debbie Macomber book! Great tip, thanks.
Patti Ann – I know just what you’re talking about with your group of RWA friends without whom you’d have never been published. Jami and I were lucky enough to stumble into that same situation here in the bay area and I ADORE them all! People who write romance are so fabulous.
Maggie – Wow, 72 years of service! I bow down at your grandfather’s feet.
Jeanne – LOL! I like my name too.
😉 Bella
NOW I know what’s missing in my life: a girl-friend! I have many female friends, but not one with whom I can share lipsticks and meet for coffee every day.
Okay, first I would like to place my order for the hot firefighter model on the cover please.
My Happy Ending is somewhat similar to yours. I didn’t become best friends with my darling Row until I was in my twenties, but we did lose touch as life got in the way. We came back together after the birth of my twin boys, and then lost touch again. Now we are back together and she is my strongest supporter (next to my mother, father, and sister of course.) She is family and I wouldn’t trade any of ‘breaks’ for anything in the world because each time we came back together, it was as though no time had lapsed between us.
Thanks for sharing your story!
Seriously, the best thing about this whole writing thing is reconnecting with Bella! (BTW – we also bonded over Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, and Indigo Girls. Bella is one hell of a musician, and I’m a pretty decent backup singer :)) After so many years, we sat down across from each other and it was like, “I remember why I love you so much!” And now that we’re (mostly) sane and (pretty much) well adjusted adults, the friendship has flourished.
Congrats on the new release (got my copy yesterday)! Love you!
YvonneEve – Definitely, close female friends are very important!
Moira – I think we’re all placing orders. 😉 Thanks for your story!