DEAD RINGER by Mary Burton: “…characters that just grab me and seem to demand their own story.”

It never fails, when I’m wrapping up a novel, there are characters that just grab me and seem to demand their own story. That’s the way it was with DEAD RINGER and Christmas Past which is in the SILVER BELLS anthology with Fern Michaels, JoAnn Ross and Judy Duarte. The two female characters in my first romantic suspense I’M WATCHING YOU that needed their own stories were Kendall Shaw and Nicole Piper. Kendall Shaw was an over the top reporter in I’M WATCHING YOU and she was such a force that I knew if I paired her with Detective Jacob Warwick and gave them a great mystery to solve I had the makings of a great story. And Nicole Piper, who was also in I’M WATCHING YOU and DEAD RINGER, really needed her storyline wrapped up. She teams with Detective David Ayden in Christmas Past to solve a mystery. And I must say, Christmas Past turned out to be a sexy, exciting book.

Mary Burton is the author of the romantic suspense, Dead Ringer. You can visit her website at www.maryburton.com.

I’M WATCHING YOU by Mary Burton: “I’m a sucker for a good, scary novel.”

I’d been writing western historical romances and Silhouette Romantic Suspense novels for several years, and I loved it. But I’d always had a hankering to write a longer, darker suspense story. I’m a sucker for a good, scary novel. The character Lindsay O’Neil, the heroine in I’m Watching You, kept popping up and prodding me to tell her story. Even though I was on deadline, I decided to carve time from my day and work on Lindsay’s story. I’d work on the contracted novel by day and plot I’m Watching You by night. This must have taken eight or nine months. When I finally had the first three chapters and a synopsis, I sent it off to my agent. She was able to sell it to Kensington within a couple of weeks.

Mary Burton is the author of the Zebra Romantic Suspense novels I’M WATCHING YOU and the upcoming DEAD RINGER (November 2008) and Christmas Past in the SILVER BELLS anthology (November 2008). She has also written twelve historical western romances for Harlequin Historical and four novels for Silhouette Romantic Suspense. For more information stop by her website at www.maryburton.com.

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