A note from the author

How this book and the rest of the 2176 series came about is a prime example of good luck and great timing. When I first heard about Silhouette’s new Bombshell line, I wanted to write one. This is the kind of story I was born to write, I thought, and, really, what I’d been writing all along. I had an idea for a kick-butt Buck-Rogers-esque tale with the gender roles reversed. After asking permission from my current publisher to write the book, I learned that I would not be able to submit to Bombshell because the material was too close to what I was already contracted to write. So, I handed the proposal to my editor, and to my delight, he embraced my idea. It was supposed to be a 2-book series, but the publisher ended up liking the idea so much that they offered me the chance to write a 6-book (later reduced to 5) series “bible” and to help recruit authors to write the middle books in the series. Because of the quickness of it all, we were the first of the new breed of action-romance books to be released. Publishers Weekly wrote: “The action romance niche is small but growing, and high-caliber tales like this one will ensure that it continues to do so. A national advertising campaign should put Banzai on many romance readers’ wish lists, but the book also holds crossover appeal for sci-fi fantasy fans.” THE LEGEND OF BANZAI MAGUIRE doesn't follow the traditional plot-structure of most romance books. You don't meet the hero in the first chapters; there are two men for whom the heroine, Bree Maguire, might fall; and the book is most definitely the “heroine’s story.” Thus, with boot-shaking excitement and genuine mortal terror, I awaited reader reaction to this “genre-mutt.”

These early books of mine were written in the years spanning 1998- 2005, and published by a company that is now out of business. For years that company sold my books, profiting off my hard work while not paying me for my rightful share of the sales proceeds. It’s a joyful victory and a miracle that I finally, after so very long, received the rights back to these novels. In order to make them available for sale in the quickest possible way, thanks in no small part to the welcome nagging of my wonderful reader-fans, I have chosen not to update them, instead leaving them as the “classics” they are: pioneering works of science fiction romance, futuristic, and time travel written when paranormal romances were still budding in the marketplace. This means no smart phones, no social media, and, in the earliest works, no post-9-11 security measures. Fun and adventure, however, remain timeless. I hope you enjoy these books as much as I’ve enjoyed dusting them off and getting them back online!