Kate St. James and a Giveaway of A Little Wild!
Please join me in welcoming today's guest author, Kate St. James. Her book, A Little Wild–a contemporary Red Hot from Samhain just released November 8th! She's generously giving away a free download of it to one commenter who answers her question below. . Plus, if you haven't yet entered for the free Kindle Touch 3-G in the Silken Rapture contest, do so here.
Welcome today's guest author – Kate St. James!
Hi, everyone. I'm excited to be here today participating in Beth's Silken Rapture contest. To help her celebrate, I'm giving away a digital copy of A LITTLE WILD, which just came out two days ago and is my first single title erotic romance as well as being my first Samhain Publishing release. I've previously published three erotic novellas with Red Sage—Kiss Me at Midnight in Secrets 28: SENSUAL CRAVINGS; Exes & Ahhs in Secrets 26: BOUND BY PASSION; and Good Vibrations in Secrets 21: PRIMAL HEAT. Also, my first erotica short, a ménage story called Tea for Three, came out from Ellora's Cave Exotika Quickies in mid-October. It's been a busy few weeks!
A LITTLE WILD Blurb:
She wants a piece of his rock. He needs her, rock steady, in his heart.
Tess Sheridan won't let anything stop her from making partner at a prestigious law firm, especially her notoriously soft heart. The result? She's a handful of clients away from getting her name on that brass plate. And she hasn't had sex in over a year.
When her best friend dares her to test-drive her erotic fantasies with a gorgeous stranger, she figures, why not? Loosening the reins will give her inner nympho some well-deserved pampering without jeopardizing her career goals.
Zach Halliday has enjoyed his bad-boy reputation to the fullest, but now it's time to leave the relative safety of the family corporation and prove he can stand on his own in the business world. That doesn't mean he'll pass up an opportunity for some incredible phone sex with the beautiful strawberry blonde he met in a bar.
When business overlaps with the bedroom, Zach sees something special in Tess and is determined to convince her he's the man she needs, anytime, anyplace. She can backpedal, but come hell or high-climbing-wall, he wants the fascinating, complicated sex bomb in his bed. Over and over again…
In the excerpt, a lead-in to the phone sex scene mentioned in the blurb, Tess is in the bathtub fantasizing about the hot guy she hit on a few days ago. However, Zach, who is often a target of his brother's practical jokes, provided Tess with a false name. So when "Jack Halloran" calls her, Tess has no idea he's really Zach Halliday, the son of her law firm's biggest client—very off-limits! And Zach doesn't know she's Teresa Sheridan, the overworked lawyer a friend recommended for Zach's new business. When they meet in the law firm two days after having phone sex, all sorts of trouble ensues.
The set-up was a lot of fun to write. I enjoy placing my characters in humorous situations. How do you feel about humor in erotic romance? Please leave a comment following the excerpt to enter for a chance to win.
Excerpt:
Curving her wet hair behind one ear, Tess sat halfway up in the tub. She glanced at the call display. Private. Frowning, she clicked Talk. "Yes?"
"Tess S.?"
Jack! Her nipples contracted into tight, tingling peaks. She could blame the reaction on the fact that warm, sudsy water no longer covered her breasts, but she knew better. Her body had responded to his low, sensual voice in much the same way Wednesday night.
Wait. How had he found her phone number?
She jerked up. Her elbow hooked the towel, dragging it into the water. Shit!
"Just a minute." She fumbled with the wet terry cloth. Too late. It was soaked through. And plastered against her stiff nipples.
"Tess?" he repeated, concern softening his deep voice.
She anchored the towel beneath her arms to prevent it from skating around and destroying her precious bubbles. She leaned back against the tub, the jasmine-scented water splashing and her breathing choppy. In her rush, she'd positioned the towel width-wise, and the wet terry cloth hovered at the tops of her thighs.
"Sorry, I…wasn't dressed." Her face warmed.
His concern segued into libidinous male interest. "Now you are?"
"Um, kind of."
"Too bad," he murmured.
The drenched towel rasped against her nipples, and a satisfying buzz centered between her thighs. She wiggled her hips, and the buzz deepened.
Hmm. She'd never before considered the erotic possibilities of having a towel in the tub—but she did now.
Of course, she wouldn't act on those urges. At least not while she had Jack on the phone. Unless, well, he could participate, too.
She shook her head to dispel the hot fantasy. How had he found her? The fake number she'd passed him wasn't anything like her own. The directory listed her as T. A. Sheridan—a far cry from Tess S. And she'd opted out of every online listing she could find.
"I'm surprised you could reach me," she said warily.
His gravely chuckle spread through her. "I'll bet."
She didn't want to think about bets. "How did you get this phone number?"
"You gave it to me, remember?"
No, she hadn't. And he knew so. That he'd discovered it should alarm her. Aside from Wednesday night, she'd never met him before. He could be a lunatic—or worse.
Yet, something in Jack Halloran's voice reassured her that he was quite sane. Recalling his affable responses to her botched pickup lines mollified her fears, too. If he'd wanted to take advantage of her, he could have done so Wednesday night.
But he hadn't.
"Yeah, Jack, about that number…" She let her voice trail off. She'd circumvent the truth out of him, a handy trick learned in law school.
For a moment, he didn't respond. Then the friendly tone she remembered from Danver's returned. "Don't worry about it. Women give me fake phone numbers all the time. That's why I blocked mine before I called. In case you were toying with me again."
Despite a few loitering notes of caution, she smiled. As if any woman wouldn't love the attention of a gorgeous guy like Jack Halloran. He probably beat back hordes of adoring females on a daily basis.
Relaxing, she planted a foot on the tub's overflow vent. The loosening towel rubbed her sensitized flesh, and the warm, bubbly water caressed her bikini-trimmed mound.
Mmm. She closed her eyes and luxuriated in the bliss of her arousal. Her fingers yearned to move with the water's flow, to touch, dip, stroke, indulge herself…just a little bit…please.
What would be the harm? Jack wouldn't know what she was doing, he couldn't, unless she chose to tell him.
A sensuous shiver raced through her. "And you're a PI?" she asked, her voice sounding languorous in the steam-filled bathroom. "That's how you dig up the real numbers?"
"No. Your friend gave me yours as you were leaving."
"She did what?" Tess bolted upright in the tub. The towel slipped and jasmine-scented froth slopped out onto the bathmat.
Chloe was about to become one very dead best fiend! No wonder she'd grinned the whole time she was here. She'd outwitted Tess at every turn.
"You were ahead of her leaving the pub, so maybe you didn't notice," Jack said. "She said you experience temporary dyslexia when you drink and might have written down the wrong phone number by mistake."
"I don't get temporary dyslexia!" Was there such a thing?
"Then you admit you gave me the wrong number on purpose?"
"I—" The towel drifted onto her lower legs. She kicked it partway off. She should drown herself. Here and now. Save herself the humiliation of dealing with the consequences of Chloe's treachery.
"Or was hitting on me the tequila talking?"
Tess lifted a hand. "No. I wasn't drunk, I promise." Drinking and debauching wasn't her style. That she'd hit on Jack while slightly buzzed was bad enough, but when she slept with him—uh, if—she intended to be stone-cold sober.
Well, not cold, exactly. Probably extra warm.
Ooh Godddd, she really was going nuts.
The point was, when and if they ever did it, she wanted to be fully aware of every delicious moment.
With a studmuffin like Jack Halloran at her disposal, she certainly wouldn't risk dulling her senses with alcohol.
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