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Easy Virtue by Mia Asher was just released!

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Remember how craaaaazy I went over “Arsen” by Mia Asher (my review)? I struggled a bit with the beginning but it was SOOOOO angsty and soooooo intense and SOOOOOO emotional that I couldn’t help but give it a HUGE 5-STAR SQUEE!!! Just to give you an idea, this is how I started the review.

You guys. YOU GUYS!!!! THIS ONE!!!!!!!!! OMG SOTHIS ONE. I book-zombie LOVED IT!!!!! I could barely put it down and once things got rolling, I was glued to it and stayed up until I was finished.

Well. It looks like the author just released another one (Easy Virtue) that sounds as if it’s going to infuriate me just as much… if not more. And I don’t think it’s associated with “Arsen” and I *believe* it’s a standalone.

ANGSTY-sounding and the early reviews look promising. I can’t WAIT to give this one a go.

“You’ll Never Believe…” with Lorelei James

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Welcome to the eighth installment of “You’ll Never Believe…” 😀

For those that don’t know what these new featurettes will be about, here is the scoop! “You’ll Never Believe…” will feature the weirdest questions or encounters that authors have been asked/had. Might be about their books or random things, like meetings in a bathroom where someone asked what brand of toilet paper they normally use. Fun stuff and inside scoops that an author would not normally share.

And to celebrate THIS new release (Schooled: The Mastered Series) the author, Lorelei James is here with her own mini-scoop of fun (and twinkies!!)

You’ll Never Believe:

“Being a writer is the best job in the world. But like any job, there are those….moments when odd things happen. I haven’t had anyone follow me into the bathroom and demand I divulge secrets for upcoming books—thank goodness.

One autumn weekend I flew to Minneapolis to meet with a group of fans at the Mall of America. It was a great night, we had dinner and drinks in a western bar with a mechanical bull. They all brought print copies of my books for me to sign. And then one of my readers pulled out a bag of Twinkies for me to sign—that’ll make sense if you’ve read Chasin’ Eight!—and it’s still the funniest item I’ve signed so far.”

Ready for that excerpt?

Exclusive Excerpt:

Amery kicked off her heels and dropped the shopping bags by the door. She’d pick them up later. Right now she wanted a glass of sake. She checked her cell as she wandered into the living room, hoping for a message from Ronin.

“I hope the rattling of packages indicates you’ve bought something kinky and sexy?”

She gasped. Then her gaze moved over to the shadowed form in the corner. Her husband lounged with his jean-clad leg draped over the arm of the leather club chair. A lowball glass with half an inch of amber liquid was clasped in his right hand. His black shirt was untucked, his feet were bare. His hair was in delightful disarray and dark stubble lined his lean cheeks.

He was magnificent.

He was here.

When she saw that heated look in his brown eyes—the look that was for her alone—she launched herself at him.

He laughed between her avid kisses as she attempted to rip open his shirt. “Hold on there, tiger. Let me put my drink down first.”

“Hurry.”

“If I was wearing a tie you’d be yanking me up by it.”

“I can do that with your belt loops too—right before I yank your jeans down.”

Ronin pushed to his feet. Then he framed her face in his hands. “I missed you. Let me show you how much, baby.”

She closed her eyes when his lips met hers, letting herself sink into his kiss. Being away from him drove home the point of how essential he’d become to her life.

He picked her up and carried her into the bedroom. He undressed her slowly, kissing, nibbling, licking on her skin as he bared it. So by the time she was naked, she was also wet, and ready for his possession.

Ronin had swept the covers back on the bed before he’d laid her on it. He kept his gaze on her as he removed his clothing. “That’s a sight I thought I’d never see.”

“What?”

“A wife—my wife—in this bed.”

About Lorelei James

Lorelei James

Lorelei James is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of contemporary erotic western romances set in the modern day Wild West and also contemporary erotic romances. Lorelei’s books have been nominated for and won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s choice Award, as well as the CAPA Award. Lorelei lives in western South Dakota with her family…and a whole closet full of cow girl boots.

Why do I have a particular fondness for all things western? Well, I’m a fourth generation South Dakotan, living in the Black Hills, which is chock-full of interesting characters, including cowboys, Indians, ranchers, and bikers. The geographical diversity of the surrounding area showcases mountains, plains, and badlands. Living in and writing about rural settings gives me a unique perspective, especially since I’m not writing historical westerns. Through my fictional world, I can show the ideals and the cowboy way of life are still very much alive.

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Giveaway alert!! Signed “Galley” of “You Were Mine” by Abbi Glines

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You Were Mine: A Rosemary Beach Novel (The Rosemary Beach Series Book 9) is the brand spankin’ new release in Abbi Glines’ famous Rosemary Beach series, and guess what!?? Abbi has personally signed the cover of a “galley” version of this book!! Want it?

How to enter for a chance to win it? Just leave a comment here letting me know your favorite angsty moment in any of this Abbi Glines’ books (try to keep it spoiler free),  AND”LIKE” Abbi’s Facebook page, and my Facebook page… and by 10pm EST, Sunday December 7th 2014, I will randomly select ONE winner for the signed copy.

The winner will be contacted and will have 48hrs to respond with a mailing address, so if you are picked, do not delay or you will lose your chance. This book will be sent to the winners directly by the publisher.

Open to US only however all are welcome to comment!

“You’ll Never Believe…” with Tiffany Reisz

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Welcome to the seventh installment of “You’ll Never Believe…”

For those that don’t know what these new featurettes will be about, here is the scoop! “You’ll Never Believe…” will feature the weirdest questions or encounters that authors have been asked/had. Might be about their books or random things, like meetings in a bathroom where someone asked what brand of toilet paper they normally use. Fun stuff and inside scoops that an author would not normally share.

And to celebrate the release of “The King: The Original Sinners Book 6” we have THE TIFFANY REISZ sharing with us today!!! *squeeeeee!!* I know SO many in our crew LOVE LOVE LOVE her Original Sinners series and you’re going to love her inside scoop! It made me *snort*!!! 😛

The Corrections By Tiffany Reisz

You’ll never believe the weird rumors that get started when you write Catholic erotica. Okay, so Catholic erotica isn’t a thing, but I’m trying to make it a thing. My Original Sinners series combines sex, kink, true love, sadism, humor, and Catholic theology. I’m Catholic. Trust me, it all fits. Anyway, not only am I Catholic and an erotica writer, but I attended seminary for a couple years. Now the seminary I attended was a conservative Methodist seminary in the south where I was getting a dual-Master’s degree in theology and biblical studies. When my writing started to go somewhere I dropped out of school, got a job, and focused on my novels. When my first book, THE SIREN, was coming out, my publisher hired a very nice publicist to help with the book launch. This publicist, not being Catholic, got “seminary” confused with “religious order” and sent out a press release that THE SIREN was authored by a former nun.

I am not a former nun. Or a current nun. A correction was quickly sent out.

A few weeks later an interview I did for Cosmopolitan UK started making the rounds online. A tweet broadcasting the article declared that the author, Tiffany Reisz, was a professional dominatrix. While I have paid good money to Dominatrixes in the pursuit of verisimilitude in my books, I am not a professional dominatrix. I’m just friends with a bunch of them. A correction was quickly issued.

So now I can say I am the only author on earth whose publicist had to send out the following correction:

Tiffany Reisz is neither a former nun nor a professional dominatrix. Please update your records.

LOL!!!!

Ready for the excerpt?

Excerpt:

“King?” came a woman’s voice behind Kingsley. Without looking back he raised his hand and beckoned her inside. A beautiful young woman in a forties-style skirt and blouse stood next to his chair and waited.

He wrapped an arm around her hips and dragged her down to his lap.

“You’re interrupting,” he said to her. “Can’t you see how busy I am?”

“Oh, forgive me. I didn’t mean to interrupt your,” she glanced down at the table and back into Kingsley’s eyes, “card game?”

Kingsley pointed at Søren.

“Blaise, I would like you to meet my oldest and dearest friend…” he paused and looked at Søren when he realized he didn’t know if he was allowed to tell anyone Søren’s name. Out in the world he’d gone by the name his father had given him—Marcus Stearns. Even now he was Father Marcus Stearns, SJ according to church records. Søren was the name his mother had given him and few called him that. “Who the hell are you again?”

Søren stretched out his hand and took Blaise’s.

“Søren. Kingsley and I went to school together.”

“I’m Blaise,” she said and gave Søren her brightest smile and the most unapologetic bedroom eyes Kingsley had ever seen. So unfair. Why did Søren always turn every head in the room? Kingsley looked at Søren who today wore normal clothes. Normal? Black jeans, a fitted black long-sleeve t-shirt. They’d be normal clothes on anyone but Søren. In them, Søren looked like something out of a fever dream. He couldn’t blame Blaise for looking at Søren the way she did.

But he did wonder why Søren looked at her the same way.

“Blaise, might I inquire what you’re doing interrupting this incredibly important card game of mine?”

“Against my better judgment, I answered the phone and took a message for you. But don’t get any ideas that I’m your new secretary although you need to get a new secretary-”

“I will, chouchou. I promise.”

“You said that last week.”

“I got a new secretary last week.”

“Where is she?”

“She quit.”

“Did you f**k her?”

“I didn’t mean to. It was an accident.”

Blaise turned her attention back to Søren.

“Can you please tell your oldest and dearest friend to stop seducing his secretaries so they’ll stop quitting on him when they catch him f**king someone else?”

“Kingsley,” Søren said, shuffling the cards again. “Stop seducing your secretaries so they’ll stop quitting on you.”

“Thank you.” Blaise gave Søren a smile.

“My pleasure,” Søren said. Kingsley mentally slapped them both.

“Give me the message,” Kingsley said, running his hand up her thigh and caressing the bare skin above her flesh-tone stockings.

Blaise reached into her nearly translucent pale pink blouse and produced a folded note from inside her lace-trimmed bra.

Kingsley unfolded the note, still warm from her body and read.

Tonight at nine. – Phoebe

Kingsley tensed when he read the words and briefly considered lying his way out of the situation. She’d understand if he had to reschedule. He did have a guest after all. But no, he needed the leverage. He couldn’t risk losing this chance.

“I have to go,” Kingsley said to Blaise and Søren. “I won’t be gone long—an hour or so. You’ll keep my guest company, won’t you?” he asked Blaise.

“Happily.” Her thousand-watt smile brightened a few more watts. With her on his lap he could feel the heat emanating between her legs.

“Good. You two have so much in common, so much to talk about. Blaise, tell Søren what you do.”

“I run a non-profit,” she said, leaning forward on the table and resting her chin on her hand. The move allowed everyone in the room to get a much clearer view of her soft, ample cleavage.

“A non-profit?” Søren continued shuffling the cards while never once looking away from Blaise.

“Tell him what it does.” Kingsley pinched her on the thigh and she shuddered in pleasure. “Our Blaise is trés altruistic.”

“It’s called Slut Pride. We’re a non-profit that helps educate people about women’s sexual freedom, especially in regards to women’s participation in BDSM activities. Some people like to tell us that it’s not feminist to like to get flogged. I say it’s not feminist to tell a woman what she can and can’t do. Enough about me. What do you do?” she asked Søren.

“I’m a Catholic priest.”

Blaise said nothing. She gawked at Søren with her full red-lipped mouth ajar. And then she laughed, a warm throaty laugh that filled the room.

“You’re terrible. I almost believed you.”

Søren winked at Kingsley. Kingsley had never guessed Søren had this flirtatious side to him. Back in their school days Søren had been feared and envied by all the other boys and Søren had almost never spoken to anyone but the other priests. Kingsley realized that other than his sister, he’d never seen Søren around a beautiful woman before. Interesting. The man was human after all. Even if he was a priest.

“I must be off. You two chat, become friends. Blaise, peut-être you should explain BDSM to my friend. I’m sure he’ll find it fascinating.”

“I’m sure I will,” Søren said. “We’ll be fine, Kingsley. Have a lovely evening.”

Kingsley patted Blaise’s shapely bottom and she stood up and let him out. On his way from the dining room he heard Blaise asking Søren, “So what do you really do?”

And Søren replied, “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”

Author Tiffany Reisz

Tiffany Reisz is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning Original Sinners series for Mira Books (Harlequin/Mills & Boon). Tiffany’s books inhabit a sexy shadowy world where romance, erotica and literature meet and do immoral and possibly illegal things to each other. She describes her genre as “literary friction,” a term she stole from her main character, who gets in trouble almost as often as the author herself.

She lives in Portland, Oregon. If she couldn’t write, she would die.

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Latest Paranormal & Contemporary Romance Book Releases – December 2nd 2014

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Okay!!! We have NEW RELEASE GOODIES and a ton of ’em! FAVORITE tried and true authors and new ones that sound just about right. 😉 Like You Were Mine (by Abbi Glines), Mai Tai’d Up by Alice Clayton, Owning Violet (by Monica Murphy), Full Throttle (by Julie Ann Walker – SO MANY are LOVING this series), Zip, Zero, Zilch (and I know the “Reed brothers” have so many swooning here, too!). Oh and a new rock star for us from this popular series, The Rocker Who Shatters Me!!

UPDATE!!!! LOOK WHAT’S UP FOR PRE-ORDER (it’s coming out in just a few days!!!) One of my FAV authors in the world is releasing Alarm and that blurb says it’s FOR US!!! —> “Her internal alarms warn her that Aiden Hunter is definitely on the list of men her mother told her to avoid, but she doesn’t listen. Instead, she finds herself drawn to Aiden and the excitement he promises.”

Plus we have some mob bosses below, a scary-sounding dark read, a sexy fireman and a girl he likes stuck in a bar during a flash flood, some tried and true bargain finds (that SO many here loved) and some highly anticipated “pre-orders” like… a new MADDOX BROTHER!!!! *squeeeeeeee!!!* —–> Beautiful Redemption (Thomas’s book!!)

P.S. Let me know if I’m missing any or if you loved any (from this list or elsewhere). 😀

BARGAINS & READER RECOMMENDATIONS (NOTE: bargain priced when I added them, but prices can change on Amazon, so make sure to check before you finalize your order).

  • Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi <— Toski found us this one!! And I KNOW IT’S HUGE in our reading crew!! She says: “MY FAV SERIES EVER!!! BOOK ONE IS ON SALE (A-MAZING DEAL!!!)”
  • Rush Me by Allison Parr <— “When post-grad Rachael Hamilton accidentally gate-crashes a pro-athlete party, she ends up face-to-face with Ryan Carter, the NFL’s most beloved quarterback.”
  • Until the Sun Falls from the Sky (The Three Series Book 1) by Kristen Ashley <— ON SUPER-SALE!!
  • With Everything I Am (The Three Series Book 2) by Kristen Ashley <— THIS ONE TOO!!
  • Happenstance: A Novella Series by Jamie McGuire <—- Yep. Supersale!
  • Happenstance: A Novella Series (Part Two) by Jamie McGuire <— This one too. ‘Cause #3 is coming out soon!! 😀
  • Worth the Fall (The McKinney Brothers, Book 1) by Claudia Connor <— I loved this one (here’s my review) and it’s on super-sale right now!! Thank you Aimee! (P.S. Lauren loved it, too, saying: “I love this book!!! A must read!”)
  • Mobster’s Girl by Amy Rachiele <— Stephanie found us this one on super-sale!
  • No Turning Back (The Kathleen Turner Series #1) by Tiffany Snow <— And Stephanie found us this one too, saying: “My friend, Sally, recommended this series to me, and it became one of my All-Time Favorite series! It’s the perfect book if you’re stuck in a Book Rut! Why? Because it has a fast-moving plot full of Romance, Angst, Secrets, Passion, Crime, and Betrayal… Books #1-#5 are on SALE” (here’s the series reading order).
  • Little Black Book by Tabatha Vargo, Melissa Andrea <— Aimee found us this super-sale! “has been likened to Cross Fire and This Man series” and Lauren LOVED it: “It is a standalone….and it is incredible!!”
  • The Grace In Darkness (Darkness Duet Book 2) by Melissa Andrea <— Aimee found us this one on super-sale too and Mary Ann said: “I’ve been waiting for this book to go on sale. I really liked their story.” and Lauren agrees: “Me too….I read the 1st book in an anthology & I’ve had my eye on this one, waiting for the price to drop.”
  • Convincing Constance (The Blow Hole Boys Book 3) by Tabatha Vargo <— SUPERSALE! Kat found it saying: “On sale. Each story is about a different couple”
           

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