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Release Day for Skip to the Good Part!

I’m excited to share that Skip to the Good Part is here! This is a super sexy anthology that features the hottest scenes from great books by 20 authors! I have a sizzling scene from my menage story Just Gotta Say in the anthology! And since the book is just 99 cents for pre-orders AND release week, it’s a great way to try some new-to-you authors! Here’s everything you need to know:

Find your next red-hot read in this sizzling collection of sexy scenes.

Volume Three offers even more great reads:

Skip to the Good Part 3: 20 Authors Reveal Their Steamiest Scenes offers face-fanning romance and tie-me-up sizzle (and everything in between) from top authors including New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. 

This collection features an adventurous woman who finally fulfills her fantasy of being with three men, a married couple who spice up their sex life by going to a swinger’s club, a virgin who auctions off her virginity to the highest bidder, a cowboy who falls in lust with the daughter of his family’s arch nemesis, and a vacationing woman who falls in bed with a sexy celebrity.

Read 20 of the best steamy scenes in contemporary romance and erotic romance today. This 250-page collection will get your blood pumping, your heart racing, and your skin tingling—you’re sure to discover a new favorite. 

Due to the graphic nature of some content, this collection is recommended strictly for mature readers. 
Buy at Amazon | B&N | iBooks | Kobo
Add to your Goodreads
Available in paperback and ebook!

New York Times bestsellers:

Melissa Foster 
Laura Kaye 
Erika Wilde 
Shelli Stevens 
Jo Raven 
Emily Ryan-Davis 

USA Today bestseller:
CD Reiss

Featuring:
JC Emery
Carolyn Crane
Kayti McGee
Brenna Aubrey
Kate Roth
Heidi Joy Tretheway
Leigha Taylor
Melanie Harlow
Clare James
Rosalie Lario
Britni Hill
Viv Daniels
Ava O’Shay

Thanks for reading! And don’t forget to grab your book!

Laura

Hard to Be Good Cover Reveal!

You guys! I’m super excited to share with you the cover for Hard to Be Good! This book is, as many of you guessed(!), Jeremy and Charlie’s story! And I just love both these guys and hope you will, too! Here’s everything you need to know!

Hard Ink Tattoo owner Jeremy Rixey has taken on his brother’s stateside fight against the forces that nearly killed Nick and his Special Forces team a year before. Now, Jeremy’s whole world has been turned upside down—not the least of which by a brilliant, quiet blond man who tempts Jeremy to settle down for the first time ever.

Recent kidnapping victim Charlie Merritt has always been better with computers than people, so when he’s drawn into the SF team’s investigation of his army colonel father’s corruption, he’s surprised to find acceptance and friendship—especially since his father never accepted who Charlie was. Even more surprising is the heated tension Charlie feels with sexy, tattooed Jeremy, Charlie’s opposite in almost every way.

With tragedy and chaos all around them, temptation flashes hot, and Jeremy and Charlie can’t help but wonder why they’re trying so hard to be good…

And here’s their cover:

Releases April 7, 2015!
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Yes! Hard to Be Good will be available in paperback! Links coming soon!

 

And in case you missed it, here’s the cover goodness for the final full-length book in the series, Hard to Let Go:

Releases June 30, 2015!
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And don’t the covers in this series all look amazing together???

So what do you think? Thanks for stopping by!

Laura

Hard to Come By is on sale!

You guys! I’m so excited because Hard to Come By is available to you ON SALE for just $2.49 (50% off!)!! So you can grab the newest book in the Hard Ink series and get reading for the coming-soon end to the series! Here’s everything you need to know!
Hard to Come By (Hard Ink #3)

Caught between desire and loyalty…

Derek DiMarzio would do anything for the members of his disgraced Special Forces team—sacrifice his body, help a former teammate with a covert operation to restore their honor, and even go behind enemy lines. He just never expected to want the beautiful woman he found there.

When a sexy stranger asks questions about her brother, Emilie Garza is torn between loyalty to the brother she once idolized and fear of the war-changed man he’s become. Derek’s easy smile and quiet strength tempt Emilie to open up, igniting the desire between them and leading Derek to crave a woman he shouldn’t trust.

As the team’s investigation reveals how powerful their enemies are, Derek and Emilie must prove where their loyalties lie before hearts are broken and lives are lost. Because love is too hard to come by to let slip away…

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And don’t miss the other Hard Ink books, now available:

Hard As It Gets

Hard As You Can

Hard to Hold On To

Don’t miss this sale! It ends on the 26th!

Thanks for stopping by!

Laura

Cover Reveal for Lauren Blakely’s Forbidden Nights!

 

It’s here! The cover for Lauren Blakely’s next title in her Seductive Nights Series, FORBIDDEN NIGHTS, is here and it’s a beauty! I am thrilled to share it with you today along with a hot excerpt, too!

Lauren Blakely is well known for writing sexy, heartfelt and humorous contemporary romance as well as deeply emotional new adult stories — one commonality in all her books is the scorching hot sexy times. And this book is absolutely no different! Nate Harper and Casey Sullivan have some thrilling moments together.

FORBIDDEN NIGHTS will release on February 17th!
That’s a full month earlier than originally planned! So you will get to experience Nate and Casey and all of their sexy and heartfelt moments together even sooner! Still dying to get your hands on this smoking couple? Here’s a little taste for you from Lauren Blakely:

“Just relax and let me lead,” he said, whispering in her ear, a waft of her citrus scent drifting by his nostrils. She shivered briefly against him, and that nearly did him in. He stayed strong, swaying gently, guiding her in slow, sensuous moves. “I’ll show you how to let go, but you have to trust me. And that’s where it starts. I can show you how good it will feel when you give up control.”

She breathed in sharply, like she was acclimating to new air on a distant planet. “Why do men like a woman to give up a control? What is it about the lack of control that men like so much?”

“It’s not that they like a lack of control. They want a woman who wants to give herself to him. He wants a woman to melt into his arms, to get aroused from a kiss on the back of her neck,” he said, and traced a fingertip gently under her hair, watching her reaction as she drew in a breath. “It’s the hand on her arm,” he said, now trailing his fingers down her bare skin to her elbow as he leaned in to whisper. “Or warm breath near her ear.” She gasped, and he kept going. “He wants a woman who’s so turned on, she’ll nearly beg for it. He wants her abandon. He wants to be the only one to make her feel that way.”

She parted her lips to speak, but he shushed her with his fingertip against her lips. God, he was so tempted to let her suck on his finger right now, to watch her simulate a blow job, to let her show him what she could do. But that would come later. He needed to kiss her first.

That is, after he teased her…

Are you as excited as we are about this book?!
And now, here’s the fabulous cover for FORBIDDEN NIGHTS!

Cover created by Sarah Hansen of Okay Creations

ABOUT FORBIDDEN NIGHTS:

A smoldering and sensual standalone romance novel in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Seductive Nights Series by Lauren Blakely…

Sinfully sexy hotel CEO Nate Harper knows exactly how to please a woman. He’s equally skilled in keeping his heart safe from the kind of hurt his ex inflicted on him years ago. But one thing he’s not so good at what-so-ever is getting his mind and all his dirty thoughts off the gorgeous, outgoing, and absolutely captivating Casey Sullivan, the new head of the Joy Delivered company.

They’ve been friends for years now, and Casey trusts Nate completely. So it makes perfect sense to her to ask him for hands-on guidance when she finds herself in need of some of his romantic expertise.

The trouble is, his heart may be signing up for more than it bargained for when he agrees to help her learn to abandon her need for control in the bedroom. Because as she experiences what it means to let go, he’ll start to experience what it means to feel again…

But what happens when all those forbidden nights turn into a deeper connection that’s much more than either bargained for?



*FORBIDDEN NIGHTS is a standalone full-length novel in the bestselling SEDUCTIVE NIGHTS series following the love affair of Nate and Casey. You can read it on its own, but you would likely enjoy the other books too.*

Read all about FORBIDDEN NIGHTS and the Seductive Nights Series HERE!

Pre-Order Your Copy Of FORBIDDEN NIGHTS coming February 17th Now!
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About Lauren Blakely:

Lauren Blakely writes sexy contemporary romance novels with heat, heart, and humor, and her books have appeared multiple times on the New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iBooks bestseller lists. Like the heroine in her novel, FAR TOO TEMPTING, she thinks life should be filled with family, laughter, and the kind of love that love songs promise. Lauren lives in California with her husband, children, and dogs. She loves hearing from readers! Her bestselling series include Caught Up in Love, Seductive Nights, and Fighting Fire. She recently released Nights With Him, a standalone novel in her New York Times Bestselling Seductive Nights series that became an instant New York Times Bestseller. Her next book in that series is Forbidden Nights, releasing in early 2015. She also writes for young adults under the name Daisy Whitney. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, text BLAKELY + your email address to 678-249-3375 (please use the actual + sign).

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So what do you think? Thanks for stopping by!

Laura

Pre-Order Skip to the Good Part!

I’m excited to share that I’m going to be a part of the next Skip to the Good Part! This is a super sexy anthology that features the hottest scenes from great books by 20 authors! I have a sizzling scene from my menage story Just Gotta Say in the anthology! The book releases NEXT WEDNESDAY January 15, and since it’s just 99 cents for pre-orders AND release week, it’s a great way to try some new-to-you authors! Here’s everything you need to know:

Find your next red-hot read in this sizzling collection of sexy scenes.

Volume Three offers even more great reads:

Skip to the Good Part 3: 20 Authors Reveal Their Steamiest Scenes offers face-fanning romance and tie-me-up sizzle (and everything in between) from top authors including New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. 

This collection features an adventurous woman who finally fulfills her fantasy of being with three men, a married couple who spice up their sex life by going to a swinger’s club, a virgin who auctions off her virginity to the highest bidder, a cowboy who falls in lust with the daughter of his family’s arch nemesis, and a vacationing woman who falls in bed with a sexy celebrity.

Read 20 of the best steamy scenes in contemporary romance and erotic romance today. This 250-page collection will get your blood pumping, your heart racing, and your skin tingling—you’re sure to discover a new favorite. 

Due to the graphic nature of some content, this collection is recommended strictly for mature readers. 
Pre-Order at Amazon | B&N | iBooks | Kobo
Add to your Goodreads
Available in paperback (links coming soon) and ebook!

New York Times bestsellers:

Melissa Foster 
Laura Kaye 
Erika Wilde 
Shelli Stevens 
Jo Raven 
Emily Ryan-Davis 

USA Today bestseller:
CD Reiss

Featuring:
JC Emery
Carolyn Crane
Kayti McGee
Brenna Aubrey
Kate Roth
Heidi Joy Tretheway
Leigha Taylor
Melanie Harlow
Clare James
Rosalie Lario
Britni Hill
Viv Daniels
Ava O’Shay

Thanks for reading! And don’t forget to grab your book!

Laura

Happy New Year, 2015!

What will your story be? I wish you all the best in the New Year!
With much love!
Laura

Hard As It Gets is on sale!

You guys! Just a quick post to make sure you know about this amazing sale! 
Hard As It Gets is just $1.99 (normally $4.99)!
Ends Monday, January 5!
Don’t miss it!

B&N | Amazon | Kobo

This is part of the First in Series promotion at Barnes & Noble, so right now only these three retailers are offering the sale price. I’ll update if that changes!

WINNER! Best Romantic Suspense of 2014 in the NECRWA Readers’ Choice Awards!

WINNER! Best Romantic Suspense of 2014 in the Golden Quill Awards!

FINALIST! Best Single Title Contemporary Romance of 2014 in the Maggie Awards!

NOMINEE! Best Romantic Suspense of 2013 in the RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards!

Tall, dark, and lethal…

Trouble just walked into Nicholas Rixey’s tattoo parlor. Becca Merritt is warm, sexy, wholesome–pure temptation to a very jaded Nick. He’s left his military life behind to become co-owner of Hard Ink Tattoo, but Becca is his ex-commander’s daughter. Loyalty won’t let him turn her away. Lust has plenty to do with it too.

With her brother presumed kidnapped, Becca needs Nick. She just wasn’t expecting to want him so much. As their investigation turns into all-out war with an organized crime ring, only Nick can protect her. And only Becca can heal the scars no one else sees.

Desire is the easy part. Love is as hard as it gets. Good thing Nick is always up for a challenge…

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The last two books release over the next few months, so NOW is a GREAT time to start the series if you haven’t yet! Thanks for stopping by!

Laura

2014: An Amazing Year in Review

One thing is true about 2014: it’s been an amazing year for me professionally. A lot of that I owe to all of YOU – to all of your wonderful support and encouragement and love! Here’s my year in review:

I had 10 releases in 2014, including 5 fully new titles 
I finished two series this year, the Hearts of the Anemoi series and the Hard Ink series (although the last of the Hard Ink books hasn’t yet released!)
I hit the New York Times bestseller list twice in 2014, including my highest ever hit at #8 for Hard to Hold On To
I hit the USA Today bestseller list three times in 2014, including my highest ever hit at #34 for Hard to Hold On To
Amazon named Hard As You Can one of their best romance picks of the year
I received two nominations in the RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards, for Hard As It Gets (last year) and Hard As You Can (this year)
I received two TOP PICKs by RT Book Reviews Magazine this year for the two books of mine they reviewed, Hard As You Can and Hard to Come By
I received my first ever starred review from Publisher’s Weekly for Hard to Come By
My books finaled in six contests and won in three
I was invited to be a presenter at the 2014 RITA Awards Ceremony at the RWA National Conference, which was a complete thrill to do!
I traveled to Uncasville, CT; Richmond, VA; Iselin, NJ; Charlottesville, VA; Cincinnati, OH; New Orleans, LA; Bethany Beach, DE; Orlando, FL; San Antonio, TX; Altoona, PA; Baltimore, MD; Houston, TX; San Rafael, CA; Seattle, WA; and Boonsboro, MD this year for a total of 16 book signings and reader events in 2014! Wow!
I MET J.R. WARD AND SHE HUGGED ME AND SIGNED MY BOOK AND GAVE ME A SHOUTOUT AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! 
I hit 16,000 FB likes and 13,000 Twitter followers – which is so amazing!
I redesigned my website, which I absolutely love!
I served as President of the RWA-Contemporary Romance Writers chapter
I served as the coordinator for the Maryland Romance Writers stage/program at the Baltimore Book Festival
I wrote over 500,000 words, including finishing my first co-authored project in another genre - America’s First Daughter, with Stephanie Dray, William Morrow, 2016 (historical fiction)
I made several new sales, including a whole new romantic suspense series – a Hard Ink spin-off about the Raven Riders MC, coming in early 2016
This one isn’t purely professional, but I think it will help me professionally in so many ways: In 2014, I lost 55 pounds and 38″ , and am, without question, in the best shape of my entire life!

So much of this, all of you made possible, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart! 2015 is shaping up to be every bit as exciting, and I look forward to sharing it with you every step of the way!

What achievements are you most proud of from 2014?

Thanks for reading!

Laura

Check out Robin Covington’s New Playing with the Drummer!

 

I’m super excited to help my good friend Robin Covington celebrate the release of her newest book, Playing with the Drummer. Check out all the awesomeness – including a note from Robin, a giveaway, and a hot excerpt – below!

Friends –

I love a good Hollywood romance. The glamour. The sexy vibe of the opulent life. Add in the edgy, exciting world of rock-n-roll and I jump from “yes, please.” to “gimme, gimme” at the speed of Eddie Van Halen’s guitar riff on “Hot for Teacher”.

So writing about a broody, Alpha, reclusive drummer from the world’s most popular rock band and an entertainment journalist hell bent on getting her own TV show¼was a ton of fun.  Add in the fact that they have a combustible history and you’ve got a story I hope you cannot put down.

Warning: This book contains a sexy, Alpha rock star who just wants to be left alone and the gorgeous, super talented reporter who thinks that is the worst idea ever. When they are thrown together and forced to play nice, the competition begins in the bedroom but ends on the front page. The author is not responsible for spontaneous combustion of the reader.

To celebrate my release, I’m giving away a $50 giftcard and 5 SWAG packs! Enter the rafflecopter for your chance to win!

 

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Blurb:

Entertainment journalist Lita Matthews is on the verge of making it big. As in her-own-TV-show big. She just needs amazing inside scoop on the year’s hottest celebrity wedding. Instead, her big break is becoming a big nightmare—all thanks to rock star Rocky Cardano. Who apparently hasn’t gotten over what happened between them four years ago…

Rocky is pretty damn familiar with just how far Lita will go for a “scoop.” Hell, their unbelievably hot hook-up in Mexico years ago was the story of a lifetime. Rocky’s learned his lessons. He’ll do whatever it takes to keep her from the story—even if he has to seduce her to the point of distraction! But Lita has always had a way of getting under his skin. Only this time, he won’t be able to just walk away…

 

Buy Playing with the Drummer:
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Excerpt:

They were still touching, from shoulders down to their thighs, bodies trading warmth in the slight chill of the night next to the lake. She was close enough to kiss, close enough for him to caress, and he bit back a groan when he recalled her curves. She was smooth muscle, silky skin, lush breasts that filled his palms with their delicious heavy weight. Rocky broke eye contact, taking the chicken-shit way out for a moment.

He should move, get up and walk around, but he wasn’t going to do it. The big, horny bastard who made poor decisions was super-powered by tequila shots. That guy was like the Hulk, except that poor schmo in the movie couldn’t fuck without losing control, and when you were green with anger-management issues— that was a big problem. But Lita loved it when he lost control, and he enjoyed it when she took everything he had and begged for more.

The silence between them wasn’t awkward, and it wasn’t empty. The drumbeat of what they were both contemplating was in time with the pounding of their hearts. His cock ached, strained against the fly of his jeans; his mouth salivated with the desire to taste her. Lita’s nipples were tight under the flimsy fabric of her tank top; they rose and fell like she’d been running. He was waiting for some sign that she was on board for them to both make a poor drunken decision.

“I’m really sorry about Mexico…after Mexico,” Lita whispered as she looked up at him again, her breath warm against his mouth. He licked his lips, disappointed that he couldn’t taste her there.

“Let’s not talk about it anymore.”

“Do you believe me?”

Rocky sighed slightly, cataloging the hope in her eyes that maybe they could put this behind them. He reached out a hand, allowing his fingers to trace the arc of her cheek, the side of her neck, dipping into the hollow of her throat and coming to rest on the curve of her breast.

The tension was strung taut between them, but through it all, he realized that he owed her an answer before this went any further.

“I’m just tired of fighting about it.”

She closed her eyes briefly, and he wasn’t sure if it was because of his words or the effect of his gentle stroke against her flesh.

“That’s not a great answer,” Lita said, opening her eyes again.

She studied his face, her eyes processing each assessment she made, every calculation of pros, cons, and the absolutely insane. Rocky expected her to pull away, to end this detour and frolic into madness. He needed her to do what he could not do. He wanted her under him, around him. Wanted her in every way he’d had her those three days in Mexico, wanted to refresh those living memories with warm flesh, wet kisses, and pleasure. But he wouldn’t lie to get it.

“It’s the best I can do,” he whispered.

“I know for a fact that isn’t true.”

“You’re right,” he said as he slid his other arm between them and around her waist. He tugged her upward, and the movement put her eye-to-eye, mouth-to-mouth with him. This was without a doubt the dumbest thing he’d ever done, drunk or sober, but it felt incredible. He’d dreamed about this, woken achy and hard from his subconscious fantasies that involved Lita, a hammock on the beach, and not a stitch of clothing in sight. “You are so goddam beautiful.”

She inhaled quickly, her breath catching before stuttering out. “You’re drunk.”

“Yep. Enough to tell you what I want.”

“And what do you want?” Her eyes told him she knew what his answer would be. Her expression dared him to say it out loud.

He ran a thumb over her lips, dipping in when she opened, a shiver racking him when her tongue swirled around the digit. “I want you.”

Lita shifted, swinging a leg over him until she straddled his waist. On instinct, he moved his hands, cupping her ass and touching the sweet heaven of bare skin where her tiny skirt had shifted up. She leaned over him, mouth within kissing distance, one hand wrapped around his neck and the other around a long hank of his hair.

“You don’t even like me.”

“I’m good at pretending.”

She smiled, her eyes dark, smoky, tinged with mischief and softened by the tequila buzz. “For how long?”

Rocky leaned closer, a gentle brush against her lips catching her laughter and then stopping it altogether with a deep, hot kiss. He sank into her mouth, using his tongue and his lips to coax her first moan of pleasure. He pulled back, making sure she saw how very serious he was.

“For as long as it takes to make you come.”

 

About Robin Covington:

Robin Covington loves to explore the theme of fooling around and falling in love in her bestselling books. When she’s not writing sexy, sizzling romance she’s collecting tasty man candy pics, indulging in a little comic book geek love, and obsessing over Dean Winchester. Don’t send chocolate . . . send eye candy!

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Now go grab your copy! And thanks for reading!

Laura

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Just a quick post to say that I hope your Christmas is merry and bright and everything you want it to be!
With love for all your support and friendship,
Laura