Meet Fiona Jayde author of Cold Victory

Ten things you didn't know about Fiona Jayde

10. That thing that says I speak Russian fluently on my author bio is absolutely true. But what you didn't know is that I was actually born in the Soviet Union. I was a card-carrying member of the Pioneers (Scouts). I almost finished fifth grade there before we moved to the United States. I still read Russian fiction - there is a romantic suspense author Tatiana Ustinova that I just love and wish someone would translate her to the American audience cause she is awesome.
9. I have two cats. I've never really liked cats - always was a dog person. But one day, the cat from our upstairs neighbor meowed at our door until we let him in. He then proceeded to adopt me. Now I rarely write without feline supervision. My other cat was found by my hubby - big softie that he is. He - the cat, not the hubby - was a little orange puff of fur that someone left in a park. Now he is affectionately known as Orange Trouble. His big highlight of the day is if he can outrun the spray bottle. At 6 in the morning.

8. I am obsessed with the idea of martial arts. The idea of the duality of peace and violence, life and death, defense and attack has always been fascinating to me. My biggest pet peeve is when TV shows portray various martial arts wrongly. I mean - if one goes into a Krav Maga class - which is the martial art studied by the Israeli army and really has nothing to do with ancient Japanese philosophies, why bow Japanese style?

7. I can talk about writing for hours. To anyone who'll listen. Theme, style, purpose, you name it. My good friend Lacey Savage and I run a blog called Tips and Wips - dedicated to writing. Really, its just another reason to buy and then discuss writing books and classes.

6. My favorite authors include Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb, Anne Stuart, J.R. Ward, Linda Howard, Nalini Singh, Beth Kery, Lacey Savage, Nathalie Gray and Shiloh Walker. One of my dreams is that Nora - upon being interviewed - tells someone that she hadn't slept the previous night because she couldn't put down a book by moi. (Hey, its only fair.. I can't sleep because I can't put down her books)

5. I adore strong kickass female heroines. Buffy, Starbuck, Eve Dallas, Fiona from Burn Notice (not just because she's my namesake, but because she can kick some seriously serious ass!).. If it's got a strong yet vulnerable female lead, I'm a fan for life.

4. I cry at emotional scenes at movies. I don't want to. But I can't help it. I think I'm a softie. Don't tell anyone.

3. I play piano - sometimes even well. I've played off and on since I was five years old. Sometimes I even like it enough to want to take lessons again, but I have only enough discipline for writing and practicing scales over and over was something I left in the murky years of childhood. I do have a dozen jazz piano books sitting on my Clavinova - someday I hope to crack them open. I love playing piano when it rains.

2. I paint. I have a degree in art, but I can't draw a stick figure. Then I discovered Bob Ross - you know that guy on PBS that is so mellow and paints happy little trees? Well he taught me to paint. And not too badly if I do say so myself. I even sold a painting once:) Like piano I don't really have the discipline to practice it everyday - that's really reserved for writing - but every time I'm in an art store I think about going back to it. Maybe once its nice outside, I'll drag out the painting cart again.
1. I love action adventure type romances. I mostly read romance, thought sometimes I'll foray into another genre if strongly recommended by trusted parties (i.e. my sister or hubby). I also love writing action adventure type romances. My latest release Cold Victory is actually one of my favorite subgenres to read - a sci-fi futuristic space opera: war and love, duty and desire, betrayal and revenge

BLURB:
Blurb for Cold Victory:Intergalactic warfare has not been kind to humans. Convicted pilot Zoya Scott has the chance to avenge her family, redeem an act of desperation with that of sacrifice. She’ll end this war if she betrays the man whose touch burns through her soul, the man whose ship and crew she must destroy. The man who is her bloodmate.Commander Galen Stark never expected the convicted pilot on his ship to be anything more then a good looking inconvenience. A small brush of their hands grips him with vicious lust, a need he can’t control. She is his bloodmate – a biological reaction burning through his veins.Except she carries an explosive. And Stark may have to give the order to destroy them all

EXCERPT:

“Excuse me, Commander.” Those gold eyes flared.

“Perhaps you were misled about their skill level. Most of them never had field experience. Their battle skills were taught in hologames.”

Stark had to get away from her before his damned glands forced him into doing something stupid. Like kissing her.

Fucking her breathless. Feeling her shuddering around him as she came.

“So noted.”

“Right.” A bitter smirk. Those eyes went dull again, as if he were responsible for leeching out the light inside them.

“Your job is to give orders and coordinate attacks. You don’t know who is out there dying.”He couldn’t breathe without taking in her heat, couldn’t think beyond the words she hurled at him.

“You’re right, I don’t. I don’t know their names or anything about them. They’re just soldiers. They’re trained to follow orders.”Before he knew what he was doing, he roughly pulled at the sleeve of his undershirt, exposing neat rows of tattoos.

“I don’t know them.”

He shook his head, battling arousal, emotion, and frustration. “I just count their deaths.”Silence. He was an idiot to lose control like this, to share the part of himself which he’d always kept hidden. He was an idiot to need her to understand the only way he could grieve. He was an idiot to feel this raw, sexual pull toward her.

“I’m-I’m sorry.” Her voice thick, her eyes shattered, Zoya lightly touched the dots on his upper arm.

Shock rippled on his skin, pinpricks of heat and vicious, coiled lust. He nearly staggered, fighting the dark urge to cover her lush mouth while his body primed to take, to feast. Her eyes flared wide, yet she didn’t pull her arm away when his fingers closed around her wrist.

“You shouldn’t touch me.”

Her pulse beat hard under his fingertips, her skin like warm, smooth silk. He gave her time to back away, to rip her arm away, say something cutting. Yet she did nothing, simply looked up at him with hot, unguarded eyes, her mouth vulnerable and soft, seconds from his.Flashes of skin, hot gripping palms, moist hungry lips. Stark didn’t know when he pressed her against a bulkhead, when her hands clutched his shoulders, when her ragged breaths became his own.

He couldn’t get enough, couldn’t take a breath, couldn’t tear himself away from ravaging her lips, plunging into the sweet depth of her mouth.

Her scent was like a potent drug pumping into his veins. Lips fused, tongues mated, he kissed her like a starving man, as if both their lives depended on it.

Cupping her head, he held her steady for his onslaught, fighting himself, fighting against the soft, hitched breaths she made against his mouth.

Even as someone screamed inside his head about duty and protocol, the beast inside him wouldn’t let him stop.

A little about Fiona Jayde

Fiona Jayde is a space pilot, a ninth degree black belt in three styles of martial arts, a computer hacker, a mountain climber, a jazz singer, a weight lifter, a superspy with a talent for languages, and an evil genius.All in her own head.
In life, she is an author of kickass, action packed, steamy romances, possesses a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do and blue belt in Aikido, a web developer, scared to death of heights, loves jazz piano, can bench-press about 20 pounds — with effort, speaks English and Russian fluently, and when not plotting murder and mayhem enjoys steamy romance novels, sexy spy thrillers, murky mysteries and movies where things frequently blow up.
Website link: www.fionajayde.com

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