You know when an author has a series, and there's a secondary character you really really love? And you just can't wait until that character gets his own book? And, then, he does, and it's tragically, horribly bad?

That is so NOT the case with Stephanie Laurens' MASTERED BY LOVE. I know how much her fans, like me (and Tessa--more on that next week), have wanted to read Dalziel's story. Now it's here, the kind of book that you both want to devour in a night and stretch out over many days, just to savor it. Of course, stretching it out is impossible--at least for me, She of No Willpower--so I suggest reading it again; it's just as good the second time. Or the third.

Plus, right now on the Avon website, is an excerpt from Laurens' upcoming new series, "The Black Cobra Quartet". The first book, THE UNTAMED BRIDE, is coming out in the fall, but you can read the first three chapters right now--just CLICK HERE!