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Babette James Breaking and Entering

What's a girl to do when her summer lover wants forever? Haunted by dark memories of her parents' volatile marriage, artist Kay Browning keeps her heart locked behind a free-spirit facade and contents herself with the comfortable affair she has every summer with easygoing photographer Nate Quinn. The only trouble with her plan? This summer Nate's come to Lake Mohave to claim the lover he can't let go. He's done with the endless traveling and settling for temporary homes and temporary loves. Kay's always been more than just a vacation fling, and now he must convince this woman, who sees love as a course to certain heartbreak, to take that leap of faith and learn how safe love with the right man can be.



Question: What did Kay tell herself she needed to practice?



Answer:  http://babettejames.com/books/clear-as-day/   Scroll to the bottom for excerpt
 
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Prize: small surprise bag
 

Keri Ford Doing a Double Take.

You do for family, no matter what. Lane Iverson knows that better than anyone. Harboring a secret about his mother’s death, Lane is counting the days until he finishes helping his brothers with some work and can head back to his hiding hole hours away. As long as he doesn’t have to face his three brothers every day, the guilt is easier to carry.

There is only one thing that can risk his plan. All of five foot tall, with these deep eyes and a voice that shudders through him. The completely addicting, Gretchen Jones. She’s been watching him the entire time he’s been in town. With courage from her friends behind her, she confronts what she wants. To her surprise, that’s the easy part. Keeping her heart protected when she knows he’ll be leaving? Not so easy, but her only choice.


Question: At the end of Chapter One, Gretchen walks out with something on the back of her skirt. What is it?



Answer:  http://keriford.com/books/the-roughne...



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Prize: Small surprise bag.

Inez Kelley Kicking Ass

[image error] Dr. Bastian Talbot and self-proclaimed sex goddess Charlie Pierce heat up the air waves with their flirty banter as radio hosts Dr. Hot and the Honeypot. Off the air, they're best friends...but Bastian wants to be so much more. He wants Charlie—in bed, and forever.

Problem is, Charlie doesn't do commitment. Sure, she's had X-rated fantasies of Bastian, but he was always just a friend—until he impulsively proposes and unleashes the lust they've been denying for years. Charlie's willing to explore where their wild chemistry leads, but she won't marry him. And he won't have sex with her until she accepts his proposal, despite her seductive schemes.

What are Dr. Hot and the Honeypot to do? Ask their listeners for advice on how to tame a sex kitten and turn a perfect gentleman into a shameless lover. The Race to Wed or Bed is on...who will turn up on top?



85,000 words



Question... what cartoon Icon does Bastian think Charlie resembles?
 
Answer:   Click the Excerpt button on this page. http://ebooks.carinapress.com/2A8262BC-F440-4C3C-9D74-2524A0C16145/10/134/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID=E1E0E469-61C0-4A5E-B24C-D3A81FE5F967


 
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PRIZE:   An ebook copy of Turn it Up!
 
 
 

Get Ready For My Birthday Bash!

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Every year I through myself a birthday party and give away presents! This year I turn 40.
WOOHOO!!
This year I've invited my friends over to play a game with us.
Come join the fun.
Also this year I decided to giveaway surprise bags, which contain all kinds of goodies from paper books to ebooks, chococlates to gift ceritficates.

BAIT in Audio!!

Coming from Brick Shop Audio in August 2012. Listen to Kitty Bang narrate Connie Bence's experience as vampire bait in the dark streets of Budapest.

Here's a trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vZNbUAjVGvk


 

Sexy Summer Solstice Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sexy Summer Solstice Blog Hop! The Grand Prize give away for this hop is a Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight. Happy Hopping and enjoy the surfing lesson I set up for you.


Surfs up, dude! Come join the fun on the beach and get wet.
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Grab a board. Here comes your instructor. Be nice, he's a little shy.
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This must be a classmate. He looks friendly. Don't bite him.
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Once you've master the art of surfing...
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You can towel off.
Maybe help him too.

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There's a small cave around the corner he wants to show you.
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Uh, I'll leave you alone now.
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Have a fun summer.
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To defend and protect, at any cost .Sam is Sigma of his pack, defender of the innocent and frail. Too bad the one time it mattered most, though the urge to guard the weak runs strong in his shifter blood, he failed to protect his best friend from an attack. Just when his self-confidence can't go any lower, he becomes entangled in a vampire skirmish and is left with an injured female in his arms.
Vampire accountant for Pal Robi, Inc., Clementine can't believe her master would ask her to commit corporate espionage. She’s shot when discovered, but a shifter comes to her rescue. It's as if he's made of her fantasies, and in the few hours with him she lives more than the decades she's spent among her clan.
Hiding with him on the streets of Chicago, in the midst of fighting together to stay alive, can a petite vampire break through her hero’s jaded heart?
WARNING: Hot dominating sex, an action packed evening, and a first date gone all to hell.
If you fell of the blog hop bus just click the banner.
Mark your calendars for the weekend of July 21st!I'm having a birthday bash and giving away lots of prizes!

Lucky 7

This is a fun game called Lucky 7 where the lovely Erin Nicholas has tagged me and six other authors to play.

Here's how it works:



Post seven lines from a current work by following these rules:Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript (fiction or non-fiction)Go to line 7Post the next 7 lines or sentences on your blog as they are (no cheating, please!)Tag 7 other authors to do the same


So here's my Lucky 7 from my upcoming release (Sept)Starved for Love

If I left now, I’d never return. Stupid Sin with his stupid blood contract. This was why I needed new suitors. A few good men who wouldn’t hurt me or coerce me into espionage, and in return I would… I sighed, shoving my hands in my jacket pockets. I couldn’t break this blood contract, and I couldn’t dump Sin. The feeding contract binding us was made between Sin and my dad. If I broke it, my father would suffer the consequences, not me. I crossed the street. Every muscle in my body ached. Sin had accomplished his part of the bargain. For someone who had seemed put out by my surprise visit, he sure had enjoyed himself last night.
And now the really fun part, I get to tag 7 other authors to play.Sidney BristolHailey EdwardsElla DrakeVoirey LingerRebecca RoyceDee CarneySara Brookes
 

Summer of Sangria

This is the only time of the year I drink Sangria. I do love it and have fun experimenting with this recipe.

Warning: This is a kickass drink.


13 oz of club soda
3 1/2 cups of wine  (either red or white)
1/2 cup of orange juice
1/2 cup of lemon juice
1/2 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of brandy  (or rum)
1 cup fresh fruit 


In my red wine sangrias I stick to using orange slices and marchino cherries. In the white wine I use frozen grapes and slices of peaches or mangos.


Sexy Summer Solstice blog hop is coming June 20th with plenty of prizes.

New Book Coming Soon

Hey all!
I'm so excited for this book!!!!!!!!!!!
This is book one of my new series with Carina Press, Confessions of a Succubus:  Starved for Love.Releasing in September. If you liked Connie in my Angler's series. You will LOVE Pia.





After almost dying of starvation to remain faithful to a mortal lover, succubus Pia Blyton now shields her heart by feeding solely on men she won’t fall for. The only trick is, to create energy to survive, she must achieve orgasm. At least that rules out bad sex with her three lovers. Too bad she’s a sucker for falling in love.


When her demon lover doesn't arrive for their arranged rendezvous, Pia is forced to ask her vampire lover to step in before her energy becomes dangerously low. In return he demands a favor and Pia finds herself in the hotel suite of the mysterious Valerio Hunan, who seduces her with a devastating kiss. Too late Pia learns he’s an incubus who wants to lure her into marriage--a marriage without love.

As an incubus used to bedding a variety of succubi, Val doesn’t understand Pia’s yearning for love. He needs a succubus wife to provide him with a steady source of energy. But he wants Pia for the passion and renewed interest in life she makes him feel. Can Pia convince Val that sex isn’t just for survival and love is for more than the weak?

New Never Shared Excerpt from Omegas in Love

Omegas in Love Book 4 The Vanguards series(Tyler and Katrina)
This excerpt takes place after Katrina is abducted by her old alpha. Tyler and Eric are searching for her and got a reliable tip as to a possible location.
“I don’t see anyone around.” Tyler twisted in his seat to get a better view of the house. God, Katrina could be just a few buildings away as he sat here useless.


“Doesn’t mean anything.” Eric glanced at the parked cars on the streets. “I don’t see Robert or Esther.”

The skin on Tyler’s back crawled with thoughts of what could be going on inside, behind closed doors. He glared at his alpha. “Don’t tell me you’re going to make us wait for them.”

“Fuck.” Eric banged his hand against the steering wheel. “No.”

Tyler opened the passenger door to spring out, but was strangled by the collar of his t-shirt when yanked back inside.

Eric loomed over him. “Stay behind me. Don’t get killed, okay?”

“Got it.” He gave his alpha a friendly slap on the face. “I’ll follow and not trip you up.” Nothing was going to keep his scrawny ass from rescuing his mate.

Nodding, Eric released him and exited the truck. They traveled toward the house.

It felt like every home owner on the street peered at them through the curtains, the sparse street light casting deep shadows, hiding any number of enemies.

Tyler’s limbs trembled with contained energy. Zipping over his nerves, the impulse to fight became hard to resist. He called his beast to come closer to the surface so he could shift in an emergency. If things got physical, his beast would take over.

“Don’t just charge in,” Eric whispered.

“Why not?”

“What if we have the wrong address?”

“Oh.” That would be a one-way ticket to the pound. Shifter attacks had a zero tolerance with law enforcement. They’d get put down. “Crap. What do we do?”

Eric shrugged. “Knock.”

They climbed the stairs to the front door. The small lawn consisted of more weeds than grass, the lights were off, and Tyler couldn’t hear anything inside. Even with his shifter hearing. He glanced at Eric, who met his gaze and shrugged again.

Eric knocked on the door.

Tyler didn’t bother to wait. He grabbed the doorknob and twisted it with his shifter strength until the lock popped.

“What are you doing?” His alpha tried to shout and whisper at the same time.

“Breaking and entering, so keep it down.” He was wasting time, cooling his heels on the front step while Chen and his men could be escaping out the back door.

“What if this is the wrong house?”

Tyler stopped mid-step as he crossed the threshold. “Not thinking that far ahead right now, but I’m not hearing an alarm, so all’s good.”

A low growl rumbled in Eric’s chest.

Ignoring his alpha’s displeasure, Tyler entered the house. Nothing moved. Dark shrouded the first floor. He glanced around the corner and almost shifted on the spot when Eric grabbed his arm.

“Let me take the lead.” He shouldered past Tyler. “Watch our backs.”

Releasing his breath, Tyler followed farther into the house. The rooms were all empty. No furniture or pictures, not even a rug on the floors. He sniffed the air. Katrina had never been inside this building. As her mate, he could have picked up a trace amount of her scent. “Are you picking up any of Spice’s smell?”

“Nada.” Eric stopped whispering. “This place is a bust.”

“Doesn’t look like it’s been lived in for awhile. Why would they send us here?” His gut clenched with a little gasp.

“Run!” Eric barked, pushing him toward the door with all his might.

They raced for the entrance and tumbled down the stairs. Sprinting up the street as Esther’s car rounded the corner and drove toward them. They’d made it past two houses when a light flashed and a giant hand of kinetic energy swatted them. Flung off their feet, Eric landed in a roll, tumbling a few times. In contrast, Tyler crashed into Esther’s car, leaving an imprint of his face on her hood.

She slammed on her brakes and he slid off the cool metal to puddle in a tangle of limbs on the pavement.

Tyler lay on the street for a moment, his ears buzzing with a high-pitched tone. A cloud of dust particles washed over him. He blinked them from his eyes, unable to move his arms yet. “I’m not made for this kind of shit.” He felt the words in his throat but couldn’t hear them.

A few seconds later, sounds began to drift back in. Car alarms, people shouting, sirens--lots and lots of sirens--were drawing near fast.

Esther slipped beneath his arm and helped him stand. “We need to not be here.” She guided him to her vehicle.

“I’ll pay to fix that dent.” He pointed to her hood.

“Don’t worry about it.”

On the short journey to her car, Tyler spotted Robert assisting Eric. Flames reflected in Esther’s windshield. The house was on fire. “Damn, they tried to blow us up.”

Esther pushed on his head to make him duck, and shoved him in the back. Jumping in the driver’s seat, she waited for Robert to get in before putting the car in reverse. “We need to get out of here before the police cordon off a perimeter.”

“Shouldn’t be hard.” Robert texted someone on his phone while he talked. “Chicago PD can’t organize something that big, that quickly in the dead of night. They’ll need to call and get people out of bed and on the job.” He twisted in his seat and glared at them. “What the fuck happened?”

“The house went boom.” Tyler closed his eyes and rested his head against the seat. He listened to Eric explain their stupid reasoning for entering the quiet house. He’d almost gotten his alpha killed. Where would the pack be without Eric? From now on, he needed to think with his head, not his heart.