Raven McAllan's - Master

 

I always love visiting Jorja; she always has yummy sandwiches in gluten free bread for me. peers inside the sandwich Oh nice, smoked salmon and cucumber.

Anyway, I'm not here to talk about food, though I must say the Victoria Sponge is sort of calling to me, I'm here to talk about my latest release from Evernight Publishing.

Master is a love story, there's no two ways about it. But it's not straightforward. Well, love never is really, is it? Even the boy meets girl, girl fancies boy, boy loves girl etc. etc., usually has a few girl hates boy, boy thinks with his dick scenarios in it. What is it they say, true love never runs smooth? Well it certainly didn't for Anna and Caden.

I really enjoyed writing their story, but it wasn't straightforward. As anyone who's been good enough to read any blogs by me before, (oh and thank you) you'll know I'm a pantster. Someone who doesn't plot. I'm led by my characters and do as they dictate. Therefore as I wrote Master, I really had no idea where it was going to end, or how. Oh I hoped for a happy ending, but at times I really wasn't sure it could happen. Talk about stubborn! Sigh

But the great thing was, even as I laughed and cried as I typed, their characters came to me, strong and determined. I knew that in the end they would sort things out—or did I? Let's be honest, I hoped they would.

All writers have their own way of writing, and at times I do wonder what it would be like to know exactly where my story was going. But I can't write like that, so I console myself that if I'm all caught up in "ohh, I wonder what's going to happen" hopefully so will the readers be.

                           

Here's the blurb…

Caden McCourt did not expect to find his estranged wife Diana at a BDSM club. When he does, the renowned Master is determined to claim back his errant wife.

 When Diana left him fifteen years prior, she lost a part of herself. Seeing Cade again throws her into a tail spin.

She cannot be the sub he needs, but she can't walk away either. When she's challenged by Cade to face her demons, her old nightmares resurface. Can they overcome the chasm between them, or are the nightmares simply too strong?

And how about a wee tease?

"Here's the details of the guy I was telling you about." Linsey waved the document in her hand. "It's a real coup getting him to agree to guest here, I tell you. Evidently, it’s a rare occurrence when he guests. He'll be here in a day or so to look round." She handed the slim file to Anna, who took it and started to read the typed pages. The name jumped out at Anna and spots floated in front of her eyes. There was a strange ringing noise in her ears; her pulse raced, and her skin went clammy.

Oh hell, don't let me faint. Not here, not now. Let me tell her. She opened her mouth to speak, but couldn't form the words. A week, wavery croak was the best she could manage. Anna began to hyperventilate, and for the life of her couldn't stop.

"Anna, what's wrong?" Linsey pushed Anna's head down. "Take deep breaths, come on now, you're fine."

Am I? I'm not so sure. However, Anna did as Linsey told her and gradually the ringing disappeared, and her vision cleared. She gulped in air and wiped her forehead on the tissue Linsey handed to her.

"Don't move." Linsey left the office. Anna couldn't have moved if she tried. Her legs felt like jelly, and pins and needles bombarded her skin like tiny hailstones. Linsey re-entered the room and passed Anna a glass of water. "Drink it slowly and tell me what brought that on. Are you pregnant? Am I going to have to try to knit booties and have coal around for you to eat?"

That made Anna smile, albeit a somewhat small grin. "Not a snowball in hell’s chance of that. No, it's just you okayed this guy." She handed the form back, hoping her hands didn't shake.

Linsey scanned the form. "Yeah? Well, what's not to accept? I'm really over the moon with this. He's a well-respected Dom. Great form, even better credentials, and all his subs rave about him. We're honored to get him. He's very picky where he demonstrates and only does a couple of guest nights a year. He has the choice of anywhere in the world to go, and he chose to come here. I was gobsmacked, I tell you. We'd have them queuing to the border to get in if we advertised. What a coup. So, as I said, what’s not to accept? I should be genuflecting all the way to his base and back again."

Now how could she answer that?

With the truth.

 

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Not easy though is it? To tell the truth, especially in a situation like that. If you want to find out what that's all about, you'll need to read the book.

 

Buy links

 

http://www.evernightpublishing.com/master-by-raven-mcallan/

 

 

Amazon          http://authl.it/gr

 

https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-master-1216945-147.html

 

http://www.bookstrand.com/master-mf

 

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Raven lives in Scotland, along with her husband and their two cats—their children having flown the nest—surrounded by beautiful scenery, which inspires a lot of the settings in her books.

She is used to sharing her life with the occasional deer, red squirrel, and lost tourist, to say nothing of the scourge of Scotland—the midge.

A lover of reading, she appreciates the history inside a book, and the chance to peek into the lives of those from years ago. Raven admits that she enjoys the research for her books almost as much as the writing; so much so, that sometimes she realizes she's strayed way past the information she needs to know, and not a paragraph has been added to her WIP.

Her lovely long-suffering husband is learning to love the dust bunnies, work the Aga, and be on stand-by with a glass of wine.

 

You can find out more about Raven here…

 

 

http://www.ravenmcallan.com

http:/ /www.ravenmcallan.blogspot.com

https://www.facebook.com/rmcallan        (my page)

https://www.facebook.com/ravenmcallan            (author page)

https://twitter.com/RavenMcAllan