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Stepping Back

I'm setting aside the bodyguard book. I've rewritten the last quarter a half dozen times, gone back to the beginning, but can't make the strings tie together. My brain hurts trying to twist everything around, and it's just not working. So I'm putting it aside until December. I'll spend the rest of October on a short story (straight romance, so no blasted suspense elements) and planning my Nano book, also a straight romance. Then once that's done, maybe the right way to end it will come to me.

It breaks my heart because I love these characters. They're smart and fun and have great chemistry. I just need a stronger vehicle for them. And it makes me antsy that I don't have anything contemporary out on submission, but this book isn't going to be strong enough if I push through the way it is.

I hope I can come back to it with some perspective.

I'm still keeping Helo, though, as the hero in the short story.

Title Help

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I need title help. Of course I thought of a title I liked when I was coming home from work but I've forgotten it now. Yesterday I listed different words and made different combinations, but nothing stood out.

The words: Bodyguard, Protector, Heart, Love, Romance, Devotion, Passion, Yearning, Threat, Risk, Chance, Jeopardy, Peril, Endangered, Menace, Hazard (NO, Not The Bodyguard of Hazard, just in case you're thinking it!), Legislator, Campaign, Politician, Protect, Harbor, Safeguard, Sentinel, Secure

Of course, the list is just what I came up with....if you have another thought, have at it! I've only had to change one of my titles, so this is a challenge for me.

Here's the blurb.

Texas Congresswoman McKenna Jones finds her life is in danger when her father’s old enemy surfaces. She’s the target of revenge and narrowly escapes a kidnapping attempt by relying on her wits.

Her father insists she step out of the public eye until the threat has passed. She can’t. She’s fighting for an important bill and won’t abandon it. Grudgingly, her father assigns the most trusted man in his security firm, Ethan Riggins, to keep her safe. McKenna weighs her need for privacy versus the necessity of the bill and sacrifices privacy.

If only it was a sacrifice. Ethan is no hardship on the eyes, and is easy to work with—not what she expected from a friend of her father’s. Her attraction is troublesome. She doesn’t want to get involved with someone like her father, whose job has always been more important than family. She wants a better life for her children than she had.

But constant contact and danger push them together, break down her defenses, and his. Ethan has held himself distant because she’s his assignment and his friend’s daughter. But he’s never known a woman as smart and driven and sexy as she is. She makes him want to loosen the reins he holds on his emotions since his wife left.

When the threat escalates, Ethan and McKenna have to take charge of the investigation, to end the threat so they can discover if a happily-ever-after is in store for them.