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He seduced me.  Resistance was completely beyond my power, I swear.  Those green eyes, those broad shoulders - and the magic!  What girl could resist?

I'm talking about Nick Wyatt, the hero of Guardian, the second book in the Time Hunters trilogy, which hit stores May 5.

Now, if you read the first book, you know I originally planned Enforcer as Book Two. That's the story of time-traveling warriors Alerio Dyami and Dona Astryr, a pair with more issues than National Geographic.  But that was before Nick stepped out of my surgery-induced dreams. Alerio's and Dona's story is now planned as the third book of the trilogy.  I think that will work better anyway.

I was about fifty pages into Enforcer when I was derailed by a series of gall bladder attacks, an experience roughly as pleasant as a visit from the Spanish Inquisition.  My surgeon took care of the problem, and soon I was back home, floating on a lovely pink cloud of pain killers.

Which was when Nick stormed into my dreams, blew the doors off a convenience store and took care of an armed robber with a flare of glittering magic.

Oh, man.  I was smitten.  I knew I had to write about this guy. 

It was also apparent who his heroine had to be: Riane Arvid.  Now, if that last name sounds familiar, it's because I wrote about her parents in my first book, Jane's Warlord. Baran Arvid was a warrior from the future who came to the present to save beautiful Jane Colby from Jack the Ripper, also a time-traveler.

Baran had a sidekick - a genetically engineered talking wolf named Frieka.  Frieka was a delight to write, because he got all the best lines.  Many of his jokes involved threats to eat Jane's cat, though by the end of the book, he'd come to a grudging admiration for the furry little beast. 

So I brought Frieka back as Riane's partner/father-figure.  When she's trapped in time without him, Frieka is frantic to find her.  This gave me the opportunity to develop him even more.

Meanwhile, Riane and Nick butt heads back in the twenty-first century.  She thinks he's connected to the bad guys, a group of vicious cultists called the Xer.  What neither of them realizes is that Nick has something the Xer want - badly.  The couple soon find themselves on the run from time-traveling alien killers determined to slaughter them both.

As Nick and Riane are forced to work together in order to survive, they end up falling in love despite their mutual distrust.  The love scenes are deliciously steamy, and the fights with the Xerans are violent fun.

I don't think I've ever enjoyed writing a book more.  I hope you'll love Guardian as much as I do.

In the meantime, I'm hard at work on the sixth book in the Mageverse series, the story of King Arthur's son, Logan MacRoy.  Look for it in 2010.

Best,

Angela Knight

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