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Showing posts by: Gina Robinson click to see Gina Robinson's profile
Tue
Dec 18 2012 2:00pm

Today we're pleased—dangerously so!—to welcome author Gina Robinson to Heroes and Heartbreakers. Gina's next release, Live and Let Love, will be released December 24. Today Gina talks about some very dangerous women. Thanks, Gina!

(For an exclusive sneak peek at Live and Let Love, read an excerpt of Chapters 1-2!)

femme fa·tale 
n. pl. femmes fa·tales—a woman who is sexually attractive but cruel and dangerous to men who have a relationship with her
Macmillan Dictionary online
French: femme, woman + fatale, deadly

Ah, the femme fatale. The name says it all—a deadly woman. One who seduces men to their dooms, transfixes them, bewitches them. Kills them. There's something absolutely mesmerizing and fascinating about femme fatales. The embodiment of female power, they seem to have it all—charm, beauty, sensuality. And yet, somehow they're not satisfied until they've crossed the line into the dark side. Deep down, we'd all like to have a bit, just the good bits like seductive charm, of the femme fatale in us.

[Let's break out the inner femme fatale!...]

Wed
Dec 12 2012 1:00pm

Live and Let Love by Gina RobinsonGet a sneak peek of Gina Robinson’s new Agent Ex novel, Live and Let Love (available December 24, 2012), with an exclusive excerpt of the Chapters 1-2. Plus, enter for a chance to win a copy of the first two books in the Agent Ex Series, The Spy Who Left Me and Diamonds are Truly Forever!*

Click here to read the excerpt!

Click here to enter for a chance to win!

*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C. to enter. Promotion begins December 12, 2012, at 12 pm ET, and ends December 19, 2012, 11:59 am ET. Void in Puerto Rico and wherever prohibited by law. Click here for details and official rules.

[About the books...]

Thu
Jun 21 2012 1:30pm

Diamonds Are Truly Forever by Gina RobinsonJust released, Gina Robinson’s Diamonds Are Truly Forever: An Agent Ex Novel is a sexy, sleuthy tale of sex with the ex (not to mention high espionage!). Today, Gina joins us to talk about the different types of spies, and shares some delicious pics, too! Thanks, Gina!

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Only the wisest ruler can use spies; only the most benevolent and upright general can use spies, and only the most alert and observant person can get the truth using spies . . .

There is nowhere that spies cannot be used.

—Sun Tzu, The Art of War

The Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu identified the importance of using spies in his ancient military treatise, The Art of War, somewhere around 512 B.C. Sun Tzu identifies five kinds of spies:

  • Local spies—the enemy’s people
  • Internal spies—the enemy’s officials
  • Double spies—the enemy’s spies
  • Dead spies—spies used to spread misinformation, usually they’re fed bad intelligence by their own government
  • Living spies—agents who return with reports and valuable information

In romance fiction, I think we can all agree that the hero must be a living spy, for oh, so many delicious reasons, except, perhaps in a paranormal. In which case, an undead spy could be just the thing. In the tradition of Sun Tzu, and going one better, I’ve identified six types of spies. Five who are perfect romance heroes and one who’s possibly a very sexy villain. They’re just the kind of operatives any woman could find herself falling in love with, on or off a clandestine mission.

[Just when you think spies can’t get any hotter...]

Thu
May 17 2012 12:30pm
Excerpt
Gina Robinson

Diamonds Are Truly Forever, Agents Ex #2, by Gina RobinsonStaci Fields loves her gorgeous husband—and that’s the honest truth. Unfortunately, her inability to lie is a major liability for the wife of a CIA agent. During a previous mission, her loose lips nearly got her husband killed. So now Staci’s filing for divorce to keep him out of danger—no matter how much her lips still crave his kiss…

Drew Fields knows that his wife doesn’t want to play the spy game anymore. But when he learns that Staci may be a pawn in her stepfather’s secret dealings with terrorists, he has no choice but to step back into her life. This time, the stakes are higher than ever. The closer he gets to Staci, the deadlier the odds. And the more he loves his ex, the more he has to lose…

Get a sneak peek of Gina Robinson’s Diamonds Are Truly Forever, Book 2 in the Agent Ex series (available May 22, 2012), with an excerpt of Chapter 1.

Chapter 1
Redmond, Washington

Drew Fields pulled to the curb and parked in front of his former home. He hated the bland, midsize sedan the Agency insisted he drive as part of his mind-numbingly dull, assigned cover life. A marketing director for a microbrew­ery? Really? At least there’d be free beer. He hoped.

That was the Central Intelligence Agency for you. The government sanitized everything. Even his official title—National Clandestine Services core collector. He was a spy, a secret agent. What kid wanted to grow up to be a core collector? Sounded more like nuclear reactor work.

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Wed
Oct 19 2011 12:45pm
Reprint
Gina Robinson

Lipstick Spy School by Gina RobinsonIs November 1 too long to wait for Gina Robinson’s new release, The Spy Who Left Me? Let us help tide you over with her complete short story “Lipstick Spy School.”

Inside every woman there’s an inner Bond girl longing to break free. The Lipstick Spy School had one mission—draw it out and nurture it. For a day, at least.

As Kim entered the luxury hotel on the Fort Lauderdale beach, she actually had two missions—get a decent pedicure, Floridians didn’t seem to believe in closed-toe shoes, and kill Jason Bergman, Lipstick’s special ops spy instructor.

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Thu
Oct 13 2011 1:30pm
Excerpt
Gina Robinson

The Spy Who Left Me by Gina Robinson

If there’s one thing that can ruin a vacation, it’s running into your ex. Just ask Treflee Miller. If she’d only known that her husband Ty would be here in Hawaii—muscular, sun-bronzed, and infuriatingly gorgeous—she would have brought the divorce papers for him to sign. But life is full of surprises when you’re married to a world-class spy…

Ty Miller can understand why his wife is tired of playing Mrs. James Bond. He’s never home, he’s always on a mission, and he’s usually surrounded by exotic informants. He has to admit that the perfect spy makes a pretty lousy husband. But for the sake of Ty’s security and Treflee’s safety, they can’t blow his cover. Not here. Not now. Not when his longing is so strong, her lips so tempting—and his enemies so close…

Get a sneak peek of Gina Robinson’s  The Spy Who Left Me  (available Nov. 1, 2011) with an excerpt of Chapters 1-2.

Chapter 1

There are two things a girl would really rather not experience on her Hawaiian vacation—the monthly curse and a run-in with her soon-to-be ex. For the first time since puberty, Treflee Miller had managed to dodge the first. She was staring at all six-foot-two, well-muscled, lying, spying, ran-out-on-her inches of the second as he hefted her cousin Carrie’s bags up the steps of the Big Auau Sugar Plantation’s lanai.

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