Hey, gang. Am super pleased to have friend and chapter-mate vising today! Please give a warm welcome to Beth Cornelison!***Hired by the groom-to-be, former SEAL Jake McCall must make sure beautiful bride Paige Bancroft stays safe. When gunfire shatters the wedding, he discovers that the threat to Paige is hovering close. Now the country’s national security depends on keeping her and a mysterious “bead” in her possession out of the wrong hands.Paige Bancroft never had control of her privileged, sheltered life until she finds danger on her trail and a larger-than-life bodyguard at her side. Realizing her almost-wedding was a mistake, she’s determined to fight for her survival…and start a new life with the sexy SEAL—for better or worse.****Hi all and thanks, Keri, for the opportunity to guest blog here today.October marks the release of THE BRIDE’S BODYGUARD, the second book in my Bancroft Brides series from Silhouette Romantic Suspense. The series centers around the lives of three sisters, each of whom find danger and adventure– and unexpected grooms– on their journey to “I do”. Writing about these sisters was a blast for me, because I am the middle sister of a three sister family.

While these three sisters are not modeled after myfamily, I did draw from my own experience concerning the love and friendship, the unspoken rivalry and competition, and the shared memories that bond sisters.Each of the Bancroft sisters has a little bit of me in them and perhaps a dash here and there of my sisters, but their personalities and uniqueness are the result of characters who spoke to me in clear terms of how they should be written. Yes, my characters talk to me. Why? Do you find that strange?In writing about Holly, the middle sister, I drew on my own feeling of being ‘out of the loop’ because I, like Holly, live several hundred miles away from the family. I’m not able to make it to many of the family gatherings— birthday parties for kids, Easter meals, soccer games and choir concerts— because of my long distance, and I mourn the loss of those special opportunities.I empathized with youngest sister Zoey’s feeling that she had to live up to her sisters precedent. I remember clearly the feeling in high school that I needed to fill my big sister’s shoes, before I finally found the courage to follow the path that felt right for me.Having sisters meant terrible cat fights about silly things, sharing clothes, private jokes about family history, shared heartaches over lost pets, and competition for our parents attention and praise. Today I still laugh with my sisters about our childhood misadventures, commiserate over issues with our aging parents, and treasure knowing that someone who understands me, where I came from and what makes me who I am, is just a phone call away in times of triumph or pain.As a writer, even after the book is finished, I imagine the lives my characters might be living after the last page. It’s fun to think of the Bancroft sisters sharing holidays and the birth of babies with each other the way I have with my sisters. The bond of sisterhood is a special one and creating Holly, Paige and Zoey Bancroft was a fun way to celebrate my own sisters.Look for The Prodigal Bride, book 3 in the Bancroft Brides series in February.Happy reading