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Music Monday

 

It’s another Music Monday and I found the perfect song by Of Verona… ‘Dark in my Imagination’! I mean, really, for all of us dark erotica lovers? This is the perfect song. All of our imaginations are so deliciously dark. I already loved Of Verona from several other songs and then this one popped up on my Spotify mix and I immediately stood to attention. You’re going to love it (go ahead and scroll down and hit play!). The video from them is pretty cool because it has the lyrics on it as well.

Just a heads up that Lethal Sin is officially available for pre-order on Amazon, or you can just get it free for signing up on my mailing list! It’s a blast, and people have been sending me some great feedback. Watch out next Monday because that’s when it goes live and you can all post reviews!

Back to the music though… here’s some of the lyrics that just made me sit there and dance in my chair while listening:

There’s something in the look you give

I can’t help myself I fall

I can’t help myself at all

There’s something in your touch when we kiss

I scream god forgive me please

‘Cause I want you on your knees

I don’t wanna think about it now

I know I wont get out if I fall in

So I don’t wanna think about it now

It’s dark in my imagination

It’s dark in my imagination

‘Dark in my Imagination’ by Of Verona

 

Spanked and still not talking on #SatSpanks!

We’re back for another #SatSpanks snippet from my latest book ‘Lethal Sin’ which is now available for pre-order on Amazon here, or you can get it for FREE for signing up for my mailing list here. If you’ve been on my mailing list, you probably already have it! In this scene Mateo has Camille tethered to a spanking bench in his devious playroom where he’s trying to get her to tell him the address for her boss. Let’s just say Camille isn’t willing to give it up, even when he starts to use the strap on her.

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Another snap of the leather across her ass had her twisting, digging her nails into her palms as the sharp sting bled into the pulsing heat across her skin. Camille’s cheek was pressed hard into the padded two by four underneath her, and she tried not to tense as she heard the next whip of the strap through the air, but by the time it landed she was locked up in expectation – and that only made it hurt worse. Groaning low she turned her head to the other side, straining her abs to give her the space to do it since her arms couldn’t do anything. Even her legs were useless on this damned contraption. She had tried to pull against the bindings on her ankles, but it had made no difference and he’d landed the next strike just a little harder as if that was going to stop her trying.

The ache was constant now, building on top of itself as a new, burning lash landed just where her ass met her thighs and tears pricked the edges of her eyes as she bit down on a cry.

She was not going to give him the satisfaction of knowing this hurt. Even when her skin felt bruised and fiery at the same time, and the palms of her hands ached from the force of driving her nails into them.

A second later his warm hand was cupping her ass, squeezing the flesh until the welts woke up anew and she squirmed despite her best efforts to stay still. “Ready to talk yet?” His voice was sinfully dark, a growl appropriate for a room like this.

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Trust me, the best part of this book is how Camille doesn’t follow any of the normal rules. This is no weak willed heroine that faints at the first sign of pain, she’s a badass through and through! The only issue for her is that Mateo is just as much of a badass. It’s so fun and I can’t wait to hear what you all think of the full book! If you grab a free copy, all I ask is that you put a review up on Amazon on or after April 25th when it goes live for everyone. Thanks for all your support, lovelies! I’m working on Book 2 of my Daughters of Eltera series now, and snippets of that should start showing up on these blog hops soon.

In the mean time, check out these other hot snippets on the blog hop below!

Thankful Thursday

Oh, yes, it’s Thankful Thursday again lovelies and it’s been a very fun week, which means we deserve a very sexy guy to stare at. This week ‘Lethal Sin’ went out to all of my newsletter subscribers, and I’m already hearing great things back! It will go live on Amazon on April 25th for $2.99, and is available for pre-order now (here: http://ow.ly/10vAII). Did you miss the original email blast? Don’t worry, you can still sign up for my mailing list right now and get a FREE copy! Just go here (https://www.instafreebie.com/free/uEBcw).

I’m also in the latest ExciteSpice anthology MENAGErie that came out yesterday! (Over 300k words for just 99 cents right now! www.amazon.com/dp/B01E81M892). It has my deviously fun Thalia extra ‘Christmas at Purgatory’! If you’ve already read it, try and swing by and post a review to tell others how much you loved the kinky, sexy, Dom-filled action of that novella. ^_^

Enough with all that news though, this guy looks like he just stepped out of the water to give us a come hither look. Would you be willing to join him for a dip? I know I would! I’m sure he’ll help us all make it to Friday with our minds filled with wonderful thoughts! Thanks lovelies and I hope you’ve had an amazing week!

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Has someone been a bad boy this week on #WIP Wednesday?

We’re back with another snippet of ‘Lethal Sin’ which is now available for pre-order on Amazon here, or you can get it for FREE for signing up for my mailing list here. If you’ve been on my mailing list, you probably already have it! This is such a fun book, and if you’ve been following along on the blog hops then you know that Mateo took Camille to his house to torture the location of her boss out of her. In this scene she’s handcuffed in his devious playroom and Mateo just picked up a strap, but Camille doesn’t seem too worried.

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“I can tell you that I have no plans of just holding this strap.”

“If you want me to spank you with it, you’re going to need to uncuff me. I’ve never done the dominatrix thing, but if it will get me out of here I’ll do my best.” She smiled, tossing her hair back over her shoulder, her voice taking on an irritating sultry quality. “Has someone been a bad boy?”

The insinuation that he wanted her to dominate him made an inner part of him roar and he stomped towards her. Her confident gaze flickered just before he grabbed her hair and pushed her back against the wall, crushing her against it with his weight. The soft yelp that escaped her as the cuffs dug painfully into her arms made him instantly hard again. “Want to rethink how you’d like to talk to me?”

“Not particularly,” she groaned, and then she tried to bring her knee up into his crotch. He twisted his hips to block her, but then she brought her boot down hard into his ankle. It was, honestly, only luck and reflexes that made him divert her kick so that it just scraped down his pant leg, likely leaving behind a vicious scratch. Mateo gripped her hair harder and immediately second-guessed his decision to press himself against her so quickly, because her curves were messing with his head, and he hadn’t even begun to try and get the information his boss needed from her.

She’s just a job.

The words repeated in his head, over and over, until he finally felt centered enough to jerk her forward off the wall and push her towards the spanking bench. She tried to pull back, to halt his progress with her, but when it only resulted in a sharper pull to her hair and an unpleasant angle to her neck, she eventually relented. Stopping her just in front of the spanking bench he leaned down to speak directly into her ear, “To be honest, I don’t care how you tell me what I want to know, just as long as you give me what I need. If you’re screaming while you do it that only makes my day a little better.”

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Ohhh, Mateo is such a bad boy, but Camille always rises to meet him. The fact that they play on the same level was my favorite part of this book! No begging from Camille, that’s for sure. It’s so fun and I can’t wait to hear what you all think of the full book! If you grab a free copy, all I ask is that you put a review up on Amazon on or after April 25th when it goes live for everyone. Thanks for all your support, lovelies! I’m working on Book 2 of my Daughters of Eltera series now, and snippets of that should start showing up on these blog hops soon.

In the mean time, check out these other hot snippets on the blog hop below!

Music Monday

This week for Music Monday I found another cool song, this time it’s ‘Black Sea’ by Natasha Blume. It has this awesome retro quality in the beginning that instantly made my ears perk up, and then (as usual) the lyrics hooked me completely.

A thousand nights have passed

change doesn’t happen overnight

Not visible at first

It’s important to hold on (hold on)

Oh, oh, oh, oh inject your advice to me

(inject your advice to me)

Oh, oh, oh, oh incinerate our shackles

Come down to the Black Sea swimming with me ah-oh

Go down with me fall with me let’s make it worth it ah-oh

You rise, I fall, I stand, you crawl

You twist, I turn, who’s the first to burn?

You sit and stay, I don’t obey

Where do we land in the Black Sea?

Oh, oh, oh, oh in the Black Sea

Where do we land in the Black Sea?

Hope you enjoy this one, lovelies, it’s one of those I predict you’ll be playing on repeat just like I have this week!

‘Black Sea’ by Natasha Blume

Cover Reveal: ‘Lethal Sin’ is coming soon (or now)!

 

Well, lookie here. ‘Lethal Sin’ is available for pre-order on Amazon for $2.99, right over here, orrrrrr you could just get it for FREE right now by signing up for my mailing list. That’s right, free. This is the first book in my Dangerous Games series and I wrote it with the idea that I wanted to give something back to my loyal readers by giving them a free book. I didn’t know it was going to turn into a series when I started it, but I love this world too much to let go of it. It’s dark, gritty, and dangerous – and if you know anything about my work, you know that’s what I’m all about!

If you’re already on my mailing list, it’s probably snuggled close in your inbox already, or it could be waiting on your ereader! All I ask is that if you like it, go ahead and leave me a review! It’s the best way to support any author you enjoy!

Curious? Check out the blurb for ‘Lethal Sin’:

The safest kind of love for Camille Devereaux has always been none at all. No attachments. No friends. No family. Nothing more than a one night stand whenever the itch got too strong to scratch by herself – and it always worked for her. She was one of the best free agents in the business. If you wanted intel on someone, she could get it. If you wanted a sticky situation resolved, she could fix it. And if you wanted someone to quietly disappear? Well, for the right price she could do that too.

It all worked perfectly until one of the biggest crime lords in the city decided he wanted her on the payroll full-time. Exclusively on his payroll. At first she had refused, but then he found a weak spot that even Camille hadn’t known about, and once she knew? There was no saying ‘no’ to Patrick Callahan.

That was how she found herself on the wrong side of the gun, in a sticky situation of her own, on her knees before the head badass from a rival criminal organization – Mateo Salvai. All he wants when he first meets Camille is to get the answers his boss wants from her, using his own devious methods, but once he meets this feisty, strong woman, all his plans go out the window. He’s fascinated by her, he craves her, and once he realizes she’s his perfect match he knows he can’t let her go.

Yet, the world they run in is dangerous and there are no easy options when they both report to powerful men bent on the other’s destruction. Will Mateo break his loyalties to protect Camille, and will Camille let go of her long-held rules to let him help her?

Jump in to the criminal underworld of these two assassins and get ready for a no holds barred, sexy, intense rush to the explosive conclusion of ‘Lethal Sin’, book one of the Dangerous Games series!

 

Well, lovelies, I do hope you enjoy it! I had a blast writing it, and it’s something I’m proud to have in all of your hands!

Can the strap get Camille to talk on #SatSpanks?

Oh, lookie! It’s another #SatSpanks with our current favorite deviants Camille and Mateo. This is a snippet from my upcoming book ‘Lethal Sin’ which will go out free to all of the subscribers on my mailing list, so if you want to know more make sure you’re signed up! In this scene, Camille has been dragged into Mateo’s playroom which he uses to get information out of women who his boss sends him after. Unfortunately for him, Camille isn’t exactly scared of him or the strap he just picked up.

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“Ready?” He asked, and his voice came out as an even lower growl than he’d expected. His cock twitched inside his pants, as if it wanted to confirm for her that she was going to submit to everything he demanded of her.

“For what?” Her lips were even more perfect when they moved. Pink and full, and it took all of his self control not to skip the interlude of the strap and jump straight to fucking her against the soft floor. Or on the bed. Or bent over the spanking bench, with all her limbs tied –

Focus.

You have a job to do. She’s a job.

“To tell me where Callahan is.”

She laughed, a strangely bright sound in his house that he wished he could bottle to hear again even as she taunted him. “You’re going to need to do a lot more than hold a belt ten feet away from me to get me to tell you shit.”

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Even handcuffed Camille has a sharp tongue! She is so much fun and I can’t wait for this book to be in all of your hands! While you wait, make sure to check out these other snippets from other authors below on the bloghop!

Thankful Thursday

It’s Thankful Thursday again and I knooowwww I’m posting late today, but my stupid day job got in the way. What with their expectations of “attending meetings” and “completing things by deadline”. Sheesh. Don’t they know how important my author-based social life is? There are people who need sexy sexy pictures to get them through the hell that is Thursday each week! Fortunately, I have this guy, who is delicious! I believe someone posted him on one of my author takeovers as a suggestion for Thankful Thursday, but I cannot figure out who (so if it’s you, take credit below)!

Luckily, Friday will be here soon, so soon, and then the weekend will cradle us all. Just in case you haven’t kept up, ‘Taken by the Enemy’ held #1 in all 3 categories for 8 days, and even now it’s only at #2/#3. ‘Security Binds Her’ kicked ass after the BookBub and held #2 for a long time in BDSM! Woo!

Enough about me, let’s look at this hottie. Whips and chains excite anyone else? *purr*

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What’s waiting inside Mateo’s house on #WIP Wednesday?

It’s time for another #WIP Wednesday! This is another snippet from my upcoming release ‘Lethal Sin’ which will go out free to all of the subscribers on my mailing list! Last time, Mateo took Camille out of the warehouse and away to his house to get the information out of her. Now they’re inside and Camille is about to see just what’s waiting for her.

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Mateo stopped them at a door down the hall. It didn’t even have a doorknob, it was just a solid sheet of wood from frame to frame. Camille watched carefully as he slid a hidden panel on the wall aside and dipped his free hand into the empty space. An instant later the door popped open.

“Now, that’s fancy.”

“You haven’t seen anything yet,” Mateo growled behind her and nudged the door wide. As he pushed her inside the room lit up slowly, recessed lighting high on the walls made the ceiling glow above them. What was revealed made Camille’s stomach tighten as Rihanna’s S&M went off inside her head at top volume.

Apparently, whips and chains excited Mateo.

In addition to all kinds of other things that hung from racks on the walls, or sat on shelves, or loomed around the room in the shape of various pieces of clearly diabolical furniture. At the back of the room a platform bed dominated with dark sheets, and he hadn’t even tried to hide the restraints that waited at the four corners.

This had definitely never been featured in an issue of Better Homes & Gardens.

“What the ever-loving fuck is this?”

“This is where I’m going to get you to tell me everything I want to know.” The confidence in his voice grated her nerves and she shifted her wrists, causing the handcuffs to clatter softly.

“As I told your boyfriend, I’m not telling you idiots anything.”

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Oooohhh, these two are a blast. Hope you liked this little snippet, and that you keep coming back for more (and sign up for my mailing list so you get the full book for free!). While you’re waiting, check out these hot sneak peeks from other authors on the blog hop below!

We’re ‘Hollow’ on Music Monday this week!

For this week’s Music Monday I knew I was going to use this song the moment I heard it on Spotify. It’s ‘Hollow’ by Cloudeater. The beat, his voice, and the LYRICS. I just love this song. I’ve listened to it an inhuman number of times as I worked and did edits this week on Lethal Sin. It’s just fantastic and I hope you all love it as much as I do!

My world was pretty exciting this past week though. ‘Taken by the Enemy‘ held the #1 spot in three categories on Amazon for 8 days (it just slid to #2 late on Sunday), and ‘Security Binds Her‘ which is Book 1 of the Thalia series held BDSM erotica #2 for six days (and I think it may still be there?). What’s even more amazing is that at one point on Sunday I had 4 books in the top 20 on Amazon for BDSM erotica. Taken, and all three books of the Thalia trilogy. I also went as high as #4 on the Amazon Erotica Authors list, and have happily sat at #6 since then. I am ecstatic to know people are finding my books, and seem to be enjoying them as they devour the whole Thalia series!

Anyway, enough of my rambling about my week, we’re here for MUSIC today! For ‘Hollow’ I couldn’t even pick the lyrics I liked, so this is pretty much the entire song, absent some repetitions, but – oh my god – it’s so perfect. Go ahead and scroll down to play the song while you read along, there’s no video for this one!

I wait in intermission

I remove inhibition

I don’t speak, nobody’s listening

It’s not safe to seek the attention

I won’t sink, I won’t wallow

In this dream that I have borrowed

So don’t lead, I won’t follow

There’s no sense in waiting for tomorrow

Cause I’m hollow, hollow, hollow, hollow…

I move in all directions

I don’t need any protection

And this beast is interjecting

And this soul can’t help but connect it

And I’m ill with all that I know

Cause it shows what little I know

I want sacred, I want final

And I’m seeking it wherever I go

Cause I’m hollow, hollow, hollow, hollow…

I stay empty, I feel the hunger

So simple when I was younger

I awaken with the thunder

A bold statement to end my slumber

And this feeling has got a window

Til I’m numb, til I am blissful

Til the sum outweighs the mental

Til the blood of both is my limbo

And I’m hollow, hollow, hollow, hollow …

I’d find an answer if I wanted to

I’d be a dancer of a different tune

I won’t get entranced, I’ll be changing soon

 

‘Hollow’ by Cloudeater