Isn’t it great when something totally unexpected and really nice happens to you? Most days I go about my daily routine with nothing bad but nothing really great happening to me. Maybe that’s why it feels so good to get good news.

I got some good news recently. My October 30th release, Blackthorne’s Bride, got a 4 ½ star Top Pick review from Romantic Times Bookreviews magazine. I found out while I was at work. I had kind of sneaked my hotmail account open and peeked at my new messages. Imagine my surprise when I saw a subject line with a congrats to me!

Kerrelyn Sparks, one of our favorite Avon authors, had emailed me to let me know about the good review. My first urge was to jump up and down, screaming and pumping my arms in the air. But how to explain such behavior when I was not supposed to be checking my email?

So I cheered on the inside, then sneaked away at the first opportunity to call Ultimate Sportsfan.

It took me another couple of days before the magazine came in the mail and I actually saw the review. Here’s what it says.

With its Shakespearean comedy-of-errors quality, this fun, fast and sexy romance is a love-and-laughter banquet. Galen tickles the funny bone while titillating the senses in her provocative tale of marriage by mistake.

Summary: Earl’s daughter Madeleine Fullbright is determined to undermine her father’s plans for her marriage by eloping with an honorable philanthropist.

She doesn’t expect her best friend, Ashley, to be in the carriage, or to have her coach commandeered by the Blackthorne brothers, Lord Nicholas and Lord Jack, who are running from the murderous Lord Blevens. Blevens’ attempts to stop them are foiled by Ashley’s schemes, which include running through the countryside and bumping into Madeleine’s irate father and Blevens’ trigger-happy henchmen.

During their escape, Madeleine and Jack find time to enjoy a few delicious kisses. Then they find that a drunken “priest” has married Madeleine to Jack. What was smoldering in the woods comes to a blaze in the bedroom. But the vengeful Blevens will do whatever he can to make this marriage anything but simple and safe. —Kathe Robin

Jack, the hero is also a K.I.S.S. (Knights in Shining Silver) hero. RT said, “Perhaps Ms. Galen would allow the sexy, naughty Blackthorne brothers, Lord Jack and Lord Nicholas from Blackthorne’s Bride, to stop chasing their ladies through the countryside and chase us for a minute or two.”

Wow! Thank you Kathe!

So what about you? What’s the nicest thing that’s happened to you lately?