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FIRST REVIEWS OF MY NEW RELEASE STARE ME DOWN!

FIRST, HERE’S WHO THESE READERS ARE TALKING ABOUT. MEET MY HERO AND HEROINE!

STARE ME DOWN FIRST REVIEWS FROM AMAZON AND GOODREADS

(Click on cover for book video)
Reader reviews via readers from Amazon:
ANOTHER FAB BDSM TALE!
“I’ve read every book by this author and they just get better and better.This one starts out with a fun, fresh twist as Aries Taylor is forced to spend time with Doctor Jaxx Gavin due to a…small altercation. She tries to keep things professional, but he’s not having it, and so begins one of my fave scenes in BDSM history, where Aries treats Dr. Jaxx to his travel-case of tricks (the REAL stuff requires an entire playroom). Fun, sexy and satisfying, yet another book for my keeper shelf from this author!”
FANTASTIC!
“Loved it. Sexy, smart, and has a great leading man. Couldn’t ask for more when it comes to BDSM, and Riley Murphy is turning out to be a must buy for myself.”
Via Readers from goodreads:
WOW!
“This author has done it again! These characters reminded me so much of what I loved about one of her other books, Reluctant Surrender!!! What a great read. I devoured it. Smart, funny and emotional. I couldn’t put it down.”
Here’s it is on Amazon

 

 

 

STARE ME DOWN IS ON AMAZON!!!

Very excited for you guys to meet my guys. They’re fun and sexy. Maybe not very conventional in the boudoir *wink, wink, nod, nod* but that’s what makes this one interesting. Think sweet romance with wicked hot sex behind closed doors because this alpha hero doesn’t like to share. He wants his heroine all to himself. All the time. *sigh* Jaxx is so feaking lucky!
Jaxx Gavin

 

Ramsey (Aries) Taylor
*Looks up at him and wipes drool from side of mouth* Anyways, I want to remind you guys to head over to Novelreflections.net on the 16th where I’ll be spilling the beans about some sexy stuff and giving away a copy of Stare Me Down too. I’ll be replying to all comments, so ask me anything you want and I’ll answer. Great opportunity here folks! As many of you know I have absolutely no privacy filter. True. Half the time I walk away after conversing with someone, and think, “Boy, maybe I should have kept that one in the vault.” But then? My vault has no lock on it and the door to the sucker has been wedged open with lag-bolts for twenty years, so there would really be no point of me shelving anything in there, right?
Hope to see you on the 16th!


Riley
STARE ME DOWN ON AMAZON

STARE ME DOWN RELEASES TOMORROW!!! MAY 15TH!!!!

Very excited for you guys to meet my guys. They’re fun and sexy. Maybe not very conventional in the boudoir *wink, wink, nod, nod* but that’s what makes this one interesting. Think sweet romance with wicked hot sex behind closed doors because this alpha hero doesn’t like to share. He wants his heroine all to himself. All the time. *sigh* Jaxx is so feaking lucky!
Jaxx Gavin

 

Ramsey (Aries) Taylor
*Looks up at him and wipes drool from side of mouth* Anyways, I want to remind you guys to head over to Novelreflections.net on the 16th where I’ll be spilling the beans about some sexy stuff and giving away a copy of Stare Me Down too. I’ll be replying to all comments, so ask me anything you want and I’ll answer. Great opportunity here folks! As many of you know I have absolutely no privacy filter. True. Half the time I walk away after conversing with someone, and think, “Boy, maybe I should have kept that one in the vault.” But then? My vault has no lock on it and the door to the sucker has been wedged open with lag-bolts for twenty years, so there would really be no point of me shelving anything in there, right?
Hope to see you on the 16th!
Riley

Connoisseur Of Kink, Queen Of Smut and The Creator Of Viagra On A Page!

 

CAN HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE?

This is Ramsey Taylor in, STARE ME DOWN 
See I’m not above using some skin to get you to focus. >:) And hey, now that you have I wanted to tell you that those infamous titles in the above title are all names I plucked out of my inbox from readers who have been kind enough to email me their thoughts/reactions to my stories. I ABSOLUTELY love reader emails! They make my day, week – year! Seriously you guys are the reason I write…although, according to a few of you I don’t do that fast enough. *shakes head* Honey is constantly complaining that I spend way too much time at my desk with “my guys”. *Leans in to whisper to you* Between you and me, he’s totally jealous. So my plan to torture him for life is working beautifully. Anyways, today when I woke up to a phenomenal review for Required Surrender, I realized I’d been neglecting Jo and Ted. They’re kind of like the middle child syndrome only in book terms. When Reluctant Surrender came out I was slammed with requests for their story so I wrote it, but then by the time it was released I had four other projects on my desk that needed to be finished so poor Jo and Ted met the world without much fanfare. And now that I’ve stopped to look at where they got to pretty much by themselves, I’m totally blown away. You can click on the awards for a full review or click on the cover for little snippets from each one.

Required Surrender has spent a good bit of time on Amazon’s Top 100 Best Selling Erotic lists in both the US and Canada. It has received 5 out of 5 Stars and chosen as Top Pick on The Romance Review, chosen as staff pick by Are Cafe, Top Pick for Night Owl Reviews, 5 out of 5 Paddles for kink and 5 out of 5 paddles for story with BDSM Book Reviewer’s and yesterday I was notified by them that this one is up for Book of the month for April!  Jo and Ted also managed to get their story picked up for audio! How cool is that? To read what reviewers are saying about them just click on the awards.

The Romance Reviews

 

Night owl reviews
 

BDSM Reviews

 

I am so grateful to all the readers/reviewers who take time out of their busy and book overloaded lives to read my work. I’m not going to lie. It touches me deeply when I hear/read how well my ideas or concepts have been understood. I really, really LOVE IT when a reviewer/reader gets me. I save all the emails I get and put them in a special place…besides my heart, I mean. I really feel privileged and I still have to pinch myself sometimes. I’ve waited so long for this dream to become a reality and now that it has I’m totally emotional about it. That’s why in my next book I shared something very personal through my hero’s life. It’s just a small part of his history, but it is a reality I lived with for nearly 12 years. I was lucky enough to care for my father who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2000. We were fortunate enough to be able to care for him at home until he passed in May of 2011 and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about him. I didn’t dedicate this book to him because he made me promise I’d do that in the story we brainstormed together one afternoon. It’s a romantic suspense and I’m hoping to write that next year. So yeah, this next one, Stare Me Down, has a very special place in my heart. I can’t wait to share it with you guys. I LOVE the song that was written specifically for the book video. The video was featured on USA Today last week!!!
Stare Me Down releases on May 15th!!!!

See? I’m pinching myself again. Oh, and I’ll be doing a giveaway for this one on Novelreflections.net May 16th. It’s going to be a lot of fun because I “Spill The Beans” about Honey and our….well, hop on by on the day for a chance to win and learn more intimate stuff about my honey. Heheheh
And
On the 20th I’ll be over at fellow author, Cassandra Carr’s blog where I’ll be doing another giveaway and also spilling on some really dirty stuff…about Honey, but don’t tell him. He kind of frowns on me opening our bedroom door and letting the world in. *Pauses for a millisecond* do I care about that? Nope. Nah. I’m going to do it anyway. Hope to see you guys there!!!!
Riley
 

Riley’s favorite snippets of reviews for Required Surrender

Click on the award to read full review
The Romance Reviews
...I always add in a line that sticks with me that really brings out the essence of it when I say how many kisses (i.e. � stars) I give it. For me, it’s also a slight reminder of why I gave it that rating. I had a REALLY hard time with this one and that has never happened to me before. So in this case, I can’t make up my mind. I refuse to and so I channel the heroine in this story (Josephine) and I’m going to be stubborn and use as many as I darn well please. So there.
…It just bored into my mind so deep. I really really enjoyed this book.
…Makes me want to read the other two books ASAP. Big time.
…There was a scene with her collar and cuffs that actually made me tear up.
…There are many different ways ways to write a BDSM book, depending on how strong and deep you want that Dom/sub relationship to go, and this was one of the most severe I have ever read and I loved it. Even if you’re not into BDSM or domination, there is still a pull into the feelings and the connection between these characters. There’s a lot of emotions and a certain level of control that goes back and forth between the Dom and sub. I don’t know how else to describe it, but it’s electric.
…A happy surprise about this book? It made me laugh. Not gut belly laugh, but it was sarcastic, witty, funny � made me smile. Another reason I think I liked this book so much was because I had no clue what was going to happen. No predictions, no thoughts, I was just reading and going with the flow. The rug was pulled out from underneath me at least twice and there was one point where I was ceremoniously bitch slapped in the face. And I liked it.
…Oh and as usual the epilogue was fantastic. Made me grin like a goofy 13 year old girl over Justin Beiber.
…I was open for the norm when I picked this book and was more than pleasantly surprised with what I got. I can honestly say I am totally on board with Ms Murphy and her writing style. Count me in for any more of this series ’cause if the first book I read knocks my socks off this much, it can only get better from here.

 

 

Night owl reviews

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I love Riley Murphy’s Surrender series and Required Surrender is no exception. I’ve waited for Jo and Ted’s story since their intro in the last book. It was clear that Jo was going to be a quite a challenge. The story builds piece by piece until you have the full picture. The scenes are incredibly sensual and erotic but that’s not their strong point. It’s the rapport between Jo and Ted that truly moved me. The running dialogue is so well written that I was more caught up in the emotion than the sex. That doesn’t happen often. There are some very tense moments and some very serious subjects broached in this book. Jo and Ted are both damaged by their pasts and that damage colors their world. I found myself very caught up in the story and very invested in the relationship between Jo and Ted. The writing is wonderful and the author paints a very detailed scene with her just her words. Fascinating characters, steamy sex, creative kink and strong emotion combine to make for another winner from Ms. Murphy. Can’t wait for the next one.

 

BDSM Reviews

Click on icon for full review
Be prepared for some very hot scenes between the two. The author did a great job of describing the scenes as well as some of the toys and the bed in Ted’s playroom. The bed is something I would love to recreate if I had room for it.
I did have to laugh at some of Jo’s behavior as it went a little beyond bratty. I did think Ted had some very creative techniques to deal with them. There were also times when I wanted to cry, but this is one book I got upset when interrupted while reading, as I did not want to put it down.

THE TELL-TALE HEART WITH A SIDE OF HONEY ON IT

Before I get to the pounding heart I need to tell you why I *think* I was being hounded. You see, a week ago, Honey went to bed earlier than me. This is VERY unusual and I’m not used to it. So when I went to bed as I normally do, I inadvertently poisoned him a little. Swear! It was barely a mist. Geez, by the time he choked and sputtered I immediately stopped spritzing my aromatic spray. In fact, I hid the bottle behind my back when he shot into a sitting position and gasped for breath.  *insert me standing by the side of the bed whistling while I watch the ceiling fan blades turn* Then imagine him growling as he tries to draw in air and me skirting the issue when he demands to know what happened, by telling him he probably swallowed a bug. I didn’t even blush with the fib when he flopped backed down and demanded, “and what the hell is that smell? Did you just wash your hair or something?”
Well, I hadn’t, but it was true the spray did remind me of really great shampoo or the scent you enjoy when you’re at the spa. Anyway, point is, the poor guy was nearly taken out by one of my nightly rituals and he didn’t even know it. The perfect scenario, right? Wrong. Karma is always ready to level the playing field in his direction and this time was no exception.
There I am lying in bed last night. I curl up on my right side and all I can hear is thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump, so I rollover and it’s more, lub-dub, lud-dub, lud-dub. Ack! I know what the sound is. Yes, there’s no escaping the heart beating out of my chest, so I stay very still and try to measure my air intake. What the hell? It’s getting worse. Louder. Am I having a heart attack? Oh, god! I’m a goner. I’m just about ready to flip over and tell Honey to get the aspirin so the paramedics will have time to get to the house, when the beating sounds start coming closer. And closer. Was my heart moving up in my chest? Oh. My. God! Then it stopped and what did I do? I freaked out. Who wouldn’t? I mean, I hadn’t moved and… My heart stopped. I’m dead. But wait, I’m still thinking. *insert me doing a few seconds of WebMD here where I remind myself that the brain doesn’t die right away so I should use what little time I have left to say something to the love of my life. Yeah, like that woman in Signs did before they moved the car* so I rollover and that’s when I see him. He’s stretched out beside me, arm bent with his chin resting in the palm of his hand and he’s grinning. And me? I’m still alive and breathing, miraculously without a heartbeat. Hm. Then it occurs to me.
The creep!
Here’s the conversation:
Me, “That was you beating your fingers against the mattress, wasn’t it?”
“Yes.” His grin slid into a smile.
“That wasn’t very nice. I thought I was dying.”
“Interesting. Perhaps like me the other night when you were spraying your frou-frou shite that nearly choked me to death?”
What could I say to that, but?  “Yes, exactly like that.” Then I turned my back on him and grumbled out another fib, “Next time I try to kill a bug hovering over you while you’re sleeping I’ll be sure to use Raid instead of my expensive fabric refresher.”
All he did was chuckle as he settled down to sleep because he knew as well as I did, that I just invited Karma back into my life. Crapatola! One of these days I’m going to learn, right? Right?
Riley
 

WHAT A HUGE MISTAKE!

There I was innocently sipping my coffee and pondering my next story when it happened. The dreaded input from Honey. If I haven’t mentioned this before, I shall tell you now, the man seriously thinks he should be listed as a cowriter on my stories. And why is that? Well, he listens. LISTENS to me talk about my ideas, so according to him, that qualifies because, you know, he throws out asinine shite that I constantly have to ignore. Case in point? This morning. Here’s the conversation.
Me, “She’s strong so I can’t just have her cave over that. She has to have a good reason to go back to him.”
Honey perks up. “I know. Why don’t you have the hero get in a major car accident. He can be disfigured and in a coma – knocking on death’s door. Then she’d go to him, right? Women love that stuff.”
Stuff? I wasn’t sure he meant women love it when their guys are incapacitated or whether he was referring to readers who like angst, but I was sure about one thing. I didn’t give a rat’s ass about his suggestion as it was pure, unadulterated crap. “Yeah, um, thanks but I’m thinking that might be a little bit of overkill.”
“How about a baby? She can get pregnant and then she’d have to get back with him.”
There’s me doing a double take. Had the guy been reading the handbook on “How to insert a contrived plot element into a romance?” “Not a big fan of that either, but thanks. I’m sure something believable will come to me soon.”
We’re both quiet and then Honey stares right at me. “Alien abduction.”
I should have ignored his nonsense. I should have shook my head and been done with it, but it was like driving by a train wreck and ignoring the scene. I couldn’t do it. “What?”
“Picture this. The hero is abducted by aliens in the middle of the night—”
Not that I’d introduce something like this in a contemporary romance, but… “And how would the heroine know this if she hasn’t seen her hero in weeks?”
“That’s your job as author to work in those finer details. Anyway, point is he’s taken and when he comes back he only has one nut.”
Me, blink, blink. “And?”
“And nothing. I mean, unless she’s a cold-stone bitch she’s going to feel sorry for the guy —he lost his left nut— and nurse him back to health, right?”
I had nothing to say to that, but I did choke on my coffee a minute later when Honey stood and walked off saying, “See? That’s gold. Feel free to use it.”
So, I did and I’m hoping you all enjoy “the gold” as much as I did. Still LMAO!
Riley

OUT OF THE MOUTH OF MY ALPHA MALE! OH MY!

I have to set the stage. My sister is here from out of town and my daughter swung by to see her. So there we were. My mom, me, my sister, my daughter and…Honey. Yeah, he wasn’t thrilled either to find himself sitting with four very gregarious women. But you know, I wasn’t about to let him off the hook as I like to see him squirm. >:)
Anyway, we started to swap what I’ll call “Wild Kingdom” moments. Mine consisted of feathered-Oscar-Pavarotti, Steven King and our new pains-in-the-asses, a pair of rather large red-crested woodpeckers who-beat-on-our-pines-trees-until-I-can’t-think-straight stories. Everyone is laughing and asking questions. Everyone but Honey. He’s quiet, or more like, solemn. *I twirl my handlebar mustache* Heheheh.
Then my daughter regaled us with her hawk tales. It seems Mr. Hawk took a liking to her neighbors Koi pond. Yeah. You know that story didn’t end well. Here again Honey is silent as he downs his alcohol beverage at double time.
Then my sister chimes in. Here’s the conversation,
“Ooh, that reminds me. You should have seen what happened last week when Uncle Peter and I were sitting out by our pond. There we were, enjoying the early evening when this sparrow comes flittering around. I said to Uncle Pete, ‘if we’re really quiet he/she may land on the rock in the center and take a drink.’ So we both stayed still and sure enough the pretty little guy lands, but just before he leans down to get a taste, a frog leaps up out of the water and grabs him. Not shite! It was in less than a blink of an eye. I nearly died and poor Uncle Peter freaked out. He jumped up and started to search the murky depths, but he never found either of them. We couldn’t believe it.”
You gotta know at this point, I’m on my phone googling “what kind of frog eats birds” and getting the shock of my life when someone’s posted the occurrence actually happening on YouTube. Who knew? When my sister says,
“It was totally unbelievable. You know? We’d found two other small birds floating in the water at the beginning of the year and we worried there was something wrong with the pond.”
 Finally a comment that elicited a reply from Honey, as he deadpanned, “You do have something wrong with your pond. There’s a flesh-eating prehistoric mother *ucker living in the damn thing. Get rid of the rock or you may have to relocate Jabba the Hutt.”
I don’t know why, but I LMAO! The guy cracks me up even when he’s sulking. Gotta love it.
Riley

HIS VANILLA DOLL ISN’T VANILLA AT ALL!

THIS IS ARIES TAYLOR IN STARE ME DOWN!
RELEASES IN 30 DAYS!!!!!
***May 15th 2013***

 

(CLICK ON COVER TO SEE BOOK VIDEO AND CLICK ON TITLE ABOVE TO ADD ON GOODREADS)

Blurb:
A Dom stuck in anger management classes meets his match in his curious court appointed therapist. Their attraction is off the charts. Unfortunately though, the timing is bad for both of them. Or at least it is until he discovers his little vanilla doll isn’t vanilla at all. Then it’s a matter of timing be damned. He can’t keep his hands off her. A definite problem as she has a past to deal with, and he has a goal to seize. So when the present rears its ugly head they are both blindsided. Now they’re forced to stare each other down if they hope to have any chance of a future together…

 

Excerpt:
He waited for her to cross her arms and settle back to glare at him before he asked, “Why not? It’s a simple question. Do you like a soft man? Or would you prefer a man like me?”
“You’re not so hard.”
“I can be, and we both know it. Answer the question.”
“I don’t think I want to.”
“Sure you do.” He was relentless. He knew she wanted to look away but he wouldn’t let her. Instead, he challenged her. “Do you like a man who knows where he’s going? A man who commands his space? A man who cares for the things he loves?”
She uncrossed her arms and leaned forward. “Put like that, I’d be crazy not to say yes.”
Now he had her. “Yeah, but that kind of man comes with a price. I’m that kind of man.”
Silence.
“Come on, Jaxx.” He reached out and took hold of her hand. “I know you’re dying to ask.”
Energy crackled between them until she chickened out, closed her eyes and whispered, “What’s the price?”
“Loyalty.”
Her eyes snapped open and she frowned. “Loyalty?”
“Absolute. I want one hundred percent fidelity and I demand a steadfast commitment from my woman. I’m possessive. Selfish. And totally single-minded in my pleasure of her.”
She gulped and unfortunately for her, he saw it. The hunt was on.
Favorite hero, Aries Taylor, quote:


“Shameless is exactly how I want my woman to be.”
Favorite heroine, Jaxx Gavin, quote:
“Normally it’s the tortured who turn the tables on the unsuspecting and become the torturers. Tortured or not, you’ve got talent in this area. No wonder you’re a Dom.”

I can’t wait until this one releases! I miss these characters SO much! I hope you guys like them.
Riley

 

 

 

STARE ME DOWN BOOK VIDEO WITH ORIGINAL SONG “IN THIS BED”

 

 

RELEASES MAY 15 2013 !
JUST CLICK ON THE COVER FOR THE BOOK VIDEO WITH AN ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN, COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY ARTIST RUBY WILLIAMS! SUCH A SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY!!!  AND, IF YOU’D LIKE TO ADD THIS TO YOUR TBR ON GOODREADS JUST CLICK HERE!
Thanks for stopping by
Riley