Lisa Childs is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than eighty-five novels. She’s been published in 20 countries and has appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly, Barnes & Noble and Nielsen Top 100 bestseller lists. Lisa was born on Halloween which might have fated her predilection for spinning dark and twisty stories. In addition to suspense, she also writes contemporary romance, paranormal and women’s fiction.
Q: Is Hostage Security the first book in a new series?
Lisa: Yes. It is a continuation of my Bachelor Bodyguard Series, which has been going for many years. This is the first book in the Payne Protection Agency Series, somewhat of a spin-off. I think there will be five books total. The two brothers heading this agency are connected to Penny Payne, the matriarch of the Payne family. These brothers are bad-boy characters who were also suspects in the first couple of books. They are Polish, and I am half-Polish myself.
Q: How would you describe the female lead, Natalie?
Lisa: She feels helpless and does not feel like she is in control. She is scared. I think she is straightforward, honest, angry, frustrated, and bitter. She is brave because she will do whatever it takes to get her child back.
Q: How would you describe Josh?
Lisa: Resentful, selfless, has made sacrifices, and he is scared for his son. He knows with hostages they must act quickly to get them back.
Q: What can you say about the relationship between Natalie and Josh?
Lisa: When he went to jail, she was devastated. Her trust in him and herself was shaken. She is resentful and mistrustful. They both have lies and secrets that they have kept from each other.
Q: Did you do any research while writing this book?
Lisa: I looked up police procedures and spent a lot of time on the FBI website.
Q: What role does Henry play in the story?
Lisa: Natalie did not want Henry, her and Josh’s son, to visit him in prison. As Josh was going to prison, he said he did not want anything to do with her, which she assumed meant nothing to do with her and their child. Henry is the something good that came from something bad.
Q: In A Match for the Sheriff, does the fire play a big role in the story?
Lisa: It is an ongoing theme since no one knows how it started. Everybody was worried that Cash Cassidy, one of the brothers, started it after his lighter was found. I was an insurance agent for over twenty years and wrote about how the insurance company was dragging out the payment, where the adjuster is notorious for pushing arson charges so that he could deny claims.
Q: Is A Match for the Sheriff part of a new series?
Lisa: No. This is the eighth book in the Bachelor Cowboy Series. I am writing four more books in this series.
Q: Do the cowboy hats worn by the Cassidy brothers reflect their personalities?
Lisa: Yes, they are very different. Readers can tell their different personalities by the colors of their hats. Cash wears brown, enjoying being in nature and taking care of animals. Marsh wears white, the lawman and peacekeeper. Colton wears black, as he is the fireman who must handle ashes. Collin does not wear one.
Q: How would you describe the hero, Marsh?
Lisa: He has a sense of humor, is calm, and very observant. He felt a loss when his brother Cash went away for all those years.
Q: How would you describe Sarah?
Lisa: Strong, resilient, vulnerable, compassionate, anxious, protective, and distrusting.
Q: What role does Sarah’s son, Mikey, play in the story?
Lisa: He was bullied and had a rough time in school because his dad was a criminal. Sarah is very protective of him—she is a mama bear. He is sensitive, quiet, shy, skittish, impressionable, and loves animals.
Q: How would you describe the relationship between Sarah and Marsh?
Lisa: She feels intimidated by him. They are both uneasy about their feelings. Marsh can read her. Sarah is very nervous as to why he takes a sudden interest in her. She also cares about Marsh and does not want him to lose the election because he associates with her. In a way, she is protective of him.
Q: What can readers expect in your upcoming books?
Lisa: There will be books about the Lemmon brothers. The first book has one of them finding a baby on the ranch. It is titled The Cowboy’s Baby Surprise and will be out in July.
Personal Security is the title of the next book coming out in May. It will be Ivan’s story, where he is assigned to protect an art gallery. The gallery was once a front for money laundering. The heroine is trying to open the gallery to honor her late dad, but someone is sabotaging her efforts.
Hostage Security and A Match for the Sheriff by Lisa Childs have fascinating stories that are compelling.
Hostage Security is a suspenseful romance that involves a child being kidnapped. Five years ago, Josh Stafford ended his engagement to Natalie Croft after he pleaded guilty to a crime he did not commit to protect his loved ones. As he was leaving for prison, he told Natalie that he did not love her, which devasted Natalie. She does not want anything to do with Josh, so she never tells him she was pregnant with his child, Henry. Fast forward to the present where Josh is out of prison and working as a security specialist for the Payne Protection Agency as a guard at Natalie’s’ family jewelry store. Now the son he never met is kidnapped. Natalie, Josh, and the rest of those at the Agency must find Henry before it is too late.
A Match for the Sheriff has single mom Sarah Reynolds raising her 6-year-old son, Mikey, and taking care of the elderly ranch owner, the father of the Cassidy family. She is worried that her son may have started the fire at the ranch they were living in, but he refuses to talk to her. Marsh, the sheriff of the town, wants to get to the bottom of who started the fire or whether it was an accident. After he starts to suspect that his dad’s nurse or her son knew something about the fire, he begins to spend time with them to get answers. But the longer he is with them the more he starts to care for them. Readers will enjoy finding out what will happen between Marsh and Sarah as well as how the fire mystery will be solved.
Both books are entertaining and will keep readers turning the pages.
