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Janet's favourite RJ books

Janet, RJ's assistant, sneaking in to share three of her favourite RJ Scott books.

By a mile The Rancher's Son is my all-time favourite RJ book. I was gobsmacked by this story and read it until late into the night.

A man without memories, and the cop who never gave up hope.

When he wakes up in the hospital, the victim of a brutal beating, John Doe has no memories of who he is or who hurt him. The cops can find nothing to identify him and he can't remember anything to help... except the name Ethan and one recurring place from his dreams. Two words, and they're not much, but it's a start: Crooked Tree.

Detective Ethan Allens has never stopped searching for the two boys who vanished. When a report lands on Ethan's desk that may give new leads, he jumps at the chance to follow them up. The man he finds isn't his brother, but it's someone who could maybe help him discover what happened twelve years ago.

What neither man can know is that facing the very real demons of the past could destroy any kind of future they may have together.


I do have a soft spot for all the Sanctuary boys because it was the first RJ series I read non-stop, but Manny and Josh in Full Circle are particular favourites.

Manny Sullivan is the backbone of Sanctuary, and involved in every mission. After rescuing Josh Headley, his skill helps Sanctuary to solve the Bullen case. When Manny risks his life could it be time for Josh to risk his heart?

Manny Sullivan has his fingers in every pie and when he spots Josh Headley where he shouldn't be, it is Manny who goes in and rescues him.

Josh is in Sanctuary witness protection after his dad turns on the Bullens. Not only is his dad a murderer but his ex is a liar who was using him for information. With his skill in information retrieval, he hopes to make a contribution to the solution.

What started with the death of Elisabeth Costain is drawing to a close and Josh and Manny are in the middle of it all.

When Manny risks his life could it finally be time for Josh to risk his heart?


The End Street Detective Agency gives me the warm and fuzzies, especially where it all began, The Case of the Cupid Curse.

Sam Enderson is a human detective who inherits a building from where his Uncle used to run a detective agency. He finds himself working for paranormal creatures despite his resolve to stick with humans only. To supplement his income as a new PI Sam rents out rooms in the large house.

Bob is a vampire and turns up on Sam's doorstep to rent a room. Sparks fly and Sam is attracted to the vampire despite himself.

Sam is cursed by a witch, and has two cases landing on his desk. Werewolves, annoying ghosts and a grumpy gargoyle are enough to drive Sam mad. But somehow in amongst all of this he has to find a missing fae and a missing shifter child.

2015 RJ Scott Titles Giveaway

Hello! Janet, RJ's assistant, sneaking in to ask you what was your favourite RJ Scott tale of 2015? Leave a comment with your favourite book and email address, and I'll get the boss to pick a winner on Sunday 24th January at 6pm, GMT. Here are a few to remind you of the past year.

Love's Design


Can Christmas be the time when Kirby finally stops running and allows himself to fall in love with the man who saves his life?

CIA Agent Stefan Mortimer is cooling his heels in the UK until he can go home. Taking on easy assignments with Bodyguards Inc. seems like a good solution to keep him sane. He's used to life throwing him curveballs, and it’s just another day at the office when he rescues Kirby Devlin and his niece and nephew. Now he has to keep Kirby and the kids alive and stay professional. Kirby Devlin has one priority; keeping his small family safe. On the run, and facing danger at every turn, Kirby finally runs out of places to hide on a snowy December day at an Edinburgh train station. Stefan comes to the rescue, saves him and the children. Is it possible that Kirby finally has someone to trust?

Now, if only it would be as easy for Kirby to trust Stefan with his heart.


Buy Links


Amazon (US) | Amazon (UK) | All Romance | Smashwords | Kobo

Accidental Hero


Chicago Cop Simon Grant and Sanctuary operative Cain Brodie, have to be the heroes of their own stories, just to stay alive.

Everyone wants Chicago cop, Simon Grant, dead. Armed with an address, he is on the run and heading for Sanctuary, only to end up at the wrong end of a gun. Is it possible the tall amber-eyed man holding the gun is actually going to be able to help him?

Cain Brodie is in charge of Sanctuary’s new Chicago office, C-Tower. His well organised administration day takes an unexpected turn when he has a man wanted for murder right in his gun sights. Thrust into a situation he has no control over suddenly he needs to be the one in control.

Accidental or not, Simon and Cain have to be the heroes of their own stories, just to stay alive.
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Buy Links


Amazon (US) | Amazon (UK) | All Romance | Smashwords | Kobo | Barnes & Noble |


Texas Wedding


Sometimes Riley and Jack have to be the ones to fight other people's battles and stand up for what is right.


With the life changing prospect of a yes vote from SCOTUS on the issue of same sex marriage, Riley and Jack realise they have decisions to make. Add in some distressing family news and the very real possibility that old secrets may resurface, and this last book in the Texas series pulls together as many threads as the boys can manage to handle.

But through all the ups and the downs, children, family events, laughter, and tears, there is nothing as special as the forever love between these two men.

Buy Links - eBook

Amazon (US) | Amazon (UK) | All Romance | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Smashwords | iTunes

Buy Links - Paperback

Amazon (US) | Amazon (UK)








While the Boss is Away...

While my boss is away, the assistant will play...

Whilst RJ is in Munich Janet is creeping out of the cupboard under the stairs to ask you a question. Which is your favourite RJ Scott book and why? She's even sneaking in a giveaway. Shhh! Don't tell the boss!

Leave a comment on this post and enter a giveaway for an ebook copy of any of RJ's back catalogue or first sight of a new book. The giveaway will close on 19th July, Midnight GMT.


Reader Recommendations: Crime and Thrillers

Hi *waves*, I'm Janet, RJ's new PA and I've been let loose on RJ's blog. I'm an avid M/M Romance reader. I have too many favourites to mention in one session so I'm going to hijack her blog occasionally to rave about them. What RJ doesn't know... *whistles innocently*...

At the moment I'm on a crime/thriller spree.

Love is a Stranger
Buylink - MRL Press: Amazon

Loving a total stranger can be very hard work sometimes. 

How do you love someone who exists entirely in the shadows? How do you love a man who describes himself as dead? How do you get that ghost to love you back? Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he's in love with a very dangerous stranger. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package. 








Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries
Buylink - Amazon

Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries takes place in Chicago during the early 1980s. Haunted by his abrupt departure from the Chicago Police Department and the end of his relationship with librarian Daniel Laverty, Nick Nowak is a beat cop-turned-dogged private investigator. In this first book of the series, Nick works through three cases: a seemingly simple missing persons search, an arson investigation, and a suicide that turns out to be anything but. While working the cases, Nick moves through a series of casual relationships until he meets homicide detective Bert Harker and begins a tentative relationship. 









Laurel Heights
Buylink - Amazon

Detectives Scott Turner and Will Harrison are sent undercover after an apparent murder/suicide in Laurel Heights, an exclusive gay housing community. Will the two closeted officers be able to hide their attraction while each believing the other is straight? And is there a killer amongst them waiting to claim his next victim? 










Cut & Run

Buylink - Amazon

A series of murders in New York City has stymied the police and FBI alike, and they suspect the culprit is a single killer sending an indecipherable message. But when the two federal agents assigned to the investigation are taken out, the FBI takes a more personal interest in the case. 

Special Agent Ty Grady is pulled out of undercover work after his case blows up in his face. He's cocky, abrasive, and indisputably the best at what he does. But when he's paired with Special Agent Zane Garrett, it's hate at first sight. Garrett is the perfect image of an agent: serious, sober, and focused, which makes their partnership a classic cliché: total opposites, good cop-bad cop, the odd couple. They both know immediately that their partnership will pose more of an obstacle than the lack of evidence left by the murderer. 

Practically before their special assignment starts, the murderer strikes again – this time at them. Now on the run, trying to track down a man who has focused on killing his pursuers, Grady and Garrett will have to figure out how to work together before they become two more notches in the murderer's knife.


The Next
Buylink - Amazon

He never thought he’d become one of the agoraphobic sludges of New York City—trapped with one view of a courtyard and a head full of wrenching memories. Dumped, disconnected, and depressed, he surrenders to spying on the neighbors as his only entertainment. 

Until one day, without warning, the lascivious and suspicious behavior of the closeted lawyer in the huge apartment across the courtyard leads him to a spine-tingling conclusion… his neighbor is a murderer. 

Perhaps collaborating with the beautiful and fierce Detective Marzoli to catch the killer can finally breathe life back into a man suffocated by the stranglehold of a tragic past. Unless the killer across the way decides to make him… The Next.



Lessons in Love
Buylink - Amazon

St. Bride’s College, Cambridge, England, 1905.
Jonty Stewart is handsome and outgoing, with blood as blue as his eyes. When he takes up a teaching post at the college where he studied, his dynamic style acts as an agent for change within the archaic institution. He also has a catalytic effect on Orlando Coppersmith.
Orlando is a brilliant, introverted mathematician with very little experience of life outside the university walls. He strikes up an alliance with Jonty and soon finds himself heart-deep in feelings he’s never experienced. Before long their friendship blossoms into more than either man had hoped.
Then a student is murdered within St. Bride’s. Then another…and another. All the victims have one thing in common: a penchant for men. Asked by the police to serve as their eyes and ears within the college, Jonty and Orlando risk exposing a love affair that could make them the killer’s next target.

Round up of news, Sanctuary 8, Bodyguards Inc 3, a PA, and other bits and pieces

Hi everyone, welcome to the round up of news. I'm not well still and this is my way of easing back into the writing today... :(

News

Accidental Hero (Sanctuary #8) - Yes I decided to go there. Sanctuary 8 is Cain's story and you can find more information about it at the link. This will be a new story arc now the Bullens are dealt with :)

Max And the Prince is out 27 March

For A Rainy Afternoon is out 1 April

I have my ticket for GRL - San Diego, October, so that is Euro Pride Con, UK Meet and GRL in my diary for this year... :)


My wonderful new PA

I finally did it, I now have a PA to help me with the *back end* stuff for RJ Scott. It's been five years and I finally came to the realisation that I have to let go of some of the stuff that stops me writing.

So welcome to Janet who says she can organise me and says I will have more time to focus on my writing. I am beyond excited!

If you receive an email from rjscott.team@gmail.com then that is Janet, going about her business and organising the unorganisable!

New Releases


Max and The Prince is with you Friday (only four more days). This is book 3 in the Bodyguards Inc series and follows the story of Max, who we first met in the short story I wrote before Christmas.

Did you miss the short? If you did then it is here: The Curious Case of the Missing Stapler

Max is assigned to a Max-is-A-University-Student job which he is horrified with, added to which his charge is royalty in hiding. Not a good combination, and when death visits the University Max has to figure out who the murderer is before Prince Lucien becomes the next victim.

Max and the Prince will be available at All Romance and Amazon 27 March, and at other third parties shortly thereafter.

For a Rainy Afternoon will be available to read 1st April from Dreamspinner Press. It is currently available for pre-order from AllRomance and Amazon. It is book 1 in a series of 5 linked-by-theme books with the amazing Amber Kell, Amy Lane, Marie Sexton and Mary Calmes. I'm excited and nervous to be among such illustrious company... :)

Robbie runs a small Post Office made from a converted Station House in a village northwest of London and his world is rocked when he finds love in unexpected places. He inherits a sealed box which includes several rare first editions and a cookery book. Only when the secrets of the ingredients in a particular recipe are finally revealed does everything begin to make sense... and a love story that began seventy years ago is finally uncovered.





Work In Progress


My current WIP is The Summer House, book 1 in my English Hearts series. A man with the weight of titles and money meets a Veterinarian and abruptly his entire life changes.

Ashby 'Ash' Sebastian Sterling-Haynes has had a lot of boyfriends, but he's never found the one.

Veterinarian, Connor Lawson is much happier working with animals than with people.

When Ash comes into the practice with a cat that has been in a fight Connor hides in his office because this Ashby guy is all kinds of dangerous. Too hot, too rich, too titled, and way too sexy for his own good.
Can two men who refuse to believe in love ever learn that love is the easy part of the journey to forever?

This book will be with you end May. :)

Retrograde - Flight HA1710

Book 1, in a linked--by-event series written with Amber Kell, Meredith Russell, Serena Yates, Clare London and Olivia Erikson. 
Co-Pilot Lachlan Donaghue wakes up in hospital, a survivor of the crash of Flight HA1710, with memory loss and the suspicion that he could be at fault for the tragic accident. When everything becomes too much he goes home to hide, back to the small Scottish town he grew up in and to his family home.

Rory Kendrick watches the news, sees every hour of the disaster unfold but never thinks that Lachlan was in the middle of it all. Or that his friend will be forced to come back home to hide and to heal. What Lachlan needs is a friend, not a lover, but sometimes the lines are just too blurred to make any sense.



Print Books

The Bucket List was released as an e-book in January and proved to be a popular book. I was so pleased with lots of wonderful reviews and comments. The book has just been made available in print.

Rainbow Gold Reviews - 10/10 - "....Beautiful and heartbreaking in one emotionally charged, well written novella.

....This novella, well I can’t say enough good things about this one. I loved it and would highly recommend this to you if you are looking for a story with some heartache and a whole lot of love...."

Bike Book Reviews - 5/5 - "....This book is a lovely little treasure that I can't wait for you to read! Thanks Rj for another beautiful read that will be at the top of everyone's re-read list!...."

Prism Book Alliance - 4/5 - "....Scott has the ability to write characters who are real without being over-drawn. She leaves many details just out of sight, because they are not essential to the core of her story. We are not handed great amounts of angst, nor are there horrific traumas unexpectedly revealed. Yes, there is a mystery that needs explaining; and there is sorrow in Mark’s youth that needs to be exorcised. Scott gives us just enough to help us embrace both Jason and Mark for all the good things they are, and to understand their motivations as they rediscover each other through their shared love of Andrew and grief over his untimely death.