Jaci Burton Picks Her Desert Island Keepers!

Welcome back to our second day of fun and sun at DIK Jaci! I agreed to let Jaci borrow my blowfish bikini top because, well it’s kinda become tradition and besides Biker Dude wants Jaci to wear it when he takes her dirt bike riding this afternoon... lol

Clearly you have not been bike riding while wearing a bikini top. Do you have any idea how much the girls bounce on a bike? I cringe for anyone who does.

However, Biker Dude is leering at the blowfish bikini top. You’ll be lucky if you get that thing back when we leave. Biker Dude is making rumblings about going ‘fishing later’. *waggles brows*

LOLOLOL Well I guess, Biker Dude has 'leering & fishing' rights. I have to say, you and Biker Dude sure know how to party that was an awesome luau last night!!

We do our best to be wild party animals and provide non stop entertaining (we’re lying. Our bedtime is at 9 p.m. Shhhhh….tell no one. Don’t want to ruin our image. )

LOL So, without further adieu I’m turning the mic over to Jaci, who is going to talk about her 5 favorite DIK books she has brought along to the island.

Northern Lights by Nora Roberts

Because I just read this book for the fist time last year, and I could kick myself for waiting this long. I think Nora is one of the most talented writers I’ve ever read, and though I’ve read many of her books, this one will remain a keeper for me. I loved it so much. The Alaska scenery, the pilot heroine so stubborn and proud, the capable yet vulnerable hero. *sigh*Sometimes a book just resonates and you don’t know why. I loved the characters in this book, the setting, the way I just settled in comfortably whenever I opened the book to read. I didn’t want it to end and was disappointed when it did because I wanted it to go on and on. I fell in love with everyone in the book and felt like I knew them. And of course no one writes romance and suspense together like Nora. I was riveted and hanging on to every page. She made me love the characters and worry about them. I suppose that’s what makes a good author, is breathing life into the characters. Nora does that better than anyone.

The Only Series by Elizabeth Lowell

Yes, I realize this is a series so this is technically cheating, but really, which book would I choose out of this series? Only You, Only His, Only Love, Only Mine? Elizabeth Lowell wrote the book (har) on sensual romance, and this, to me, was the pinnacle. Western romance, fierce heroines, and some of the sexiest heroes ever written. I’ve never turned pages faster in my life than I did reading these books. I’ve never known a writer to make a reader wait longer for a payoff, then make us hold our breath during the love scenes, and gasp once they’re written. They’re not explicit, but they take your breath away. A lot of what I learned about writing sensually I learned from reading Elizabeth Lowell.

The Flame and The Flower by Kathleen Woodiwiss

The first romance I ever read (well, if you don’t count the Dark Shadows books and Barnabas Collins lusting after Josette. I read those in 6th grade). I was 17 and The Flame and The Flower was sitting at my sister’s house, so I picked it up and read it. It rocked my world with its tale of a heroine raped by the hero, then taken away from her evil aunt and she falls in love with the hero who’s at once a total bastard and yet treats her tenderly as she carries his child. The true meaning of tempestuous romance unfolds as we see the heroine’s growth into a strong woman throughout the book as she bends the hero to her with her smile, her words and her love. *swoon*

A Knight In Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux

Please don’t throw things at me, but I loved this book. I read it over and over again, and it got me through a particularly difficult time in my life, and for that I will be forever grateful to Dougless and Nicholas for letting me lose myself in their story. And I know many many people hated and loathed the ending, but actually it never bothered me in the least. I’m probably in the minority, but I truly believed their souls were together. (Dodges rotten cabbage)

Dark Highlander by Karen Marie Morning

Daegus. Scotland. Time Travel. People, do I have to elaborate further?
Okay, seriously, I picked up this book and read this series totally out of order, because I hadn’t read any of the other books in the series before this. But my tongue dropped to the floor and I was mesmerized, tearing my hair out, crying, and falling madly and irrevocably in love with Daegus, and KMM. Forever.

Thanks Jaci! Awesome choices, no cabbage flying from this side of the hut… *g*

If you have a question for Jaci today about her DIK Keepers, please ask because I know she will be happy to hear from ya'll.

Jaci returns tomorrow for her final day on the Island and she will be talking about.... (Shhhh, it's a secret, you'll have to come back and find out.) *g*

Big Announcement!! Please note, today is release day for "Bound, Branded and Brazen"!!

Contest is now closed. The winners will be announced soon!

Bound, Branded, and Brazen

Bound by passion, branded by love, brazen enough to take it all…

In the wilds of Oklahoma, three sisters have a hot date with destiny. Valerie, Brea, and Jolene McMasters reunite on the family ranch that should have been called the Bar Nothing…

Bound…

When Valerie left for the big city, she kissed her foreman husband, Mason, goodbye—along with the best sex she ever had. Now, seeing him brings back sizzling memories. But their rekindled fire threatens to burn them both.

Branded…

Watching Gage wrangle untamed horses with a gentle but firm touch leaves Brea hot and bothered. But can she live out her fantasy with a man who may ask more than she’s willing to give?

Brazen…

Ranch hand Walker Morgan can’t afford to lose his job by getting too close to his new boss, Jolene, no matter how much she tempts him. But Jolene’s prepared to take the first step, because what Jolene wants, Jolene gets. And Jolene wants Walker.

Thanks again to Jaci Burton for spending time on the Island with us!!