Dear Reader,

Collaborating with another author to link books is the best thing, which is why I don’t know how Robin Gianna and I never got around to it before!

Robin first sold to Harlequin a couple months after I did, and since the day my editor tweeted a welcome to a fellow Buckeye (an Ohioan), we’ve been friends (because I emailed a stranger in deranged welcome-onboard fashion).

Robin is brutally talented, intelligent and one of the kindest people I’ve ever met. Her writing is warm and her books are full of heart, just like the woman herself. I count myself lucky to call her a friend and get to work with her.

While it has been challenging to bring to life the romance in the harshest environment on earth, I’m not mad about the arm-flailing emails (I mostly sent), or the times we “had to” meet in the middle for lunch and to brainstorm our way through the problems.

My only regret is that life hasn’t allowed us that writing retreat we kept talking about. You know, time away to be productive. And by productive, I mean tea and talking books and writing until roosters crow.

Next time.

xo Amalie