I finished the cover for the second book today—it’s a bit of a quandary for me because I wound up with a cover that I think is very true to the couple, but it’s not a clinch. The clinch is actually kind of important in the romance genre, because it helps convey to readers the heat level of the story—a couple getting handsy/naked on the cover means that they’re doing that inside as well.

This series is fairly adult, so I feel a bit odd about this cover—the couple is being a bit weird, but nothing romantic or explicitly sexual. In a way, it works, because they are an odd couple (quite a bit stranger than the other couples in the series). I think readers will be OK as long as the rest of the book covers and the descriptions take a more-traditional approach.