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July 7, 2014
July Newsletter Winner
Congrats to Kimberly Smith!!! Kimberly is the winner of the July newsletter contest. She won a $30 Amazon.com gift card and an early copy of PLAYING WITH FIRE.
I run newsletter contests each month, so please make sure that you’re subscribed to my newsletter so that you won’t miss the fun. 
July 3, 2014
Free For the 4th of July – THE WOLF WITHIN
I hope all of my US readers are gearing up for a great holiday weekend! Happy 4th of July! Since it is such a special weekend, I wanted to offer a free book to readers. So if you haven’t checked out THE WOLF WITHIN yet, then grab a copy while the book is free!
FBI Special Agent Duncan McGuire spends his days–and his nights–tracking real-life monsters. Most humans aren’t aware of the vampires and werewolves that walk among them. They don’t realize the danger that they face, but Duncan knows about the horror that waits in the darkness. He hunts the monsters, and he protects the innocent. Duncan just never expects to become a monster. But after a brutal werewolf attack, Duncan begins to change…and soon he will be one of the very beasts that he has hunted.
Dr. Holly Young is supposed to help Duncan during his transition. It’s her job to keep him sane so that Duncan can continue working with the FBI’s Para Unit. But as Duncan’s beast grows stronger, the passion that she and Duncan have held carefully in check pushes to the surface. The desire that is raging between them could be a very dangerous thing…because Holly isn’t exactly human, not any longer.
As the monsters circle in, determined to take out all of the agents working at the Para Unit, Holly and Duncan will have to use their own supernatural strengths in order to survive. But as they give up more of their humanity and embrace the beasts within them both, they realize that the passion between them isn’t safe, it isn’t controllable, and their dark need may just be an obsession that could destroy them both.
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THE WOLF WITHIN is free on the Kindle, at Kobo, and at iTunes.
Have a wonderful holiday!!! Enjoy barbecues, fireworks, and your family time!
July 1, 2014
I’LL BE SLAYING YOU – Available in Mass Market
Happy Tuesday!!! In case you haven’t read my sexy vampire novel, I’LL BE SLAYING YOU, I wanted to come by and announce that Kensington Brava has re-released the book in mass market form–yay!!!!
I’LL BE SLAYING YOU was originally released in 2010 (in trade paperback), so I am very excited that the book is on store shelves again.
Blurb:
Cynthia Eden returns to the realm of the Other, where the supernatural bounty hunters of Night Watch work hard and play harder…
Sandra “Dee” Daniels is a vampire’s worst nightmare. Sure, she couldn’t get up to five-six in the highest heels money can buy—not that she ever wears heels. But the monsters in her past and the stake in her boot are enough to keep most bloodsuckers interested in staying undead out of Baton Rouge.
But there are changes afoot on her turf. Rumors of a Born Master in town—a vampire so powerful he can make the streets run with blood. And a new face in Dee’s dive bars and alleyways—Simon Chase, a strong, sexy shadow with a haunted past of his own. Simon knows a lot about the dark side of Dee’s work. He knows even more about how to make her body spark with desire. But the hot lust shimmering between them is only the beginning. Because Simon also knows a secret that will change Dee’s life—if she can live long enough to uncover it.
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You can check out an excerpt of the book here.
Have a fantastic day!!!!! I’ll be back soon with more news!
June 14, 2014
Newletter Winner
Congrats to Laurie Gommermann! Laurie, you are the winner of the Kindle Paperwhite (I sent you an email with prize details).
Next month, I’ll have a brand-new prize for my newsletter subscribers.
Thank you!
June 9, 2014
MARKED BY THE VAMPIRE is here!
Vampires exist. So do werewolves. The creatures that you fear in the darkness? They’re all real. And the baddest of the paranormals…those who love to hurt humans…they’re sent to Purgatory, the only paranormal prison in the U.S.
His job is to stop the monsters.
Deadly forces are at work within Purgatory. The monsters are joining together–and their plans have to be stopped. FBI Agent Shane August, a very powerful vampire with a dark past, is sent into the prison on an undercover assignment. His job is to infiltrate the vampire clan, by any means necessary.
She wants to help the prisoners.
Dr. Olivia Maddox wants to find out just why certain paranormals go bad. What pushes some vampires over the edge? Why do some werewolves turn so savage? If she can understand the monsters, then Olivia thinks she can help them. When she gets permission to enter Purgatory, Olivia believes she is being given the research opportunity of a lifetime.
Olivia doesn’t realize that she’s walking straight into hell.
To survive, they have to rely on each other.
When the prisoners break loose, there is only one person–one vampire–who can protect her, but as Olivia and Shane fight the enemies that surround them, a dark and dangerous passion stirs to life between the doctor and the vamp. Shane realizes that Olivia is a woman carrying secrets–powerful, sinful secrets. Secrets that a man would kill to possess.
And Olivia realizes that–sometimes–you can’t control the beast inside of you. No matter how hard you try. Some passions can push you to the very limits of your control…and the growing lust that she feels for her vampire…it’s sending her racing right into a deadly storm of desire.
Welcome to Purgatory…a place that’s a real hell on earth…
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MARKED BY THE VAMPIRE is now available at Amazon, B&N, and All Romance eBooks. It is in the process of loading at iTunes and Kobo (so it will be listed there soon!). Right now, the book is available as a digital release, but I am planning to make this title available in print, too. MARKED BY THE VAMPIRE contains 55,000 words and is priced at $2.99.
Over at my Facebook page, I’ll be doing lots of giveaways throughout the week as I celebrate the release of MARKED BY THE VAMPIRE. I hope you can stop by!
May 23, 2014
MINE TO TAKE
It’s time for summer fun!! Memorial Day weekend is upon us–and my son’s very last day of school is today. I bet I’m not the only one who is looking at all of the days of summer and thinking–I sure could use a nice, relaxing read right now.
So if you’re looking for a read this weekend…MINE TO TAKE is free (Kindle, Kobo, iBooks, and All Romance). I’m hoping to get a free price match from Nook for my Nook readers (I can’t adjust it directly to free there, so I have to wait for a price match).
Here’s the blurb for MINE TO TAKE:
Sometimes you want someone so much…
Sometimes you need someone so much…
Lust can become love.
And love can turn into a deadly obsession.
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Skye Sullivan knows that someone is watching her. Not just watching—stalking her. Months ago, Skye was involved in a dangerous car accident. The accident ended her dancing career and sent her fleeing back to Chicago. Skye is convinced that her stalker caused the crash, and she fears that he won’t stop pursuing her, not until she’s dead.
When someone breaks into her apartment in Chicago, Skye turns to the one man she believes can protect her—Trace Weston. Once, Trace was her lover. Two lost souls, they’d come together in a firestorm of need and desire. But then Trace had pushed her away. He’d joined the military, vanishing from her life. She’d put all of her emotion into dancing, and she’d tried to forget him.
Now Trace is one of the most successful men in the United States. Rich, driven, and carrying dark secrets, he agrees to help Skye. He’ll protect her from the danger that lurks in the darkness, but Trace wants more than to just be a guard for Skye.
He wants her. And he’ll take her. The years have changed him, hardened him. He’s not just a poor kid from the streets any longer. Now, he can have anything—or anyone—that he wants. And the one woman he has always wanted has just come back into his life. He won’t let her go again.
But with the threats mounting against Skye, she suspects that her stalker may be intimately close. He’s a man who knows her too well. As his attacks grow ever more dangerous, she realizes that if she trusts the wrong man, she could be making a fatal mistake.
Lust. Love. Obsession.
Just how far would you go in order to possess the one person you want the most?
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Have a fabulous weekend!!!! And, to make sure that weekend gets off to a great start…check out the “Wolverine” version of Hugh Jackman singing…’Happy!”
May 13, 2014
RT Booklovers Convention!
I am heading over to New Orleans for the big RT Booklovers Convention. If you’re attending, please come and say “hi!”–I’ll have lots of goodies with me!
And, even if you aren’t attending the convention, you can still come to the giant book fair (if you’re in the New Orleans area). Here are all the book fair details:
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Where: Marriott hotel on Canal Street in the historic French Quarter.
When: Saturday, May 17, 2014, from 11:00am to 2:00pm
What: Over 700 authors will be participating in the signing!
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Have a great day!
RT Booklovers Convetion!
I am heading over to New Orleans for the big RT Booklovers Convention. If you’re attending, please come and say “hi!”–I’ll have lots of goodies with me!
And, even if you aren’t attending the convention, you can still come to the giant book fair (if you’re in the New Orleans area). Here are all the book fair details:
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Where: Marriott hotel on Canal Street in the historic French Quarter.
When: Saturday, May 17, 2014, from 11:00am to 2:00pm
What: Over 700 authors will be participating in the signing!
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Have a great day!
May 4, 2014
Newsletter Winner
The winner of the Kindle Paperwhite is…Lori McNeill!! Congratulations, Lori!! I sent you an email about your prize, but if you did not receive it, please contact me at info@cynthiaeden.com.
Thanks so much to everyone who entered the giveaway! I plan to do a newsletter giveaway each month as a “thank you!” to my subscribers.
I hope that you are all having a wonderful weekend!
April 29, 2014
ONCE BITTEN, TWICE BURNED – Availble Now!
Today is the release day for my latest paranormal romance from Kensington Brava–ONCE BITTEN, TWICE BURNED is out!
Ryder Duncan keeps his secrets. With a twisted scientist starving him in a 10 x 12 cell, it’s not easy to conceal the abilities that set him apart from other vampires, or his plans for escape. But survival–and revenge–are worth waiting for. Until the so-called doctor tempts his appetites with something special: a woman, with a soft Southern accent and a scent like flowers. Sabine.
Sabine Acadia didn’t volunteer to be dinner. She was kidnapped and tossed into the cage of a monster. A monster with fierce green eyes, a body that speaks of ruthless power–but a touch gentle as a caress. Ryder knows things about her, secrets Sabine needs to learn fast. Because while they might soon escape this prison, she’s fighting an urge to set all her desires free. . .
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And here’s an excerpt from the book for you:
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She shook her head, sending the heavy curtain of her hair— brown but shot with red highlights—over her shoulders. “Mister, you’ve got some real big teeth, and I’d appreciate it if you kept them away from me.”
Her voice was husky, low, and sexy. It whispered with an accent he’d heard before, down in New Orleans. Smoky. Rolling.
“Please,” she said again, as her hands pushed against his chest.
But he couldn’t let her go. Ryder inhaled again. She smelled so good. He knew she’d taste even better. “Just a few sips,” Ryder told her because he was past the point of pulling away. The hunger was too strong. It wasn’t the man who wanted her blood. It was the beast who had no control.
She yelped and kicked out at him.
He barely felt the blows.
“Take as much as you need, Ryder,” the doctor’s satisfied voice told him. “She’s all yours.”
He grabbed the woman, twisted, and forced her back against the right wall. They were across from that damn two-way mirror, and his bigger body easily shielded hers, blocking her from Wyatt’s view. “I’m . . . sorry.” He barely managed to grit the words, but he had to say them. He hated her fear. Hated that he was the one who made her afraid.
She stopped struggling. “Don’t be sorry, just let me go.”
The thunder of her blood was the best music he’d ever heard. “Haven’t . . . fed . . . too long.”
“I’m not your midnight snack.” Her words were brave, but he saw the fear in her eyes. “I’m a person, dammit! Now let me go.”
He couldn’t. His head lowered toward her throat. “I’ll hold on to my . . . control.” Ryder hoped the words weren’t a lie. “I just need a little . . . blood.”
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Have a great day!!!!
