I'm tickled pink. Or is it golden?

The other morning, I found this lovely golden-heart pin and an invitation to the 2013 RITA and Golden Heart Finalists reception in my mailbox. I'm so excited! I'll try not to be too much of a fan girl and gape at the RITA nominees. Can't wait to go to Atlanta!

Today, 'Just Beyond the Garden Gate' is featured as the Teaser Tuesday at Jenn Nixon's blog. Stop by if you have an extra minute.

~Dawn Marie

Author Photo

I hate having my picture taken, but I needed a new author photo to give to RWA® for my 2013 GOLDEN HEART® final. I drafted hubby. After four hundred or more shots, I decided on this one. So very me. Hair all over the place.

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~Dawn Marie

'Sea Panther' - 2013 GOLDEN HEART® Finalist

A Crimson Storm Paranormal Romance

 

 

After evading arrest for Jacobite activities, Scottish nobleman Robert MacLachlan turns privateer. A Caribbean Voodoo priestess curses him to an eternal existence as a vampire shifter torn between the dual natures of a Florida panther and an immortal blood-thirsting man. For centuries, he seeks to reverse the black magic whilst maintaining his honor. Cruising the twenty-first century Atlantic, he becomes shorthanded to sail his 90-foot yacht, Sea Panther. The last thing he wants is a female crewmember and the call of her blood.

Although she swore never to sail again after her father died in a sailing accident, Kimberly Scot answers the captain's crew wanted ad to escape a hit man. She's lost everything, her fiancé, her job, and most of her money, along with money belonging to her ex-clients. A taste of Kimberly's blood convinces Robert she is the one woman who can claim the panther's heart. To break the curse, they travel back in time to where it all began—Jamaica 1715.