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New cover, new price!

To celebrate the dramatic new cover of my short story collection, DARING INTERLUDES, I've reduced the price to a very tasty 99c [or 77p or equivalent in your currency]. These stories are super hot, and yes, very daring. They're all about couples who are established and happy together, but eager to have fun trying edgy new sensual pleasures.

Here's the lowdown on each one:

In The Concubine, Merry spices up Rick's convalescence by telling him one of her super sexy stories and transporting him to a fantasy kindom where a beautiful and sensually accomplished courtesan serves her lord and master.

Silver Screen is a walk on the wild side for the heroine when she's compelled to take breathtaking erotic risks at the behest of her wickedly imaginative lover.

Vickie and Terrence both have sexual secrets, and neither quite knows what's going on in the other's head when they're in bed, making love. But one day, Vickie reveals her Naughty Thoughts... and discovers a brand new, thrilling Terrence. A powerful man who likes to play spanking games.

Daring Interludes is available from Barnes and Noble, Nook UK, Kobo Ebooks, Amazon Kindle US and Amazon Kindle UK.

There's a mini excerpt here.

Christmas with the SubClub gals!

The girls at THE SUBCLUB are running a super HOLIDAY BUNDLE contest, and I'm helping them celebrate by donating a prize of my two Christmas themed titles 'tied' in a festive bundle, THE GIFT and FIRE AND ICE.

So zip on over there, and find out how to enter. It's a simple question, promise, and there are lots of great prizes on odder as well as my humble offering. :)

http://thesubclubbooks.com/?p=17689

 

THE GIFT is out now!

My Christmas novel THE GIFT is out now! Complete with festive red bow and golden lettering on the cover [see piccie below for more detail].

THE GIFT isn't entirely a new title. It's a re-imagining of an earlier book of mine, KISS IT BETTER, transferring a generic sort of Spring/Summer setting to the more seasonal one of December and the run up to Christmas. Although this was an idea suggested to me by my editor, I do think it works perfectly, as The Gift has a strong 'fairytale' type romance vibe to it, with shades of Sleeping Beauty, almost, along with reunited lovers, and a tough and slightly cranky Prince Charming, who's been through the mill of pain and injury, and almost literally come out on the other side as an entirely different man.

There's also an entirely new and rather sexy epilogue, which includes not only a love scene for hero and heroine Jay and Sandy, but a 'sighting' of Lizzie and John from my ACCIDENTAL TRILOGY. The books are all set in the same 'world' as a few of my other titles, including Entertaining Mr Stone, Suite Seventeen, and In Too Deep.


[Look at that blingy lettering, eh!]

Blurb for THE GIFT

Pleasure with a perfect stranger...

Jay Bentley is a man with issues. Haunted by physical and psychological demons, he seeks solace and sexual oblivion in the pursuit of an exquisite erotic daydream from his youth, and the reality of a woman who has illuminated his inner fantasies since a brief meeting years ago.

Sandy Jackson has always known that a certain magic is 'missing' from her life. She's feisty and philosophical, but her dreams are filled with heated images of a handsome Prince Charming she once encountered, a man who will kiss everything better and gift her with glorious, dangerous pleasure.

But the past is an illusion, and the present fraught with conflict and uneasy compromise… can two passionate lovers reconcile their differences and slake their burning sensual hunger for each other in a wild and daring liaison?

Excerpt here:

http://www.portiadacosta.com/thegift.html


Available from:

Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Kindle UK and Kindle US
 
Also from Barnes and Noble, W H Smith, Nook UK, Kobo, All Romance Ebooks, Waterstones Books and Waterstones Ebooks

And while we're on a Christmas theme... here's another of my titles set during the Festive Season...


Cally and Innes, the boss she secretly adores, are marooned in a freezing flat over Christmas, with broken central heating... and a dose of the forty eight hour flu for Innes. What else is a girl to do but administer her body heat as a therapy to make him feel better?

More info and a sexy excerpt here:

http://www.portiadacosta.com/fireandice2.html

STOP PRESS! HAWT EXCERPT ALERT!

What, a second blog post in a day?

Anyway, I'm just alerting you all to an *exclusive* and very hot excerpt of THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE that's available for your delectation over at my buddy Limecello's blog!

http://www.tartsweet.com/2013/11/26/teaser-tueday-exclusive-excerpt-the-accidental-bride-by-portia-da-costa/

Cover reveal... sort of...

Okay, so it's not *really* a cover reveal. ;)

I've been freshening up some of the covers of my self published titles, adding a little colour. I think those stark, dramatic black and white type covers look great on physical printed books, but I feel that the covers for digital titles need to be a bit 'brighter' somehow. So... I've given Hettie some nice coral coloured lipstick and warmed her skintone with a touch of light honeyed tan.

You can discover a little bit about her complicated love story and her relationship with Starr, her hunky personal assistant, here:

http://www.portiadacosta.com/lessons2.html

My author spotlight at Cara Sutra's fabulous blog!

I'm excited to announce that the celebrated erotic blogger CARA SUTRA had kindly featured me today in an author spotlight post!

http://carasutra.co.uk/2013/11/erotic-author-spotlight-series-portia-da-costa/

There you'll find a bio of me, an excerpt of THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE and IN SEBASTIAN'S HANDS and collection of covers etc that look pretty spiffing all gathered together!

THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE is out in the UK!

From Call Girl to Mistress to…

Previously, in THE ACCIDENTAL CALL GIRL and THE ACCIDENTAL MISTRESS

When Lizzie Aitchison first met John Smith in the Lawns Bar of the Waverley Grange Hotel he mistakenly thought she was an escort in search of a client. The chemistry between them was dynamite from the outset, and Lizzie couldn’t resist the allure of John’s fallen angel face and the way his lean body looked in a sharp business suit. In a daring leap, she decided to play along with his misapprehension, and become ‘Bettie’, the high class call girl, if only for one night.

John was captivated too. Shaken out of a state of gathering ennui, he experienced an unstoppable urge to possess this beautiful young woman whose combination of a distinctive vintage style, and a bold yet strangely vulnerable personality was the ultimate call to his senses.

They embarked on an intense, kinky affair, initially for just the duration of John’s stay in the area on business, but the two quickly became a couple, both realising they wanted more than a temporary relationship. But each had issues to overcome, and a troubled history. John’s need to control and Lizzie’s feisty independence were a volatile mix, both in the bedroom and out of it, stirred to flash-point by John’s insistence that they live together.

But when a dark shadow from John’s past falls over their happiness, Lizzie realises that she has a dangerous rival...

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THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE is out today in the UK, bringing to a conclusion the complicated kinky love story of Lizzie, the accidental call girl, and her handsome, dominant, demanding but emotionally humane multi-millionaire lover, John Smith. They've had their ups and downs over the course of the first two books, but the biggest hurdles to their happily ever after loom large in THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE... primarily in the form of John's first great love, the fickle, aristocratic Clara. John loves Lizzie with all his heart now, but that doesn't stop Clara barging her way back into his life... to create mayhem.

Check out an excerpt from THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE here:

http://www.portiadacosta.com/accidentalbride.html

Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
Kindle UK and Kindle US
Also available from other outlets, and in bookshops in the UK.

New Black Lace cover reveal

Two of my classic Black Lace titles are being republished next year and these are the dramatic, sexy new covers they've been given! Aren't they great?

You can find out more about the books here:

http://www.portiadacosta.com/entertaining.html

http://www.portiadacosta.com/devilinside.html

ENTERTAINING MR STONE should hit the shelves in April 2014 and THE DEVIL INSIDE follows in June 2014

Latest release - OBJECT OF DESIRE!

Here's my latest release - a long short story about neighbours to lovers, called OBJECT OF DESIRE.

Sylvia is totally in lust with her gorgeous neighbour Dr Nathaniel Bowen, a distinguished military historian who just happens to be a hunk with a killer body. She's been watching him exercise out in the communal garden for weeks, but somehow just can't make the leap from saying hello to the handsome academic to inviting him into her flat, her bed... and her life. Instinct tells her he's a good guy as well as desperately desirable.

OBJECT OF DESIRE was previously published by Total-e-Bound, and while the text remains substantially the same, I think we can all agree on the fact that this new cover is stunning!!! What a body, eh? Clearly Doctor Bowen applies him just as vigorously to his fitness regime as he does to his scholarly pursuits.

Anyway, he's the official blurb:

See him, want him... love him?

Doctor Nathaniel Bowen is a hunk, and when he puts his godlike body through a series of graceful Tai Chi moves outside in their communal garden, Sylvia Bradford can't help but desire him. He's everything she's ever wanted in a man.

There's just one problem though. She's never spoken to him beyond saying "hello" and she's having difficulty coming up with an opening gambit.

But while Sylvia's busy working out how to make the first move, and get to know the gorgeous academic, Doctor Bowen himself comes knocking at her door. Does he really want to borrow a cup of sugar… or is it something quite different, and a lot hotter, that he's after?

You can find an excerpt of OBJECT OF DESIRE here:

http://www.portiadacosta.com/objectofdesire.html

It's available to buy from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com with other outlets to follow very soon.

New cover for FIRE AND ICE!

Here the brand new cover for FIRE AND ICE! Don't you think it's steamy? Look at that clinch and the way they're so into each other!

FIRE AND ICE is very much a winter/Christmas story, inspired by the time himself replaced our central heating system and we were shivering in the cold for about a week. Of course he chose December to do the job. LOL

Anyway, here's the blurb for the story:

Sharing their body heat...

Super efficient P.A. Cally Hobbes is head over heels in love with her handsome boss, the urbane and delicious Innes McKenzie. Day after day, beneath her cool, businesslike exterior, she's simmering hot for him, and she knows he's not entirely immune to her either, despite their perfect, above board working relationship.

Icy weather, a broken central heating system, and a dose of 24 hour flu suddenly change everything. With Innes alone and laid low in his frozen flat, Cally's golden chance to get close finally arrives. Innes is freezing, and she's burning for his touch, so what else can a girl do but climb into her boss's bed to warm up his chilly limbs with a dose of body heat?

An overnight recovery quickly leads to a very different kind of therapy... making all Cally's dreams of passion flame into life. Sex with her beloved Innes is everything she's fantasized about, and more. Much, much more.

But will their mutual desire and tender feelings survive a return to office propriety? Working together as P.A. and boss again, can Cally and Innes share the lasting glow of love? 

You can find more information, buying links, and a super hot excerpt here:

http://www.portiadacosta.com/fireandice2.html

Available from: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk plus other outlets.

Enjoy and stay warm! :)