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FB Party w Desiree Holt and Cerise DeLand celebrating HEROES Nov. 11 #SWAG #fun 11 a.m. EST

   We're celebrating HEROES November 11 on FB! Join Desiree Holt and me as we talk what makes a hero.
 
   Male and female heroes are on tap for discussion.  Bring yourselves, your criteria for heroism and your laughter gauge as we gear up with lots of SWAG to reward you with, too!
 
   On tap for me are the 4 brothers in my STANHOPE CHALLENGE box set, newly expanded and newly released at a very special introductory price of 99 cents!
 
   Contemporary heroes are on tap too!
 
With Navy SEALs as the stars of Des's and my SEALs GOING HOT series, we're happy to talk about our real life heroes who protect us every day. My BURNING FOR NERO, shown here with the 2 covers he sports (because Amazon thought my heroine was toooooo sexy and banned my novel), is one of the prizes on the party list, too! I've also got a giveaway of LADY VARNEY or RENDEZVOUS on offer to two other winners!
Do join us at 11 EST, 10 CENTRAL, 9 PACIFIC here November 11 and celebrate all our heroes: https://www.facebook.com/events/602104836561316/
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4 Stanhope men find women they adore, but can they marry them? #Regency #romance #boxset by Cerise DeLand 99 Cents!

What's better than one Regency?

Four in one set, that's what! And to top that off, all four novellas star heroes who are brothers!

The heir, the spare who is the dashing Army hero, the politician and finally, the bastard of the family—are the stars.

In the Stanhope family, three young men and their half-brother who is part American all have the same reluctance to marry.

Why?

Because there is a family curse brought on centuries ago when Charles II, roué that he was, tempted a Stanhope bride into his bed. She loved her husband and didn't want to be seduced but politics being what they were, her husband agreed and off she went to Charles's bed. The marriage soured.
And ever since, no Stanhope man who has loved his wife has ever had a happy marriage with her.

Least of all the current earl! He was, you see, a rogue of the first water, seducing whomever he choose. Though he claims to this day to have loved every woman he ever bedded and married, each of them died soon afterward.

So as we begin The Stanhope Challenge, we see that the current crop of male Stanhopes not only have the Curse working against them, but they fear for the lives of the women they adore.

Come celebrate love and life and the persistence of men in love as I re-release the revised and expanded series that sat on 4 best seller lists for many many months!

When will the box set be out?

Monday, November 10! And for an introductory price of 99 cents!

Cerise went to #Paris, ate and came home to cook...new #novels and #Beef #Bourguignon, Part Two

In Paris, my dish came to me in a tall pot,
similar to this one but smaller in circumference.
(No mashed potatoes came on side of mine.)I love to travel and when at home and at my writing, I love to break to decompress and I cook, baby, and remember great dining.

One of my favorite adventures is trying a new version of a tried-and-true recipe.

Today's is a result of the mad craving I experienced for the TO-DIE-FOR Beef Bourguignon I devoured one rainy night two weeks ago at a fabulous cozy restaurant on Rue Mont Cenis in Montmarte section of Paris. While I cannot say I equal that chef's marvelous rendition, I did try.

I'll be honest and say this one took me a while. Count it: Two whole mornings. Approximately 6 hours. But wow, last night's dinner with a wonderful Cotes du Rhone and a baguette was scrumptious.
Want to try my newest version?
Here we go!

What you need:
To marinate the beef: (2 days before serving)
2 lbs of lean chuck
1 bottle of red wine (I used a pinot noir. American, Napa origin. Cost approx. $15.00)
3 medium shallots, sliced thinly
2 long carrots, sliced thinly
3 large cloves garlic, crushed (Use more or less as desired.)
crushed pepper (10 good turns from a mill.)
2 bay leaves
1 t. salt
Cut beef into bit size pieces, removing any large bits of fat.
Mix the marinade ingredients. Add the liquid to the meat in a ceramic bowl, cover and refrigerate for 2 days.

My version looks like this one, dark and rich and oh, wow!
Picture from Travel Channel.com
Serving day:
Ingredients:
2-3 red potatoes
1 lb fresh mushrooms or 2 large cans
2-4 additional garlic cloves
flour
1/2 white onion
1 small can tomato paste

1. Bring meat and marinade to room temperature. (approx. 2 hours in 70 degree atmosphere)
2. Strain meat from marinade and reserve all.
3. From slices of bacon, cut fat and cook in large oven-proof pot to render. When sizzling, brown beef in small batches so that each piece is well browned.
4. With chunks of bacon still in bottom, add shallots and carrots to sauté.
5. Add 1 T. of oil if necessary to pot and sauté 1/2 white onion (sliced) and 2-4 small red potatoes (cut in quarters). Remove vegetables.
6. Deglaze bottom of pot if necessary with small amount of marinade. Add 1 T. flour and whisk until well blended.
7. Add 2-3 more garlic cloves (diced), 1 T. tomato paste, and 1 can of beef broth (14 oz can). Simmer to boiling and add all ingredients back to pot.
8. Place in oven at 300 degrees for 2 1/2 hours.
9. Add sliced mushrooms sautéed in 1-2 T. butter.

Serve with baguette and a good red wine.
Happy dining!!! (And oh, yeah, it makes the house smell like heaven...for more than a day!)
Remember to come to my FB party with Desiree Holt Tuesday, Veterans Day, as she and I celebrate HEROES! I am also celebrating the release of my first boxed set of Regencies, THE STANHOPE CHALLENGE, out Nov. 11! Go here to sign up for this party! https://www.facebook.com/events/602104836561316/

Cerise went to #Paris, ate and came home to cook...new #novels and #Beef #Bourguignon

In Paris, my dish came to me in a tall pot,
similar to this one but smaller in circumference.
(No mashed potatoes came on side of mine.)I love to travel and when at home and at my writing, I love to break to decompress and I cook, baby, and remember great dining.

One of my favorite adventures is trying a new version of a tried-and-true recipe.

Today's is a result of the mad craving I experienced for the TO-DIE-FOR Beef Bourguignon I devoured one rainy night two weeks ago at a fabulous cozy restaurant on Rue Mont Cenis in Montmarte section of Paris. While I cannot say I equal that chef's marvelous rendition, I did try.

I'll be honest and say this one took me a while. Count it: Two whole mornings. Approximately 6 hours. But wow, last night's dinner with a wonderful Cotes du Rhone and a baguette was scrumptious.
Want to try my newest version?
Here we go!

What you need:
To marinate the beef: (2 days before serving)
2 lbs of lean chuck
1 bottle of red wine (I used a pinot noir. American, Napa origin. Cost approx. $15.00)
3 medium shallots, sliced thinly
2 long carrots, sliced thinly
3 large cloves garlic, crushed (Use more or less as desired.)
crushed pepper (10 good turns from a mill.)
2 bay leaves
1 t. salt
Cut beef into bit size pieces, removing any large bits of fat.
Mix the marinade ingredients. Add the liquid to the meat in a ceramic bowl, cover and refrigerate for 2 days.

My version looks like this one, dark and rich and oh, wow!
Picture from Travel Channel.com
Serving day:
Ingredients:
2-3 red potatoes
1 lb fresh mushrooms or 2 large cans
2-4 additional garlic cloves
flour
1/2 white onion
1 small can tomato paste

1. Bring meat and marinade to room temperature. (approx. 2 hours in 70 degree atmosphere)
2. Strain meat from marinade and reserve all.
3. From slices of bacon, cut fat and cook in large oven-proof pot to render. When sizzling, brown beef in small batches so that each piece is well browned.
4. With chunks of bacon still in bottom, add shallots and carrots to sauté.
5. Add 1 T. of oil if necessary to pot and sauté 1/2 white onion (sliced) and 2-4 small red potatoes (cut in quarters). Remove vegetables.
6. Deglaze bottom of pot if necessary with small amount of marinade. Add 1 T. flour and whisk until well blended.
7. Add 2-3 more garlic cloves (diced), 1 T. tomato paste, and 1 can of beef broth (14 oz can). Simmer to boiling and add all ingredients back to pot.
8. Place in oven at 300 degrees for 2 1/2 hours.
9. Add sliced mushrooms sautéed in 1-2 T. butter.

Serve with baguette and a good red wine.
Happy dining!!! (And oh, yeah, it makes the house smell like heaven...for more than a day!)
Remember to come to my FB party with Desiree Holt Tuesday, Veterans Day, as she and I celebrate HEROES! I am also celebrating the release of my first boxed set of Regencies, THE STANHOPE CHALLENGE, out Nov. 11! Go here to sign up for this party! https://www.facebook.com/events/602104836561316/

Cerise loves #Paris! Come #travel with me! Part One!

Saint Chappelle built by
Louis IX
an exquisite elaborate confection
in mid ParisSo many of you know I DIG history. I love, love, heart it and try to give everyone a flavor of the Real Deal in my Regencies and my Medievals.

But I also luv to travel and when I do, I soak up the real deals and find those kernels to put into my novels.  Always when doing that, it is soooo vital to refrain from telling all—or as hubby puts it, NOT hang the draperies. (As in, I don't want to know the color, the texture of the drapes unless, of course, they are the green velvet drapes in Scarlett's drawing room and she has no clothes with which to tempt Rhett...and you get me!)

So. In that effort to entertain you with my travels...and later my stories, I have just returned from 2 glorious weeks in Paris. Two. WEEKS.
Yes, ma cherie e mon cher, I went, I saw, I ate, I walked, I lost 2 inches....

But here for your reading pleasure are a few introductory tidbits, for your eyes and heart and soul's satisfaction.

I will take you with me in the coming days on my travels via my copious pictures. With their historic significance attached. Some of which I will use in intriguing new ways in my forthcoming novels for your pleasure.
Laduree, Restaurant on Champs Elysee
where they also make Macaroons
So do return here!

Basically, what did we do in our two weeks in Paris?

Well! We went out of our rented apartment in Montmarte every day. EVERY day. Rain or shine. Ran between the rain drops, soaked up the Metro and the bullet train experiences and went to a different exciting place. Cathedrals, castles, palaces, chateaux, museums, city places, and yes, restaurants for hot chocolate that coats your tongue with creamy goodness and cafe au lait that does the same.

Escargots. Lamb. Onion tart. (Really? Yes!) Linguine with escargots, shallots and truffles in a divine cream sauce. And yes, and there is more!
Charles de Gaulle
astride the Place de la ConcordePictures?
Here is a wild sample!
Feast!
You know who is buried here!
Napoleon, of course!
Gives me chills every time I see this.
Was I alive then? Did I know him? This stunning church is not in Paris.
And this picture is not from this year's trip but last year's.
I love it for its unique place in history.
This is the church in a little town in the Argonne forest.
Know it?
Called Varennes, this town was also headquarters to General Pershing in the Great War.
This church was the one in which
Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette sought refuge from the Revolutionary rabble in 1790.
The townspeople turned the royal family over to the Parisians who took them back to Paris,
locked Louis up separately from his wife and children whom they put in the
Conciergerie, in the same building as Saint Chappelle (above).
From there, they took her to the guillotine.
A sad little church. 

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Lady Solange Starling catches spies easily. But one moonlit evening, she spots a daring man who once saved her from death—and stole her heart. A man, who even in his youth, carved his place in her life and her reverie.Monsieur Noir, he calls himself. And so he is, a man living in shadows, dark and dangerous to all he encounters. Now he demands he join her to find one of Napoleon’s dastardly agents. But can Solange work with Noir without taking him into her arms~and her bed? And if she spends one daring night in Noir’s strong arms, will she be able to part from him and ever live again?
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A nibble of my newest cherry? Of Course! Excerpt, Copyright 2011, Cerise DeLand. All rights reserved.
Naples, ItalyEvening, October 5, 1815The evening seemed eternal! Solange read Byron and fretted. Sent two hot bricks up to her maid Cora, brought low by the rain today to her bed in the upstairs servants’ quarters. Then she wrote to her Aunt Minette, James’s mother, and walked the floor. She even played a vicious and solitary game of chess and threw the board, pieces and all, across the room. Still, Noir did not come.If she could not relieve herself from the anxiety of holding her secrets, she would look like the ravages of hell at breakfast. Why did he not appear? Her visit below stairs had been most profitable. Her visit with James, minutes later in his study, much more so. Noir must learn it all.Yet, what detained him? Where are you, Etienne? Are you reluctant to come tonight? Afraid I might not welcome you? Or need you?Clutching her dressing gown around her, she marched to her boudoir window three stories above the Via Espana.  No one walked out at this small hour of the morning. The rain broke into torrents, lightning crashed and a downpour obscured the details of the other houses along the boulevard.A sleek black coach trotted past her door, only to pause at the garden. Had a figure emerged from the cab? She wiped the moisture from the glass, but her vision became no clearer. Her hands upon the latch, she satisfied herself that her balcony doors were indeed unlocked and accessible from the garden terrace.Climbing into her bed, she lay on her back, folded her hands like a day-old corpse and waited for Noir.Many minutes later, she heard the latch on the French doors give and the pounding of the deluge become louder as someone entered from the balcony and shut out the sounds of the world. Exhausted but satisfied he had arrived, Solange called to him from the bed.In the flashes of lightning, she watched his powerful silhouette stop and scan the room. “Do not stand there and drip on my carpet, mon cher.” She flung back her covers. “The night is ugly and we both need warmth.”“Solange, no,” he murmured, pleading for reprieve from the intimacy she offered.“Come, Noir. I will not leave this bed.”Cursing, he divested himself of cloak, boots, coat and stock. Striding to her side, he slid in beside her. Once this close, she knew he would do as he had always done when this near to her. He encompassed her in his arms and she lifted her bare leg to curl around his hips and welcome him to her. He did not object, neither did he move.“You are chilled,” she murmured, a frisson of delight traveling her spine.“I am never ill.”“How well I recall. You could eat nothing, hunt for game or scout for soldiers all day and never tire.”“To weaken is to lose,” he told her, his lips to her forehead, his tone grim. “You went out with Giorgio today.”“I did,” she offered simply, replaying the tone of Noir’s voice, listening for the jealousy she sought like a starving child.“What did you learn?”Her palm upon his chest, she caressed his well-hewn muscles. Then with an indifference she used like a knife, she said, “He wishes to have me as his own.”Noir snorted. “Bastard. Of course he wants the lovely English woman. So does every man worth his salt in this city.”Wondering if Noir would admit to counting himself among those men, she snuggled into him and kissed his throat. The aroma of his musk met her nostrils, the fragrance balm to her soul and spur to her desire.He cupped her nape, holding her still. “You refused him?”She sighed. “You and I both suspect him of treachery. We have tried to learn his actions and failed. It seems the best course. I concluded I should accept him.”Noir pulled back, their gazes locked as the lightning struck to illuminate the room. “You do not wish the man.”“I wish only to complete my work.”Noir’s arms tightened. “Such sacrifice is not required.”“Of course it is. You know it. Recount what you have lost since the Terror. Your entire family. Your lands and your–”His body went rigid. “I did not relinquish those. They were taken from me.”“And what do you sacrifice to gain any of it back?”“Do I work for that?” he asked as if he had never before considered it. “You live in the shadows,” she persisted. ”Running spies in foreign cities. How do you live? Where? Why have I not seen you–” she tempered her tones of sorrow, “–not seen you in years?” She pressed a tiny kiss to the corner of his mouth.He flinched. “You have no idea what I have given to the cause of restoration of my rights.”She heard the bitterness in his words. “I can imagine, mon cher. I can help you and you must not forbid it.”“Not to give your body to a man who will not respect you! No!”She tore from his grasp and rolled to her feet. Naked, she rejoiced when the storm obliged her with another bright strike of lightning. Noir drank her in, like wine for his soul.  “You cannot stop me, Etienne.”“Darling Solange, he is not worthy to touch you.” He sprang from the bed and came round to press her to the wall. “How can you expect me to sanction such an act?”Her heart leaped at his words. Would that he could stop her and make her his alone. “We must learn who aids Murat in this house. Time grows short. If Murat invades and wins back Naples, Bonaparte can return to the Continent!”“To hell with Bonaparte!” He took her by the shoulders. “The British sail him off to St. Helena.”“He escaped them six months ago. He could again!”“Never!” Noir gave her a shake. “I will not let you take that Italian crow to your bed!”“You have no say!” she incited him., even as her body flooded with delight.“I do! I have earned a say. Once, twice and now…”“Now, what?” She wrenched to be free of him.“After last night?”At the memory of their passion, her heart raced.  Her nipples hardened.  Her pussy pounded, gushing with joy that he would recall them together on her bed. Still, she knew to provoke him or lose the moment. “We shared nothing!” she flung at him. You saw to it.“We could not!”“No? You left me wanting, needing–“ She pushed at him, all the hurt she’d experienced fueled her movements. “After all we are to each other and all these years of yearning, you left me, Etienne.”He yanked her close. “How could I make love to you?”“How could you not?” she demanded.“I cannot have you!”“Who forbids it?”“My conscience! What if we loved and tomorrow escapes us?”“Mon cher,” she mourned, “it always did.”He stared at her, hunger and remorse in his stance and in his eyes, desire. “Why do you think I never came to you before this? Why do you think I ran a courier between us? Why?”She raised her chin and arched her brows at him.“I did not want to see you. Not face-to-face. I could not. From afar, I saw enough.” His face fell lax with sorrow. “You were so lovely. Yet you appeared so forlorn. Even as a debutante, you roused men. And as a bride to that idiot Starling, you dazzled. Other men spoke of you. Wished for you. Rejoiced when Starling died, thinking like fools they might attract you.”“What could you care?” she tossed at him, needing his own declarations of desire.“Care? I cared. I pined like a boy. Wanted you like a man.” He clamped her so close, she melted at the pressure of his cock against her belly.  “As you grew older, after you were widowed, I knew your life and I knew if we met again what would happen between us.”“Did you? Sure of your charms, are you?” she taunted him, roiled he had purposely stayed away and yet had longed for her.He crushed her against him. This time, his cock rode her cleft and she whimpered. “No coyness for me, my pet. You and I came to care for each other long ago. When survival depended on trust and mutual responsibility.”The proof of his desire was a torment and she undulated against him. “Still you deny us both any pleasure.” She wrapped her arms around his waist and cuddled so near she could be absorbed into his skin. “The finest bliss I ever knew was with you. The exhilaration of escape. The thrill of victory against all those hundreds who hunted us. The years between our meetings have been so fraught with the perils of ordinary living. And no affection. Or love. How can you refuse the opportunity to seize bliss?”His expression, so bleak, so stern, shattered. “The devil knows. I do not.”---Hope you will read all of Solange and Noir’s story--and then try my other Regencies.  RENDEZVOUS WITH A DUKE, #2 Regency RompsLADY VARNEY'S RISQUE BUSINESS, #1 Regency RompsHIS DELECTABLE COOK (Be Warned: A Very Sexy A Quatre!)And Coming soon: THE STANHOPE CHALLENGE: A REGENCY QUARTET, 4 Brothers, 4 Love Affairs, One Family Curse!See www.cerisedeland.com for a full list!

He's in charge at night! TINA DONAHUE tells you why!

During the day, she’s in charge—at night, he’ll take command of her body, their desires…
Dominance and discipline. Alexandra hungers for both from Daniel, the lead engineer on her Alaskan energy project. She imagines him punishing then mounting her while his team watches. Full-figured, Alexandra hasn’t had much luck with guys, especially ones so potently male. To change that, she invites Daniel to teach her submission to his most carnal needs. She also invites his men.For too long, Daniel’s craved Alexandra’s lush figure and smarts. However, she’s his boss, it’s not wise to mix business with pleasure, and no damn way does he intend to share her. After one lusty night of her submitting to him and his men, Daniel claims Alexandra as his sub. On his terms. No regrets. No strings. Yeah, right.Tell that to their hearts.
Inside scoop: Alexandra and Daniel set things on fire with a brief ménage. Lucky girl has several men to fulfill her needs! Excerpt
Nat closed the door. The wind pulled it shut with a loud bang. She jerked. Daniel didn’t seem to notice the noise. He moved into her.Stunned, Alexandra couldn’t budge. He was closer than he’d ever been. She caught his scent, a woodsy, masculine fragrance, clean and inviting. It mingled with the crisp aroma of snow on his parka and the fabric softener he’d used on his brown-and-cream flannel shirt. Several strands of his wind-tousled hair caressed his forehead and bristly cheeks. God love him, he hadn’t shaved.She ached to run her fingers over his upper lip and chin.Daniel didn’t give her the chance. With surprising ease, he slung his arm over her shoulder and drew her into him, their bodies touching. A jolt of desire hit Alexandra so hard she had to bite back a moan. His heat was incredible, chasing away the chill of his coat and the air she’d let inside. Nearly a head taller than her, he seemed enormous, virile, dangerous, and seductive.Her heart beat out of time. They were near enough to kiss. His mouth rich and full, the stuff of her most salacious fantasies.“You still want to do this?” he asked, low enough so the others wouldn’t hear.Surprised by his question, she nodded. To have him leave now would be unthinkable.“You feel safe?” he added.His casual embrace ensured it, as though they were dating, comfortable with each other. “Yes, of course.” Even though he didn’t have feelings for her, other than what appeared to be lust, he was a good man. He wouldn’t deliberately hurt her. Why was he asking?He didn’t seem convinced of her answer. “You need to be certain,” he said. “This ends now unless you explicitly trust what’s going to happen.”Alexandra started to perspire. “I do…what did you have in mind?”Daniel studied her for a long moment, his expression unreadable, though there was a hint of indecency in his eyes. Heat prickled Alexandra’s cheeks and forehead, nourished by excitement not fear. Whatever he’d planned, she was definitely all for it. Downright eager.“Everything,” he answered, parroting what she’d said yesterday. “I’m in charge. Not you. Not any of the other guys. Me, alone. If you can’t accept that, then this is over right—”She interrupted, “I accept it.” He’d honored his part of their bargain by showing up and taking over in the best possible way. Now, Alexandra would honor hers. “You’re the boss.”Delight danced in his eyes. “Yes, I am.”He cupped the back of her head and pulled her into him, their thighs and bellies snuggled together. Alexandra inhaled sharply. Before she could release her breath on a wanting sigh, he slanted his mouth over hers and slipped his tongue between her lips.God. She sagged against him, shocking need tearing through her, rendering Alexandra helpless and weak. If not for Daniel’s solid body, she would have dropped to the floor.Tightening his hold, he deepened their kiss, his mouth greedy and demanding, hers loose and impassioned beneath his. She nestled closer. He ground his hips into hers, his opened parka allowing her to feel his erection, rock solid, long as freaking hell. Alexandra dug her fingers into his coat, wanting it off and them naked, him inside her.Despite her wayward lust, Daniel didn’t stop and strip. He enjoyed her leisurely, fully, his tongue dancing with hers, then sweeping over her teeth. He tasted of minty toothpaste and a flavor that was unique to him which spoke of good health, a male at the height of his power. Alexandra finally moaned, unable to help herself. Daniel offered a faint growl in return, then broke their kiss and rested his forehead against hers. As a lover and friend might do.His behavior was so unexpected and enchanting, she lost all reserve and breathed, “I like you being in charge.”He made a noise that sounded of contentment and amusement, then traced her jawline with his finger. “We’ll see.”

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     Tina Donahue is an award-winning, bestselling novelist in erotic, paranormal, contemporary and historical romance for Samhain Publishing, Ellora’s Cave, Siren Publishing, and Kensington. Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, Romantic Times and numerous online sites have praised her work. Three of her erotic romances (Adored, Lush Velvet Nights, and Deep, Dark, Delicious) were named finalists in the 2011 EPIC competition. The French review site, Blue Moon reviews, chose her erotic romance Sensual Strangeras their Book of the Year 2010 (erotic category). The Golden Nib Award at Miz Love Loves Books was created specifically for Lush Velvet Nights, and two of her titles (The Yearning and Deep, Dark, Delicious) received an Award of Merit in the RWA Holt Medallion competition (2011 and 2012). Take Me Away and Adored both won second place in the NEC RWA contest (different years). Tina is featured in the 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. She was the editor of an award–winning Midwestern newspaper and worked in Story Direction for a Hollywood production company.
FB Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/TinaDonahueBooks Email: tina@tinadonahue.comWebsite: http://www.tinadonahue.com/ Blog: http://www.tinadonahue.com/blog/Twitter: http://twitter.com/tinadonahueFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tina.donahue.75Triberr: http://triberr.com/tinadonahuePinterest: http://pinterest.com/authortina/my-books/Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/tinadonahueMy page at TRR: http://erotic.theromancereviews.com/mypageprofile.php?location=tinadonahueEC Author Page: https://www.ellorascave.com/index.php/authors/index/author/slug/tina-donahue/
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COCKED AND LOADED, Desiree Holt does it again!

He closed the last little bit of distance between them, his eyes burning into hers like twin torches. Then his mouth was on hers, just like the day before, burning her, sucking the life out of her while infusing it back into her body. She wanted to hit him, push him away, but her traitorous arms wounds up around his neck and clung to him, holding his head to hers. Her panties were already soaked, and that old familiar quiver raced through the muscles of her cunt.His tongue probed her mouth, taking, taking. There was nothing gentle about this kiss. And to her shame she gave as good as she got. She couldn’t have moved away if her life was threatened, not even when his hands slid down to reach under her T-shirt and cup her breasts through the thin cotton of her bra. One touch of those rough-silken lips and those big hot hands and her brain simply melted away.His tongue had a life of its own, probing into the recesses of her mouth, licking, tasting, teasing. His fingers pinched her nipples just hard enough to cause a shiver of pleasure-pain. She hung onto him for dear life, drowning in the sensations that assaulted her body.The harder he tugged on her nipples, the more he plundered her mouth, the weaker her legs became until she wasn’t sure she could stand at all if she took her arms from his neck.When every bit of breath had left her lungs, he lifted his mouth just a fraction, tracing the edge of her lips with the tip of his tongue. “Jamie?”“Mmm?” She forced her eyes open.“You using your old bedroom?”“What? My bedroom?”He extricated himself from her grip and lifted her in his arms. “Your bedroom. I’m going to fuck the life out of you, and I don’t want to do it on that ratty old couch.”She could barely focus enough to from clitoris to vaginal opening and back, gathering the cream she knew was gushing from her. He lifted the finger to his mouth and sucked on it.“Taste good, too. Just as I’ve remembered point toward the stairs. “Yes. Same room. Second door on the right.”Later, when her brain kicked into gear again and she could pluck one rational thought from it, she’d wonder why she hadn’t just ordered Zane Cameron out of her house. He certainly wouldn’t take her by force. That wasn’t his style. No, even after all this time, he knew just which buttons to push and how to push them, and in an instant all her defenses were down. But at the moment, all she could think of was how good he felt next to her and the explosion his kisses had set off in her body.He held her against his chest as he took the steps two at a time. Using his foot, he pushed the door to her room open and in seconds had her flat on her back on her clean white sheets, legs dangling over the edge of the bed. She opened her eyes again to see him staring at her with a look of intense hunger on his face, and instantly heat warmed her blood.With hands that shook slightly, he pulled the T-shirt over her head, disposed of her bra, and stripped her shorts and panties from her, tossing everything to the floor. Then he bent her knees and spread her thighs wide, exposing her to his ravenous gaze.He drew in a deep, ragged breath, and let it out slowly. “God, Jamie, you have the most gorgeous cunt in the world.”http://www.amazon.com/Cocked-Loaded-Desiree-Holt-ebook/dp/B002Q0Y3R8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1410449138&sr=8-3&keywords=Cocked+and+Loaded
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Mile High Club? Are you a member? This lady CEO is! Check out her bodyguard! And a naked man in Paris!

http://amzn.to/VKV1yy    Flying high with some guy in the sky was never a fantasy Amanda Prescott ever indulged in.  At 50, the sexy widow wants to build her deceased husband's company to world class status--starting in the Middle East.   So when she hires 35-year-old ex-Marine Jake Wilcox as her bodyguard, Amanda anticipates the flight to Dubai in her private jet will be a tantalizing opportunity to feast her eyes on Jake's toned body.A nibble of this cherry?
Intro to scene:Sizing up the curvy boss lady, Jake realizes what Amanda really needs to seal the deal in Dubai is to display the allure of a demanding, confident woman. And what better way to help her rediscover assertiveness than a few hot hours in mile-high ecstasy?  His skill brings out the naughty side in Amanda, showing her pleasure and dominance are a delicious combo.  But when the plane lands, will Amanda be able to assert her power position to seal the deal in both business and love? 
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What she wanted now was more of Jake Wilcox. More of his hands and lips all over her.  She wanted his unabashed sexuality. His humor. His persistence. So virile and rational. Yes, she wanted him badly. Argggh! She headed for her balcony, slid open the doors, rubbed her arms and leaned on the rail to gaze out over the alabaster city of Dubai just now waking to dawn. I am awakening to the consequences of what I have done. And what I must do. What I must ask him.She whirled for the connecting door. Just as she reached out to open it, three loud knocks sounded. She pulled it open to see Jake standing there, bare to the waist, blond hair wet from his shower, a pair of lounge pants hanging on his jutting hip bones. And in his eyes, was the sweet, appealing look of a little boy who had lost his way. “How are you?” he rasped.“Well, now that I—” Oh, what the hell, she’d come so far with him—she’d come so often with him, she could be real with him about other things, couldn’t she? Shouldn’t she? “Now that I see you again, I’m better.”He hauled her up in his arms and clamped her so tightly that he squeezed the air out of her. “Thank God. I worried.” He claimed her mouth in a marauder’s kiss. “You know any time you can say this never happened—and I’ll play it like that.” He framed her face with his huge hot hands. “I’ll be the good little employee.”She chuckled. “I want you,” she kissed him back, “to be the big bad lover.”           He swept her up in his arms and strode toward her bedroom. “Just my thought.” Then he laid her tenderly down. He posed her just so, hair fanned on the silken cover, arms out like his sacrifice, legs pressed against her chest as he bent and spread her out as if she were his prize. “I need you. I’m addicted.”
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Come soon, Andre. She glanced over to themantel clock. Ten minutes after ten. Late. Where was he?As if on cue, he strolled into view in his window opposite hers.           As every day before, his beauty took her breathaway.He was a big man, sculpted but lithe, filling thewindow and her whole world with his black-hairedhandsomeness. This morning, as each one before, hegrinned at her as his cock rose to greet her withoutputting a finger to himself—just by staring at her—and grinning. Today, he smoked no cigarette butglanced down at his cock as it filled with blue-veineddesire and reached toward her. His long wingedbrows arched as he taunted her with a few pumps ofhis cock, making her cunt juice up as he pulled histhick head to a blunt point and rubbed the tip whendrops of cum appeared. Then, just as his lambenteyes began to close, just as she became breathlessand fearful he would step back into the shadows ofhis condo, she jumped up from the arm of the sofa.“Don’t go,” she pleaded in English, as if he couldhear her.He paused, noting her approach. It wasdifferent, new, to interrupt him.Dee swallowed all her inhibitions and did theone thing she had planned for this morning.She grasped her shirt at the hem, pulled it overher head and threw it aside. Shaking out her longblonde hair so that her fat finger curls drapedaround her naked nipples, she paused to catch herbreath.Did she imagine that he caught his?Yes, he had. He was immobile as a statue,focused on her. She glanced down at how her areolaspointed toward him and she preened, grinning athim.His lush mouth spread wide in delight. And hearched a black brow at her as if to ask, what else?She tipped her head and laughed lightly. Thenshe reached in back of her to flick open the button onher skirt, and in one shimmy, the thing fell to thefloor.She raised her face to view his. And oh, she was
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Cinderella meets a duke, goes to a ball and then goes for a carriage ride in Cerise DeLand's #Regency RENDEZVOUS WITH A DUKE

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  Anna Fournier never intended to fall in love. Not with any man. Especially not a duke. But Hugh Lattimer persists in courting her despite the scandal that surrounds her—and the innuendo that could ruin him.     Can she escape her past and embrace a future as Hugh's duchess? Or will the man who murdered her father ruin her future once and for all?Need a nibble?Of Course you do!Copyright 2014, Cerise DeLand/WJ Power All Rights Reserved.“Your Grace?”Hugh whirled to face his coachman, the wind biting into his hope that Anna would venture out to meet him on such a bitter day.“Yes, Warren. What is it?”The man huddled in his woolen livery, frozen, rubbing his hands together. “We hired the man’s hack for two hours. But the horses are very cold standing as they are, Your Grace. Can I not make a circle of the garden to stir their blood a bit?”“Yes, do.” He could not keep his good servant out in such hideous weather. That was unkind. Unnecessary.He stared down the lane again, narrowing his eyes.She was…There! Coming toward him. It was she in that horrible brown hat and coat.He strode toward her. Then broke into a jog.  His hat bobbed and he whipped it off, tucked it under his arm. “Anna!”She broke into a smile, beaming at him, her pace quickening, her lips tremulous with what? Cold? Fear? Delight?He caught her to him. The thrilling feel of her, her curves to his form, her warmth to his welcome. His lips went to the corner of her eye, the point of her nose and hovered over her lips. “You waited,” she breathed, her words laced with panic, her golden gaze flowing over him with triumph.“I did. I had to hope.”She cupped his jaw. “I apologize for being late. I could not get away.”“But you came. How?”“A hack. And then, I left him at the bridge and walked.”Hugh enveloped her in his arms. “There is no one here to see you or me. It’s too damn cold.”She chuckled, her arms wrapping around his waist as easily as if she belonged to him and he to her. She trained her eyes on his breastplate and ribbons. “But you wore a uniform.”“I did. As you commanded.” He turned to one side and wove her arm through his. “Come, let me get you into a carriage.”“Oh, no.” She hung back. “I cannot. Really, Kendal.”“You’re frozen. So am I. And there beyond,” he said nodding toward Warren who stood with the hack door open, “is my coachman. I hired a vehicle. Did not bring my own.”“You have crests on yours, I suppose,” she said, sounding tentative but walking briskly with him anyway.“Yes, they all do. I would not chance discovery.”“I do appreciate that.”They stopped in front of the hack’s open door. Hugh took both her gloved hands, her fingers cold as icicles. “Few seem to be in the Gardens. I’ll take you if wish. Or you can step into my conveyance, hired especially for this afternoon, and warm yourself with the bricks and the brandy I have tucked inside.”Her eyes, alive with yearning, examined his. Still she hesitated. “I don’t want to walk.”He understood her tentative tone, an objection to the privacy of his coach. “I would never hurt you. If you will do me the honor to climb up in there, we might have an hour or more of good conversation.”“And brandy,” she added with a twinkle in her brilliant eyes.“And bricks.”“I want to.”“Do.”She swallowed, then smiled at Warren with a hint of apology.Hugh told her, “You can sit in one corner and I in the opposite seat.”Acceptance defined her exquisite features. “And here I had imagined us sitting side by side as we did at dinner last night.”If he had envisioned himself as a cave man seizing her, enjoying her, it was nothing to the urge now to grasp her in his arms and take her lips, her heart, her mind and make them his. Reason, somehow, arrested him instead. “Sit wherever you like, my darling. I live to make you smile.”She flowed up to him. Her gloved hands cupping his jaw, she rose on her toes and brushed her lips on his.My god.She undid him. All his noble intentions gone. His earnest statements that he would protect her from his baser urges now hollow.  Still, he could not move, paralyzed with wanting more of her.“You must climb in first,” she told him, an impish glimmer in her eyes. “The better to give me a choice.” He grunted, incapable of words. Then he did as she bade him. Falling back against the far corner of the wooden bench, he shoved his shako to the floor. He watched her as she put one foot upon the block and let Warren take her hand to lead her up inside. And there before him, she met his gaze and waited as Warren shut the coach door. She seemed cast in bronze, unmoving, studying him. Then putting one knee to his bench, she leaned over him, descending to a breath away. “Kiss me, won’t you, Kendal? I’ve dreamed of no one but you for months.”
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