– No, they’re not! Raina’s very much a product of her hometown-Fortuity’s a hardscrabble place, in what I call the New Wild West. – Tell us something more about your main characters Raina and Duncan? Are they close to someone from your real life?

I find it’s harder, as a writer, to immerse yourself in a fictional world when real life is feeling exceptionally dynamic. The book itself wasn’t one of my harder ones, but the upheaval and distraction of such a big life change made it much harder than expected. Honestly, it was real life! I started that book when I was still living in Boston, and last summer, when I was about halfway through drafting it, my husband and I moved all the way across the country to Oregon. – What was the biggest challenge during the write up process? Their lust/hate chemistry was hard to ignore even then! Plus Duncan very badly needed to get his perfect feathers ruffled, which he does in spades in Give It All. – I knew about halfway through the first book, Lay It Down, that Raina and Duncan’s story would be next.

Give It All is centered on the romance between Raina, the wayward owner of Fortuity’s dive bar, and Duncan, an uptight, entitled employee of the developers. The books are all full of sex and motorcycles and cussing and intrigue. – Give It All is the second book in my Desert Dogs romantic suspense series with Signet Eclipse-the books all follow characters who are childhood friends from a rough town called Fortuity, in northern Nevada, which is besieged by corruption and violence when a large casino begins development there. – Cara What is your last book Give it All about? We’ve got a great pleasure to welcome Cara McKenna as our next guest at Land of Books. “Can’t wait for the next book”, “Thrilling and emotional romantic suspense” and “This was an excellent follow up to the first book” are just few of the opinions from readers. Give it All by Cara McKenna is the second part of Desert Dogs series.

After Hours by Cara McKenna