Jade Lee

Here’s what Liz Maverick says of her exciting new series, Crimson City,

“This is Top Secret (heh.) scoop on the upcoming paranormal action romance series, Crimson City. I created this series as a multi-author project for Dorchester Publishing, and they will release the first book in July 2005.

Think of it as (Underworld + Soldier) * Dungeons & Dragons. Yeah, I can’t wait, either ;)

Here’s how it’s going to work. I will book-end the Crimson City series, writing books #1 and #6, just like the fabulous Susan Grant book-ended her 2176 action romance series. And four other writers will join the Crimson City team to write the middle books in the series. So, you’re going to experience a variety of voices from some incredibly talented writers and each book will be equally wonderful as a standalone read. But together, the six books are going to take you on an adventure to a *super-cool* <vbg> new world where “the rules” of romance writing are often broken and you can never assume you know what’s going to happen next.

Excited? Me too! Check out http://www.crimsoncity.com for more scoop.”

So far the Crimson City series team is as follows:

• Book #1, Liz Maverick
• Book #2, Marjorie M. Liu
• Book #3, Patti O'Shea
• Book #4, Carolyn Jewel
• Book #5, Jade Lee
• Final Book, Liz Maverick

Get to know the authors at the Crimson City Blog

Update: Yes, there will be more Crimson City! Shards of Crimson is an anthology featuring original Crimson City authors. It will be out in January 2007.

Seduced by Crimson by Jade Lee

Excerpt

A man can get tunnel vision during battle. He fixates on the sight of blood spurting from a white throat or the smell of charred flesh. If he's trained, he can still fight the demons-yes, the black hearted Bak-Faru he'd only seen in a book-but a large part of his mind fixates on one hideous thing. Read excerpt from Chapter 1 of Seduced by Crimson by Jade Lee (urcorrected proof)...

Shards of Crimson by Jade Lee

Excerpt

The screams reached her first. Toni Freedman was just putting the chalk swoop into the last letter of her morning inspirational quote when she heard teeny-bopper squeals become alarmed jeers. Within moments a full-out riot of noise crashed into her little special ed classroom on the second floor. She was already running down the stairs when her walkie-talkie sounded "Cafeteria incident" in its garbled, dark tones.

She slowed briefly as she waded through a crowd of lunchroom staff and kids. At a short 5' 2", many of the on-lookers were larger than her, but what she lacked in stature, she made up for in attitude. She was the adult here, the teacher, and the woman trained to take down either of the three boys mixing it up on the floor. Of course, a little back-up would be nice, but when had that ever arrived on time? In truth, she was supposed to wait for help. Her training told her to "monitor the situation" until at least two other staff members helped her take control—one for each kid. To hell with training. She wasn't going to sit on her hands while two kids were pummeling a third. Read excerpt from Chapter 1 of Shards of Crimson by Jade Lee (urcorrected proof)…