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ELMENTAL FIRE Needs PRG Votes!

II am honored and thrilled to have my first fantasy title nominated for a 2022 Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers Choice Award in ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY. The Paranormal Romance Guild reviews a wide array of fantasy, urban fantasy paranormal romance, science-fiction, and horror each year with only a handful of titles making it to the nominations.

It would be wonderful if Elemental Fire received the votes to to receive the award. Please consider voting.

Voting started January 29th and ends February 12th.

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Just scroll down to the ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASTY category-- Elemental Fire is the third entry.

Then scroll to the bottom to 'submit'.

If the webpage causes any problems, the google doc is here.

Same as above, scroll to find Elemental Fire and then scroll to find the submit button.


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Indie Spotlight on Romance: Sugar, Spice, and Billionnaires

Billionaire romances remain popular but it can be difficult to find one that brings something fresh to the e-reader. In Nina Lane's Stone Brother Billionaires , the reader gets the typical alpha male master of the universe and intrepid every-woman heroine, but with some fun twists including candy-making, challenging siblings, and enough plot driven suspense to keep things interesting. Originally the Sugar Rush Series , the series has been repackaged with covers and blurbs more accurately reflect the contents, at least in the first two books.

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He's the closed-off workaholic CEO who doesn't let anyone in, and carries the weight of the Stone family legacy on his shoulders.

She's the woman that hit on him before knowing who he was, with an artlessly refreshing lack of game he can't stop thinking about.

He lives in a world she doesn't belong in.
She brings all the chaos—and joy—missing in his life.

Soon, helping her save her failing business becomes his new mission.
Just as turning his life upside down becomes hers.

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Elemental Fire nominated for PRG Award!

I am honored and thrilled to have my first fantasy title, Elemental Fire, nominated for a 2022 Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers Choice Award in ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY.

The Paranormal Romance Guild reviews a wide array of fantasy, urban fantasy paranormal romance, science-fiction, and horror each year with only a handful of titles making it to the nominations.

Reader community voting begins January 29th and ends February 12th. My shameless begging for votes will begin soon after the polls open.

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Indie Spotlight Romance: Cyborg Special Forces

I had a hard time settling on my first spotlight for 2023. In the end, it had to be science fiction. Since I like my sci-fi with a heavy dose of romantic suspense, Cara Bristol's Cyborg Force series hit the top of the list. One of my favorite new series of 2022, I am eagerly awaiting the release of the fourth book February 20th.

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Trapped in a sandstorm, they’ll battle passion and danger…

Breeze O’Day
Windswept, sandblasted Sajave isn’t every astrogeologist’s dream assignment, but it’s been my safe zone from a dangerous past, and now I’m about to announce a game-changing discovery. But on the way to finalize my research, my hovercraft gets caught in a violent sandstorm and crashes. Unfortunately, my rescuer is Tack Grayson, an ill-mannered, bad-tempered mammoth of a man who’s made it perfectly clear saving me is a huge imposition. Well, no worries. I’ll soon be on my way to finish my top secret project, and our paths need never cross again.

Tack Grayson
If I had wanted company, I wouldn’t be living in a cabin hundreds of miles from nowhere. But I’m a cyborg with C-Force and rescuing people is what I do, even if they are idiots who should know better than to venture out in a sandstorm. Now I’m stuck with Breeze O’Day until this storm blows over.

But as I learn more about Breeze and her research, I begin to worry our association won’t end anytime soon. She’s in danger. Serious danger, and she’s going to need my help.

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Coming Summer 2023: Thornscore stories

Over the ten books of The Twelve Systems Chronicles, I became deeply attached to many of the secondary characters. As did many readers, who lamented that they didn’t get satisfying conclusions for some of their favorite characters. Although the Thornscore spin-off series is in the early stages, a few areas are certain:

~Stand-alone novels, they will have some intertwining themes.

~Lilian and Lucius will make appearances.

~Questions about back-stories will be answered.

~They will take place in the three to five years immediately following the end of Thorn Bearer: Thornraven, Volume 3.

~If they are successful, there will be another spin-off series. Legends of the Thirteen Systems (working title) will follow the next generation’s adventures.

CHRYS: Working blurb. 
A hero of the battle for the Thirteenth System, Chrys anticipates a bright future achieving his wildest ambitions. Instead, a mysterious bequest from the Master Scholar who trained him, calls Chrys home to Genji at the outer edge of the Thirteen Systems. Once there, he will discover a legacy that will alter his future and rumors of a plot to hinder colonization of the Thirteenth System. 

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Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year!

Indie Spotlight on Romance: 2022 Round-up

For the final spotlight of 2022, a few favorite blog posts from the past year.

In Badari Gladiators, a spin-off of her highly-rated Badari Warriors series, Veronica Scott has combined two of my favorite alpha-heroes; aliens and gladiators. And, as with all Ms. Scott's books, her heroine's do their fair sharing of rescuing and battling villains.

Kyden is the top ranked gladiator in the Five Systems but he’s hardly there by choice. Unscrupulous guards faked his death in the lab where he was created and sold him into slavery in the galaxy’s hinterlands. He has no idea where his home is or how many years have passed since he was condemned to a life of endless combat. Kill or be killed is the rule and a Badari never gives up. He’ll fight to stay alive until the Badari goddess sees fit to decree his death.

Elara Vasclavian is the daughter of a senator, as far removed from the life of a gladiator as a noblewoman can be until through the machinations of a political enemy, she ends up in terrible jeopardy. Abducted and given to a group of drunken gladiators for their amusement the night before the games, Elara vows to put up a fight but there’s no real hope of saving herself.

Until Kyden steps in, responding to the goddess’s commandment to protect those who are smaller and weaker. And discovers she’s his fated mate.

Rescued, Elara returns to her life of privilege but she can’t forget the man who saved her life. The gulf between their places in the Five Systems is unbridgeable, no matter how much Kyden longs for even a glimpse of her in the arena audience. No matter how much she feels the pull to be by his side. As matters stand, they cannot be together…Or can they?

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A fan of Pauline Baird Jones' Project Enterprise sci-fi series, I was curious about her contemporary mystery series set in New Orleans, The Big Uneasy .

As with the sci-fi books, I find this series to be imaginative, well-crafted, and the romance well developed relative to the overall story. The second volume can be read as a standalone and is on sale through New Year's.

Be careful what you dig for…

A forensic surgeon in the New Orleans Coroner’s Office—and part of her dad’s Baker’s Dozen—Hannah Baker thought she knew where to dig, how and what to slice, and when to walk away.

But when her big brother gets her involved in the exhumation of a couple of old coffins, she realizes the past can’t be ignored. Not when its been simmering up a big pile of trouble for longer than Hannah’s born days.

Only New Orleans could produce a “Baked” gumbo of the mob, shadowy figures from the past, annoying figures from the present, murders, attempted murders, and a really cute detective who is technically off limits on account of he’s her big brother’s partner.

Good thing NOPD Detective Logan Ferris doesn’t know the meaning of “off limits,” cuz once more the Big Easy is getting mighty uneasy.

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A fun SFR with an excellent riff on the alien-abduction trope. The abducted heroine is rescued in what amounts to a sci-fi train robbery by the bandit; setting the stage for a a 'love on the run' story.

Alien's Challenge

Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. One minute Alice is camping, trying to connect with nature, then there’s a blinding white light. Gravity must have quit because Alice and her sleeping bag are floating off the ground.

Classic alien abduction.

She wakes up on an alien planet full of, you know, aliens. Outlaws. Rules are optional and people are property. So not cool. Then there’s a train robbery and she's getting abducted. Again.

But this guy? He’s a giant lizard man, just a solid wall of muscle, scales, and bad attitude. He’s dangerous and he’s gone into a mating fever, which he says is her fault.

So what is she going to do about it? Better question, what is tall, dark and grumpy going to do about it?

Two decades ago Faris was exiled to this prison planet. Only the strong survive here. He’s too old for a mating fever, but his body has other ideas. The human female was not part of the plan, an ordinary smash and grab, but she’s his now and he does not share.

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Romantic suspense is among my favorite go-to subgenres with the main characters finding love amidst the chaos. The first volume in Riley Edwards Gemini Group series has the requisite deadly military hero and intelligent, indomitable heroine.

Former Navy SEAL Nixon Swagger is home. After twelve years of service and twice as many deployments, all Nix wanted was quiet. He’d sought the solace of the land he’d grown up on and found the peace he needed to silence the noise and figure out his next move. Nixon’s stay was supposed to be temporary. He wasn’t supposed to meet a feisty, head-strong woman who made his pulse race and set his body on fire. Falling in love hadn’t been part of his plan. Taking a government contract to stop a homegrown terrorist group hadn’t been either, but when the organization threatens to attack Philadelphia, he had no choice but to accept.

McKenna Wilson was living. Every day was the same. Raising her two teenage siblings didn’t leave time for much else. Most days, she was okay with that. Then she bumped into the sexy war hero and, in an instant, her world changed. She had no idea falling for Nixon would be so dangerous. Now she was going head-to-head with the small-town’s dirty sheriff who was hell-bent on ruining Nixon and avenging a fifteen-year-old grudge. She’d lost her heart, but losing her life wasn’t part of the plan.

Nixon Swagger had learned a few things as a Navy SEAL—adapt, improvise, and overcome were among the many. In the middle of an inferno, so ominous even Dante wouldn’t buy a ticket, Nixon must adapt to his new surroundings and overcome multiple threats before he loses the woman he loves.

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Merry Christmas!

Wishing you all the happiest of holidays, and safe, warm travels for those not staying home.





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InD'tale Crowned Heart for Elemental Fire!

I am super-thrilled to have my first attempt at urban fantasy/paranormal romance, Elemental Fire , receive a crowned-heart review from InD'tale Magazine. It wasn't until the third volume, Transgressions , that The Twelve Systems Chronicles achieved a crowned-heart. Only twenty-percent or so of all InD'tale reviews achieve the 4.5-star or 5-star rating required for the crowned-heart. With this kind of recognition, it looks like I'll be returning to The Hidden Realms for a second volume.

Read the full review on the InD'tale website: Review

To see the review with the crowned heart, check out the Holiday Issue . Page 106.

Sin Marston is a rare human who can see through glamor. With the veil with the treaty of 2010, the magical visitors, known as the Hidden, flowed into the Terran realm. With her unique talent, Sin's services are in demand from businesses and law enforcement with Hidden problems. She also has a growing clientele of Hidden visitors wishing to avoid confrontation with the Human Protection Society and other anti-Hidden Terrans.

After thwarting a daring art heist, Sin encounters a stunning fire elemental who reveals the theft was something very different. Everything she thought she knew changes.

Radzik Cray has lived for centuries, building his magical and political power base. The appointment as the Elders’ Council Warden for the Eastern United States comes with untold wealth and power, as well as untold danger. When he meets Sin Marston, he is interested in a pleasant distraction. Instead, he discovers that Sin is not all she appears and his control over his territory is not as absolute as he thought.

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Indie Spotlight on Romance; A few favorite Free & 99c Reads

What with one thing and another, I've managed to miss two regular Spotlight posts. To make it up to all my readers, here are a few of my favorite free and bargain reads to ease the strain on overheated holiday season wallets.

Contemporary

Mr. Stone

Damon Slone wanted his new assistant. And not only to type his memos. It was his personal policy to never mix business with pleasure, but he was a man who went after what he desired.

His solution?

Make her job so unpleasant, she’d beg to quit. And then he’d have her begging for something else entirely. There was just one problem with his master plan. He hadn’t counted on his lovely assistant being so damn stubborn.

Raising her teenage brother, Emma Jones couldn’t afford to lose her job and nothing her boss dished out would make her quit.

Not the late hours. Not the menial errands. Not even his infuriatingly inflexible and stony attitude.

But though Emma may hate her boss, she was content in knowing her brother was taken care of.

Then, one night changed everything.

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Tempt

Wicked Sanctuary: surrender your inhibitions

Escaping her ex-boyfriend's horror-themed campout, Sierra Blake stumbles into a world she never imagined. Curious and spirited, but with a history of picking the wrong man, she must learn to trust her instincts and find her inner strength to become the woman she is meant to be.

Max Preston has shut himself off from women, until Sierra crashes into his life. An intense attraction ignites inside him, and he's determined to make her his.

Discovering a new confidence under Max's protection, Sierra finds herself falling for him. But when his too-perfect ex-wife triggers old insecurities, she runs--smack into her own past. Can she rise above old scars and fight for true love?
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Sexy Cyborgs
Passion Surge

This cyborg never expected to become an instant father.

Surge is fascinated with newly manufactured offspring. He has studied them extensively, was one of the few medics present when the very first freeborn cyborg entered the universe.

He’s currently assigned to a battle station with an all-male crew. The probability of tending to an offspring is a dismal 0.0000 percent. That changes when an unknown ship ventures into the sector they’re protecting.

Nu is an extremely exhausted single mom with a fussy newborn daughter. She has no time or energy for anyone or anything else. That includes a cyborg medic with gentle hands, brilliant blue eyes, and a voice deeper than space.

He claims she’s his female, the one being genetically designed for him. She has heard those types of declarations in the past. Only a warrior without equal—and some much-needed rest—would prompt this universe-weary mom to believe in romantic love again.

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Stone Cold Cyborg

Dante Stone is an emotionless cyborg who commands a military space fighter. His ship picks up an SOS call from a settlement on the outer edge of Alliance territory, but by the time he can get there, most of the colonists have been massacred. He rescues the traumatized survivors, including archivist Miranda Lowell and her robot dog. His orders are to deliver the colonists to a space station where they can receive the medical and psychological help they need.

However, Miranda awakens Dante's emotions in ways he never thought possible, and he begins to hope for a different kind of future. But before he can act, the colonists begin mysteriously vanishing from the ship, and he soon realizes Miranda's robotic dog may hold the clues to saving her, the passengers, and the crew.

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Holiday Centered
Blue Christmas

Four-year-old Maggie Bock loves living aboard her parents’ space cruiser, but it’s almost Christmas. What if Santa doesn’t know where she is now? Someone will have to find him and tell him, of course. But when she stows away on her mother’s transport to Terr, she sets off a chain of events that brings the holidays to the Atlantis.

Join Maggie and her family for a hilarious and heart-warming adventure as Matirans and Terrians come together to celebrate what makes the holiday season so very special.

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Shifter Mate Magic

A lonely bear shifter meets his mate. She’s running for her life and doesn’t have time for romance.

Pregnant Jackie Breton just escaped from a corrupt feline pack intent on selling her half-shifter baby to the highest bidder. She’s smart, independent, and has a desperate plan to keep her baby safe: Get away from the pride as fast and far as possible.

Trevor Hammond, prehistoric bear shifter, has been rejected by everyone in his life for… being born, basically. Well, except for the beloved aunt who raised him. He’s built a career as an independent trucker, but life would be much better with someone he can hold in his arms and claim as his own.

When Jackie meets Trevor at a truck stop, his bear demands he help her. His aunt even calls with a dire warning: Get Jackie to the magical sanctuary town in Wyoming before she’s killed.

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The first volume in The Twelve Systems Chronicles, The Cartel, released in 2012. Ten years later, the series is complete with ten volumes and nine separate awards. It’s been a wonderful decade long adventure. To celebrate, the price for the entire series has been cut by 50% through December 31!

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Already read them all? My new urban fantasy romance is live!

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