Midnight Reading New Release: Silver Wolf Rising by Sela Carsen

Fate couldn't have picked a worse moment to bring two lonely souls together.

Berserker warrior and drill sergeant Niall is being forced to retire from the Fenrir Army he's faithfully served for most of his life. Miserable and bitter, he's on the pack ship, waiting for a transport back to his home planet to be a farmer. Until trouble steps right on his prosthetic foot just as all Hel breaks loose. 

Widowed Dagny is on the pack ship waiting for a transport down to Earth, searching for a new purpose in this next phase of her life -- one that isn't centered around her grown children. But her new plans definitely don't involve following a cranky old soldier into the dark to survive.

When enemy Axis powers invade the ship, blasting up the heat on a cold war, Niall and Dagny have to team up to save themselves and their shipmates, and to explore the lifescent that is drawing them together. 

Together for now, but will fate be enough to keep them that way after the battle is over?

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New Release: Under Fire by Denise A. Agnew

Under Fire 
by Denise A. Agnew
www.deniseagnew.com

Genre: Erotic Romance Suspense/Thriller | Novella

Book two in the Love Under Fire series

When the stakes are high, there’s only one man she’ll trust when danger rips her world apart.

Kathleen McSwain truly understands the saying “always the bridesmaid, never the bride”. Was she nuts the day she agreed to be a bridesmaid for the eighth time? Especially when it means she’ll be in close proximity to rugged Army Major Jake Frasier—the man she fell in love with when they were in high school.

Being out of control is the last thing Kathleen wants, and Jake tempts her to be the wild woman she used to be. Jake is too hot, too disturbing, too stirring for her blood. But when gunfire strikes close, the fight for survival will forge a bond deeper than they ever imagined.

Inside Scoop: The couples in the Love Under Fire series find love through the crucible of a mall shooting event.

A Romantica® erotic romantic suspense from Ellora’s Cave

Check out the contest starting January 1, 2014 on Denise's website and blog for a chance to win, as she celebrates the release of her newest book, Under Fire!

Available at Ellora's Cave NOW.  http://www.ellorascave.com/under-fire.html

Coming to Amazon.com, B&N, and other fine retail outlets soon!

Hot eBook Fun - MetalMark by Ella Drake

MetalMark by Ella Drake

I love SFR (Science Fiction Romance) having cut my teeth on authors like Ursula K. LeGuin, C.J. Cherryh, Sharon Green, Carole Nelson Douglas, Saranne Dawson, Linnea Sinclair, and Tara K. Harper. So I have certain expectations when I read SFR. But since I’m a relative newcomer to Steampunk and Gaslight romances, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I opened MetalMark by author Ella Drake.

The hero of her story is a futuristic prince née figurehead named Lye, whose world, Brutus, is steam-powered. Known as Lye the Keeper, he’s under the parasitical thumb of the universe’s bad guys, The Syndicate. With Brutus under occupation by Syndicate overseers and his people enslaved with the insectoid MetalMarks, he’s left with no option but to give in to their demands and hope to help his people by way of a seat on the The Syndicate’s council.

In a very fun turn of events, help comes to the rescue in the form of one Jazzelina Eval, an infamous space pirate queen. Jazz makes a deal with a black marketeer to kidnap the handsome prince, but once she gets a look at him, she decides to keep him for herself.

Plenty of intrigue, romance, and swashbuckling futuristic derring-do, MetalMark rates high marks as a sexy and fun ebook.

Disclosure: While I did win this ebook in a contest, that doesn’t change my opinion of the skilled story craft of the author, or enjoyable nature of this novel.

Available from Lyrical Press

Let Sleeping Dragons Lie...

It's time to let our dragons get some sleep and time to say nite nite, but not until you know about the final contest today...a chance to win a download of my two most recent ebook releases, Naughty Little Secrets and Open Season (Prize #E).

Leave a comment and let me know if you are a subscriber to my newsletter group on yahoo, a follower on my FACEBOOK author page, follower of my website or blog page, or follow me on Twitter. Each "follow" gives you an extra entry, and no fibbing because dragons can sniff out a fibber from a mile away! lol.

If you don't follow any of the above, you can still enter, but you'll only get one entry. To learn how to follow me on the various social media streams, check out the links on my right sidebar. Contest ends Monday (2/20/12) at midnight! And good luck! May you tiptoe quietly past the sleeping dragons guarding the treasure chest and find shiny baubles and fun booty!

Cass

p.s. if you haven't entered or seen the other contests posted today, scroll down and check them out.

The Open Season Party Rocks On...

Hi there! If you are just now dropping by, please scroll down and read all the posts for today, so you can enter all the contests!

Warning: Adult content, excerpt. Viewer discretion advised. :D Must be over 18+ to read.

Excerpt from Open Season by Cassandra Curtis, ©2012.

Whether the humans only acted as observers, or full participants in the hunt, he knew the decision would mean sweeping changes to his people’s way of life…and his own. The opportunity to call Season his life mate should be worth any price—except her safety. He’d do anything, including push her away, to keep her safe from harm.

If he showed too much care for her welfare, or treated her any differently than other fawns he’d trained in the past, his enemies would know. The war had already placed a high a burden on him, and cost him dearly. Ignoring Season pained him, but losing her through an act of revenge or retribution for something he’d done in the war, twisted his guts in knots.

Quinn stretched, back arched, his shoulders pulled forward in preparation for the change. Dense connective tissue twined together, forming elongated fingers on the underside of his arms. Leathery membrane grew between the new cartilage and bone. Stretched from wing tip to tip, the span neared twenty feet long.

He lowered onto his haunches and gazed one last time at the building across the street. Smoke unfurled from his flared nostrils as he saw Nalita lock the heavy double doors and chain them tight. She turned, a stun-stick in her hand. Good girl. The weapon was a nasty piece of work, hard to obtain unless you had connections inside the police force or within the upper echelon of black marketers—both of which Nalita had.

“I take it we’re not driving?” Jace dropped to his knees, as similar bat-like wings sprouted from his back. His clothes dissolved beneath shiny blue and gold scales, absorbed into his very DNA matrix.

“Not this time. We fly!” Quinn stepped off the roof and soared into the emerging dawn of an amethyst streaked sky.

***CONTEST ALERT***

What colors are Jace's scales?
Leave a comment on this post with your answer to the question and you'll be entered into the drawing for prize D. Winner will be drawn from all correct entries.
Contest ends Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 at midnight. Good Luck!

Open Season Party continues...

Season version #1

When I created the heroine of my story, Open Season, I played with various looks using my own avatar in Second Life. SL (for those who are unfamiliar with virtual worlds) is a little like a 3D chat room, combined with electronic virtual paper dolls. You can dress up your avatar with clothing, hair, eyes, make-up, shoes, body shape, and skin.

Season version #2

For an author, it's a veritable paint set and character work sheet for the mind's eye. Just about anything can be created in SL and you can walk and talk, and make your avatar dance! It's really one of the neatest tools for character creation I've ever encountered.

Season version #3

I also do storytelling from my own ebooks in SL and will be reading excerpts from Open Season in voice in SL this coming Tuesday, 4:30pm SLT (which is the same as Pacific time) at the Eternal Desires sim. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eternal%20Desires/161/214/25
The event lasts about an hour, and I'll be happy to stick around a few extra minutes for anyone who has questions about my books. :-)

If you already have an account, just log into SL and once in there, you can click on the above link and receive an invitation to be automatically teleported to the location where my event will be held. How cool is that? If you are not a member of SL, membership on the basic plan is FREE and easy to set up. To learn more, go to: http://secondlife.com/whatis/?lang=en-US

Since it's in voice, remember to bring your headphones so you can hear me during the reading, but please be courteous and leave your mic and talk button off so you and everyone else can listen to the story. I promise it'll be worth it. :D

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
4:30PM SLT
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eternal%20Desires/161/214/25

Join RL author Cassandra Curtis as she reads a selection from her latest book, Open Season. Set on a colony world in an alternate universe where dragons shapeshift into human form and take submissive lovers they call 'fawns', the story asks what we would be willing to risk to find our perfect love, and what we'd be willing to do to keep them safe.

A submissive-in-training, Season knows the boundaries, but that doesn't stop her from crossing them, or from falling in love with her master and wanting more. When the ban against life-mating between humans and Dragonkind is lifted, she jumps at the chance to enter the ritual hunt and claim her master as mate. Despite the dangers and risks, she knows their love is worth it, even if her masterful dragon doesn't.

Material is erotic in nature and meant for adult audiences. Must be 18+ to attend. Contains strong graphic sexual language. Event is in voice. Headphones required.

Open Season by Cassandra Curtis, published by Amber Heat, an imprint of Amber Quill Press, and available at Amber Heat website, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Apple iTunes, and other digital booksellers on February 19, 2012 world-wide release date.

If you haven't entered the earlier contests, scroll down and read the other posts today and enter to win! A list of all the prizes being given away today can be found at the bottom of the very first party post.

***CONTEST ALERT***

Prize C is up for grabs and here's what you need to do to enter! Email me at cass [at] cassandra curtis [dot] com (no spaces) and tell me which snapshot version of my heroine Season you liked best. Please include your snail mail address so you can receive your prize. Contest ends midnight, Monday, February 20, 2012, and the winner will be announced here on my blog. Good Luck!

Upcoming Attractions...

Wanted to share some cover love and the blurb for my next ebook, entitled Naughty Little Secrets. Thanks to friends and authors Grace Draven and Alicia Richardson, I have a neat cover for my wicked little story.

Here's the blurb:

Aspiring author Stacie Purcell writes her secret fantasies in a red ‘story binder’ she carries around in her oversized slouch bag. When she misplaces the binder, and risks exposing all her naughty little secrets, she’s desperate to get the binder back.

Tyler Murchison finds the binder in his garage waiting room, and remembers the shy blonde who had been writing in it earlier that day. When he picks it up, a color print-out falls to the floor…a diagram of various sexual positions! Intrigued by Stacie’s erotic fantasies, he returns the binder, and in doing so, gives Stacie a chance to experience all the incredible sexual delights she writes about. But can a night of steamy sex lead to something more?

Meeting of The Minds and New Releases From Friends

I've spent the better half of a week planning future good things with my CP Cora Zane, plus finishing up projects so I can get them out the door and into readers hot little hands. :-)

Speaking of projects, Cora's project turned ebook is coming out today (look for it sometime this afternoon on Cobblestone's website) called Wicked Obsession. The book is a sequel to her best-selling ebook, Wicked Temptation.

Once she gets approval on her official blurb and excerpt, I've invited her to drop by and talk about her latest ebook, so ya'll watch for that.

Another friend of mine is Jennifer Colgan and her latest ebook is available on Smashwords and Amazon.com. I love the cover and the story is flat out fabulous! You. Must. Read. Married To The MIB!


Blurb:
Spence is a MIB, a special agent dedicated to protecting Earth from extraterrestrial threats. Three years ago, he fell in love with Dulcie, an alien abductee. Now the fate of an empire rests on Dulcie’s hidden memories of their affair. It’s Spence’s mission to retrieve them. It should be easy, but will Spence be able to remain objective when the love of his life experiences total recall?

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