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May 10, 2018
It’s my birthday, and that means I get to do what I want, and what I want to do today is thank each and every one of YOU lovely people for supporting me and having my back in one of the darkest spots I’ve had. It means the world to me to be a part of this amazing tribe of dark and twisted people who love better than anyone else I know.
AND because I wanna do it, I’m giving away unlimited FREE copies of ‘Security Binds Her’ (Book 1 of the Thalia Series) and I highly encourage you to share and share and share!
It’s my birthday, and that means I get to do what I want, and what I want to do today is thank each and every one of YOU lovely people for supporting me and having my back in one of the darkest spots I’ve had. It means the world to me to be a part of this amazing tribe of dark and twisted people who love better than anyone else I know.
AND because I wanna do it, I’m giving away unlimited FREE copies of ‘Security Binds Her’ (Book 1 of the Thalia Series) and I highly encourage you to share and share and share!
It’s my birthday, and that means I get to do what I want, and what I want to do today is thank each and every one of YOU lovely people for supporting me and having my back in one of the darkest spots I’ve had. It means the world to me to be a part of this amazing tribe of dark and twisted people who love better than anyone else I know.
AND because I wanna do it, I’m giving away unlimited FREE copies of ‘Security Binds Her’ (Book 1 of the Thalia Series) and I highly encourage you to share and share and share!
It’s my birthday, and that means I get to do what I want, and what I want to do today is thank each and every one of YOU lovely people for supporting me and having my back in one of the darkest spots I’ve had. It means the world to me to be a part of this amazing tribe of dark and twisted people who love better than anyone else I know.
AND because I wanna do it, I’m giving away unlimited FREE copies of ‘Security Binds Her’ (Book 1 of the Thalia Series) and I highly encourage you to share and share and share!
It’s my birthday, and that means I get to do what I want, and what I want to do today is thank each and every one of YOU lovely people for supporting me and having my back in one of the darkest spots I’ve had. It means the world to me to be a part of this amazing tribe of dark and twisted people who love better than anyone else I know.
AND because I wanna do it, I’m giving away unlimited FREE copies of ‘Security Binds Her’ (Book 1 of the Thalia Series) and I highly encourage you to share and share and share!
It’s my birthday, and that means I get to do what I want, and what I want to do today is thank each and every one of YOU lovely people for supporting me and having my back in one of the darkest spots I’ve had. It means the world to me to be a part of this amazing tribe of dark and twisted people who love better than anyone else I know.
AND because I wanna do it, I’m giving away unlimited FREE copies of ‘Security Binds Her’ (Book 1 of the Thalia Series) and I highly encourage you to share and share and share!
May 9, 2018
Teaser Wednesday! ‘The Devil You Know’ by Claire Marta!
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I’m absolutely loving sharing all of these dark reads with you guys, so I had to do a #TeaserWednesday this week too! This one is ‘The Devil You Know’ by Claire Marta, and it’s on sale for just 99¢! Not just that, but this scene below is going to get you all wound up and with the reviews I checked out, I know this is going to be another favorite for the Dark Haven!
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The Devil You Know by Claire Marta
My name is Mavi StClair.
I’m a monster with a pretty face. An assassin in trade. Guilt, remorse, it’s never touched me. I’m as cold as they come and just as professional. Dealing death has always come easily, and I inflict it with ease. It fuels and feeds the twisted darkness inside me. My downfall begins with a single night of untamed passion leaving me hungering for more of him.
One wicked soul recognizing another.
Now he owns me.
The lines of what I know are blurred. I’m playing his game. A pawn, eternally tangled in a web of secrets and lies. He won’t let me go. Taking pleasure in my fall from grace.
Question is, can I save myself before I’m damned completely?
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Teaser
I want him to consume me, fuck me hard until my limbs are limp and my body is spent. The chair thumps below us in tempo with our movements.
“You’re beautiful sitting on my cock.” He tells me between grunts. “I could fuck you to death right now.”
“It would be one hell of a way to go if you did.” I moan back. A tingle at the base of my spine begins to grow. Stiffening up, I come hard. In waves, it smashes through me. Grinding myself against his pumping shaft, I feel my inner walls squeeze him tighter.
Max doesn’t stop. Drilling into me harder, he continues with more purpose.
I want to drive him over the edge. Send him coiling down into the insanity that takes me every time we come together like a force of God damn nature.
Panting, unintelligible cries keep breaking from my throat. Everything is sliding into something savage. More animalistic. An orgasm envelops me. It’s so intense it sends a burst of light out from my core. I feel like I’m about to explode into a million pieces, the energy is so overwhelming.
Ecstasy. Max is like a magician. Bringing me to orgasm after orgasm. I can’t imagine anyone else as deep in me as he is at any point onwards. He’s infatuated me.
Placing a hand on the back of my head, he brings me down for a kiss. Falling into a fevered exploration, our tongues entwine.
I’m starting to crave Max more and more. He’s like a drug. Seducing me deliciously every time. One that only gets better and better. Spiraling me down into something I am not sure I will ever want to be free from. Heaven help me.
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I freaking love it when I check out a book and find a bunch of reviews talking about how dark and twisted a book is! It makes me want to dive in even more, especially after that tempting sex scene. #purr You know you want to find out more!
Amazon: 1-click now!
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Want more of Claire Marta?
A native Brit, I live in Italy with my husband and daughter. When I am not writing and drinking copious amounts of tea, I enjoys taking photos of my adoptive country, trying to stay fit with running, reading amazing books and being a stay at home mother.
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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B01KDNYHBQ/
May 8, 2018
Teaser Tuesday! ‘Whispers in the Dark’ by LeTeisha Newton!
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Oh, lovelies, I am so glad that I’m back because there have been so many fantastic releases and I want to share ALL OF THEM WITH YOU! ‘Whispers in the Dark’ first caught my attention with the title, and then that gorgeous cover, and now that I’ve read the warning below? Let’s just say my interest is officially piqued!
Warning for ‘Whispers in the Dark’: This book is full of triggers. It’s wicked dark, with created evil falling in love. People die. They are hurt horribly. The bad guys get away, and there is no apology for it. Hardcore trigger within these pages.
I’m in, are you? #cackles
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Whispers in the Dark by LeTeisha Newton
I was captured …
That’s just the beginning of my tale. I’ve survived Purgatory, abuse, and near death. In that abandoned farmhouse I nearly lost everything, but Jacob saved me. We were trapped in this hell together, giving each other the strength to hold on. I fell into darkness with my captor’s son.
Until I left him behind.
She was perfect, my Alana. Brilliant and full of pain. She understood my darkness and fueled the fire. When she left, I waited patiently to find her, and in her honor, I killed men who took away from innocents.
Then I found her …
She’s deadly now, a killer too, and perfectly mine. It was beautiful to behold, but she belongs in a cage. My cage. She’ll love me again, or I’ll expose her dirty secrets for the world to see while going down in flames with her.
In darkness, it’s most definitely till death do us part.
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Teaser
Leaving me to my misery, Master and the doctor left the room to speak in harsh whispers in the hallway. Curling myself into a ball, I kept crying harder and harder until I was gasping for breath. Master threw a glare my way before leading the doctor far away from my room.
The pain, the loss, shot through me like I was taking a bullet to the heart. How could I have done this? How could I put my precious little one through something this awful? I was as bad as Master. I was a monster like him. Crying harder at my thoughts, my eyes caught on the doorway in time to see someone peeking in. My body relaxed in one great whoosh. Jacob was here. He slipped into the room and crept into the bed with me. Ignoring the blood and filth on the towels, for the first time, Jacob took me into his arms. I curled into his chest, inhaling his clean, crisp scent through the tears.
“I’m sorry, Alana. I couldn’t get here sooner, and I can’t stay here long. He’ll come back soon.”
It didn’t matter. He was here now, and I clung to him, curling my fingers into his shirt and holding on desperately. In his arms, the pain dulled, and I could handle it. I could cry into his chest and be held. I could be fragile, and he’d catch the broken pieces. His lips trailed up the side of my neck, soft kisses that pushed away the agony and warmed me.
“You can do it. You’re strong enough. Hold on a little longer,” he whispered into my skin. I believed it because he did too.
So I lifted my face so his lips could touch mine.
Soft and warm, his mouth was different. He slipped over the scars of my abuse and filled in the cervices left behind. Maybe it was the medicine making me fanciful, but I thought I could ask for this. That maybe I would ask him to take me. That I’d like to have him. But then, he was pulling away.
“I have to go. I’ll be with you later. Look for me.”
And as fast as he’d come, he was gone, but the pain was behind a wall, one he’d built high. He gave me strength, and I would use it to survive. I’d done the right thing, as horrible as it was, and I knew he didn’t judge me for it. We’d done this together, and it made the load easier to bear. Master stomped his way back into the room, face scarlet and chest heaving like a locomotive. I wanted to cringe at his bald fists, but I couldn’t move. I was too tired, or too resigned maybe, to care.
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Dark promises in this one, lovelies. I can’t imagine where it will go with a teaser like that, but I can bet there will be blood and darkness and devastation before the end comes. So, are you in?
Amazon: 1-click now!
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Want more of LeTeisha Newton?
Writing professionally since 2008, LeTeisha Newton’s love of romance novels began long before it should have. After spending years sneaking reads from her grandmother’s stash, she finally decided to pen her own tales. As many will do during their youth, she bounced from fantasy, urban literature, mainstream, interracial, paranormal, heterosexual, and LGBT works until she finally rested in contemporary romance.
LeTeisha is all about deep angst and angry heroes who take a bit more loving to smooth their rough edges. Love comes in many sizes, shapes, and colors, as well as with—or without—absolute beauty and fairy tale sweetness. She writes the darker tales because life is hard … but love is harder.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leteisha.newton
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeTeishaNewton
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealleteisha/
Website: http://leteishanewton.com/
May 7, 2018
Music Monday – How do you Like it
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Today’s #MusicMonday is a fun one, lovelies! In honor of the release of the ‘When the Dark Wins’ boxset, I am sharing this song that just makes me shiver in all the right ways… because it’s fucking hot and a bit twisted. I do hope you’ll enjoy it, because it’s been on my playlist for a bit. Anyway, I’m on a work trip this week, and then I have RT Book Con next week! There’s no official video for this song, BUT I reaaallllyyy hope you scroll down and enjoy this one, lovelies!
Lyrics
I might be a tad naive,
but I learn quick.
I will shatter your belief
that I’m so innocent.
So savor your surprise,
I could tip you like a vintage wine.
A whisper down your neck,
I could wrap your muscles tight,
or sing your silhouette.
Darlin, please don’t make me guess…
How do you like it best?
How do you like it?
You are such an Gentleman,
you touch me like a flower,
like a petal that could bend.
When we talk we sound like friends.
I dont want to take the heat,
you rise in me so secretly,
and let it go unsaid,
so dainty in my head.
Cause baby all the time,
I could tip you like a vintage wine.
A whisper down your neck,
I could wrap your muscles tight,
or sing your silhouette.
Darlin, please don’t make me guess…
How do you like it best?
How do you like it?
You might have a few years on me,
but I’m no little girl,
I’m no little lady.
Yeah, you might have a few years on me.
So if you’re such a man,
tell me how you take me
when you sip me like a vintage wine.
When you sip me like a vintage wine.
I could tip you like a vintage wine.
A whisper down your neck,
I could wrap your muscles tight,
or sing your silhouette.
Darlin, please don’t make me guess…
How do you like it best?
How do you like it?
‘How do you Like it’ by Jynjo (feat. Spritely)
‘When the Dark Wins’ is live and waiting, are you brave enough to try it?
Inside these pages lurks the stuff of nightmares, the inky blackness of our world captured by the top authors of dark romance. Except in these stories there is no romance. No heroes. No happy endings.
This is a book that has been crafted, twisted, and deformed to shred you, scare you, and possibly traumatize your mere mortal mind. Here is your last warning… no one is coming to save you if you choose to dive into the depravity.
In these stories, the dark wins.
Every. Single. Time.
Excerpt from Breaking Beth
The tears were back as she pulled at the rope, ripping at her skin in her panic. Anthony watched her for a moment, imagining what that fear must feel like. Taste like.
Was it coppery like blood? Bitter like a lemon?
Or was it as sweet for her as it was for him? Lush and rich like a sinful dessert.
The girl had done such a poor job of describing it, and if it would work he would cut her open just to see the fear, to feel it like she did, if just for a moment. But… that wasn’t possible. There was no way to experience what she felt, he could only see his side of the equation, and at least he could enjoy this.
“Oh my God, this can’t be happening,” she whined.
“Do you think your God is listening?” Anthony tilted an ear towards the ceiling as if he were waiting to hear an answer from the heavens. “Do you think he will save you?”
Her body shook, she was biting back the sobs that made her ribs quake. From somewhere inside her she summoned the strength to meet his eyes, and he respected the effort it took. “What do you want from me?” she asked, her voice cracking again.
“Everything.” Reaching out he stroked her cheek, and then caught her chin when she tried to turn away, fingers digging into the bone as he made her face him. “And I will have it.”
Are you brave enough to follow us into the darkness?
Featuring eight corrupting tales designed to blacken your heart.
‘Breaking Beth’ by Jennifer Bene
‘Catacombs’ by Addison Cain
‘Used’ by Cari Silverwood
‘My Name is Jane’ by Zoe Blake
‘What Lies Beneath’ by Yolanda Olson
‘Severed’ by Dani René
‘A Sinner in Virtue’ by Eris Adderly
‘The Hunted’ by Michelle Brown
This is a boxset with no HEA, no HFN. It is a testament to what happens when the darkness wins, when the villains succeed, and there are no heroes to be found. When you grab a copy, be sure to flip back to the first page of the book so you don’t miss our opening letter to all of you.
You can’t say you haven’t been warned, lovelies.
Until next time,
You may want a little ‘Group Therapy’ after this boxset…
If so, we’d like to invite you to the ‘Group Therapy’ spoiler group on Facebook for the ‘When the Dark Wins’ boxset. Be sure you’ve finished each dark and twisted tale, because there will be spoilers there… along with plenty of other readers to commiserate with. All the authors are also popping in to chat about the stories as well, and we can’t wait to hear what you think.
You can also email me directly, lovelies.
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