Guest Post: Love Crimes + Giveaway: Robin in the Hood by Diane J. Reed

Hi everyone! So it's the month of love. To celebrate Valentine's Day, I have Diane J. Reed. She will talk about Love Crimes and her book, Robin in the Hood (YA). Stick around for an awesome giveaway!

Because I liked how the guest post was written (and formatted), I decided to just upload it and embed it here so everyone could see.

Love Crimes by

Paperback, 300 pages
October 14, 2012, Bandits Ranch

“Is it any wonder I became a bank robber?” said Robin.
But she never dreamed she’d fall in love…

15-year-old Robin McArthur thinks she has it all figured out when it comes to bilking her wealthy dad for guilt money as a substitute for his genuine affection. Until one day he suffers a stroke, and she learns the brutal truth.

They’re broke.
And everyone from bankers to bookies has lined up in her dad’s hospital room to collect.
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His only saving grace is what he reveals to Robin in between drools: He truly does love her, in spite of all his mistakes.

Panicked and desperate, Robin figures she has two choices. Either surrender to the pestering caseworker and live in a skanky foster home, or take a chance and sneak her dad out of the hospital to make a run for it. Little does she know that stealing a car and hitting the road means that before the day is through, she will rob her first bank.

Now an outlaw, Robin finds a backwoods trailer park to hide her dad from authorities. There, she encounters Creek, a local bad boy who also commits crimes to provide for their motley neighbors. Realizing she could use Creek’s help, Robin proposes an ingenious plan—they should team up to rob banks together. But when their partnership leads to a romance that turns Robin’s whole world upside down, she soon begins to discover that people are more precious than pocketbooks, and real love means opening your heart to the kinds of treasures money can’t buy . . .

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About the Author:

She was the kind of teenager who snuck out of church camp with the cutest boy she could find and hitchhiked down the road to play billiards at the local pool hall, then made out on the beach. But given the fact that her brother blew up his room at 16 and there were bullet holes in our windows (her brothers were a bit rowdy), the pool hall incident hardly got a rise out of her parents. Since that time, she managed to earn a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing, teach juvenile delinquents and college students, and work in crisis intervention for the homeless and mentally ill. Some of the people she met on the street became her best friends. Most of them died young, and she misses them.

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Giveaway: Robin in the Hood Prize Pack

So what will you win? A LOT. I mean it! Thanks to Dianne, one of you will win these goodies (below) and then two readers will win a paperback/ebook of Robin in the Hood! This is open internationally, so don't hesitate.

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