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Rosanne Bittner’s “Sweet Prairie Passion” (Savage Destiny Series, Book 1)

Sweet Prairie Passion

Book 1 of the Savage Destiny Series

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The first in a powerful series about the settling of the American West and its affect on pioneers and Native Americans alike.

Zeke Monroe, a half Indian scout, meets 16-year-old Abigail Trent on a wagon train west, and therein lies the beginning of a magnificent love story that covers fifty years of passion and drama set against the rugged frontier of an untamed land.

Excerpt

When Zeke and Abbie’s eyes met, their gazes held in the moonlight, and they both knew what had to be. In the next moment Zeke’s lips were on hers, searching tenderly for what he needed, and giving in return. … Abbie looked into Zeke’s eyes, once more searching. Then she smiled. “Even if it can’t be forever – it’s you I want. Only you.” Again, Zeke’s lips took hers …

Rosanne Bittner

I’ve been writing for nearly thirty years and to date have had 57 novels published, all about the American West of the 1800′s and Native Americans. I write romance, but not the typical bodice-ripping adventures. My stories are deep love stories, often family sagas told as a series. It is the hero and heroine’s love that holds them together through the trials and tribulations of settling America’s western frontiers. I absolutely love the Rockies, the Tetons, the Sierras, and the wide-open plains, prairies and desert land west of the Mississippi. In my books, I strive to tell the truth about the settling of the West and how it affected our American Indians, as well as the gritty depth of what our brave pioneers suffered in their search for free land and a better life.

I am a member of the Nebraska and Oklahoma Historical Societies, my local southwest Michigan historical society, Women Writing the West, Mid-Michigan Romance Writers of America (treasurer) and the national RWA, and a local charity group called the Coloma Lioness Club. I help run a family business and love doing things with my three young grandsons. If you visit my web site atwww.rosannebittner.com, where all my titles are listed as well as a page that lists all my many writing awards; or you can visit me on Facebook. At either site you will learn news of new books to come as well as reprints of many of my past titles soon to be published in trade paperback and as e-books! I also have an author site at Amazon.com

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Jan.27.13 #SixSunday with Last Call

Only 99 cents – Coming Soon to FTMP!

Nick and Rhys put a few disturbing pieces together (none of which I can share because they’re spoilers, lol). After their investigation takes a unexpected twist, Rhys realizes the stakes are different this time around.

At one time, adrenaline had made her feel alive. Now, the surge was that of fear–of having too much to lose.

Of losing Nick.

But one way or another, this was the end of their road. She might walk away with his soot- and bloodstained sweatshirt, but he had her heart. And after what they shared, she wasn’t sure she wanted it back.

Excerpt slightly edited to fit the six sentence requirement.

LAST CALL is now on GoodReads! Click here to add it to your TBR list. Releasing soon from FTMP – ONLY 99 CENTS!

Today marks the end of the official Six Sunday. *Sniffle.*  If you’re interested in following or joining the next generation of SSS, head on over to Skye Warren’s blog for the start-up list.

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Amy Lee Burgess is “Inside Out” ($15 + eBook Tour-Wide Giveaway)

Today Amy Lee Burgess joins us with the scoop on her awesome new paranormal romance INSIDE OUT. The readers are really lovin’ on her The Wolf Within series with some rockin’ reviews, but if you’re not yet familiar, stay put. We’re going to get you all caught up so you can join the party. I’m super excited to have her here, so let’s get started.

Welcome, and congratulations on your new release! Before we talk about it, can you introduce your series, The Wolf Within, and the major events leading up to this point?

The Wolf Within is a series about a shifter named Constance Newcastle. Most people call her by her nickname, Stanzie.

The first novel, Beneath the Skin, begins in Paris where Stanzie has journeyed to attend a Great Gathering which is a yearly event everyone in the Great Pack is invited to attend if they can afford to go.   Two years earlier, Stanzie’s beloved bond mates, Grey and Elena, were killed in a car accident on Stanzie’s birthday.  She was driving.  Her pack, Riverglow, kicked her out and blamed her for their deaths even though a tribunal made up of Councilors from the Regional and Great Councils cleared her.

The Paris Great Gathering takes place a little more than two years after the accident.  Stanzie finally feels ready to find a new bond mate and a new pack and start her life over again with the Great Pack.

The first night of the Gathering, she is introduced to Liam Murphy, an Irish shifter who, at that point, lived in Belfast in Northern Ireland.  Originally from Dublin, Ireland’s Mac Tire pack, Liam has also lost his beloved bond mate in an accident.

His best friend and current Alpha of Mac Tire, Paddy O’Reilly, convinced Liam to attend. Liam’s plan was to make a quick appearance and fade back to Belfast, but Councilor Jason Allerton of the Great Council has other ideas.  He served on the tribunal that cleared Stanzie of wrongdoing in the deaths of Grey and Elena and has not forgotten her.  He also has ties to Mac Tire and knows of Liam’s tragic past.  He brings the two together in the hopes that they might bond and start over together.

Liam wants no part of this idea although Stanzie, at first, was willing to consider it until she saw how reluctant Liam was about it.

She reconnects with an old flame, Rudi Grunwald, and is poised to bond with him and join his pack in Germany when Rudi suddenly dies during the Great Hunt and Stanzie is the prime suspect.

Liam happens to be on the scene when Rudi dies and doesn’t believe Stanzie had any part in his death and defends her.  They end up forced to bond through the machinations of Councilor Allerton and another Great Councilor, Celine Ducharme.

Allerton tells Stanzie and Liam that he believes their bond mates’ deaths may not have been accidents at all and reveals a pattern of convenient accidents that have spread throughout the Great Pack.  He asks Stanzie and Liam to investigate and the two discover a vast conspiracy within the Great Pack that, indeed, caused their bond mates’ deaths.

Beneath the Skin ends with Allerton asking Stanzie and Murphy to become his Advisors and to investigate this conspiracy as well as other sorts of trouble in packs across the world.

Scratch the Surface, the second novel, picks up about a month later when Allerton calls Stanzie and Liam to a safe house in Hartford, Connecticut, home of Stanzie’s former pack, Riverglow.  The man responsible for Grey’s and Elena’s death has confessed and a tribunal was convened and sentenced him to death.  Allerton offers Stanzie the opportunity to act as the Hand of the Council and carry out the death sentence – poison in a cup of hot chocolate.  When she reluctantly agrees, she discovers that Grandfather Tobias did not act alone and that someone else in Riverglow is also part of the conspiracy and Allerton wants her to find out who.

She and Liam have developed a firm friendship and Stanzie finds herself falling in love with her new bond mate, but when Liam discovers a man named Colin Hunter has joined Riverglow, he begins to act strangely and Stanzie discovers that Liam has been keeping secrets from her.

Stanzie has to deal with Liam’s weird behavior and the revelation of something she didn’t suspect about him as well as figure out which former pack mate of hers helped Grandfather Tobias murder Grey and Elena.  When she discovers who it was, she is devastated and the book ends with her determined to work things out with Liam and not take anything for granted.  She’s been given a second chance at love and she’s determined to hold onto it with both hands.

Book three, Hidden in Plain Sight, begins a few months later when Liam and Stanzie are sent to investigate the troubling disappearance of a young teen, Bethany Dillon, from her Vermont pack, Maplefair.   Stanzie’s former best friend, Jossie Wilbanks, is the current Alpha female.

Stanzie’s wolf is not like other shifters’ wolves.  Hers is childish, stubborn, and obsessive.  With Liam and his wolf’s help, she’s been working on evolving her so she and Liam can join Mac Tire in Dublin.  Stanzie is afraid her wolf won’t be accepted as she is and she has convinced the Alphas, Paddy O’Reilly and Fiona Carmichael (who happens to be Liam’s twin sister) to allow her and Liam a chance to work on her wolf before returning.

Once in Vermont, they discover that several young girls in the area have gone missing over the past few years and suspect Bethany may have fallen into the clutches of a serial killer although Maplefair refuses to think this is possible.

During their investigation, they discover that Bethany is pregnant. Liam and the Alphas of Maplefair believe Bethany has gone outside the pack to get an abortion and because she has no valid id, has gone to a less than reputable clinic where perhaps she was given a botched abortion and has either died or is in the hospital unable to call for help.  Stanzie doesn’t agree with this idea and goes off on her own to chase down her own clues.

She’s correct in her assumptions, but encounters a deadly twist.  Bethany has, indeed, been abducted by the serial killer and Stanzie stumbles into his hands as well.

In order to escape, Stanzie goes against every pack rule there is and shifts into her wolf and kills the serial killer.  Even though she saved herself and Bethany, because she broke pack law she is put before a tribunal and faces a death sentence.

Liam is devastated and terrified.  When he learns that the tribunal will spare Stanzie if a precedent exists within the Pack archives that would enable them to judge her actions positively, he leaves Stanzie so he can find the precedent himself.  He doesn’t trust the Advisors at the archives to do as thorough a job as he would.

The book ends on a melancholy note.  Stanzie is cleared, but Liam broke her heart when he didn’t stay with her and she’s not sure she can forgive him for it.  She tells him she’ll try and he’ll have to be satisfied with that.

Now we finally get to book four!

Wow. I’m beyond impressed at the depth and layers of this series. We definitely want to know what’s next, so tell us about the latest installment, INSIDE OUT. 

Inside Out starts the day after Stanzie’s tribunal ends.  Something strange is going on in her birth pack, Mayflower. Her cousin, Faith, is the latest Alpha. She’s pregnant and scared to death that she and her bond mate, Scott, are going to be ousted as Alphas before she gives birth.  She begs Councilor Allerton to send Stanzie to get to the bottom of everything.

Another fantastic setup! What might readers be surprised to learn about the plot or characters of INSIDE OUT?

The biggest surprise is probably that Liam Murphy is barely in this book and what he decides to do has made more than one of my readers shake an angry fist.  Others have told me they trust him and know he must have a good reason for what he does.

All I can say is that you won’t find out why he did what he did until book five, About Face, which comes out in April.   Don’t be mad at me, be mad at Murphy!  But, honestly, I think he had a good reason.  I’ll leave you guys to decide for yourselves when you read the book!

I love complicated characters who do questionable things. Makes for very interesting reading. :c) Let’s have some fun with INSIDE OUT. What’s the first sentence?

When I woke, I was in bed with two men.

Um, hello! Definitely an attention grabber there, lol. What’s your favorite line in the book?

He was heartbreakingly gorgeous and I don’t know why that surprised me.

Oh, I love that one! How about an excerpt … three sentences long! Yep, that’s it. Three!

Alan sat up so he could see them and his whole being radiated such intense longing my heart clutched.

“I want to meet my wolf so bad.” The words came out in a bitter whisper, faint, accusatory and hopeless.

What a powerful excerpt. Which scene of INSIDE OUT was most difficult for you to write? Why?

The last scene Liam and Paddy are in was really hard to write.  I had it make the scene heart wrenching and yet, hopefully, not turn everyone against Liam.  I wanted my readers to be sympathetic to his dilemma even though we see the scene through Stanzie’s eyes and she very definitely doesn’t understand why he decides to do what he does.

You definitely have my curiosity ringing over Liam’s actions! Which scene would you most like to experience for yourself? From whose POV? 

Oh, I’d love to be Alan and his wolf the first time he shifts.  Painful and scary, but shifting for the first time has got to be a magical experience.

I can only imagine, LOL. What inspired INSIDE OUT’s title?

Every title in the series is a common phrase that holds a clue to what the story is about.   Inside Out stands for a lot of things within the novel. Stanzie’s life is very much turned inside out. Also, the secret that has been festering inside Mayflower comes out.  And it has to do with Stanzie’s wolf, but I can’t say more or I’ll spoil the surprise.

I choose my titles very carefully.  They sometimes take days of thought.  I want them to encompass the whole novel in three or four words.  That’s not so easy to do, but I love every title I’ve come up with so far.  I hope readers of the series have seen what I have in them.

I love that you tie them in with such care. Before we take a closer look at INSIDE OUT, can you share with us what you’re currently working on? 

I just finished the galley proof for the fifth Wolf Within novel, About Face.  It comes out in April and I can’t wait.   I’m about to start first round edits of the sixth Stanzie novel, Across the Line, which should come out the end of 2013, I think.

I’m writing the seventh Stanzie novel, One Step Ahead.  Currently, I’m just about halfway through.

I’m shopping a vampire novel tentatively called The Circle around to various publishing houses and I’m also writing the sequel to that one when I’m not writing the Stanzie novel.  My head spins sometimes.

WOW! And as promised, here’s INSIDE OUT.

Inside Out

There’s no place like home…or is there?

When Stanzie is asked to investigate her birth pack- Mayflower–she isn’t prepared for what she finds.

No one respects the Alphas and the newest adult member of the pack is being encouraged to leave. Why? To make matters worse, the men are dangerously intent on mating and shifting with her.

How far will the pack she thought she knew go to get what they want? Without her bond-mate, Liam, Stanzie must face this alone and, barely ahead of threat of violence, must solve the mysteries, and fast.

WARNING: Vulgar language, sexual situations, group sex, violence

A Lyrical Press Paranormal Romance

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Excerpt

Alan looked at me and panic flooded his silver blue eyes. “Stanzie.” My name was a horrified plea.

I could see the ghost of a wolf’s muzzle beneath his mouth. He held out a hand and recoiled when he saw the dark fur on his palm.

“Take off your clothes, Alan,” I urged, but he stood there, transfixed. I hastily unbuttoned his plaid shirt and pushed it off his shoulders. “Help me,” I cried as I tugged at his sleeve.

“I don’t know what’s happening to me,” he whispered. His body gave a bone crunching shudder and he stared at Faith and Scott’s wolves, terror etched across his face. The wolves waited together, shoulder to shoulder. It was a damn good thing I hadn’t shifted myself. Poor Alan was clueless.

I fumbled with the button on his fly and then the zipper. His throat rippled and he threw back his head and howled. The noise nearly scared the shit out of me, but I somehow managed to get his zipper down and then I pushed him onto his ass so I could pull his jeans off. He was no help at all, caught in the throes of the first emergence of his wolf. His body morphed in and out of focus. It was like trying to undress someone by strobe light and I had to shut my eyes so I wouldn’t lose my concentration. Alan whimpered and whined. Shifting was painful sometimes–especially when we fought it and he was. He didn’t know how to relax into the chaos and let it flow. He still struggled for control, for a way to reason out the process, and that was impossible. Shifting did not make sense. It just happened.

“Let go. Alan, just go with it,” I coached in a quiet voice as I sat as near as I could to him. He writhed on the pine needles and screamed as his bones shifted beneath his skin. “It hurts less if you just let go.”

“Stanzie!” My name turned into an anguished howl and just when I had begun to get scared, it happened. Alan blinked out of this plane and when he blinked back in, he was shifted.

His wolf was gorgeous. Dusky black with ice-blue eyes. A touch of gray at the tips of each paw. Big too. Bigger than Scott’s gray wolf. He rolled to his feet and sprawled onto his face when he tried to walk. Two legs to four was a bitch for some people. It had never fazed me, but Grey told me it had taken him half an hour to figure out how the hell to walk the first time he’d shifted. I grinned to remember the story and reached out to pat Alan’s wolf on the head. He whined at me.

“Get up and walk. Four legs are fun,” I told him. I was on my hands and knees now, so we could look eye to eye. If he got up, that is. Faith’s wolf pranced over and nudged him with her dainty muzzle. He whined again and she gave a coughing bark. In wolf speak she told him to get off his ass.

Scott’s wolf approached me and stared at me so hard I knew he tried to tell me something, but I couldn’t figure out what. Then it hit me. Duh. I was still in human form.

I stood up so I could strip off my jeans and t-shirt. Scott’s wolf waited impatiently. Alan’s wolf had gained his wobbly feet but seemed stuck in one position. When Faith’s wolf nudged his back end with her nose, he promptly fell over again and I snickered. Alan’s wolf gave me a reproachful look and I patted his head in apology. Scott’s wolf moved behind me and bumped the back of my knees so hard I fell over. Alan’s wolf wheezed with lupine laughter. “At least I can walk on all fours,” I muttered. Naked, I crawled away a few feet to give myself space for shifting. Only nothing happened.

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Amy Lee Burgess

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Amy Lee Burgess wrote her first ghost story at age ten. Born in New England, she has also lived in New Orleans and Houston, survived fires, floods, hurricanes, divorce and the premature cancellation of several of her favorite television shows. Turning her back on such shocking betrayals, she is now writing about ghosts, vampires, and other paranormal things and is much happier for it.

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Author Cami Checketts: 10 Favorite Moments from “The Broken Path”

Cami Checketts is back with her ten favorite moments from her uber-successful THE BROKEN PATH. It’s tearing up the charts at Amazon, so you’ll definitely want to see this!

Cami Checketts: 10 Favorite Moments from “The Broken Path”

1. “My mama silly,” Brittan exclaimed. “You toughs.” Brittan grabbed his nicely defined upper arm. “You got big muscleses. I no hurt you.”

Ethan smiled, the tension in the air diffused. Autumn swallowed a gulp of lemonade, the cool drink sliding down her throat wasn’t her only relief at the moment.

“My mama no like Effan,” Brittan confided.

Autumn choked on the now sour lemonade.

“What?” Autumn gasped. She set her glass on the patio table and blotted the lemonade she’d sputtered down her shirt with a napkin. How had her daughter so terribly misconstrued what her mother was feeling and then announced her childlike assumptions to Ethan?

“You say, ‘no say Effan,’” Brittan reminded her. “You say, ‘it makes me crazy and aches my head.’” Brittan copied the face Autumn had made earlier. “You no like him.”

2. Ethan scowled. “I heard how quickly you said no when Cole asked if I was your man.”

“I didn’t say no like it would be bad.”

“Sure.” He arched a dark eyebrow, questioning her with his eyes. “Would it be so horrible if I was your man?”

“I…I…” Autumn couldn’t even imagine what he was implying. The image of him being “her man” about caused her heart failure.

“Effan, Mama,” Brittan yelled. Ethan had stopped giving the little girl attention and she was clearly upset with the neglect.

“What, sweetie?” He tenderly brushed a lock of hair from Brittan’s forehead.

“No yell,” she demanded.

3. “Autumn,” his deep voice warmed her more than the summer sun. “You look beautiful.”

She tugged at the hem of her shorts, glad her long legs were tan from playing outside with Brittan.

“You…you…” Autumn stuttered, trying to find the right words to express how he looked. “…look beautiful, too,” she said. She barely caught her hand from smacking her head. What kind of an idiot tells a man he looks beautiful?

Ethan chuckled.

Heat crept up her face. “I mean, thank you, um, you look nice, too.”

He opened the door wider, a grin splitting his face.

4.  Brittan bounded onto his lap. “Effan,” she whispered loudly. “My mama marry you?”

Ethan couldn’t answer. He blinked a few times. Maybe he’d misread how Autumn felt about him. He looked to Autumn with a questioning glance as she slid in next to him at Nancy’s obvious insistence.

She averted her eyes. Her skin tinged pink. “I’m sorry. I don’t know where she got that idea.”

“Effan marry Mama,” Brit chanted. “Effan marry Mama.”

Miss Sue looked over her shoulder, mouth open, painted-on eyebrows lifted. A look from Autumn silenced any comment the woman might have made. She turned back around with a “humph.”

“Effan marry Mama,” Brittan repeated.

“Brit,” Autumn whispered, “if you say ‘Ethan marry Mama,’ one more time I’ll put your nose in the corner with the spiders.”

5. Autumn couldn’t restrain a smile. “Convenient of Mom to forget her shawl.”

“Yeah,” he said, watching the couple go.

“She doesn’t know how to play hard to get,” Autumn said.

Ethan swung onto the four-wheeler. “Lucky man,” he murmured.

Autumn wondered what his comment meant as she watched him move. She admired the taut muscles in his arms. The firm cut of his jaw. The way his shirt stretched across his shoulders. He caught her gaze.

“Climb on.” His words were clipped, uninviting.

Autumn realized once again he had misinterpreted what she was thinking. Why did he have to be so prickly? He acted like she was staring at his deformed legs, when the truth was her stare was concentrated much higher up.

Brittan clung to the handlebars. “Huwwy up, Mama.”

Autumn didn’t try to explain her stare. Ethan wouldn’t believe her anyway. “Where am I supposed to sit?”

Sighing with impatience, Brittan planted her hands on her hips, looking at her mom like a frustrated teenager. “You sit on back.”

Ethan laughed.

Autumn raised her eyebrows. “Does she mean the metal rack?”

“Sounds like a perfect spot to me,” Ethan said, actually smiling at her.

6. “Autumn,” Ethan’s voice was low. His gaze bore into her. “You wanted to tell me how you felt about something, what was it?”

“You,” she squeaked, watching her daughter to avoid his eyes.

“Really?” He sounded pleased and nervous. “How do you feel about me?”

Autumn hazarded a glance at his gorgeous face. The expression in his eyes was one hundred percent puppy dog. He appeared scared, innocent, and completely vulnerable. She wanted to tell him the truth. She thought he was strong, smart, and handsome. He was wonderful with her daughter and she was completely infatuated with him.

“I think you’re…” The truth? Am I insane? No way. She cleared her throat. “I think you’re a nice guy who is cute with my daughter.” That sounded so lame. She looked everywhere, but at him, so as not to give him a glimpse of the real truth written in her eyes.

“A nice guy,” he muttered. “That figures.”

7. Brittan climbed onto the four-wheeler and tucked a flower behind Ethan’s ear. He smiled at the child. It killed Autumn that he rarely bestowed one of his smiles on her.

“I look like a girl,” Ethan protested to Brittan.

“You look beautisul,” Brittan said, throwing her arms around his neck.

Ethan grinned. Autumn completely agreed with her daughter’s sentiments. Why couldn’t she say something impetuous and throw herself at him? Oh, to be a child again.

8. “Need kiss. Need kiss.” Brittan demanded as she clung to Ethan’s neck.

Autumn hurried to her daughter’s side, leaning to kiss Brittan goodbye. Ethan’s lips touched Brittan’s other cheek at the same moment. Their eyes locked over Brittan’s head. Autumn blinked in surprise. They were centimeters away. If Brit had moved at all. No. She couldn’t think like that. Imagining the touch of Ethan’s lips on hers made her feel weak inside.

She tried to move away. The air swirled with Ethan’s cologne, breathing became difficult. Brit’s arm caught her around the neck, pulling her closer to Ethan. What is my girl doing? Autumn’s face almost touched Ethan’s. The look in his eyes said he didn’t mind at all.

His lips brushed her cheek. Warmth started in the pit of her stomach and quickly spread. Brittan continued pulling, his lips were practically on top of hers. She could smell and almost taste his mint-flavored breath.

9. “They’re such a beautiful family. So happy. Why couldn’t that be me?” Staring at the grains in the wood floor, she didn’t dare look at his face. “Why did I have to marry somebody who was violent? Why couldn’t Brit have two parents and siblings who love her?”

Autumn wiped angrily at a tear that had made its way down her cheek. She glanced up at Ethan, regret and embarrassment coursed through her. “Wow. Don’t know where that came from.”

He studied her. “Brit’s lucky to have you.”

His comment drew more tears, but at least he hadn’t addressed her failed marriage. She pointed her finger at the wall. “But I could never give her all this.”

Ethan looked over the pictures, then back at her. “Does she really need it?”

Autumn let that sink in. She shrugged. “It would be nice.”

Ethan smiled; it didn’t reach his dark eyes. “It would. But Brit is beautiful, smart, happy, loved.” He elevated his massive shoulders. “What could be more important than that?”

10. “I’m sorry for staring,” she said, dropping her towel on the concrete and sliding into the warm water.

“It’s okay.” He shrugged his striated shoulders. “I’m sure seeing my legs for the first time would be shocking to anybody.”

“What?” Autumn couldn’t believe what he was thinking. His legs? “I didn’t notice your legs.”

His lips pressed into a thin line. “Sure you didn’t,” he muttered.

Ethan swam a few feet away, ducking underwater. When he came out with his dark hair, face, and chest glistening, she could barely speak. She made an effort though. He had to know she wasn’t gawking at his legs like a rude teenager.

“Ethan, I promise I wasn’t looking at your legs. I never got that far.”

“What were you looking at?” He elevated one eyebrow, his expression full of hurt.

“Your chest.” Autumn flushed pink, embarrassed the truth had flown from her lips. It was her turn to duck under the water and swim away from him.

Ethan’s arm encircled her, pulling her above the surface. He whipped her around to face him.

“You’re quick in the water,” she gasped.

“The only time I am.” His hands wrapped themselves around her waist. “My chest, huh?”

“Yes,” she whispered, looking away.

His deep chuckle echoed against the concrete pool wall.

Her gaze swung back to his face. “You must workout, huh?”

More from “The Broken Path”

Injured in a debilitating accident at age six, Ethan Searle believes women eye him with a mixture of pity and disdain. He’s tried love before. He won’t again. He meets his match in a precocious two-year old who loves him despite his disability, even while her mother seems bothered by everything about Ethan.

Autumn Reader escaped her abusive marriage with her beautiful daughter and a stack of fear. She can’t make the mistake of trusting a man again. Autumn’s daughter becomes enraptured by Ethan. Despite Autumn’s best intentions, she finds herself following her daughter’s example. When her ex-husband reappears, threatening everyone she loves if she won’t submit to his demands, Autumn has to learn to trust or lose her chance at real love.

“Characters to fall in love with, action to keep you turning pages, and the most adorable little girl ever, The Broken Path is a compelling tale of strength and trust, courage and heart. I truly enjoyed this book.” – Maria Hoagland, Author of Family Size

“The Broken Path is sweet romance with heart, suspense, and plenty of story twists that kept me turning pages. Add in a romantic hero with a cane, a struggling single mom, and an adorable little girl and this book has it all!” –Heather Justesen, author of The Switch

Read an excerpt or buy The Broken Path on Amazon

Cami Checketts

Cami is a part-time author, part-time exercise consultant, part-time housekeeper, full-time wife, and overtime mother of four adorable boys. Sleep and relaxation are fond memories. She’s never been happier.

A portion of the proceeds from Cami’s books will be donated to The Child & Family Support Center. For more information on this worthy cause, please go towww.cachecfsc.org

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Jenna Jaxon: Candlelight Romance and “7 Days of Seduction”

I’m so very excited to welcome Jenna Jaxon today! Not only is she an amazing person, she writes with a beautiful, wicked style that turns everything she pens into a page turner. Whether you love historical romances or naughty erotic contemporaries, you’re in the right place … especially to learn about a little candlight lovin’. Jenna?

Jenna Jaxon: Candlelight Romance

“How do you set a romantic scene?” Ask this question and almost immediately men and women both will say, “Light some candles.”  Candles have been associated with romance probably only since the advent of electric lights, yet they are the first thing people think of when you say romance.  What quality does candlelight have that inspires those soft, sensual feelings in both men and women?

Candlelight encourages a sense of intimacy.  A dinner with candles casts only enough light for you and your date to see each other.  The rest of the world fades into the darkness and it is easier to focus only on each other, thereby creating an intimate bubble between you.  Intimate distance is considered to be from contact with skin to about 18 inches–just about as far as a candle’s light will reach.

A low quality of light casts an aura of mystery over a room.  Just like the light of sunrise or sunset, the uncertainty of candlelight appeals to our sense of adventure.  It suggests possibilities that are blatantly not there in the harsh light of day or 100 watt bulbs.  The flickering light of many candles–either in a bedroom or a bathroom–enhances your mystique and allows you the opportunity to discover all your partner’s now hidden, and therefore fascinating, nooks and crannies.

Scented candles can also bring the air of romance to a room.  Certain aromas go well together–lavender, lemon and peppermint combine to relax and soothe, to put you in the mood to languish or to explore each other in a leisurely manner.  If you know your partner’s preferences, you can arrange to have those scents perfuming the air, and creating the perfect atmosphere for romance.

In 7 Days of Seduction, Hunter takes advantage of the many uses of candles to give Ashley a super sensory experience on one of their colorful adventures.  He fills her bedroom with tall pillar candles, creating that intimate aura that feeds romance.  But he also takes advantage of another sensory encounter in the form of wax play.  This sensual (though sometimes painful) form of BDSM is meant to help Ashley not only trust him, but push her boundaries just a little.  It may be a bit extreme, but it is another way that candles can enhance your romantic evening at home.

Have you ever arranged a romantic evening?  Did you use candles or come up with some other device to create romance?

7 Days of Seduction (Erotic Romance)

Ashley Thompson had a wild time at her party last Friday night. Maybe too wild. She wakes to find a video of her in the middle of a ménage a trois with her ex-boyfriend and a gorgeous stranger. Unable to remember anything about the night, other than the hot sex she sees on the computer screen, Ashley begins a search for Mr. Hunk. She has no luck until he unexpectedly shows up–in her shower.

Hunter Hopewell intends to introduce Ash to a variety of sexual experiences he finds fun and exciting. He proposes a week long series of “colorful” encounters designed to seduce Ashley out of her kink comfort zone.

As their week of escalating pleasure intensifies, Ashley must choose to let go of her inhibitions or risk losing the best damn lover she’s ever had.

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Excerpt

Flickering lights in what should have been her dark bedroom sped her heart rate. Several groups of tall pillar candles around the room gave off a fresh, waxy smell. Thank goodness, there were no sweet floral scents. The light blue duvet cover turned back revealed blue striped sheets. She stood appreciating the romance of the room. Hunter moved to stand close behind her.

“I guess it will be novel to make love in a bed.” Her hushed tone seemed right for the moment.

“And other things,” Hunter whispered as he kissed her ear. “Are you ready to see what’s in that bag?”

She nodded, concerned only with his lips as he nibbled down the nape of her neck. The mystery of the bag no longer filled her with anxiety.

“Show me.”

Once naked, they sat on the bed and he opened the satchel, laying items on the mattress beside her. A yellow taper candle, a box of matches, a black condom, a beach towel and strips of black cloth. The last item sent a quiver of apprehension through her and she picked them up.

“What are these for?” Though curious, she wasn’t afraid, even though she suspected what they were.

“Restraints.” In the wavering light, his mouth curled in a sensual smile. “I wanted to tie you to the bed tonight, Ashley.”

Her heart leaped, her stomach dropped, and her pussy clenched. Keep breathing.

“I knew you had a really kinky side. Just didn’t know when it was going to show itself.” She turned the strips over, running them through her fingers. The softness of the fabric belied their purpose. She glanced at the brass bars of her headboard. “Well, you’ve got the perfect setting for it.” Raising her gaze to his face, she nonchalantly handed the restraints over. “You want to put these on me now?”

“I’m actually thinking I’ll save them for later. Concentrate on the other goodies.” He shoved the black strips back into the bag. “Do you know what the candle’s for?”

She shook her head.

“Watch.” He grabbed it and lit it from one of the pillars then waited a minute for the wax to collect around the flame. Ash watched, fascinated as he held his hand out, palm down, and dripped the hot wax onto the back of his hand. He didn’t flinch, but his eyes grew round briefly.

Her stomach flipped suddenly. “You want to drip wax on my hand?”

“On your body.”

Her sharp intake of breath sounded loud in the quiet room. Almost louder than the hammering of her heart. The game had gotten much more real in the past thirty seconds.

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Jenna Jaxon

Jenna Jaxon is a multi-published author of historical and contemporary romance.  She is currently finishing revisions to Betrothal, the first book in the Time Enough to Love series.  Her Georgian novel, Only Scandal Will Do, the first in a series of five interconnecting novels, was released in July 2012.  Work on the second book of the series, Only Marriage Will Do, has begun.  Her third full-length novel, As Long As You’re Mine, set in Victorian London and Richmond, Virginia is currently out to an agent.

Jenna has been reading and writing historical romance since she was a teenager.  A romantic herself, she has always loved a dark side to the genre, a twist, suspense, a surprise.  She tries to incorporate all of these elements into her own stories. She lives in Virginia with her family and a small menagerie of pets.  When not reading or writing, she indulges her passion for the theatre, working with local theatres as a director.  She often feels she is directing her characters on their own private stage.

She has equated her writing to an addiction to chocolate because once she starts she just can’t stop.

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Jan.20.13 #SixSunday with Last Call

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Nick and Rhys just arrived at the graveyard. As she’s getting out of the car, he touches her arm and apologizes for leaving without explanation after the accident several months before. But they weren’t in a relationship, so he didn’t owe her anything … did he?

Irritation nipped at her conscience. After a night spent making love with him she felt dangerously close to falling hard. She’d hoped ridding their relationship of all that sexual tension would make things easier, but now she only wanted more—more from a man who had told her from the start he wasn’t sticking around.

She bit her lip, the unfamiliar heat of tears threatening. “You’re right,” she said. “You shouldn’t have, but I wasn’t yours to leave.”

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A Little “Beer and Groping in Las Vegas” with Angela Quarles

I’m so excited to welcome Angela Quarles to the blog today! I’ve become well acquainted with her writing through weekly Six Sentence Sunday visits, so I can personally attest to her quick-witted and just plain fun to read talent. You guys are going to love her! (But no matter how smittin you find yourself, no groping. Save that for the book with the gorgeous cover!)

Welcome, Angela! I’m so happy to have you here. As a reader, I love to dig into an author’s backstory, but I didn’t have to dig past your tag line for my first question. Tell us why “geek girl romance writer” says it all … or does it?

LOL, I hope it does, but we’ll see as it gets road tested  I’m into lots of things. I can get quite obsessed about different topics or activities and be all into it. In other words, I geek out. So when I was trying to come up with a tagline that could encapsulate what to expect from my writing, I came up with that. My first release, BEER AND GROPING IN LAS VEGAS, is more literal in that it’s a romantic comedy about two geeks finding love, with loads of geek references. However, it (hopefully) covers my other projects, where it might be time travel and Ada Lovelace (the world first computer programmer) I’m geeking out on, or steampunk, or Jane Austen.

I have to say from my glimpses at your other works, GEEKING OUT PAYS! If that’s your secret, it serves your talent well. :c) Tell us a bit about BEER & GROPING IN LAS VEGAS (which has the Best Title Ever). Were there any particular trials or milestones on the path to publication?

Thanks! I had fun coming up with that title. I’d originally written it for a particular e-publisher for a series they have—it was the first time I’d ever thought of writing to spec AND the first time I tried to write a short story. I studied that series, knowing I was taking a big risk if it got rejected. Anyway, I wrote it, revised it, and sent it off to my Betas, revised and sent to that e-pub. And it got rejected. Boy was I bummed that day. But luckily I have some wonderful writer friends who made me realize that it was just a bump in the road and to retool it. That night my mind whirled with possibilities and that’s when I came up with the whole first scene of the story and the djinn. So I gutted the story the next day (taking out what was particular for that series) and rewrote it with the new frame, sent it out again for Beta feedback, and then sent it out to epubs after revising. And it got three offers! Man, I hope your readers like hearing how sausage is made, because that was probably more detailed than it needed to be.

LMAO! LOVE a happy ending to a rejection story! (Also, I was a butcher shop today and got an eyeful of natural casing. The sausage thing … totally made me cringe, lol.) Let’s have some fun with BEER & GROPING IN LAS VEGAS. What’s the first sentence?

Mirjam rubbed the tiredness from her eyes, but the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland still occupied the Rivenbark Hotel & Casino elevator with her.

That is one freaking great first line! What’s your favorite line in the book?

She glommed onto him like white plastic on a Stormtrooper, shamelessly pressing against his body, groping and kissing.

I love that one — it really captures your funny, sexy style. :c) Which scene would you most like to experience for yourself? From whose POV?

Um, any scene with Riley? From Mirjam’s POV…

If our readers had any doubt as to what happens in the pages of this one, I think you just cleared it right up, lol. I know you touched on it earlier, but can you tell us a little  more about what inspired the title of BEER AND GROPING IN LAS VEGAS?

I work in a bookstore and was trying to think of possible titles for possible projects and was shelving some Hunter S. Thompson, and I was like hmm, what could be a twist off of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and first I was like Beer and Loathing, but I write lighthearted romances, and then ‘groping’ popped into my head. In the next instant I had the hero, as I thought he should be a microbrewer, and that the heroine would be an overworked software programmer. Once I had that, things started falling into place, including the description for him of being a geek trapped in a good ole boy’s body. I had that tagline for him before I even started writing the story. It was the first time I came up with a title first.

How insanely perfectly did that work out? I LOVE it! Before we dig in a little further with all that Beer and Groping, can you share with us what you’re currently working on?  

I’m in the research/brainstorming phase for a sequel to MUST LOVE BREECHES, my time travel romance, and all I can say right now is that it will be another time travel set in the past. How’s that for vague? LOL. I don’t want to say more as my agent and I are still working that out and I don’t want to make any promises I can’t keep. Meanwhile, I’m revising my NaNo draft from November, which is a meta fiction romance called NOT ANOTHER DARCY, which is about an indie bookstore owner who helps train literary manifestations that come to life in her store. I also need to revise my Southern steampunk STEAM ME UP, RAWLEY.

Such awesome plans! And fortunately, in the case of one title, there’s no need to wait a moment longer. Get your “buy link” fingers ready, folks. Here’s more on the featured story!

Beer and Groping in Las Vegas

Can a djinn and a magic slot machine bring two geeks together?

Riley McGregor is a geek trapped in a Good Ole Boy body and as owner of a microbrewery, smart chicks never look at him twice.

Rejected by a geek who wanted to “trade up,” Mirjam Linna would rather immerse herself in work than be the girlfriend-of-the-moment. Stranded in a Vegas hotel, she makes a wish—a night of hot sex with the man of her dreams. It’s granted. She agrees to dinner, but afterward, she’ll say thanks, but no thanks, and see what’s on the SyFy channel. But when they meet, they’re surprised to find they had a shared connection in their past. Sparks fly as these two learn to be in the moment, be themselves and find love.

Fans of Star Trek, Star Wars, Monty Python, Firefly and Marvin the Martian will enjoy this romantic comedy.

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Angela Quarles

Angela works at an independent bookstore and lives in an historic house in the beautiful and quirky town of Mobile, AL, with her two matched gray cats, Darcy and Bingley. When she’s not writing, she enjoys the usual stuff like gardening, reading, hanging out, eating, drinking, chasing squirrels out of the walls and creating the occasional knitted scarf. She’s had a varied career, including website programming and directing a small local history museum.

She’s an admitted geek and is proud to be among the few but mighty Browncoats who watched Firefly the first night it aired. She was introduced to the wonderful world of science fiction by her father, by way of watching reruns of the original Star Trek in her tweens and later giving her a copy of Walter M. Miller Jr’s A Canticle for Leibowitz as a teenager. She hasn’t looked back since.

She has a B.A. in Anthropology and International Studies with a minor in German from Emory University, and a Masters in Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University. She was an exchange student to Finland in high school and studied abroad in Vienna one summer in college. She recently found representation with Maura Kye-Casella at Don Congdon, Assoc.

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Thanks so much for being here today, Angela! I’m thrilled to offer my readers a glimpse of this story. Readers, I hope you are thoroughly tempted by this one. Hey,  it’s one way to get to Vegas this weekend, and you may lose your shirt (rawhr!), but at least your wallet will be mostly intact. (I might also mention BEER AND GROPING IN LAS VEGAS currently boasts 11 reviews on Amazon and the average a whopping **5 STARS** … so yeah, GRAB IT!)

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! 

$50 Book Blast: Freak of Nature by Julia Crane ($50 G’veaway)

Freak of Nature

Donate Body to Science. Check.

When seventeen-year-old Kaitlyn checked the box, she never suspected she’d have her life–and her body–stolen from her. She awakens one day in a secret laboratory to discover that her body is now half-robot and is forced to hide her own secret: that she still has human emotions and a human mind. If the scientists who made her find out, they’ll erase what remains of who she was.

Kaitlyn finds an unlikely ally in Lucas, a handsome, brilliant scientist who can’t get over the guilt he feels knowing she was once a vibrant, beautiful young woman. He never expected a science project to affect him the way she does. As he tries to help her rediscover her past, he finds himself falling for the brave girl struggling to find her place and acceptance between the human and computer worlds.

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Julia Crane is the author of the YA paranormal fiction novels: Keegan’s Chronicles, Mesmerized, Dark Promise and Eternal Youth. Julia was encouraged by her mother to read and use her imagination, and she’s believed in magical creatures since the day her grandmother first told her an Irish tale. Julia has traveled far and wide to all the places her grandmother told her about, gaining inspiration from her journeys to places like Nepal, Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Italy, France and many more. And who knows? Maybe the magical creatures she writes about are people she met along the way.Julia Crane has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. Although she’s spent most of her life on the US east coast, she currently lives in Dubai with her husband and three children.

 
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A Cast of Stones: Top 10 Reasons this Book (and Series) is a Must Read (Tour Wide G’veaway)

A Guest Blog From “Cast of Stones” Author Patrick W. Carr
Top Ten Reasons This Book (and Series) is a Must Read

Okay. This is really tough. Most writers by nature are pretty solitary (i.e. private) folk and tooting our own horn is difficult. So, in order to make out this list, I chose to repeat what others have told me about my book, plus a couple that I added myself. So, let’s begin.

1. It’s fun! Yes, it has a lot of fighting and serious moments, but the tone of the book is warm and there are some laugh-out-loud moments. One of my favorite characters is Cruk. He has a very no-nonsense view of life, but a wit that’s as dry as the Sahara.

2. It’s fantasy! Think about it. The most fun we have at the movies is when we take something totally improbable and bring it to life. Think “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.” If that’s not your style, then go with “The Avengers.” Fantasy means fun.

3. It’s principled without being preachy! There are themes within the book that everyone will love, because they are so universal. How many of us have ever felt judged prematurely, or perhaps we’ve felt worthless because we lacked a skill that others esteemed. “A Cast of Stones” will speak to all of us.

4. It can be read more than once! I used a lot of allegorical and symbolic references in putting together the world of “A Cast of Stones.” Many of the names and places have meaning if you have the curiosity to seek them out. The second time you read the book, you will notice things you didn’t see before, some serious, some funny.

5. It has something for everyone! There’s action, adventure, fantasy, romance, you name it. That’s the wonderful thing about fantasy; you can cover so many bases at once. Sorry, no vampires though.

6. It’s briskly paced! This tidbit came from publisher’s weekly. If you love to read fantasy, but have a hard time wading through the description, you’re in luck. My editors, rightly, forbade me to go over 135,000 words (think somewhere between “The Prisoner of Azkaban” and “The Goblet of Fire” if you’re a Potter fan). The upside is, this is a fast-paced book, especially for an epic fantasy.

7. It has characters that stay with you! When I wrote “A Cast of Stones” I put a note on my wall and in my computer. The note said “Everyone has secrets.” I wanted to create characters that were identifiable and memorable. So far, everyone has told me it worked and not everyone has the same favorite.

8. It will make the 2nd book much easier to understand! This is probably me being a bit compulsive, but I hate picking up a series in the middle. I’m always frustrated by what I think I’m missing. Hey, I’m just trying to help out.

9. You can be the one to recommend it to your friends (instead of the other way around)! Yes, here’s your chance to be a trend-setter. In all seriousness, I hope you’ll like it well enough to recommend it, but if you don’t, I’d like to know why. Shoot me a message and let me know what I could have done better.

10.  There’s a mystery there! I’m kind of cheating on this one, because to unravel the mystery you’ll have to read all three books. There’s something interesting hidden in the structure. If you uncover it without anyone giving it away, it will be a rewarding experience.

A Cast of Stones

An Epic Medieval Saga Fantasy Readers Will Love

In the backwater village of Callowford, Errol Stone’s search for a drink is interrupted by a church messenger who arrives with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Desperate for coin, Errol volunteers to deliver them but soon finds himself hunted by deadly assassins. Forced to flee with the priest and a small band of travelers, Errol soon learns he’s joined a quest that could change the fate of his kingdom.

Protected for millennia by the heirs of the first king, the kingdom’s dynasty is near an end and a new king must be selected. As tension and danger mount, Errol must leave behind his drunkenness and grief, learn to fight, and come to know his God in order to survive a journey to discover his destiny.

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Errol swam until spots danced in his vision, his body begging for air. With a pair of strokes he surfaced like a fish breaking water, darted a glance behind before sucking air into his tortured lungs and diving again, away from the figure in black.

The sounds of his efforts and splashing filled his ears, prevented him from hearing the scream of an arrow. He forced his trembling arms forward, jerked them back to his sides. Only the movement of water against his face told him he advanced. The far bank was still thirty feet away. Violent chills rippled the water as his body fought to stay warm. His shaking limbs lurched into a parody of his usual stroke. Bolts of pain shot through his calves and thighs. His legs refused to move. They hung from his torso, dragged him down. He reached out, struck mud. One shaking hand at a time, he pulled himself forward.

At last he broke the surface. His hands clawed forward until they brushed against rough bark. They clutched the thin trunk, locking around it as if it were his last hope. Water drained from his ears and he listened for his attacker. Nothing.

Errol’s body convulsed with cold and he clutched at the sapling, straining to move, turn his head, anything. His muscles refused to obey. His hands clenched the tree, refused to let go.

Above and behind him the wail of an arrow began. He willed himself to let go, roll over, but spasms pinned him to the spot, left him helpless. The arrow’s scream grew, its pitch rising until its keening filled his hearing.

Errol sobbed, tried once more to move and failed.

He clenched his eyes against the blow.

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Patrick W. Carr

Patrick Carr was born on an Air Force base in West Germany at the height of the cold war. He has been told this was not his fault. As an Air Force brat, he experienced a change in locale every three years until his father retired to Tennessee. Patrick saw more of the world on his own through a varied and somewhat eclectic education and work history. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984 and has worked as a draftsman at a nuclear plant, did design work for the Air Force, worked for a printing company, and consulted as an engineer. Patrick’s day gig for the last five years has been teaching high school math in Nashville, TN. He currently makes his home in Nashville with his wonderfully patient wife, Mary, and four sons he thinks are amazing: Patrick, Connor, Daniel, and Ethan. Sometime in the future he would like to be a jazz pianist. Patrick thinks writing about himself in the third person is kind of weird.

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