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May 18, 2014
Quote of the Day
May 12, 2014
Carnal Magic
Lila Dubois is ON FIRE lately. She’s putting out one incredible story after another and I just can’t get enough! Today brings a very exciting release! Carnal Magic is out NOW!
What if the one you wanted more than any other was the only one you couldn’t trust?
The Wraith Accords, Book 1
Two hundred years after the Tuatha de Danaan and Vampires formed a fragile alliance, the Wraith Accords are unraveling. Isabel Santiago is a leader in one of the most powerful of the vampire cabals, and she agrees to join the Fae court as a gesture of goodwill—and damage control.
While Aed mac Goll’s loyalty to Fae is absolute, he’s never supported the accords which gave the Vampires sanctuary and restored the Tuatha de’s link to humanity. The very idea he could desire an undead human is unthinkable, yet he’s drawn to Isabel’s dark beauty and fierce intelligence.
Despite their mutual mistrust, they soon find themselves lost in a dangerous game of lust and power. When the treaty shatters amid calls for Isabel’s head, Aed realizes their connection is more than physical. And to save it, they’ll have to unravel a mystery that’s been a thousand years in the making.
Product Warnings
Contains sex, violence, magic and bloodlust. You know, the good stuff.
Available at Samhain.
May 11, 2014
Dungeon Games
Oh yeah…you read that right…DUNGEON GAMES. That can only mean Lexi Blake is back and hotter than ever! With a new book! And it’s part of the very exciting 1001 Dark Nights AND Masters & Mercenaries series. Go forth! Buy it!
Obsessed
Derek Brighton has become one of Dallas’s finest detectives through a combination of discipline and obsession. Once he has a target in his sights, nothing can stop him. When he isn’t solving homicides, he applies the same intensity to his playtime at Sanctum, a secretive BDSM club. Unfortunately, no amount of beautiful submissives can fill the hole that one woman left in his heart.
Unhinged
Karina Mills has a reputation for being reckless, and her clients appreciate her results. As a private investigator, she pursues her cases with nothing holding her back. In her personal life, Karina yearns for something different. Playing at Sanctum has been a safe way to find peace, but the one Dom who could truly master her heart is out of reach.
Enflamed
On the hunt for a killer, Derek enters a shadowy underworld only to find the woman he aches for is working the same case. Karina is searching for a missing girl and won’t stop until she finds her. To get close to their prime suspect, they need to pose as a couple. But as their operation goes under the covers, unlikely partners become passionate lovers while the killer prepares to strike.
Available at Amazon.
May 8, 2014
Forbidden Legacy
The Grand Master’s story is told at last!
Forbidden Legacy – AVAILABLE NOW!
Trinity Masters, book 4
An enigmatic leader…
Harrison Adams has served as leader of the Trinity Masters for a decade. He’s always placed the group above his own needs—even when it comes to the one woman who calls to him. When a dangerous threat to the secret society surfaces, Harrison sets a plan in motion that could save the organization, but it comes with a price.
A steadfast woman…
Alexis turned down an invitation to join the Trinity Masters, afraid to relinquish control over her life, her future…her heart. That rejection means night after night of unrequited lust as she and Harrison are forced to ignore their desires. Her heart aching, she throws herself into her job and her difficult working relationship with her boss, Michael. He’s attractive and maddening, but Alexis has zero plans to give in to the crazy chemistry between them.
An improper proposal…
Harrison asks Alexis to experiment in a ménage relationship with him and she agrees unable to take another moment of longing for him. Perhaps with a third around she’ll be able to keep her heart intact. She is completely unaware their third will be her infuriating boss, Michael. She couldn’t have known how giving herself to them would inflame her desires. Or how much she would enjoy submitting to them.
But when an evil man looking for revenge sets his sights on Harrison, time is the one thing none of them have. And it soon becomes apparent Harrison’s forbidden legacy could destroy them all…
Forbidden Legacy is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, ARe and Google Play.
Excerpt:
Alexis was truly unique, special. In addition to her talents as a doctor, her quick wit and her endless capacity for compassion, she was one of only a handful of people over the past two hundred years who hadn’t accepted an invitation to join the Trinity Masters.
Due to the secret nature of the society, many legal forms were signed that ensured the Trinity Masters’ privacy in the event someone didn’t want to join. To reveal the organization would bring certain downfall to the person, discredit them, ruin them. However, because potential members were vetted closely before being invited to join, it was unusual for someone to turn them down.
Alexis had.
Harrison left his spot at the desk and took a seat in the chair next to her. “I know we haven’t discussed this in a very long time, but I wanted to explain a few things to you more clearly. Things I never had the chance to expound upon before.”
She turned to face him, crossing her legs as she did so. The movement drew Harrison’s gaze lower. She wore stockings beneath her skirt. He could see the faint impression left from the snaps in the material. Though Alexis eschewed relationships, dating and—for the most part—sex, her innate sensuality still shone through…in her wardrobe and the shiny lipstick she wore. The two of them never discussed their sexual affairs. He suspected Alexis had taken a few men to her bed over the years, but those encounters must have been brief without a hint of commitment or emotion attached.
“Go ahead,” she prompted.
“I’m a legacy. Did I ever tell you that before?”
She shook her head.
“It means I am one of a long line of Trinity Masters. My father and grandfather and several greats before were all members. My parents were part of a trinity.”
She tilted her head curiously. “I’ve met your mom and dad. It was just them.”
“No. It wasn’t. You also met my Uncle Edward.”
He watched recognition dawn. “Oh. I see.”
“I’ve been brought up from the cradle perfectly aware of what my destiny held. I believe in this society, in what it offers to the world. It’s my life.”
“Why are you telling me this?”
“I want you to understand that the Trinity Masters isn’t just some club to me. It’s shaped me, molded me, made me the man I am today. I wouldn’t be sitting in this office without them.”
“Okay. I get it.” She reached out to take his hands in hers. “I know what it means to you. And I know that being a part of that group means taking two partners. If you’re afraid this will change our relationship, that I won’t want to continue being friends, you’re wrong.”
She thought he was worried about what she would think of him?
“I have three months to secure suitable partners. The bylaws are very clear. All members must be married before their forty-fifth birthday.”
“You have to find the partners? I thought they were assigned to you by the Grand Poobah or whatever his name is.”
Harrison chuckled. “The Grand Master.”
“Right. He makes the decision. Decides your future for you.” Though ten years had passed, it was obvious Alexis’s opinion of the way the organization chose its partnerships hadn’t changed. Her tone was rife with disapproval.
“Lex—”
She released his hands and stood up. “Regardless of your upbringing, I think you’re selling yourself short.”
“How so?”
“What’s wrong with falling in love the normal way? Finding a woman who touches you, who moves you? Why can’t you choose for yourself who you want to marry? Letting a stranger decide who you love is unnatural. Wrong.”
Alexis would never truly understand the beauty of the trinities unless she witnessed it for herself. Unfortunately, she refused to give up her romantic views, to allow herself to see that sometimes love worked in more than just the traditional way.
He steeled himself as he stood. He was about to break a major rule, go against everything he’d been taught. It didn’t matter. Desperate times called for desperate measures.
“I’m the Grand Master.”
May 6, 2014
B is for…
Have y’all heard about Lila Dubois’ BDSM Checklist series?
A BDSM checklist is designed to help people who enjoy BDSM play to identify what does and doesn’t interested them. In Lila’s books, the overseers of an exclusive BDSM club have decided to challenge the members to push their own boundaries by assigning every member a letter–and along with it all the things under that letter on the checklist.
I read Lila’s A is for… last weekend. HOLY HOTNESS. The abrasion scene was unlike anything I’d ever read before. What I was most impressed with was how she managed to blend the BDSM with romance and humor and characters you knew were meant to be together. It was wonderful. And now…mercifully…here’s the next!
B is for…
There’s a new game at LA’s most exclusive BDSM club, and everyone has to play.
Mae never imagined she’d be assigned to the most dangerous letter of alphabet… or paired with the most sinister Dominant in the club. The BDSM Checklist game doesn’t scare Xavier, but he prefers leather and steel, and the submissive he’s partnered with thinks silk ribbon is bondage equipment.
Pushed to her limits both physically and emotionally, Mae is shock to discover how much she enjoys Xavier’s touch. But in the end it isn’t just Mae who will be affected by the unexpected chemistry between two seeming opposites. Xavier will have to decide if he’s willing to trust the lovely sub with the truth about himself, as he proves to her that there’s a darkness in her—a darkness that just might match his own.
Where to get it
B is for…
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A is for…
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May 4, 2014
Quote of the Day
I will admit I never Angel on TV. Never saw a single episode. BUT…I heard or saw this quote somewhere and it stuck. So I’m sharing it with you today.
“If nothing we do in this world matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do.”
May 2, 2014
Contest!
Enter here for a chance to win a $200 Amazon Gift Card and an Amazon Fire TV.
May 1, 2014
A Sale in May
To celebrate the release of Forbidden Legacy on May 8 (only a week away!), Lila and I are having a month-long sale on Elemental Pleasure. For the month of May, you can get the first book in our Trinity Masters series for just .99 cents. If you haven’t had a chance to check out these books, please consider giving them a try. Secret society, wealthy alpha males, arranged menage marriages, romantic suspense, red-hot sex–there’s something for everyone! lol
When Carly Kenan joined the secretive Trinity Masters in college, she knew that she’d have to pay. That day has come. Returning to Boston, Carly meets former Marine Lance Glassco, a mathematician for DARPA, and Preston Kim, a celebrated chemist. Though on the surface they have nothing in common, it’s clear the Grand Master thinks that together the three of them can do something amazing. And that’s why he’s declared that Carly, Lance and Preston must unite. In a ménage.
Tempers flare as they struggle to understand each other, but their physical attraction is explosive, and the sex leaves all of them begging for more. Pushed beyond her limits, Carly runs from Lance and Preston. What she doesn’t understand is that she now belongs to them, body and soul…and they belong to her. When Lance uncovers a dangerous crime at Preston’s company, Carly is caught in the crossfire and the struggling lovers are forced to move beyond desire…to trust.
The Trinity Masters have the power to make careers and change lives, but there’s a price. All members know that the day will come when the Grand Master will select them, and pair them with two others. For the Trinity Masters the strongest bond isn’t a pair, but a threesome.
Excerpt:
The small foyer was exactly as she remembered. The room was small enough to be mistaken for a closet if anyone who was not a member found their way in. The walls were paneled wood, the floor covered with the same carpet as the outer room. An empty book cart took up a third of the space. Turning to her right, she examined the panels. Numbers were etched into the wood, seemingly at random.
The Grand Master’s instructions said she was to open box thirty-one. Pressing her finger against the number, she felt a click. When she pulled her hand back, a small tray popped out of the wall. Reaching in, she retrieved a key and a piece of paper.
You’ll find garments in Room C. Right hand corridor.
Wait until you hear the bell.
-Grand Master
The note was written by hand. Carly shivered a little. The Grand Master was the head of the Trinity Masters and a man of unspeakable power and influence. No one knew who he was, though there were plenty of rumors. At the Trinity Masters annual gatherings, meetings hidden inside library benefit galas, Carly had done her share of gossiping about who he might be.
Now she wasn’t curious, she was afraid.
Note and key in hand, she moved the cart out of the way and—with another push—opened the door hidden in the back wall. It revealed a narrow elevator. When she pressed the button, the door opened and Carly stepped in. She took a moment to gather herself as the small elevator took her down to the sub-basement. When it stopped and the door slid to the side, she bit the inside of her cheek to center herself.
A long marble hallway stretched out in front of her. Columns supported the double-high arched ceiling, which was a smaller replica of the grand hallway above. Her footsteps rang as she made her way along the hall, the sound bouncing off the walls to echo down to the grand double doors at the far end. There were no books here to muffle the sound. At the midway point, there were openings in the walls, one to the right, another to the left. She’d been down the left hallway before. There were changing rooms there, elegant as the locker rooms in a fancy spa. For ceremonies, all members wore robes to protect their identities, and those with the most need for secrecy had private dressing rooms.
As she turned right, she wondered if that was where she was going—to a private dressing room. Now that she had been called to the altar by the Grand Master, she supposed she’d earned a private dressing room.
After all, she was about to meet her husbands.
Or maybe it would be husband and wife.
Her hands shook, and it took her a few tries to get the key into the lock on Room C. Once in, she found a small, but well-appointed room. A white robe waited on a hook. Normally they wore gray.
Setting her purse on the vanity, she touched the robe. “It’s like a wedding dress,” she whispered to herself.
It would be the only wedding dress she’d ever wear.
In exchange for the Trinity Masters’ help, she’d given up her future, specifically her choice of whom she would marry.
Throughout history, the world had been secretly controlled by relationships that defied societal standards. Some of those relationships had come to light, the most famous of which had been Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, who’d been in a relationship with Lady Emma Hamilton and Sir William Hamilton. The gossip papers of the nineteenth century had called it an affair between Lady Emma and Lord Nelson, but it had been so much more. The three-way union between them had helped end the Napoleonic Wars, and both Emma and William had mourned Lord Nelson after his death.
The Trinity Masters believed that when three people were united, it created a bond far stronger than the pedestrian two-person marriage, and that these triads—if made between those with power and intellect—had the capability to change the world.
Carly slid out of her clothes, leaving on the corset-bra, panties and garter set she’d bought especially for today. She closed her eyes, trying to still her nerves.
She’d joined the Trinity Masters at nineteen, when the idea of some crazy secret ménage marriage had seemed exciting, elicit. In her twenties, she’d enjoyed herself, knowing there was no need for her to worry about falling in love or getting married. By the time she was twenty-eight and her friends were married, some expecting children, she finally understood what she’d really given up in her quest for success.
However, the consequences of crossing the Trinity Masters were too dire to contemplate, and so here she was, waiting to meet the people she’d share the rest of her life with. That thought sent another shard of panic through her before she beat it down.
She checked her hair and makeup in the mirror, then raised the hood and tugged the chain out from under the robe so it lay on her chest in plain sight, the triangle glinting in the low light. Carly had never shirked from a challenge…or a commitment. She wouldn’t begin now.
Taking a seat on a velvet chair, she breathed deeply, trying to calm herself.
A bell rang, the deep sound vibrating through her. She looked up as a door in the wall opposite where she sat opened.
Rising to her feet, Carly threw back her shoulders, lifted her head and walked through.
April 30, 2014
Mother may I…
…have these recent and upcoming releases??? Check out what came out last month that you might have missed and what’s hitting the shelves this month!
April 27, 2014
Quote of the Day
“Never confuse movement with action.” – Ernest Hemingway
