Excerpt From Invisible:

“No TV. Sleep Hagen,” she advised. She felt like she was talking to a five year old.

“You tired?” Blond eyebrows raised.

Yeah, of listening to you. “If we're to do this, we'll need all the extra hours we can get.” There was no use of her going if they didn't find the deed.

That gave him pause. “We have fourteen business days, Maeve.”

“Eighteen days in total.” He didn't understand. “And we'll need every single hour in those eighteen days.”

“Every single hour? You think it's going to be that tough?” His thick thigh rested against hers.

Maeve couldn't move any further away. “Yeah.” Tough wasn't the word for it. Birger would have them running.

“You'll be there for the entire time?”

Maeve didn't commit to anything halfway. It was all or nothing. “Yeah.”

“You don't talk much, do you, Maeve?” And he talked way too much. What was his point?

“Sleep.”

In my latest contemporary romance, Invisible, Hagen,has fourteen business days to find the deed to his Great-Uncle's house. If he doesn't succeed, he loses the estate to his devious cousin. Fourteen business days, almost three weeks, to find a piece of paper hidden somewhere in the world. It is a race against time.

Time limitations add spice to a story. A fun loving lord must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday or he gets disinherited. A heroine has to find a great paying job before the next rent check comes due. To meet these deadlines, our characters do things they might never do otherwise. The lord proposes to that plain 'manageable' wallflower. The heroine tries her hand at exotic dancing.

In Invisible, the locked down, must-know-everything, Hagen teams up with the mysterious Maeve, a woman with no history. He doesn't have a choice. The will states she is to be his only source of help and he doesn't have time to figure out another way. This normally cautious pair make 'snap' decisions, relying on guts rather than facts. And since they're doing that differently, they are opened up to a whole bunch of other life possibilities like falling in love.

Not only are time limitations fun but they're also realistic. A trustee isn't going to wait forever to deal with the contents of an estate. Rent has to be paid (monthly - dang it). Someone building wealth is going to want an heir for his heir. All of us deal with deadlines every day of our lives. Even vacations, unfortunately, are limited by time.

I'm always looking for new books or authors. What are your favorite race against time novels?

Kimber Chin gives away a favorite romance eBook a month on her site businessromance.com/ . She also shares a short story and a photo of a hot man in a great fitting suit every week. Though her definition of hot may not be yours. Hagen, her hero in Invisible, is cosmetically challenged.