Hello everyone. I am so thrilled to be a part of Romance Junkies and first want to extend a very gracious and heartfelt thank you to Cat for all of her help. Like all of you, I lived and breathed reading romances … it filled many long and lonely evenings when I was raising my children Jason and Alyssa (now 31 and 29) and much later on when my marriage came to an unexpected end.

I'm a true believer that when tragedy strikes and you're standing on the edge of that precipice and all you see is darkness looking back at you, faith lies in knowing one of two things will happen. You can either let fear consume you, roll up into a ball and block out the world or, you can take a leap of faith and learn how to soar like an eagle.

Wind Warrior first came to life 12 years ago when I was meeting my greatest challenge to simply survive head on. I received so many rejections throughout that time frame I could have wallpapered a small room in my house. I nearly gave up on my dream. That is, until I realized it just wasn't my time. I needed to live through and get beyond the pain in my own life before I could transform that experience into the kind of passion and emotion I wanted my readers to feel personally through my writing.

Wind Warrior is book one of five of my Iroquois Series and will officially be released by Tate Publishing June 15th. It is, however, available now for purchase through Tate's website. I hope readers find it as enthralling to read as it was for me to research and bring to life. Book #2 Captive Heart is expected to be released the end of this year.

Now that the writer in me has been unleashed … look out world! If I can leave my beautiful five grandchildren any legacy, it will be the strength, conviction and passion put into every story I bring to life. Please stay tuned for future projects which will include a series introducing contemporary shape shifters and two mainstream romance thrillers entitled Pawn For Malice and The Keeper's Watch.

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"Leslie Michaels is a visionary, and only those close to her know of her special gift and the visions that come when her mind and body surrender to sleep. Fate has a way of righting many wrongs, and for Leslie it is a destiny that changes her life dramatically. But not before she is forced to flee into the wilderness to escape a murderous trapper bent on claiming her for his very own. Faith and a strong will to survive are her only companions, until she encounters Winnokin, the handsome Seneca war chief who first came to her in her dreams. Not only does he prove to be her rescuer and protector, he teaches her that tragedy can breed happiness and the passion to live and love deeply once again.

Wind Warrior plunges readers into the intimate depths of a relationship that unfolds like a live drama before their eyes while painting an insightful and intriguing portrait of Native Indian life in the 1800s. It is a story of longing, of a wanton need to survive all odds, and a love so strong it conquers human evil. Wind Warrior expresses with cunning words the simple, raw human emotions that hold readers spellbound and captivate their hearts."

Romances were strictly written as prose starting as early as the 13th century. But I think it's pretty safe to say true romance began after Eve ate the apple in the Garden of Eden and ticked off Adam. He had to do some real "wooing" back then to populate the world and according to scholars he lived to be 930 years old. There must have been a whole lot of romancing going on back then **wink ** wink.

It has become such an inherent part of our society that as little girls we fantasize about a Cinderella world, being carried off by Prince Charming and living happily ever after with our true love. Our daddy's revere us as their little princess at birth, treat us with tenderness, make us feel special and promise to always protect us. Most every woman wants a man in their life like their daddy with a little bit of bad boy mixed in.

It's what makes our heart go pitter-pat, our step lighter, our smile brighter, our day seem easier to cope with. If it's lacking in our lives, we make up for it escaping into a fictional world where the hero is all man and the woman is US. It's not the real world that's true and as women we are nurturing, strong, independent, problem solvers, a corporate head or multi-tasking managers of households.

We escape into genres filled with romance because while in that world we forget that the men in our lives are wired differently, come from Mars and forget we still need to be romanced even if the chase is over.

Jan Foy

Meghan Barnes

Alyssa Premo

Jan Eisen