Apologies for going radio silent yesterday, thanks to this drama that is life. A quick post today as part of the Wicked Reads Blog Hop, though I want to share more about this series project, Bite of the Moon, and the other authors involved. This is my very first preorder, and I've for a share and preorder contest on my Facebook author page for it with a few chances to win $25 Amazon gift cards. Here's the scoop on Preferred Prey:
Preferred Prey (Sons of Fenris 1 ~ Bite of the Moon ~ BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance) is up for preorder on Amazon right now!
For a girl with extra curve, walking into a dive strip club that caters to the shifters of the Sons of Fenris Motorcycle Club is just like ringing a dinner bell for hungry wolves.
But a curvy latent werewolf’s gotta do what she’s gotta do or else end up prey herself.
Tabitha is ready to embrace the transformation from latent wolf to full-on shifter. If the only wolf shifters she can find to make that happen are also the most vicious breed, the Fenris Wolves, so be it.
Walking into the den of iniquity for the SoF, however, also means seeing him again—Finn.
He was the beautiful long-haired boy who grew into her first crush and her protector, but he was also the savage Fenris Wolf who nearly took her life when he turned. The first sight of him in more than four years is enough to bring all her fears and desires back to the surface right when she needs to show no weakness.
Is Tabitha really there to be turned, or has she really come looking for Finn?
Is it her dearest fantasy or her deepest dread come to life when the devious and paranoid MC president, Mick, orders Finn to deliver the bite meant to turn Tabitha? If he bites her, he might have to kill her, no matter how much of his heart she has already claimed.
Preferred Prey is the first standalone—NO CLIFFHANGER—erotic novella in the Sons of Fenris BBW paranormal shape shifter romance series by bestselling erotica and erotic romance author Erika Masten. Available for preorder on Amazon (US, UK, AU, and CA included).
Preferred Prey is $0.99 but only during preorder and the first week of release.
Part of the Bite of the Moon Series (all standalone books) from Michelle Fox, Catherine Vale, Elle Boon, Bryce Evans, Katalina Leon, and yours truly, Erika Masten.
Seducer And Corrupter
Erika Masten shares her erotica, erotic romance, and her addiction to high heels and alpha males.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Friday, October 23, 2015
A Most Wicked Blog Hop
Welcome, blog hoppers and those of you who popped over because I've been pimping the Wicked Reads Blog Hop on all my Facebook hangouts. From October 23 (today!) through October 31, I'll be blogging daily about my own wicked reads, which of late tend to fall in the subgenre of BBW (that's big beautiful woman as in plus-size heroine for the uninitiated) paranormal shape shifter romance.
So let's begin this wicked week (give or take) of blogginess with CHRISTMAS!!!
Now wait, before you throw something at the computer screen, read me out and let me unfold the machinations of my dark sense of humor. Allow me to introduce you to a paranormal romance collection several of my writerly friends and I have on preorder now, Shifter Wonderland.
So let's begin this wicked week (give or take) of blogginess with CHRISTMAS!!!
Now wait, before you throw something at the computer screen, read me out and let me unfold the machinations of my dark sense of humor. Allow me to introduce you to a paranormal romance collection several of my writerly friends and I have on preorder now, Shifter Wonderland.
Forget the ho ho ho and get ready for a little holiday growl. Get lost in a Shifter Wonderland of Bears, Wolves, Horses and Dragons! This boxed set features twelve ALL NEW stand-alone Holiday stories from your favorite bestselling paranormal romance authors, and it’s only available for a LIMITED TIME! If you love Hot, Sexy Alpha Shapeshifters and the Beautiful, Curvy women who love them, then you don’t want to miss this LIMITED EDITION holiday boxed set!
Featured Authors: Christin Lovell - V. Vaughn - Tasha Black - Charlene Hartnady - Kate Kent - Lola Kidd - Marie Mason - Erika Masten - Harmony Raines - Ruby Shae - Elle Thorne - Emerald Wright
I haven't divulged much yet about my contribution to Shifter Wonderland up to this point, but that's what blog hops are for.
That's also where a time of year known for being a little darker and a little more wicked--oh, like this time of year--comes in. My story in the collection is Yuletide's Eve, and the title hints at the fact that instead of writing a sweet, heart-warming Christmas romance, I went all Yule on this thing. Yule as in dark of the year. Yule as in the time when the veil between worlds and between life and death is thin, from the autumn equinox (fall) through the winter solstice (Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year). Yule as in faeries and spirits and...The Wild Hunt. So while the loving couples of many a holiday romance will be cuddled up together in front of a fire, mine will more likely be running for their lives from wolves with fire in their eyes while old pagan goddesses make mischief.
Shifter Wonderland releases on December 1, 2015 and comes out of publication at the end of the month. It is available for preorder now for 99 cents at Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo.
I'll likely share more about Yuletide's Eve over the course of this blog hop. Check back in here for a new post every day. I might get a little more into what inspire me to begin writing paranormal shape shifter romance based on Norse and Celtic myth and what else I've got brewing (see, a Halloween reference at last!).
And remember to check out the other blogs in the hop. Some of them are my equally wicked friends, but even the bad company I consort with probably didn't make you endure a Christmas reference right off the bat and in October, too! I'm just wicked that way.
Featured Authors: Christin Lovell - V. Vaughn - Tasha Black - Charlene Hartnady - Kate Kent - Lola Kidd - Marie Mason - Erika Masten - Harmony Raines - Ruby Shae - Elle Thorne - Emerald Wright
I haven't divulged much yet about my contribution to Shifter Wonderland up to this point, but that's what blog hops are for.
That's also where a time of year known for being a little darker and a little more wicked--oh, like this time of year--comes in. My story in the collection is Yuletide's Eve, and the title hints at the fact that instead of writing a sweet, heart-warming Christmas romance, I went all Yule on this thing. Yule as in dark of the year. Yule as in the time when the veil between worlds and between life and death is thin, from the autumn equinox (fall) through the winter solstice (Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year). Yule as in faeries and spirits and...The Wild Hunt. So while the loving couples of many a holiday romance will be cuddled up together in front of a fire, mine will more likely be running for their lives from wolves with fire in their eyes while old pagan goddesses make mischief.
Shifter Wonderland releases on December 1, 2015 and comes out of publication at the end of the month. It is available for preorder now for 99 cents at Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo.
I'll likely share more about Yuletide's Eve over the course of this blog hop. Check back in here for a new post every day. I might get a little more into what inspire me to begin writing paranormal shape shifter romance based on Norse and Celtic myth and what else I've got brewing (see, a Halloween reference at last!).
And remember to check out the other blogs in the hop. Some of them are my equally wicked friends, but even the bad company I consort with probably didn't make you endure a Christmas reference right off the bat and in October, too! I'm just wicked that way.
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Eliza Gayle's Southern Shifters Kindle World Launches With Dangerous Prey
August 11, 2015 marked the launch of #SouthernShiftersKW, and Amazon and Eliza Gayle graciously invited me to be one of the launch authors. My contribution to the kick-off was an original BBW paranormal shape shifter menage romance novella, Dangerous Prey, bringing my Aesir Shifters and Windemere Stallions into the Appalachian mountains of Eliza's Southern Shifters. Here's a glimpse:
--Log into your Amazon UK, CA, or AU account.
--Add a United States address to your list of one-click addresses. You could try a hotel address or other business address you find online. The program is only concerned with confirming it is a legit address, not your address.
--Go to Manage Your Content & Devices, and under Country settings, change your location to US. Amazon will ask you to select an address. Select the US address you added to your one-click addresses.
--Now you can click on the Amazon US link, buy the book, and it will download onto your designated device.
--Once the book is downloaded, go back through the process changing everything back to your home country.
--And lastly, accept my heartfelt apology that Amazon decided to do a US only release for the Southern Shifters Kindle World. None of us launch authors are happy about it.
Curvy Tallan psychic
Kendra Hennessey knows it’s hard to hide among humans, but her alternative is
abiding by the decree of the clan council and taking a mate to stabilize the
erratic deterioration of her abilities—or face execution. What choice does she
have when her senses tell her there is no match for her among the hidden Appalachian
clans?
A self-exiled wolf
turning from his pack….
Odin’s Wolf shifter
Martin Falk lives on the razor-fine edge between man and beast, never knowing
if the next shift will trigger the wilding and trap him in his wolf form
forever. His refuge is his rage and determination to sacrifice himself to
protect his pack from the government teams that would exterminate them.
A stallion cut off from
his herd….
Horse shifter Rory
Galloway is one of only a few psychic werehorses left in the world and a symbol
of hope for the decimated Windemere herd, but a symbol set apart is the last thing
he wants to be. Urged by instinct eastward across the country, Rory must choose
between the herd rallying around him and the mate and soul-brother who need his
strength if they are to survive shattering transformations.
A target too good to
pass up….
For the government
strike teams trained to hunt supernaturals living secretly among humans, there
is no better target than the straggler, the runaway, the lone wolf. Capturing a
vulnerable Tallan psychic before she can mate and realize her full power is an
opportunity worth any risk.
But not if the Odin’s
Wolf and stallion shifter answering her mating call have anything to say about
it. Drawn together by fated desire but separated by doubt and distrust, will
Kendra and her mates fall victim to Agency hunters before their growing bond
can join them—and heal them? Or will three like minds and like hearts prove to
be the most dangerous prey?
The wild and passionate
heroes of Erika Masten’s Aesir Shifters and Windemere Stallions BBW paranormal
shape shifter romance series cross over into the world of Eliza Gayle’s
Southern Shifters to find a curvy psychic mate capable of taming their hearts
in this erotic romance novella. Heat level: fierce.
Dangerous Prey is currently available for purchase at Amazon US. But there is a clever work around for international readers:
--Add a United States address to your list of one-click addresses. You could try a hotel address or other business address you find online. The program is only concerned with confirming it is a legit address, not your address.
--Go to Manage Your Content & Devices, and under Country settings, change your location to US. Amazon will ask you to select an address. Select the US address you added to your one-click addresses.
--Now you can click on the Amazon US link, buy the book, and it will download onto your designated device.
--Once the book is downloaded, go back through the process changing everything back to your home country.
--And lastly, accept my heartfelt apology that Amazon decided to do a US only release for the Southern Shifters Kindle World. None of us launch authors are happy about it.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
A Prowl On The Wild Side Out As A Standalone
I have had a few new releases since last I blogged. The newest is A Prowl On The Wild Side, the third standalone story in the Aesir Shifters BBW Romance Series, which up to now had only been available in Alphas Prefer Curves: A Curvy Girl Romance Box Set, Volume 1. That set has now been retired and unpublished. A Prowl On The Wild Side is now out on Amazon, B&N, and All Romance, and will shortly be available on Apple, Kobo, Smashwords--all the usual places. I'm working with a designer now to finish the print version, which I'm really excited about.
Here's a quick:
If a girl is going to be delusional, Vanessa Dreyer’s kind of crazy isn’t so bad.
Here's a quick:
If a girl is going to be delusional, Vanessa Dreyer’s kind of crazy isn’t so bad.
Trapped by day in a
dreary office job, under the thumb of a boss with dubious designs on his curvy
assistant, Vanessa dreams at night of prowling the city as a beautiful and
powerful beast. Never mind the naked sleepwalking. And there are worse things
than the mild sensory hallucinations that would have Vanessa believing she’s
faster, stronger, and keener of eye than she really ought to be. The really crazy thing is her feeling that
the sexy walking wall of muscle, Eric Salo, truly is flirting with her across
the café counter every day at lunch.
But what if, just
maybe, Vanessa isn’t crazy?
What if her dreams are
her primal animal—her latent shifter—speaking to her? What if a hidden world of werewolves,
werebears, werelions, and weretigers awaits her? Worse, what if the shadowy men she remembers
watching her as a child, before her parents were killed leaving Vanessa and her
brother all alone, are real as well and have found her again? And most importantly, what if the only one
who can protect Vanessa and help her figure out who she is and what it all
means is a sexy blond werewolf named Eric Salo?
What’s a curvy girl
doing losing her head and her heart to a 6’4” Nordic Adonis with fangs and
fur? That’s just crazy.
A snippet for good measure:
Nine square
blocks of music stages and spicy food stands sprouted up like flowers between
cracks in the pavement as she prowled the thickening crowd in all its sensory
glory. Passionate music, hot food, the bright colors of banners and stall signs
and summer clothing, and dancing in the streets. Vanessa sipped on a virgin
mojito lemonade and wove her way through the crowd with a smile on her face, a
sway to her hips, and a lightness of heart that made it seem like a perfect
evening, one where anything could happen….
Like
finding a 6’4” Nordic Adonis smiling at her from across the street as Vanessa
danced idly by herself in front of a guitarist jamming for tips. “Like sex and
candy,” she muttered under her breath, immediately thinking of the eighties
song. Eric Salo was both rolled into one. Vanessa laughed and shook her head at
herself. “You’re talking to yourself, crazy girl.”
If
there was ever a man to go crazy for…with that broad Scandinavian face,
handsome at first in a tough guy way but then softened by dimples when he
smiled and a suggestion of a cleft in his chin…. Vanessa took it in stride when
she imagined—hallucinated?—that she could smell him from so far away, amid the
throng of so many other people. Delusion or not, she caught the stirring scent
of mandarin and rosemary under a woodsy overtone that reminded her of summer
vacations in the mountains and the fantasy of sex in the forest. It was
probably that she just remembered the smell from encountering her dream man on
almost a daily basis.
Another
heavy girl might have blushed furiously and turned her head away seeing the man
gazing her direction with bright green eyes from over the top of his
sunglasses, his shoulder-length blond hair stirring in the hot summer breeze.
He wore a hint of a sensual smile on his lush lips as he stood there at ease in
his strength. That was the thing—one of the things—that struck Vanessa about
Eric Salo. He was one massive man, not just tall but hard and bulging with
muscle, and yet he didn’t have that inhibition of movement that some
bodybuilder types had. Salo moved with power but also sensual grace, like an
animal in his prime, in his element.
Vanessa
took a deep breath when she realized her stomach had tensed and started to
flutter at the sight of her lunchtime fantasy guy. That was who Eric Salo was
to her, that gorgeous hunk who always went to the same café she did for lunch
every day, who always sat a couple of stools over from her at the counter right
up against the window by the sidewalk, and who always chuckled at the same
things she did—at the characters who inhabited these streets and gave them life
and color. Like the swarthy young guitarist who had just fallen to his knees in
front of Vanessa to bid for her attention, to amuse the crowd, as he did his
best to channel Carlos Santana.
Vanessa
laughed at the street musician’s antics but kept glancing past her shoulder
toward her Viking Adonis. The woman tried not to shake her head at herself
again, at the note of familiarity and even possessiveness—as well as
hip-wriggling excitement—she felt around the blond stranger. She and Salo
literally hadn’t said more than a couple of words to one another. It was an
occasional, “Hi,” here and there or an, “Excuse me,” as one or the other got up
to leave and had to brush close in the press of the lunchtime crowd. Beyond
that… no more than sidelong glances and knowing smiles, and how much of that
was Vanessa’s acutely vivid imagination? The only reason she even knew his name
was because one of his business cards had fallen out of his wallet one day when
he was paying his check.
Eric
Salo. Environmental Engineer. Ulmer Engineering Services. As it turned out, the
walk from his office every day to the café took Salo right past Koller’s
building, past Vanessa.
But
tonight... tonight Vanessa wasn’t sure she felt like being passed. Idly
smoothing her long straight hair with one hand, hugging her cool drink to her
chest with the other, she eyed the crowd around and between Salo and herself.
The hulking blond was standing on the opposite curb with his thickly banded
arms crossed over his t-shirt-straining chest. Vanessa tried to seem like she
was just scanning the crowd and enjoying the sight as she wandered a couple of
steps toward the man, right up to the edge of the curb on her side of the
street. Was he really watching her? His gaze skipped over the streams of people
in their swirls and eddies, flowing up and down the sidewalks and in the
barricaded roadway, but his attention did appear to keep snagging on Vanessa.
She
sipped her mojito lemonade and wished distantly that it had been the real
thing. Not because she needed any kind of liquid courage. If anything, Vanessa
was always too bold for the people around her, like her overprotective brother
and for people who thought fat girls ought to be (seldom) seen and not heard.
But if she approached Eric Salo and he gave her that look, that ‘why would a
chubby girl think I was watching her’ squint…. Or if he didn’t and actually had a full conversation with her that led to anything else, and Aubrey found out….
Well then, she could have blamed it on the alcohol. As it was, with virgin
lemonade a weak justification, Vanessa was just going to have to admit that she
was bad at keeping a low profile, at settling into the quiet little office jobs
Aubrey wanted her to have instead of pursuing her public relations major, and
at not talking to gorgeous blond strangers.
That
step down from the curb sent a vibration up through Vanessa, and not just
because she was wearing three-inch heels on her otherwise office-like shoes.
She felt the electrical jolt reverberating through her rounded thighs, through
her core, up her spine. Hell, even in her sorely neglected clitoris. It had
been too long since she had allowed herself the luxury of flirtation, though
she thought about it a million times a day. Lately, all million of those
romantic, naughty, fanciful thoughts centered on the fantasy man in front of
her. The man she was walking toward right that minute with intoxicating,
exhilarating, terrifying adrenaline gushing through her body. The man who was,
she sensed, watching her from behind those dark sunglasses.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Shades of Control: Fifty By Fifty V3 Available Now
It's been a long while since I released a billionaire domination and submission romance. My new novella, Drop (Catching Her Fall #1) breaks that long dry streak, appearing in the Fifty Shades of Grey-inspired set Shades of Control: Fifty By Fifty V3.
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1uH0DB5
Amazon UK: http://bit.ly/ShadesControlUKAmazon
iBooks: http://bit.ly/shadescontroliBooks
Kobo: http://bit.ly/ShadesControlKobo
(Still processing at B&N)
About Drop:
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1uH0DB5
Amazon UK: http://bit.ly/ShadesControlUKAmazon
iBooks: http://bit.ly/shadescontroliBooks
Kobo: http://bit.ly/ShadesControlKobo
(Still processing at B&N)
About Drop:
Whenever
I used to tell people I had a fear of falling, they would correct me to say I
had a fear of heights. Maybe it was the
sensible cardigan collection my mother preferred for me or the nerdy girl
glasses—exchanged eventually for more
intellectual and refined gold-rimmed frames for the necessity of actually
seeing the chalkboards and projection screens in my university classrooms. Maybe it was a lifetime of honing that church
mouse demeanor, head always slightly bowed against the buffeting winds of
gentle but pervasive familial criticism.
Yeah, people used to correct me a lot.
No,
the heights never scared me. I never
looked down from a lofty balcony or a bridge over rushing water and felt what I
had heard other people describe as a creeping desire to leap over the edge.
Instead, I felt a white-knuckled and sweaty-palmed fear, a terrible certainty
that something, someone, some circumstance or force would fling me down in that
precarious moment of vulnerability. Just
imagining the drop made my stomach bob and churn inside me. And the thought of breaking against the cold
ground….
No, my fear was that out-of-control plummet, not heights.
Or
at least I would have insisted until the night that black chauffeured town car
steered me smoothly, inevitably up the winding lanes of the exclusive
residential conclave of Jasper Hill and that singular Mediterranean estate
crested in my view above the overabundant landscaping of lesser contemporary
palaces to god-like lineage and ungodly wealth.
That night, I tripped and fell into a convergence of dark lust and
tragic loss a decade in the making, populated by the favored sons of some of
the most privileged families on the West Coast.
That night, I locked gazes with the brilliantly blue-eyed Royce Lauder,
the man who was about to help me understand that the only thing greater than my
fear of falling was my fear of the heights he would show me.
College junior Sabrina Cole should be concentrating on
getting the money together for her final year of school, landing the right
internship, networking with the right people. But first, for just one evening,
she’ll indulge in temptation, knowing it never feels as good as it looks. The
part of her that surrenders to pleasure is long gone, with the man who
introduced her to the sensual torments of domination and submission. So what
harm could come of just one night, just one dinner?
Far too blunt and rebellious for his own good, airline CEO
Royce Lauder should be heeding the advice from his company’s board of directors
and working on his public image before they move on a major acquisition.
Instead, he has joined the men who have been his closest friends since
childhood at a dinner party where they will assess candidates for training as their
personal submissives. A flippant decision on Royce’s part, but it’s not all
about the decadent pleasures afforded men of power and wealth, because these
aren’t just any women. These are the birds with broken wings, damaged and
betrayed by people they’d loved. This time, however, there is only one wounded
dove, only one woman, and only one thought in Royce Lauder’s head: mine.
An unexpected proposal from Lauder stirs unexpected desires
for Sabrina. She tells herself acting as the personal assistant by day and
sexual submissive by night for seductively dark Royce Lauder is about money and
a recommendation on her resume—a career move. He reminds himself it will be
temporary—train her, heal her, and release her.
Will Royce be so willing to train and release Sabrina when
it’s the man who broke her that wants her back? Will Sabrina maintain her
emotional distance when she learns it’s guilt over another woman that set Royce
out on the path of becoming a Dom, her
Dom? And who catches whom when Master and servant are both falling?
Drop is intended to be the first in a series of standalone stories featuring those "favored sons" of privilege grown up into captains of industry and Doms of both passion and compassion.
About Shades of Control:
These irresistible men exercise control in every aspect of their lives. They demand your submission. They demand your devotion. They demand your love.
In return, they'll give you everything your heart desires and take you to impossible heights of pleasure.
Fifty By Fifty is a series of four boxed sets featuring Fifty Stories by Fifty Bestselling Authors.
In return, they'll give you everything your heart desires and take you to impossible heights of pleasure.
Fifty By Fifty is a series of four boxed sets featuring Fifty Stories by Fifty Bestselling Authors.
Shades of Control is 99 cents for a limited time.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Fangs Fur & Magic Paranormal Romance Sale
Happy almost the weekend! I'm hoping to make it happy for some of you by sharing the fact that Excite Steam is sponsoring the Fangs Fur & Magic Paranormal Romance Sale Event (including a $50 gift card raffle) today through the weekend. Let's start with the BIG one, the Rafflecopter for the gift card!
Lots of paranormal romance on sale! Including:
Turning Wild by Erika Masten (Me me me!)
Drawn suddenly and violently into a world of shifters hiding among humans, Holly is learning that there’s more than one type of were to beware of. One is a threat to her life, another to her heart….
Curvy girl Holly Parker’s life has become a series of simple choices that somehow change the course of her entire future. Taking a shortcut home puts her on a collision course with a maniac who is not what he seems. Keeping her mouth shut about her attacker's fur and fangs lands her a job with a covert agency that tracks and exterminates supernaturals preying on their human neighbors. And now her decision to rely on her intimidatingly sexy neighbor, Dustin Berg, for protection when her wolfish stalker returns opens her eyes not only to the untamed power and passions of the were-soldiers known as Odin’s Wolves but to her place among them.
Caught between her duty to protect people from the kind of attack she suffered and her irresistible attraction to the man—the shifter—who has risked his life to save her from a creature he insists is an aberration hunted by other wolves as well, Holly must decide who is on her side and who is merely using her for their own purposes.
Also on sale at B&N, Apple, and All Romance.
We also have:
Bear Biker Love by Harper Ashe;
Her Forbidden Alpha by Tabitha Conall (also on sale at B&N);
Kiss the Dragon by Michelle Fox (also on sale at Apple);
Highand Wolf Pact by Selena Kitt (also at B&N, Apple, and Kobo);
Invisible Magic Book One: Alex Noziak by Mary Buckham (also at B&N);
Set in Stone by Aurrora St. James (also at B&N and Smashwords);
Witchy Wolf by Alexia Dare (also at B&N);
The Secret Wolf by Ana Fawkes;
Claiming His Fate by Ellis Leigh (also at B&N and Apple).
ALSO, for today and tomorrow, the promotional Aesir Shifters BBW romance short Wilding is FREE at Amazon:
Fear the wilding.
That’s what every werewolf learns, from the oldest alpha to the strongest Odin’s Wolf warrior and even their rival Fenris Wolves. The wilding steals the soul, the humanity, and finally the human form. A shifter lost to the wilding is a wolf, a man no more.
When natural scientist, forest ranger, and curvy girl Kimberly Ingalls finds herself forming a strangely emotional connection to the object of her observation, Wolf A217, she never dreams that her fantasies of what 217 would look like as a man would ever come true… until alpha werewolf Will finds himself called back from wolf form to claim his very human, very curvy mate.
Oh heck, while I'm at it, here's a teaser from A Prowl On The Wild Side: An Aesir Shifters BBW Romance Novella (Aesir Shifters #3) due to be released this weekend!
~Excerpt~
And it was, as it turned out, all about a street fair. Great timing for Vanessa, who bristled excitedly at the energy and anticipation of the set-up process and the transformation of a commercial district into a huge outdoor party. Nine square blocks of music stages and spicy food stands sprouted up like flowers between cracks in the pavement as she prowled the thickening crowd in all its sensory glory. Passionate music, hot food, the bright colors of banners and stall signs and summer clothing, and dancing in the streets. Vanessa sipped on a virgin mojito lemonade and wove her way through the crowd with a smile on her face, a sway to her hips, and a lightness of heart that made it seem like a perfect evening, one where anything could happen….
Like finding a 6’4” Nordic Adonis smiling at her from across the street as Vanessa danced idly by herself in front of a guitarist jamming for tips. “Like sex and candy,” she muttered under her breath, immediately thinking of the eighties song. Eric Salo was both rolled into one. Vanessa laughed and shook her head at herself. “You’re talking to yourself, crazy girl.”
If there was ever a man to go crazy for…with that broad Scandinavian face, handsome at first in a tough guy way but then softened by dimples when he smiled and a suggestion of a cleft in his chin…. Vanessa took it in stride when she imagined—hallucinated?—that she could smell him from so far away, amid the throng of so many other people. Delusion or not, she caught the stirring scent of mandarin and rosemary under a woodsy overtone that reminded her of summer vacations in the mountains and the fantasy of sex in the forest. It was probably that she just remembered the smell from encountering her dream man on almost a daily basis.
Another heavy girl might have blushed furiously and turned her head away seeing the man gazing her direction with bright green eyes from over the top of his sunglasses, his shoulder-length blond hair stirring in the hot summer breeze. He wore a hint of a sensual smile on his lush lips as he stood there at ease in his strength. That was the thing—one of the things—that struck Vanessa about Eric Salo. He was one massive man, not just tall but hard and bulging with muscle, and yet he didn’t have that inhibition of movement that some bodybuilder types had. Salo moved with power but also sensual grace, like an animal in his prime, in his element.
Vanessa took a deep breath when she realized her stomach had tensed and started to flutter at the sight of her lunchtime fantasy guy. That was who Eric Salo was to her, that gorgeous hunk who always went to the same café she did for lunch every day, who always sat a couple of stools over from her at the counter right up against the window by the sidewalk, and who always chuckled at the same things she did—at the characters who inhabited these streets and gave them life and color. Like the swarthy young guitarist who had just fallen to his knees in front of Vanessa to bid for her attention, to amuse the crowd, as he did his best to channel Carlos Santana.
Vanessa laughed at the street musician’s antics but kept glancing past her shoulder toward her Viking Adonis. The woman tried not to shake her head at herself again, at the note of familiarity and even possessiveness—as well as hip-wriggling excitement—she felt around the blond stranger. She and Salo literally hadn’t said more than a couple of words to one another. It was an occasional, “Hi,” here and there or an, “Excuse me,” as one or the other got up to leave and had to brush close in the press of the lunchtime crowd. Beyond that… no more than sidelong glances and knowing smiles, and how much of that was Vanessa’s acutely vivid imagination? The only reason she even knew his name was because one of his business cards had fallen out of his wallet one day when he was paying his check.
Eric Salo. Environmental Engineer. Ulmer Engineering Services. As it turned out, the walk from his office every day to the café took Salo right past Koller’s building, past Vanessa.
But tonight… tonight Vanessa wasn’t sure she felt like being passed. Idly smoothing her long straight hair with one hand, hugging her cool drink to her chest with the other, she eyed the crowd around and between Salo and herself. The hulking blond was standing on the opposite curb with his thickly banded arms crossed over his t-shirt-straining chest. Vanessa tried to seem like she was just scanning the crowd and enjoying the sight as she wandered a couple of steps toward the man, right up to the edge of the curb on her side of the street. Was he really watching her? His gaze skipped over the streams of people in their swirls and eddies, flowing up and down the sidewalks and in the barricaded roadway, but his attention did appear to keep snagging on Vanessa.
She sipped her mojito lemonade and wished distantly that it had been the real thing. Not because she needed any kind of liquid courage. If anything, Vanessa was always too bold for the people around her, like her overprotective brother and for people who thought fat girls ought to be (seldom) seen and not heard. But if she approached Eric Salo and he gave her that look, that ‘why would a chubby girl think I was watching her’ squint…. Or if he didn’t and actually had a full conversation with her that led to anything else, and Aubrey found out…. Well then, she could have blamed it on the alcohol. As it was, with virgin lemonade a weak justification, Vanessa was just going to have to admit that she was bad at keeping a low profile, at settling into the quiet little office jobs Aubrey wanted her to have instead of pursuing her public relations major, and at not talking to gorgeous blond strangers.
That step down from the curb sent a vibration up through Vanessa, and not just because she was wearing three-inch heels on her otherwise office-like shoes. She felt the electrical jolt reverberating through her rounded thighs, through her core, up her spine. Hell, even in her sorely neglected clitoris. It had been too long since she had allowed herself the luxury of flirtation, though she thought about it a million times a day. Lately, all million of those romantic, naughty, fanciful thoughts centered on the fantasy man in front of her. The man she was walking toward right that minute with intoxicating, exhilarating, terrifying adrenaline gushing through her body. The man who was, she sensed, watching her from behind those dark sunglasses.
~End Excerpt~
Have a good weekend, and happy reading!
Lots of paranormal romance on sale! Including:
Turning Wild by Erika Masten (Me me me!)
Drawn suddenly and violently into a world of shifters hiding among humans, Holly is learning that there’s more than one type of were to beware of. One is a threat to her life, another to her heart….
Curvy girl Holly Parker’s life has become a series of simple choices that somehow change the course of her entire future. Taking a shortcut home puts her on a collision course with a maniac who is not what he seems. Keeping her mouth shut about her attacker's fur and fangs lands her a job with a covert agency that tracks and exterminates supernaturals preying on their human neighbors. And now her decision to rely on her intimidatingly sexy neighbor, Dustin Berg, for protection when her wolfish stalker returns opens her eyes not only to the untamed power and passions of the were-soldiers known as Odin’s Wolves but to her place among them.
Caught between her duty to protect people from the kind of attack she suffered and her irresistible attraction to the man—the shifter—who has risked his life to save her from a creature he insists is an aberration hunted by other wolves as well, Holly must decide who is on her side and who is merely using her for their own purposes.
Also on sale at B&N, Apple, and All Romance.
We also have:
Bear Biker Love by Harper Ashe;
Her Forbidden Alpha by Tabitha Conall (also on sale at B&N);
Kiss the Dragon by Michelle Fox (also on sale at Apple);
Highand Wolf Pact by Selena Kitt (also at B&N, Apple, and Kobo);
Invisible Magic Book One: Alex Noziak by Mary Buckham (also at B&N);
Set in Stone by Aurrora St. James (also at B&N and Smashwords);
Witchy Wolf by Alexia Dare (also at B&N);
The Secret Wolf by Ana Fawkes;
Claiming His Fate by Ellis Leigh (also at B&N and Apple).
ALSO, for today and tomorrow, the promotional Aesir Shifters BBW romance short Wilding is FREE at Amazon:
Fear the wilding.
That’s what every werewolf learns, from the oldest alpha to the strongest Odin’s Wolf warrior and even their rival Fenris Wolves. The wilding steals the soul, the humanity, and finally the human form. A shifter lost to the wilding is a wolf, a man no more.
When natural scientist, forest ranger, and curvy girl Kimberly Ingalls finds herself forming a strangely emotional connection to the object of her observation, Wolf A217, she never dreams that her fantasies of what 217 would look like as a man would ever come true… until alpha werewolf Will finds himself called back from wolf form to claim his very human, very curvy mate.
Oh heck, while I'm at it, here's a teaser from A Prowl On The Wild Side: An Aesir Shifters BBW Romance Novella (Aesir Shifters #3) due to be released this weekend!
~Excerpt~
And it was, as it turned out, all about a street fair. Great timing for Vanessa, who bristled excitedly at the energy and anticipation of the set-up process and the transformation of a commercial district into a huge outdoor party. Nine square blocks of music stages and spicy food stands sprouted up like flowers between cracks in the pavement as she prowled the thickening crowd in all its sensory glory. Passionate music, hot food, the bright colors of banners and stall signs and summer clothing, and dancing in the streets. Vanessa sipped on a virgin mojito lemonade and wove her way through the crowd with a smile on her face, a sway to her hips, and a lightness of heart that made it seem like a perfect evening, one where anything could happen….
Like finding a 6’4” Nordic Adonis smiling at her from across the street as Vanessa danced idly by herself in front of a guitarist jamming for tips. “Like sex and candy,” she muttered under her breath, immediately thinking of the eighties song. Eric Salo was both rolled into one. Vanessa laughed and shook her head at herself. “You’re talking to yourself, crazy girl.”
If there was ever a man to go crazy for…with that broad Scandinavian face, handsome at first in a tough guy way but then softened by dimples when he smiled and a suggestion of a cleft in his chin…. Vanessa took it in stride when she imagined—hallucinated?—that she could smell him from so far away, amid the throng of so many other people. Delusion or not, she caught the stirring scent of mandarin and rosemary under a woodsy overtone that reminded her of summer vacations in the mountains and the fantasy of sex in the forest. It was probably that she just remembered the smell from encountering her dream man on almost a daily basis.
Another heavy girl might have blushed furiously and turned her head away seeing the man gazing her direction with bright green eyes from over the top of his sunglasses, his shoulder-length blond hair stirring in the hot summer breeze. He wore a hint of a sensual smile on his lush lips as he stood there at ease in his strength. That was the thing—one of the things—that struck Vanessa about Eric Salo. He was one massive man, not just tall but hard and bulging with muscle, and yet he didn’t have that inhibition of movement that some bodybuilder types had. Salo moved with power but also sensual grace, like an animal in his prime, in his element.
Vanessa took a deep breath when she realized her stomach had tensed and started to flutter at the sight of her lunchtime fantasy guy. That was who Eric Salo was to her, that gorgeous hunk who always went to the same café she did for lunch every day, who always sat a couple of stools over from her at the counter right up against the window by the sidewalk, and who always chuckled at the same things she did—at the characters who inhabited these streets and gave them life and color. Like the swarthy young guitarist who had just fallen to his knees in front of Vanessa to bid for her attention, to amuse the crowd, as he did his best to channel Carlos Santana.
Vanessa laughed at the street musician’s antics but kept glancing past her shoulder toward her Viking Adonis. The woman tried not to shake her head at herself again, at the note of familiarity and even possessiveness—as well as hip-wriggling excitement—she felt around the blond stranger. She and Salo literally hadn’t said more than a couple of words to one another. It was an occasional, “Hi,” here and there or an, “Excuse me,” as one or the other got up to leave and had to brush close in the press of the lunchtime crowd. Beyond that… no more than sidelong glances and knowing smiles, and how much of that was Vanessa’s acutely vivid imagination? The only reason she even knew his name was because one of his business cards had fallen out of his wallet one day when he was paying his check.
Eric Salo. Environmental Engineer. Ulmer Engineering Services. As it turned out, the walk from his office every day to the café took Salo right past Koller’s building, past Vanessa.
But tonight… tonight Vanessa wasn’t sure she felt like being passed. Idly smoothing her long straight hair with one hand, hugging her cool drink to her chest with the other, she eyed the crowd around and between Salo and herself. The hulking blond was standing on the opposite curb with his thickly banded arms crossed over his t-shirt-straining chest. Vanessa tried to seem like she was just scanning the crowd and enjoying the sight as she wandered a couple of steps toward the man, right up to the edge of the curb on her side of the street. Was he really watching her? His gaze skipped over the streams of people in their swirls and eddies, flowing up and down the sidewalks and in the barricaded roadway, but his attention did appear to keep snagging on Vanessa.
She sipped her mojito lemonade and wished distantly that it had been the real thing. Not because she needed any kind of liquid courage. If anything, Vanessa was always too bold for the people around her, like her overprotective brother and for people who thought fat girls ought to be (seldom) seen and not heard. But if she approached Eric Salo and he gave her that look, that ‘why would a chubby girl think I was watching her’ squint…. Or if he didn’t and actually had a full conversation with her that led to anything else, and Aubrey found out…. Well then, she could have blamed it on the alcohol. As it was, with virgin lemonade a weak justification, Vanessa was just going to have to admit that she was bad at keeping a low profile, at settling into the quiet little office jobs Aubrey wanted her to have instead of pursuing her public relations major, and at not talking to gorgeous blond strangers.
That step down from the curb sent a vibration up through Vanessa, and not just because she was wearing three-inch heels on her otherwise office-like shoes. She felt the electrical jolt reverberating through her rounded thighs, through her core, up her spine. Hell, even in her sorely neglected clitoris. It had been too long since she had allowed herself the luxury of flirtation, though she thought about it a million times a day. Lately, all million of those romantic, naughty, fanciful thoughts centered on the fantasy man in front of her. The man she was walking toward right that minute with intoxicating, exhilarating, terrifying adrenaline gushing through her body. The man who was, she sensed, watching her from behind those dark sunglasses.
~End Excerpt~
Have a good weekend, and happy reading!
Friday, September 5, 2014
New Aesir Shifters Release FREE Today
Fun news to tell you this Friday! As part of a Freebie Fest with some of my favorite authors, I have release a short promotional Aesir Shifters BBW romance short story and made it FREE for the next three days on Amazon only.
Fear the wilding.
That’s what every werewolf learns, from the oldest alpha to the strongest Odin’s Wolf warrior and even their rival Fenris Wolves. The wilding steals the soul, the humanity, and finally the human form. A shifter lost to the wilding is a wolf, a man no more.
When natural scientist, forest ranger, and curvy girl Kimberly Ingalls finds herself forming a strangely emotional connection to the object of her observation, Wolf A217, she never dreams that her fantasies of what 217 would look like as a man would ever come true… until alpha werewolf Will finds himself called back from wolf form to claim his very human, very curvy mate.
Free this Friday-Sunday at Amazon (including Amazon US, UK, CA, and AU).
Also free:
Michelle Fox's First Moon, Selena Kitt's Temptation, Emme Rollin's Following Trouble, Jordan Bell's Her Secret Pleasure, AnnMarie Oakes' Romancing Rosalie, Tabitha Conall's Her Kilted Wolf, Starla Cole's The Rock Star Next Door, Sarah Makela's The Witch Who Cried Wolf, Victoria Wessex's The Curvy Vet and The Billionaire Cowboy, Linda Barlow's Blazing Nights, Adriana Hunter's Surrender, and Danielle Duncan's Evading Nevah!
ALL the links for all participating distributors are HERE!
The Freebie Fest also comes with a contest: http://www.rafflecopter.com/ rafl/display/e05c901529/
That’s what every werewolf learns, from the oldest alpha to the strongest Odin’s Wolf warrior and even their rival Fenris Wolves. The wilding steals the soul, the humanity, and finally the human form. A shifter lost to the wilding is a wolf, a man no more.
When natural scientist, forest ranger, and curvy girl Kimberly Ingalls finds herself forming a strangely emotional connection to the object of her observation, Wolf A217, she never dreams that her fantasies of what 217 would look like as a man would ever come true… until alpha werewolf Will finds himself called back from wolf form to claim his very human, very curvy mate.
Free this Friday-Sunday at Amazon (including Amazon US, UK, CA, and AU).
Also free:
Michelle Fox's First Moon, Selena Kitt's Temptation, Emme Rollin's Following Trouble, Jordan Bell's Her Secret Pleasure, AnnMarie Oakes' Romancing Rosalie, Tabitha Conall's Her Kilted Wolf, Starla Cole's The Rock Star Next Door, Sarah Makela's The Witch Who Cried Wolf, Victoria Wessex's The Curvy Vet and The Billionaire Cowboy, Linda Barlow's Blazing Nights, Adriana Hunter's Surrender, and Danielle Duncan's Evading Nevah!
ALL the links for all participating distributors are HERE!
The Freebie Fest also comes with a contest: http://www.rafflecopter.com/
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