30 Days of Secrets: KC Klein

First, I wanted to thank Carla at Bandit Creek Books. When the invitation first went out asking for authors to post on her site, I jumped at the chance. So thanks again, Carla!

When I was told the theme this month on Bandit Creek was secrets and that I should talk about some of my own, I grew nervous. My life is pretty much an open book. There aren’t a lot of dusty skeletons rattling around in my closet (just a lot of dust). But after talking to some close friends who mentioned that I keep things close to the chest, I started rethinking about what secrets are and how they mean different things to different people.

I don’t keep secrets because I think they’d have an earth-shattering effect on any one. I keep them because no one cares about what goes on inside the mind of a neurotic writer. My deep shameful secrets like—what if I can’t write, what if I suck, what if my first book being published was a fluke—only get glazed looks from family members and, if I am lucky, a pat on my head. I realized the dark things we carry around in our head are often only a big deal to us. No one else cares.

The theme of secret pasts that haunt my heroes and heroines run through many of my books. My heroine from DARK FUTURE, Kris, is plagued by a deep shame that affects her life more than she wants to admit. It colors her choices when dealing with life and death situations and, even more importantly, how she deals with the hero, ConRad.

ConRad has his own past to overcome. On his chest is a large S branded into his skin. How did it get there? Who put it there and why? All these questions are answered, but we also see how differently ConRad deals with his secrets. Instead, of letting someone else’s cruelty overshadow his life, he takes the brand and makes it a part of himself—something no longer shameful, but a badge of honor.

Thank you so much for allowing me to share a bit about my debut novel. I hope readers are as interested to find out Kris and ConRad’s secrets as I was when I wrote the book.

I spend a lot of time sitting by myself in front of my computer and love to chat with readers. I can be found on Facebook, Twitter @kckleinbooks, and my website, where readers can check out my new project, HOTTER ON THE EDGE, a sci-fi romance anthology.

Oh, I guess I do have one really big secret I would love to share. I just found out I sold my second book, a western romance, to Kensington with a tentative release date of October 2012. Now, those are the type of secrets I don’t mind sharing.

About DARK FUTURE:
Awakened in the middle of the night by a future version of herself, Kris Davenport is given a mission: go forward in time to save the world—and His life. Of course, her future self doesn’t tell her who he is, just sends her into an abyss and straight into an alien invasion.
He turns out to be ConRad Smith, the callous, untrusting Commander of Earth’s army and the world’s last defense. There’s only one way to know for sure if this strange woman is an alien spy—slice her throat. Except, he didn’t anticipate the heat he would feel as he interrogates the hot-tempered, warm-blooded woman. For a man whose sole focus has been survival, she’s more temptation than he can handle. But a world on the brink of destruction leaves no room for love…and time is running out.

Buy DARK FUTURE as an Amazon e-book, an Amazon print book, at Avon Impulse, or at Barnes & Noble.

KC will give away a copy of her book DARK FUTURE to a lucky commenter!

* The draw has been made. The winner is Yadira A.! *

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