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Jessica E. Subject’s Weekly Writing Update ~ September 22

Hello! It’s been crazy here with book related stuff, so let’s get started…

    

Cosmic Desires has been uploaded and is now available for pre-order. Grab it for a special pre-order price of 99¢ USD at All Romance, Amazon, Coffee Time Romance, Google Play, or Kobo. You can also get the print right now from Amazon US and Amazon UK. I’m hoping the print will be available at a couple other retailers soon.

Cosmic Sutra is set to release September 28th as part of the First Ladylove anthology. I’ll be spotlighting other stories from the anthology on my blog starting today. You can pre-order this anthology from All Romance, Amazon, or Smashwords.

Alien Attraction is with my editor. I’m aiming for a release date of October 26.

Alien Adoration has been updated, and new formats have been uploaded. It may take a couple of days for the new versions to appear at retailers. There are no drastic changes. I’ve added a couple of sentences, and updated the back matter. I also added the first chapter of Alien Admirer to the back of the book. I will do the same with Alien Admirer when Alien Attraction is ready.

New project ~ I have plotted the first two books in my new series, and am working on the third. Hopefully next week, I’ll have a word count for you.

Beneath the Starry Sky in audio is on tour. You can find the schedule here. Also, the ebook is on sale for 99¢ at Amazon and All Romance for the duration of the tour.

The Taken by the Billionaire Alien Next Door tour is over. Congratulations to the contest winner, Christina Riggs!

GOALS FOR THE WEEK ~ I will finish plotting the new series, and start writing the first book. Plus, I will send out information to bloggers about my upcoming releases.

 

TV Mention – I’ve finished watching Being Human. Loved it! Now, I need to find a new series to watch on Netflix.

So, what are you up to this week? Any recommendations?

  

#SFRMonday: Meet BAD KITTY and her boys…. @TeresNoeRoberts #scifirom

Meet Bad Kitty and her Bad Boys in….

BAD KITTY

CHRONICLES OF MALCOLM

by Teresa Noelle Roberts

When you make the Devil’s bargain, be prepared to take the heat. A lot of heat.

Most of cat-girl Xia’s early memories are repressed, thank the Great Cat Mother. But her body remembers how to kill.

The longer she and her fellow Malcolm crewmates are holed up on lawless Cibari hiding from assassins, the twitchier she gets—until the planet’s insanely sexy warlord, Rahal Mizyar, borrows her skills to take out slavers.

Rahal suspects Xia is his mate, but the human-raised female never learned the finer points of felinoid rituals. The solution: make her fall hard and fast for him, even if it means playing dirty.

Hired to determine if Xia is the long-missing granddaughter of the felinoid prime minister, Cal Janssen has finally tracked her down. Getting past Rahal, though, is a problem—until he’s mistaken for a notorious arms dealer and playboy. And he finds himself the object of both Rahal’s and Xia’s seduction.

When their first mission brings Xia’s memories bulleting back to the surface, she realizes she’s fallen for two men who don’t exist. Running away, however, could be her deadliest mistake.

Warning: Contains an assassin with a swiss cheese memory, a badass warlord who’s getting tired of his own con, and a freelance lawman. Secrets, lies, and hot sex with no rules.

Chronicles of the Malcolm series:

In the 26th century, humans and numerous alien races share the galaxy. Technology has advanced massively. Old Earth is a vast preserve and museum, and humans have spread to the stars. But some things remain the same. Love, lust, and money motivate both humans and other sentient species. Politics can get ugly. And crime can pay very well indeed.

Meet the crew of the independent freighter Malcolm. They usually succeed in keeping things only a little bit illegal. But then a seemingly legit job goes supernova—and they’re on the run, hiding from assassins, a planetary government, and their own dark pasts.

It’s the perfect time to fall in love!

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Rahal gravitated toward Rita and Xia. “Drax! You were holding out on me!” His voice was filled with mock menace, just enough of an edge to it that Xia glimpsed the dangerous man underneath the sleek, playful exterior. “You mentioned your own lady, Rita, who must be this charming human—” under Drax’s watchful gold gaze, he shook Rita’s hand rather than kissed it, “—but not this beauty.”

Drax opened his mouth, but Xia beat him to the punch, extending one small hand and saying, “I’m Xia. Xia Suarez. And you are one pretty-pretty man.” And obviously not queerbent one hundred percent. Thank you, Cat Mother.

“Thank you, beautiful Xia.” Her name sounded different when he said it, with the accent on the second syllable and a delightful lilting music to it.

It was the correct pronunciation, she realized. But it had been years since she’d heard it said that way, so long ago she really couldn’t remember. She listened to felinoid language lessons sometimes. She had nagging memories of knowing the language fluently when she was a kitten and she wanted to retain the little she recalled. Hearing her name on his lips, pronounced the way few nonfelinoids could get right, even her own family, thrilled her at the same time it made her want to cry.

Rahal made an even bigger show of kissing her hand than he had with Mik, bowing low, bending one leg and extending the other straight before him.

His lips were soft and hot against the top of her hand. He locked her gaze with his, pupils wide with curiosity and desire.

A raspy but soft tongue licked, drawing a delicate path from her knuckle to her wrist. It was almost as powerful as if he’d traced a similar path along her labia to her clit. She began to tremble. She never did that, not even when Nitari Belesku held a knife to her throat and she’d known she was about to die. Now, she was quaking all over.

The warlord turned her hand over gently as if she were valuable and breakable. As if she weren’t Xia Suarez, tramp freighter crew member, petty criminal, slacker and sometime assassin. He studied her hand intently then met her gaze again. “You have strong hands, Xia. Hands that know how to work and play, maybe even kill. I like that in a woman.”

Still maintaining eye contact, he brought her hand to his mouth. Then he bit into the fleshy pad at the base of her thumb. His eyes closed in ecstasy as he lapped at the blood welling in the small wounds made by his eyeteeth.

In her peripheral vision, Xia could see Drax, Rita and even Gan holding Mik back from getting all fatherly on Rahal’s tail. Gan was muttering under his breath like he was once again ready to explode. Buck was shaking his head, a strange look that might have been amusement or worry on his scarred face. Xia couldn’t spare much thought for them, though. All her energy was focused on the sudden, keen connection between her and the warlord.

He was tasting her blood the way smoothstyle types tasted wine. And the combination of the bite and the clever, raspy tongue simultaneously soothing the wound and drawing out more blood aroused her more than most of the foreplay she’d experienced in a not-exactly-inhibited life. She’d been with a few cat-boys before, but they’d been boys, her own age or younger, and most of them straight off Mrrwr. Innocent, though they wouldn’t like to hear themselves described that way.

Rahal was a man, an adult, playful but not innocent. Like her. He knew blood and pain, she sensed, even more intimately than she did, and he still knew how to use those things for pleasure.

Xia had wanted plenty of men in her short life, not to mention some women, a few transpeople and a couple of beings whose gender wasn’t easily described in Standard. And for the most part, she’d taken what she wanted, everyone involved had fun, and after they had their sexytime, she moved on. Simple. One night was safe, because if you shared one night with someone, you didn’t bother with sleeping. If she spent more than one night, even a good-looking fluffhead might notice the way she whimpered in her sleep.

She had a feeling that nothing about Rahal Mizyar would be as simple as her usual flings, and that one encounter would be far from enough to satisfy the ache.

This time, while she felt the familiar wet yearning between her legs, it didn’t originate there and spread outward to inflame the rest of her body. It seemed to come from somewhere deeper inside her.

Not her heart. She knew about hearts. Knew, despite what human romantics said, hearts had nothing to do with emotions, except to the extent that if you ripped someone’s heart out they wouldn’t be loving or hating anymore.

She knew anatomy. But she didn’t know where feelings came from.

If she did, she would rip this feeling out at the roots because it was more dangerous than Nitari Belesku and her ugly San’balese counterpart, more dangerous than a laser cannon in the wrong hands, more dangerous than her own secrets.

She didn’t just lust after Rahal. After knowing him for only a few minutes, she wanted him to share her life, her darkness as well as her light, wanted to trust him as if he were Rita or Buck or her father.

Teresa Noelle Roberts started writing stories in kindergarten and she hasn’t stopped yet. A prolific author of short erotica, she’s also a published poet and fantasy writer—but hot paranormals and BDSM-spiced contemporaries were her favorites until she realized science-fiction romances offered new possibilities for outrageous adventure, wild sex and love that overcomes serious obstacles, including being from different species!

Find her at http://www.teresanoelleroberts.com, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTeresaNoelleRoberts, or on Twitter, where she hangs out as @TeresNoeRoberts. She tries not to spend too much time on Pinterest, but you can see the results of her procrastination research at https://www.pinterest.com/teresanoellerob/

Two HOT box sets available for pre-order!

Hello readers! I have some great news for you! I am involved with two box sets that are releasing very soon. One is a collection of my short stories that is available for a special ebook pre-order price of 99¢. The other is a multi-author collection of stories. I’m so honored to be in a box set with so many fabulous authors. Check them both out below…

COSMIC DESIRES

Naughty Stories of the Sci-Fi and Paranormal Kind

From closing time at a costume shop to an alien encounter in the woods, COSMIC DESIRES offers ten sexy stories from author Jessica E. Subject. Inside you’ll find a phoenix in trouble, a gargoyle with a mission, a hot billionaire alien, and even a sex club on the other side of the universe. The romantic pairings vary in this collection, all showing just how naughty love can be.

Includes:

Taken by the Billionaire Alien Next Door (MF sci-fi)

Replicated Consequences (MF sci-fi spanking)

Crash Landing (MMF sci-fi)

The Dungeon: A Thanh Academy short story (FFM sci-fi spanking)

Alien Lover (MF sci-fi)

Love In Disguise (FF sci-fi spanking)

The Power of Three (MMF paranormal)

Phoenix Spanked (FF paranormal spanking)

Last Minute Customers (MFM contemporary)

Sexy Suitors From Space w/a Paisley Brown (MFM sci-fi)

eBook ISBN: 978-0-9948431-2-8

print ISBN: 978-0-9948431-3-5

Words: 48,127

Pages: 153 (print)

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FIRST LADYLOVE ANTHOLOGY

Seven stories by authors who love to write lesbian romance. The heroines may not be virgins but they never knew love before–at least with another woman. Time and space are no barrier to these ladies and their love. Come take a ride with Anastasia Vitsky, Cathy Pegau, Kate Richards, KT Grant, Annie Anthony, Leigh Ellwood and Jessica E. Subject and you’ll never look back!

Edited by Kate Richards

Includes the stories:

Dreams of Flying by Anastasia Vitsky

Cosmic Sutra by Jessica E. Subject

Centerfold by Kate Richards

Revelation by Cathy Pegau

Mile High Pleasures by KT Grant

Daring Destiny by Leigh Ellwood

Fixin’ Biscuits by Annie Anthony

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Screw being the good girl in #MySexySaturday excerpt from COSMIC DESIRES #scifi #erotica

Hello everyone! Thank you for joining me for the 110th week of My Sexy Saturday. Here are the details: every Saturday, published and unpublished authors will be sharing 7 words, sentences, or paragraphs from a work-in-progress or an already published story.

Today’s theme is…

ONE SEXY BOY

Here’s seven from COSMIC DESIRES, which will release on October 3rd. The ebook is available for a special pre-order price of 99¢, but will go up to the regular price of $2.99 after that. It is also available in print.

Setup: This is from the story Sexy Suitors From Space, which I wrote under the name Paisley Brown. In this excerpt, Heather is taken to the place she will be staying for the week. While it’s nothing like she expected, there is one plus to the place.

“We’re here.” He fiddled with some contraption—I assumed the lock—while I peeled myself off him.

I peeked around him to get a view of my accommodations for the next week. Shit! A real glass igloo, not some extravagant hotel with a dome-shaped glass roof that looked like an igloo. Last time I ever trust Grandma to know what’s best for me. The woman might have raised me, but she was so out of touch with what I needed as an adult.

Opening the door, the man grabbed me under the armpits to pluck me from the snow and ushered me inside the igloo, a space no bigger than my kitchen. This was where I’d be trapped, alone, for one week with nothing to do but remember the night I’d walked into my house to find my fiancé fucking some floozy. And Todd hadn’t even bothered to hide the fact he lived with another woman from her. If he hadn’t raced out of the house, I swear I would have cut his balls off.

“Would you fancy me to return this evening to escort you to dinner? It will be served at six.”

I spun around, my guide’s baritone voice warming me from the inside out. He’d barely spoken more than two words since we’d met. He stood closer than expected, and I nearly slammed into him again, wobbling in my boots. Gripping my arms, he steadied me.

“Um….” All ability to breathe and speak flew out the door. I stared into his crystal-blue eyes, surprised by the stranger yet again. He’d removed his scarf and hood, revealing Thor-like features. My clit pulsed, alive for the first time in months. The doppelganger of the only superhero who’d ever turned me on stood less than a foot away, holding my upper arms. I’d give anything to run my hands through his wavy blond hair, kiss along the firm jaw covered with golden stubble, nip at his full lips.

Fuck being the good girl. That had only left me with a broken heart. This was my vacation, and I planned to have some fun, get what I wanted. A sexcation. I’d deal with reality when I returned home.

~ About COSMIC DESIRES ~

From closing time at a costume shop to an alien encounter in the woods, COSMIC DESIRES offers ten sexy stories from author Jessica E. Subject. Inside you’ll find a phoenix in trouble, a gargoyle with a mission, a hot billionaire alien, and even a sex club on the other side of the universe. The romantic pairings vary in this collection, all showing just how naughty love can be.

Includes:

Taken by the Billionaire Alien Next Door (MF sci-fi)

Replicated Consequences (MF sci-fi spanking)

Crash Landing (MMF sci-fi)

The Dungeon: A Thanh Academy short story (FFM sci-fi spanking)

Alien Lover (MF sci-fi)

Love In Disguise (FF sci-fi spanking)

The Power of Three (MMF paranormal)

Phoenix Spanked (FF paranormal spanking)

Last Minute Customers (MFM contemporary)

Sexy Suitors From Space w/a Paisley Brown (MFM sci-fi)

RELEASES OCTOBER 3rd.

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Be sure to check out other MY SEXY SATURDAY excerpts!

Spotlight & Giveaway ~ Welcome to Paradise Audio Book @LSJRomance #western #romance

Welcome to Paradise

A Paradise Ranch Novella

by London Saint James

Just three days before her thirtieth birthday, acquisition editor for Starling Press, Sutton Callaway has buried the last of her family in the cemetery on the plot of land that she inherited.

After turning down the powerful and wealthy owner of Triple Bar-S Ranch to sell her inheritance and walk away from the obligations of running one of the biggest cattle ranches in West Texas, Sutton puts her Dallas condo on the market, resigns her position from SP, packs the contents of her life into boxes, and heads for the one place filled with bittersweet memories—Paradise Ranch.

Will Sutton be able to handle the pressures of being the newly appointed cattle baroness, the rough and tumble men under her employ, and the temptation of a sexy mystery man? Or will walking in her grandmother’s matriarchal boots be too much to fill?

Narrated by: Lia Frederick

Listening time: 53 min.

Series: Paradise Ranch

Genre: Contemporary Erotic Western Romance

Available from:

Audible US | Audible UK | Amazon US | Amazon UK | iTunes

 

 

Giveaway runs from September 7th to October 1st

London is giving away winner’s choice of any e-book off her back list and $10.00 Amazon Gift Card.

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#Top10 facts about RAVEN PIRATE ASSASSIN SPY by @LandraGraf #romance @DecadentPub

Top Ten Random Facts about RAVEN PIRATE ASSASSIN SPY

*waves* Good Morning and what a great way to celebrate Thursday by visiting Jess’s blog. Thank you for hosting me, Jess. I’ve come to share 10 random, interesting facts about my latest release in the hopes it might peak your interest. So, here we go – 10 random facts about a book set in 1936.

1- Sorella carries a balisong knife more commonly known to folks as a butterfly knife.

2- The United States still has prohibition.

3- Tesla’s technology is outlawed in the United States, though ships with Tesla’s engines can still dock there.

4- Safe travel via the ocean is not possible due to mines being planted along the European, United States, African Coasts.

5- Human trafficking is common and rampant in the United States and Europe.

6- Lack of food is by far the biggest problem and the number one reason military sign ups and robbery numbers are on the rise.

7- The majority of weapons are electricity based, with guns and gunpowder only being used by ground troops.

8-  Pirate ships soar the skys bartering in black market, European goods, not readily available around the world and vice versa.

9-  Jazz is even more popular and a lot of pop culture icons from the 1930s are in existence.

10- There are battles- close combat, sky ship, and tense battles. If you like a little action with your romance then this book is for you.

RAVEN PIRATE ASSASSIN SPY

by Landra Graf

Once Upon A Time…

Sorella Corvino lost her brother to The Cursed years ago. Sorella is so determined to find him, she’ll make any deal, rescue the outcasts and those like him, and risk flying into any port to rescue him. When her latest pirate efforts partner her with a bounty hunter who’s too charming, sexy, and handsome for his own good, she knows she’s in trouble.

Ian Marshall no longer believes in fairy tales…

Disowned and a marked criminal in the United States, this merchant turned bounty hunter, is one bounty away from freedom; and freedom’s price is handing over one person to the most cutthroat gang in the world, The Cursed. Yet, he can’t get to them without Sorella’s help. Too bad she’s gorgeous, aggravating, and a little trigger happy.

As the attraction mounts, the danger grows and the pair find themselves invading a skin trader den, the ballrooms of dictator-ruled Germany, and fighting battles in the sky in the hopes of getting everything they want. Only thing they didn’t plan on… falling in love.

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Sorella Corvino only made promises she kept. So when she told the crumb in the next cell, “Once I get out of here, I’m going to kill you,” those were words of truth, not fiction.

The evil bastard leaned forward, mere inches from the bars, and grinned. “I prefer my bits handled by a gorgeous dish, but in a pinch, you’ll do.” His six yellowed teeth stabbing up through pinkish-white gums were a stark contracts to his soot colored skin and graying eyes, the gray no doubt a product of the drugs and rotgut sold on every corner in Pontevedre. No one escaped the filth and poison festering in the streets of every European city unscathed.

“In your dreams.” She stepped towards him, eyes narrowed. Maybe she wouldn’t wait until she got out.

“That’s what your girl is dreaming of tonight. Me and my co—“

She slid her hand between the bars and grasped the part of his anatomy he wanted to talk about in every other sentence, effectively cutting him off.

Landra Graf consumes at least one book a day, and has always been a sucker for stories where true love conquers all. She believes in the power of the written word, and the joy such words can bring. In between spending time with her family and having book adventures, she writes romance with the goal of giving everyone, fictional or not, their own happily ever after.

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Victoria arrives at Thanh Academy in today’s #MidWeekTease from COSMIC SUTRA #LGBT #romance

Happy Wednesday! It’s time for another Mid Week Tease post! Mid Week Tease is an author meme started and hosted by author Sandra Bunino, where authors share snippets from their recent releases, back list titles, and works-in-progress (WIPs). So, please check out my tease and visit the other participating authors listed below.

For today’s post, I’m going to share an excerpt from one of my my upcoming releases, COSMIC SUTRA, which is part of the FIRST LADYLOVE anthology. It is to release September 18th.

 

Setup: Victoria is arriving for her one year of studies across the universe at Thanh Academy.

With a final step, she entered the portal, the technology ripping her body into millions of particles. She cried out from the pressure, the pain more intense than with the first unit, stretching her body past its limits, her screams lost in the vastness of space. No one could hear her.

A vacuum pulled at her, dragging her across the galaxy a great deal faster than the speed of light, toward the technology that would piece her back together. The journey seemed to take forever, nothing to see beyond the blinding lights, no sound other than the suction from her destination.

Victoria slammed into a solid wall that vanished as fast as it had materialized. She fell to her knees, gasping for air. She’d arrived, hopefully at the right destination. There had been a few instances where nearby portals had grabbed a traveler, sucking them into an unintended target, but those instances were uncommon and the victims rarely heard from again.

Finally able to catch her breath, she glanced around, just to be sure she had arrived at the academy and not on a planet where the beings considered her lunch. By the time anyone had realized the mistake, she would be in the stomach of an alien creature, rolling around in its stomach acid.

Beings rushed to and fro around her, bustling to unknown destinations. Many appeared humanoid, with skin varying in color like a jumbo box of crayons. Others had tentacles and tails  or antennae, with their bodies sectioned into three parts like an insect. Some bundled up in clothing thick enough to wear to the arctic, and even more wore nothing, exposing their sexual parts to those around them. Victoria blushed and glanced up.

Above her, a clear ceiling revealed a breathtaking view of the multitude of stars in the planet’s portion of the galaxy. Giant silver columns linked the ceiling to the floor. She stood, attempting to peer over everyone’s head to locate some sort of sign to tell her where she had to go.

“It’s about time you got to your feet.” A tinsa glared down at her with beady eyes, its heart-shaped head cocked to the side. Standing on two legs, the creature crossed both sets of arms across its chest. “I was beginning to think you Terrans had headed back down the evolutionary ladder.”

Victoria rolled her eyes. She’d just arrived and already been insulted by an alien who resembled a giant ant. Too bad she couldn’t squish it. “And you are?”

~ COSMIC SUTRA ~

When Victoria is offered a scholarship to attend Thanh Academy for her last year of university, she jumps at the opportunity. Nothing could be more practical in her psychology studies than to travel to the other side of the universe and live amongst the life forms she strives to learn from.

Upon her arrival, she is met with hostility. Convincing the other students she is not like those from Earth who came before her takes time, but eventually she is embraced by a small group of friends, including a sexy female alien she fantasizes about on a daily basis.

Based on past experience, will Victoria keep her lust hidden deep inside to prevent losing a friend? Or will she confess her feelings to Kaye and possibly find her one true love?

Be sure to visit the other Mid Week Tease participating authors…

 

Jessica E. Subject’s Weekly Writing Update ~ September 15

Hello! It’s been an exciting week here. The kids are back to school, I’m back at my daytime fitness classes, and I’m trying to get back into a regular routine. So, here’s my writing update, and a little bit extra…

   

Alien Attraction is with my editor now. I’m aiming for a release date of October 26 with the story available for pre-order two weeks before. Be sure to watch for a sale on the other two books in the series during the pre-order time!

Cosmic Desires is formatted in ebook and now print with some help from the amazing Deborah Cooke. Plus, an awesome print (and ebook) cover from the fabulous Fantasia Frog Designs. I will be uploading it for pre-order in the next day or two, with a release date of October 3rd. There will be a special pre-order/first-week-of-release ebook price before this anthology goes up to its regular price, so stay tuned.

Cosmic Sutra is set to release September 18th as part of the First Ladylove anthology. I’ll be sharing excerpts from this story and spotlighting other stories from the anthology on my blog leading up to and after the release date.

New project ~ I’m still plotting my new series, and I’m hoping to start writing the first book this week.

Beneath the Starry Sky in audio is on tour. You can find the schedule here. Also, the ebook is on sale for 99¢ at Amazon and All Romance for the duration of the tour.

Taken by the Billionaire Alien Next Door is now available and on tour. Tour dates can be found here.

GOALS FOR THE WEEK ~ I’m going to upload Cosmic Sutra to the various portals, start my new story, and get a bunch of blog posts scheduled for the coming days.

Movie Mention – Have you seen Strange Magic? It’s a wonderful children’s movie about a princess falling in love with an unexpected hero. A movie I will watch again and again.

Book Mention – I’ve recently started reading Marcus (Hell Squad) by Anna Hackett. I’m only a little bit in, but I’m loving the story.

TV Mention – I’ve finished watching the new Dr. Who (9+) episodes on Netflix, and now I’m watching Being Human. Not my usual genre, but I’m really enjoying it.

So, what are you up to this week? Any recommendations?

  

#SFRMonday: Stranded on a dying planet ~ RECKLESS RESCUE by @RinelleGrey is FREE! #scifirom

Please welcome Rinelle Grey who has a FREE ebook for you…

RECKLESS RESCUE

a Barron Planet romance

by Rinelle Grey

Stranded on the dying planet of Zerris, Marlee longs for the one thing she can’t have…a family. Due to the noxious gas covering the planet, she can’t conceive a child, and the Council, determined to repopulate the planet, have ended her third—and most precious—relationship. They insist she pick a new mate and try again, but she’s sworn off love and the possibility of ever having a real family.

When a ship from the thriving planet of Urslat crashes on Zerris, Marlee rescues the ship’s daring captain, Tyris. His ship is grounded, winter is setting in, and he won’t survive without help. She offers him a deal…he can live with her if he pretends to be her mate so the Council will leave her alone.

Tyris agrees and a hungry desire sparks between them as they battle the harsh winter and primitive conditions. Their attraction grows, and soon, keeping their distance becomes impossible, even more challenging than the snow, the Council, and, for Marlee, the risks of a real relationship.

Will she risk her heart one last time for a chance at her dream? Or will Tyris be her undoing?

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Jaimma’s comments signalled the end of her period of grace. She and Nelor had been apart two weeks, the accepted grieving period. Her mother’s visit yesterday, Kalim’s insistence that she needed to move on—those were just the beginning. Over the next week, the hints would become less subtle, her friends and family would start suggesting possible partners. The pressure would intensify. She’d seen it before.

Eventually, everyone gave in and made a choice. Not many had held out to three weeks, and none to four. But she had no intention of giving in. Not this time. She didn’t want that anymore.

What would happen when she continued to refuse to choose? Would everyone eventually accept her choice? Her mother? The council? How far would they push?

She didn’t know. It hadn’t happened before.

She jerked her head up, listening. Far off in the distance, she heard it again. Screams. Something was horribly wrong. Abandoning the wheelbarrow, she turned to run back to the settlement when a loud boom sounded overhead. Instinctively, she ducked.

A large object burned through the sky above her.

Marlee crouched, frozen to the spot, staring at it in disbelief. All her life she had heard tales of the meteor that had decimated her mother’s home planet before she was born, but she had never expected to see one for herself.

She needed to get back to the village, to find shelter. Would any kind of shelter protect her from a meteor strike? Her heart thudded in her chest, and she couldn’t tear her eyes away from the fireball.

Then, right in front of her eyes, the flames dissipated and a silver form emerged.

It sailed through the sky at an amazing speed, and adrenalin pounded through Marlee’s veins. She shaded her eyes from the sun as it crashed through the trees some distance away. The ground shuddered at the impact.

If it wasn’t a meteor, what was it? It looked a little like a miniature version of the Tenacity, the old rocket ship that had brought her people to this planet. But if it was a rocket ship, where was it from and what was it doing here?

After all this time, had someone come to rescue them?

She was too young to remember the hope people held onto after their arrival, but Nelor remembered. He had told her, childlike hurt and pain in his voice, how they had waited. How it had taken several years for them to accept there would be no rescue.

Had they given up too soon?

Marlee picked up her skirts and ran. The ship had been going down fast. The crash she had felt had been too hard for a controlled landing. The occupants could be hurt and needing help.

She glanced over her shoulder, back towards the village. She should wait for somebody to come with her, but she was too excited to stop. Someone would come looking for her soon enough. She continued on, her breathing laboured.

After about half an hour, she reached the small stream that ran through the woods. In summer, the stream trickled along, and she and Nelor had picnicked beside it, paddling in the shallow, cool water.

Now it was swollen from recent storms, and though it was flowing too fast for ice to form, it would be freezing cold. The stepping stones she used in summer still peeked out of the water, so she took a deep breath and stepped carefully across without incident. The ground rose gradually after the stream, but at least the rocky surface made for firmer footing.

It took another hour to reach the crash site. Marlee hid in the scant shelter of the bare branches for a few moments, catching her breath. The giant silver spaceship rested, still and silent, at the end of the long furrow it had ploughed through the trees.

Even once Marlee was breathing normally, her heart hadn’t returned to its normal beat. This ship held so much promise, so many possibilities. If its occupants were still alive, and the ship repaired, perhaps they could escape from this planet?

Despite the crash, she could see little damage to its graceful shape. A shape that bore only the slightest resemblance to the ship that had brought her people here. The Tenacity had been built for carrying people and cargo over long distances. Nelor told her it had taken forever to reach this planet, and she supposed that to a five year old, the nine months of the trip must have seemed like forever. This ship, long and slim, had been built for speed.

Not that it was going anywhere now.

After a while, when nothing happened, she stepped out from behind a tree, wondering where the entrance was. There was no door that she could see, only a word on the side in raised text. Hylista. She stepped closer and touched the exterior with one finger. It was still warm.

She ran her hands slowly over the text, down across the smooth surface then paused. The perfect shell was marred by a rough patch. Her fingers slid up and down a small crack, imperceptible to the human eye. She pushed at it with her fingers then jumped back as a gaping hole appeared in the surface with a hiss. Smoke billowed out.

She hovered a few metres back, coughing. Her nose wrinkled. It smelled strange, bitter and tangy, not like normal smoke at all.

Even when it cleared, inside remained dark and still. When no sound or movement eventuated, curiosity overcame her caution, and she stepped up to the doorway and peered in.

It took a few moments for her eyes to adjust to the darkness. Slowly she could make out shapes, buttons, instruments, and a shadowy form slumped over the console at the front. It didn’t stir. Taking a deep breath, she ventured inside to find out if it was still alive.

 

Rinelle Grey loves fairy tales of all kinds, the older style ones she enjoyed as a child, up to the new modern Disney takes with independent heroines, such as Tangled and Frozen. She enjoys a story that she can trust will end perfectly, regardless of the twists along the way.

She believes in fairy tales in real life too, and has been happily married for twelve years, falling more in love with her husband with every passing year. They share their life full of adventures with their homeschooled daughter. Yes, true love takes work, but it’s worth every bit of it. She is optimistic, and believes that everything will work out, just like in the fairy tales.

So it’s no surprise that these are the sorts of stories she likes to write. Feel good romances, with a touch of magic. Her hero’s and heroine’s aren’t perfect, they’re real people with real problems, and they need to figure out how to work together to solve them. No one sits around waiting to be rescued in her books.

If you read a Rinelle Grey story, you can trust in that happy ending. Love will find a way, even if it seems impossible.

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New Release: Submissive on Display by Tara Quan @LaylaTarar #BDSM #1NS

SUBMISSIVE ON DISPLAY

by Tara Quan

After a disastrous engagement and ensuing public breakup knocks him off this year’s list of Boston’s most eligible bachelors, Luka Petrovich’s confidence in women is at an all-time low. With a psycho ex-fiancé stalking him at every BDSM club, he embraces a prolonged hiatus from his social life. The last thing he expects is to fall into bed with his dog’s sexy sitter. Craving more after the first taste, he can’t wait to handcuff her to his bed. There’s one problem—she’s not a submissive.

Veterinary student Naomi Price is too busy juggling part-time jobs and a full course- load to have a relationship. Though she’s crushed on her client’s gorgeous owner for close to a year, their accidental night together couldn’t have come at a worse moment. With his sexual preferences fodder for countless tabloid blogs, she knows exactly how to keep this Dominant at an arm’s length. So she tells the biggest lie of her life, turns in her notice, and escapes on a vacation to Las Vegas.

At the Carnivore Club, two exhibitionists meet for a one-night stand, unaware their compatibility stretches far beyond a simple limit list. When their identities are revealed, a reluctant sub must face public spanking for her deceit, and accept several delectable wrinkles in her best-laid plans.

Genre: BDSM Romance, Romantic Comedy, Interracial/Multicultural

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The last thing Luka expected to find when the hostess directed him to a reserved corner of the Carnivore Club was Naomi, ensconced in a curtained booth, blindfolded and wearing a corset. His temptress of a dog sitter sipped from a white mug while a bite-sized dungeon monitor fed her tiny spoonfuls of crème brûlée.

The two women seemed to be discussing the best method for trimming cat claws.

To their right, a male sub on a St. Andrew’s cross whimpered as a Domme squeezed his balls. Not far from the scene, a gagged blonde hovered over a sawhorse, her slim legs shaking as she struggled to remain on tiptoe. She moaned as her Dom slid the flat end of a crop between her thighs. When it tapped her shaved mound, her knees gave. She screamed and spasmed as her glistening pussy met hard wood.

The public dungeon catered to exhibitionists or displeased dominants intent on making examples out of their submissives. Then, of course, there were the inevitable collaring ceremonies. The musky scent of sex, tinged with whiffs of chocolate and alcohol, filled the room. The crack of whips, high-pitched moans, and low grunts combined into erotic background noise, the medley potent enough to serve as an aphrodisiac.

Naomi’s poor excuse of a skirt ended a few inches above the knees. Her cross-legged position exposed tantalizing expanses of toned, smooth skin. She sat with her spine curved, her long, slender fingers curled around the steaming mug. Her scarlet toenails dug into the plush carpet as she snuggled between two cushioned leather backrests. Given the charged surroundings, no sub in her right mind would appear so comfortable.

To add insult to injury, her current position broke the club’s protocol. As her Dom for the night, he hadn’t given her permission to drink, talk, or vacate the floor. She should be on her knees, waiting on his arrival.

He shook his head. This was Naomi. His Naomi. How the hell had she ended up at a place like the Carnivore Club?

His gaze drifted to the sign in front of the booth: Reserved. As far as he could tell, he’d neither had a break from reality nor stumbled into the wrong place.

She’d come to fuck a stranger. Her date happening to be him failed to blunt the blow.

The crackle of crumpling paper drew attention to the printout in his fisted hand. Having discovered the identity of his mysterious date, the limit list he’d ignored captured his interest. As he read through the items she’d marked prior experience, the vein on his temple started to pound. Her reason for not going out with him had been complete bullshit. She might be a lightweight, but she’d more than dabbled in the lifestyle.

“Not a sub, my ass.”

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Globetrotter, lover of languages, and romance author, Tara Quan has an addiction for crafting tales with a pinch of spice and a smidgen of kink. Inspired by her travels, Tara enjoys tossing her kick-ass heroines and alpha males into exotic contemporary locales, paranormal worlds, and post-apocalyptic futures. Her characters, armed with magical powers or conventional weapons, are guaranteed a suspenseful and sensual ride, as well as their own happily ever after. Learn more at www.taraquan.com

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