Rowena Cherry

My goal as a Romance author is to give good value -- not a fast read. I expect to provide my readers with six to eight hours of amusement, at least a couple of really good laughs, a romantic frisson or two from the sensual scenes, something to think about when the book is finished.

I�m mulling over how best to promote my October 2008 release, KNIGHT�S FORK, but I hope that if you haven�t read my previous books you may be willing to take another look, because Rhett is in both of them.

#1. Forced Mate,
#2. Insufficient Mating Material,
#3. KNIGHT�S FORK

My first book was FORCED MATE. It�s a chess title for a race between the two Kings to make a pawn his Queen, and was written as a loving spoof of the Historical Romance genre. I took every traditional situation in an abduction/obligatory-travel romance and made the hero an all-powerful, alpha-male alien, a god-Prince with a nasty reputation.

In INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL, the high-handed and tyrannical Prince Tarrant-Arragon shoots down and maroons his difficult sister with one of the antagonists from FORCED MATE. Princess Martia-Djulia is a fashionista and a royal rebel, and when finds herself trapped on a tropical island with a dangerous stranger, she can�t or won�t remove her own wet ballgown to save her life.

In case you were wondering, Insufficient Mating Material is a chess term for a no-win situation.


Knight's Fork (the chess position) is about tough choices in an impossible situation where you can only save one of two (or more) threatened pieces. Often, with a Knight's Fork, it's the Queen and a Castle that are threatened.