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Wolfie Friends Day 1- REVELATION

Stop by the WOLFIE WORLD TOUR TODAY: Feeling Fictional

First up on the stay at home Friends of the Wolfies giveaway: Lauren Dane, whose wonderful shifter books are inspiring and always exciting.

REVELATION: Book 2 de La Vega Cats

He has the one thing she never thought she deserved. A place to belong…

At long last, Kendra Kellogg has found her sister—but she's no closer to filling the gaps in her past. The magick that brought them together makes them targets for dark mages intent on finishing what started with their mother's murder.

As if her life wasn't chaotic enough, in barrels the one thing she doesn't expect, Max de La Vega. He's six-and-a-half-feet of cocoa-brown alpha male. He's strong, intelligent, sexy and intense. Everything she'd wanted in a man. And he scares the hell out of her. Still healing from a disastrous past relationship, she wonders if she'll ever have that kind of forever.

The next in line to run his jaguar jamboree, Max is unused to hearing "no". Once he knows what he wants, he assumes he'll get it. And he wants Kendra. She deserves happiness and it's his mission to give it to her.

When dark mages attempt to steal her magickal energy, Max's cat agrees with the man—Kendra is his to protect and he will stop at nothing to keep her safe. She can push him away as hard as she likes, he's not going anywhere.

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Leave a comment for a chance to win a signed PRINT copy of REVELATION.  Answer the question: Shifters: Big cats, wolves, bears, or a mixture of them all? Which do you like best?

Wolfie World Tour-Details

Welcome to the 2011 Wolfie World Tour and the stay at home Wolfie Friends Giveaway.

It's been two and a half years since WOLF SIGNS, the first of the Granite Lake Wolves books was published, introducing a lighthearted paranormal world populated by a friendly, yet sexy group of shifters.

The Granite Lake world will continue with more short stories into the future, adding to the current four novellas, but starting this September there's also an alternative for those people who'd like a longer dose of the wolfies. The Takhini Wolves novels are set in the same world, with cameos from past characters.

Over the next 12 days, join the tour and get some glimpses of the places and people from where the stories are set, including exclusive excerpts of my September 13 release, BLACK GOLD. There's a prize up for grabs- a $50 gift certificate to the online bookstore of winner's choice will be awarded to one of the commenters during the tour.

AND…here on the blog I'm hosting twelve authors for a Friends of the Wolfies give-away with daily prizes. I hope you come back tomorrow find out more, and to help me celebrate the release of the first in the Takhini Wolves series.

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The Fine Print:

1. All prizes are international and as awarded. (Ie, if it's an ebook, it's an ebook. Please don't ask for different formats.)

2. All prizes will be announced September 14 and need to be claimed by Sept 30.

3. $50 gift certificate will be awarded to a name randomly chosen from all the comments at the Wolfie Tour sites. The comments here on the blog do not count toward that prize, just toward the individual daily prizes.

4. Have fun. 'nough said.

Cool new book-Lauren Dane's ONCE AND AGAIN

Lauren is one of my auto-buys, and when I found out she was returning to the location of the Chase Brothers series, I was so happy.

This story is the first in a new series in that setting, and I really enjoyed it (yup- got a sneak peek!) If you like family sagas in small towns, you need to take a look at this and the Chase series.

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This time, he plans to do it with class. Style. And more than a little groveling…

Petal, Georgia, Book 1

Seven years ago, Lily Travis was only too glad to see her hometown of Petal, Georgia, in her rearview mirror. Thanks to her father running off with a twenty-year-old, though, here she is, trying to pick up the pieces. First order of business: meet with her brother's teacher in a quest to pull his grades out of a downward spiral.

Nathan Murphy is pretty much resigned to his bachelor status—until he looks up from his desk to see an all-grown-up Lily walking into his classroom. Of all the women who turned out to be totally wrong for him, she's the only one who felt right. At least until his foolish, immature mistake drove her away.

Lily has to admit that time has been more than kind to gorgeous, sexy Nathan. Except there's no room on her full plate for another complication. Especially with a man who broke her heart once before.

With a little help from his friends, Nathan has a plan to rekindle the flame. It isn't long before they're burning up the sheets. Winning her heart? That's another matter.

Product Warnings

Hot, sexy high school teacher in denim and boots. Strong-willed females abound. Bad words and naughtiness, too. Come on, you know you want to read it.

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Once and Again is available here.

New Cover wow

Coming Summer 2012

Print Anthology Xtreme Adventures 1&2

In extreme conditions, keep your friends close. Real close…

Falling…

Along with her two best friends, Dara's left no local wilderness unexplored, no ski slope unchallenged. Yet lately she wonders why they've never seen her as more than a buddy with breasts.

Both Kane and Jack are ready to settle down, preferably with Dara. Except neither man is willing to bring their easygoing trio to an end.

Dara is torn. Choose between them? No way. Drastic measures are called for, a plan for their annual holiday getaway that will clarify her feelings once and for all—or lose everything in a sexual storm of whiteout proportions.

Rising…

Ready to conquer her fears after a horrific climbing accident, Melanie takes the first, terrifying step—to tackle the wall at the local climbing center.

Derrick, watching her retune rusty skills, would like to partner with her—on and off the ropes. Now to convince her the scars on her body are no match for the heat rising between them.

Then another man arrives on the scene with a proposal that will bring her out of her sensual shell and onto a precarious sexual ledge. Where trust is crucial…and too easily shattered.

Warning: This book may cause heart-pounding, body-shaking adrenaline attacks—and that's before they leave the climbing gym. Contains blindfolds, bondage, spanking, healthy doses of exhibitionism and voyeurism, and unauthorized use of ski safety harnesses.

Travel pics

We're just about back to Canada (again), and I've preprogrammed the blog. Thought you might like a couple travel pics.

Dangergirl and me, our kayaks and Old Quebec City

Halfway up the hike in Yellowstone

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Dangergirl and I at Mount Rushmore. Looking for TREASURE!

Snippet WIP

From current secret project.

He beat her to the punch, one hand taking possession of her mound, the other pulling her fingers away. Marcus dropped to the floor, arms dangling over the tub. His brilliant blue gaze focused on her body as if he were handling a priceless masterpiece.

"I'm not that easily broken, you know," she teased. Her laugh turned into a gasp as he opened her, fingers caressing in a circle before he pushed two thick digits into her core.

"I'm sure we can test your durability later."

New Cover: Cowboys #2

Coming January 10, 2011

It's the quiet ones that take you by surprise.

Six Pack Ranch, Book 2

Beth Danube's emotionally abusive husband is dead and buried. So is her heart. It's no big deal, she has all she wants: her three little boys and a fresh start in a small Alberta town. What she doesn't want is another man in her life—not now, maybe not ever.

After ten years of unsatisfactory, missionary-position sex, she never expected her libido to reawaken. One look at sex-in-boots Daniel Coleman in a Calgary bar, though, blows the dust off her sexuality.

Sensing an edge of desperation, even fear, beneath Beth's come-on, Daniel finds himself giving in to the powerful urge to let his normally subdued desires run wild. The lady wants non-judgemental, non-vanilla sex? She's got it—in and out of the bedroom.

At first, friends with blazing-hot benefits is more then enough. Then she realizes Daniel is burning away the protective fortress around her heart…and the guilty secret she dare not reveal.

Warning: One woman determined to retake control of her life, a man with the single-minded purpose of offering her—and her body—everything she needs. Inappropriate behaviour in barns, change rooms, and oh-my-gawd phone sex with a cowboy.

The Perfect Man event

This is a fun one– and I hope you pop over to see what happened!

Scorching Book Reviews and Day Dreaming have been running a perfect man event all August, and when they asked if I wanted to take part, well, one thing lead to another until today, if you drop in at their site you can see ALL the heroes from the previous Granite Lake books stepped up to help introduce Shaun Stevens to you–yes, Shaun, the sexy hero from September's release of BLACK GOLD.

The guys took over from me, and I think it's fairly hilarious. But then…I wrote it. I hope I like it.  :D

Chance to win some wolfie books!

One of the blogs that I'll be visiting during the WOLFIE WORLD TOUR in September is giving away some copies of the wolfies for people to enjoy.

Drop in at The Book Pushers, and take a look around! They have a wonderful review site, and MinnChica has been a solid wolfie supporter for a long time!

Winner- Wolfies celebration post

First this part: **drumrolllllllllllllll**

And the winner is:

Lisa  : Jared draws his line in the sand so to speak and his mate has to cross it

Lisa, please use the contact button at the top of the page to let me know the format for the ARC of Black Gold I'll send to you.

What AWESOME guesses you all made as to what the story is about. I was going "Oooohhhhh, yeah. I can put THAT in as well!" So you might just have featured ideas in the final product.

The official blurb isn't ready yet, but I will tell you Jared is his usual enticing playboy self– which does get him INTO trouble. And there is a cruise ship involved. (Yeah Sully McPig for guessing that bit!!!!)

Thanks for playing, everyone. I hope you'll all be ready to enjoy Black Gold in a month's time! Arwhooo!