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Defying death is the ultimate dare. Defying love? Well, that’s just stupid.

A Red Hot Weekend story.

Back-to-back medical degrees took Emily Knox right where she planned to be: treating patients in an alternative cancer clinic. But nothing prepared her for a cocky, cheeky Aussie who strode into her life and dared her to cure him. She told herself it was his challenge she couldn’t resist—not his daredevil charm.

Eight months later, Rob’s out of danger…and Emily’s in trouble. She’s in deep, too deep. Worse, Rob has left the clinic against doctor’s orders. There’s nothing for it but to follow him across eleven thousand miles of land and sea to give him what for—as his doctor, of course.

Rob never expected to survive the brain tumor. Nor did he expect to fall head over heels for his very proper, very English oncologist. The problem? Her Hippocratic Oath hangs between them, keeping her just out of reach. Now, with “cured” on his medical chart and his duty as best man for his best mate calling, he takes off for home to start getting his old life back.

Trouble is, while the good doctor cured his cancer, she seems to have inflicted him with something else—desire he just can’t shake.

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Dirty desires, dark secrets…deepest love

Fire, Book 2

Well, this is an unexpected twist. Jenna Brooks is all set to spend the weekend wallowing in misery, repairing the cracks in the façade she’s maintained for twelve years. Instead she’s…tied to a chair. Kidnapped by her own twin brother and her so-called best friend.

It’s for her own good, they say. She’ll thank them later, they say. But when they reveal her partner in captivity, she shores up her emotional barriers. It’s Garreth Halt. The one man for whom she let her guard down. What a fool she was.

For one electrifying moment, Garreth had Jenna naked in his arms, on the edge of losing her legendary control. Could have kept her there forever, too, if he hadn’t felt honor-bound to tell her the truth. Before she’d heard the whole truth, though, she’d retreated behind the fortress around her heart.

Now they’re knee to knee, with no escape. While he’s irritated he let his alleged best friend get the drop on him, a small part of him is thrilled. With one final chance to show her his love is real, Garreth methodically, wickedly, sets out to dismantle her defenses.

One dirty word at a time.

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Free Read Special Promo for Two Weeks

Red Light Series, Book One

“Through my window, a sea of strangers swirl and retreat like waves in an ocean of humanity. I brush my hair, fix my makeup and flip on the glaring red light in my booth before turning to face my audience on the other side of the glass.”

 

For Star, this is another night on the job, though no two are ever alike. Adaptable and perceptive, she becomes many things in the course of one evening—whore, lover, nurse, psychologist and friend. But above all, she’s still a woman. Join her, through her window.

 

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Jess Dee has self-published a short story called Visiting Paradise available at Amazon. It’s only .99 cents and definitely worth checking out!

Visiting Paradise: The Blurb

Beth Brown needs a holiday. She’s burnt out, single and madly in love with the man who pays her salary, Joe Bastion. Much as she’d like to act on her feelings, Beth’s learned the hard way not to sleep with the men she works for.  As far as she is concerned, Joe is off limits.

Sometimes, to get what you want, you have to chase hard. And  Joe wants Beth  He’s organized the trip of a lifetime for her. Beth’s about to set sail into paradise, and she has no idea Joe’s the one who’ll be taking her there.

Product warning: This book is filled with sunny blue skies, gorgeous tropical islands and a whole lot of scorching hot loving.

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Red Light Series, Book Four

 

After a courtship filled with nights steamy enough to thaw the lingering winter chill, Sarah is finally beginning to believe she might have found the one man who can support her career as a sex worker in Amsterdam’s Red Light district. But when she asks around, it’s clear Rick isn’t taking advantage of the freedom their open relationship offers. None of the sexiest girls in the district have serviced him for months.

 

Afraid of losing the star of her extra-naughty dreams, Sarah confronts her boyfriend about his change of heart. Rick confesses he’s no longer interested in wild times without her. Instead, he’d like to try experimenting with multiple partners, show off his sexy woman and revel in the company of like-minded hedonists. Fortunately, he knows just the place for a debauched experience wicked enough to make even an experienced hooker blush.

 

A sexual free for all is on the menu at one of Amsterdam’s infamous swinger’s clubs, and by the end of the night, Sarah is going to get the surprise of her life.

 

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Party Games, Book 2

Daring to tell the truth will change the rules of this game forever.

When her friend deserts her at an exclusive Sydney house party, Miki Drummond retreats to a corner to observe the insanity. Watching life go by is something she does well, especially after the hell her marriage put her through.

She never dreamed she’d reconnect with not one but two blasts from her high school past. And she never expected their heated gazes to bring her body so easily back to life.

Grant Rogers and Dayne Pierce never forgot Miki. Ever. Past experience tells them to tread slowly and carefully, but that plan flies out the window when they’re all dragged into a game of Truth or Dare. Something’s up, because Miki repeatedly chooses to take a shot rather than reveal her obvious pain. Time after time.

Waking up hungover in a strange bedroom, Miki is caught in an electrically charged moment with two men who offer her unimaginable pleasure, who seem determined to keep her suspended in sweet torment—permanently.

One night of pure fantasy is all Miki dares to take, but come morning the hard truth is that walking away isn’t an option.

Warning: The author cannot be held responsible for any truth you may tell or dare you make take after reading this story. And if you find yourself sandwiched between two hunky men…take the dare.

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Sequel To Night and Day

One year after the battle between the sun sprites and vampires, Ben Volio finds a vampire on the brink of death alongside the road. With no other help available to him, and no knowledge of vampire medicine, Ben takes him to the home of his friends, where he hopes they can heal the severely injured stranger.

However, this is no ordinary vampire. Seth Sampson was a former guard employed by the vampire Lord Veturious, and ever since his betrayal of the family, he has been held captive and tortured as punishment, and now he’s being hunted down until he’s returned to his prison.

His very presence endangers Ben’s friends, who are also in hiding from the vampires and sun sprites. Should Ben trust that Seth will not give away their secret as a trade-off? Or will becoming close to him prove to be the worst mistake of both their lives?
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Book one in the Undone Lovers series.

When amateur fetish model and rockabilly princess Adelita “Addie” Sanchez is asked to model for an instructional BDSM book, she turns the offer down—she’s not a porn star. Then she meets the three male Dominants behind the project, including Lane Therres, who convinces her the book is more art than porn, and she’ll be safe in his hands.

 

The rules of the photo sessions are clear—there’s no sex, and Addie can call a halt to anything she’s uncomfortable with. But self-reliant, strong-willed Addie doesn’t count on liking what the powerful Doms do to her body with their ropes, chains and toys. Enjoying Emory’s touch after falling for Lane, Addie turns away from both men, scared of what they’re making her feel. She’s worried that a relationship built on a BDSM contract can never be anything but whips and chains.

 

Lane will exchange Dom leather for shining armor to prove to his rockabilly princess that even the most gallant knights sometimes prefer dungeons.

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Will his boyfriend’s girlfriend become his girlfriend too?

Powertools, Book 4

James has watched each of the crew fall in love, one by one, until only he and his life partner Neil remain “unattached”. So, when he sees the way his bisexual boyfriend is checking out their new apprentice, he’s sure he’s doomed to lose the man of his dreams.

His love is strong enough that he would let go to ensure Neil’s happiness. Instead, sparks fly between the three of them—along with the rest of the crew—and he realizes he might not have to surrender because his boyfriend’s girlfriend is becoming his girlfriend too.

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EVEN ON CHRISTMAS A LITTLE EYE CANDY IS NICE

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM EVERYONE HERE AT EBOOK ADDICT REVIEWS

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

“Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”

This Thanksgiving comes with all the fixings…and something extra hot.

Blackwater, Book 1

Sam Jennings promised his father he’d always take care of the woman who yanked him and his four brothers out of foster care. When his adoptive mom has a near-fatal heart attack, Sam knows it’s past time to live up to his word.

As he sets out to put the Blackwater Diner back on its feet, he runs into his first snag. Waitress Julie Rose’s sweet curves and long legs are driving Sam to distraction. Even his brothers aren’t immune to her kind heart. But Sam is determined to be the only man in her bed.

Julie doesn’t regret the years she lost caring for her grandmom, but now, between business classes and her job, she’s left with very little time and energy for dating. Then there’s her policy about never getting mixed up with the boss’s son. But Sam’s hard body and wicked ideas have Julie forgetting all about annoying things like rules, and she accepts his invitation to show her all she’s been missing.

Sam is more than willing to take things slow as he teaches her all about the pleasures of the flesh. Luckily for him, Julie is a darned good student…

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Book three in the Alliance Series

Who knew being bad could be so good?

Voss Potter ran from his life. He wasn’t wanted and was sick of being used as a pawn by his uncle. He thought he would explore the world as a stow away on an old friends ship. The only thing he wasn’t counting on? Maverick Sayers. The sexy first officer he’d lusted after for years.

Maverick Sayers loved his job. Nothing was better than traveling the world with good friends. One order changes his life forever. Protect Voss Potter. Now they are fleeing across the galaxy one step ahead of a money hungry family and a disease that could kill planets.

Can following orders leave to true love?

Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of violence and forced blood play.

 

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When his matchmaking services are acquired by a vampire, Dane finds himself embroiled in a world he’d vowed to never get involved in.

Dane Sanders is one of the most talented matchmakers in the city…and without any hesitation he turns down the City Vampire Master’s business. After all, a vampire killed his family and he vowed to never have anything to do with them. However, when the sexy Master keeps a promise, Dane reluctantly finds himself the exclusive matchmaker of the undead.

Reader Advisory: This is book contains a M/M/M ménage scene.

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Let the games begin…

Party Games, Book 1

Talent agent Frankie Winchester is a hellion. Her motto is all a girl needs is a fun time, a fast car and an awesome masseur on speed dial. There’s only one person who could beat her at anything. Alec. Bane of her high-school existence, a kid whose parents were as working class and loving as hers were rich and distant.

When celebrity landscape architect Alec Harris spots Frankie at an exclusive Sydney house party, everything comes rushing back. The memory of being the “cheap-money” kid, trying and failing to prove himself—and impress his dream girl, Frankie Winchester.

Unexpectedly partnered in a wildly sexy game, the delicious friction ignites a scorching sexual tension. But there’s more than a playing card trapped between them. Frankie refuses to admit that kiss shook her to the core. Alec wants nothing less than her full surrender.

Game on!

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Every girl’s fantasy…one woman’s dream.

Speed, Book 1

Sophie Butler is sure she’s about to lose her much-needed cleaning job. She’s not only walked in on a guest—a violation of her employer’s cardinal rule—but she can’t seem to tear her gaze away from his gorgeous, naked-as-the-day-he-was-born body.

If all that isn’t bad enough, her usually sensible judgment and behavior are clouded by a nagging sense of familiarity. She knows the man from somewhere, she just can’t quite place him.

Nathan Pace is certain he’s just lost his jealously guarded anonymity. But hold on…if she’s just another fan looking for a piece of his alter ego, rock star Jamie Speed, why is she blushing six shades of scarlet? And why is he instantly aroused? When he catches a glimpse of her eyes, he knows. She’s the woman who for ten years has haunted his dreams.

The attraction that flares between them is undeniable—and unstoppable. But getting close means risking Nathan’s secret identity. Just this once, he’d like a woman to fall for the real man, not the press’s version of a celebrity superstar.

Warning: This may be an erotic contemporary romance, but it does contain a hint of fantasy. And when that fantasy involves erotic dreams about a gorgeous rock star, you know you’re gonna want the fantasy to become reality…

 

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It gets better.

Rayne Carr was riding his bike, minding his own business when his life was forever changed. Driving over State Boulevard Bridge he sees a woman about to jump and intervenes. Appearances can be deceiving.

Charles Sylvester Piper, III wants to end it all. No one understands him. His father is abusive and his mother hides in a bottle. When his younger brother finds Piper in his favourite dress he is kicked out of his basement apartment. With nowhere to turn he leaves his life to fates hands. When a big scary biker asks for a kiss on the worst night of his life, who is he to refuse.

Is love really all you need?

Reader Advisory: This book contains cross dressing.

 

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After the death of his father, Grayson Conner finds himself running, Sunset Ridge Stables, a prosperous horse breeding operation just outside of Wellington, Arkansas. Since riding a horse for the first time, Gray has known running the ranch would be his destiny. Years spent watching his father negotiate and build the ranch into a highly respected operation prepared him well.

In need of a manager to oversee the hired hands, Gray hires Jack “Ram” Ramsdale, a sexy temptation that could spell nothing but trouble. For years, Gray managed to keep his sexual preferences away from the ranch, but the introduction of Ram into his life changes everything.Ram fell in love with Sunset Ridge Stables the first time he stepped foot on the ranch with its rolling green hills and views to take a person’s breath away. The handsome ranch owner is definitely a bonus, but more than anything Ram is searching for a place to belong.With temptation at his fingertips, Gray gives in to his feelings and begins an intense affair with his new manager. For a few blissful months he believes he can have it all, the ranch and a man he loves at his side. When local gossip threatens the reputation of the Sunset Ridge, Gray and Ram are forced to make an important decision. Give up their relationship or lose everything they’ve worked for.

 

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The first in Lexxie Coupers Fire Mates series, Ty the Sexy Dragon is available now from Ellora’s Cave (and soon to come from other booksellers).

Fire Mate, Book One

Life isn’t easy for a modern-day dragon shifter. Unlike those wuss werewolves, dragons can’t just shift and go for a run through the nearest forest. They can’t go flying on a whim. Forget about scared villagers slinging arrows; these days it’s Neighborhood Watch zealots with AK-47s. Then there’s the whole sex issue. Try telling the little cutie at the local Starbucks that a soul-shattering orgasm might end in bed flambé.

No, being a dragon shifter kinda sucks. And for Tyson, it’s even worse—because he’s suddenly in heat. Bad news for the stranger he spies running along Bondi Beach. Ty instantly recognizes Sera as his mate. Now he has to convince her, while also dodging the psychopathic dragon hunter on his tail. Scorching sexual persuasion should do the trick. Hopefully. Because if Ty doesn’t join with his Fire Mate before his heat cycle finishes, bad things will happen. Lots of bad things.

 

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I’ve dealt with Naima for about a year now as the Breathless Press review coordinator and I am thrilled to welcome Naima the author to Ebook Addict Reviews today, talking about one of my favorite things Fairy Tales and their potential as erotic romance stories.

 

The Princess and the Pea. Cinderella. Little Red Riding Hood.

C’mon, Grimm Brothers and Aesop, you ain’t fooling nobody! We know erotic stories when we read ‘em! Let’s face it, some of the fairy tales we grew up with carry some serious sexual undertones that require the astute–and horny–mind to ferret out the well-hidden… and sometimes not so well-hidden eroticism. And that perceptive mind would be me! But hear me out and you just may end up agreeing with my analysis!

 

Rapunzel. So reclusive chick with waaay over-protective Mommy Dearest guardian lets down her abnormally long locks to allow people to climb up into her tower that has no way in or out but her tresses. Besides a pretty obvious advertisement for Excedrin who can’t see the erotic theme in this? Amorous man spies lovely, lonely woman who is obviously…uh…sheltered. He tricks her into letting him in her tower–no pun intended there, right?–where they spend time together doing…what? Scrabble? Pictionary? How ’bout he’s teaching her all kinds of naughty, sexy things. The prince turned Rapunzel out! You need further proof? The man had his eyes put out for milk and cookies? Me thinks not!

 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Uh…this is so obvious I don’t even have to go into an explanation. We all know what was going on in that hut in the woods, don’t we?

 

Beauty and the Beast. The very first paranormal erotic romance. C’mon! It’s so clear! We have our first shapeshifter! So let’s delve into this tale that encourages children to peer beyond a person’s appearance to see the heart beneath. Unhuh. Father sends daughter to beast as a snack. Well the beast was eating something when Beauty got there! Ooh that was so crass. Sorry! But seriously, they were in that castle for weeks…by themselves…day after day…night after night…he provided her with clothes and comfort…I’m sooo sure he got nothing in return. Because when he was bewitched it transformed his man parts, too. Say what you want, Beauty was getting sexed by a man who was an absolute animal in bed! ROWR!

 

Puss in Boots. Do I really have to expound?? I didn’t think so.
Sleeping Beauty. Here’s my take. Because of neglectful parents or near-sighted evil fairy–depends on which version you believe–the princess is consigned to a one hundred year sleep once she pricks her finger on a spindle. Is that not a huge clue that we shouldn’t be doing housework?? But anyhoo, adventurous prince braves the thorned and tangled vines that have killed many a fortune-hunting prince to wake this sleeping beauty. He finds her…once again in a tower! Are these stories Freudian or what?? He wakes her with a kiss. I’m sure she had some serious halitosis going on after one hundred years of sleeping but she’s lying there, in a bed and hasn’t laid eyes on a man in a century. And he just laid a kiss on her. Riiiight.

So am I on to something? Or have I just been writing way too much erotic romance? I’ll let you be the judge.

I still say I’m right though…

 

Oh wow! Did I mention that I write erotic romance? And that my newest releases with Breathless Press are based on—shut up!—fairy tales? And they’re—you’re sooo not gonna believe it!—erotic! Hee-hee! Loving the Beast, book one in the Fairy Tales Unleashed series, and A Perfect Fit, the second book in the series are now available! And they aren’t yo’ mama’s bedtime stories!! LOL! The blurbs are below!

 

Loving the Beast blurb:

 

Gwendolyn Sinclair needs help. And the one person who can give her the aid she urgently requires is exacting a high price.

 

Desperate to keep the neighborhood community center open, Gwendolyn seeks out Xavier St. James, her childhood friend and the brother of her dead fiancé. Xavier’s family foundation possesses the funds necessary to keep the center open, but instead he offers a bargain—a devil’s bargain: submit her body for his pleasure for seven days, and the building doesn’t close its doors.

 

Left scarred from an accident, Xavier is bitter, resentful, and alone. When Gwendolyn reappears in his life, need and loneliness override conscience, and he proposes an arrangement she can’t afford to refuse. With the woman he has always wanted but could never have finally in his bed, he hungers for more. Her heart. But could she come to love a beast?

 

A Perfect Fit blurb:

 

Once upon a time, there was a young woman of beauty, grace, and good nature…

 

Blah. Blah. Blah.

 

Rowyn Jeong knows her no-nonsense, less than warm personality cannot compare to her stepsister Cindy’s bubbly charm and beauty. Hey, everyone has their niche, right? But being the plainer, wicked stepsister has never bothered her more than when Darius Fiore reappears in her life. Darius Fiore, the man she indulged in a one-night stand with six months ago, the businessman threatening her position within her stepfather’s company, and the man her sister has her eyes—and hands—on.

 

Rowyn has never forgotten the man who allowed her to be someone else for a few sex-filled hours. Now that Darius has turned up in her territory, will he see past the hard exterior to the woman beneath, the one hungry for love and acceptance?

 

Links to booktrailers on You Tube:

 

Loving the Beast: http://youtu.be/cGNHIQ1rOq0

 

A Perfect Fit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND6qyU8KO80

 

Buy links:

 

A Perfect Fit: http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-aperfectfit-601131-144.html

 

Loving the Beast: http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-lovingthebeast-559842-144.html

 

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Writing what is essentially a fluffy romantic mystery requires three elements:

1. Well drawn Characters
2. Interesting Plot
3. Sexy romance

Let’s take number one here, because without interesting characters whose lives you want to spend 300 pages with, you’ve got nothing much. My character Skyler Foxe is a young, fun-loving guy, a brand new high school English teacher in a bible belt sort of region in southern California. He loves teaching, loves his school kids, has an unnatural obsession with Motown music, and loves going out dancing with his friends, who are all former hook-ups—what are affectionately known as the Skyler Fuck Club—and just wants nothing more than partying on weekends and getting down to English Lit during the week. Of course, this being a mystery, he also falls into murder.

Skyler is a fully formed human being. He isn’t just a gay guy who gets all sorts of wild sex in the books and nothing else. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! But there are scenes when he is at the job he loves, at his high school, interacting with his students and really enjoying connecting with them, teaching them. There are two students in particular, whom he helps come to terms with their sexuality.

And then there is his interaction with his friends, a completely different experience from when he is “Mr. Foxe” at school. As it should be. Aren’t we different to the different people in our lives? With his mother, he’s the dutiful son. In the closet, but the good boy his mother expects him to be. With his best bud Sidney, he gets to completely relax. He has known her since they were kids and though they parted ways in college—he to a teaching program and she to the police academy—they remained close and always made time for the other.

And finally with Skyler’s love interest, he is another person again.

So not only is there a lot of backstory to Skyler, but to all the periphery characters, as well. And there are many. His friends: Jamie, the high-spirited webpage designer; Philip, the straight-looking coffee house owner and his barista Cashmere Funk, a tall Jamaican with a crush on his boss; Rodolfo, the Latin American queen who looks like Antonio Banderas. Then his colleagues at school: the straight-laced principal Wesley Sherman; the no-nonsense vice principal Alice Goodwin; the oblivious art teacher Ben Fontana; Kate Traeger the girls volleyball coach; Julia Meyers the calculus teacher who sees too much; the homophobic football coach with an agenda, Scott Carson; and his assistant coach and biology teacher the very sexy Keith Fletcher. There are also students, Skyler’s favorite class of sophomores: Amber Watson, straight A student with a crush on Skyler; her Goth best friend Heather Munson; Alex Ryan the angry teen with a chip on his shoulder; and Rick Flores, class clown and philosopher.

So with a well-rounded cast of friends, red-herrings, and villains, we can slip into #2, plot.

It’s nice to have a good mysterious puzzle when writing a mystery. I like to have several things going on at once (especially for those who can figure out a mystery quickly. That way they still have other things in the plot to think about). Since this is an amateur sleuth mystery, that is, the “detective” is not a cop or professional investigator, the writer is immediately struck with the problem of logically involving the sleuth in looking for a murderer. I don’t know about you, but if I found a dead body, the first thing I’d do is likely scream and then call 911, and that would be that. But an amateur sleuth has to have a personal interest and is therefore compelled to investigate. And, okay, there must be a certain level of suspension of disbelief on the part of the reader, but that’s what also makes this kind of mystery fun.

In the first book, FOXE TAIL, Skyler finds a dead body outside a dance club and discovers it’s the son of his high school principal. And in the newest book FOXE HUNT, Skyler meets up again with former hook-ups and friends Jeff and Evan, just kicked out of the Army for Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Evan came home wounded and very depressed and winds up dead. The police call it suicide but Skyler discovers it’s murder. Meanwhile, through all this, something fishy is going on behind the scenes at the high school. A math teacher, hinting at her own fears and suspicions, is pushed down the stairs and ends up in a coma. And the gorgeous new assistant football coach is acting suspiciously himself, and seems to know more than he should. So with each book there is its own mystery to solve but there is a greater mystery going on in the background that continues throughout the next two books of the series.

Which brings us to #3 Sexy Romance. Characters were being introduced and so there wasn’t much romance in the first book, FOXE TAIL, but by the newest book FOXE HUNT, Skyler is deeply in the throes of his first real romance with the hunky assistant football coach, Keith Fletcher. The sex is hot and heavy while Skyler tries to reconcile his playboy lifestyle with a grown-up relationship with an older man. Yes, it’s more than just porn involved. It’s making the sex make sense for the story. It ain’t necessarily so for some kinds of erotica, but for books that you want readers to recommend or come back to again and again, there must be more than merely smut. At the same time, there are “aww” moments, truly romantic interludes that not only keep the characters guessing about how they feel but keep readers involved and let them fall in love with the characters, too. That would be the fluffy part.

There needs to be all three elements working in concert with one another—character, plot, and romance. Once you’ve got that, you’ve got a great story.

 

Haley Walsh writes the Skyler Foxe Mysteries. Her latest, FOXE HUNT, will be released this month in paperback and ebook. Read excerpts at her website http://SkylerFoxeMysteries.com or check out her blog at www.SkylerFoxeMysteries.blogspot.com       

Claire Jones never dreamed the fantasies she’d been having about the young guy next door would ever become reality, but after a push from her best friend and one encounter involving dirty laundry, she’s getting more reality than one woman should be allowed. But with reality comes emotion, and Claire finds herself falling deeper and deeper under Ryan’s spell.

Ryan Doherty wants in Claire’s pants, but he soon discovers hot sex isn’t all he’s after. She makes him happy in a way nothing and no one else ever has, and if he has to use their amazing chemistry to stay in her life, he will. Because having more of Claire isn’t an option. It’s the only choice.

Can Ryan and Claire bridge the age gap to find the love of a lifetime, or will what others think destroy the best thing either of them has ever found?

 

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Book three in the Seasons of Love Series

For over ten years, Sidney Wilks and Grady Nash have devoted their lives to each other. With their relationship solid and thriving, they each turn their attention to their careers.

Nash loves his job as a day trader but hates what it’s doing to his body. The hours of sitting in front of a computer combined with his love of beer begin to take a toll on his aging body. Worried that he’ll lose Sidney to the hot muscled construction worker his partner works closely with, Nash decides to get his body back into shape, no matter the cost to his overall health.

After the death of his father, Sidney is so busy dealing with the years of hurt and betrayal at the hands of Jackson Wilks that he doesn’t notice the warning signs of Nash’s dangerous new lifestyle. When Nash’s sex drive falters, Sidney turns the rebuffs inward instead of looking at the bigger picture.

It will take the counsel of a close friend to open Sidney’s eyes to what is really going on, but will it be too late?

Reader Advisory: This book is best read in sequence as part of a series as all four stories follow the lives of Sidney and Grady.

 

BUY FALL

10.  There are only so many numbers in Janet Evanovich’s repertoire.  And only a few letters left in Sue Grafton’s alphabet.

 

9.  Stephen King is on hiatus and as amazingly creative, scary and gross as his books are he couldn’t craft a sex scene if his life depended on it (and I love you King, so don’t get all pissy.)

 

8.  You’re fresh out of High Fiction, and can’t focus anyways since reading The Help and The Hunger Games Trilolgy back to back so need a break for something a little less heavy on post apocalypse and Bad Behavior in the South.

 

7.   Sometimes you just need a glimpse of exactly what happens when characters you have committed to shut the bedroom door…that whole “The next morning her lazy smiled belied the pounding she got the night before” thing requires clarification.

 

6.   We all need an occasional dose of shuddering, exquisite ecstasy delivered in  phrases that include the words:

flesh (and) rock hard

creamy (and) thighs

puckered (and) nipple

tongue (and) forceful

in the same sentence.

 

5.  You really do want to know if werewolves are voraciously horny after they’ve changed back to human form.

 

4.  The concept that an archetypal alpha male billionaire former Navy seal secret son of a Saudi prince, brought low by the death of his One True Love can be redeemed by near constant sex with a frumpy librarian living hand-to-mouth in her coldwater flat and then whisked away to a fabulous life of excess and true love and non stop passion plus a secret baby for ever after is just too preciously awesome to pass up.

 

3.  You really need to know:  is it “cum” or “come”?

 

2.  Because sometimes you just need a hot cowboy or two to sing you to sleep.

 

And the number One Reason why you should read Erotic Romance?

Because there is nothing more relaxing than an orgasm before sleep.  But watch yourself if you’re reading on the beach/plane/bus/work and identify a place for some alone time—otherwise you’ll be jumping the cabana boy/flight attendant/bus driver/copy boy and embarrassing yourself!  Read on!

 

Microbrewery owner, beer blogger and journalist, mom of three teenagers, and soccer fan, Liz lives in the great middle west, in a Major College Town.  Years of experience in sales and fund raising, plus an eight-year stint as an ex-pat trailing spouse plus making her way in a world of men (i.e. the beer industry) has prepped her for life as erotic romance author.  When she isn’t sweating beer inventory, sales figures or promotional efforts for her latest publication, doing pounds of laundry for her sweaty athletic children, watching La Liga on the Fox Soccer Channel, or trying to figure out what to order in for dinner, she can be found walking her standard poodles or doing Bikram Yoga.  Liz loves her Foo Fighters Pandora station, and watching reruns of Deadwood, when there isn’t any decent European football on the telly.  If you want a beer education follow her: www.a2beerwench.com.  For writing related stuff, including her backlist, go to: www.brewingpassion.com.

 

Coming September 30:  The Tap Room, a Choose your romance novel from Breathless Press!

Erin Brady is having a Seriously Interesting Year.

Her Alpha banker husband, Bradley, has left, claiming she pays more attention to her microbrewery than to him and their two sons.

 

One business partner, Trent, is attempting to re-kindle an old flame between them.

 

Their amazing success has demanded they hire a new brewer, Jeff, who takes one look at his new boss and is determined to be something more than an employee.

 

The daily stresses of running a small business, plus the ongoing turmoil in her personal life are more than she can take.  Escaping to Denver for an industry event, she meets Landon, a brewery rock star turned consultant who has been watching her company–and her–for a while.

 

When family trauma requires an early return to Michigan, Erin is faced with even harder realities plus a thoroughly contrite Bradley, wishing for a reunion.  Then, the ultimate sign of success:  a buy out offer is tendered from a much larger brewery, just as the owners of Winter Street Brewing are about to be honored by Inc. Magazine as Top Entrepreneurs.

 

Finally, Erin turns to her other partner, Owen, who has watched the woman he loves suffer long enough and is determined to step in and be the one.

 

WHO WILL SHE CHOOSE????

Guess what?  YOU get to decide…..

Hang on–it’s gonna be a wild ride!

 

Get a head start on The Brewing Passion Series with The Rookie (Book 1), Jockey Box (Book 2), XXXMas Ale (Book 3) and you can Pre Order The Tap Room (Book 4) at All Romance eBooks.

On the 20^th of September, the 4^th and final book in the Bandicoot Cove Series releases at Samhain Publishing.

Island Idyll is a red-hot, contemporary novella, with enough romance and loving to get you all nice and steamy.

 

ISLAND IDYLL: The blurb

 

Adolescent fantasies can grow into very adult realities.

Sienna James has come to Bandicoot Cove to mourn the end of her eight-year relationship with Ben Cowley. The last person she expects to meet is the star of every one of her high school fantasies.

Joshua Lye is not only as appealing as he was in high school, he reveals she was the main feature in his adolescent wet dreams. As kids they never got it together. But they’re adults now, and there’s nothing keeping them apart.

When Ben arrives at the resort determined to win Sienna back, finding another man in her bed kind of throws a spanner in the works. But he isn’t deterred. Rather than admit defeat, he comes up with an alternative plan: Let Sienna sleep with both men—at the same time. Then she can make an informed decision as to which man she wants.

Sienna shouldn’t want to go through with this shockingly sexy plan, but she does. Desperately. Except after the sexual storm passes, she could have it all…or be left holding an empty heart.

Warning: Contains a suggestion beyond risqué, a solution beyond orgasmic, and two men who know how to play dirty. Really, really dirty.

 

ISLAND IDYLL: A short, naughty excerpt

 

She looked at him sideways. “You were my fantasy for five years.”

“That’s the problem with fantasies. They’re never as good in the flesh.”

She gasped. “You’re kidding, right?”

“I never kid about fantasies.”

“Damn it, Josh. Your flesh looks good enough to lick.”

He said nothing, merely raised an eyebrow in her direction.

Don’t blush. Do not blush. “Know what I used to call you back in school?”

“Josh?” he hazarded.

“Nice try.” She rolled her eyes. “But wrong. I called you Josh Lie-With-Me.”

The eyebrow lifted higher.

“Because all I freaking wanted to do was lie with you. Even for just five minutes.”

He threw his head back and laughed out loud, the first genuine emotion he’d shown since he’d begun telling her his sorry story. “See, princess. That’s why you and I could never have worked. You and your angelic ways. You had a crush on me for five years, and all you wanted to do was lie with me?”

“No, you moronic halfwit. I had a crush on you for five years, and all I wanted to do, even if it only lasted five minutes, was fuck your brains out.”

 

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This season, the gals at International Heat have LOTS to celebrate. As a result, they’ve decided to share in that celebrating with you. This month, they will each be featuring an inside peek at their new fall releases. For each Red Hot Premiere blog, there will be a daily prize. Simply leave a comment to be entered. Commenters will also be entered into a Grand Prize drawing for a Kindle which will be announced on October 1! Join the party and the fun! The first Premiere blog will arrive on September 6, so be sure to check back then.

I connect with my people through their pain. It’s what’s real, what’s wrong in their life and I hope over the course of a book to journey with them as they try to find a place that is right for them. It might be the beginning of healing, it might be standing up.

When I set out to write Wounded Cowboy, my early October Uncommon Cowboys release from Total E Bound, I immediately connected with Luka. I’d written a little about him in Shy Cowboy. In fact, at first he seems like a villain, but in the course of that story, it becomes apparent that first impressions are not always true. Luka is a perfect example of this quote from Rainer Marie Rilke:

‘”Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”’

Here is an excerpt from Wounded Cowboy:

Hunched at his place at Charlie’s battered maple dining table, Luka reached tentatively for a roll. When Charlie didn’t say or do anything, he snatched one and then began to stuff it down, eating with his eyes closed, totally absorbed in the food.

When he choked, Charlie reached out but dropped his hand before he made contact, afraid of spooking Luka. “Easy.”

Colour heated Luka’s cheeks and he averted his gaze. He stared at the bowl of stew and then at Charlie, who was eating with a spoon. Suddenly Charlie knew what was wrong. Fucked if he knew why, but he was certain that Luka was unused to using cutlery.

Charlie put down his spoon and raised his bowl to his lips. After a moment, Luka did the same, mimicking him.

“Not too much, Luka,” Charlie said.

Luka ignored him, gulping, his throat working hard as he downed the stew. He dropped the tin bowl a second later, splashing hot stew everywhere.

“Luka!”

Luka dashed through the door and Charlie’s boots rang as he ran after him. Luka got as far as the tall grass by the woods before he vomited.

Charlie forced himself to stay where he was, fingers digging into a post by the door as Luka retched, over and over again. When had he last eaten anything?

Finally Charlie forced himself to return to the dining table and wiped up the mess. Luka would come back when he was ready. Charlie had worked with wary creatures before.

The creak of the door, a soft, “I’m sorry.”

“Nothing to be sorry for. You’re hungry.”

Luka came a little closer. “More like starving.”

Why was Luka in such bad shape? Charlie’s temper rose again. He sat on his questions, not wanting to make Luka feel any more miserably self-conscious.

“Sit. I’ll bring some bread and butter. And a glass of water.”

“But—“

“It’s okay. We should have started with that. It was my mistake, Luka, not yours. Sit. I’ll get it.”

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I’m also a sucker for a hero who gives good comfort. All the stories in the Uncommon Cowboys have the theme of healing and finding love. Right now I’m working on book six and I’m writing about a father who lost his son, who thinks he’s too old to fall in love, too beaten up by life. I hope by the time I’ve left their world that hope will touch the lives of my people.

Find Wounded Cowboy HERE

More about my work at www.janirvingwrites.com 

It takes more than a rock star to rock your world. Sometimes you need a friend.

Bandicoot Cove, Book 3

McKenzie Wood is Australia’s star gossip mag journalist, and she’s just spied the story of a lifetime: rumor-shrouded rock star, Nick Blackthorne—who thinks he’s incognito at Bandicoot Cove resort. The word is Nick’s a sex addict about to come out of the closet, and who better to lure Nick out than her BFF, Aiden Rogers—a pulse-poundingly gorgeous firefighter who is always there when she needs him, no matter the challenge.

Aiden admits it’s pretty damned pathetic that he can rush into burning buildings, but not have the guts to tell McKenzie he’s in love with her. No way can he tell his best friend he’d like to do some seriously sinful things to her, especially since she’s never shown one iota of sexual interest.

Nick looks forward to some “unfamous” downtime in his home country. He’s surprised to find his creative muse stirred—more like brought to rigid attention—by a couple so sexy that all he can think about is the three of them. Together.

Three bodies move together as one, and the music becomes a smoldering beat that rivals the island’s heat. When the truth inevitably comes out, the heat might be enough to save three souls…or end up just another sinner’s lament.

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Nothing can bring her to her knees—except a dose of her own medicine.

Men in Blue, Book 3

Mistress Lily, proprietress of the elite Black Lily club, battles something more frightening than the dark forces of her own desire. SexOffender, a potent aphrodisiac designer drug with terrifying side effects, is ripping through the BDSM community.

Determined to protect her charges, Lily plays a dangerous game, cozying up to the drug’s creator while secretly smuggling victims to safety. It’s a war she’s losing…until the night she spots an undercover cop at what is supposed to be a private bash.

Blind luck scored Jeremy Radisson the break he needed to get close to Morselli. Gaining the kingpin’s trust, though, means revealing parts of his past as a legendary Dom. And teaming up with a woman who doesn’t have a submissive bone in her body, yet dominates his every fantasy.

When Morselli unexpectedly changes the rules, Lily and Jeremy find themselves pitted against each other in a wicked game of who’s-on-top. Lily’s forced to make a desperate choice to prove her loyalty. Jeremy relies on every ounce of his power to keep her safe without blowing their cover while praying they survive long enough to find out if she’ll kneel for him…forever.

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Their desire could be their destruction…or their greatest strength.

Southern Arcana, Book 4

Fourteen months ago, Kat Gabriel learned a brutal truth. Under the wrong circumstances, her empathic ability is no gift. It’s a deadly weapon. Now her soul bears the inescapable weight of those deaths—and it aches for the loss of the easy relationship she once shared with Andrew Callaghan. Unleashing her power saved his life, but she couldn’t save his humanity.

Since the attack that turned him into a werewolf, Andrew’s sole focus has been to make himself stronger. Pushing her away hurt like hell, but Kat doesn’t need a friend. She needs a protector strong enough to shield her from the supernatural world that forced her to kill. Strong enough to resist their volatile connection.

As Kat’s quest to understand the violent legacy of her past leads her into the darkest underbelly of the psychic world, Andrew is at her side. Yet every step forward rips open old emotional wounds and shakes their control. Where they’re headed, distractions of any kind can be fatal—especially when the greatest threat they pose is to each other.

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I just found out that a one of our reviewers and a good friend Kevin Mullinax passed away he is going to be missed!

Please keep Kevin and his family in your thoughts and prayers!!