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My Dark Wedding Duet Box Set Cover Reveal…

I have the cover art for THE DARK WEDDING DUET which contains The Proposal and The Sacrifice. It’s coming to Ebook soon (I don’t know exactly where I’m slotting it into my calendar yet. I don’t want to overwhelm people with all these releases)

And the Audio is coming in December. (The audio features: Meg Sylvan, Addison Barnes, Sebastian York, and Jason Clarke.)

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TikTok, AI, and other impolite things

I don’t write a lot of blog posts that aren’t just “so here’s what I have for you next” but I have some thoughts and feels about two things which seem unrelated at first glance but are very related to me.

TikTok and AI. Before I get into this, I want to point out that I have author friends who use TikTok and author friends who use AI tools. I am not making a moral argument nor am I speaking ill of anyone doing things I don’t do. I’m simply expressing why I don’t do them personally.

TikTok first… since it’s slightly less of an emotive landmine.

I don’t do TikTok. At the end of last year I really thought about it. I know TikTok can sell a lot of books and I know a lot of successful authors who SWEAR by their TikTok presence (though they have huge followings and got into TikTok when it was actually still an up and coming platform).

But I fucking HATE TikTok. I hate it with the fires of a thousand flaming suns. I just don’t fucking enjoy the whole idea of it. I don’t even have a TikTok account. (I do love Instagram though). If you told me literally the ONLY way to have an author career in 2023 was to get on TikTok, I’d start applying for “real jobs”.

I’ve certainly gone to Tiktok on occasion via links when there’s something interesting I want to see, but I can think of few things more crushing to my soul than spending any sustainable time on that platform and life is too short and precious to do shit you hate that much. And the idea of making endless “look at me, like me!” videos on that platform… seriously… ugh. No. TikTok can fuck ALL the way off.

So… I don’t do TikTok. It doesn’t mean I don’t have a business plan or stuff I’m doing. I’m just not doing TikTok. Will I get in on whatever the “next new social platform” is? Who knows? Maybe. I could almost see the utility of it if I’d jumped on 3 or 4 years ago, but at this point it’s a yorkie chasing a race car.

AI. Specifically generative AI for writing novels. This is another one of those things that… I don’t think you’re a bad person if you do it, I understand why some use it. And I also understand that MOST authors are NOT basically “writing their whole book with AI”. At the same time… I feel like something real is lost when one uses an AI writing tool. And it doesn’t spring out of some “tech phobia” or “Luddite” nature.

And maybe it’s the length of time I’ve been writing. I can understand why this would be more appealing to someone with only a few years of writing under their belt. Learning to write and tell stories is hard. But I’ve been doing it since I was twelve years old. I was seriously ignoring my math teacher and writing novels. (Don’t ask how I even graduated because I have no clue, I was writing fiction during all the boring classes. I basically had to self teach myself the BIG gaps in my knowledge from using school as a place to write novels instead of learning school stuff. I did well in English/Lit though.)

When I was 12, I wanted to be R.L. Stine of Goosebumps fame.

So basically I’ve been fortunate enough to be writing for DECADES. And when you write for that long, writing becomes a spiritual act. It is touching magic. At some point you come to realize it’s not “just you” doing the writing. There’s something “bigger” “magic” “spiritual”. When people speak of the muse, they aren’t being “cute” with you, they’re telling you their lived spiritual and artistic experience.

I’m sorry but I’m not replacing this experience with a computer algorithm. It’s important to me that all my ideas are my ideas. Yes, we are all inspired by things, but there is a processing and a combination of many things going through a human mind, that you have to ponder and contemplate and bring your own thoughts and feelings to. And while you might get a “cool idea” from AI, it’s not a naturally arising idea.

While AI might spit out paragraphs of reasonably good or even clever prose, it’s not YOUR words. It didn’t come from YOUR soul or YOUR brain.

I just can’t even see the appeal of this. I also know that a lot of AI isn’t like you can just type a few prompts and it spits out a whole book. It tends to do much shorter chunks, but even then, you’ve got to do a LOT of editing and shaping, and honestly, I just like to write.

I’ve gotten to a point after decades where I write really clean rough drafts. What you see as the final book isn’t usually that different from how it spilled out of my head and onto the page. Just like a concert violinist brings decades and tens of thousands of hours of practice to a performance that just “comes out perfect”, so, too, does a writer with decades of experience bring that ENTIRE history with them into their writing each new book.

Basically, what I’m saying is… EVEN IF I didn’t find it a completely soulless way to create that disconnects me from the Magic that helps me write, it would be MORE work to do it that way than to just let it pour out from Inspiration.

Yes sometimes there are blocks. Sometimes I don’t know what to write next. Sometimes I write myself into a corner, but I always find my way out. And after forty books I have the full faith that I always will find my way out. And there is something about that process and that struggle that I don’t want to skip because it adds depth to the story.

Again, this is not an “attack” on those who use AI tools. I assume most are just trying to make the process easier on themselves. And most probably don’t have decades of writing experience. Or they see writing as less of a magical act than I do, which is also legitimate. No artist can be forced to see their art in the same way another artist does. Nor do I think they are “immoral” or “evil” or going to “tear down the fabric of creative society” or whatever.

I’m just not into it.

Now, I’m totally on board with using AI images to create supplementary graphics/fun side things that aren’t the story. And I’ve wrestled back and forth with temporary AI narration for some books I can’t yet afford to get into audio. But honestly I have so much on my plate and that’s such a very small priority that I’ll likely have everything done with human narrators before I would even get around to it because to make a reasonably non-painful AI narration requires a LOT of editing and that’s a lot of tedious labor I’m not really down for especially when I have no shortage of work to do already.

I’ve thought though about the accessibility issue, so people who can’t eyeball read have access to all my stories. And I’ve also thought about the fact that the AI could help fund the human narration because no one who truly understands audiobooks would ever choose AI instead of Human. They choose AI instead of “nothing”.

I’m an audio listener. It’s the only format I will read in. So yes, human narrators are what makes an audiobook art.

So that’s all I have to say about that. If you do anything I’ve talked about in this blog post and you’re mad at me, you haven’t understood my points at all. Please re-read before getting irate about my personal relationship with my art.

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Teaser Scene From Blowing Things Up:

Blowing Things Up is book 2 in Brian and Mina’s Holiday Hits. (The 4th of July book) If you are new to Brian and Mina, start here.

I find her outside, swimming naked in the pool. I feel an eyebrow inching up. She’s full of surprises these days.

I hang back in the shadows, but no one would notice me right now, anyway. Every eye is on her. Every male gaze is filled with lust, and I want to go back down to the basement for weapons and mow them all the fuck down for looking at what’s mine. Don’t they see the word on her back? Don’t they know?

I think I might combust when she finally steps out of the pool. Annette is there with a towel to wrap her up and guides her away from the group. I know that look on her face. It’s concerned House Mother Annette. She’s over there no doubt trying to convince Mina what an awful monster I am for carving a property claim into her back.

I feel like I’m watching a re-run. Didn’t we already play out the Oh no, someone must save Mina from the monster in the dungeon storyline? Because I’m pretty sure we did. But she was always safe with me. At least she was before these new developments between us. I’m not sure anymore.

The thing that has always kept Mina safe was the fact that she was like me in my pain and abuse. Our scars make us a matched set that belong together like a couple of macabre glassy-eyed dolls at Halloween. But now she’s also like me in my darkness, and I don’t know how that plays out for her. Yet she’s unafraid, like a moth dancing too close to the flame. But maybe she wants to be consumed. I can’t tell with her anymore.

Does she have a death wish? If we were both fucked up before, it’s a thousand times worse now.

I take a deep breath. I’m ready to interrupt this bullshit with Annette, and if everyone at the house wants to gawk, I’ll give them a show.

“Master,” Mina says, when I reach them, she lowers her eyes demurely when she speaks to me. I’m not sure if it’s a performance… her just playing the good girl in front of the others, or if she’s signaling to Annette that I’m here so she’ll stop saying whatever she’s been saying that’s likely to piss me off.

Because I know something very real has shifted in our dynamic.

I’m so confused right now. I love the stunning badass Mina has become. Watching her (SPOILER NOT INCLUDED IN TEASER) was a show I’d buy tickets to watch again, but I also don’t want her to pretend to be the good girl for me. I want that piece of Mina back. I want her submission. I still want to own her, and I’m not sure anymore if she truly wants the same. The most horrifying part is, I’m not sure I care if she wants the same.

I’ve killed every man who ever forced her submission, who ever humiliated her in front of others, who ever hurt her and left permanent scars. I’ve done the last of those things, and I know right now I’m about to do the other two, and if so… then how am I any different?

She told me once how Jason said there was something inside her that made men want to hurt her and how she’d never find a man who could be gentle with her. Then against all odds, I found I could be. Am I about to lose that edge over the other monsters? I just need her to submit. I try to telepathically will her to understand this.

But what if she doesn’t need or want the same anymore? I feel lost, like there’s something screaming inside me, this hollow, angry, hurt sound, like a wounded animal, and I just need to hurt something to make that sound stop, to make the itch stop crawling over my skin.

I feel the anger boiling up inside me. It’s not even at Mina. It’s at this fucking situation where suddenly I, what? Have a conscience? Weighing right and wrong like some fucking hero? Good and bad? What the fuck is she doing to me?

I grip her by the arm and pull her back toward the rest of the group who hasn’t stopped watching this train wreck unfold. I turn her so that they can all get a clear, unobstructed view of her back.

“Take a good long, look, people. Embed it into your fucking long term memories. This. Is. MINE,” I snarl.

They all show the appropriate fear. Even the men have always been wary with me. Eyes are averted from mine. No one will save her from me.

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NEW release: Blowing Things Up is Live!

Blowing Things Up is LIVE! This is BOOK 2 in Brian and Mina’s Holiday Hits, which is the “assassins in love” novella series for Brian and Mina (from Broken Dolls) This series will fully complete Brian and Mina’s HEA.

If you’re new to these characters or just to this novella series, here’s the information and reading order.

If you’re all caught up and know where you’re going, and you’re ready for Brian and Mina’s latest adventure in Blowing Things Up, here’s your links: (description and reviews under links): (This one is the Fourth of July book)

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“I can’t stand the thought that I make her unsafe, that my very existence somehow puts her at risk. I need to make her safe. I need to keep her with me forever.”

Mina, my dark phoenix rising from the ashes, the goddess returning from her descent into the underworld.

I will kill anyone who dares to threaten her.

But what if I’m the one who breaks her this time? What if I become her angel of death?

NOTE: This is book 2 in Brian and Mina’s Holiday Hits. You must read book 1, The Easter Hunt, first, as these novellas build upon each other in an episodic way. This couple’s origin story can be found in Broken Dolls (standalone book 2 in the Pleasure House)

It isn’t necessary to ready Book 1 in the Pleasure House to get caught up on this couple’s story. They also appear in cameos after Broken Dolls in the rest of that completed series, but the events of books three onward happen AFTER the events in this series.

What Readers Are Saying

Brian & Mia are back with a bang…literally. These two have always been explosive, but in this next chapter of the “dynamic cray cray duo”, we find out more how she became her fierce self, and how this duo became the intense one-two death punch that they did.”  -Karin Gesell, Goodreads

My girl Mina is absolutely on this bada** goddess rise. And, surprisingly, cold-hearted Brian is here for it! Be prepared to see sides of these two that you never thought possible.”  – Morgan, Goodreads

” … this book comes in packing heat from the first few chapters being pure filth to a different show at the end.” – Luna Crowe, Goodreads

I’m excited to see what comes next for this Bonnie and Clyde duo.” – Hanan, Goodreads

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Blowing Things Up: Pre-order and Storytime!

Freaking amazing!!! I am absolutely loving the bada$$ that Mina has become. She is glorious and I felt like I was experiencing Brian witnessing her ascent into her glory like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon! This was perfect, Brian has always been my fave and their new level of bada$$ery is even better than I had anticipated! Can’t wait for more from my favorite psychos.” – Amanda, Goodreads

“I can’t stand the thought that I make her unsafe, that my very existence somehow puts her at risk. I need to make her safe. I need to keep her with me forever.”

Mina, my dark phoenix rising from the ashes, the goddess returning from her descent into the underworld.

I will kill anyone who dares to threaten her.

But what if I’m the one who breaks her this time? What if I become her angel of death?

NOTE: This is book 2 in Brian and Mina’s Holiday Hits. These titles must be read in order. For the best reader experience, please read Broken Dolls before reading this series. (book 2 in the Pleasure House series) for this couple’s initial story. Note that Broken Dolls can be read as a standalone.

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BTU is BOOK 2 in this series. BOOK 1 is The Easter Hunt and is available at all retailers and in audio:

Meet Brian and Mina.

Two dark and broken souls coming together to… kill people?

An Unlikely Love Story.

The first in a 5 novella series revolving around this assassin couple’s “Holiday Hits”. The other kind of hit.

IMPORTANT: This one is going on 99 cents for release week, I just haven’t gotten the price changed yet. So if you want to read it and support me at full price you can do that now, and if you want to wait for the sale, you can do that. Just full disclosure because I don’t want someone to go buy it and then be upset when it’s 99 cents in a few days.

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Okay… STORYTIME! It’s a long story, make some tea…

Brian was never going to have a story. Originally when I wrote Guilty Pleasures, the first book in the Pleasure House world, I thought it was a standalone. In fact, I have thought every book in that world was going to be the last one. (finally, after Twisted Fates, it IS done.)

I created Brian originally as a totally iredeemable villain, or so I thought. He was meant to be a foil for the other trainers so that readers would go along with the fantasy and not judge the other trainers based on “what would be bad in real life.” Making Brian so much more evil and villainous I thought would make it easier for readers to come along for the ride.

About a year goes by and suddenly Brian is in my head wanting a book. And I’m like “No, you psycho, absolutely not. Do I have to call security?” But he kept on. And in between writing other projects, this nagging thought of Brian needing a book keeps popping up.

Three years into this harassment, Brian finally drops his backstory on me. Which would have been helpful WAY earlier in this exchange. (He’s pulling out the big guns now, no pun intended).

And then I’m like… “Awwww. F*ck you, fine.” But I still didn’t know how I was going to get this guy with an actual live human person and make that work.

Until Mina came along, and then I’m like. Oh. Ohhhhh. And then I was so excited to write this story, which became Broken Dolls.

So at this point, I’m on board, but readers have had no idea about this whole conversation with imaginary people that has been going on for three years. So I go to my readers and tell them I have another book for them in the Guilty Pleasures world (or that I’m writing it anyway). I say: “It’s Brian. I’m going to make you want to have his babies, trust me.”

Readers are like “BRIAN? Ugh, no. He’s terrible.” And I’m like… “Yeah, but you’re going to love him.”

This was met with more resistance: “You will never make me love Brian.”

Challenge accepted.

So Broken Dolls is born and readers are: “OMG I can’t believe you made me love BRIAN!”

He quickly became the favorite hero of the Pleasure House world. Brian and Mina also make cameos in Surrender (book 3 in that world) and Twisted Fates (book 5). Brian is in Pretty Lies (4), but Mina isn’t because it’s a prequel for when the house starts and is Anton and Annette’s story since they’re already together in book 1.

A change occurs in Mina in Broken Dolls which I won’t spoil you on if you’re new to this couple and she goes from the broken shell she is at the beginning of that book to becoming a lot more like Brian in more ways than one.

Some time has passed inside the story between the events of Broken Dolls and Surrender, and when she makes the cameo in Surrender she’s basically a badass. But we don’t get to see the story of how that transpires or how she and Brian grow together. A lot of what you see from Brian and Mina toward each other at the house from Surrender onward is a show for the house. (Something you’ll understand via this series). They’ve got a lot of secrets they don’t want the whole world to know. (Well, outside of you guys!)

For a long time in the background I wanted to give Brian and Mina their own sort of mini-series. I knew how I wanted it to go… maybe 4 or 5 novellas about the various misadventures they get into outside the house. But I had no plots, no basic character or relationship arcs and no titles either for the individual stories or for the overarching series.

Then in November of 2021, the title: “Brian and Mina’s Holiday Hits” pops into my head and I laugh so hard. Because you hear this and you’re like… so… it’s a sweet story about a singing duo and the holiday songs they sing.

Nope!

Not that kind of hits, my dear. We’re talking hitman hits, here. So now I had a story frame, these various jobs they go on around these different holidays. But I wasn’t going to be able to get anything out in time for Christmas so I thought I can start with Valentine’s, but in the end Valentine’s day had to be the last one. It’ll all make sense when we get there. I quickly figured out my holidays, the order (which is… you know… the order of the holidays, LOL, but I had to figure out where we were starting and stopping.)

I certainly don’t expect this book (BTU) or this side series to be a break out hit, not because I don’t think it’s amazing, but because you really need to read Broken Dolls and The Easter Hunt first and not everybody is caught up with that yet.

Also “Brian and Mina’s Holiday Hits” is just a confusing as hell series title… for new readers. For fans of Brian and Mina, it works. If you’re a totally new reader who has never heard of me or this couple and you’re not in on the joke, you’re not in on it, but if you know Brian and Mina you know immediately what this is going to be. And since I wrote this for the fans of this couple, that works for me.

And to be honest I didn’t want to give it a more “easily marketable name” because it just NEEDS to be their “holiday hits”. It’s just bizarrely important to me.

You could start with Guilty Pleasures but seriously, you will most probably hate Brian in that one, and it’s just tedious to have this conversation about having his babies again. I’m not here to convince you. Either you get on the ride, or you don’t. But if you do, please keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times.

So brand new people can’t just start with BTU. I’m happy to welcome anyone into this world who wants to join us, but I’m writing this series for me and for the ride or die hardcore fans of Brian and Mina. And I just don’t care how that translates into sales. Yes, I have to eat, but I am an artist first and foremost.

I’m not here on this earth to cater to people who haven’t even made up their mind about me yet. And it has taken me a long time… like years and years to realize what makes me unhappy about this work is trying to “convince” people who are casual about me and just not invested. And I’m not going to punish FANS for people who just can’t make up their mind about me. Sure I’ll market and seek out new readers, but I’m just not prioritizing people who don’t prioritize me.

Plus there are certain things I’m working on (like the subscription), to build a stable business that doesn’t require that I fight for the attention of a bunch of random strangers with a thousand books on their TBR list and no particular reason to prioritize mine.

The main reason I believe I’ve survived this business 15 years is that I have put most of my energy into the loyal hardcore readers, the people who love what I’m doing and who I don’t have to convince to do anything. I would obviously love more of those people, but I would rather have the number of ride or dies I have right now than a million casual readers because casual readers who can take me or leave me, who are just filling time and “quantity” on their reader goals, don’t make me happy.

I don’t want to be your dancing organ grinder monkey or like a used car salesman yelling at you to buy my book. I want the readers who hear my name and are like “Well, that’s a one-click!”

I know there has to be that first book that gets you there, which is why I’m happy to inform you, give you teasers, etc. But at a certain point you just have to get into the pool if you’re getting in. But I’m no longer wasting time trying to coax people in when I can focus my energy on those who already understand how fun the pool is.

After Valkyrie not doing what I had hoped it would even though I know it’s some of my best work, (owing to the fact that I have no strong audience built in that genre and am competing like a new baby bird with the other gazillion books out there now) I had to have a long chat with myself.

And I determined that I can’t care anymore about how any one individual book “does” in the world. And I can’t let that control my art. Because I can’t control people. I can’t tie you down and hold your eyes open Clockwork Orange style and make you read even if I know you’ll LOVE it. And I don’t want to. I don’t want readers I have to convince. I want readers who are like “Hell, yes!” I’m not going to drag you kicking and screaming into a great book. Either come along, or don’t.

So my Brian and Mina Hell Yes, people… see you on the other side of Blowing Things Up, you’re gonna love this ride! And I’m so excited about this world.

To new people who haven’t yet joined us, Here’s your reading order:

Broken Dolls
The Easter Hunt
Bl$wing Things Up

(I had to put that dollar sign there because I’m genuinely not sure if the email will be deliverable or if I’ll end up on a “list” for typing that out a bazillion times in email. )

(Note: the entire Pleasure House series where Broken Dolls is, is in a box set called… The Pleasure House so if you want to read all of them, that can save you some money.)

If you absolutely don’t want to read a whole other “origin story” novel (Broken Dolls) you can start with the Easter Hunt and not be “lost” but also not have the full impact of where these characters have been and who they are becoming together.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Talk to you on Monday for official release day which is coming 2 days earlier than originally planned. I was done and just twiddling my thumbs and had to decide… so do I just sit on my hands here, have a longer pre-order, or have an earlier release? And here we are.

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Blowing Things Up Cover Reveal

Blowing Things Up, the second novella in Brian and Mina’s Holiday hits is coming soon! (Blurb yet to be released)

The first book is The Easter Hunt

Both The Easter Hunt and Blowing Things Up have been added to my Annual Signed Book Sale under New Releases.

More information on this title coming soon.

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Annual Signed Book Sale

The Annual Signed Book Sale: Click Here/Limited Time

All of my titles are available signed for a limited time. Both old covers and all the new rebrands! Swag packs also available.

Thank you!

Kitty ^.^

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The Escape Artist LIVE 99 cent introductory offer and teaser scene

THE ESCAPE ARTIST is now available LIVE. Introductory offer: 99 cents for a limited time! New cover art and a bonus epilogue.

Teaser Scene below the links:

Claire was held captive for 43 days by a man who did unspeakable things to her.

Three years after her escape, she gets her revenge.

The only problem is, she’s got the wrong man.

The Escape Artist is a Dark Romance that has an HEA and NO cliffhangers. The Con Artist also occurs in this world. Both books are interlocking standalone in the same world and can be read in any order.

What Readers Are Saying

Kitty described this book as a hybrid love child between Comfort Food and Tender Mercies (my #1 and #2) and it absolutely is that. If you liked either of those, chances are you’ll love this.” – Charlie, Goodreads Reader

Her worlds always seem to be so wrong, yet somehow turn out to have been right all along. And this world is just another incredible example of that. And holy shit does it ever deliver. You almost couldn’t make up a story this crazy.” – Cindi Russell, Goodreads Reader

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TEASER SCENE:

Maybe he shouldn’t punish her. She was trying so hard even with little direction. But she needed to know what it would be like, and early. She needed to know that he wouldn’t break her skin. He wouldn’t torture her. He wouldn’t starve her. He wouldn’t share her. Today was an opportunity to show her.

“Claire,” he said quietly.

Her face rose to his. He could see how intently she listened.

“Do you know why you’re being punished?”

“Yes, Master,” she said quietly, the tears once again slipping past the confines of the blindfold.

“Tell me why.”

“F-for what I did to you,” she whispered.

“No.”

She flinched, again as if waiting for a blow for getting the wrong answer.

Ari removed her blindfold. She immediately dropped her gaze, but he put his fingers under her chin and forced her to look at him. Stark green eyes met his.

“You are being punished because you need absolution and me just keeping you as my slave isn’t enough. You need something more visceral. You also need to know I’m not going to harm you.”

Maybe that was why she cried but didn’t fight. She knew she deserved punishment. The night before she’d begged him not to kill her. It hadn’t escaped his notice that she hadn’t begged him not to hurt her.

He’d watched her shatter in that cell over and over when she’d beaten him. He’d been the one taking the lashes but she was the one who cried, the one who broke apart.

He’d known from the first moment she’d walked inside his cell that everything was backward and wrong. He’d felt how badly she needed someone to take control of her, her shattered life, everything. Someone who wouldn’t truly hurt her. But she could never ask for such a thing. And she could never feel safe if it were offered. Because she didn’t know who to trust. She probably didn’t believe there was anyone in the world to trust.

It wasn’t that he thought she was kinky. There was no way he could get that lucky. But there was something… a need… a desperate plea that had risen off her body with every step even when she’d been the one holding the whip. Take me.

Help me. Please. Please. It had screamed.

Now that he was the one with the whip, the mask of power and control had slipped gracefully from her face. Would this help her? He wasn’t sure. Society would judge him a monster. Hell, his friends would do the same. But something primal inside her reached out to him, and the beast answered back.

Nothing about any of this was normal or right or okay. He wouldn’t justify it even as he wouldn’t apologize for it. But it was what they were doing. She’d had her turn with the whip and him at her mercy, and the universal laws demanded this reversal to balance the scale. She’d started this game. He was finishing it.

This was her sentence. And Ari remained convinced it was better than the prison cell she would have been given by what passed for justice in this world.

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The Sacrifice Now Available in Audio:

THE SACRIFICE is now available in audio! Narrated by Jason Clarke and Addison Barnes in duet!

AUDIO SAMPLE: https://kittythomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Sacrifice_sample-v2.mp3

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If you want the ebook/print links: GO HERE.

I caught the bouquet at my best friend’s wedding. I wasn’t even dating anyone, so I was sure I wouldn’t be next.

Until someone from the past came back. We’d promised if neither of us were married by the time we were thirty we’d marry each other.

But then I’m taken captive by someone else and told I am the sacrifice, that I’m now property. A payment for a debt that has nothing to do with me.

Now I wish I could go back to that boring, safe life. Because this can’t possibly be my fairy tale.

NOTE: This is a dark contemporary standalone that occurs in the same world as The Proposal. This book can be read first or completely by itself.

What Readers Are Saying…

The heat between them in undeniable but it is more than that, as the person she wants to be recognizes the person he is, and they both can’t turn away.” -Dar, Goodreads reader

Colin was HOT. He oozed that strong quiet power that I adore. He was ruthless and powerful yet he was so careful with Macy, it’s a combination I love. 5 Sacrificial Stars!” – Charlie, Goodreads reader

…if you want a wonderful, distinctive and provocative story then you need to read this now.” – Louise H, Goodreads reader

You can read this without having read The Proposal. I will guarantee that if you finish this one without having read the other, you will pick it up right away. If you have read The Proposal, you’ll want to grab this one quick. You won’t be disappointed.” -Melanie, Goodreads reader

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Persephone Teaser Scene and Audio Clip:

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“The more you beg, the more excited I get, so you might want to rethink that strategy.” He moved closer to her, so close she could feel the heat coming off his skin. Then he bent and licked the tears off her face. “Fucking delicious,” he said.

She leaned closer when his tongue dragged over her cheek. She shouldn’t want him to touch her. But she couldn’t help it. It calmed her. It shut up the screaming panic for as long as he touched her. It had to be some kind of magic, but if it was, it wasn’t one he was consciously controlling. Comfort was the last thing he wanted to give her. He no longer seemed capable of it.

Then he pulled away, and the creeping dread was back. Persephone wished he’d just do whatever he was going to do. She couldn’t stand this anticipation. She couldn’t cope with the underworld and a monster bent on her destruction.

“M-Master. You won. You have me forever now. I know you’ll never release me. But do you really want to break your favorite toy?”

He chuckled. “Not an expert negotiator, are you, Sunshine? Maybe I like my toys broken. How would you know? You’ve never met the real me. Until now.”

He was lying. Whatever this was, this wasn’t the real him. She closed her eyes against the memory of him incinerating that soul. He’d done that before he’d become this… thing.

Maybe he had always been worse than she’d imagined. Or maybe just desperate.

Audio Version:https://kittythomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Youve-Never-Met-The-Real-Me.mp3

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Also available in Audiobook at: Chirp, Spotify, Kobo, Nook, Google Play, Hoopla, Author’s Direct and others. (I still have to update all my links for audio!)

Audio Clip (from a different part of the book):

https://kittythomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/audiogram-2.mp4

Thanks so much for reading/listening!

Kitty ^.^

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