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This Week: A Stepbrother and A Grumpy Bear Are Released…Books Worth Clicking For

Sharing books that have crossed my path this week, including two books I was privileged to be an early reader of, two pre-orders I can’t wait to get my hands on, a new author and a holiday romance that makes me want to have a margarita.  Check them out and show them some love!

NEW RELEASES 

 

Astra Rose's Inevitable

If taboo romance is your cup of tea, Astra Rose does it very, very well. I read an early copy of this, and Hailey, Xander and Cole are delicious together.

My stepbrother Cole and his best friend Xander have tormented and teased me for years, but last summer things changed between us. I should have known better than to let myself fall in love with Cole; to let him take advantage of me, to be vulnerable to him. Now that we’re all back home for another summer, I’ve promised myself I won’t let him get to me. Him or Xander. But it turns out that this is the summer that changes everything — our family, my future, and the three of us. The truth is, we were all set on this path long ago. What happens between Cole and Xander and I has always been inevitable. ♥ Inevitable is an MMF menage romance. It is the sequel to Stepbully, but can be read as a stand-alone. ♥ Link

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goldilocks and the Grumpy Bear

If witty banter and smoking-hot chemistry is your kind of read, check out Kacie West’s Goldilocks and the Grumpy Bear. I got to read an early copy and I zipped right through it. It made me laugh out loud and fall in love with Declan and Natalie; I’m sure you will too! Link

He’s too grumpy. She’s all sunshine. But together they might fit just right. Single dad Declan Lowery is trying to have a peaceful holiday with his son. That is until Natalie Taylor plows into his front gate, all sunshine and Christmas cheer. While his son is delighted by her quirky fun, Declan knows he should find her a way home. He’s a famously grumpy ball player-he’s not running a damn bed and breakfast. But they’re stuck together while they wait for the storm to pass. Soon she’s baking cookies and tempting him to take a bite. And Declan’s list for Santa becomes a taste of her sweet lips and a chance to thread his fingers through those golden waves. The Grumpy Bear should never fall for Goldilocks, but when the snow clears it might already be too late. Author note: Goldilocks and the Grumpy Bear is a stand-alone grumpy sunshine Christmas novella between a single dad professional baseball player and a quirky high school history teacher. May contain lots of laughs, holiday cheer, and Metros baseball fun. Kacie West is a pen name for the author duo Jenni Bara and AJ Ranney.

 

 

cover for a very merry margarita mix-up

Next, a cinnamon roll firefighter and a baker, can’t get much yummier than that! Link

They say don’t kiss your best friend. I accidentally kissed her twin sister.
Jules and Hailey Milsom couldn’t be more different. Except they’re identical twins. One is my best friend. The other is the new girl in town, searching for a family she never knew existed.It’s just my luck that when I finally make a move on my best friend, I share the best kiss of my life with a stranger. Any sane person would realize this is hopeless. But when the red-haired beauty needs a reason to stay in Bristol, I double down and try to make every one of her Christmas dreams come true. And I kiss her…again and again. But the one thing she really wants, a relationship with her twin, may be the one Christmas wish I can’t deliver. And this mix-up may be nothing more than a mistake. Authors Note: A Very Merry Margarita Mix-Up is a steamy standalone set in Bristol Bay that features a cinnamon roll firefighter, a sweet baker, small town shenanigans and all the Christmas joy your heart can handle.

 

NEW AUTHOR

Curse of the Raven cover

Give a new author some love! Check out Brittany Wright’s debut novel, which is perfect if you need something dark and twisted. Link

Sometimes, there is no happily ever after.
Ember has spent the last twenty years of her life in a dance with the devil.
Derek is a broken and narcissistic man, but Ember wants nothing more than to make things work with him.
A woman with a tendency to attract people that aren’t good for her is trapped in a nightmare created by the love of her life.
Sasha’s therapeutic methods are unconventional, but as Ember guides her through a maze of fear and love, it will take everything she knows to bring them both out the other side.
If Ember can’t learn to see her toxic relationship for what it is, there could be devastating consequences
Curse of the Raven is a contemporary novel about overcoming your demons.
Readers should be mindful of the trigger warning listed at the beginning of the book.

 

UPCOMING BOOKS! CHECK OUT THESE HOT PRE-ORDERS!

 

THE DRUMMER , COVER

The Drummer by Carla Krae makes me wish I had a drummer in my past. Grab this at the special pre-order price! Link

Lincoln Adams was only supposed to be a drunken mistake, the consequence of a little too much Christmas wedding eggnog and loneliness.
Once he’s asleep, I sneak out of his apartment expecting to never see the drummer again.
Except I left my guitar at his friend’s house.
And my earring on his floor.
An earring he uses to leverage me into a lunch date where he starts chipping away at the armor erected around my heart with his too-insightful mind and gorgeous green eyes. His touch heats up my body with a need I’ve never felt before. I won’t do a relationship ever again, but a surprise mutual connection brings us together for a week of sharing and sensual delights.
Seven days of friends with benefits, then we go our separate ways.
What happens in Virginia can stay in Virginia—right?
This story is intended for readers 18 and over due to adult language, sexual content, and adult situations.

 

unwrapping mountain man

Yes, please! I’ll take a Mountain Man and OMG a modern-day mail-order bride? Yeah, I’m here for it. Link

Replying to a spam email to be a mail-order bride may not have been the smartest thing I had ever done, but it’s too late to change it.
But with no prospects, and standing on the brink of homelessness I had nothing to lose.
The promise of a quiet marriage to a wealthy mountain man didn’t seemed like everything I needed.
But when that man turns out to be the man from the poster that hung on my wall as a teen, was I ready for a life in the limelight?
Andrew
When my football career was over, all I wanted was to lead a quiet life away from cameras. Settling on a mountainside in Montana was the perfect escape.
The only problem there wasn’t any women around.
That’s where the Mountain Heart Email Order Bride Company comes in.
When my soon to be bride arrives with tempting curves and hidden secret I can’t help but wonder.
Will ours be the life I longed to live, or the one I longed to leave behind?

 

Going to end this edition of Books Worth Clicking For , with a reminder that Flame True, Book Four in the Bandit Brothers Series, is on pre-order at a special pre-order price. Grab it here

Ah! Chasing Words. Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit! Happy November!

This week, I felt like I was in some kind of time warp with the weather! 20C in November? Yeah, I’ll take that. Last year my cubs were trick-or-treating in an ice storm. This year, they did it in sweaters.

And maybe that’s why I’ve felt a little off, a little split-focused, chasing the words, getting the edits done on Flame True, to realize that I need to adjust to make something work for Book Five. The downside of being a plotter/planner is that when you outline to ensure there are no plot holes, fitting in something unexpected takes some mental gymnastics. I am a plotter AND an intuitive writer, and I don’t know how it gels, but it just does, and I am so grateful to be writing.

If you click to Get Sexy Tonight, you’ll find plenty of erotica and erotic romances up for grabs in this month’s group promotion.

Here’s a snippet of Flame True, and it is on preorder for $2.99USD right now

Off to wrangle words!

A snippet from Flame True.

It is a touch of spite. Spicy spite.

Came across this question today in one of the groups: “What keeps you motivated to write?”

And I almost, almost commented with, “Spite, mostly.”

But I didn’t.

But it’s true – mostly.

Trauma seriously had an effect on my crative output… eventually I got so mad that I wasn’t writing that I sobbed/screamed and then just did it. Totally afraid that I wouldn’t do it.

Still, fight the fear that I won’t get out this book if I don’t get out this book. It’s a grind.

(And a total love. And a content that is hard to explain).

Also I: Been slugging trying to polish this exhibitionism/voyeur scene. I have wanted to write this scene with these characters for so long – it might be the whole reason a third floor with a viewing room was added to Club Bandit … and yet…. the scene is not living up to the expectations in my head.

 

 

 

Just keep writing… this series

Coming to you on this chilly Autumn day with the sniffles or something. I feel kind of gross and foggy headed but whatever.

Pushed thorugh and got another chapter in on Mulberry and Nick, and is there being made-to-come-with-a-silicone-baking-spoon? Yeah, there is.. I feel as the series goes on I’m getting a bit more…putting it out there.

I really WISH I could tell you when ARCs will be available but I can’t that depends on quickly beta readers get back to me and it hasn’t even reached them, yet. I am liking this book so much. Nick is at a crossroads. And Mulberry is at a new chapter where she could put behind (finally) that awful incident from Flame For You.

Send me some tea and healing vibes if you got them to spare.

Frosty October Morning

A thick layer of frost this morning made it super hard to get out of bed, but my cubs woke up before the sun’s disc broke the horizon, so I had no choice but to find everyone socks and blankets and get at it. Got a chapter finished on Nick&Mulberry and now the story is moving along. Thank gods, because I was getting a little impatient.

Flame For A Weekend: A Bandit Brothers Novella is now available in paperback from the ‘Zon, if you are keen to have it in paperback.

The writing blahs

Flame For A Weekend: A Bandit Brothers Novella hung around the top twenty for awhile last week and I admit, that made me smile, a lot. It is chilly season here and as much as I love fall, I do not like the low temps that come with it. We’re dropping down to 2C tonight and hitting our first 0 of the season the next night and I am not ready! I need more fuzzy socks and blankets!

Our usual routine has been upended this week and I have found it hard to stay writing. So I have beta read for a couple of author friends instead and fell into other people’s world’s as I am thinking through my own.

The thing is, Sasha and Finn are done, I just need to hand it off but I keep doubting it. It’s funny how one experience can leech into your thoughts and stall your action, weary sigh. I do hope to get two chapters done on Nick & Mulberry over the next couple of days – it’s heating up, finally.

 

Feature Friday – September Freebies

So … in my defence, I baked three cakes this week, two of which didn’t work out and the one that did was the kind my mum used to make and HONESTLY no matter how cool rainbow cake looks (it did, it looked fantastic) nothing tastes better than this old-school-chocolate cake.

Sometimes, you got to do it right the first time.

And sometimes, you try just make a total mess of it.

In my newsletter today, I totally goofed and left the auto-copy on in the description of Lindsay Murrary’s book! Ugh. So that is what prompted this wrap-up post… oh and the fact that some of you have been after me to blog more .. ahem.

When I woke up this morning, Flame For A Weekend was in the top twenty in BDSM Erotica, hanging out with Lindsay’s book and to be honest, it felt kind of great. Thanks to everyone who downloaded it and has read it. It’s availible everywhere no, so if you give it a read, consider leaving a review.

These are the books that have crossed my path in the last little while. Share the love and check them out.

 

Feature Friday book covers September 23

 

 

 

Cover for Let's Play A Game Click here to check out Let’s Play a Game. Free! 

Megan’s life hasn’t been quite as colorful since her slavery to Reuben Weston ended nearly five years ago. So when Reuben offers to set her up with something, she jumps at the chance. The catch? She has no idea who he is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cover for the librarian and the janitor Click here to check out the Librarian and the Janitor! Free

Having a dirty job has never felt so good…

The Librarian
Now in my thirties, I’ve accepted that a mousy librarian like me probably won’t meet the man of my dreams or have exotic romps. But, late at night, when I shelve the romance books at the library, I can certainly skim the pages and get lost in the fantasy…
The Janitor
I never dreamed of cleaning for a living, but my brother and I stumbled into running the most lucrative custodial business in town. In fact, we’re so busy that I’ve been covering the night shift at the local library myself. Imagine my surprise when I discover the cute, quiet librarian being naughty in the romance section. Man, my night just got a whole lot hotter…
This is a spicy romance novella—easy on plot, heavy on steam—with a guaranteed HEA.

 

 

 

 

text for serving the sentator Click here to check out Serving the Senator by L.M. Mountford 

He is my Hades.

I’d played the role of a goddess, bound and chained for the service of mortals.

He freed me.

He freed me, unchained me and taken me to his underworld, his dark realm where he’d brought out all my forbidden and secret desires.

And now I’m his.

His attendant. His servant…

Serving the Senator is a sizzling new release from the lord of Lust.
Loaded with tension and sizzling chemistry, it is a modern reimagining of the ancient myth of Hades and Persephone.
A stand-alone romance, it is loaded with scenes of an adult nature that feature BDSM, Dominance play, and so much heat, they may very well melt your e-reader…

 

Click here to read Light in the Dark 

cover for light in the dark

A woman in search of a place to belong.

A man finally getting his second chance.

And a lingering secret that threatens to change everything…

Alex Benning has never known a true home. After inheriting her beloved aunt’s cottage in the small coastal town of Moon Harbor, Maine, she finally gets a chance to start over and leave the life of solitude behind. But she never expects to find herself face to face with her first love—the first man to ever break her heart.

Sam Waters stopped looking for love a long time ago. With a job he enjoys and people he cares about, he’s finally learned to be content with things just as they are. Until the one who got away comes back into his life and makes him crave more. The flame between Alex and Sam reignites and the sparks between them are brighter than ever.

But as Alex settles into her new home, she begins to uncover the truth about her family and the tragedy that changed her life all those years ago. With more questions than answers, Alex and Sam set out to discover what really happened. And the closer they get, the closer danger lurks.

Will Alex be able to survive the unravelling of old family secrets before it’s too late? Before she loses Sam forever?

 

 

Cover of unexpected after Click here to check out Unexpected Ever After on sale for 99 cents for a limited time!

Meet. Fall in love. Live happily ever after…

It’s the way it should be.

At least, that’s what we’ve been told.

But that’s only in fairytales.

 

 

 

Writing into September

So I’ve tried to get a wrap-up post posted a bunch of times now, but I am just kind of low on energy and September, with all it’s starting, has taken my attention. But I want to, and I think I might wait till the end of the month and do one big wrap-up post.

I’ve also switched back to weekly NL’s because enough readers told me that’s their preference. I am waiting on the cover and edits for Gardenia and Dax! I’m so delighted with how this story turned out, and I really can’t wait to share. There was something about the “stick to one kink per one book” comment that lodged itself in my brain, needing to be expressed and the result is this story of the exploration of what’s too much and what’s too little and what’s just right, and it fits in with the Bandit Brothers Series so well. Inspiration comes in interesting places, a lot of times, mine comes through/from … spite, I guess. I have a long history of doing things people said I couldn’t, and I guess I’m not stopping now *laughs*.

My plant table needs a new plant friend; I think the atrium lily is done – maybe too cold or not enough sun? Whatever it is, I didn’t get the combination required to make this plant happy, le sigh.

Must go get some words down on Nick and Mulberry’s story; she is growing increasingly annoyed with his attention one moment and his coldness the next. Can’t say I blame the girl, I’d demand better, too.

Writing Update and Flame For Two $0.99 cent sale!

The skies I am under have been overcast for the last couple of days, and I feel both like dramatically donning a cloak and packing a trunk for a grand new adventure in a steam=punky way AND curling up by the fire.

I think it’s safe to say that I long for some alone time.

While I’m waiting for Flame For A Weekend (Dax and Gardenia’s story) to be sent back to me, I am trying to get back to Mulberry and Nick.
I am loving this book. It’s both darker- because we get into the nitty-gritty of her kidnap and maybe, just maybe, find out who was behind it–and lighter because it’s a fake dating trope- than the other books, and it’s fun, though reminding myself where I left off and trying to find the flow of it again, feels a bit sluggish. Thank gods for my outlines!

 

Midweek Roll

I went down a rabbit hole trying to answer the question, “how does your disability affect your writing?” First off, which one? *grins.* It’s almost an impossible question to ask because there is no separation between me and my disability. It’s just there; it makes certain things “harder” than my peers or for me to obtain society’s standards, but it’s not an easy thing to break down.

However, for me, formatting is on that list. This is something I want to get better at, and I find it a challenge and I know other people do too, but this is something that because of my disability it’s challenging because I don’t have the base skills and numbers are not my thing; I can’t number as part of my disability, and right and left and directions and inches and centimetres, and all of that ties into graphics and formatting. See? Clear as mud.

Ivy Whitaker has some serious writing skills. Her world-building and emotionally gripping and introspecting characters are off the charts, and I am so humbled by her review of Flame Again. It’s really nice when your peers say kind things about your work, and I weigh it slightly differently, you know? Check it out here: https://ivywhitaker.com/2022/08/17/review-flame-again-by-raleigh-damson/

I am near the end for Dax and Gardenia and I must get words down on that story today. Now that I’ve gone this far with them, I don’t want to leave them but I want readers to fall in love with their figuring it out, as much as I have.