- I hear you have a dog in your Heroes of Westhorpe Ridge series. Tell us about the books.
Each book features a former military man building a civilian life in the small North Carolina town of Westhorpe Ridge. Although linked, they each can be read as a sexy, stand-alone romance.
Check them out for a marriage of convenience, a spy story, a second chance romance featuring a secret baby, and rip-roaring adventure when those pesky mobsters reappear.
Amazon author page link: https://www.amazon.com/Kryssie-Fortune/e/B00J5AQOBU?
2. Why did you add a dog to this series?
As a child, I thought dogs ruled the universe. I once asked a butcher friend for seven bones so I could give one to every dog on our street. Not sure how he felt, but the dogs loved me.
I had a Welsh Terrier called Moxenville Laurence. (We called him Larry.) His pedigree stretched for ages. For those who don’t know, a Welsh terrier is a sort of miniature Airedale crossed with a teddy bear.
A typical terrier, Larry was as fierce and as loyal as they come. He was the runt of the litter, and the breeder said he’d never amount to anything. We fooled ‘em.
Raised on love, Larry thrived. Dog breeders offered us lots of money for him, but he was part of the family. No way would we part with him. He was as bright as they come. Every day, at 2pm he brought my mother his lead. I’m not sure who took who for a walk, but the pair of them loved it.
When I wrote the first book in my Heroes of Westhorpe Ridge series–Marriage, Mobsters, and the Marine, I needed a reason for the local sheriff to walk on the beach. My solution, give him a dog. It needed to be loyal, intelligent, and well behaved. I plumped for a Border Collie and called him Duffy (after Homer Simpson’s favourite beer).
In my second Heroes of Westhorpe Ridge book, Sex, Scandal, and the Sheriff, Duffy’s owner gets his own story. A former SEAL, he tries to run my heroine out of town. Of course, as the sheriff, he thinks he has a good reason. Fortunately, Duffy charms my heroine and ensures she interacts with his owner.
Duffy comes into his own in my third Heroes of Westhorpe Ridge book, Desire, Deceit, and the Doctor. His owner’s on holiday but Ben, son of the single parent hotel owner, is looking after him. Only someone’s out to kill Ben and his mother. Duffy saves Ben’s life. So does Adam, a former army doctor and–although he doesn’t know it–Ben’s father.
3. What other books have you written?
There’s a fourth Heroes book–Submission, Secrets and the Soldier. Duffy doesn’t feature much in this one, but it is my favourite of the four. Perhaps because I got to research PTSD to explain Luke’s character. The heroine has a bit of me in her in that she’s eager to please. People have used her, but despite his own problems, Luke helps her find her own way.
I’ve written paranormal, contemporary, and historical books. My original publisher, Loose id, decided it couldn’t compete with Amazon and closed its doors. My book rights reverted to me, and most of my books are available on Kindle Unlimited.
Fortunately, found a new home with Stormy Night Publications. They’ve published my two extremely naughty historicals–Wickedly Used and His Innocent Bride. These were my first books to make the top 100 on Amazon. That was a huge deal for me. I was so excited I screamed–and woke my husband who I’d left in bed. He shot into the front room thinking someone was attacking me!
My paranormal book, Taken as Theirs, made number ten on Amazon. Cue more screams and me jumping around like a loon. It’s a sexy paranormal adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world where werewolves are the dominant species.
Blurb: As a breeder–one of the few fertile women left in a ruined, plague-ravaged world–Cassie would fetch a handsome price at auction, and selling her to the highest bidder was exactly what her captors had in mind…until two fearsome beasts decided to take her for themselves.
Eli and Dane have chosen Cassie for their mate, and when she makes a foolish attempt at escape, she quickly ends up tearfully promising obedience as her bare bottom is soundly and shamefully punished. Her body’s response to their stern dominance cannot be denied, however, and it isn’t long before she is screaming out her intense, helpless pleasure as she is roughly and thoroughly claimed. But will Eli and Dane’s pack accept a human girl or will Cassie be an outsider forever?
Publisher’s Note: Taken as Theirs includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.
Buy links:
Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/2AB4Z3l
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2s95Q6O
Amazon Canada: https://amzn.to/2GZLI1f
Amazon Australia: https://amzn.to/2RvViwV
Or READ FOR FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED
- How do you promote your books?
I’m active on social media and I’d love to hear from you:
Website: http://kryssiefortune.wixsite.com/kryssie
Blog: http://kryssiefortune.blogspot.co.uk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KryssieFortune
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KryssieFortune
Pinterest: http://bit.ly/1OGFnjc
Goodreads: http://bit.ly/2kxqabJ
5. In addition to the above links, where can readers learn more about your books?
Since the majority of my books are available on Kindle Unlimited, they are only available on Amazon. I’d love you to check out my Amazon Author Central page: https://www.amazon.com/Kryssie-Fortune/e/B00J5AQOBU?
Marcia James: Thank you, Kryssie, for stopping by my Go Pets! I look forward to reading your romantic novels!
READER INVITATION: Would you like to win a Marcia James’ ebook? Visitors to this pro-pet blog can join in the fun, comment, and/or share photos of their pets for a chance to win one of my ebooks! Each month, I’ll randomly pick one commenter to win. To leave a comment and/or a photo, click on the word “Reply,” which is just below the social media icons for THIS interview. (Don’t scroll past this interview to the next interview.) Go Pets!
Thank so much for inviting me to your blog! I’m so excited to be here to put Tuck, Dr. Quinn Malone’s golden retriever, in the spotlight. Tuck is the cutest character in Perfectly Christmas! He’s a gentle, calm, smart dog and spends his day at the clinic with Quinn putting patients at ease. He’s so adorable (both Quinn and Tuck :D)! The only person who raises an eyebrow at having a dog at the clinic is Dr. Madison Hayes, the new surgeon in town. But she comes around and falls in love when Tuck nudges up to her for a cuddle. The perfect way to anyone’s heart!
1. I hear you have a pet in your debut novel. Tell us about it.
Pets are so amazing. I can’t imagine life without them and so it’s only natural that I would give my novel characters pets as well. My debut novel, Romancing the Royal, is book #3 of a multi-author series that is actually centered around corgis! Each book in the “Celebrity Corgi” series was written by a different author and contains a celebrity who has a spoiled corgi, with the corgi actually having a front and center role in the book. The corgi in my book, Gatsby, belongs to Prince Dorian of Avington. He was modeled slightly after what I’ve read about Queen Elizabeth’s corgis, and he has quite the personality. The books I’m working on now all have dogs in them, too–a Chihuahua in one and a litter of lab puppies in another. Expect to see a variety of pets in all my books.
believe pets make us the best versions of ourselves. They are 100% the definition of unconditional love. I’ve had pets my entire life. Cats when I was younger and dogs now as an adult and, much to my husband’s chagrin (it’s mostly an act though…don’t let him know I’m onto him), will never be without one.
My first novel, Cottonwood Place, received 4 and 4.5 star\heart reviews and is about Ian, Megan, her extended Navajo family, and the people who really run Megan’s inn, Orion, her Shepherd-husky mix dog and Cassiopeia, the white long-haired cat. Here’s the back-cover blurb:
I have two other romance novels. The first is The Winds of Fall, which received 4s and 5s of five book reviews from LASR (Long and Short Reviews site). The Winds of Fall was my second published novel, and the “book of my heart.” Combining two dreams from my teen years lead to this sci-fi romance about Skye and Joe. Both are aliens living on Earth; Skye doesn’t know she’s an alien who was stranded here, but Joe immediately knows what she is when he sees her hand entering one of his artworks in a gallery. This cover includes my other loves: sailing and deep water. Here’s the back-cover blurb:
My last novel is The Diamond Road, based on The Ice Road Truckers History Channel series. I just found a 5-star review for it on Amazon from Janna S. Here’s blurb:
I’d like to mention my latest book: a chapbook of science-fiction poetry based on my long love of the stars and outer space since age 5, and later of Star Trek. I never thought I’d EVER write poetry, let alone publish some! I’ve had single poems published and been in two anthologies, one this spring to support the planetarium at Ball State University in my home town of Muncie, Indiana.
1. I hear you have a pet in your novel. Tell us about the book.
A Rancher’s Pride is book one in the Flagman’s Folly series. This is the blurb from the back cover:
My current series from Harlequin is The Hitching Post Hotel, which includes The Cowboy’s Little Surprise, A Rancher of Her Own, The Lawman’s Christmas Proposal, Cowboy in Charge, The Cowboy’s Triple Surprise, The Rancher’s Baby Proposal, and The Rancher’s Family.
The Rancher’s Family, my first clean romance from Harlequin Heartwarming, celebrates its book birthday this month!
The Flagman’s Folly series includes A Rancher’s Pride, The Rodeo Man’s Daughter, Honorable Rancher, and Rancher at Risk.
Rancher at Risk features a deaf heroine who is related to both Kayla and Becky from A Rancher’s Pride:
One Week to Win Her Boss:
Last but not least, Family Matters is a book about a heroine whose full-time job appears to be rescuing one member or another of her large and crazy Irish family. And The Sheriff’s Son and Court Me, Cowboy, my first two published books, are set in Dillon, Texas.
My books, short fiction, and works-in-progress have won or received nominations for awards such as the RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award and the CataRomance Reviewers’ Choice Award. They also have won or reached finalist standing in a number of Romance Writers of America chapter and other, non-romance, contests. Several of my books received TOP PICK ratings from RT Book Reviews.
My new novel, Lacewood, is a blending of all the things I love to read: history, mystery, and a love story (actually TWO love stories), all of which are blended together in a small Southern town. Two things that most of my books contain are characters who are in the military or veterans—and at least one animal. The pet featured in this book is a German shepherd named Zeke, who is an emotional support animal for one of the main characters who has PTSD.
My love of animals is not on a surface level. My first career was working as a surgical veterinary technician in a state-of-the-art equine hospital. I have “rescued” stray animals all my life and currently have three cats who found my house at different times. (And they are all now between 15 and 17 years old).
Meant To Be: What do you do when the person you most want to protect is the one risking everything to make sure you survive? It started as a chance encounter on the beach, and ended 24 hours later when they parted to go their separate ways. Or so they thought. 
1. I hear you have your dog Duchess in one of your latest novels. Tell us about the book.
The first book of the series is A Hand for the Duke. It’s about a young woman, Tina Rowan, who was born “on the wrong side of the blanket” (she’s illegitimate) and a stuffy, but handsome and lovable, duke. She’s being blackmailed by her foster-father and needs to become a successful dressmaker in London fast (in order to pay him the money he expects or else he’ll tell the world that she’s illegitimate and who her real mother is). Her mother is a well-respected lady of society who needs to keep that secret to herself.
Jack of Diamonds:
The Games She Played:
1. I hear you have animals in your novels. Tell us about the books.
Hot Ticket:
Sealing the Deal
Finding Billie
1. I hear you have dogs in your novels. Tell us about the books.
Chill Out
Take A Chance On Me
Child Of Mine
Flawless
Home Fires
Horsing Around With Murder is a funny, furry cozy mystery set on a dude ranch in the Alberta Foothills. Due to a family emergency, Abby, one of the ranch owners and Chief Financial Officer, is forced to act as event manager and interact with guests and horses. Unfortunately, she’s terrified of horses. Here’s an example of her first confrontation with Alamo, a gentle gelding:
Fur Ball Fever (The Fever Series, Book 1)
Cold Feet Fever (The Fever Series, Book 2)
The Jaguar Legacy