His career as an
operatic tenor was finally taking off, and he would be damned if he let some
stalker keep him from his globe-hopping musical dreams. But he had made the
mistake of telling his uncle about the threatening letters the creep had been
leaving in his hotel room.
Now he was
saddled with a muscle-bound bodyguard who was seriously cramping his love life,
even if the guy did have a swoony accent and the perfect number of freckles. No
matter what Anthony did, he couldn’t get rid of the stubborn redheaded Brit.
Freddie just didn’t fit in with his glamorous life of encores and galas and
schmoozing. And how did the man never sleep?
Or maybe a few.
He had been content as head of security for the Hughes vampire coven in London.
But now he’d been sent to America to keep his coven master’s nephew safe from
the threat of a rival coven. He knew the rules. Anthony couldn’t find out about
the existence of vampires, and he certainly couldn’t find out that
Freddie was one. Plus, he had to manage Anthony’s demanding
personality, and Freddie was painfully bad with people. And he absolutely
one-hundred-percent had to keep himself from hooking up with the overbearing
American.
When friction erupts into steamy passion, can Freddie and Anthony forge a
relationship together? Or will Freddie’s secrets and the deadly vampires of the
Azarian coven tear them apart?
J.B. is a writer
of MM paranormal and fantasy romance. They live in New York City, and when
they're not writing they spend their time eating delicious snacks and listening
to opera. If you're looking for fast-moving open door romance, fun and magic,
and just a touch of darkness, J.B.'s books are for you!
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J.B. Warrick Guest Posts
Stuff About Me:
Can you, for those who don’t know you already, tell something
about yourself and how you became an author?
I work in the
arts and I’m a recent transplant to NYC, but I lived in Chicago for about
twenty years. I love my new home city. My passions are opera (which you can
tell from my books), video games, reading, wandering around museums, and eating
really great breakfast foods.
I’ve always
wanted to be an author, and although I’ve worked as a creative in theater my
whole adult life, I found it hard to finish
novel-length works. Way back in college, I had a short story published in a pro
mag (a sweet if clichéd story about a prince falling in love with a dragon
shifter who had abducted a princess – I was doing dragon shifters before it was
cool!), but for about twenty years after that I didn’t really get any fiction
writing done. I’d gotten decently far in a few novel attempts, usually stalling
out around 20k words, but I wasn’t able to really figure out my process until
November of 2023, when I finished my first full length novel.
Tell
us something really interesting that’s happened to you!
In my
twenties I traveled the world working on cruise ships! I had a job with a
theatrical company playing the piano for their shows, and so I got to go on
several contracts. I was very lucky with my second contract and ended up in
Europe for a few months. We ported in Barcelona and stopped all around Spain,
as well as in Italy (Rome, Pisa), Morocco (Agadir), Gibraltar, and Portugal
(Lisbon). We also had a few trips to Dover in England.
Honestly,
I would have never gotten to see all those places without that job, so I’m very
grateful. I’m a firm believer that artists need a broad range of input to
create, and I was exposed to so many new things. I’d love to go back to Spain,
which was my absolute favorite!
What
are some of your pet peeves?
I
don’t know if I’m just cranky, or if I have undiagnosed sensory issues, but I
just can’t stand loud noises. I don’t mind a hum of activity – in fact, I
prefer it to silence when writing. I adore hanging out in a coffee shop to get
my words done. But loud noises make me want to die, and not that I’m in my
forties, they also startle me for some reason.
Where
were you born/grew up at?
I grew
up in Massachusetts, and although I haven’t lived there in decades, I’ll always
consider it home. There’s something about small town New England that feels
different from anywhere else. Part of it is the geography: small town life
takes on a different character when you’re surrounded by trees and hills,
versus the flat expanses of the Midwest.
Also,
everything is so much closer together! My husband says that in New England,
everything is only a twenty-minute drive away. I’m sure it feels that way to
him, being from Illinois. Personally, I loved the ability to shoot up to Maine
to have some lobster, or up to Vermont to peep some leaves in the Berkshires.
If
you knew you’d die tomorrow, how would you spend your last day?
Listening
to music, eating incredible food, hanging out with my friends and loved ones.
I’m probably happiest when I’m in a cabin in the woods with a bunch of friends,
hanging out around a fireplace, eating snacks and playing songs and getting
into ridiculous conversations.
Who
is your hero and why?
I try
not to have heroes, as everyone is fallible and has the capacity to disappoint
or, worse, to cause harm. That being said, you can’t go wrong with Dolly
Parton. She’s a great example of a human who made a lot of money making some
legitimately awesome art and then spends that money on helping others. I want
to be Dolly when I grow up.
Describe
yourself in 5 words or less!
Driven.
Introverted. Funny. Sarcastic. Earnest.
When
did you first consider yourself a writer?
Actually,
I think I always have. I’ve always written music, plays, short stories, etc.
There’s been a creative writing aspect to almost all the jobs I’ve had as an
adult.
Considering
myself a novelist, well, that’s different. There was definitely a part
of me that didn’t think of me as a “real” writer until I could finish a novel.
When I finally mastered my process and got through my first during NaNoWriMo in
2023, that’s when I started to really feel it. It solidified fully when I
published my first book (not that one).
Which
of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?
Honestly,
all of them! Although I don’t think The Tenor’s Shadow and The
Baritone’s Rival will be made unless vampires come back into the zeitgeist,
although with the release of Nosferatu, who knows?
But in
actuality, I think The Last of the Dark Lords has a lot of potential as
a movie. It has the sweep of a fantasy epic, but the story is more contained
and could live inside a two-hour movie. I love the world of Fyr, and the
setting of a lush green city in the middle of an arid wasteland sort of gives Dune
meets Lord of the Rings.
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