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The Hunter’s Mate is LIVE!

The Hunter’s Mate is now LIVE, so be sure to check it out on Amazon!

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Get it on Amazon!

I’m so excited about introducing Hunter’s story, and I hope you love it! This story not only reveals more about Hunter’s Menops nature, it also advances the overarching story of the Iriduan Test Subjects universe in ways that I hope will surprise you, but in a good way. There is so much going on in this story, but I made sure to keep the focus on Tarin and Hunter and their growing romance. I loved the interactions between them as they grow accustomed to each other.

Hunter ended up being the perfect mate for Tarin, and I was so thrilled when I realized that he needed a story of his own, because I’d already introduced Tarin and made it clear in The Kraken’s Mate that she found the “insectoid” aliens a little creepy. As soon as I wrote this:

Tarin’s short laugh lacked humor. “Look, after the men I’ve dated, I’m willing to look beyond Earth for Mr. Right, but if he has pincers and wings like an insect, I’m outta there.” She shuddered. “Don’t tell Claire this, but bugs freak me out.”

I knew that Tarin would be getting an insectoid alien of her own. I just love to throw a wrench in the plans of my characters and shake them off their foundations, challenging their prejudices. Hunter was the perfect alien for this, and the fact that I felt his and Tarin’s personalities would mesh well also made it a perfect pairing in my mind.

This story also introduces another alien species that I’ve been wanting to add to one of my universes for a long time, but I was just waiting for the right moment. I feel like that moment has finally come! I hope you agree!

What’s next for this series? The sixth book in the series will be titled “The Fractured Mate,” and I’ve already created a full outline for it and have done many, many notes. I’m hoping to have that done early next year, but I don’t want to make any firm commitments yet. Rest assured that it is in the works.

Ava’s story will be after that, because there won’t be any problems with potential spoilers with her story (her mates can see the future, and that would lead to spoilers for the next book). I did do a little more hinting about her story at the end of The Hunter’s Mate. I hope you are eager for more from her and her mate(s) (It will be reverse harem, and thus far, the only one in the series).

As for what’s next on my works in progress, I am finishing up a manuscript for a secret project coming up in the Fall, and then I’ll be juggling outlines to see which one calls to me the most. I’ll be posting updates when I start on my next major project, so follow my blog, my Facebook page, or my newsletter to see those updates.

I’m finally sending out newsletters, and to make it extra special for my subscribers, I’m adding “Exclusive Tidbits” to them. Those can be excerpts from stories in progress or that are unpublished, sneak peeks, my own character art, short stories to expand on published works, character interviews, or whatever else I think might be fun for my fans to enjoy.

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The Hunter’s Mate Available for Preorder!

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This is my first time doing a preorder on a release, and I set the date for August 2nd, so that should give me plenty of time to get everything done. I have to admit, I’m a little nervous about it, but I’m also very excited to see how it goes. I’ve been waiting forever to reveal this cover! I know, I know! He’s almost human-looking! What’s that all about? Well, here’s the blurb for The Hunter’s Mate to give you a clue of what’s going on.

The Kraken’s Mate Art!

So my brilliant artist, Sammi Griffin, was at it again and created yet another incredible commission for my characters. This time, she brought Nemon and Joanie to life visually with one of the most beautiful scenes I’ve ever had the privilege to see, and I’m so stoked! If it seems like I’m exaggerating, I’m not! Just take a look!

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If you’re wondering what book this scene came from, it’s The Kraken’s Mate

A desperate escape from a prison cell inside an alien research facility leaves Joanie in the clutches of an alien with a handsome face, a great body, and tentacles that could have come out of a horror movie. Her life back on Earth is a mess, but nowhere near as complicated as her new situation becomes when the alien test subject named Nemon decides that she’s his mate.

Nemon knows that Joanie is the mate he’s hoping for as soon as Thrax hands her to him, but he can also see that she’s frightened and traumatized. He must win a battle against his own body—which has a mind of its own—to maintain control so he can win her trust and avoid frightening her further. His newfound friends warn him that Joanie will need time to accept him, and Nemon is willing to wait, but they all may have underestimated Joanie.

They have escaped their fate as Iriduan test subjects, but Nemon and Joanie can’t escape the legacy left behind by their captors. A legacy that brings them together—a legacy that also threatens to tear them apart.

 

Chimera’s Gift is LIVE!!!

Wow! This has been a terrible two weeks! I had to get my tonsils out and that was a nightmare. Honestly, as badly as I needed it done, if I had known what I was in for, I might have chickened out.

Probably would have chickened out… definitely would have chickened out!

But despite how crummy I felt, I did manage to get some things done, (and I’m hopefully working on more of the things to do, so there should be more announcements coming.)

Chimera’s Gift is now LIVE, as the title says, and I’m really excited (and nervous) about this one. This will be the first reverse harem romance I’ve ever written (three heroes and one heroine) and I have to say, it was a real challenge, since there are quite a few characters to deal with, but I felt like it all worked out well for the story, and I’m very happy with how it turned out.

The decision to write this particular bonding of characters wasn’t an easy one, since the initial MFM was already a really good, loving bond that I wouldn’t normally have messed around with, but the chimera brought something completely new to the Dead Fall, and when I sat down to plot out his story, I realized that it coincided with Alice and her mates’ stories. Once the pattern was there, I understood that it had always been there and it just took time for me to focus on it, and that was the one thing that was missing from the original group.

I hope you agree that things worked out as they should have, and I hope you enjoy their story as much as I do!

Here’s the blurb:

The chimera is a mystery that baffles the residents of New Omni—when his attitude isn’t making them want to kill him.

Even as a gladiator champion with many battles under his belt, the chimera finds the Dead Fall to be a challenge, so when the four-armed fire-warrior, Tak, saves his life, the shapeshifting chimera attempts to socialize, but his arrogance leaves the easygoing Tak in a fury with his thoughtless words.

Desperate for answers to understand how a mated male thinks, he seeks out Alice, Tak’s intriguing mate, while in his serpent form, and inadvertently discovers that Alice has secrets of her own. Secrets she must keep to protect her family.

The chimera and Alice enter into an uneasy bargain while he holds his silence, but he isn’t happy about the price of that silence on Alice and her mates. As he spends more time with Alice and experiences feelings for her that he’s never had before, it becomes a struggle for him to keep her secret, and he can’t help offering a solution—one that will cost him instead.

One that might cost his life.

Author’s Note: 18+ This is a steamy science-fiction alien romance with a reverse harem and menage. No MM in this one. Strong sexual content and some violence. No cheating, all parties are in agreement.

Updates!

Okay, I’ve been doing a lot of updating on Facebook, but I realized I haven’t been blogging my updates as I should have been, so here’s a few updates and some pix I can’t wait to share.

First, I want to share the art that I had commissioned for Thrax by the incredible artist Sammi Griffin. I was blown away by her work, and I already had high expectations!

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He is so beautiful! I love how this turned out, and I have many plans for this image, but for the moment, I just want to share it with everyone (and see if anyone notices anything else in the picture

The Warrior’s Mate is LIVE!

My latest release is now available on Amazon!

I am absolutely blown away by how amazing the cover is, and once again, my cover designers did a fantastic job! Yes, they are the same ones who did the new cover for The Scorpion’s Mate.

This is Prime Commander Tirel’s story, and though it can be read as a standalone, some characters and situations will be more clear if you’ve read the first three in the series. Like all of my alien romance heroes, Tirel is an alien that actually looks like an alien.

The Scorpion’s Mate and Into the Dead Fall, free for a limited time!

First, I need to point out the most awesome cover by Cameron Kamenicky and Naomi Lucas, because I didn’t think they could top the cover they made me for The Serpent’s Mate:

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But they did!

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:O Sooooo Awesome!!!!!

They have designed the coolest, best covers for my books! I don’t want to downplay the work of my other cover designers, because they’ve also done a wonderful job, but it’s just so amazing to be able to say “I’d like to see this impossible image on the cover,” and then ta da! There it is!

Okay, fan-girling over for now (but seriously, check out Naomi Lucas’s books, because I highly recommend them, and I’m a big fan of her cyborg shifter series. She just released a new book in that series that I immediately snatched up!)

 

Okay, enough delays. On to my blog.

Minotaur’s Curse is LIVE!!!!

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I have just finished publishing Minotaur’s Curse, which is the last of the books I’ll be putting out this year, and I never thought I’d make it in time, to be honest. But I did it! Woohoo!

I published SEVEN books this year! That is truly mind-blowing to me, but it goes to show how much the enthusiasm of my wonderful readers gets me motivated to keep writing and writing! When others are excited about your work, it’s impossible not to be excited yourself.

This year has been amazing, and I’ve made some wonderful friends in our little (but growing) alien romance niche community, and that makes me feel so blessed and happy. I thank you all for everything you do to help keep this community growing–from reading our books, to writing reviews, to sharing on social media. It really makes an incredible difference! You all rock!!!

Among my friends–who are also really good authors that I highly recommend–since I was a total fangirl before I had the great fortune to actually meet them online–we had a discussion about the scarcity of Minotaur romances, and realized we needed to do something to change that. It turns out, we all had some sympathy for the big, bully guy.

While each book is completely different from the others, we have all interpreted the Minotaur in our own, unique way, in our own, unique worlds, so if you love minotaurs, I think you’ll find more to love by checking out these other books, in addition to mine.

Get it HERE!

Get it HERE!

Jeanette Lynn–By the Horns (Coming Soon!)

Here’s a look at the cover I’ve been struggling to keep a secret for some time now! I’m so glad I can finally show it off:

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Description for Minotaur’s Curse:

Lauren was haunted by nightmares of monsters as a child, but learned the hard way that the worst monsters look like everybody else.

While visiting her mother and stepfather during the holidays, she’s sent to search for her two younger brothers, who have a tendency to wander onto the land of their nearest neighbor—land that has been abandoned for a reason. When she stumbles across something unexpected, it changes her life forever, drawing her into a world beyond the boundaries of the civilization that has always sheltered her.

There, her courage will be tested, as the monsters she’s always feared when she was a child turn out to be real. When the Minotaur of myth helps her take down a manticore, she wonders if she isn’t still trapped in those childhood dreams. Except there’s nothing childish in her feelings for her bullheaded rescuer.

Asterius has just one chance to prove himself a worthy mate and win the love of the new female that has fallen into the Dead Fall, so she can break the curse upon him.

He knows it will be difficult to win her love, because she’s as beautiful and fierce as any goddess, and he fears she will never be able to see the man beneath the monster.

He will risk everything to protect her from the dangers of the Dead Fall, which seems determined to destroy all life within it.

Author’s Note: 18+ Explicit Content, including steamy scenes and graphic violence.

The first book in this series is included with The Scorpion’s Mate in a 2-book bundle, available on Amazon through Kindle Unlimited.

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I’ll hope you’ll check out my latest release, and if it intrigues you, perhaps take a peek at some of the other books I have going on in the series, or checkout the other Minotaur books from my fellow authors!

As always, I want to thank my readers for taking the time to read my books, and add another heartfelt thank-you if you’ve left a review or shared my books on social media or recommended them to others. Word of mouth truly makes a difference!

If you’d like to follow me on Facebook, I have a page there: The Princess’s Dragon

I also have a BookBub account, where I’ll be recommending some of my top favorites, mostly in the science fiction romance genre, but also some suspense and other books I really just found interesting or intriguing. BB will also usually send you an update when I release a new book. I hope you’ll follow me on there as well.

I’m also on Goodreads, though I don’t get in to check that account very often, but I always answer the questions asked of me through that site, so feel free to drop me a line or follow me there as well.

I love to hear from my readers, so you can contact me via social media or directly through my email: susantrombley06@gmail.com

The Serpent’s Mate is Live!!

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My awesome cover by Naomi Lucas and Cameron Kamenicky

The third book in my Iriduan Test Subject series is now live on Amazon! I was shooting for October 31 release date to celebrate my favorite holiday, but the possible 72 hour publish window ended up being a lot shorter. So, it’s out there, and this Halloween and Nov 1 and 2, you can pick up the first book: The Scorpion’s Mate absolutely free. So, if you haven’t dived into the series, be sure to grab a copy while you can at that price!

Here’s the description for The Serpent’s Mate

When Cass is abducted by aliens and sold to an alien pirate queen who collects female slaves to harvest their pheromones, her first experience with extraterrestrials quickly turns from surreal into a nightmare, which only grows more terrifying when an alien with a snake-like lower body and a surprisingly handsome face comes to her rescue. But Cass isn’t sure she’s actually safe with him, because he looks at her with hunger in his eyes.

Nahash has always been a loyal, honorable Iriduan soldier. After distinguishing himself above his peers, the genetically-enhanced warrior volunteered for an experimental program to create a hybrid with powerful psionic abilities, using DNA taken from a giant serpent that decimated one of their outer colonies. Though his body changed into a form beyond the scientists’ expectations, his mind became a weapon that could alter the very course of Iriduan civilization, perhaps even saving it from its inevitable ruin.

After such drastic alterations to his biology, scientists told him he was free from the affliction that caused Iriduan males to imprint on a single female, bonding him to her for life. The last thing he expects is to bond instantly to a human female he rescues during a raid on a pirate colony. Now, he’s stuck with her, because if he isn’t exposed to his mate’s scent on a regular basis, he will die. The fact that his body craves her as much as it needs her fills him with resentment, but when he realizes that the Iriduan Empire will do anything to keep her under their control because of what she means to him, he doesn’t hesitate to protect his mate—even if it means betraying his people.

The rogue test subject and the abducted human make a desperate escape from the Iriduan Empire, but the galaxy proves to be a dangerous place and there are worse things than the Iriduans waiting in the darkness of space. With no one to rely on except for each other, Nahash and Cass might not live long enough to find a home where they can settle down and explore the love that grows between them—love that takes them beyond their physical bond.

Author’s Note: 18+ Contains steamy scenes between a human heroine and a very alien hero.

I hope you all enjoy Nahash’s story. If you liked the story so much you want to spread the word, reviews are a great place to start, and they help out so much!! Especially reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, and now BookBub. Of course, just talking about it to your friends and their friends, and mentioning it on social media when it fits the conversation

I’m Not Slacking, I Promise!

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