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January 4, 2014
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Whirling on Chris, I barely muster the will to keep my voice low, and it’s all I can do to remember the customers who might be watching. “What have you done?” The question comes out a hiss and I jerk my hand back with as much discretion as I can muster considering I’m shaking, but he holds it still.
“Made sure you’re no one’s captive.”
“By getting me fired?” I tug on my hand again. “Let go, Chris.”
“You aren’t going to get fired, Sara.”
“Let go of my hand,” I ground out between my teeth.
He clamps his lips together, and with obvious reluctance, he releases me. “You aren’t going to get–”
I walk away, cutting to my left, and toward the hallway opposite the office leading to the fancy guest bathrooms, afraid I’m going to do the completely unacceptable, and cry in public. I’m not a crier. I’ve never been a crier, but this is my dream Chris has destroyed. I thought I could be here, belong here. That a famous, gorgeous artist wanted me, when he was trying to destroy me. I am embarrassed and hurt. I hurt. This hurts. Chris hurt me.
Rounding the corner, I enter the hallway, and Chris is suddenly there in the narrow passage with me, pressing me against the wall, his powerful thighs framing mine.
My hand goes instinctively to his t-shirt-clad chest. I am immediately aware of the intimacy of the touch, of my body’s reaction to the man who has betrayed me. “Don’t shove me against another wall and try to intimidate me, Chris.”
“I’m not trying to intimidate you. I was protecting you, Sara.” His hands move to my waist, scorching me, and my reaction to the sizzling touch is instant. I cover his hands with mine, trying to control what he does next, but it doesn’t help. Now, my hands are on his hands and his hands are on my body.
“Call it what you want,” I ground out, “but you had no right to do what you did.”
“He had to know he couldn’t manipulate your dream. Money, and my many resources at your disposal, does that.”
His words knock my anger and my breath away, and confusion consumes me. His actions and his words conflict at every turn. “Why would you help me? You said I don’t belong in this world.”
“Because I won’t watch him gobble you up and destroy you.”
I remember his words, and understand now that he wanted me out of this gallery, not this profession. “Because he’s a dark, messed up, arrogant asshole who will play with my mind and use me until there is nothing else left of me I recognize.”
“That’s right.”
“And yet you say you’re worse.”
He stiffens and cuts his gaze, seeming to struggle before fixing me in a turbulent stare. “I am, Sara, which is why you should run as far away from me as you can. And I should step back and let you.”
“Then why aren’t you?” I whisper.
His eyes hold mine, and what I see there, the depth of his desire, overwhelms me. He flattens his palm on my belly and I tremble beneath the touch, and he has to feel it too.
“Because,” his voice low, seductive, his hand traveling up the center of my body, “I can’t stop thinking about you, and everything I want to do to you, everywhere I want to touch you.”
His hand presses to the swell between my breasts, and my nipples ache with a wish he would touch them. His boldness ignites something sultry and dark inside me, a side of me that defies the good-girl school teacher who is appalled I haven’t stopped this. I want him. I want him here and now, and any way I can have him.
And when his gaze lowers to my mouth and lingers, I know he is thinking about kissing me and I have never wanted to be kissed so badly in my life.
“Do you taste as good as I think you do?” he asks, but he doesn’t wait for my reply.
Suddenly, his fingers have tunneled into my hair and he’s dragging my mouth to his. I am all soft submission, yielding to the moment, to the man. I melt into him, welcome the hardness of his body pressed to mine. And when his tongue presses past my lips, a long, wicked caress, I taste his hunger, his need. There is possessiveness to his kiss, to his hand on my back, molding me closer. I am lost in the ache that has become my need for this man, this stranger I cannot resist. He says he’s protecting me; he says he’s dangerous. I am conflicted, and sure I should be angry with him, but I am completely incapable and unable of processing why.
Remotely, I register voices sounding somewhere nearby, and some tiny part of my mind is aware we could be caught, but I am too lost to care. I do not want to stop kissing him and I am panting when Chris tears his mouth from mine and presses his lips to my ear. He gently strokes my hair, his breath warm on my neck. “Go the bathroom baby, before someone sees us.”
The endearment does funny things to my chest.
He turns me to the door, his hands on my waist, his body framing me from behind, and I can feel him hot and hard against my backside. It is all I can do not to lean into him. He kisses my neck. “I don’t mind who knows what we are doing but I don’t want you embarrassed.”
The voices grow louder, high heels clicking on the tiled floor. Reality blasts through me and I dart for the bathroom door without looking back at Chris.
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January 1, 2014
Happy New Year!!
We hope that each of you have a wonderful New Year full of amazing adventure and prosperity!!
Lisa & Diego
December 29, 2013
Fruit Punch, Pigs in a Blanket & a Fluer di Lis Windchime GIVEWAY
I was looking for a great recipes for our final recipe of the year. So, I decided on my Mom’s Famous Fruit Punch and mini hot dogs in puff pastry. My mom used to make the punch and hot dogs for all of the holidays. We always enjoyed having both so I thought I would share the recipes with you. I wish you all a Happy Holiday & Happy New Year!!
Thank you Lisa for letting me borrow your site every Monday!!
As always, Enjoy!!!
—Rae
Mom’s Famous Fruit Punch
You will need:
1 (12 fl. Oz) lemonade, frozen concentrate
1 (11.5 fl. Oz.) Welch’s apple, grape cherry, fruit juice cocktail, frozen
1 gallon, fruit juicy red Hawaiian Punch
1 small container sorbet, whatever flavor you like, I use rainbow
1 2 liter bottle ginger ale
Instructions:
The night before, using a Jell-O mold, pour Hawaiian Punch into a mold and freeze, if you don’t have a mold, use a plastic container that can be frozen. Freeze overnight.
The next day, day you will drink the punch, in a punch bowl add, still frozen lemonade & fruit punch, then add a bit of Hawaiian punch, mix to incorporate
Add the remaining Hawaiian punch and all of the ginger ale.
Now carefully place the frozen ring into the punch.
Scoop small spoonful’s of the sorbet, as much or as little as you like. Mix to combine
Serve immediately.
This is my mother’s recipe for punch. This is the best I have ever had. I hope you enjoy it too!! Happy holidays!!!
PIGS IN A BLANKET
YOU WILL NEED:
I box puffed pastry sheets, (be sure you get sheets not cups)
2 packages mini wieners, or mini sausages (Hillshire Farms carries both, plus cheese filled, use what you like or mix one of each to make 2 packages)
Optional: toasted sesame seeds and/or poppy seeds
DIRECTIONS:
Defrost the pastry sheets, leave out on counter check after 1 hour, may take longer due to temp in house.
When defrosted open pack & cut the 2 sheets into 3 where it is folded, you will now have 6 sheets, now count the mini wieners or sausages and figure out how many puff pastry strips you need to cut. Cut into the strips.
Wrap the wieners in pastry and place on a foil lined cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray. You may choose to use 2 sheets, you want to leave space in between the wieners so they have room for pastry to puff.
OPTIONAL: once all the pastry wrapped sausages are on the sheet, spray lightly with cooking spray and add sesame seeds and poppy seeds.
Bake per directions on your puff sheets, I usually do 400 degrees 15 minutes, check them for golden brown & add 5 minutes to finish. But be sure to check bottom & top for golden brown. Remove from oven, place on a serving dish and serve warm.
You can serve with BBQ sauce, Ketchup, Mustard or you favorite hotdog condiments.
The fancy pigs are a kicked up version of the croissant wrapped hot dogs. Adults and kids alike will love them.
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December 26, 2013
Pre-orders are LIVE for many of the new INSIDE OUT BOOKS!
His Secrets
(Chris’s POV)
Feb 15th
An Inside Out story, Chris’s POV
In a world where my only escape has been my art, Sara has been the light in my darkness. And there is
darkness, the kind of inky black that can bleed from my life to hers.
She doesn’t see it. She doesn’t understand what I’ve shown her. And my
biggest fear is that soon…she will.
Rebecca’s Lost Journals
The print version of Rebecca’s Lost Journals with Master Undone (Mark’s POV) inside
Rebecca Mason has known heartache and sorrow in her life, losing everyone she loves. She’s on her own in San Francisco, lost in every way, until she dares to make the decision to chase her dream of working in the art world. It is then that he meets a rich, seductively powerful man who will become the Master she never knew she wanted and change her life forever. He will lead her on a dark, passionate journey where pain is pleasure and pleasure is pain, and where every limit she once had is no more. In this man, she will find solace to her pain, an escape from the ache inside her. And in him, she will discover a darkness she may never escape.
Bonus Story included: Master Undone in his POV…
I told him goodbye, and I will not call him. I know if I do, it will be my undoing, and I’ll once again be caught up in his spell. I will once again be . . . lost.
In her private journals, Rebecca laid bare her soul, revealing her obsession for the one man whose erotic demands captivated her imagination–and enslaved her forever. Now, with Rebecca no longer in his life “he” is lost, questioning everything he thought he knew about himself and about control he holds in such high regard. One women will reach out to heal him and then turn away, leaving him haunted. She is nothing he thought he wanted and somehow everything he needs. He tells himself to forget her but he cannot escape his desire for her. He has to have more…
My Hunger
(Mark’s POV and takes place the day after Master Undone)
Master…
Being that person, that man is how I define myself, how I allow the rest of the world to define me as well. And now, with a terrible loss shredding me inside out and someone trying to destroy my family to punish me, control is more important than ever. It is everything. It is what I need. It is all I need. Or maybe I just need…her.
No In Between
Novel #4
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The fourth in the Inside Out erotic romance series by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones, this steamy novel resolves Chris and Sarah’s relationship and leads into Mark’s story.
“Chris and I have faced our demons and bared our souls to one another in Paris. Now that we are back home in San Francisco, I want to believe that nothing can tear us apart. Not Ava’s accusations against me to the police, or Chris’s fear that he will destroy me as he feels he did Amber. And not Mark, who was once too intimately a part of our lives, and who I can see crumbling inside out. He believes he is invincible, just as I want to believe Chris and I are invincible. We have to be invincible. We need each other too much for any other ending.”
My Control
(Mark’s POV)
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I have lost the man I once was, letting guilt and heartache define who I am. Darkness has controlled me, and one woman has seen what no one else has seen in me, what I do not wish to exist. I’m consumed with my hunger for her and my need for her has driven me to the edge of sanity, but no more. She’s about to find out that the Master has returned.
December 22, 2013
Cut Out Cookies, Cherry Kisses & a Mexican Vanilla Extract Giveaway
This week we have 2 delicious cookie recipes from Rae – Cut Out Cookies & Cherry Kisses! Keep stopping by on Monday’s when we’ll have a new recipe and giveaway posted!
Just like the picture shows, this is a great cookie for Santa. Kids would have a ball decorating these on Christmas eve for St. Nick. If you use the frosting recipe with the link above you will have a delicious treat. Happy Holidays!!
CUT-OUT COOKIES
INGREDIENTS
3 cups all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS
Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
Beat butter and granulated sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until fluffy.
Beat in egg and vanilla extract.
Reduce speed to low.
Add flour mixture, and beat until combined.
Place dough in bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Leave in fridge for at least one hour, better if overnight.
Roll out dough, on a floured surface, a little bit of dough at a time.
Using cookie cutters cut dough into shapes.
Bake 375 degrees 8-10 minutes, or until golden brown.
Frost with your favorite frosting, or use this frosting recipe!!
CHERRY KISSES (COOKIES)
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 drops red food coloring
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup maraschino cherries, chopped
25-30 Hershey’s Kisses, unwrapped
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and powdered sugar.
Add cherry juice, almond extract, food coloring and salt and beat well.
Gradually add flour until well incorporated.
Fold in cherries. Place tablespoon-sized balls (I used a cookie scoop) on an ungreased cookie sheet. Leave about 1-½” between cookies.
Bake for 10-12 minutes until just slightly firm to the touch.
Unwrap Hershey’s Kisses while cookies are in the oven.Remove trays from oven and immediately top cookies with Hershey’s Kisses, pressing down gently.
Cool completely on trays. Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator until ready to eat.
Makes 25-30 cookies.
This is a shortbread cookie. It is not very sweet, it does need the chocolate kiss to sweeten up a bit. But, it is tasty. Delicious with a cup of hot chocolate.
This is a good cookie if you are looking for something not very sweet.
Enjoy!!!
Rae
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December 19, 2013
Pre-Order Now Available for I NEED YOU NOW – 1001 Dark Nights
I’m participating in an exciting new project with 11 other New York Times bestsellers It’s called 1001 Dark Nights, and is inspired by The Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights.
In the original, Scheherazade desperately attempts to entertain her husband, the King of Persia, with nightly stories so that he will postpone her execution.
We’re taking a unique spin on the premise and creating new stories that a new Scheherazade might tell. Novellas that are sexy and romantic. Some paranormal, some erotic. All compelling and page turning.
One of these novellas will be published each month starting January 2014 until December 2014.
Mine is called
NEED YOU NOW
It releases JULY 8th, 2014.
You can PRE-ORDER– on AMAZON
Danielle “Danny” Murray, grew up with a mother who preferred her four step-fathers to her daughter. Now, out on her own, she’s determined to complete medical school and create a stable life for herself that doesn’t require a man for support. On a rare break from her studies, she attends her friend’s birthday celebration, and a dark stranger temps her into the hottest night of her life. With no names exchanged, it’s no harm, no foul, until Mr. Temptation walks back in her life and demands another night. And another. And….another.
I hope you check it out and check out the other stories written by my other author friends involved in the project.
Happy Reading!
SPRINKLE COOKIES & 12 Films of Christmas GIVEAWAY
This week’s recipe from Rae is SPRINKLE COOKIES! Keep stopping by on Monday’s when we’ll have a new recipe and giveaway posted!
I had a lemon and wanted to use it for something different. I found this recipe in my cookbook. They are great for holidays. A nice fresh cookie for your tray. I am sure they would also taste good with a lemon glaze if you wanted them to be fancier or more sweet.
SPRINKLE COOKIES
INGREDIENTS
1½ cups flour
1½ tsp. baking powder
12 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
Zest of ½ lemon
½ cup sprinkles
DIRECTIONS
1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees
2. Mix together flour, baking powder, in a bowl; set aside.
3. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar on medium-high speed in mixer until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
4. Add vanilla, egg, and lemon zest, and beat until smooth; add dry ingredients, and beat until just combined. Using a 1-oz. ice scream scoop or 2 tablespoons, shape dough into 1″ balls; place balls 2″ apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Using the palm of your hand or the bottom of a glass, press each ball into a flat disk
5. Place sprinkles on top of cookies. Press in a bit so they don’t roll off.
6. Bake cookies about 10 minutes. Let cool before serving.
Enjoy!!!
Rae
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December 18, 2013
Inside Out Covers: HIS Secrets, No In Between, & Rebecca’s Journals (Print)
An Inside Out story, Chris’s POV
In a world where my only escape has been my art, Sara has been the light in my darkness. And there is
darkness, the kind of inky black that can bleed from my life to hers.
She doesn’t see it. She doesn’t understand what I’ve shown her. And my
biggest fear is that soon…she will.
Pre-Order: Amazon
Add to your GoodReads Shelf!
Rebecca’s Lost Journals – The four novellas combined into one volume…..
Rebecca Mason has known heartache and sorrow in her life, losing everyone she loves. She’s on her own in San Francisco, lost in every way, until she dares to make the decision to chase her dream of working in the art world. It is then that he meets a rich, seductively powerful man who will become the Master she never knew she wanted and change her life forever. He will lead her on a dark, passionate journey where pain is pleasure and pleasure is pain, and where every limit she once had is no more. In this man, she will find solace to her pain, an escape from the ache inside her. And in him, she will discover a darkness she may never escape.
Bonus Story included: Master Undone in his POV…
I told him goodbye, and I will not call him. I know if I do, it will be my undoing, and I’ll once again be caught up in his spell. I will once again be . . . lost. In her private journals, Rebecca laid bare her soul, revealing her obsession for the one man whose erotic demands captivated her imagination–and enslaved her forever. Now, with Rebecca no longer in his life “he” is lost, questioning everything he thought he knew about himself and about control he holds in such high regard. One women will reach out to heal him and then turn away, leaving him haunted. She is nothing he thought he wanted and somehow everything he needs. He tells himself to forget her but he cannot escape his desire for her. He has to have more…
Pre-Order: Amazon ~ Barnes & Noble
Add to your GoodReads Shelf.
The fourth in the Inside Out erotic romance series. This steamy novel resolves Chris and Sarah’s relationship and leads into Mark’s story.
“Chris and I have faced our demons and bared our souls to one another in Paris. Now that we are back home in San Francisco, I want to believe that nothing can tear us apart. Not Ava’s accusations against me to the police, or Chris’s fear that he will destroy me as he feels he did Amber. And not Mark, who was once too intimately a part of our lives, and who I can see crumbling inside out. He believes he is invincible, just as I want to believe Chris and I are invincible. We have to be invincible. We need each other too much for any other ending.”
Pre-Order: Amazon
Add to your GoodReads Shelf.
MERINGUE COOKIES & Christmas Bell Ornament GIVEAWAY!
**This giveaway has been extended until Sunday due to technical difficulties**
This week’s recipe from Rae is MERINGUE COOKIES! Keep stopping by on Monday’s when we’ll have a new recipe and giveaway posted!
These cookies are a great treat. I love to use sprinkles to go with the holiday I am using them for. You can also use food coloring to make them different colors. Red, Green or even Blue would look great for the holiday season.
Happy Holidays!!!
MERINGUE COOKIES
Ingredients
2 egg whites
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon mint extract or vanilla
3 to 5 drops green food color (optional)
Sprinkles (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Heat oven to 200°F. Grease 2 large cookie sheets with cooking spray. In small bowl, beat egg whites, cream of tartar and salt with electric mixer on medium speed until foamy. On high speed, add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until sugar is dissolved, meringue is glossy and very stiff peaks form. Beat in extract. Now add color and beat to combine until well blended and desired color.
Use disposable decorating bag or gallon-size food storage plastic bag with 1/2-inch hole cut in one bottom corner of bag (if desired, fit large star tip in decorating bag or in hole of plastic bag). Spoon meringue into bag; twist top of bag to seal. Squeeze bag to pipe meringue into 1-inch puffs onto cookie sheets. Sprinkle each with candy sprinkles
Bake on middle oven rack 2 hours. Immediately remove cookies from cookie sheets; place on wire racks. Cool completely, about 5 minutes
TIP- if you want to be sure sugar dissolved, turn mixer off take the mix and place it on your finger, with your thumb and pointer finger feel the mix, if it is grainy mix again until you feel it is smooth.
Enjoy!!
Rae
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December 10, 2013
Unwrapping Holly – Available NOW
Unwrapping Holly
This is a SWEET erotic holiday story with a HEA told from a male and female POV. Read a SAMPLE on Amazon HERE!
Holly Redding has come home to enjoy the holidays with her family and, hopefully, to escape a case of writer’s block. So when a chance encounter with a sexy local proves to be too much of a heart-racing distraction, she vows to keep her distance. But in a small town like Haven, New Hampshire, it’s hard to avoid Cole Wiley—and their undeniable chemistry.
Cole wants Holly the moment she bumps into him. She may act a little icy since their stolen kiss, but he knows how to make her melt. If Cole gets his way, the two of them might be ringing in the New Year—and a new life—together…
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