NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and veteran writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in commercial thriller fiction, film, television, and more. In this volume, Cindy does in-depth analysis of 40 iconic thriller tropes found across all sub-genres of thriller fiction.Written by a working writer for working writers, this is a comprehensive reference guide and brainsto...

NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 33 iconic internal romance tropes, the stories of personal affliction, wounds, fears, and personality traits that form obstacles to love inside the hearts and minds of your characters.Written by a working writer for working...

Kimberly Stanton is a woman on a mission: shut down development of a lethal sniper rifle. Special Forces operative, Tex Monroe, is a man on a mission: survive Hurricane Kimberly. Thrown together in an attempted kidnapping, they must flee through the jungle and find a way not to kill each other before their pursuers–or their smoking hot attraction–can get the best of them.Praise for Cindy Dees:Lovers of Dees’ high-stakes, fast-paced action will find exponentiall...

Fresh out of law school, Dani Wellford is determined to make her mark with her first solo case. Too bad her mysteriously uncooperative client seems determined to land behind bars. And too bad the smoking hot assistant DA prosecuting the case makes her pulse race every time they clash.Cameron Townsend has an impressive conviction record, but his latest case is proving... challenging. Not because the evidence is weak—it's ironclad. Not because the rookie defense attorney is incompeten...

U.S. Homeland Security Doesn't Want You to Read, Fever Zone, a Romantic Suspense from Cindy DeesCIA agent, Piper Roth, is bearing down on a homegrown separatist group with an agenda against Uncle Sam while former Navy SEAL, Mike McCloud, is investigating a rogue scientist with a penchant for viruses.When their investigations collide, the pair's smoking-hot one-night-stand in the capital of Sudan proves a huge mistake.Now Mike and Piper must...

A Black Dragons Inc. NovelHot SEAL. Hot spy. Hot reunion. Can they work together to find a notorious terrorist without killing each other first?When SEAL Spencer Newman accepts a dangerous mission to bring in CIA agent Drago Thorpe—the only man he's ever loved—he expects things to get FUBAR. He doesn't expect Drago to convince him to go rogue too.Drago regrets ending their torrid affair by pressuring Spencer to acknowledge their re...

Marine officer, Steve Prescott, has been hired to protect rising star actress, Allyson Harper, from a stalker but is under strict orders not to let her know. She’s been hired to play a sultry femme fatale in a movie but hasn’t told the director she doesn’t know the first thing about sex. She makes a secret deal with the hot Marine, and together they work against the clock to teach her the finer points of steamy romance and catch her increasingly dangerous stalker. Backstage passion explode...

She’s tasked with forming the first all-female Special Forces Team. He’s tasked with training them—and seeing to it they fail. She’s determined to prove women can keep up with the big boys, and he’s determined to break her—if she doesn’t break his heart first. As attraction explodes between Vanessa Blake and Jack Scatalone they have got to get this blazing heat between them under control. But, as events throw them together in a life-or-death race to find a missing team member, control is t...

A Stud Games NovelSurveillance, seduction, and extra-dirty politics.Christian Chatsworth-Brandeis has a problem. A huge one. The US senator he works for has run away with his latest mistress on the eve of a make-or-break fundraising event, and it's up to him to cover his irresponsible boss's tracks.Stone Jackson, Senator Lacey's new bodyguard, looks enough like him that, with some extensive grooming, he might pass for the senator. Christian...

NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 33 iconic backstory romance tropes, the stories made up of the lingering problems, scars, and needs from your hero’s and heroine’s pasts that must be overcome before they can achieve happiness and true love..Written b...

In 1929, twenty daredevil women take to the skies in the most dangerous race of their lives.Florence “Pancho” Barnes—heiress, rebel, and the most colorful pilot in America—can outfly, outswear, and outdrive any man. When Hollywood tries to turn the first-ever cross-country National Women’s Air Derby into a publicity stunt with movie starlets and their male “mechanics” doing the real flying, Pancho rallies the greatest female aviators of the era to fight back.

A Black Dragons Inc. NovelFormer best friends put their differences aside to rescue a child—but the baby isn't the only thing that needs saving.A preventable training accident that forced him out of the SEALs has left Gunner Vance bitter and angry. But all that changes when his childhood friend and onetime lover asks for his help.When a gunfight lands a baby on lonely teacher Chasten Reed's front porch, he knows Gunner is their best chance fo...