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New Release! High Passion

 

High Passion

Adrenaline Search & Rescue, Book 2

LIFELINE: an elite search-and-rescue squad based out of Banff, Alberta.

Specializing in high-risk rescue missions, this team goes wherever the job takes them…

Alisha Bailey left a life of privilege for the dangerous but thrilling world of search and rescue. Denying the lure of attraction to her teammate is another sacrifice she’s made to prove to everyone—including her family— that she’s more than a pretty face or a business commodity.

Since their training days, Devon Leblanc has used the competitive fire between them to hide his fascination with the petite beauty. When a natural disaster forces their rivalry aside, heated passion finally flares between them. Sexual pleasure slowly gives way to a new appreciation for each other’s skills—on the field and in the bedroom.

But when unexplained accidents begin happening to the Lifeline team, their newfound unity may be their only hope for survival…

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It’s always exciting to have a new book out for readers to enjoy, although the interesting thing is for me as an author I finished writing/editing and polishing this book months ago. I tend to break out the book a re-read it along with you!

I really hope you enjoy Alisha and Devon’s story.

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SALE!

So here’s some good news!

Book 1 in the Adrenaline Search & Rescue series is on sale IN EBOOK only for a short while! Right now it’s up at Apple, but by the end of the day you should be able to find it for 1.99 everywhere!

Here’s your chance to check out HIGH RISK with a great price. Hope you enjoy!!!

Amazon:http://amzn.to/13Z7TuH

B&N: http://bit.ly/13Z7ZCs

Apple: http://bit.ly/16QA0u0

Kobo:http://bit.ly/17jwWY9

New Release: Diamond Dust

Diamond Dust

Takhini Wolves, 3

She can’t shift, but she can shake their world.

Caroline Bradley is having one hell of a week. Her wolf lover has sniffed out his mate, making her an instant free agent. Not only that, Takhini territory has been overrun with aggressive bear-shifters electing a clan leader, and the wolf pack is feeling the effects—pushing her diplomatic skills to the limit.

Tyler Harrison is a grizzly on a mission. If he’s going to win the majority of the bears’ votes, he needs one final thing: a female companion. The only woman in town with influence over wolves, humans, and more bears than he’d like to admit, is Caroline.

Despite the sexual pull between them, though, Tyler’s not seeking a permanent relationship. And Caroline isn’t looking to be anyone else’s political pawn. But she should have remembered that when shifters are involved, changes happen in the blink of an eye.

Warning: Billionaire bear hero plus kick-ass human heroine equals a sexually volatile power struggle. Get ready for what might be the naughtiest game of tag that’s ever been played in the great outdoors.

DIGITAL

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New Series: Thompson & Sons

Beginning February of 2014, I’ll have a new series of novellas coming out through both self-publishing and Samhain Publishing. The five book series will revolve around the THOMPSON & SONS garage in Rocky Mountain House.

Yes, this is a part of the Six Pack Ranch world. Clay Thompson, the oldest of the Thompson family, was the ‘other’ love interest in Rocky Mountain Desire.

The first book in the series is Rocky Ride, and the hero is Mitch Thompson: motorbike riding, tattooed bad boy of the family. His heroine? None other than straightlaced Anna Coleman of the Coleman Moonshine clan. Yes, The RCMP officer.

In Rocky Mountain Freedom (coming in November) you’ll meet Anna a little more, as well as Gage and Katy, hero & heroine of Thompson & Sons book 2: Baby, Be Mine.

Why this series? Couple of reasons.

I love writing novellas, and while I will continue to have novels out in different series, I enjoy the mental break of writing shorter books as well. I also know I have many readers who like the novella format.

This series will allow me to write books that will be included in anthologies with authors I love– Rocky Ride will be self-published in an anthology with the amazing Lauren Dane and outstanding duo who write as Kit Rocha. Baby, Be Mine will go to print in a Samhain Publishing anthology with HelenKay Dimon, another incredible writer who I’m very pleased to be able to work with.

The full series of 5 novellas should be published between February 2014, and Feb 2015. They will be available in both digital and print formats, although not all in simultaneous release.

If you’d like to be added to the mailing list for a one time update when book 1, Rocky Ride, is available, click HERE.

Audio Books!

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Beginning September 10th, the Six Pack Ranch series is coming to audio! I’m very excited that Samhain Publishing is working with Tantor Media to get the books out in this format for those of you who enjoy listening to the stories.

The first 5 books in the series will be out before Christmas rolls around.

Here are the dates & links:

Rocky Mountain Heat: September 3

Rocky Mountain Haven: September 24

Rocky Mountain Desire: October 14

Rocky Mountain Angel: November 4

Rocky Mountain Rebel: December 2

Winners of ARCs High Passion

Thanks for all the interest in the ARCs of HIGH PASSION. I really hope you all get a chance to enjoy Alisah and Devon’s story, but for now the three winners picked by Random.org are:

Janina from Germany

Annie in Canada

Emma, New Zealand

Ladies, please contact novelsidekick@gmail.com with your mailing info so she can send them out. Give the international mail a bit, but you will get your copy!

 

High Passion ARC giveaway

Berkley Romance is hosting a GoodReads giveaway for HIGH PASSION. You’ve got until August 16th to enter. The link is HERE. Of course, they do US only (laws, rules, expenses, etc)

But as a non-US writer, I’d like to offer a chance for my non-US readers to get a copy. With that in mind, if you’d like to try HIGH PASSION, leave a comment in this post with your name and your country, and I’ll be back in a week to pick three readers to gift with a copy. Somehow. Because you’re important to me, and besides, the book is set in Canada, and I want everyone to see what a cool place it is.

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LIFELINE: an elite search-and-rescue squad based out of Banff, Alberta. Specializing in high-risk rescue missions, this team goes wherever the job takes them…

Alisha Bailey left a life of privilege for the dangerous but thrilling world of search and rescue. Denying the lure of attraction to her teammate is another sacrifice she’s made to prove to everyone–including her family–that she’s more than a pretty face or a business commodity.

Since their training days, Devon Leblanc has used the competitive fire between them to hide his fascination with the petite beauty. When a natural disaster forces their rivalry aside, heated passion finally flares between them. Sexual pleasure slowly gives way to a new appreciation for each other’s skills–on the field and in the bedroom.

But when unexplained accidents begin happening to the Lifeline team, their newfound unity may be their only hope for survival…

~~**~~

Digital

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Mass Market Paperback

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Update of updatingness

Did you see this? (coming September 3)

Rt Magazine re: HIGH PASSION

If you like your romantic suspense burning hot, Arend has just the series for you!

…danger filled and passion packed…Arend is on a roll!

4 1/2 stars

And how about THIS: (August 20)

RT Magazine: DIAMOND DUST

A fast-paced plot combined with snappy dialogue, a creative shifter community

and a steamy romance brewing between the leads will keep you

tucked up on the couch reading when housework should be getting done.

4 1/2 stars!

Yes, TWO 4 1/2 star reviews!!!

And finally, THIS: (Travis’s story, coming November 19)

Silver Mine available in print!

 

Silver Mine

Takhini Wolves, Book 2

If a tree falls in the forest, duck…

Life in isolation is the safest place for Chase Johnson, a crossbreed who doesn’t know which form he’ll assume next—cougar or wolf. Once a year, his unelected position as spokesman for the Yukon outcasts forces him to visit civilization. This time he runs across someone unexpected. She’s not his mate, but she pushes all the right buttons.

It’s taken years for Shelley Bradley to gather the courage to return to her home pack. In spite of being the lowest of the low—a shifter who can’t shift—she’s determined to make a place for herself as the Whitehorse locals’ new vet-slash-doctor.

There’s definite electricity between her and Chase, but sex with fellow shifters and the inherent mind games got old a long time ago. Ignoring him seems best. When he shows up at her office with a wound that won’t heal, she’s stuck—yet drawn to solve this medical mystery.

As they journey deep into outcast territory in search of answers, their powerful sexual attraction crumbles her resistance. But time is of the essence. If a cure can’t be found before his human and cougar succumb to his injury, he—and others like him—will die.

Warning: Contains a silver-tongued, hairy-chested, lean-muscled Alpha who’s got what it takes to lead in the wilderness and in the bedroom. Yeah, I know…not really much of a deterrent, is it? Throw in continuing territorial wars and a domestic cat. Stir and enjoy the chaos.

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