*This title will be released on March 1, 2012*

Title: Fever Author:  Joan Swan Series: Phoenix Rising #1 Cover Art: N/A Genre: Paranormal Romance Excerpt: Yes Source: Author Reviewed by: Julia Paperback: 354 pages Publisher: Brava; February 28, 2012 ISBN-10: 0758266383 ISBN-13: 978-0758266385   Sexual Content: References to rape; Several sex scenes. Rating: Excellent - Loved it! Buy it now & put this author on your watch list.

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Thank you all for entering this giveaway to win a copy of FEVER by Joan Swan.  Thanks to Joan for providing this giveaway!

The winner is…

I’m  excited to have Joan Swan here today, telling us a little bit about the first installment in her Phoenix Rising series, FEVER.  FEVER had me hooked from Chapter 1, the hero and heroine have so much drama and danger swirling around them I couldn’t wait to find out how things would resolve.    As my ARC arrived today, I’ll be heading to the couch to satisfy my curiosity once I click “Post”.  Enter to win your own copy of FEVER below, or if you’re not the gambling type, pre-order a copy for March 1.  After reading Joan’s interview, my finger is itching to pre-order BLAZE as well.

ATUF: I have been excited to read FEVER from the moment I saw the excerpt.  Does the Chapter 1 that I read bear any resemblance to where you first started the story?  What character or concept was the seed that got you started on FEVER?

Actually, the story always started here—in the hospital exam room where the hero, a convicted murderer, takes the heroine, a doctor filling in for an absent sonographer, hostage. That scene was the beginning of the idea for the book and everything else in the story stemmed from there.

Some elements of the scene changed from the original version because I first wrote Fever as a straight romantic suspense. So when I rewrote, Teague’s paranormal ability and Cassie’s reaction to it had to be included.