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A Lady’s Age – Seven #SexySnippets on #MySexySaturday

It’s release week for me and the fifth book in the Mel Goes to Hell series. Lucifer learns something new about women in today’s snippets. Never ask a lady her age…especially not when she’s an angel: “Just how long have you been coming here on your holidays?” Luce asked. Mel shrugged and said, “Since people […]

Show You Something – Seven #SexySnippets on #MySexySaturday with #SaturdayScenes

Motorcycles, mermaids and MMA – in the 1920s, no less. It shouldn’t surprise many people to learn that this will be part of my Ocean’s Gift series – but a prequel, set before most of the events in the series as it exists today. This week’s snippet comes from the first book, Ocean’s Justice. Someone’s […]

Here There Be Dragons

I love it when truth is stranger than fiction – and one of the legends that inspired my Ocean’s Gift series is one of these. There is a dragon at Christmas Island. No, not a lizard or a water dragon – a huge, mythical beast with its own cave. A grotto, in fact. Now, when […]

Drive Men Crazy – Seven #SexySnippets on #MySexySaturday with #SaturdayScenes

Motorcycles, mermaids and MMA – in the 1920s, no less. This week’s about historical fiction and that describes my whole Turbulence and Triumph series on the Indian Ocean in the Roaring Twenties. This week’s snippet comes from the first Turbulence and Triumph book, Ocean’s Justice (which is FREE all weekend!). It’s a good thing my heroine doesn’t […]

Where is it Christmas all year round?

Christmas Island, of course! After a long time at sea, Christmas Island’s dark cliffs loom out of the Indian Ocean like some sort of monster. Whether you arrive by air or sea, those forbidding bastions definitely don’t make you feel welcome. Most histories of Christmas Island mention discovery in the 1600s, with the island being […]

How Compromising – Seven #SexySnippets on #MySexySaturday with #SaturdayScenes

Thanksgiving…this is a mysterious celebration in the US that Australia knows very little about. Nor do my Scottish hero, William McGregor, or the colonial heroine, Maria. So I thought I might give you a little tour of the steamship instead – after all, how many times do you get to explore a 1920s steamship in […]

Fortune Cats – Maneki Neko

If you want good luck in gambling, wealth, business or your health, you can’t go past a Maneki Neko for a good luck charm. A WHAT?! A Maneki Neko – a beckoning cat. Surely you’ve seen them – a cat statue on the counter of a Japanese or Chinese restaurant, with one or both paws […]

Caitlin Lockyer: Meet the Character Blog Hop

The lovely L V Lloyd asked me to join her in the Meet the Character Blog Hop. She introduced the drool-worthy Jack from her science fiction romance, Lunar Affair. You can read her post HERE or just buy the book HERE. A bit more about the book:   Lieutenant Jack Alexander sat morosely over his drink […]

An Ulterior Motive – Seven #SexySnippets on #MySexySaturday with #SaturdayScenes

Too sexy for her…well, today’s taste of Turbulence and Triumph is about the heroine being sexy without being aware of it. This week’s snippet comes from the first book, Ocean’s Justice. I’m not sure who will be begging for more after today’s seven snippets: “You’re welcome, lass. Now, I have a favour to ask. An ulterior motive, perhaps.” […]

Welcome to the Hydrodome

The South Beach Hydrodome was THE place to be seen. Tearooms, beach and swimming baths; a dedicated tram service to take you there…even shark netting to keep uninvited guests out. Opened in 1923, the Hydrodome was definitely a feature of Fremantle life in the 1920s, so setting my historical fiction series there meant I had […]