
Protect. Defend. Love? What do firefighters, bodyguards, marines, and Texas Rangers have in common? They do whatever it takes to keep us safe. But when Cupid has them in his sights, our protectors land neck deep in trouble. They willingly risk their lives, but dare they risk their hearts? Protect My Heart is a steamy collection from USA Today best-selling and award-winning romance authors curated by The New Romance Café. Authors: Debra Deasey Wynter Ryan Sharon Michalove Rubi Jade Chelle Pimblott Bella Paige Harper Michaels Angela Breen Bonnie Poirier Heather Osborne Lisabelle Chretien MacKade Angelica Kate Amy Stephens Annee Jones Serafina Jax Sofia Aves Ryleigh Sloan Caitlyn Lynch Gabbi Grey
Authors

Elizabeth Salo is a Michigan native who loves magic, myths, and mayhem. She writes paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and urban fantasy books and is a sucker for a strong female lead. She firmly believes she should have been born with superpowers, but since she wasn’t, she’ll have to make do with writing about people who do. She currently lives in Michigan with her family and more fur babies (and feathered babies, and scaly babies…) than is probably wise.

I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my partner of over 20 years, two teenage sons, and our Irish Wolfhound, Sarge. There's always something going on around here, and the dog is usually at the centre of the mischief. He's a bit of a sock thief, but only the oldest child's or dad's, and they're usually found on my bed! In my early 20's, (prior to kids, and my partner, obviously) I sang in a couple of local bands on the weekends. Now I only sing for my own amusement, and pleasure. The bonus is, now I get to use my singing to annoy my children! I've also been baking, and decorating cakes since my late teens, and I've made a lot of different styles of cakes. Everything from wedding cakes, to kids birthday cakes. I even made a cookie cake one year for my youngest son, it looked like something the dog left behind, but the kids loved it! I love creating new, and exciting designs for my family, and close friends, it feeds my soul, and my need to be creative, as well as my sweet tooth! Writing is something I've always wanted to do. English was one of my favourite classes, because I could write essays. The only problem was, I couldn't keep to words limits, and I still can't! Mind you, my word limits are my own these days, but I still always go over what I have planned. Apparently, I can't shut up! Being an author as been a dream for as long as I can remember. Self-publishing has made that dream a reality. My path to becoming a published author came about by pure accident. After reading romance novels since I was in my early teens, (way too early to be reading the bodice rippers that I was!) I wrote a small piece, and asked a close friend to read it. I knew she read what I did, and would tell me if it was good ... or not! She told the rest of our circle of friends, they read it, and wanted more, and well, one thing led to another which led to my first novel being published. That small piece, is now a very edited, and added to last chapter of 'Sneaky', the first book in my Sneaky Love Series.

Emma Marie Cormier writes steamy romantic stories about resilient, kick-ass females and the alpha men who can’t help but fall in love with them. A huge nerd at heart, you’ll find her bingeing MMA YouTube videos, watching the latest UFC PPV, or kidnapping attractive villagers in Animal Crossing (RIP, Phil…). She fights an endless horde of chirpy crickets alongside a grumpy husband, three gorgeous pirate cats, and a temperamental 3D printer in a small pink house in Auckland, New Zealand.

USA Today Bestselling romance author Sofia Aves is a mum to three crazies, a veteran's wife and herds three pregnant alpacas before breakfast each day (watch out, they spit). She lives near Brisbane, Australia. Sofia started writing romance when she couldn't find the books she wanted on the shelves in her local bookstore and became addicted to storytelling. She exists on a diet of coffee and champagne and routinely kills her collection of tortured orchids and kitchen edibles. For rights please contact Laura Pink @SBR Media


Sharon Michalove grew up in suburban Chicago. She received four degrees from the University of Illinois because she didn't have the gumption to go anywhere else, and spent most of her career at the university, eventually earning a PhD, working in departmental administration, publishing and libraries. Her specialties are 15th-16th century European history, polar exploration, and food history. She may be one of the few people in America to never live outside her home state. In graduate school, she met and married the love of her life. They shared a love of music, theater, travel and cats. He died in 2013. Sharon also loves hockey, reading, cooking, writing, and various less elevated activities like eating cookies and sampling gins and single malts. After spending most of her life in a medium-sized university town she moved back to Chicago in 2017 so she could go to more Blackhawks games and spend quality time at Eataly. She hopes to accomplish a lifetime goal by publishing a book this year. Unfortunately her other lifetime goal, to be English, is likely to remain unfulfilled.

Rubi Jade fell in love with reading in the fourth grade. It didn't take long for her love of reading to transpire into writing her own stories. Fanfiction of course. (She still has the notebooks.) When she discovered romance, she never went back, falling in love with the genre itself off to the point her writing style changed as well. She noticed early on that there was always a lack of Latino characters in the books she read, and she couldn't connect as easily with them, which is why she decided to write them as main characters in hers. Rubi is currently a stay-at-home mom of three and moves around the US due to her husband's job. She currently resides in Montana, USA. When not writing, you can find her with a book, romance of course, drinking coffee, wine or beer (depending on the time of day), eating tacos, and daydreaming or binge-watching TV. Rubi loves hearing from her readers. Feel free to reach out to her via DM or email. Sign up for her newsletter at: subscribepage.io/rubijade Find out more about her at: www.rubijade.com Follow her on social media: https://linktr.ee/rubijade

Ryleigh Sloan is a romance author with a masters degree in being an indecisive control freak. Her favorite pastime is driving her friends crazy by writing multiple books at once. Following the advice of established authors to read, read, read in order to hone one’s craft she does just that and engrosses herself in as many romance novels as she can get her hands on. Her bad habit of writing more than one book at a time carries over to her reading and she can be found reading, and listening to multiple titles at once and enjoying every moment.

Heather Osborne was born and raised in California. She has a Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Victimology, as well as coursework in Early Childhood Education. In 2009, she moved to Scotland. Heather has been writing short stories for as long as she can remember. She also has written and directed several plays. In her spare time, Heather enjoys reading, writing (of course!), theatre, as well as caring for her young son. She also reviews for Readers' Favorite.