Feature and Giveaway: Outlaw by Katana Collins

Meet Katana Collins author of the Harrison Street Crew Series.

Katana Collins is lucky enough to love her day job almost as much as she loves writing. She splits her time evenly between photographing boudoir and newborn portraits and writing steamy romances in a variety of genres -- paranormal, contemporary, new adult and suspense.

She lives in Portland, Maine, with an ever-growing brood of rescue animals: a kind of mean cat, a very mellow chihuahua, and a very not mellow lab puppy... oh yeah, there's a husband somewhere in that mix, too. She can usually be found hunched over her laptop in a cafe, guzzling gallons of coffee, and wearing fabulous (albeit sometimes impractical) shoes.

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I never had an appreciation for driving until I met my husband. When we were in college, he drove a yellow CRX. It only sat two of us in these deep bucket seats. And it had huge speakers that would blast music in our ears over the sound of the wind blowing through the open windows. It was a stick shift and Sean used to hold my hand over the stick shift so that he could change gears but still have his hand on mine.

We would make a date with no other plan outside of grabbing a couple of coffees, getting behind the wheel, and seeing where the day took us. It was exciting. It was adventurous. And most of all, it was romantic.

While everybody has a different taste in music, the playlist to which you drive is hugely important. Mine and Sean's playlist (which way back then, we had to select and pack the CDs we wanted to hear. There were no iPods yet) varied depending on the season, our moods, and to be honest, we have such different taste in music, it was always a compromise.

So while I was writing OUTLAW, the soundtrack to which my hero, Patrick Flanagan, would drive to was extremely important to me. Patrick had a lot of trauma as a teenager. He handled the grief of loss by embracing his playful, humorous side. Because “If you don't laugh, you'll cry.” But beneath that, he still had a darkness. Much like most members of the Harrison Street Crew.

So, here are Patrick Flanagan's top 10 driving songs:

1. Black Betty by RAM JAM
2. Highway to Hell by AC/DC
3. Paradise By the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf and Ellen Foley
4. Radar Love by Golden Earring
5. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
6. Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams (He would never admit this to his crew. They would annihilate him.)
7. Here I Go Again by Whitesnake
8. Paradise City by Guns ’N wake upRoses
9. Spirit In The Sky by Norman Greenbaum
10. Riders on the Storm by The Doors

So there you have it! I'm not exactly one who listens to music while I write, but in the first high-speed chase scene in chapter 1, I listened to at least half of the songs while writing it. So go grab a loved one, your favorite playlist, and hop in the car!

Worse than bad. Hotter than hot. These are the bad boys of the Harrison Street Crew, and they answer to no one. They take what they want. And what they want is you.

Volume One of a three-part volume by Katana Collins.

Patrick Flanagan lives outside the law. The cops don’t like him. The law doesn’t trust him. He may come at you with a charm and a handsome smile, but make no mistake—he’s as reckless and bad as they come. But when a total bombshell with stilettos and a power suit comes blazing into his life, this bad boy is about to be so, so good…

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Worse than bad. Hotter than hot. These are the bad boys of the Harrison Street Crew, and they answer to no one. They take what they want. And what they want is you.

Volume Two of a three-part volume by Katana Collins.

Ambitious lawyer Michelle Chiccarini vowed like hell she is going to do her best to prosecute as many criminals as she could. Even if that means trying to put away Patrick Flanagan, a man who can make her pulse quicken and fill her head with dirty, wicked thoughts just by looking at him. She’s got to put him behind bars. But how can she do that, when she can’t even resist his touch?

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Worse than bad. Hotter than hot. These are the bad boys of the Harrison Street Crew, and they answer to no one. They take what they want. And what they want is you.

Volume Three of a three-part volume by Katana Collins.

Patrick Flanagan won’t go to jail. Not when he’s got a woman as gorgeous as Michelle aching for his every touch and pushing his lust for her past the boiling point. Even though she’s a lawyer tasked with putting him in prison, he can’t stay away from her. Michelle is falling fast and hard for Patrick, but is he guilty? Or is he innocent? She wants to trust her bad boy from the streets, but is he telling the truth?

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