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Thursday, 7 February 2013

Heartbreaker Blog Hop



I do love a Heartbreaker Hero. Not the arrogant, player type but the 'I'll push you away 'cause I think you're too good for me' type. We get to see their vulnerability beyond the bravado and fall in love with them as easily as the heroine does. Of course the pride and honour thing only works until the leading man realises what a dick he's being and we finally get our happy ending!
 
And it goes without saying he has to be drop dead gorgeous...

Take Smith Masterson, for example. My Texas Ranger from Into the Wild.


He's so concerned with protecting Laurie from hurt further down the line, he's slow to react when she's offering herself on a plate. The poor girl is forced to take matters into her own hands...


Excerpt


 

“We’re not going to my house.”

“We’re not?”

“Nope.” Laurie tugged his hand impatiently and giggled. “You’re

going to jail. Do not pass go; do not collect $200.”

“Jail, huh?” Smith smiled and waited patiently whilst she

unlocked the door.

“I thought you might like to see it.”

“Sure. Thanks.” He looked flummoxed, but it was all part of

her great seduction plan.

They stepped inside the stone enclave, and she flicked on the

solitary light bulb hanging from the ceiling. There really wasn’t much

to see – the cell, the sheriff’s desk and a few sepia wanted posters.

“The cell’s open if you want to get the feel for the life of a

wanted man.”

He did her bidding, filling the tiny space with his

overwhelming presence, leaving little room for a cellmate. The bars

no barrier to this woman on a mission however, she nipped in behind

him.

Boldly advancing on her captive, she pushed him against the

metal holding.

“In here? Really?” He looked faintly amused whilst she busied

herself kissing the exposed skin at his throat.

Holding his hands behind his back and fastening her mouth to

his, his attention was side-tracked. It enabled her to keep him captured

in one hand, whipping out the item concealed in her pocket with the

other.

Clamping a fluffy pink handcuff to each wrist, she anchored

him securely around the bars of the cell.

“What the hell?” He yanked at the cuffs in a vain attempt to

break free.

“Tonight, I’m making sure you finish the job. No more lame

excuses or unwarranted gentlemanly behavior.” Each word was

punctuated with an extra slice of manly chest as she unbuttoned his

shirt. “This is all about sex, pure and simple.”

With the last button open, she ripped the shirt wide exposing

his tanned torso in totality. Those lovely brown eyes had turned a

menacing black, but he didn’t speak. She was glad; she was past the

point of no return and selfishly intent on filling the void he had

created. Trailing the tip of her tongue along the perfect line of

symmetry between his pecs, she dipped dangerously low.

Kneeling before him, she heard him suck in a breath through

clenched teeth. That dang belt buckle mocked her, but this time it was

no match for her lust. She slid the leather belt off with deliberate

slowness, wanting to drive him mad with helplessness. Making eyecontact

from her provocative position, she peeled away the barrier of

clothing shielding him from skin on skin contact.


If you would like to read the rest of that scene, Into the Wild is available on Amazon, All Romance, Bookstrand and Evernight Publishing. Be warned, it gets HOT!

Alternatively, leave a comment with your e-mail address and you could win a free copy.



And don't forget to stop by the rest of the blogs on the hop to be in with a chance of winning some fabulous prizes!


Now what are those prizes?

1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet
2nd Grand Prize: A $100 Amazon or B&N Gift Card
3rd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack that contains paperbacks, ebooks, 50+ bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!
 

*The Swag Pack is not available to winners outside of the US *
 
 

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Doris O'Connor taunts me with her fabulous new cover...




Thanks so much for having me here today J

Hands up who likes sexy Italian men? How about feisty heroines, dynamic family relationships, hot sex, and a haunting love story? How about we throw in some beautiful scenery with a generous dash of danger, and twists and turns to take your breath away and keep you on the edge of your seat?

You do, do you? Well, it just so happens that book three of my Giovanni Clan series, has all that and more.

I touch on some tough issues in this story and we seem to have jumped a heat level as a result. When Jemima's past catches up with her, it falls to cousin Giorgio to honor the promises he made in book two of the series. If you haven't read the previous books, don't worry, you'll catch up. The stories stand on their own. However, if you feel the need to check them out, don't let me stop you   ;-)

Too Hot To Handle, book one in the series is reduced to just 99 cents for a limited time only, and it happens to have one very sexy firefighter in it.

*grins*

To celebrate the releases of Too Devious To Tame I am giving one lucky reader a chance to win either of the first two books in the series. Winner's choice. Just leave me a comment J

Readers already familiar with the stories will recognize Jemima and Giorgio from book two. In Too Devious To Tame I delve into the mechanics of their relationship. These two have a past, and the choices they made come to haunt them in this book.

Will they make it through, and safely out of the tangled webs they've created?

BLURB:

When Giorgio Giovanni tracks the troublesome Jemima down in a hospital bed in Italy, he has one thing on his mind—revenge. However, the fragile woman he encounters is not the devious female he remembers. When it becomes clear that she is in danger, he risks everything to keep her safe.

Left for dead, Jemima wakes up in hospital, terrified, and with no idea of her identity. The angry man, who comes to claim her, is the only link to a shared past she can't remember. A past that threatens to destroy them, and all she has ever held dear.

With danger all around them, and their sexual chemistry off the scale, can they find their way back to each other, or is the past too devious to tame?

 

EXCERPT:            

 

Tears clouded her vision at the concern in his voice, and he swore and moved to untie her.

"No, I'm fine, really. Leave it. Show me how it should be, please. Help me to forget."

He stared at her for the longest time, one large hand, hot and heavy on her belly, his gaze so intense it took her breath away.  When he finally smiled, it lit up his harsh features. She didn't catch the murmured Italian words he mumbled under his breath, but the kiss that followed had her curl her toes into the bed with the effort to not release herself from her bonds and bury her hands in his hair to make him hurry up and fuck her.

He was breathing as heavily as she by the time he released her, and she bit back a moan when he simply ripped the rest of her dress off her. Her bra and knickers followed the fate of her dress, until she lay in front of him naked, wet, and wanting. He ran his knuckles slowly up and down her tummy in ever widening circles, and then reached across to the ice bucket with a slow grin.

"Shut your eyes for me, cara."   His voice had dropped an octave, and her stomach dropped right with it, seeing him hold a couple of ice cubes in his fingers. She shook her head and bucked off the bed, when he flicked his hand over her breasts. Ice cold drops of water fell on her skin and trickled between the valley of her breasts. He licked the drops away, his warm tongue taking away the coldness left by the water.

"Shut your eyes, trust me. This will be so much better for you when you can't see what I'm doing." He kissed a path down her quivering tummy, and she blinked back tears at the tender way he caressed her abdomen. He paused to drop a long kiss just above her pubic bone, and his hot breath teased her wet folds. Her clit tingled, and she shut her eyes, as he renewed his request for her to do so. She couldn't see what he was doing, but the bed dipped as he adjusted his weight again. His hot mouth closed over one of her nipples at the same time as the other was subjected to an ice cube being circled around it.

She gasped at the intense sensation, and Giorgio swapped sides. The difference between his warm mouth and tongue and the ice cube sent her body into spasms of need. She writhed under him, and he laughed. Again and again he repeated the process all along her body. A path of ice, followed by the warmth of his tongue as he licked the icy trails away, leaving fiery awareness in its wake. By the time he finally reached her pussy, she was hovering on the brink of orgasm. She whimpered her need when he pushed an ice cube high into her channel and then proceeded to lick around her clit, careful to never touch her when she needed him most. The melting ice cube mixed in with her own juices and trickled slowly out her hole. Her pussy clenched, and she didn't recognize the needy voice pleading with him to please do something.

He blew against her slit and shouldered her legs wider.

"Così bello, e tutto mio."   He followed the words with a kiss, and she screamed when he pulled her clit into his mouth and swirled his tongue around it, at the same time as he pushed another ice cube into her empty channel. Her walls closed around the slippery object, and spasmed wildly as the first quivers of her orgasm hit. Giorgio groaned into her core and stepped up his sweet torture on her clit. When he pushed two fingers into her core, and massaged her sweet spot, the intensity of her orgasm hit her with the full force of freight train.

"That's it, tesoro, fly for me." He caught her scream of release in his mouth, and she could taste herself in the passionate kiss he gave her, dimly aware of him withdrawing his fingers and replacing them with his cock. Thick, hard, and so very long he filled her completely as he pushed into her swollen core, until he was seated to the hilt. She wrapped her legs around him and dug her feet into his calves to give him better access and to take him as deep as she could. He started thrusting, every move driving him deeper into her, and tumbling her right over the edge again, as her inner muscles contracted around his thick member. Faster and faster he pumped, his harsh breathing in her ear the most erotic sound ever, his hands and lips seemingly everywhere, arousing every little bit of skin he touched until her whole body was a mass of sensation. Again her body climbed toward that peak of sheer joy, and this time Giorgio was with her every step of the ecstatic journey they took together. Her eyes flew open, and she drowned in the rolling depths of emotion she saw reflected in his, as they came together in their explosive release.

When her body finally stopped shaking, she could taste the salt of tears in her mouth. Giorgio kissed them off her face, and he released her from her bonds, and pulled her into his embrace. She had to smile at his grumbled, "If this is pretending, then I hate to see what will happen when we do this for real."


 

Author Bio:

Glutton for punishment would be a good description for Doris... at least that's what she hears on an almost daily basis when people find out that she has a brood of nine children, ranging from adult to toddler and lives happily in a far too small house, cluttered with children, pets, dust bunnies, and one very understanding and supportive husband. Domestic goddess she is not.

There is always something better to do after all, like working on the latest manuscript and trying not to scare the locals even more than usual by talking out loud to the voices in her head. Her characters tend to be pretty insistent to get their stories told, and you will find Doris burning the midnight oil on a regular basis. Only time to get any peace and quiet and besides, sleep is for wimps.

She likes to spin sensual, sassy, and sexy tales involving alpha heroes to die for, and heroines who give as good as they get. From contemporary to paranormal, BDSM to F/F, and Ménage, haunting love stories are guaranteed.

Find Doris on the web here:


 



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Sunday, 27 January 2013

#SexySnippets



You can't get much sexier than Smith Masterson, my Texas Ranger. So here's a little snippet from Into the Wild...



 

Clamping a fluffy pink handcuff to each wrist, she anchored

him securely around the bars of the cell.

“What the hell?” He yanked at the cuffs in a vain attempt to

break free.

“Tonight, I’m making sure you finish the job. No more lame

excuses or unwarranted gentlemanly behavior.” Each word was

punctuated with an extra slice of manly chest as she unbuttoned his

shirt. “This is all about sex, pure and simple.”
 
 
Into the Wild - Blurb

After another doomed relationship, Laurie Sommers cocoons herself in the 'living ghost town' of Coyote Creek. But the arrival of Smith Masterson, her unrequited teenage love, torpedoes her cozy spinsterhood, setting her ablaze with a burning desire she believed long gone.

A Texas Ranger through and through, there's no room for a relationship in Smith's life—not at eighteen and certainly not now that he's investigating a robbery and the subsequent shooting of the Captain. Persuading Laurie to fake a relationship to keep his cover is the easy part. The hard part is restraining himself around her.





Now available on Amazon


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Sunday, 20 January 2013

#SexySnippets


 
This week's Sexy Snippet is taken from my story, Mariah, part of the Wine and Nine anthology.
 
Wine and Nine
Magic Mac and his Mystical tours, the brochure said. What it didn't tell the participants of this coach trip is that the quaint Scottish Inn they stopped at held a secret.
When you add women, wine, and men the outcome is never certain. Will it be happy ever after or is this just the beginning?
Find out in these nine scorching erotic short stories, guaranteed to raise a kilt or two.
 
 
Mariah
 There was nothing that would make her forget Richie quicker than the taste of coffee on Jake’s tongue or the feel of his pleasure-giving lips on hers.
Her moans of appreciation escalated his attentions; his mouth becoming more demanding, insistent, and turning her on faster than a naked Johnny Depp screensaver. As Jake slid a hand over the flat of her belly, she sucked in a shaky breath and he took advantage to dip under her now loose waistband.
Jake slipped his fingers into her pussy, demanding her submission. She complied, her surge of need wetting them both with her juices as he teased her clit. She clutched his head in her hands and arched into him, mad with want, but restricted by her choice of circulation-cutting denims. No such problem for Jake. His erection tented the loose fabric of his kilt to torment her further and she took him in hand, his impressive girth a tight fit in her encircled fingers.

Now available on Amazon

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Friday, 11 January 2013

Starting the year wolfie style!


 
 
What better way is there to start the year than with some spanking new cover art :D
 
I can finally reveal that I have signed with Total-E-Bound for my shifter series set in Ireland. I'm very excited to be part of the team there, and looking forward to sharing my sexy lone wolf, Caleb, with you soon.
 
It's also just been announced that The Blood Bar Chronicles has been nominated as antho of the year by Love Romances Cafe.
 
 
So, ya know, feel free to vote for us ;)
 
 
And, to top off a fabulous start to 2013, I've been shortlisted by The Daily Mail/ Black Lace Books in their Erotic Short Story competition. *Squee!*
 
It's shaping up to be a busy year!


Sunday, 6 January 2013

#SexySnippets

 
 
To join in with the fun over at The Nuthouse Scribblers Blog, I'm adding a Sexy Snippet from my latest release. 'A Very Furry Christmas' is my contribution to the 'Vanilla Free Christmas Anthology'.
 
 
'Jason clasped her hands behind her
back and bound her wrists with the custom-made snake cuffs.
“Is that too tight?”
“It’s fine.” If heaven were a sexy man wielding stuffed
animals, she’d never be bad again.
Jason pressed against her back and whispered to her. “Bend
over.”
Fucking hell!'
 

Blurb:

This Christmas, the best gifts are waiting for those who have been naughty…
And the toys under the tree are not for children. Sexy Santas, naughty elves, and dominant shifters are ready to spread some very kinky Christmas cheer. It’s a good thing the ladies in our stories are looking for anything but vanilla.
Be Warned: ménage sex, anal sex, sex toys, BDSM, spanking

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Friday, 28 December 2012

Wine and Nine

 

 
Wine and Nine
 
Magic Mac and his Mystical tours, the brochure said. What it didn't tell the participants of this coach trip is that the quaint Scottish Inn they stopped at held a secret.
When you add women, wine, and men the outcome is never certain. Will it be happy ever after or is this just the beginning?
Find out in these nine scorching erotic short stories, guaranteed to raise a kilt or two.
 
Buy now on Amazon
 
 
Ever wondered what happens when a group of writer ladies meet up in Scotland for a gossip and a drink? Well, Wine and Nine is the result of our crit group's little get together. Cue a selection of short stories all featuring men in kilts and lots of hot sex!
 
We had lots of fun writing this and hope our readers enjoy it too. I'm about to book my flights for next year's meet. Who knows what we'll come up with next ;)