Two is better than one…

Hi all,

       I'm pleased to announce that Madeline's Mates, my new ménage a trois novel from Ellora's Cave is coming out Friday, Dec 4th. Here's a link so you can check it out and a blurb and a red-hot excerpt you won't find on the EC site to give you an idea of what it's about. (Hint—it is NOT set in Australia as my DH thought when he read the title. It's a shapeshifter novel about a girl who winds up with two luscious guys for the price of one. Yummy.  : )  

   http://www.jasminejade.com/ps-7817-50-madelines-mates.aspx

                                                                                                                   

Blurb:

Madeline Grant leads a lonely existence. Growing up an orphan, she's never felt she belonged anywhere or to anyone. But all that is about to change.

 

One snowy night, a huge man with piercing blue eyes comes into the ER where Maddy works. He takes one look at her and tells her she's about to go into heat. Maddy thinks he's crazy—until his strange predictions begin to come true. But inviting the man, Jake, into her life, throws her world into a whirlwind of confusion. As if the news that she's a shapeshifter isn't enough, she also has to breed with her own kind—which means that no matter how much she desires Jake, he's forbidden to have her.

 

Enter Jake's best friend, Will—a shifter of the same breed as Maddy. He wants her at once but her heart is already taken. Thrown into the dark and dangerous world of shifter taboos, Maddy must decide whether to follow her head or her heart as she tries to survive her Christmas heat.

 

Excerpt—Warning—Do NOT read at work.

 

"Mmm, you awake, darlin?" A deep voice, rough with sleep, surprised her.

 

Maddy turned to her right and saw Jake looking at her through half lidded eyes. Suddenly everything came back. Her heat, the pain, and the wonderful relief when he had finally bred her. Then Will's arrival and the awful confusion and fear when she'd learned Jake would be taken from her.

 

"Jake," she whispered, cuddling into his arms. "I'm so…I'm naked," she realized out loud, lifting the dark blue bedspread, with it's slightly shredded patches from her near change the night before, to look down at herself.

 

Jake frowned and looked down as well. "Don't look at me, darlin. Will and I didn't touch you."

 

"I know you didn't. I…I think I remember taking off my jeans and sweater myself because I felt too hot." Feeling suddenly shy, Maddy put an arm over her full, naked breasts. At least I still have my panties on, she thought with some relief.

 

"Hey, don't cover yourself. You're beautiful." Jake put an arm around her, pulling her close so that her back was to his front. "Gorgeous," he murmured, palming her naked breasts in his big hands.

 

"Thanks," Maddy murmured nervously. "I don't mind you seeing me. But Will—"

"Is still asleep. And you need to be bred. I can smell it on you." Jake's nose twitched and he buried his face in her neck, kissing and licking until Maddy moaned and arched her back despite herself.

 

"We shouldn't." But the ache between her thighs was growing. It wasn't the sharp pain and cramping she'd experienced the day before, more like a deep desire that was rapidly becoming impossible to ignore. It was as if she hadn't eaten in days and her body was telling her she was desperately hungry and needed to get some nourishment immediately. Was this what Jake had meant by a relapse? Or was she simply being turned on by his scent, his nearness and the way he touched her?

 

"Why not?" Jake kissed her some more, concentrating on the sensitive spot where her neck met her shoulder while his long fingers twisted her nipples. "You need it—your body is hungry for it."

 

"Mmm…How do you know? Can you really tell so much from my scent?" she asked curiously.

 

"Oh yeah. Want me to prove it to you?"

 

"Prove you're right? Or prove I need…need to be bred?" she asked softly, her voice slightly breathless. God, he knew exactly how to touch her!

 

"Both." One large hand left her breasts and slid down her belly. Maddy moaned softly as his fingers slid under the lacy pink material of her panties and cupped her mound.

 

"Spread your legs for me, darlin. Just like last night," he growled softly in her ear.

 

"God, Jake," she whispered but did as he said, opening her thighs so that he could slip two long fingers deep in her throbbing cunt.

 

"See how wet you are darlin? How hot and slippery your sweet little pussy is for me?" he murmured, pumping his fingers deep inside her. "That's how I can tell I'm right. You need my cock and my cum inside you now. If you put it off you'll only get hungrier and hungrier until the pain comes back."

 

"I don't…don't want the pain to come back," Maddy admitted, gasping with pleasure as he fingerfucked her.

 

"Then let me breed you." Jake bit the side of her neck gently but possessively, as though wanting to mark her for his own. "Let me slide my cock deep in your pussy and fill you up with my cum, darlin. We can be as quiet as you want."

 

Maddy felt herself melting. She knew that even forty-eight hours before the idea of making love to one man while another she barely knew was sleeping only inches away would have made her intensely uncomfortable. But somehow now, with Jake kissing her neck and stroking her throbbing clit, it didn't seem so bad.

 

"Yes, okay, as long as we're quiet," she murmured, casting an apprehensive glance at Will's sleeping form. But the Lynx shifter was turned away from them, his broad back rising and falling steadily in the rhythm of sleep. So when Jake pulled her panties off and spread her legs even wider to accommodate his cock, she didn't protest even though she was still lying on her side, facing Will's direction.

 

"Good girl," Jake growled softly in her ear as he held her legs open and found the entrance of her pussy with the broad head of his cock. "That's a good girl, Maddy. Just open up and let me fuck you."

 

Moaning softly, she did.

 

Jake slid smoothly into her with one long powerful thrust, filling her to the hilt with his shaft. Maddy had to bite her lower lip to keep from crying out as he pumped inside her, stretching her to the limit with his thickness. She closed her eyes tightly and spread her legs even wider, trying to be open enough for him as he moved within her. It felt so good, so right to open to him. Already she could feel the pleasure building toward a peak and she knew that soon she would be coming hard, all around his cock, as he filled her with spurt after spurt of his cum. And all the time Jake kept talking to her, telling her how beautiful she was, how he loved to fuck her, to breed her. How he couldn't wait to come inside her…

 

And then she opened her eyes and saw Will looking at her, his own eyes a pale cat-green with desire.

 

Maddy, who had been arching her back and angling her pelvis back to get as much of Jake's cock inside her as possible, froze. She was rigid—nailed to the spot by Will's gaze and the look of open lust in his eyes. At least we're covered from the waist down, she thought, grateful for the dark blue bedspread. But despite that, she knew it was obvious what they were doing. The way Jake was cupping her body with his own and their rhythmic motions while he stroked her breasts and pinched her nipples made it clear that his cock was buried to the hilt in her eager pussy and that she was loving every minute of it.

 

Jake must have felt her sudden lack of movement because he thrust deeply into her and held still, keeping them joined without moving. "Maddy?" he asked softly in her ear.

 

"Um…sorry we woke you up." She spoke to Will, not Jake, still feeling horribly embarrassed. "I, uh, I think I had sort of a relapse…my heat came back, I mean. And so I needed…Jake said…"

 

Will raised an eyebrow and smiled at her. "You don't have to explain to me, sweetheart. You needed to be fucked so Jake is taking care of you. That's okay."

 

"Well…I just…" Maddy felt a wave of embarrassment wash over her. It was exactly how she'd felt the night before when Will walked in on them just before she came. Only now the situation was much more intimate since they were all in bed together.

 

"Turn over, Will," Jake growled, glaring at the other man. "You know how Maddy feels about being watched."

 

"Sorry." Will started to comply but Maddy said,

 

"No, wait."

 

"What is it, darlin?" Jake asked in her ear. "You want me to send him out of the room?"

 

"No, it's just that…" Maddy took a deep breath. "It's really…really the shifter way to…to watch?" She couldn't believe she was asking this but it had suddenly occurred to her that since she might have to go up to the Adirondacks and stay with the people who were supposed to be her kin, she ought to start getting used to their customs.

 

Jake rumbled assent and Will nodded. "It's considered rude not to."

 

"Well then…" Maddy nodded at the Lynx shifter, trying to control her urge to blush and run away. "You…I guess you can watch. We were almost…almost finished anyway."

 

"Good girl, Maddy," Jake murmured in her ear. "You'll get the hang of being a shifter yet."

 

"I think you will, too." Will smiled, obviously having heard his friend's remark. Then, without warning, he pulled the covers off the three of them, revealing everything from the waist down.

 

"Oh!" Maddy had been pressing back against Jake but now she froze again. "What…?"

 

"When you invite another shifter to watch you breed, you don't limit his view," Jake told her softly. "Close your eyes if you need to, Maddy. Will won't touch you—he's just going to watch. This time."