{"id":7156,"date":"2017-09-28T01:05:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2017-09-27T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:32:43","slug":"interview-with-elizabeth-harmon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7156","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Elizabeth Harmon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would you tell us about your latest release?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to! Shining Through<\/em> is the fifth and final book in my Red Hot Russians figure skating romance series. Series fans who\u2019ve read book three, Getting It Back<\/em>, might recall bad boy Russian skater Daniil Andreev, who was the rival of Getting It Back\u2019s<\/em> hero, Misha.<\/p>\n

In Shining Through<\/em>, Daniil becomes a sexy distraction for American figure skating star Tabitha Turner, as she enters her biggest season of her career. She wants to make it to the Winter Olympics and reward the sacrifices made by her mom and younger sister that allowed her to train as an elite competitive skater. Meanwhile, younger, hungrier skaters are threatening Tabitha\u2019s place atop the gold-medal podium. The last thing she needs at the moment is a Russian bad boy to ruin her pristine Ice Queen reputation, and break her heart.<\/p>\n

What makes the hero of Shining Through hot?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aside from his edgy good looks\u2014think young Johnny Depp, dressed in vintage clothes and wearing guyliner–Daniil is confident and strong. The son of a Russian billionaire, he grew up in a family that was financially wealthy and emotionally bankrupt.\u00a0 He spent his adolescence and young adulthood behaving badly, but now at 25, he\u2019s turned that fight to what matters most\u2014his skating career. He\u2019s determined to put his mistakes behind him, compete in the Winter Olympics and become a better man in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s created a family of his friends and coaches, and has begun to realize that not only does true love exist, he can have it. When he meets Tabitha, he falls hard. But he lets Tabitha, who has issues of her own, set the pace of the relationship, while at the same time, he continually pushes her to step out of her comfort zone.<\/p>\n

He also has a fun sense of humor.<\/p>\n

If the main characters in your latest release were invited to a masquerade party, what costumes would they wear?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniil loves vintage clothes from the 1940\u2019s through the early 1960\u2019s, so he would wear something from that era. If he were to dress as a person, I\u2019d say James Dean or young Marlon Brando. As for Tabitha, she\u2019d identify with someone regal, and determined, but passionate beneath her controlled exterior. Cleopatra, maybe?<\/p>\n

Do you have a favorite character or characters you feel especially close to?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anton and Carrie from my first book hold a special place in my heart, and they\u2019re in this book too.\u00a0 Anton is Daniil\u2019s coach and something of an older, wiser brother. He is determined to keep Daniil on track to earn a place on the Russian Olympic team, but he also remembers that love doesn\u2019t conform to the figure skating season. Carrie is a coach as well, of a successful pairs team who train at the couple\u2019s center in Lake Shosha, Russia. Fans of that book will be glad to know that after ten years together, Anton and Carrie are still enjoying their happy ending.<\/p>\n

There are other familiar faces from the series throughout this book, which made it really fun to write. But as with the previous stories, each is written as a standalone. Readers who discover the Red Hot Russian series with this book, can enjoy it in any order.<\/p>\n

\"\"Do you have an excerpt you\u2019d like to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do and it\u2019s an exclusive I haven\u2019t shared elsewhere. As a writer, I love slow burn romances and while Daniil and Tabitha move a little faster than some of my other couples, I feel like Daniil\u2019s willingness to move at Tabitha\u2019s pace makes him a swoon-worthy and sensitive hero.<\/p>\n

He shoved his hands into the pockets of his trousers and gave her a long penetrating look. \u201cDo you think I am pushing you for something more?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe. It\u2019s hard to know for sure.\u201d The heat in her cheeks spread up around her eyes and down the back of her neck. \u201cI don\u2019t have a lot of experience with situations like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou mean with sex?\u201d<\/p>\n

His directness startled her, and she glanced around at the people passing by on the sidewalk. A busy downtown street felt like entirely the wrong place for this conversation. \u201cYes, sex,\u201d she muttered. \u201cAnd the rest of it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that, an elderly woman turned and glared. Not at Daniil, but at Tabitha. Talk about double standards! She pushed her hair back again.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems you don\u2019t have a high opinion of me,\u201d he said, quietly. \u201cDid I offend you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just you. Like I said, I don\u2019t have much experience with men. On the other hand, my mom and my sister have plenty of experience. Most of it hasn\u2019t been good.\u201d<\/p>\n

His slow nod suggested he was trying to understand, rather than dismiss her feelings. \u201cSo because of them, you think the worst of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She nodded.<\/p>\n

\u201cTabitha, I didn\u2019t invite you here so I could have sex with you. Not that I would mind,\u201d he said, offering a tentative smile. \u201cBut I understand that you don\u2019t know me, other than what you may have heard. Which probably isn\u2019t very good. But just like you are more than an Ice Queen, there\u2019s more to me than people think. So maybe we get to know each other and then decide what comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n

If he could give her the space she needed, could she give him the benefit of the doubt? The scars left by years of disappointment and chaos wouldn\u2019t disappear overnight. Still, maybe for this week, or even just tonight, she could loosen her stranglehold on her fears. She could expect something other than heartbreak, even from the Bad Boy of Figure Skating.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Shining Through releases October 2 and is available for pre-order now!<\/p>\n

Amazon<\/a> | B&N<\/a> | iTunes Books<\/a> | Kobo<\/a> | Google Books<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow Elizabeth on social media and sign up for her newsletter<\/a> to hear about giveaways and upcoming releases!<\/p>\n

Facebook<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | Amazon<\/a> | Goodreads<\/a> | Bookbub<\/a> | Website<\/a><\/p>\n

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