One True Love, by Lori Wilde

Lori Wilde has a cute little Novella out today. Definitely one for the TBR pile.

One True Love

A Cupid Texas Novella #0.5

By: Lori Wilde

Avon Impulse

Release Date May 21^st, 2013

100 pages

In Cupid, Texas, they say everyone has one true love. And if you write a letter to Cupid, you will get an answer in return . . .

Now, from New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde, read how the legend of Cupid began . . . All it took was one great love story!

Too bad for pretty young housemaid Millie Greenwood that her one true love is John Fant, the handsomest, wealthiest man in town. But in 1924, a maid—no matter how lovely—isn't about to marry into the town's foremost family, and John is on the verge of becoming betrothed to another. Everything seems hopeless until Millie writes a desperate letter to Cupid, and the most romantic legend of all is born …

  

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Author Info

LORI WILDE is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty books. A former RITA finalist, Lori has received the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Holt Medallion, the Booksellers Best, the National Readers’ Choice, and numerous other honors. She lives in Texas, with her husband and a wide assortment of pets. Lori teaches Romance Writing Secrets via the internet through colleges and universities worldwide at www.ed2g.com. Visit her at www.loriwilde.comor @LoriWilde on Twitter.

Lori’s Links:

www.loriwilde.com

twitter handle is @LoriWilde

https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Lori-Wilde/126384860719020?fref=ts

Cupid Texas Series

Love at First Sight Release Date May 28^th, 2013

All Out of Love Release Date June 25^th, 2013

Goodreads link: http://www.goodreads.com/series/99988-cupid-texas

#SexySnippets ... Sinfully Summer

Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by. I know, it’s been a while since I took part in Sexy Snippets (shame on me, because it’s fabulous!). Today, as promised, I’m sharing seven sentences from one of my June releases, Sinfully Summer.

The lush Spanish hunk, Enrique Castillo (or Ric for short) has just caught Alexa Green and her friends sneaking back into the hotel in the wee hours of the morning. This would be perfectly acceptable—she is on a girlie holiday in Marbella after all—but she’s supposed to be at a meeting with him early the next day, and his patience is wearing thin.

‘Castillo, what part of my feet are dead didn’t you understand? I can’t walk!’

Agitation twisted in his stomach. He took a deep breath, and Alexa bent over. Her backcombed bob upturned and her bottom up in the air like a perfectly rounded peach. Swallowing against the lump in his throat, he asked, ‘What are you doing?’

‘Extracting the Jimmy Choos in the hope of resuscitating my poor feet.’

Sun, Sea and Scandal

Notorious heiress Alexa Green has certainly been enjoying her most recent girls-holiday in Marbella. Just as we thought, she’s been knocking back the cocktails and showing off her fabulous bikini body on the beach… but rumour has it she’s also been spotted sneaking out of Enrique Castillo’s penthouse in the early hours of this morning – in nothing but her underwear! Our question is, doesn’t this fiercely private billionaire know what he’s letting himself in for?

He’s got the millions… and she knows how to spend them! So lie back on your sun lounger and get comfortable, because this summer fling is going to be a sizzler!

Need more? Well, you don’t have long to wait. Sinfully Summer will be available from 13^th June 2013!

You can find more sexy snippets here.

xoxo

Bidding Wars - Review & Excerpt

My good friend and talented author, Lacey Wolfe, has a new release out right now. Bidding Wars is a very sweet (closed door) romance, but still zings with sensual tension. Luke and Molly go head to head for the house of their dreams, but with both their hearts on the line, and more than a house at stake, who will win? The blossoming relationship between the two had me on the edge of my seat, especially with all the angst over the house going on along with it.

Luke is the sexy Sheriff looking out for his young son and he’s the perfect hero. Strong, sensitive, and caring. His neglectful and selfish ex-wife made me feel for him more, and Molly too, as it happens.

Molly has just gone through a divorce, and is wary about trusting men—especially as she has a secret of her own, one she thinks will make men run a mile. Bless her heart.

But when the two fall, they fall hard. If you love deeply emotive romance with a little humour and sizzle thrown in, Bidding Wars is the book for you. I admit, I’m not the biggest fan of closed door romance but Lacey has worked this perfectly. She has just the right amount of sizzle, and more than made up for the closed door stuff for me with everything else. A fabulous read. I can’t wait for the second in the series.

Bidding Wars

Love Strikes, Book 1

By Lacey Wolfe

A sheriff, plus a nurse, plus a house, equals trouble.

Molly Harper has had a tough year. Realizing enough is enough, she decides to regain control of her life – starting with buying the house of her dreams.

Luke Logan is also looking to buy a home and when one pops up near his street, he decides to check it out. Getting out of the renting game will help in the custody battle for his son.

Finding a house and falling in love with it—that’s the easy part. But learning that someone else wants it too, and is willing to fight for it, heralds the start of a desperate bidding war. The offers are on the table, but when the bidders come face to face, and love strikes, the price of happiness suddenly becomes higher than ever.

The more Nurse Molly and Sheriff Luke get to know each other, the more they wonder if their feud over the house is really worth it. As their bids increase, so does their affection for one another. But with the settlement date fast approaching, doubts begin to creep in. With only one set of keys, and so much at stake, could a risky twist on the bidding process hold the answer? 

Excerpt

Luke stared at the papers in front of him. His real estate agent had faxed them over. Apparently, more than one person wanted the place on Maple Street, and he now needed to decide if he wanted to offer any higher.

He’d really liked the old house. It would be great for when his son came to visit every other weekend. But now he had to decide how badly he wanted the place. Of course, this could be some gimmick from the sellers. They knew what a gem they had there and probably wanted the most they could get. He had forty-eight hours to come up with his new offer, if he decided to. He already had a good offer on the house—but was it good enough? He rubbed his temples and brushed the papers to the side of his desk. If he didn’t get it, there were other homes.

Some sort of commotion was coming from the front of the station. It was always something. Sometimes he wished that one day at work could be slow and boring. Perhaps he should have chosen a different profession.

He went to see what was going on. At the front desk, he found a very familiar-looking brunette demanding to talk to someone. Women were never patient when they needed something.

“Ma’am, calm down. I’m Sheriff Logan. Can I help you?”

The woman looked him square in the eye. “You! You’re who I am looking for.”

He flinched beneath her bold, accusing stare. “Why don’t we go back to my office, and we’ll see what I can help you with.”

She followed him down the hall, her heels clicking loudly on the tiled floor. This woman was really uptight. He took a seat and pointed toward the chair in front of his desk, but she didn’t sit. She looked as though she was ready to burst.

“I won’t be here long enough to get comfortable.”

“Tell me what’s going on.”

“You’re trying to steal my house,” she snapped.

Other Books in the Series:

It Must Be Fate – coming soon!

Buy Links:

AmazonUK / AmazonUS 

Lacey’s Website

Website

I got the call!

I’ve always dreamed of writing a post titled with those four words, and now I can. I’m so excited so please excuse the rambling. Harper Collins’ brand new UK imprint, HarperImpulse, will be publishing my book and not just that, but I have just signed a three book contract with them. I know, I’m feeling a little faint too.

So you want to know what happened? Most people kick off their call stories from the second that email from the editor pinged in their inbox asking to call, or from when they submitted, and even though those two events were momentous and led me to writing this post, I’m going to start from the second my mobile phone rang at work.

I had been expecting a call, but had convinced myself it wasn’t the call.

“We’d like to buy your book.”

*Cue gibberish*

Now I don’t usually sound like a reject from Braveheart, but you wouldn’t think by my attempt at answering poor Charlotte! She couldn’t understand half of what I said (and I don’t blame her, I couldn’t either). While trying to focus enough not to scream when my boss had an elderly client next door, my brain was tapped out to the point of stupidity. Thankfully they didn’t whip the offer away from the crazy lady who couldn’t string together a coherent sentence.

And the most incoherent, but best call ever, came just two weeks ago. Since then I’ve had to keep my lips zipped (which is the hardest thing I’ve ever done by the way). I told my parents and haven’t shut up about it since. They’ll be glad the news is out now. Means they don’t have to listen to me go on and on and on…and on.

So I’m going to tell anyone who will listen (sorry in advance, can’t help it!). Here’s the cover of my first release with HarperImpulse! What do you all think? I LOVE it. It suits the story (and my heroine) perfectly.

More about Ric and Alexa’s story is coming very soon. If any of you read my SYTYCW entry, Flirting With Trouble, then you’ll all have a rough idea of how it begins with Alexa running around a hotel in her underwear and stumbling into the sexy Enrique Castillo’s penthouse. Not much has changed from that first chapter, so if you loved it then, stick 13^th June (release day) in your calendars!

Hope you all have a good weekend. Pop by on Sunday for a sneak peak of Sinfully Summer. I’ll make it a great one ;o)

xoxo

To Pube or Not To Pube

So, we’ve had different variations on sex this week, but what about the decoration? I’m all for bare is better, but my good friend Michelle Smart disagrees. She’s been lovely enough to come share her opinion on the matter and she almost swayed me. Almost, but not quite ;o). Take it away Chellebelle…

Pubic hair. Pubes. Something every adult human on the planet grows a nice thatch of (medical exemptions permitted). Indeed, for most adolescents, the appearance of pubic hair is as much a right-of-passage as the development of breasts and whatever it is that happens to men’s testicles that turns them into dangly things.

But a strange thing is afoot. When I was a teenager, it was normal to shave (or wax depending on personal pain thresholds and bravery) the bikini line. But time moves on. Just like the massive bushes that were beloved of seventies porn stars became passé, now it appears that any public hair is considered gross. Perfectly normal body hair is now something to be shaved/waxed/plucked off the second it appears. * Apparently it is normal to want to keep the vagina one had as a child. Hmmm.

And it’s not just the females who are docily removing the evidence that they are adults; men are catching on to it too. I swear, if I ever become ruler of the world, I will make it illegal for men to shave their chests or go anywhere near their cocks with a razor. Take Artem from Strictly Come Dancing. Now, that man has one heck of a manly chest – or he would have if he didn’t keep shaving/waxing it off (and yes, I do know this for a fact because at the beginning of the last series he had his chest out and you could see all the lovely dark hair growing through – within weeks it had gone). Pah!

Is this a permanent trend I wonder? Will humans eventually evolve into hairless wonders (after all, if we can’t be arsed to keep it, why should nature bother?)? Or will we go the other way? Will we go back to our seventies hey-day and grow pubes long enough to plait or create fabulous topiary out of? Will we ever return to the days when a woman thought twice about wearing a white bikini?

And will Artem ever grow his chest hair back for my delectation?

*One good thing about this pubeless trend is that, according to medical experts, cases of pubic lice are at their lowest levels ever.

Michelle’s Links:

Website / Twitter / Facebook / Goodreads 

*Aimee* 

So guys, what do you think? 

Hair...

V
bare...

Leave your vote in the comments! 

xoxo

Words of Wisdom ... with Warren from Double Trouble

The week of debauchery continues with another man who claims to be quiet but I’ve read his book and in this case appearances are deceiving. Meet Warren from Double Trouble (book three in Melissa Blue’s Modern Fairy Tale Series).

First up, a warning from Melissa…

Author's Note: Warren has a fear of public speaking. I kept telling him what I need and he kept replying with, “You want me to do what?” He's quite stubborn when he wants to be. So, this is what I managed to get him to say. I apologize in advance.

Take it away Warren…

I'm the quiet guy. The guy who gets shelved into the nice guy category because he's not an outright douchebag. Yeah, men are notorious for not being big on talk in the first place, but I live in that quiet place so I hear all the words that aren't spoken. I'm also a writer. Words are my stock and trade so I should be a pro at conversation, communicating and the like. Unfortunately, I'm not and sometimes that means folks notice me and then there eyes sort of skip over to someone who is louder, more present.

But in the quiet you can hear a soft sigh, a moan filled with pleasure and agony and a shyly whispered demand of harder. And that's the thing. I don't have to talk at a woman to hear her tell me exactly what she wants. It's all in the slight rock of her hips, her fingernails digging into my back or doing something she may not even know she wants. You'd be surprised by the reaction one gets from a well-timed and well-place ass smack. And when I do talk it's to tell that woman how good she feels wet and tight around me.

I am by no stretch of the imagination an Alpha male. Not matter what anyone says. I know what I want. I learn what my woman wants. If she does what I ask it's not because I demanded her to.

So, like I said, I'm a quiet guy.

Author's Note: He has Alpha tendencies. Don't believe him. His story isn't out yet, but you can catch up on a Modern Fairy Tale series with the first two books.

Double Dare:

First impressions are lasting impressions...

Pastry baker Emmaline Sharp is one business  connection  away from  turning her bakery into something more  than the dessert shop on the corner. She believes she’s found Mr. Right in café owner Tobias Merchant. His Caff-aholic brand of freshly brewed coffee makes him the perfect partner. When she accepts a dare that thrusts her naked self into Tobias’ waiting arms, she jeopardizes her entire future. Emma will have to convince him to give her another chance, and somehow she'll just have to ignore the unexpected passion he ignites within her.

Tobias needs the connection with Emma’s bakery, Sweet Tooth, in order to liberate himself from the financial and emotional obligations of his past. Unfortunately, Emma's reckless behavior leaves him doubting she can be level-headed and business savvy. Every one of his instincts tells him to walk away, but she’s a temptation he can't seem to deny. He's inexplicably drawn to the lightness in her, especially when he knows just how dark the world can be. Against his better judgment, Tobias ignores his instincts and proceeds to form a partnership with Emma.

When their relationship shifts from business to personal,  will  Emma and Tobias  be able to conquer their  demons  and  find their sweet reward before the deal turns sour?

Twice Smitten:

Abigail Johnson would use three words to describe Drew Carter: lush, loafer and womanizer. When he struts into Adtivity, the advertisement company she works for, her world tilts on its head. He's been hired as a consultant to help her ad account team go to the next level. She’s suddenly faced with a man who is a consummate professional, considerate and kind. It’s must be a farce, because he’s there to decide the fate of her career. When things heat up between them, she refuses to let those brief glimpses convince her to entangle herself in a relationship with him. Her career and heart is on the line.

Drew Carter is fully aware of Abigail's trepidation. There's no denying he hasn’t always been the kind of man a woman should trust, but no one woman has ever made him want the way Abigail has. Her stubbornness, loyalty and honesty appeals to his secret wish—to be open, unguarded and challenged by a woman. Abigail fulfills this unspoken need and he refuses to let her walk out of his life without giving them a chance.

It doesn’t take long for Abigail to suspect Drew just might be the one—the one. But can she trust him with her heart? The more she lets doubt rule her it just might be Drew’s heart that ends up broken.

Links to where Double Dare and Twice Smitten can be purchased:

You can purchase Double Dare here:

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Smashwords
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You can purchase Twice Smitten here:

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ARe
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Words of Widsom ... Captain Flint

Yesterday I had the lovely Incy Black sharing her wisdom on those love scenes, and it’s fantastic. I did wonder though, what about sex way back when it wasn’t as forward and out there as it is now. What was it like for a woman, or a man, who didn’t have sex slapped in their face whenever they walked down the street and saw a billboard, or flicked on the TV and saw an advertisement? Did they see it as a duty, a necessity to creating a child, or for the simple (albeit dangerous since there was no protection) pleasure of the act.

So today Shehanne Moore has been kind enough to lend me her Captain James Flint from The Unraveling of Lady Fury to shed some light on the matter. I do appreciate him popping over, but I’m going to keep it zipped because Fury scares me a little.  

Take it away Flint...

While I can’t tell you the nice change it is being asked along here today in place of my worst half Fury—it was bound to happen, that you’d prefer me eventually—first up I want to thank Aimee here for thinking of me.  And not just for the blog either.

But, being as I want her keeping that pretty little face of hers, I’m not going to say.  No, what I’m going to do, to try to anyway this being sex week here’n all, is to answer that age-old question... How to please a woman in bed?

See, this probably sounds easy for me, when you get described like as having hands of velvet and a body of silk. ‘He knew how to please and he enjoyed being pleased.’  And I suppose I really should have taken it as a compliment that I got all these rules slapped on me cos a certain someone didn’t want pleased. And I guess I am kind of naturally hot and horny. So I just bet you’re thinking all the dirty things I can get up to. And now I’m going to list fifteen of them.

Well I could. I could give you this tip and that little tip too. Sexy ways to move and all. Particular levels of lighting, aphrodisiac foods, how you should smell good too. Way I see it though is that you want to satisfy a woman in bed, you got to pamper her a little.  Even if it’s a quickie she has to know she’s so desirable, you just can’t help yourself. Okay, so that sounds little sexist. Maybe even a little selfish, which really, you want to know how to really satisfy a woman, you should never be. 

See, a woman is fundamentally different from a man that way. We can get aroused faster. In fact we can get aroused over damn near anything. So a woman needs to know from the outset, she’s not getting all lathered up for nothing.  This is going to be worth the ride, that she is going to be taken complete care of.  Nothing rushed. Nothing fumbled.  Just pure enjoyment for her.

Now, which of you sexy ladies out there is gonna disagree with that?

About the author:  Captain James Flint Blackmoore is the son of a midwife-whore from Savannah. Despite the fact he never had a father, bastard is not the word Lady Fury would use to describe him. Skunk neither.

He spent years sailing the Caribbean, where he was a much feared privateer who once offered the chance of walking the plank or getting into his bed, an action his creator, Shehanne Moore almost had trouble getting past the copy editors, although he did at least let Lady Fury eat supper first.

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As an indentured servant, Flint spent some time in Genoa, masquerading as his own cabin boy.  He loves boats, sailing, plundering, rum, callaloo and despite it all, a certain woman.

He is the fictional creation of author Shehanne Moore.

Contact links

https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/.wordpress.com/

http://furiousunravelings.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/ShehanneMoore

https://pinterest.com/shehanne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaTv5I170o0

http://shehannemooreweeblycom.weebly.com/books.html

http://www.facebook.com/.../Shehanne-Moore/163736780417433

Rule One: There will be no kissing. Rule two: There will be no touching…

Widowed Lady Fury Shelton hasn’t lost everything—yet. As long as she produces the heir to the Beaumont dukedom, she just might be able to keep her position. And her secrets. But when the callously irresistible Captain James “Flint” Blackmoore sails back into her life, Lady Fury panics. She must find a way to protect herself—and her future—from the man she’d rather see rotting in hell than sleeping in her bed. If she must bed him to keep her secrets, so be it. But she doesn’t have to like it. A set of firm rules for the bedroom will ensure that nothing goes awry. Because above all else, she must stop herself from wanting the one thing that Flint can never give her. His heart.

Ex-privateer Flint Blackmoore has never been good at following the rules. Now, once again embroiled in a situation with the aptly named Lady Fury, he has no idea why he doesn’t simply do the wise thing and walk away. He knows he’s playing with fire, and that getting involved with her again is more dangerous than anything on the high seas. But he can’t understand why she’s so determined to hate him. He isn’t sure if the secret she keeps will make things harder—or easier—for him, but as the battle in the bedroom heats up, he knows at least one thing. Those silly rules of hers will have to go…

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