Monday, March 17, 2014
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Tina Donahue in the Spotlight!
After Dark/ Sinfully Sweet Romances would like to give a warm welcome to Tina Donahue!
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STOLEN
DESIRE
BOOK FOUR – OUTLAWED
REALM SERIES
EROTIC PARANORMAL
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Blurb:
Her freedom depends on one
man. A criminal to his realm…
Outlawed Realm, Book 4
One minute, Paige Ross is
outside a Seattle bar, grieving a failed engagement. The next, she jerks awake
in a weird, candlelit room with velvet walls, black silk sheets, and a man who
motions for silence.
Paige has little choice but to
trust the powerful stranger who promises a way out of what looks like Satan’s
brothel. And pray his promise to keep her safe is as real as the heat burning
in his eyes.
Banished from E2’s ruling elite
for supposed crimes against the realm, Zekin risks everything to rescue those
brought to E5 for the guards’ carnal pleasure. Paige will be leaving this
inhospitable realm of fire and ice—if he can somehow forget the way her
trembling body melts in his arms.
Safe—temporarily—in an
underwater world populated by strange creatures, Paige’s sexual awakening
explodes into an unquenchable need that consumes them both. But the guards will
be looking for her. And Zekin’s plan to send her home is a dangerous journey
she cannot—will not—take without him.
Warning: Scorching-hot sex and loads of aching
tenderness between a drool-worthy hunk who’s determined to do the right thing
and a woman who’s not about to give him up.
Excerpt:
Thick
gray clouds rolled above them, heavy with more snow. A sliver of bluish-white
light poured through a gap in the cloud cover, as though the moon were trying
to bleed through. Its rays swept across the land, which shimmered in the frail
glow, sparkling like thousands of diamonds. The effect lasted only a moment,
and then the light receded, with shadows once again taking over the hostile
terrain.
As
though that worried him, Zekin increased his already fast pace, pausing only
once to shove her clothing into a snowdrift, burying it.
Why?
Paige
wasn’t able to ask. She struggled to keep up, gulping air. It should have been
icy, hurting her throat, but wasn’t. The transparent mask no doubt heated it.
How was that possible? Desperate for answers, she cried out, “Where are we
going?”
Zekin
looked over. “A colony where you’ll be safe.”
Paige
dug her fingers into his hand. “Where are we? What is this place?”
“E5.”
What
in the hell was that? A government installation where scientists conducted
classified studies and had pleasure slaves on the side? That made absolutely
no—
Wait
a sec. Suddenly, Paige recalled Zekin mentioning E1 when he’d first come into
her room.
“I’ll do all I can to
bring you back to E1,” he’d promised her then.
Instinctively,
she held back. Just as quickly, Zekin yanked her forward.
“Don’t
fight me,” he warned, “or you’ll end up like the others you saw outside the
guards’ outpost.”
Paige
shivered so badly, her voice shook. “Did those bastards throw the bodies out
there after they murdered those people?”
“Only
some. The others they pushed out there to die.”
“Why?”
“They
weren’t useful any longer.” Again, he glanced over. “When one of the guards
found you and brought you here, they got rid of the other woman. That’s what
they do when they tire of females from your realm, or the pleasure slaves they
haven’t already killed.”
Paige
was about to pepper him with more questions. Instead, her mind snagged on one
word—realm.
“You
mean country?” Maybe she’d been wrong about his nationality. It wasn’t Greek or
Middle-Eastern but Russian. Could be this was Siberia. In a weird sort of way,
that made sense. “Is that what you meant—my country? The USA? America?”
He
regarded the landscape past her. “We have to hurry before the other guards
return and see us.”
Paige
couldn’t imagine how that was possible. The material covering them was the same
tint as their surroundings, making them virtually invisible…unless the guards
had some kind of special eyewear, like night-vision goggles, that allowed them
to see what the naked eye couldn’t. “How far is the colony?”
“Past
that body of water.” He gestured toward what appeared to be an enormous frozen
lake ringed by drifts.
As
Paige scanned the area beyond it, searching for some sort of building, a flock
of birds flew over the lake. At least she thought they were birds. Their thick
feathers were an ashy white, their wingspans enormous, like nothing she’d ever
seen.
They
flew in an odd formation, not the usual V pattern, but in a perfect circle.
Paige couldn’t help but stare at the phenomenon. How in the world did they do—
A
thunderous crackling sound interrupted her thoughts, and the again screeching
wind.
She
flinched. Zekin released her hand and moved in front, his body pushing hers
back, shielding Paige as something shattered the ice from beneath the center of
the lake. Within seconds, a creature pushed through, hurling its milky body
upward. The waves that followed it froze instantly in the raw air, the ends of
the water curled over like a fine crystal sculpture. As massive as a blue
whale, the creature surged from the lake, a horn protruding from its snout, no
doubt what pierced the ice. With blinding speed, it penetrated the circle made
by the birdlike creatures.
Shrieking
wildly, they scattered, but it did no good. The whale-like thing swung its
monstrous head back and forth, gulping several of the creatures before gravity
pulled it back down to the water. A thin sheet of ice formed instantly, hiding
its exit. Harsh winds toppled the frozen waves as easily as if they’d been a
house of cards, then pushed them against the snowdrifts, returning the scene to
the relative calm of a few minutes before as though none of the carnage had
occurred.
Paige
continued to hyperventilate. What kind of fucking nightmare had she stumbled
into? Was it possible she’d been drugged and was hallucinating? If not… Aw
crap, she didn’t want to think about that.
“There’s
nothing to fear,” Zekin assured. “The thing has had its fill for the moment. It
won’t harm—”
Her
embrace stopped him. She clung to Zekin, her face pressed against his back,
praying he wouldn’t push her away. “Don’t leave me, please,” she begged.
Her
fiancé, Johnny, had done that, calling off their wedding after she’d worked so
hard on the plans and getting him to want her. He never apologized. He’d just
told her the score, saying they could still live together. As if she’d want that.
Before he’d bugged out on her, her mother and then eventually her father had
also left. She’d had no one for too long and by God, right now, Paige needed
the warmth of Zekin’s body, the security and comfort of his size to preserve
her sanity. To give her hope that they’d both get through this.
“Please,”
she repeated.
“I
won’t,” he murmured. “It’s all right.” With his hands on her wrists, Zekin
gently pulled her arms from him but didn’t step away.
If
he had, Paige would have followed. Out here, she had no shame, no pride, just
an unbearable need to be close.
He
turned to face her, then hesitated only a moment before wrapping his arms
around her in a sheltering caress. She couldn’t stop shaking. As he ran his
hand down her back, he whispered, “You’re safe.”
No,
she wasn’t. Neither was he. Not out here in arctic-land. Deep inside, Paige was
terrified they weren’t on Earth any longer. It was crazy to even consider that,
but how else to explain all of this? How could either of them survive? Why had
he even risked his life to rescue her? Who was he? Where had he come from?
She
pressed her cheek against his shoulder. The transparent material covering her
face was exactly like skin, letting her feel his solid frame, his heat. She
snuggled, unable to stop herself, indulging in this small, welcome intimacy as
the world went crazy around them.
The
wind died for a moment, then picked up again, slamming against her body as it
screamed past. Clouds continued to sink, weighted with snow.
“I’m
sorry,” she whispered.
His
hand stalled on her back. “For what?”
Being
scared and being a burden, asking too many questions, not knowing how to make
this better. All her life, Paige had done whatever she could so people wouldn’t
leave her. Didn’t work. They always had.
“Getting
you into this,” she finally said.
If
she hadn’t had those stupid drinks at Rozie’s, if she hadn’t gotten involved
with Johnny—a damn fool who couldn’t commit to marriage much less save her ass
out here—none of this would have happened.
“You
had nothing to do with this,” Zekin said. “It was my choice to come.”
Available for
preorder from: Samhain - Amazon - B&N
Release: March 11
Other books in the
Outlawed Realm series:
Unending Desire – Book One
Illicit Desire – Book Two
Shameless Desire – Book Three
About Tina:
Tina Donahue is an award-winning, bestselling novelist in
erotic, paranormal, contemporary and historical romance for Samhain Publishing,
Ellora’s Cave, and Kensington. Booklist,
Publisher’s Weekly, Romantic Times
and numerous online sites have praised her work. Three of her erotic romances (Adored, Lush Velvet Nights, and Deep, Dark, Delicious) were named
finalists in the 2011 EPIC competition. The French review site, Blue Moon
reviews, chose her erotic romance Sensual
Stranger as their Book of the Year 2010 (erotic category). The Golden Nib
Award at Miz Love Loves Books was created specifically for Lush Velvet Nights, and two of her titles (The Yearning and Deep, Dark,
Delicious) received an Award of Merit in the RWA Holt Medallion competition
(2011 and 2012). Take Me Away and Adored both won second place in the NEC
RWA contest (different years). Tina is featured in the 2012 Novel & Short
Story Writer’s Market. She was the editor of an award–winning Midwestern
newspaper and worked in Story Direction for a Hollywood production company.
Email: tina@tinadonahue.com
Website: http://www.tinadonahue.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/tinadonahue
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tina.donahue.75
FB Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/TinaDonahueBooks
Triberr: http://triberr.com/tinadonahue
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/authortina/my-books/
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/tinadonahue
CONTEST DETAILS:
Tina will
choose one commenter as her winner. Winner gets her choice of one of Tina’s
award-winning, bestselling ebooks from this list:
1. Adored – RWA
award-winning; EPIC 2011 Finalist; 4 Stars RT
2. Deep, Dark, Delicious
– EPIC 2011 Finalist; Holt Medallion Award of Merit
3. Lush Velvet Nights –
EPIC 2011 Finalist; Golden Nib Award
4. In His Arms – SIX 5
Star Reviews; 4 Stars RT
5. Sensual Stranger –
2010 Book of the Year (erotic); 4 Stars RT
6. The Yearning – Top
Ten Bestseller
7. Take Me Away – #1
Pick, Miz Love Loves Books
8. Unending Desire –
Best Book Rating LASR
9. SiNN – Nominated for
Book of the Week LASR
10. Sinfully Wicked –
Magnificent – Romancing the Book
11. Claiming Magique – Top Pick – NOR
12. Illicit Desire –
Four Stars Romantic Times
13. Come Fill Me – Five
Stars – Guilty Pleasures
Comment, comment, comment for your chance to win! Best of luck to you all!
Friday, March 7, 2014
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Monday, March 3, 2014
Susan Hayes in the Spotlight!
Let's give a huge welcome to the fabulous Susan Hayes! Welcome! Today, she is here to talk about her newest exciting release, 3013:Renegade!
Blurb:
In the aftermath of a war that almost
destroyed Earth, the Alliance now rules, but not everyone chooses to live by
their laws. Alayna is a rebel living by her own rules in the harsh badlands,
outside the Alliance’s control. She is a thief, stealing from the wealthy to
provide for those who cannot survive on their own, all while hiding the tattoo
that marks her as one of the few remaining fertile women on Earth…making her a
target.
Alliance Elites Nikolai Grekov and Colin
Nielson are stationed at a neglected base on the edge of the badlands after
years spent in space. Their orders are to track down an elusive thief that’s
been plaguing the area’s outposts, but they also have their own agenda. Both
men want to find and claim a fertile woman to call their own and fulfill their
dreams of becoming a family.
When the men catch the sexy, headstrong,
thief breaking into their home, they claim Alayna for their own. Nikolai and
Colin may have claimed their chosen, but the battle for her heart has just begun.
Can they find a way to win her trust or will their beautiful renegade’s need
for freedom destroy their chance of happiness?
Excerpts:
Story
She snarled in defiance
as he turned his back on her, holding out her knife so she could see it. “And
that’s why I’m keeping your knife. Watch yourself, Ghost. I’ll be right ba—”
Nikolai’s instincts kicked in and he turned, catching the little minx in
mid-air as she came at him, her hands already curved into claws. He used her
own momentum against her, letting it spin them both around so that she wound up
slammed against the kitchen wall. He didn’t want to hurt her, but despite
trying to slow her impact he heard Alayna’s teeth clack together as her back
hit the wall.
Shit.
“Give me back my knife!” Alayna yelled,
reaching for the blade despite the fact his reach was far longer than hers.
“Not fucking likely, minx. If I do, you’re
going to stab me with it.” As much as he disliked the idea of hurting a woman,
he had no intention of getting his ass handed to him by a girl either. And
right now she was doing her best to take him on. She was stronger than he’d
expected given her lean build, and a hell of a lot fiercer.
She kept struggling with him, her deep
green eyes wild and her expression nearly feral. She was close enough he could
smell her, a mix of warm woman and rainwater that somehow seemed like the best
perfume he’d ever scented. She wrapped her legs around his waist and gripped
tight enough Nikolai felt his spine creak in protest. Nails slashed at his cheek
and he dropped the knife, freeing his hands to grip her wrists. His face burned
where she’d scratched him, adding more fuel to the fire raging in his blood. He
pinned her hands to the wall on either side of her shoulders and leaned in,
using his body to trap hers and force her to stop fighting him.
Adrenaline surged through him, but coupled
with it was a powerful need for the woman currently trying to scratch his eyes
out. She was glorious in her fury. Like a goddess of battle from another time.
He growled as she writhed against him and she responded in kind, her soft lips
parting as she snarled in challenge. Every twist of her body ground her pussy
against his cock and dragged the swell of her breasts across his chest. Gazes
locked, bodies bucking, what had started as a struggle turned into something
just as primal, but far more intimate.
Nikolai dropped his head and kissed her,
crushing their mouths together and capturing that first sweet moan against his
tongue. He released one of her wrists, using his newly freed hand to cradle the
back of her head, cushioning it from the wall behind her. She grabbed the front
of his uniform and twisted it in her fist, using it as leverage to lift herself
up. Her mouth opened to his, tempting him to savor and taste. Her tongue dueled
with his, their kiss evolving into a sexually charged battle for dominance that
Nikolai had no intention of losing. He sensed that given an inch, the minx in
his arms would take a light year and still not be satisfied. She was all fire
and fury, and he wanted to fuck her so badly his dick throbbed in time to his
pounding heart.
Thief or not, he wanted her, and he hoped
like hell she was going to let him have her. Let them have her.
Alayna wasn’t sure when her anger had
turned to lust. She wasn’t even sure why she had been so angered by Nikolai’s
taunting that she’d gone after him. She only knew that having gotten a taste of
what she’d been dreaming about for days, she wanted more. If this was to be her
last night of freedom, then there was no reason she shouldn’t take what
pleasure she could find. If she found a way to escape, she’d have to disappear.
No matter what happened, she’d never see them again.
After a lifetime of dancing too close to
the fire, Alayna had more than her share of scars and heartbreak. The one thing
she didn’t have many of, was regrets. She nipped at Nikolai’s lip and then
pulled back far enough she could meet his gaze. Fire and longing blazed in
their dark depths. Longing for her. It was all she needed to know.
“Yes,” she said, giving him the answer to a
question that hadn’t been asked yet.
She expected him to kiss her then, or carry
her upstairs. Instead he released her other wrist, gave her a cocky grin and
inclined his head to one side. She glanced over and saw Colin standing a few
feet away, his gray eyes glowing like molten steel as he arched a brow at her.
“Yes?” Colin asked, his voice husky with
desire.
Alayna’s pulse kicked up another notch as
she heard the hunger contained in that single word. Both of them. Stars, what
would that be like? Her inner walls pulsed at the idea, and her pussy flooded
with fresh cream as her head filled with lurid images. Out in the badlands,
trios were still not the norm, and Alayna’s lovers had always been singular.
There wasn’t much she hadn’t tried, but two men…that was something she’d never
considered. Not until now. She reached for Colin with her newly freed hand.
“Hell, yes.”
Steamy
“Stroke our cocks, Alayna. I want to feel
your hands on me,” Colin said and moved back a little, opening a space between
their bodies.
“Fuck, yeah,” Nikolai growled in agreement.
Alayna discovered her mouth had gone dry as
she reached down and took a cock in each hand. Stars, they were big. Alayna
couldn’t get her fingers to touch when she encircled their thick shafts.
Thinking about what it would be like to have that impressive girth pounding
into her drew a low moan of need from her throat, and both men’s cocks twitched
in response.
She measured their length with her
fingertips, running her thumbs over the slit at the top and spreading the
moisture gathering there across their glans. When she ran the palm of her hand
over the sensitive tip of his cock, Nikolai groaned and began to pump his hips
so that his shaft slid between her fingers. “Fuck that feels good.”
Colin spoke. “Grip his cock tighter,
Alayna. He likes it a little rougher.” She closed her tighter and Nikolai
tensed, his hips working faster now. “See? Now you’ve got him. If you keep that
up he’ll be coming soon.”
“Bastard! You want me to come so you can
fuck her first.”
Alayna tightened her fingers around Colin’s
cock and began working his the same way. “And how do you like to be touched?”
“Just like that,” Colin groaned near her
ear. “We both like it a little rough. You game, princess?”
Her pussy creamed at Colin’s words and she
nodded, not trusting her voice. She wanted these two any way she could get
them, but if she was going to indulge in her fantasies, then hard and rough was
exactly what she’d imagined it would be like with her two dream lovers.
“Yes.”
“Then that’s where your hands stay until we
give you permission to move them,” Nikolai told her gruffly and ran a hand down
the top of her thigh. Colin mirrored his action and when their hands reached
her knees both men took hold and tugged, parting her legs. She gasped as they
both drew one of her legs over their thighs, exposing her bare sex. One of them
groaned and she knew they could see how wet she was for them.
Colin moved first, running his finger along
the seam of her pussy. His touch was too light to do anything but tease, and
she bucked her hips, craving more. He gave in to her silent demands, sliding
two fingers into her channel and Alayna’s entire world lit up like a supernova.
Colin started fucking her pussy with his fingers while Nikolai started rubbing
her clit, the combination sending her hurtling into a place of mindless
pleasure. Thick digits plunged deep and then retreated again, fucking her
mercilessly. Fingers worked the swollen bundle of nerves tucked beneath its
tender hood, flicking and teasing until she was barely able to breathe. Her
hands never stopped moving, and she could tell by their low groans that she was
not the only one being pushed to the brink.
She closed her eyes as time slowed to a
crawl. They worked her body like maestros, holding her at the edge of release
but not giving her enough to send her tumbling over.
Nikolai was enjoying watching their little
thief lose herself in her passion. It wasn’t often they found a woman with the
combination of courage and confidence needed to take them both on without
reservation, but here she was. Theirs, at least for the night. He had every
intention making it an experience she’d never forget.
Maybe it would be enough to convince her to
stick around for a few days.
He caught Colin’s gaze and gave his partner
a single nod that had the other man grinning in answer. It was time. Nikolai
curved his fingers upward on his next stroke, seeking the spot on her inner
wall that he knew would send her into orbit and he felt Alayna tense as Colin
pressed down hard on her clit. Her eyes flew open and her hips rose up off the
bed as her climax struck, and Nikolai drank in her cries of pleasure.
Buy
Links:
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00IND9EMQ
ARE: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-3013renegade-1429477-340.html
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/411542
Catch
up with Susan around the web:
3013 The Series Blog: http://3013theseries.blogspot.com
Author’s Blog: http://www.susanhayes.ca
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