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November 30, 2014
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November 28, 2014
Please Welcome Special Guest Tracey H. Kitts!
Hello Roth Heads! Please give your warmest welcome to Tracey H. Kitts!
She’s stopping by today to introduce herself and give some insight on why she writes about things that veer toward the opposite of the norm. So sit back and enjoy! Say “Hello!” and make her feel welcomed!
Why I don’t write anything normal
By
Tracey H. Kitts
Recently, I was discussing this with a friend of mine. He said he believes that I should write books that a 1 year-old or an 80 year-old could read and not be offended. After I stopped laughing, I assured him that such a thing is not possible. Mainly because 1 year-olds can’t read, but that’s beside the point.
I live in a small town. A really small town. LOL People here (on the whole) do not understand why I would choose to write about the paranormal.
The conversation usually goes something like this.
“So, your latest book is about werewolves (or vampires)?”
“That’s right.” I proceed to tell them about my latest book.
“Um. So, when are you going to write something normal? Cause I don’t read anything weird.”
The last time someone asked me this question they were about to purchase a copy of Terminator. I replied, “Right. Because sending your father back in time to get your mom pregnant is totally normal.”
Many people (particularly in small towns like mine) seem to be under the false impression that just because the characters are not completely human that you can’t relate to their stories. That’s not true at all. We all have things to overcome in our relationships and within ourselves. It may not be as serious as an aversion to sunlight or a severe need to wax on the full moon, but everyone has problems.
The difference is our problems aren’t solved between the pages of a good book. That’s what’s so great about fiction. I strive to make my characters and their situations REAL. That doesn’t mean it could really happen. It means that what they are feeling is real. The emotion is what brings reality to my stories.
Besides, being a vampire or a werewolf could be a metaphor for almost anything. It’s about looking beyond the surface to see who they really are. The man behind the beast is a very attractive concept to me. I’ve seen some great looking men who were monsters underneath. I write stories about the exact opposite.
Beauty and the Beast is a classic story that somehow comes through in each and every paranormal romance I’ve ever read or written. It all comes down to can you see what’s beneath rather than what everyone else sees? Isn’t that what love is all about?
You don’t love someone because you don’t see their flaws. You love them because you see the flaws … and the flaws don’t matter. They are simply a part of the person you love.
People suggest all the time what I should write. These are mostly people who know me and feel they are being helpful. They want me to be “acceptable” to everyone else. Here’s the truth, I cannot write something that doesn’t interest me. I write about all kinds of paranormal stuff because that’s what I’m into.
The monster under my bed will always be more appealing than Prince Charming to me.
So what if he has a hairy back once a month or grows fangs from time to time? Back to the original question: When am I going to write anything normal? According to my readers, I already do.
You can find out more about Tracey and her books at www.traceyhkitts.com
Or, look her up on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tracey-H-Kitts/73968579374
You can try out 3 of her best-selling vampire ménage books right now for 99 cents.
Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQ5TSFC
Giveaway:
Everyone who comments on this post will be entered to win a copy of the Lilith Mercury, Werewolf Hunter Boxed Set. This set contains the first 3 books in the Werewolf Hunter series. This will be gifted through Amazon. A winner will be chosen one week from today (Friday, Dec. 5th) and posted in the comments.
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November 21, 2014
It’s Friday! Special Guest Time!
I hope you all have had a great week! Roth Heads, I’d like for you all to welcome the lovely Bryce Evans to the blog today. She’s going to give us a wee little peek into her upcoming book and let us get to know her a bit. Also, she has a giveaway! Don’t we all love presents?!
Cravings
Alpha City, Book 2
By Bryce Evans
Zoey Malone has it all. Her best friend is now her sister in law, and her partner in a new and thriving business, she’s treated like a princess by the members of her pack, and she’s found the man she wants to give her heart to in Kayden Lynn, Alpha of the Panther Pride. When business takes her to sunny Las Vegas and puts her in the path of Alpha wolf Johnny Ringo; she has to make a decision between the guaranteed security Johnny offers, and a deep soul-stealing love with Kayden.
Forced back to her hometown, and hurt by the man who’s held her heart for years, she and the rest of the Malone Pack are threatened by outside forces. Will Kayden be the man she knows he can be, and come to her rescue, or will his pride put an end to their future before it starts?
Warning: Adult Themes-For Mature Audiences. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. M/F, graphic language, consensual sex, public sex. Approx.
Excerpt
Zoey pulled her dress down for the hundredth time. She loved the dress, but it showed more leg than she wanted it to. Damn Donnie! He had talked her into buying the dress saying that all the men would be looking at her, and she would have plenty of dates after tonight. Still, uncertainty crept up inside her. She lacked the most important skill a woman could have when it came to men, and that’s self-esteem.
Tonight was the night. She had promised London that she would flirt and have some fun by putting herself out there and allowing everyone to know she is on the market.
Zoey slowly opened the door to the Rusty Nail Pub. She had been here hundreds of times, but tonight was different. Tonight she was a new woman with a new dress and a new attitude. Only thirty seconds in the door, and she wanted to throw up. Everyone seemed to turn and gawk at her when she finally entered.
Donnie ran up to her grabbing her hand. “Now, don’t you look slutty?” Stopping mid stride, Zoey looked up at Donnie panicked.
“What? You told me to wear it. You said it looked good on me.” Zoey couldn’t help the hysteria coming out of her mouth. Her eyes widened, and her body went into flight mode, but before she could run out, Donnie got into her face whispering. Even over the music, she could hear what he was saying to her.
“You look great, Zoey. That dress is fantastic and makes your legs look like they could wrap around a man’s body for days. So stop and listen to what I’m saying. Yes, people are looking at you. They are checking you out and liking what they see. If I weren’t gay, I would take you outside and fuck you on the hood of my car. That is what I’m trying to say.” Zoey stared up at her friend and couldn’t stop the giggles as Donnie’s comment sunk in. Then Donnie started laughing with her.
“You whore.” Zoey snorted out.
“You slut.” Donnie responded, as he broke out in a fit of giggles with Zoey.
“What are you two laughing about?” London asked as she walked up to her two best friends.
“Nothing. Just getting our little girl here in the right frame of mind.” Donnie looked down at Zoey. “Now, think like a wolf looking for their prey, and walk like you own this damn place. Let’s head for the table and get this evening started. Capiche, my little wolf?”
Zoey nodded and pushed her shoulders back with confidence. As she walked toward the Alpha’s table, she swayed her hips provocatively. She could see people had stopped talking and watched her walk past, especially the men. The only attention she wanted tonight was not even at the table. He wasn’t even here tonight.
She hated that about herself. She heaved a sigh and scanned the pub a little more looking for Kayden.
“He isn’t here yet,” London whispered in her ear. Zoey shrugged trying to act as if it didn’t bother her as Nolan Banks pulled a chair out for her.
“Now, now, what do we have here?” Nolan teased. “I don’t believe we have met yet, Miss?” Zoey smiled as Nolan acted as though she was a stranger.
“My name is Zoey Malone, and what is yours, big boy?” Zoey teased, and then winked at him. Nolan was the best, and he made a tense situation into a bearable one.
“Well Ms. Malone, how about we dance? With a dress like that, I think you need to be center of attention tonight. Well?”
“Shut up, Nolan. That is my sister you’re talking to. I know you are going to say something, and it’s only going to piss me off.” Ryder interjected.
Ignoring her brother, Zoey extended her hand to Nolan. “Well, kind sir, I would love to dance with you.” She did feel special as Nolan escorted her out to the dance floor when a fast song came on. The stars must have been in line because Kayden walked through the door with none other than Jena Carnes. He hadn’t seen her yet, but she saw him. Putting on a show, Zoey did things with her body that she didn’t know she had in her. Dancing at home in front of the mirror doesn’t count. Tonight was her night to shine, and make Kayden Lynn jealous as hell.
Pre-order links only
Cravings (Alpha City) Book 2 –
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Amazon UK – http://amzn.to/1p2GEtX
About the Author
Bryce Evans is a mother, wife, and author who loves to escape to the world she has built in the Ashland Pack. She burst onto the publishing scene with a hit in The Trinity. As an active police officer, Bryce needed another outlet from the pains of others. Writing filled that void.
She loves talking to people who have the same tastes as she does and enjoys storytelling about vampires, werewolves, witches, and fairies.
She loves to read books and write about places that come together in her head. She tries to write about what she knows and usually you will find some aspect of law enforcement in her writing.
Travel with her to a world filled with vampires, werewolves, witches, and fairies were the paranormal run wild and romance blooms.
Find out more about her current projects at www.bryceevans.webs.com
Also find her on Facebook
Coming Soon!
Bryce is releasing the best selling series ~The Love of a Shifter on November 26, 2014. This series includes: Once Forgotten Twice Loved & Healing Their Mate. Please join her on November 26th for the Book Release Event on Facebook. The fabulous Fangtastic is hosting this fun time. Lots of prizes so come join in the fun.
Giveaway:
Bryce has been gracious enough to offer these great prizes!
(2 separate gift cards) $5.00 gift cards and (1) book of choice from her back list.
So that is 3 pretty spiffy prizes for you! Just post a comment and the winners will be picked a week from now!
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November 14, 2014
Happy Friday Roth Heads!
Christmas Presents for the Vampire in Your Life
In my vampire romance collection, Holiday Bites, I take three couples celebrating three different holidays and give them hot, sexy times. The first story in the collection is called “Christmas for Eve.” Eve is dating a vampire and doesn’t know it. Er, yet.
But it got me to thinking: What kind of Christmas present do you get for the vampires in your life (or unlife)? It can be difficult to find the right gift for the living, so buying for the undead is darn near impossible! Right? Right! However, I compiled a small list of items that may well be great gifts—and will brighten (so to speak) the life (or death) of your favorite bloodsucker:
EpiPen®. Vampires are allergic to a lot of different things. Garlic. Holy water. Werewolf bites. Putting an allergy auto-injector into your favorite undead guy or gal’s stocking is not only thoughtful, but it could also prevent a fatality caused by an emergency blood donation.
1,000,000 SPF sunscreen and a TyVek protection suit. As you know, vampires suffer from severe photodermatitis (AKA sun poisoning). Unfortunately, an EpiPen® cannot help with this type of allergic condition—mostly because vampires tend to explode into ash when exposed to sunlight. But if the vampire in your life has to leave the abode—say, to escape a mob busting down the front door—the right kind of gear might well save your favorite vampire’s unlife.
Coffin bedding. Oh sure, seeing your loved one crawl into a coffin for a good day’s rest can be a bit unsettling—especially if you’re still living. But being undead is uncomfortable enough. A coffin-shaped memory foam insert coupled with silk sheets and a nice, plump pillow will ensure your undead love’s rest is the best it can be.
Rent a blood donation truck. Treat your vampire to the ultimate in feasting experiences! With a blood donation truck, you can explore the city and its various tasty residents—all without drawing attention. Nothing says “Happy Holidays!” like a victim-procurement unit.
A tablet. Your vampire probably thinks a tablet is something the Egyptians and Babylonians wrote on to keep track of harvests and beer. A table is small enough to take into the coffin for bedtime, and not only can he or she read about the latest news in the world, there’s also Google maps to track victims, check out castle properties, and see what places look like in sunlight.
These are just a few ideas about what kind of bloody good presents to give that special vampire in your life!
If you’re looking for a special treat, why not indulge yourself and take some Holiday Bites? The collection of three hot tales of vampire paranormal romance is only 0.99 cents! Happy Holidays!!!
Website: www.MicheleBardsley.com
Purchase Links:
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Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OGPJ5R4?*Version*=1&*entries*=0
Find Michele on Facebook:
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Giveaway:
One winner! Two scarves! Protect your neck from the cold (and vampires) with two pretty, handmade scarves. I made them with the same fingers that I used to type Holiday Bites. *Please note: Not guaranteed to fend off vampires.
Please comment below! Winner will be chosen a week from today! ( Nov. 21st)
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November 10, 2014
JUST RELEASED! Hunted Holiday
Kiss of Christmas Magic Box Set
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,
not a creature was stirring…
except for the sexy werewolf in a Santa hat come to seduce you while you read…
Treat yourself to a winter wonderland of shapeshifters and vampires, elves and fairies, ghosts and other paranormal creatures!
Twenty brand-new novellas of Christmas magic from some of the stars of paranormal romance will brighten your holiday with candy cane kisses and hot toddy loving. Spend your long winter nights with otherworldly alpha males where true love always wins the day and the spirits of the season are naughty AND nice.
This is a limited-edition box set. After the holidays, this deal will disappear forever, and you’ll have to spend over $20 to get these stories!
Includes a never before released story from National Bestselling Author Mandy M. Roth
Hunted Holiday: A Vampire Romance
Dani Malloye hates the holidays, and with good reason. Though her best friend tries to force the Christmas spirit on her with giant Santas and elves that light up, she’d rather spend her time doing what she does best—enforcing paranormal law on the streets of Chicago. Nothing like a little evil bloodshed to lighten the mood. Besides, work means she can spend time with her sexy boss, Cornell Sutton. Too bad Cornell is uptight, her new neighbor, and a vampire. Everyone knows slayers and vampires just don’t mix. Or do they?
Copyright (c) 2014 Mandy M. Roth
Chapter One
Zucchinis, the other word for “it”
“Come on, Dani.”
Dani Malloye eyed her friend Mimi cautiously, positive the girl had finally lost it and the mental break had come in the form of excess holiday cheer. Apparently, when Dani had, in casual conversation, mentioned she hadn’t celebrated the holidays in years, Mimi had seen that as a challenge and accepted it.
Tenfold.
Mimi had already spent the greater part of the snowy Chicago day unloading box after box of Christmas decorations onto Dani’s snow-covered front yard in an attempt to “get Dani in the mood” for the season. No amount of setting the scene would ever get Dani on board with the holidays.
She flinched, wanting to keep from slipping into remembered pain. She wasn’t thirteen anymore. She wasn’t helpless. Ten years had passed and she had embraced her destiny. She was no longer weak or terrified. Even with the sense of empowerment, Dani couldn’t make her way back to finding happiness at this time of year. But there was no sense in ruining Mimi’s love of it all.
With a slow, measured breath, Dani pushed a smile to her face, wanting to look happy for the sake of her friend. Currently, Dani had concerns about her yard being a fire hazard once the decorations were actually plugged in. So far, the only thing dancing through her head was images of her electric meter spinning. That was a bill she had no interest in seeing.
She made good money as a slayer, or the new politically correct term—Preternatural Enforcer—but she didn’t flaunt money or spend unwisely. There had been a time when she’d lived on the streets, unsure where her next meal would come from or even if it would come. While that had changed, she wasn’t one to spend needlessly.
Mimi, having grown up in the lap of luxury, didn’t really have any true concept of money. The girl still lived in her family’s huge mansion on the other side of the city, and more often than not, Mimi had her own personal driver to cart her around. She didn’t have to work, but she did anyway. She was one of the Preternatural Magiks with Chicago’s Bureau of Paranormal Investigation (CBPI). The people in charge liked to ration them out to the teams of enforcers, just in case a magik was needed. Mimi was on the same team as Dani. They’d met during training and had clicked right away. Dani and Mimi had grown up with very different backgrounds, but that hadn’t stopped them from becoming the best of friends.
The minute Dani spotted a giant light-up Santa, still in the box, standing almost as tall as her, she shook her head, needing to stop the insanity before it became an even bigger eyesore. “No way. I’m vetoing that one.”
“Come on, Dani,” Mimi pleaded, her light blue eyes wide and her bottom lip jutted forward, pouting, as her red hair poked out from under her knitted cap. The girl had a way of getting Dani to agree to just about anything. It was the power of the best friend code of ethics. That, or big sad eyes. Dani wasn’t sure.
“The Santa was too cute for me to resist,” added Mimi.
Dani paused, considering letting Mimi have her way. “No.”
“Dani, you have to admit he’s adorable.” Mimi tugged on the end of the box, doing her best to get Super Santa free from his packaging. From the looks of it, Super Santa weighed a ton.
Stretching her arms above her head in an attempt to ease her stiffness, Dani kept making a noise that indicated no way. That noise was quickly replaced by a grunt when she overstretched her tired and sore muscles.
Mimi eyed her. “Did you get checked in the infirmary after last night’s scuffle?”
“Scuffle” was a mild word for it. Millennium Park had been the scene of one hell of a battle between those who tried to police the supernaturals, and a select group of supernaturals, who had decided they wanted to do as they pleased—and doing as they pleased meant attacking humans.
That was a no-go.
Dani, a skilled slayer, and the few enforcers with her, had been grossly outnumbered when they’d been ambushed. She’d nearly gotten her ass handed to her once or twice during it all, but had come out on top. Several baddies had escaped and the CBPI was on it. If any of the perps resurfaced, the enforcers would be notified.
“I’m good. Sore, but good,” said Dani, though she was a bit worse off than she cared to admit. “But I’m still drawing the line on Super Santa.”
“Holiday mood killer,” mumbled Mimi.
Dani was about to comment when the hairs on the back of her neck prickled, wanting to stand on end but resisting. Her slayer side was more sensitive to certain types of supernaturals. That happened with a lot of slayers. Dani’s easy-to-sense supernaturals were vampires.
A smile wanted to form on her face when she put together which vampire in particular was watching her. The only one she’d ever had the hots for. The one who just happened to be her boss. She resisted, doing her best to act as if she didn’t sense him there, his gaze on her from afar.
Do not look over at his house. Do not, she repeated to herself.
Cornell Sutton, member of one of the ruling vampire families and one of the heads of her division of CBPI. More specifically, he was her direct boss and just happened to be a hunk. Tall, sinewy, with ink-black hair that hung just past his chiseled jaw line and eyes so dark it was often hard to tell when his demon rode his body. Like most vampires, he was on the pale side, but he worked it.
Man, oh man, did he work it.
Dani’s entire body tightened with thoughts of Cornell. He always smelled like cinnamon and baked goods to her. Every vampire had a natural scent. His reminded her of apple pie, which was her one weakness. She’d once asked Mimi if she too smelled baked goods around Cornell, but Mimi had stared at her like she was nuts.
Didn’t matter. The guy smelled yummy enough to eat.
Too bad he was her boss and a stick-in-the-mud. He was a by-the-book kind of guy. Always harping on her about the rules and regulations. About her duties. About her wild ways.
Mostly, she tuned him out, disliking authority figures and following orders. She thought she’d one-upped him with her streak of defiance, but then, two years ago, he’d done the unimaginable.
The jerk had bought the property next to Dani’s house as well as the next two properties beyond that, had the previous homes on the lots demolished, and then had commissioned the building of a giant, gothic-feeling mansion with matching grounds. The place did not fit into the suburban area one bit. It stuck out like a sore thumb, but he’d done it all the same. It had been completed six months prior, and for those long six months Dani had found herself living next door to her boss. He was probably watching her because he had plans to scold her for her juvenile behavior.
Yep, a total stick-in-the-mud.
A hot one.
But a stick all the same.
And Also in the Antho
Everlastingly
Michelle M. Pillow
On the run from her attackers and battered by a winterstorm, Maura O’Brian battles her way through the snow, desperate and alone. Shestumbles upon what she believes to be a secluded, abandoned farmhouse where strangevoices are be more frightful than what awaits outside. The signs keep pointingto the same person–Jack. His very name fills her heart with such intenselonging she’ll do anything to find him.
Is Jack real or simply herfevered imagination hoping for a holiday miracle?
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Caribous’ Gift
A Kodiak Point novella
Eve Langlais
Damn it, a man had his pride and a caribou a certain majestic presence, all of which could wind up ruined if he abased himself to play a simple-minded reindeer in the town’s Christmas parade.
No way was he wearing damned tinsel in his antlers.
Like hell was he sporting a red nose and pulling a sleigh.
But he changes his mind when he meets the woman in charge of the event.
Single mom, Crystal, is doing her best to offer her daughter the best Christmas ever. It’s their first in Kodiak’s Point, and she’s not about to let some vain jerk ruin it for her little girl.
If playing dirty is what it takes…then bring on the Christmas games.
As Crystal and Kyle butt heads—and lips—they discover more than goodwill this holiday season. They’re gifted with a second chance at love.
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Kissed by Temptation
A Coven Pointe novella
Deanna Chase
The last place sex-witch Mati Ballintine wants to be is at a holiday sorority party. But when the high angel from the council orders her to protect a new angel recruit, she has no choice but to go and grit her teeth through the frat boys’ advances.
The night turns from bad to worse when a demon appears and is hell-bent on taking the angel to Hell. Mati and her incubus boyfriend Vaughn will need to combine forces to not only save the angel, but everyone else the demon leaves in his wake.
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A Ghostly Gift
A Southern Ghost Hunters novella
Angie Fox
One simple mistake…
It really didn’t look “that much” like an urn.
For a girl who is about to lose her family home.
So she dumped it out onto the rose bushes, and rinsed it with the hose.
Releases the ghost of a long-dead gangster.
He really didn’t have to be so rude about it.
And open’s Verity Long’s eyes to a whole new world…
Verity Long doesn’t want to see ghosts, and she’d rather not let anyone know her little secret, either. But when a restless spirit stirs up trouble in her friend’s holiday shop, Verity and her very new, very dead gangster friend decide to take a peek.
There they discover a mystery a eight decades in the making, and are tasked with reuniting a pair of war-torn lovers before they are doomed to spend eternity apart.
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Love Singer
Mimi Strong
A struggling musician discovers she’s a witch who can cast spells with her songs. Or at least that’s what the sexy professor trying to seduce her says.
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Bear Witness
A Pearson Security Bear Shifters novella
Michele Bardsley
After Gretchen Myers rescues her murdered stepsister’s baby, she’s nearly killed in a not-so-accidental car crash. When she wakes up in a Las Vegas hospital, she’s alone … until Rafe Pearson shows up. Not only does he have the baby, but he manages to rescue her from yet another attempt on her life.
Rafe is approximately the size of a linebacker with the looks of a GQ model. Yet, Gretchen has never seen a man so lonely. And he’s never met a woman so stubborn. But while she and the baby are in danger, there’s no way the former cop will let them out of his sight.
As a bear shifter who lives in a cabin deep in the woods of Mount Charleston, he has the perfect place to protect his new charges. Then the persistent hunters track down their vulnerable prey, and Rafe discovers too late that these killers are inhuman…
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A Heart in Winter
An Aethereal Bonds novella
V.M. Black
Sarah defied her family and married for love beneath her station. Her happiness with Baron Marston was multiplied when they welcomed two sons into their family. But a wasting sickness has overcome Sarah, one that has resisted every poultice and purge of the greatest doctors in England. Soon, it would claim her life—if it were not for the promise of one last sage, whose vampire’s kiss brings her not only eternal youth but a bond that transcends all human oaths.
Can any mortal love, however strong, survive the seduction of an ageless vampire? Christmas is coming, and Sarah can only be at one hearth.
This story is set in the history of the Aethereal Bonds world.
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Blood Deep: Vegas Vampires Book 1
A Steel Born novella
Jessa Slade
Avery Hill’s mother went missing one Christmas, and now she reluctant writes “News of the Weird”-style reports while searching for the truth of what happened years ago. When she finds herself in Las Vegas for the holiday, caught in a battle between light and dark fey armies, only a 700-year-old soul-wounded warrior cursed with eternal life can save her—before his own time runs out.
Inflicted with the ravpyrii curse, Hugo de Grava will gamble anything for his freedom. Even if he has to destroy even illusion in the sunlit realm. But the dangerous magic that made Avery fear for her sanity and made Hugo a vampire isn’t done with them yet, and long-lost worlds are on a collision course on the deepest night of the year…
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Home for the Howlidays
A Montana Wolves novella
Chloe Cole
Niklaus Maslov left Stone Creek, Montana in his rear-view mirror three years ago and never planned to go back. His pack’s ways are antiquated, and the girl he loves will never be his. But when his father, the pack’s alpha, sends him an urgent message, he can’t deny the protective instinct drawing him back to his hometown, or the lure of the one that got away…
Petra Stevens has had her heart stomped on once and vows it will never happen again. When her former lover and packmate returns to Stone Creek, all the rage and hurt she felt when he’d left comes bubbling to the surface…along with other feelings she can’t control. If she can just avoid him while he’s in town, things will be fine.
But fate has other plans.
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Shadows Beneath the Falling Snow: An Elven King Prequel Story
A “Claimed by the Elven King” novella
Cristina Rayne
When an unprecedented visit from the supreme elven king, Kirion, disrupts elven princess Miriel’s usual plans during the winter solstice, it’s the least of her worries when a single touch by the powerful king could reveal a secret she and her family have desperately kept for over a hundred years. However, King Kirion has a few revelations of his own that could also change Miriel’s life forever.
A holiday tale set two thousand years before the events chronicled in Claimed by the Elven King.
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A Christmas to Bear
A Wolf Rock Shifters novella
Carina Wilder
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of going home to the family for Christmas. And that’s exactly why Aria’s chosen to avoid hers like the plague and head to the quiet mountain town of Wolf Rock to ski, celebrate single life and admire the male shifter population from afar. Funny how a little accident can turn a girl’s world upside down. Lucian is a sexy, reclusive polar bear shifter who’s stayed out of humanity’s way for ages, and he expects humanity to return the favour. That includes clumsy women who aren’t great at skiing but are remarkably gifted at smashing into trees.Will the laws of attraction trump the laws of common sense? Probably. It is Christmas, after all. The season of mistletoe, warm hearths and the warmest hearts.
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A Cold Winter’s Bite
Dawn Michelle
December meant more to Hunter Wynn than holidays and time off from a stressful job as the owner of a law firm. It meant the annual getaway he and his partners lived for. A trip to the cold forests of Canada for a winter hunt. Alone and isolated, anything could— and did— happen.
This year it was Hunter’s turn to bring the guest of honor, and he’d just met the perfect girl for it. Pretty, intelligent, and lacking any close friends or relatives. The only question leftis whether Hunter can sink his teeth in her before she sets her claws in him.
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The Hunter’s Moon
Windham Werewolves
Shawntelle Madison
Kaden Windham will do anything to protect his wolf pack, including saving a dying werewolf hunter. Hunter Cynthia McGinnis doesn’t want or need his protection. And despite the fire that ignites between them, she would rather take him down than become his mate.
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Lords of Misrule
Lords of Misrule
J.S. Hope
Reporter Alessandra “Alex” Donati is in Venice chasing the story of her career. While the city prepares for the Christmas festivities, Alex is hot on the trail of a group that celebrates a much older – and much darker – festival, one that offers sex and sacrifice in exchange for power and wealth.
Alex is smart. She’s going into this with open eyes. She thinks she can handle anything the city and its ancient rites throw at her, including gorgeous cult leader Sebastian Assante, but she’s wrong. As the lines between fantasy and reality blur she finds herself caught up in the passion and excess of the Saturnalia Festival, and she loves it. The attention is thrilling. The heat and lust of the rites dizzying, and the hunger of the revelers intoxicating…but when the masks come off what lies beneath is terrifying.
Plus brand-new holiday stories from:
Molly Prince and Aubrey Rose
Viola Rivard
Lola St Vil
Terah Edun
Jessica Ryan
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November 6, 2014
Be sure you’re seeing your favorite authors on Facebook
Be sure you’re seeing your favorite authors on Facebook
Facebook is ever-changing and so is the way they show readers who like my Author Page my posts. To be sure you’re being shown my posts (or at least up your chances) be sure to do the following quick steps on Facebook.
1. Go to my Author Page
Mandy M. Roth Author Page on Facebook
2. Click on the LIKED button up top. You will see a drop down menu that says Get Notifications and Add to Interest Lists. Check both of these. If you already have interest lists set up, add me to the one that works. If not, its easy. Go to step 3 now and I’ll show you how.
3. Select NEW LISTS
4. Select Me as an option and be sure “I’m” checked. Hit NEXT
5. Now name your new list. Hit DONE.
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What’s a bear to do when a human has a polar-izing effect?
by Eve Langlais
What’s a bear to do when a human has a polar-izing effect?
Gene only has one thing on his mind, vengeance, until Vicky crashes into his life.
When Vicky accidentally slides into the side of a polar bear, she doesn’t expect to fall in love. Eaten yes, perhaps used as a chew toy, but become the object of a bear’s affection and lust?
Crazy! Almost as crazy as the fact the polar bear turns out to be a man. A sexy man. A man who growls, and roars and does everything he can to chase her away.
Only to come back.
Poor Gene. After the pain and betrayal he suffered in the war all he wants is vengeance against the brothers who left him behind. But he’s confused when instead of wanting to punish him for his evil acts, they offer him forgiveness.
As if that weren’t annoying enough, the cutest geek he ever met—with caramel kissed skin covering a lush, rounded figure and wearing the sexiest dark rimmed glasses—won’t leave him alone. Or more like, he can’t seem to stop following her. And it isn’t just because someone is out to hurt her.
He wants her. But does he want her more than vengeance?
*Note from Mandy: I really hope you love Eve’s book! She’s a great author!!!!!!
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November 4, 2014
Kindle Blog Interview! Come Say Hi!
Kindle Blog Interview! Come Say Hi!
When our characters are allowed total control…well, over the interviews anyway.
Come say hello to Mandy M. Roth and Michelle M. Pillow and see what happens when we let our sexy alphas ask the questions!
Prince Zoran from the Bestselling Futuristic Romance Series, Dragon Lords by Michelle M. Pillow interviewing author Mandy M. Roth.
Striker (Dougal) McCracken from the Bestselling Paranormal Romance Series World, Immortal Ops by Mandy M. Roth interviewing author Michelle M. Pillow.
Kindle Blog Post Link CLICK HERE
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November 3, 2014
New Box Sets 1 -3
New Box Sets!
Druid Series Books 1-3
Books: Sacred Places, Goddess of the Grove, Winter Solstice
King of Prey Box Set Books 1-3
Books: King of Prey, A View to a Kill, Master of the Hunt
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November 1, 2014
Kiss of Christmas Magic Box Set!
Have you pre-ordered your copy today? Its only $0.99! That is a savings of WELL over $20! Hurry, this box set is available for a limited time only! Don’t miss out!
Includes a never before released story from National Bestselling Author Mandy M. Roth
Hunted Holiday: A Vampire Romance
Authors:
Eve Langlais – Caribou’s Gift
This former soldier isn’t about to play the part of a reindeer in a parade–until he spots the hot single mom in charge of it. Bring on the tinsel for this caribou’s rack.
Aubrey Rose & Molly Prince – Alpha’s First Christmas
Deanna Chase – Kissed by Temptation
Ordered to a holiday sorority party by the angelic council, Mati’s night turns from bad to worse when a demon appears and is hell-bent on taking a new angel recruit to Hell.
Mandy M. Roth – Hunted Holidays
Holidays suck–Dani would rather spend her time enforcing paranormal law on the streets of Chicago.
Michelle M. Pillow – Everlastingly
On the run from her attackers, Maura seeks refuge in an abandoned farmhouse, where the signs keep pointing to one person—Jack, whose very name fills her heart with intense longing.
Angie Fox – A Ghostly Gift
When a restless spirit stirs up trouble in her friend’s holiday shop, Verity and her very new, very dead gangster friend discover a mystery a eight decades in the making.
Mimi Strong – Love Singer
A struggling musician discovers she’s a witch who can cast spells with her songs. Or at least that’s what the sexy professor trying to seduce her says.
Viola Rivard – Lost in Winter
Michele Bardsley – Bear Witness
When Gretchen goes on the run with her murdered stepsister’s baby, only Rafe has the skills to keep her safe from the superhuman hunters who want her dead.
V. M. Black – A Heart in Winter
Sarah, Lady Marston, is dying—but a mysterious doctor claims that he can save her life. At what cost to her love and her family will come the cure?
Lola St. Vil – Dangerous Distractions
An angelic proposal goes awry in a most unexpected way.
Terah Edun – Witches Shall Rise
Jessa Slade – Blood Deep
A reporter retracing the steps of her missing mother finds a doorway to a realm of danger and magic–and only a 700-year-old vampire can make her believe what she sees…and feels.
Chloe Cole – Home for the Howlidays
In a story of homecomings and second chances, Niklaus returns to the town–and the woman–he swore he’d never see again.
Cristina Rayne – Shadows Beneath the Falling Snow
A single touch by the powerful elven king Kirion could reveal a secret Princess Miriel and her family have desperately kept for centuries.
Shawntelle Madison – The Hunter’s Moon
J. S. Hope – Lords of Misrule
Carina Wilder – Christmas to Bear
Avoiding the family Christmas drama, Aria heads to the quiet mountain town of Wolf Rock. But an encounter with the polar bear shifter Lucian turns all those plans upside down.
Dawn Michelle – Cold Winter’s Bite
Hunter has found the perfect girl to be the guest of honor at his holiday getaway. The only question left is whether Hunter can sink his teeth in her before she sets her claws in him.
Jessica Ryan – Breaking the Stag
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