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Monday, February 1, 2016

✰ Author Guest Post ✰ Rachel Dunning

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As with all my books, the title for “Debt” only came to me at the end. The early draft was simply called “New Story” (which is different to my usual “Current Story”). In fact, the folder on which all the versions of this story sit on my computer is still called “New Story.”

Then, just before the final draft, the book was going to be called “Logan” (which is the Debt Collector’s real name), but that reminded me too much of the “Johnny” series I wrote and, factually, it wasn’t grabbing enough for me.

The name “Debt” is perfect, actually perfect, for the story, but I only realized this in retrospect. I’d love to tell you that it came to me in a blitz of inspiration, but it didn’t.

It came to me when I was designing the cover and there was just a little space on the left of Logan’s headshot and I needed a small word.

The story was already about debt (but not the financial kind) and how debts to other people wrap you up in promises you can’t keep and, ultimately, pain you can’t run away from, which is what brings our two characters together and keeps them together.

Well, I went with it, saw how it looked on the cover...

Then I looked over the story. My goodness, I felt like an idiot, an idiot for not thinking of that title sooner. I mean, the theme was everywhere. Maybe the reason it came to me was hidden in some recess of my mind I wasn’t fully aware of but I can’t take that much credit for it. It was one of those lucky things that don’t happen often.

Of course, after coming up with the title “Debt” I immediately considered calling it “The Debt Collector” but something about that title didn’t do it for me. The story of “Debt” is about love, loss, passion, romance. I felt “The Debt Collector” hints a little too much at the full-blown erotica genre which I try and stay just short of in my writing. I didn’t want to let people down by giving them the wrong idea for the book. “Debt” is strictly a New Adult Romance with a strong sports theme. It’s about two people who are from opposite sides of the social structure and which yet fit together perfectly. They are not opposites, even though they look like it from a casual glance.

It is an extremely romantic story with plenty of angst and drama and action. Y’know, like I usually like to do in my stories. ;)



Debt is scheduled to release March 30 and is on SALE for preorder at .99!



The Debt Collector

I pay my debts, and I expect others to.
I was raised in the slums of London, I knew nothing of privilege. My father was murdered when I was seventeen. Morty figured my father's passing meant I would automatically take on dad's debts. I refused.
And I paid for that refusal.
So did my sister.
So now I fight. All I know how to do is fight. The best cash is in the states, so that's where I am now. A big fish called Vito came along offering me a "favor" when I arrived.
Another debt.
I paid for that one too.
I knew Kyla Hensley would be trouble when I met her. But I wanted her. I could see through the falsehood of her wannabe-slutty clothes and her sexy legs. So I chased her.
Besides, trouble is my middle name.

Kyla Hensley

I was brought up in privilege, but I lacked everything else. My father is a business tycoon who buys and sells and doesn't care who gets rolled over in the process.
I never knew my mother, and all I have of her is a photo with a note scrawled on the back in French saying "I'm sorry." The only Female Figure I had growing up is my dad's wife who is a bleach blond with seven boob jobs. We never bonded.
I drink. I party. I meet guys.
But I wasn't always like that.
I've had a string of lovers in the last few years, the worst and most recent of which was Vince Somerset. My best friend Vera was dating a guy called Rory Cansoom who is the opposite of Vince in so many ways, and yet so the same.
She and I hit the road for the summer, getting away from the two college psychos and just trying to have some fun.
But there's a funny thing about trouble, the more you run from it, the more it finds you. Which is when I met the Debt Collector.
It was only supposed to be sex. He made that clear. I made that clear.
That's all it was supposed to be.
I never expected to fall in love. I never expected to fall so deeply, madly, uncomfortably in love with a man who is wrong, so wrong for me.
And yet...so unbelievably right.

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Rachel Dunning hit the scene in August 2013 and is the author of the highly praised Naive Mistakes Series, Truthful Lies Trilogy, Johnny Series and the paranormal romance series, Mind Games.
A prolific writer, she sticks to stories where Alpha Males aren’t pricks and where women have guts.
She’s lived on two different continents, speaks three different languages, and met the love of her life on the internet. In other words, romance is in her blood.

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