Susan
lives out on the Canadian west coast surrounded by open water, dear family and
good friends. She’s jumped out of perfectly good airplanes on purpose and had
lunch next to royalty by accident. She’s worked for local law enforcement, been
a freelance wordsmith and bakes what she claims are the world’s best
double-chocolate & caramel brownies. She’s passionately in love with the
written word (and a few of her more hunky creations.) Writing is her joy, her
escape from reality and the only way she knows of to quiet the nagging harridan
of a muse she claims the universe assigned to her.
ETERNAL
BONDS
Duncan
Masterson lives apart from his vampire brethren and has vowed to never bring
another mortal into his dark world. Only his fiercely loyal human guardian,
Jared Evans, knows the truth about who and what he is.
For nearly a
century Duncan has held fast to his vow, until the day he finds the beautiful
Tabitha Blacke lying dazed and bleeding after a rogue vampire attack. Duncan
realizes he must break his vows in order to protect her from the evil that is
prowling his territory.
When both Duncan
and Jared find themselves falling for their lovely houseguest, they decide to
claim her together, forging bonds that will change all of their lives forever.
As trouble draws
near, their bond will be tested and sacrifices will be demanded of them all.
The two men know they'll do whatever it takes to keep their beloved Tabi safe,
but will their love be enough to see them through?
STORY
EXCERPT
One minute
they’d all been sitting around the table and the next minute Tabi found herself
the filling in a man-sandwich straight out of her wildest fantasies. She
dragged a hit of air into her lungs and caught the scent of both men as they
surrounded her. Her breasts instantly tightened and her pussy tingled as she
felt the hard, muscled bodies of both men press into her. Two hot, handsome
bodies that had moved so fast they’d been a blur. That thought snapped her back
to the present with a crash.
“Let me go!”
“No, lass. Not
until you’ve calmed down.”
“You’re telling
me to calm down again? Didn’t you learn anything from the last time we had this
conversation? You can’t just tell me to be calm every time the weird-shit-meter
hits eleven!”
She felt Jared’s
chest vibrate with laughter and she turned her head to glower at him. “And you!
Care to explain how you did that? No one moves that fast unless they’re from
the planet Krypton!’
“Boss? I think
we’re going to have to explain.”
“Indeed,” Duncan
sighed. “Did you have to move like that? You scared her.”
“Me? You were
the one who had her ready to bolt like a scalded cat!”
“Guys? Hello?
She is standing right here and she’d really like some answers!” Tabi was
getting tired of being talked about like she didn’t have ears. In an attempt to
get some breathing room she worked a hand between herself and each of their
chests intent on pushing them away, but the act of rubbing her way up their
hard bodies started another line of thinking altogether. Her thoughts derailed
into a pileup of hot fantasies and lust, and instead of pushing she simply left
her fingers splayed across two solid walls of male muscle.
Both men pushed
in closer, until she was caught between twin pillars of sex and heat that had
her blood simmering and her brain mushy. Jared covered her hand with his so
that it was held firmly just over his heart while Duncan turned her until his
mouth could capture hers. This time his kiss was gentle, tender and intended to
comfort, and Tabi was too overwhelmed by her desires to do anything else but
tangle her fingers into Duncan’s shirt and pull him in closer as she answered
his kiss in kind.
Jared lifted his
hand from her shoulder to sweep her hair back from her neck, dropping delicate
kisses along the edge of the bandage.
“Mine,” Duncan
growled in warning and tugged her harder against him, pulling her a half step
away from Jared.
“No,” Jared
growled back and moved in behind her, sandwiching her between them.
Duncan lifted
his head and Tabi gasped as she saw his eyes. They were incandescent, glowing
so brightly that it was as if there was a fire burning inside him.
This time Tabi
did push away from him, straight back into Jared’s arms.
“What are you?”
She managed to keep from screaming the question at Duncan, hanging onto her
sanity by the barest of threads. What the hell had she just been kissing?
Jared wrapped
his arms around her and stepped back from Duncan, taking Tabi with him. “Boss,
you need to chill.”
Who were these
two, the masters of understatement? “No, he needs to stop growling and glowing
and tell me what the hell is going on! And both of you need to stop kissing me
until I get some answers. My brain doesn’t work well when it’s drowning in
hormones.” Oh god, she just said that out loud.
“Hormones?” Both
men echoed her last word and Tabi nearly screamed with frustration. “Out of
everything I said, you two focused on that word?” she snapped and tried pulling
herself out of Jared’s embrace. She managed to twist slightly, but that was
all. He was impossibly strong.
“This is going
well,” Jared quipped in rueful tones.
“You’re not
helping,” Duncan snarled, revealing a pair of long canines as he ran a hand
through his hair, pulling it out of its customary tie. His eyes were only
glowing a little now, but Tabi was too busy staring at his mouth and fighting
Jared’s hold to really notice.
“You’ve got
fangs? When did you get fangs?”
“Oh yeah, this
is going fucking brilliantly.” Jared tightened his hold on Tabi and dropped his
mouth to her ear. “It’s all right, honey. Neither of us is going to hurt you,
but you’re going to hurt yourself if you keep struggling.”
Tabi stopped
trying to get away and went still, finally accepting there was no point, not
when Jared was so much stronger than she was. “Answers. I want answers right
now or I’m going to start screaming.”
“Sure thing,”
Jared drawled and loosened his hold on her slightly as he nuzzled her hair.
“Duncan there is a three hundred year old vampire and I’ve been his guardian
and companion for more than seventy-five years. You got your throat torn open
by another vampire, and that’s why Duncan had to bring you back here.”
She’d heard
enough, these men were insane.
ADULT
EXCERPT
Jared’s arms
snaked around her and he half walked, half lifted her into shower. Her back was
to his chest and the hot water hit her from all sorts of interesting angles as
Jared’s lips found her ear and he nibbled his way along the curve and down to
her lobe. “You’re ours now, little mouse. That means we’re both going to take
care of you, in every way a man can.”
“I’m going to
have to quit my job just to have enough energy to keep up.”
Duncan leaned in
and kissed her, his mouth warm and wet. “If it doesn’t make you happy, don’t do
it anymore. I’d say life is too short, but the truth is life is too long for
people like us. You have lifetimes to look forward to.”
“Lifetimes with
the two of you.” The idea made Tabi’s head swim with the possibilities and her
heart overflow with happiness. “I think I can handle that.”
“Good. Glad to
hear it.” Jared nipped her earlobe lightly. “Now, shut up and kiss me too. We
can talk later.”
“Pushy!” Tabi
yelped as his teeth closed on her ear again and then he was turning her around
to kiss her, his mouth plundering hers as his big body sheltered her from most
of the pounding water. Dizzy from the heat and blood loss, Tabi swayed a little
and Duncan’s arm curved around her waist and drew her up against him. “I have
you, lover.”
“Hold onto her
will you? I have a plan,” Jared grinned and began kissing his way down her
body. His mouth suckled and nibbled at her breasts, feasting on them for a
while before he moved lower, finally dropping to his knees so that he could
kiss a ring around her navel before making his way down to her pussy. Her pulse
was racing again and need was bubbling up inside her as she experienced the
still new sensation of being with two men. Two sets of hands touching her, two
beings devoted to her pleasure. The feeling was better than she could have
imagined. The stubble on Jared’s jaw rasped over her inner thighs as he nuzzled
between them, his hands gently but firmly parting her legs until she was
completely exposed.
“This is a sight
to welcome a man home,” he proclaimed before swiping his tongue over the length
of her pussy, making her moan as sparks sizzled over her flesh at his touch.
He used his
thumbs to part her labia and groaned with lust. “I may not be able to make you
come just with a love bite, but I bet I can make you scream using just my
mouth.”
“No bet.”
Jared’s only
answer was a wicked chuckle as he pressed his face between her thighs and began
to devour her pussy. Duncan’s arms stayed secure around her, holding her up as
her knees gave way.
It only took a
few flicks of Jared’s talented tongue for Tabi to know that the effects of
Duncan’s bite hadn’t completely left her system. Her libido roared back to life
with a vengeance, soaking her cunt and setting fire to her blood yet again.
“Jared!” The
wail broke from her lips before she could stop it and she felt more than heard
his satisfied growl of response. The world spun and Tabi closed her eyes and
fought against the urge to get carried off by the storm he’d ignited. As he
drew the delicate pearl out of its protective hood and captured it between his
teeth a bolt of raw lust shot through her and she screamed again, her entire
body shuddering as she came. She’d never been a screamer before, but with these
two, she couldn’t seem to stop.
Starbursts were
still dancing in her vision when Jared’s hands landed on her hips, both men
turning her around so that she was bent over with her hands braced against cool
marble and her feet splayed far apart.
“Stay just like that.” Jared’s drawl was as
thick as molasses, a sure sign he was not quite in control. She’d already
learned that the stronger her men’s accents got, the hornier they were. Tabi
smiled to herself as she braced herself and then glanced over her shoulder at
Jared. His chest had a mottled bruise rising over one pectoral. “You’re hurt.”
She started to move and Jared shook his head, his big hands clamping around her
waist. “It’s already healing. Let me love you, Tabi. That’s the only thing I
need right now. I need to be inside you.”
“Sexual healing
is a song, it doesn’t work like that in real life,” she muttered as Jared draped
himself over her to drop a path of butterfly kisses along her spine.
“It can work,
when it’s the right people,” Duncan’s hands stroked up the underside of her
body to cup her breast as Jared’s mouth continued to blaze a trail down her
back. “When fate takes a hand, anything can happen.”
Duncan found her
nipples, tugging and rolling them between his fingertips. Desire simmered and
then flared and she leaned backward, pressing her ass against the steel shaft
of Jared’s cock.
“Don’t tempt
me,” Jared warned her as he smoothed a hand over the curve of her bottom,
working his finger into the crack to press against her anus for a brief moment.
“Tonight’s not the right time, but soon this pretty ass is going to belong to
me.”
“Duncan’s right,
you talk too much.” Tabi deliberately wriggled against him and grinned when she
caught the sound of his breath hissing over his teeth.
“You inspire me.” Jared placed his hands
between her thighs and spread her wide, rocking his hips so that the tip of his
cock brushed over her slick entrance.
BEHIND
THE SCENES
Q: Do you have any unique
talents or hobbies?
A: I’ve been
trained in Cranial Sacral Therapy and several other alternative healing
practices. By a quirk of fate, the few clients I have are almost all of the
four-legged variety.
Q: What can we expect from you
in the future?
A: I have two
books coming out in September and a joint project planned with two other very
talented authors that we hope to have organized up by late in 2013.
Q: What can readers who enjoy
your book do to help make it successful?
A: Talk about
it! This is my first year as a published author and the most amazing gift
anyone who enjoyed my stories can give me is to recommend my books to their
friends.
Q: How long does it take you to
write a book?
A: When the
stars align, the characters are talking to me and the muse is well caffeinated,
I can put out a book in 6-9 weeks. Book length and reality can alter those
numbers, but that’s my average.
Q: What is your work schedule
like when you're writing?
A: I have an
amazing boss who has given me permission to work on my writing when the office
is quiet. (In exchange she gets a signed copy of every book I write.) So on any
given day my work is a mixture of spreadsheets, invoicing & writing from
the time I hit the office until the time I pack up and head home. After dinner
I’m often back at the keyboard, writing until I hit my word count for the day.
Q: What would you say is your
interesting writing quirk?
A: I can’t write
when it’s too quiet. I have to have background noise.
Q: What was one of the most
surprising things you learned in creating your books?
A: I never
realized how strong the characters’ voices would be. They have their own
personalities and opinions on how their stories will unfold. Some days I feel
like I’m just along for the ride.
