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Michael Harney is our guest blogger during the week of December 22nd. If you have any questions for Michael Harney, add a comment to any of his posts. Here is some more information about The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea:

The country's leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate.

The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the country's leading tea professionals, The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea is an illuminating resource for tea drinkers interested in developing and refining their palate as well as their understanding of the complex agricultural, historical, and cultural significance of tea.

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In my recent post here on Penguin's magnificent blog, we talked about sexy Greek Santas and the demon huntresses who love them.  Sounds a bit like a bad E True Hollywood Story, doesn't it?  Actually this week we've been playing Santa ourselves, dreaming up appropriate holiday gifts for the characters in my brand new paranormal romance series, Gods of Midnight, which launched with RED FIRE, and continues in the spring with RED KISS. 

As I finished this book I couldn't help smiling because if there was one character (besides Shay and Ajax!) who fans kept mentioning in their notes and messages, it was Spartan servant River Kassandros.  And I totally understand their interest, begging, concern, pleading to know more.  You see, I left River in a bit of an, uh, desperate situation.  River's a shapeshifter, capable of becoming any weapon that his master Ajax might summon or require in battle.  Only problem with that nifty trick of River's (spoiler alert if you've not read RED FIRE) is that at the end of book one, he was tossed away into a literal river while still in dagger form.  He's been lost to the Spartans ever since.