Dirty Little Lies Week starts now!

Hello, blog readers, and welcome to Dirty Little Lies Week here on Diana’s Diversions.

Why, Diana, what is Dirty Little Lies week? Are you going to start lying to us? Has your blog suddenly drifted into NC-17 rated territory? Are you, in fact, a hobbit?

None of the above my friends. This is Dirty Little Lies:

Sultry Latina bounty hunter Marisela Morales is back, taking on the Boston elite — and her gorgeous ex — in a red-hot, roller-coaster adventure from USA Today bestselling author Julie Leto.

Three months into her training for Titan International Investigations, Marisela Morales needs some R & R, and the tuxedoed hombre de misterio sending her scorching glances across a crowded ballroom looks like he’d be happy to fulfill her needs. Closer inspection reveals that the masked man is danger with a capital F — as in Frankie Vega, her ex-lover and Titan colleague. But before their reunion reaches the boiling point, a senator is shot and Marisela must confront a female assassin with a wicked reputation — and a link to Marisela’s old life.

Working under Frankie provides Marisela with plenty of aggravation, along with some sinfully sexy after-hours benefits, but she’ll need to keep her mind on the job if she wants to beat the demons from her past…including an irresistible man who betrayed her…and a killer chica who’s her biggest challenge yet.

Now, I have not yet read Dirty Little Lies, but I know it’s going to be awesome. And how do I know this? Because I read Dirty Little Secrets, the first book in the series, and I absolutely loved it. This is what I wrote about it on Amazon:

Marisela Morales is a Cuban-American bounty hunter with a checkered past. When she’s hired to keep her old lover, ex-con Fransisco Vega, from skipping bail, Marisela decides its the perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one bullet: she’ll make a little cash and deliver a bit of payback to Frankie for breaking her teenaged heart.

But Frankie has other plans. Now an undercover agent for a private investigation company, he’s been sent to recruit Marisela for their latest assignment, one that will propel the tough-talking chica into a world of glamour, intrigue, and international terrorism.

The first book in Leto’s exciting new adventure series features relentless pace, dazzling settings, breathtaking action sequences and her trademark sensuality. Her portrayal of Tampa’s Cuban community is spot-on, and her descriptions of my home state left this Florida girl more than a little homesick. Frankie and Marisela burn up the pages, and Marisela’s new boss Ian provides some heat of his own.

In Marisela, Leto has created a strong, passionate, no-nonsense heroine with a heart of gold. The author portrays her Latina heroine with authenticity and expertise. Despite Marisela’s rough edges (and gang member past), she is sexy, smart, and extremely moral. Unlike many of the action heroines in books today, she never comes across as cartoonish or invincible, but as a real woman who just happens to be very good at her dangerous job. Marisela may be kickass, but if you cut her, she bleeds scarlet.

I highly rcommend this series to anyone looking for thrilling, sexy read. I can’t wait to read Marisela’s next adventure!

And it remains the truth. In fact, Dirty Little Lies will be the first book I read when I quit my Deadline Book Diet. Yes, even before Scott Westerfeld’s The Last Days. Sorry, Scott.

If you want to learn more about Dirty Little Lies, check out here, here, and especially here, where, if you click on the Dirty Little Lies cover under where it says “Featured Books for August 2007” there is a very cool interactive game about the book. (If it doesn’t work, click back and then forward on your browser.)

Now, about Dirty Little Lies Week: Every day this week, I will be giving away a signed copy of the book, Dirty Little Lies, to someone who comments on the daily blog post.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I have received a few emails from people saying they never got my Secret Society Girl countdown giveaway prizes. If you haven’t received your prize, please email me with the prize you won and give me your address again so I can try again. I don’t know how that happened, unless it was because Sailor Boy and I were out of town right after the giveaways, and perhaps prizes that were returned in the mail somehow got lost because they were holding our mail.

ALSO: At the end of the week, I’ll be doing the grand prize drawings from the countdown that I promised like, a month and a half ago and then totally flaked on because, well, book release, travel, party, life-changing events I’m not talking about yet, and deadline. Oops.

FINALLY: Julie doesn’t know I’m doing this. I’m sure this state will continue to exist for about five minutes, and then my phone will ring. Because, Julie? She Knows All.