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August 30, 2017
99 Cent Dragon Shifter Romance!
A curvy archaeologist with the find of a lifetime + a firefighter dragon shifter at risk of getting burned + a priceless artifact coveted by a ruthless rival = one blazing hot romance!
When archaeologist Virginia Jones uncovers a priceless Anglo-Saxon artifact, she expects to attract academic interest — not a dragon! Trapped in a burning building by the beast, there’s only one thing she can think to do…
Firefighter Dai Drake can handle dragonfire — because he’s a dragon shifter himself. But when he rescues Virginia, her touch ignites an inferno of desire even he can’t fight. She’s his one true mate… but how can he tell her what he is when she’s convinced all dragons are bloodthirsty monsters after her gold?
As Dai fights to protect Virginia, they’re both at risk of getting burned. Can he show her that the only treasure he wants is her heart? Or will his secret make their growing love go up in smoke?
Combining romance, action, and a generous helping of humor, the Fire & Rescue Shifters series is a must-read for fans of TS Joyce and Sherrilyn Kenyon. Each book is a standalone romance focusing on a different couple, but characters reoccur throughout the series. No cliffhangers!
Warning: Contains steamy scenes between a strong, curvy African-American heroine and a Welsh dragon shifter hotter than the fires he fights. Can you handle the heat?
FREE Two Days Only: Vampire/Mermaid Romance!
Mermaid, Sarina Neri, is desperate to regain her sister’s soul. And she knows who has it – the legendary sea hag, Melusine. But the hag wants something in exchange – a man who can survive life in her realm, deep under the sea.
After decades searching, Sarina has found such a man, vampire Nolan Moore.
Unfortunately, unknown to Sarina, Nolan wants the soul too, for himself.
Who will survive their high seas adventure? The mermaid, the vampire, or will love save them both?
One Soul to Share is a 22,000 word vampire romance novella, about 88 pages if in print. One Soul to Share also available in the Crave the Night anthology with stories by Michele Hauf, Patti O’Shea and Sharon Ashwood. This is a revised version of that original story and features vampires, mermaids, kelpies, and, of course, love.
99 Cent Paranormal Gothic Romance
TORC OF MOONLIGHT
Sex, sport and alcohol are why Nick Blaketon escaped to college, but when pieces of his life start disappearing he locks on to chaste Alice for stability. Only it’s not the alcohol affecting him. And seducing Alice lays a path to a past that isn’t buried, and definitely isn’t dead.
Multiple 5* reviews “Riveting”
Book One of a trilogy that will keep you nailed to the page.
‘Torc of Moonlight’ (113,000 words) is the first in a trilogy of thrillers set in English university cities pressing the North York Moors against the sea. Includes the opening of Book 2 ‘The Bull At The Gate’ set in York.
99 Cent SciFi Wolf Shifter Romance!
Praise for “The Boy Who Came Back a Wolf”
“This is the perfect read for the book addict who needs a quick fix and wants something good at the same time.” – Musings of a Romance Junkie blog
“This is a solid read—quick, entertaining and pretty hot.” – Lola White
“well-written, with bits of humor thrown in” – MoniQue
“fun and hot” – Angel Ludwig
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He wasn’t what she wanted.
He wasn’t right for her.
She was wrong—so wrong.
When Lauryn Daring rejected skinny Xavier Stone’s advances in high school to build an empire in the big city, she had no idea the mistake she was making. But after years apart, the man that walks back into her life is far from the geek she once knew. Xavier changed—in all the right ways. After being stationed on a dangerous planet of werewolves for nearly ten years, the tall, rugged, ferocious, and undeniably sexy soldier is back for what he’s wanted all along: Lauryn.
And this time, Lauryn won’t be able to resist.
READER NOTE: This is one SEXY HOT SHORT STORY featuring an alpha wolf coming home to claim the woman he could never forget. If you can’t handle heat, move on please!
99 Cent Shapeshifter Romance!
She’s the center of an international scandal and needs to hide. He must choose between her and his loyalty to his pack.
Gabriella Medina is caught up in a scandalous affair with a well-known politician that has made international headlines. She can’t go anywhere without being recognized and ridiculed as the media is unrelenting. Not knowing where to turn, she packs her bags and heads for Great Falls, Montana, where she can hide out until the media storm dies down. Soon after her arrival to the small mountain town, Gabriella is once again caught up in a dire situation from which she can’t escape. The sheriff in town isn’t making it easier, and his cold attitude makes her question his intentions.
As the sheriff of Great Falls, Cameron Lapin is used to dealing with trouble. When a beautiful young woman arrives in town and immediately starts wreaking havoc, Cameron doesn’t plan on putting up with her attitude. Yet, he can’t get his mind off her. When Gabriella is blamed for a horrific crime she didn’t commit, Cameron wants to protect her, but it could be at the risk of exposing his pack.
Can Cameron keep Gabriella safe without affecting his pack loyalty?
If you love werewolf shifters and steamy alpha romance stories, you will love Shifter Scandal!
Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and lots of sexy shifters. No cheating! Intended for 18+ audiences. A bonus book is included.
99 cent Bargain Boxset! Sexy Shifters!
This month’s featured bargain is by fellow Nocturne author, Bonnie Vanak.
The Werewolves of Montana series is an exciting, sexy series of stories about hot alpha male shapeshifters and the big, beautiful women they seek to make their own. These men are determined to mate and will do anything to claim the women they love! If you like rugged
, alpha male sexy werewolf shifters and lots of hot loving, these stories are for you!
Get the box set for a limited time for only 99 cents!
August 27, 2017
Midnight Texas, who is watching?
WARNING: THERE MAY BE SMALL SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED YET.
The kids and I have started watching Midnight Texas. Although the IMBD page lists the “creator” as Monica Breen… all of us readers know it was really created by author Charlaine Harris. (Yeah, that isn’t annoying at all… And Harris is only mentioned under “Trivia,” but I digress…)
The book series is billed as a mystery, and the show certainly has a mystery element, but it is really about the town and the inhabitants and their struggle to survive in a world that is far from accepting of them. The first show starts with the main character, Manfred Bernardo, a psychic, on the run from someone named Hightower and looking for a place to hide. His dead grandmother suggests Midnight, Texas. Yeah, Manfred sees dead people.
This ability plays big in the first episode and for the record he sees people as they died. So, if you are a believer in Harris’ mythology here, plan to die pretty. The people Manfred sees have missing parts and bloated parts and foul-looking water bubbling out of their mouths.
In addition to a psychic, Midnight boasts a vampire, a bounty-hunter, a witch, an angel or two, and at least one shapeshifter. I won’t go into anymore detail than that as roles are defined and revealed as the shows go on.
For the most part, the kids (15 year old boy and 18 year old girl) and I are enjoying the show. We are all big paranormal fans of one type…not always the same type, but Midnight hits the intersection of our Venn Diagrams enough, and it is nice to have something we can watch together.
There are definitely some hokey parts and none of us are a fan of the vampire. We also have issues with the shapeshifter who was revealed in the second episode. Let’s just say the animal he shifts into isn’t what any of us would pick for a middle-aged white guy who dresses like some old West villain. Or maybe to be more accurate, for the animal he shifts into, we would have liked to have seen a bit of ethnic diversity… But the witch is pretty good and the idea of the town fun. Overall, we are liking it and will continue to watch. How about you?
August 26, 2017
Recipe: Pork Chop Sandwich
There’s a restaurant in Butte, Montana called Pork Chop John’s. If you are ever there, I highly recommend stopping by. The “meat” of the sandwich is a breaded and fried slice of pork tenderloin. It’s served on a hamburger roll with traditional hamburger fixings… and it is delicious… and I don’t really like most pork. I definitely don’t like most pork chops.
Well, I am a long way from Butte now, but I was able to put together my own version of the “John.”
What you need:
1 egg
1/2 cup milk (I use whole)
Saltine crackers (Start with a sleeve)
Salt
Pepper
Paprika (or other spice of your choice)
Boneless thin cut pork chops
Canola oil
(Also, 2 shallow pork-chop sized bowls, cutting board, a meat mallet, a big fry pan, paper towels and a plate/platter)
What you do:
Lightly mix the egg in milk in a shallow bowl that is wide/long enough to get the pork chop in easily. Set aside.
Crush the crackers to crumbs and put in a second bowl (same type as egg mix bowl).
Place the pork chops one at a time on the cutting board and pound them on both sides with the mallet. You want to be able to see the indentations from the mallet, but no holes! Keep that aggression under control.
Salt and pepper both sides to taste. 
Put paprika (or spice of your choice) to taste in with cracker crumbs and mix up.
Heat your oil in your fry pan until something dropped in sizzles. Then keep the heat at about medium to medium high. You want them to have time to cook the meat without burning the coating.
Coat each pork chop in the egg/milk mixture followed by the cracker crumbs and then fry! I use an instant read thermometer to get the meat to 145 degrees Fahrenheit.
Serve on your favorite bread/roll with mayo, lettuce, tomato… whatever you enjoy most.
(Note: the egg/milk mixture is enough to do probably 6 pork chops. You might need more than one sleeve of crackers for this.)
August 22, 2017
Fenrir and Garm, Wolves of Norse Myth
If you’ve read any of my Nine Worlds (previously called Unbound) series, you know I love to take myth and tweak it a bit. One way I did this was by taking one particular wolf in Norse Mythology and making it an entire type of shapeshifter instead.
In Norse Mythology, Garm is a giant wolf, or the “greatest of dogs” in the eddic poem Grimsnisal. He makes his most dramatic appearance in the gods’ end of the world, Ragnarok, where he is left tied up and howling. Snorri Sturlson pits him against the god Tyr in the great battle.
Mythology being what it is, Garm, Hel’s hound (as in Loki’s daughter Hel), and Fenrir all get a bit mixed up at times depending on whose version of the stories you read. This, of course, totally justifies my reasoning to use “Garm” as the name of my wolf shapeshifter guardians in the Nine World. (I wrote that last sentence with my tongue firmly in my cheek… )
Fenrir, however, is a lot better defined in Norse myth and thus kept his identity in my books.
Fenrir appears in a couple of well drawn Norse stories. He, like Hel and Jormungand, is Loki’s offspring.
Fenrir bound by Gleipnir.
One story, the story of his binding, is very disturbing to me, but then so many things the gods did were disturbing. After writing my version of Fenrir for Guardian’s Keep though, I found I couldn’t listen to the binding story in Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology. I had to fast forward through it. Silly, maybe, but it honestly got to me. Anyway, in it the gods are all up in arms because Fenrir is getting to be such a big boy. Rather than try to work with him, they get the dwarves to make a magical chain named Gleipnir with which to bind him. Fenrir was no one’s fool though and asked for a god to place his hand in his mouth to gain his trust. Tyr complied. Gleipnir was put around the wolf and the dwarves’ fetter held. The gods were thrilled, Fenrir was outraged, and Tyr lost a hand. Then to add injury to insult, the gods shoved a sword through Fenrir’s jaws (upright). He stayed in this position until Ragnarok when he will be freed and get a little revenge of his own by snacking on one little god name Odin…
I really have to say I still root for Fenrir and if eating Odin didn’t cause the end of the world, I’d probably be all for it. (And to be fair, it isn’t the REAL end. Just the end to that time… a new beginning really… so… )
There are, for the record, two other wolves who at least have ties to Fenrir. Skoll and Haiti have the task of eating the sun and the moon during Ragnarok. The Lokasenna and Völuspá both have stanzas that indicate Fenrir is the father of these wolves. Maybe Aesa did make it back into that cave with Fenrir in Guardian’s Keep…
The Hellhound King, Nine Worlds 5
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Book 5 of the Nine Worlds (previously Unbound series)
Winner Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award!
TOP PICK, Romantic Times Magazine
“Devoti hits a home run. Sparks fly between Raf and Marina, and the story will keep you on the edge of your seat. Devoti makes a supernatural world seem as if it really exists.” –Alexandra Kay, Romantic Times Magazine
Their love was foretold a century before, but will they be able to overcome an entire world against them to fulfill their destiny?
Hellhound Raf Dolg spent years imprisoned by elf princess Marina Adal. Now he is free and he has one thing on his mind: revenge.
Elf princess Marina Adal has spent her life living a lie, pretending to be the perfect Royal. She wants nothing more than to live her life in peace as an unknown mortal. But Raf, her uncle, and an anti-Royal group are all hunting her, determined to use her once again for their own gains.
Raf’s plan for revenge, capturing Marina and turning her over to the highest bidder, is thwarted when Marina is stolen by her uncle. Determined to see his plan through, Raf follows them to Alfheim. There, however, he discovers he can trust nothing and no one, except maybe the elf princess who had betrayed their love and imprisoned him before.
Once again, Marina is forced into playing a role. This time to save her sister whose life is being threatened. But times have changed in Alfheim and so has Marina. The struggle to hide her true self and pretend to be the perfect princess may just be more than she can handle.
With a secret she has hidden for centuries and Raf by her side, will Marina find the strength to finally stand up to everyone who thinks they can control her? And will Raf discover his own strength, one that allows him to let his desire for revenge go and move forward with a love he can’t deny?
Behind The Scenes
Nine Worlds Glossary
Nine Worlds Characters
Older editions
The Hellhound King
Fifth in Unbound series
Publisher: Silhouette Nocturne
ISBN: 978-0373618293
Genre: Dark Paranormal Romance
Release Date: February 2010
