I am thrilled to be hosting a stop on the MALFUNCTION by Nina Croft Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours! Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Title: MALFUNCTION
Author: Nina Croft
Pub. Date: January
20, 2020
Publisher: Entangled:
Amara
Formats: Paperback,
eBook
Pages: 269
Investigator, Sergeant Logan Farrell, has never been convinced the human
race deserves saving. But it looks like he’s got the job anyway.
It’s been five hundred years since we fled the remnants of a dying Earth
in search of a new home. Twenty-four ships, each carrying ten thousand Chosen
Ones. All sleeping peacefully...until people start dying in cryo.
Malfunction or murder? Hopefully, the former—a serial killer in the fleet
would be drastic for morale. But Logan is determined to find the truth.
Unfortunately, he’s got a new partner—and he works best alone.
Katia Mendoza, hot-shot homicide detective, has been woken from cryo to
assist with the investigation. But is she really interested in solving the
case, or does she have her own agenda?
Before he can answer that question, though, they become targets
themselves.
Nothing like a few near misses with death to bring a couple together, and
Logan finds himself falling for the alluring detective. But he doesn’t know
that Katia is hiding a secret.
It’s not only humans who fled the dying Earth.
Hey Nina!! First I want to say welcome to Two Chicks
on Books I’m glad you could stop by for a chat! MALFUNCTION sounds AWESOME and
I can’t wait for everyone to read it!
For the readers: can
you tell us a little bit about MALFUNCTION and the characters?
I have a series called Dark
Desires, it’s set around a thousand years in the future after humanity has fled
a dying Earth and found a new home. A little while ago, my publisher, asked me
if I’d like to do a Dark Desires Origins series set 500 years earlier when the
fleet that left Earth finally reach the system that will become their new home.
What most of the fleet
don’t realize is that it’s not only humans that escaped the destruction of
Earth. One of the ships carries a cargo of supernatural beings, captained by a
thousand year old vampire, Ricardo Sanchez. Rico is the hero of Break out, book
one in the original Dark Desires series, and just about my favorite character.
Malfunction is the first
book in the new series and tells the story of Katia, a werecat and Logan a
human, as they fall in love while investigating a series of murders and trying
to stay alive.
What are you working
on now?
I’m working on Destiny’s
Heart, book 2 in my Dark Desires Origins series. And I’m having a lot of fun!
Were any of the
characters in the book inspired by people from your real life?
Absolutely none. One of
the things I love about writing science fiction/paranormal romance is that I
get to make stuff up! Including the characters.
Who was your favorite
character to write? What about your least favorite?
My favorite character to
write was Katia. I just loved her attitude, she’s such a bad-ass! Closely
followed by Rico who kept trying to take over the book.
I can’t really say which
was my least favorite to write—I loved
writing them all, even the bad guys. But my least favorite character was Captain
Stevens—she was such a hypocrite!
What is your favorite
passages/scenes in MALFUNCTION?
I loved writing the scene
when Logan finally discovers that Katia isn’t human and that he’s actually
stuck on a spaceship with a bunch of vampires, were-animals and demons. And he
has no way to get off.
What kind of research
did you have to do for the story?
Very little. No one knows
what the world will be in the future or what space is like 500 years away from
Earth. And just because we’ve never seen something does not mean it doesn’t
exist. Space is so vast that there could be absolutely anything out there. Which
means as long as I can make it believable, I don’t have to limit my world.
Having said that, I did
spend quite a lot of time on the NASA site looking at pictures of space while I
was designing my star system.
Who is your ultimate
book boyfriend?
Hard one. I think Jericho Barrons out of Karen Marie
Moning’s Fever series because he’s so bad. Or maybe Daemon Sadi from Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels Trilogy, because
he’s even badder. I love a bad boy hero!
What inspired you to
write romance?
I love a happy ending.
Plus my mother read a lot of romance, so I grew up, from an early age, hiding
behind the sofa to read them in secret. I learned a lot from those books.
Lightning Round
Questions
What are you reading
right now? Or what do you have on your TBR that you’re dying to read?
I’m reading Fire in His Blood
by Ruby Dixon
What Hogwarts House
would the Sorting Hat place you in?
Gryffindor
Twitter or Facebook?
Facebook
Favorite Superhero?
Iron man
Favorite TV show?
Firefly
Sweet or Salty?
Salty
Any Phobias?
Heights – just a little bit.
Song you can’t get
enough of right now?
Whatever It Takes – Imagine Dragons
2020 Movie you’re
most looking forward to?
Dune
Thanks so much Nina for answering my questions! I
can’t wait for everyone to read MALFUNCTION!
About Nina:
Growing up in the cold, wet, north of
England, Nina Croft spent a lot of time dreaming of faraway sunnier places and
ponies. When she discovered both, along with a whole load of other things,
could be found between the covers of a book, her life changed forever.
Later, she headed south, picked up
the perfect husband along the way, and together they volunteered to work in
Africa. There they discovered a love of exotic places and a dislike of 9-5
work. Afterward they spent a number of years travelling (whenever possible)
intermingled with working (whenever necessary.) Eventually they stumbled upon a
remote area in the mountains of southern Spain and the small almond farm they
now call home.
Nina spends her days reading, writing
and riding her mare, Gencianna, under the blue Spanish skies—sunshine and
ponies. She reckons this is proof that dreams really can come true if you want
them enough.
Nina's writing mixes romance with
elements of the paranormal and science fiction
Giveaway Details: International
1 winner
will receive a $15 Amazon GC, International.
Tour Schedule:
1/20/2020
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Guest Post
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1/20/2020
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Interview
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1/21/2020
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Interview
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1/21/2020
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Guest Post
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1/22/2020
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Guest Post
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1/22/2020
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Review
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1/23/2020
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Review
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1/23/2020
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Review
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1/24/2020
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Review
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1/24/2020
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Review
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