“Because some tourist guides for the festival sell it as a traditional activity. It’s more than five meters high and a lot of the people down there are drunk, so you can imagine how that ends.”

There’s a fountain in the old part of the city, and nobody knows when or why, but someone started the ‘tradition’”-David put air quotes around the word-“of jumping from it to be picked up by the people on the ground. I had to tell so many people that they couldn’t jump from the fountain, I thought about tattooing the words on my forehead.” I’m leaving you with an excerpt in which we can see him talking about it:ĭavid groaned. He works at a tourism office and dreams of having his own agency. David has lived in Pamplona all his life, and has made the city his way of living, in a way. I should tell you that there are no billionaires in my book, but it does have a Spanish guy. They could loan me one, is all I’m saying. Harlequin and other publishers seem to have a stash of them hiding away. Now, I haven’t read any of those, so I won’t judge, but I’m really curious where did this fascination with Spanish billionaires came from? And where are they hiding and why haven’t I met any of them? Really, I don’t want to be swept off my feet, but they could treat me to coffee from time to time. I found not only one, but five Harlequin books with those exact words in their titles! We’ve got Mistress: pregnant by the Spanish billionaire, Kept by the Spanish billionaire, Spanish billionaire, innocent wife, The Spanish billionaire’s Christmas wife, and The Spanish Prince’s Virgin Bride. And then I came across the Spanish billionaires. So what did I do? I set out to look for some Spanish heroes.

This was all well and good, until I remembered I haven’t read any romances with a Spanish hero or heroine in them – although I’ve probably read a few that are only available in Spanish.

We brainstormed ideas, and someone suggested I could write a post about my favorite Spanish heroes in romance. I had no idea what to write about when my publisher gave me the dates for the tour stops, so I did what I always do, I went and asked a group of author friends. The Sun Still Rises is my first book, which means this is also my first blog tour. What’s with all the Spanish billionaires? A warm welcome to author Laura Bailo joining us today to talk about her first book “The Sun Still Rises”, part of Dreamspinners World of Love series.

The Sun Still Rises by Laura Bailo