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I'm over on the Decadent Publishing blog talking about everyday dirtiness. I can't help but hear dirty things in every day speech! Come visit. I'm also talking about Power Play (which is quite dirty, if you ask me).

Guest Blog: Kacey Hammell

A Ghost for ChristmasKacey HammellPublisher: Evernight PublishingGenre: Paranormal Erotic RomanceRelease Date: December 6th ISBN# 978-1-77130-211-1

After receiving a long weekend at an elegant hotel beside the majestic Niagara Falls as a Christmas gift, Jodie Gibson is determined to do nothing but relax and enjoy the scenery. And, okay, just maybe meet someone who makes her toes curl.
Sebastian is sophisticated, tall, dark and gorgeous--everything a woman fantasizes about. But he's also an 18thcentury ghost. He haunts the halls of the hotel, seeking the one true love that can help him find peace… 


Excerpt © Kacey Hammell
 As she peered into the reflective glass, a face appeared behind her. Jodie whipped around and fell back against the window.
Oh my fucking God!
Before her, in what looked like a shimmering bubble, stood the most breathtakingly beautiful man she’d ever seen. Dressed in a white shirt and black pants, he had dark unruly hair and striking, magnetic blue eyes that held her in place.
Jodie blinked, uncertain, scared and breathless.
How was it possible? She’d read the newspaper clippings, yes, but it was unimaginable to think ghosts might actually walk among the living.
Not everything made sense. She only believed in things that could actually be seen, felt and touched. This seemed surreal.
Stunned by the apparition before her, dressed in what looked like centuries-old clothes straight out of Esquire, he seemed to look straight through her, and his smile warmed her clear to her toes. Lord, she was in trouble.
“Hello.” Soft and gravelly, his voice alone seduced her…all the way to her toes. Her body quivered and her center tightened.
Whoa. What the hell am I thinking?  There’s a ghost in front of me and I’m ready to jump his bones. Not bloody likely.
“What are you doing here? Get out.  I don’t care who you are, you’re leaving, right now.” 
He frowned. “No need to be frightened.  I’ve been here for centuries.”
Jodie laughed, and not one to wilt like a scared little girl, stood tall. “This is all a joke.” She looked around, up and down, and all over the room. “Are there hidden cameras somewhere?  Hey, Ashton, if you’re behind the camera, you can come out now.  I’ve been Punk’d good. Thanks and all, but I’d like to get on with my evening without you.”
 “Who is this Ashton? What is a punk?  A rake, perhaps?” he asked.
Jodie squinted.  “A rake?”  She hadn’t ever heard that term spoken, but had read it in historical romances. No one talked like that these days. “No. Never mind, it’s not important. Listen, I just want you to go. I want to enjoy my evening.”
His smile was gentle. “I’m sorry, my dear, but this evening every decade is the only time I am visible to the human eye. I never miss a chance to watch the Falls.”
Every decade…
“You’re telling me you do this every ten years? How old are you?”
“I was born in 1781. That makes me—”
“Two hundred thirty-one,” Jodie whispered, legs weak. She grabbed the back of the chair nearby and sat down. Were such things even possible?
Jesus.
An eighteenth century ghost stood before her.
Merry Christmas to me.

Available at…Evernight Publishing | Amazon |  ARe


Readers can learn more about Kacey’s books/contact her via …
Website / Facebook / Facebook Author Page / Twitter / Amazon / Goodreads / Pinterest

Power Play Tour Day #2

Welcome to day 2 of my Power Play blog tour. I've got lots more great hosts today and many more chances for you to win something. Please stop by and visit them.


(Links added as I find them.)

Sweet n' Sassi (Review/Giveaway): "A must read for those who love a nice short hot story."

Musings From An Addicted Reader (Review/Giveaway): "A fun quickie when in need for a little break from life."

A Bibliophiles Thoughts on Books (Review/Giveaway) Review added at noon 

Book Lovin' Mamas (Review/Giveaway)

Identity Discovery (Review/Giveaway): "It is extremely well written and very hard to put down."

The Book Connoisseur (Spotlight/Giveaway)

SnifferWalk (Review/Giveaway)

Queen of the Night Reviews (Review/Giveaway): "It was also incredibly hot - the physical and sexual chemistry between Natalie, Todd and Ian was great."

Queentutt's World of Escapism (Spotlight/Giveaway)

Proserpine Craving Books (Review/Giveaway)

Tana Rae Reads (Review/Giveaway): "... if you’re looking for a fast, enjoyable read check out Power Play by Emily Cale."

Red Headed Bookworm (Review/Giveaway)

Don't forget to enter the giveaway hosted on the Full Moon Bites website. I've got a copy of the book plus three $5 Amazon gift cards to give away.

Power Play Tour Day #1

It's the first day of my blog tour for Power Play. I've got lots of great sites hosting me today. Please stop by each and see what they have say.


(Links added as I find them)

CS Maxwell ~ Where's My Muse? (Review/Giveaway): "Power Play is a short read that gives the reader an erotic ride in the menage genre."

I am, indeed (Review/Giveaway): "The end leaves us all breathless and waiting to see if this one night will, in fact, be enough."

Pink Fluffy Hearts: Diary of a Coffee Addict (Review/Giveaway): "All I can coherently say at this moment in time is holy hell that was hot!"

Cocktails and Books (Spotlight/Giveaway)

Provocative Pages (Review/Giveaway): "It has just the right amount of steam."

Musings of a Writing Reader (Spotlight/Giveaway)

The Bunny's Review (Spotlight/Giveaway)

A Book Lover's Library (Review/Giveaway): "If you want a hot and heavy book that can easily be read in one sitting, this is one you need to consider."

A Diary Of A Book Addict (Review/Giveaway)

Blood, Lust and Erotica (Spotlight/Giveaway)

Steamy Side (Review/Giveaway): "Emily Cale does a great job of letting her characters shine in such a short amount of pages."

Not Now...Mommy's Reading (Review/Giveaway): "And Ian? Now that thang right there made me want to tattoo my name all over him - with my tongue."

Jersey Girl Book Reviews (Review/Giveaway): "Power Play is one heck of a juicy and sensual story that will satisfy your imagination!"

You can enter my giveaway (1 copy of the book and three $5 Amazon gift cards) on the Full Moon Bites website. 

Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on the Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop! I hope you've been enjoying yourself so far.

Christmas traditions are a big part of the holidays at my house. There are some silly ones, some that involve food, and some that I can't manage living without.

Since food is one of my favorite things, making all the cookies and cakes are one of my favorite things. In recent years, my cousin and I have started making a Bûche de Noël cake for the whole family. It's a French tradition that involves creating a cake that looks like a log. I won't lie, it is a lot of work, but it is always worth it. The recipe we use is here, but there are plenty with a lot of different tastes. 
Photo by Andrew PendletonMy other favorite holiday baking tradition comes from my Godmother's family. They make a Czech bread called Vánočka. I would love to post the recipe, but it is way too long. You can see one example here if you are interested. It involves taking the rind off many lemons and oranges and a bunch of other great steps that leave the kitchen smelling amazing. She also braids hers before it goes in the oven. It's how I learned to braid hair. My Godmother only makes it for Christmas, so you have to get your fill. 


Photo by LedekSince I love Christmas, I couldn't help but write a holiday story. It doesn't include much baking, but my characters do manage to get a lot of treats. 


Two is Twice as Nice
Cara must have been a very good girl this year, because Santa brought her the ultimate gift: two sexy men.

After a car accident last Christmas, Cara McCourt is left broken inside and out. Since then, no guy has bothered to give her the time of day. Just when she's convinced that no man will ever be interested in her again, she bumps into Anthony while holiday shopping. Unsure at first, Cara is quickly wooed by the man who thinks she is beautiful—despite her disfigurement.

Uncertain if Anthony is too good to be true, she takes a chance, only to find out he's been keeping a secret: His twin brother, Devon. Too late, Cara is drawn into their games. Will her wounded soul survive their deceit or did Santa actually bring her the ultimate gift: two men of her own?

Available from Breathless Press (Currently on sale!) | Amazon 

Since I am in a giving mood, I'll give one commenter their choice of books from my backlist. You can enter using the little rafflecopter things below. Extra entries for extra awesomeness! 

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Don't forget about the whole hop giveaway! 

We have THREE grand prizes. You as a reader can go to EACH blog and comment with your email address and be entered to win. Yep, you can enter over 200 times!
Now what are those prizes?
1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet (International)2nd Grand Prize: A $200 Amazon or B&N Gift Card (International)3rd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack that contains paperbacks, ebooks, 50+ bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more! (US Only)


Visit all the sites for more chances to win!

When the little things matter

I miss people. That sounds weird, but it's true. In India, I don't have friends. I have colleagues, but it is a strange relationship and it is clear that we aren't anything more than that. At the end of the day (or 3:30PM, whichever comes first), they leave and go home to their families. I go back to my empty room.

For 16 hours each day I am basically alone. More if you count the hours that I'm in my office working by myself. It's a good way to go completely crazy. The other girls here are a full decade (yikes!) younger than me, study almost all the time, and have generally shown no desire to be friends. That's okay. I'm here for a short time and make a terrible long-distance friend.

It still leaves a lot of times when I would pay someone for a hug. Or a handshake. Really anything. If that person would bring coffee, I would be their friend forever. Still, it's how it was the last four trips, it's how it is this trip, and I imagine it is how it will be on my next (and final!) trip.

This time, however, something strange has happened. For whatever reason, one class of nursing students has grown fond of me. I cannot figure out why, but they approach me on the street all the time. Sometimes they want my headphones so they can listen to my English music (I have a feeling they don't understand the words). Other times, like today, they want to tell me about an upcoming trip they are taking. It's weird. They act like I'm a celebrity or something.

Today a group of about 20 girls (they are roughly 18 and would all fit nicely in my pocket) stopped me and wished me a Happy Christmas (nurses here are almost exclusively Christian) and explained that they would be going away tomorrow for the holiday. I listened with as much interest as I could while bouncing between four different girls and trying to make sense of the broken interest. Then one of the girls, who I'd never met before, handed me a flower.

Someone gave me a flower. It's tiny and it will be dead before the day is out, but I can't stop staring at it. I imagine that girl won't remember that moment in a couple days. She has boys to meets, books to study, and a cross-country trip that will end near a beach. I doubt I'll ever forget.

Felt Tips Anthology Released!

Just look at that gorgeous cover! The Felt Tips: Office-Supply Erotica anthology is officially released today! I'll add links as I find them, because you know you want this.

It's already up on Smashwords and Barnes & Noble. E-book only right now, but I hear print copies will be along in a few weeks.

Do you love pens? How about color coding your notes using highlighters? Think the copy room is the perfect place for a forbidden romance? This is the book for you. There are a lot of great authors included (see table of contents here) and a variety of stories. My story, A Planned Encounter, is in here as well.

Even better, the proceeds from this are going to benefit charity. So buy a copy for yourself and everyone you know. It make a great Christmas gift :)

Winners and Covers

If you're looking for my Evernight's Christmas Blog Hop post, it's here.


First, I have a winner from my giveaway as part of Decadent Publishing's Give a Reader a Reader contest. Bas1chs won the copy of Public Display of Affection. Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by to visit. Don't forget to keep following along for more chances to win. The contest ends on Saturday.
Last, but not least, the Felt Tips Anthology has a cover! It'll release tomorrow (December 12) and contains my story A Planned Encounter. I'll post links and stuff as they become available. In the meantime, look at all the gorgeous cover.

Evernight's Christmas Blog Hop

Welcome to the Evernight Holiday Blog Hop!
We love the holidays, we love making our readers happy and we love giving away swag. What better way to do that than to hold a blog hop?

Here's how it works... the more blogs you hop to (shown below) the more chance you have of winning prizes. Each site on the hop is offering a prize and Evernight is offering an iPad 2 as the grand prize! To be in with a chance of winning the site prize simply follow the blog you're visiting and leave a comment which includes your email address. Each entry on each blog is then counted towards the grand prize draw. The more entries you have, the better your chance of winning that iPad 2! You also get extra points for liking the Evernight Facebook page. Just make sure you let us know in the comments that you've done so.
  
Happy hopping!

Thanks so much for stopping by my spot on the Evernight's Christmas Blog Hop. I love the holidays. No matter what you celebrate, there is something special about the season. My favorite part has always been the Christmas tree. Every year, my family would pull it out and start putting up the ornaments the day after Thanksgiving. It is always a nice trip down memory lane. We have all the ones my brother and I made while growing up and the ones we've collected traveling around the world. 
I don't live at home anymore and can't participate in this tradition, but I have my own little tree and my mom always makes sure I get a couple new ornaments every year. 
So, for an entry into the grand prize drawing, follow my blog and tell me in a comment what your favorite part of the holidays are. Don't forget to leave an email address (you want to know if you won,right?). Comments and blog followers are also entered into my own prize drawing for a $5 Amazon Gift Card. 

Under Wraps
For once, Dr. Aaron Prentiss's life is coming together. The arrival of a perfectly preserved mummy in his lab guarantees him tenure and a gorgeous woman is showing interest in him. Still, something seems out of place, mainly his mummy. Aaron doesn't believe in curses, but even he has his suspicions.

For Adriel, the time to convince Aaron that curses exist is short. Once every hundred years she gets a three day window to try and break free of her mummified body. She knows that Dr. Prentiss can solve the mystery, but can she convince him before time runs out?
Available from Evernight Publishing | Amazon

Be sure to stop by all the other participating blogs for more Grand Prize entries and smaller giveaways!

Decadent Publishing Give A Reader A Reader

That is a long name. I suppose that is okay considering it is an awesome contest. We'll get to that part though. First, I want to tell you a story.

See, a little over a year ago, I was attending/in a wedding in Estes Park. I'd been in the procrastination early planning phase of actually making reservations for accommodation and stuff for a while. My family lives close, so I only planned on staying one night. How hard could that be? In my head, I was picturing a nice cabin with a private jacuzzi and a weekend alone with my husband. Perfect, right?

You're funny. My life never works out that way. The minute invitations went out, my plans went down the drain. See, my mother was also invited to the wedding. This shouldn't have surprised me as much as it did considering I invited this friend's parents to my own wedding. Still, it wasn't in my plan. No cabin with my mother in it was going to be romantic.

Then I went to India (yes, I know, you're tired of hearing that). I didn't want to plan from afar. I was being lazy. Then she told me there was a hotel that she'd always wanted to stay at there and would I like her to get my husband and I a room for that night as well? Free hotel room, food, and no work on my part? I couldn't very well say no. Especially since even though I'm married, I really don't want to explain to my mom why we need to go somewhere else.

Fast forward and the day of the wedding arrives. I'm exhausted. I drove 24 hours straight (yes, we're stupid) to actually get to the wedding. We were there a week early and I drove a minimum of 4 hours every day that week to help my friend or family, slept roughly 3 hours a night, then went to do actual work for the wedding day. The only time I got service all day, I sent my husband a text that said "bring alcohol".

So, we are getting ready to leave the reception and go to the hotel when my mom mentions that it is a haunted hotel. No, THE HAUNTED HOTEL. The one that Stephen King's The Shining is based on. I was not impressed. Nope, not at all. I was tired though and after a couple glasses of the wine the husband brought, I was asleep. For a few minutes. I work up many times throughout the night. Because of ghosts, but because of my own bad dreams.
Photo by Wallg

We went on the tour the next day at The Stanley Hotel. It was actually very interesting. Especially the part about how the 4th floor is the most haunted and the only one without A/C. Guess which floor we stayed on?

Photo by Rockin Robin

It is quite lovely there. The scenery is gorgeous and the hotel is to die for (no pun intended). Without ghosts, it would be the perfect setting for a book.

Oh, wait. It was. Right after that, I wrote Public Display of Affection. It's a nice little story that involves some fun adult toys and a little exhibitionism. All of it takes place in front of the gorgeous Rocky Mountains. I don't make them stay in a haunted hotel though. I thought that might take away some of the fun :)



Public Display of Affection A 1 Nightstand Story
After a heartbreaking end to her relationship with her girlfriend, Lucy Stark is looking to try something more adventurous. She turns to Madame Eve’s 1Night Stand service to help her find the perfect woman to push her boundaries and introduce her to the more daring side of a sexual encounter.

Samantha Taylor’s helped more than one woman explore her sexuality, but Lucy’s the first to really get to her. Keeping her walls up and the women she dates from getting inside is a skill she’s managed to master. After one night of unbridled passion, she has to decide whether to give up her hard exterior or let the woman of her dreams slip away.

Available from Decadent Publishing, Amazon, and other ebook retailers.


There was something about contest too, right? So, Decadent Publishing is throwing a great month long giveaway.
Do you have a friend who doesn't yet know the ease and fun of an eBook reader? Enter to win a
Nook 'Simple Touch with Glowlight' that you can give to a friend this holiday, plus 45 Decadent Publishing eBooks for each of you from participating authors!  

You can get a better idea of the books and see all the participating blogs here.

Enter here with Rafflecopter. You have many chances to win every day from November 15 through December 15. Tweet it, Facebook it, follow the blog hop and comment daily for a chance to win this amazing prize valued at around $400.

You can also win a prize on my blog. I'll give a copy of Public Display of Affection to one commenter. Remember, your comments on here also count toward the grand prize. Don't forget to tweet, share, and everything else to get the best chance to win.



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