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November 29, 2012
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The Billionaire's Pregnant Mistress
Lucy Monroe ISBN 0-373-12438-4December 2004
December 17, 2013 Harlequin is rereleasing book as a stand alone ebook. Check out my webpage for more details.
When Greek billionaire Dimitri Petronides is forced to give up Xandra Fortune, his beautiful mistress, he's certain she won't be too distraught. For all the intense passion they've shared she's never let him into her heart, and such a commitment-shy woman could never be his wife... But after their split, Dimitri discovers that Xandra Fortune is not who he thought she was - and she is also pregnant with his child. Now he has to track her down and claim his mistress as his wife!
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Please leave your answer in the comment section. Winners will be announced on Saturday. If you leave your email address in your comment I will contact you regarding the prize otherwise you may check back on Saturday to see if you are the winner and email me.The Billionaire's Pregnant Mistress is being rereleased on December 17th as a stand alone ebook in Harlequin's Special Releases. As a "Thank You" to the readers, they are releasing it at a special price of $2.99, but for a limited time only. When does the special pricing end?
November 28, 2012
Humpday Hottie!
November 27, 2012
Silver Bella Excerpt
Silver Bellaby Lucy Monroe
Cowboy Contemporary Romance Novella
Electronic Re-Release of a novella originally published in print only
in the Merry Christmas, Baby Anthology
Samhain Publishing - December 4, 2012
ISBN 978-1-61921-542-9
Pre-order the book from Samhain Publishing for less than $2.00!
CHAPTER ONE
Sexless mannequin.
The words reverberated through Bella Jackson’s head as she stepped out onto the catwalk.
“A man could get frostbite touching you. You’re all smoke and no fire, babe. If the world knew what a total fraud you are, you’d never get another modeling job again. Who wants the original ice queen modeling clothes for today’s sensual woman?” Curt’s vitriol echoed around her, drowning out the announcer’s modulated voice, even though the confrontation had taken place miles away and days ago.
She couldn’t forget.
Maybe because Curt had taken his story to the press and her face and body were plastered all over the tabloids with headlines that made her cringe.
Bella Jackson, Ice Queen or Sexpot?
Model Freezes Boyfriend Out of Bed
Lexi’s Creations Cover Model Fraud
Ex-boyfriend Says This Model’s Bed Needs an Electric Blanket to Stay Warm
And the one that had given her mother heart palpitations: Ex-boyfriend Speculates Bella is Gay.
She’d done hundreds of trunk shows in her ten year modeling career, but never had she been so nervous stepping onto a stage.
Had everyone in the audience seen the stories? Were they laughing behind their hands as she modeled clothes that only a woman extremely in touch with her own sexuality would wear?
That woman was not Bella.
She didn’t have hang-ups, no matter what that jerk, Curt had said. It was just that she’d been so career minded since her teens the whole man-woman thing had pretty much passed her by. Not to mention the fact that she wasn’t interested in getting intimate with a man who couldn’t see beyond her body to the woman inside.
She’d had her bad experiences with idiots who thought her bra size was equivalent to her I.Q. and men who wanted a trophy on their arm, not a living, breathing woman in their life, so she’d pretty much stopped dating. Until Curt.
When he’d pressed for sex, she’d been unable to share her secret with him...or her body.
The truth was, she hadn’t wanted to.
His kisses and what he’d wanted to do afterward had left her as cold as he’d accused her of being.
She was a twenty-six year old virgin with a reputation for extravagant sex and a supposed list of lovers the length of the Miami yellow pages. It wasn’t her fault that the press speculated, or that men who hadn’t made it to first base had bragged about their homeruns, but neither had she denied the rumors. Lexi said her reputation was good for the line and Bella had considered it another cost of her career.
Her bad-girl reputation had done its own job keeping her insulated from the type of men she could actually want. The men attracted to the persona she presented to the world were very rarely the type of men she could be honestly attracted to.
Curt had been different, or so she’d thought.
She’d found out too late that the conservative accountant had only wanted the bad girl, not the real Bella. He’d wanted to take a walk on the wild side with her as his tour guide.
The last daywear model was returning up the catwalk when the announcer introduced Lexi’s eveningwear and Bella began her signature glide down the Plexiglas stage, her hands damp and her heart beating too fast.
Subdued lighting made it possible for her to make eye contact with the audience, but that was the last thing she wanted. Still, she couldn’t help subtly scanning the patrons seated in the ultra classy Dallas hotel, looking for signs that the tabloid stories had done their damage.
But this audience seemed just like all the others, their gazes fixed on her shocking white silk dress.
She was halfway down the catwalk when her gaze snagged on a pair of green eyes. The color of new grass, they were set in a face as hard as granite and as sexy as sin.
The look in those eyes caught her as effectively as if the man’s hands had closed over her shoulders and halted her mid-step. She did in fact stop, her body freezing with a blast of sensations totally alien to her. Sensations that belied every one of the nasty headlines.
Her pause lasted only a second, but she felt the first blush she’d had in years crawling hotly up her skin.
The man’s thin lips quirked in a knowing smile.
Obviously aware that he was the cause of her hesitation, his expression reflected a mixture of mocking humor and blatant male approval.
She’d spent years learning to ignore the masculine admiration her body elicited. For her, the perfectly proportioned curves were a tool of her trade, nothing more, but this man’s look went zinging to the very heart of her.
Frissons of awareness skittered along her nerve endings, leaving goose bumps of sensation in unlikely places.
She stopped at the end of the stage, which happened to be right in front of his table while two other models wearing eveningwear came down the catwalk to flank her.
His eyes flared with pleasure as she stood in a mannequin still pose before him and his dark blonde head tilted slightly, as if he was adjusting his angle to look at her better.
An electric current vibrated across the space between them, inexorably connecting them. Unbelievably, her nipples grew hard and her breasts felt tight while her thighs trembled with the effort it took to maintain her pose.
She’d never reacted during a show this way. Not ever.
Only years of practice and discipline made it possible for her to move through her choreographed routine with the other two models. However, no matter which direction she turned, she felt that amazing connection.
It was scary.
Relief mixed with disappointment when the announcer cued her to return up the catwalk. She walked away from the green-eyed man, supremely aware of the almost non-existent nature of the back of her gown.
It dipped to a V that ended right above her bottom, the white silk semi-transparent. She wore minimal undergarments and if he was looking closely enough, he would see the shadow of her cheeks and the outline of her legs beneath the fabric. Shards of excitement speared her inner thighs at the thought.
For the first time in her modeling career, she felt exposed, as if her body was more than a living mannequin used to show off a designer’s creations.
That the dress was in fact showing her off.
She could not help wondering what he thought of an outfit that left so little of her body’s secrets to the imagination.
***
Jake Barton watched the beautiful brunette retreat up the catwalk with the biggest, most painful hard-on he’d had in years...maybe ever.
It was such an unexpected turn-on that he wanted to howl at the moon. “Damn it, Lise, you didn’t tell me this was going to be a lingerie show.”
“Shh,” his sister hissed from her seat beside him, not turning to look at him. “Haut couture tends to be more revealing. The lingerie comes later.”
“You’re kidding.”
“No, I’m not. It’s on the program if you’d bothered to look at it.”
He looked at it now and sure enough, there was a finale of nightwear by Lexi.
He didn’t know how he was going to stand seeing the model who had been introduced as Bella in anything sexier without coming in his pants.
That little lady was a walking work of art. A perfect pocket Venus. She definitely didn’t fit the current trend of boy-thin, Amazon tall models that graced most magazine covers.
The other models in the show for Lexi’s Creations designed especially for petite women were small in stature too, but none of them had this model’s voluptuous curves or the air of sensual promise her pouting lips gave her. Despite those sensual lips, her brown eyes had reflected an unconscious vulnerability that he found every bit as enticing as her sexy body.
For the first time since his sister had talked him into attending a series of trunk shows with her while she researched the professional world of fashion for her latest book, he thought he just might enjoy himself.
The program said the sexy beauty was the official cover model for Lexi Creations, which meant she would no doubt feature in all of the shows. Considering the number of them he’d promised Lise he would attend, he would have ample opportunity to meet Bella. He smiled, the prospect affecting his mood and his libido in a very definite way.
His dick was already making emphatic statements about what it wanted to do when they met and it wasn’t to engage in polite conversation.
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November 23, 2012
Guest Blogger - Jami Davenport
An advocate of happy endings, Jami Davenport writes sexy romantic comedy, sports hero romances, and equestrian fiction. Jami lives on a small farm near Puget Sound with her Green Beret-turned-plumber husband, a Newfoundland cross with a tennis ball fetish, a prince disguised as an orange tabby cat, and an opinionated Hanoverian mare.Jami works in IT for her day job and is a former high school business teacher and dressage rider. In her spare time, she maintains her small farm and socializes whenever the opportunity presents itself. An avid boater, Jami has spent countless hours in the San Juan Islands, a common setting in her books. In her opinion, it is the most beautiful place on earth.
The Non-Traditional Family
I love the holidays, which is probably why I decided to write a Christmas short story this year. Love at First Snow is not my typical book as it runs a little on the sweet side. It’s also a little more serious than most of my books, at least in the beginning. It confronts the issue of spending the holidays without a traditional family unit.
Christmas is a time for family, but what if you don’t have a traditional family made up of brothers, sisters, mother, father, grandparents, and aunts and uncles? Maybe they don’t exist anymore or maybe they’re just too far away or maybe you’ve never had a traditional family.
I know how this feels as I lost my father when I was three and my mother when I was twenty-five (my mother never remarried so there’s no stepfamily), and my only sibling about five years ago. I have plenty of relatives, but they’re hours away and have their own families with which to celebrate the holidays. My husband has three children but doesn’t see them for holidays, as they spend both holidays with their mother’s family. It’s always been that way, and we’ve accepted that it always will be that way, fair or not.
So hubbie and I created a non-traditional family made up of friends, step-family, and my ex-husband and his new wife and their daughter. Yes, you heard me correctly. We are good friends with my ex-husband. His son is essentially my son, and we introduced him to his new wife a few years ago. Definitely a non-traditional family, but it works for us.
In Love at First Snow, both the hero, Blake, and the heroine, Sarah, have lost those closest to them and find themselves alone at Christmas. On Christmas eve Blake finds an emaciated kitten near death in a snowbank. He takes the kitten to the vet clinic just in the nick of time as the veterinarian, Sarah, is about to close up for the night.
These two lonely souls find each other on Christmas Eve with the help of an injured kitten and a rare Orcas Island snowstorm. After all Christmas is about love and they find love on this magical night.
I wish you a very Happy Holidays and hope you surround yourself with your “family” and experience the joy of the season.
Love at First Snow
Christmas is a time for family--if you have a family.
Four years ago on Christmas Eve, NHL hockey player Blake Daniels lost his entire family in a float plane crash. Every Christmas Eve he mourns his losses by returning to the family vacation home in Friday Harbor, Washington, his family's destination that fateful night. Only this year he's also mourning the loss of his hockey career and wondering what's left to live for. When he finds a kitten starving and half frozen in a foot of snow, he rushes the tiny thing to the local animal hospital.
Still reeling from the unexpected loss of her father on Christmas Eve two years ago, Dr. Sarah Whitney opens the door to her clinic and finds a rough and tough professional athlete holding a minuscule kitten in his big hands. Only a miracle can save the frozen creature and only a miracle can heal the devastating losses suffered by both Sarah and Blake.
But Christmas is the time for healing and miracles if you only believe and give love a chance.
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Holiday Reads - Week 5
It's Black Friday and for a lot of you that meant getting up at O'Dark Thirty to hit the mega sales. We didn't exactly sleep in, but we didn't go shopping either. We had a sleepover with the granddaughters so their parents could. I'm pretty sure we got the better end of the bargain. :)
We are down to 13 days until the release of Silver Bella on Dec 4th from Samhain! I'm already singing Christmas carols with the children and my feet are itching to dance around the office to Andy Williams.
Pre-order the book from Samhain Publishing for less than $2.00!
A few more holiday reads for your enjoyment this week.
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Hugs and happy reading,Lucy
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We are down to 13 days until the release of Silver Bella on Dec 4th from Samhain! I'm already singing Christmas carols with the children and my feet are itching to dance around the office to Andy Williams.
Pre-order the book from Samhain Publishing for less than $2.00! A few more holiday reads for your enjoyment this week.
Do not miss this short, fun read! [image error] Buy the Book
Buy the Book
Buy the Book
Buy the Book
Hugs and happy reading,Lucy
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http://www.lucymonroe.com/
http://lucymonroeblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/LucyMonroe.Romance
http://twitter.com/#!/lucymonroe
November 21, 2012
Humpday Hottie
November 20, 2012
December Release - The Billionaire's Pregnant Mistress
Read and excerptThe Billionaire's Pregnant MistressLucy Monroe ISBN 978-14603-1182-0December 2012
December 17, 2013 Harlequin is rereleasing book as a stand alone ebook. Check out my webpage for more details.
When Greek billionaire Dimitri Petronides is forced to give up Xandra Fortune, his beautiful mistress, he's certain she won't be too distraught. For all the intense passion they've shared she's never let him into her heart, and such a commitment-shy woman could never be his wife... But after their split, Dimitri discovers that Xandra Fortune is not who he thought she was - and she is also pregnant with his child. Now he has to track her down and claim his mistress as his wife!
November 17, 2012
52 Weeks of Romance Contest Winner
November 16, 2012
Holiday Reads - Week 4
This week we're gearing up for the December 4th standalone eBook release of
Silver Bella
from Samhain with a more comprehensive guest blog on holiday themed romance novels to get you into the spirit of the season. Stop by and share your favorites for a chance to win a hardback of The Christmas Treasury of Romance with my story The Playboy's Seduction in it. This story is almost impossible to come by in either print or electronic format and is another one readers email me about frequently. I have very few author copies, so give them away RARELY.
This is your chance. All you have to do is stop by the blog and leave a comment on my post to be entered in the contest.
Hugs and happy reading,Lucy
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