Congrats to Heidi Duckworth Hard who won the third copy of Medium Well last week. Medium Rare, book 2 in the Ramos Family/Medium Trilogy is now available from Berkley InterMix.

Some readers have asked me how difficult it was to switch from writing contemporary romance to writing paranormal romance. I guess the answer to that is “not very.” You see, my paranormal romances tend to share a lot of qualities with my contemporary romances. There’s my slightly skewed point of view that doesn’t take anything entirely seriously. There’s the fact that my heroes and heroines, although they have a few supernatural abilities, are pretty normal for the most part. I think that’s important—while I get a kick out of paranormal romances where the heroes and heroines are anything but guys on the street, I’m more likely to write about people who don’t think of themselves as unusual. Until they find out that they are, of course.

Rosie and Evan are people like that. Rosie in particular just wants to have a regular life, in spite of the fact that her house is haunted by a several-thousand-years-old ghost and she herself is the descendant of several generations of mediums.

The main difference for me comes in the plot, in figuring out the what-happens-next part of the book. Paranormal books have a lot more possibilities in that area than contemporary romance. And I think I’ve taken advantage of at least some of those possibilities in Medium Rare.

Here’s the blurb. If you’d like a slightly scary, slightly funny treatment of the whole haunted medium genre, I hope you’ll give Medium Rare a try.

Medium Rare, Ramos Family/Medium Trilogy, Book 2

There are no skeletons in her closet…only ghosts

Rose Ramos was a reference librarian, until she inherited her grandmother’s house—and the family talent for connecting with the other side…

Moving into the lovely Victorian in San Antonio’s King William District is a dream come true for Rose—and also a nightmare. That’s the only explanation she has for the man hovering above her bed. But Skag is a ghost who’s been part of Rose’s family for generations. And now he’s all hers.

When Evan Delwin, a reporter out to debunk the city’s newest celebrity, posts an ad looking for a research assistant to investigate a famous medium making his home in San Antonio, Skag suggests that Rose apply for the job. Delving into the dark side has its own dangers for Rose—including trying to resist Delwin’s manly charms. But as the investigation draws them closer together, the deadly currents surrounding the medium threaten to destroy them all…

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