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“The Christmas She Rules”
Control is her kink…and she’s losing it.

It’s another gloomy Christmas for Pamela Dane. Not only is it the anniversary of a dark period in her life, but all her friends had the nerve to hook up. It’s not easy for a female Domme to find a playmate. Maybe The Cage in San Francisco will be the perfect place to escape—and find a willing man to chase away the memories.

Christian Nolan is at the BDSM club for the hell of it. Yet the minute Mistress Dane takes control of him, she not only stuns him with her talent, he stuns himself with his willingness to surrender. Her offer to meet him there for another night is intriguing—and frightening.

Pamela’s session with Chris shakes her to the core, resurrecting memories she’s afraid to face. But Chris isn’t willing to let her past haunt her…even if it leaves his heart in tatters.

Warning: Hot, strong man on his knees, which will bring you to yours. Strap-on action, anal play, lots of leather and tons of tension. Alpha male who likes to do whatever the right woman tells him to do, including another woman.

BUY IT HERE!
Want a taste? Read an excerpt HERE.

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Isn’t it gorgeous!!! The Tickle My Fantasy anthology is out in print today!!

Go ahead. Try to resist the magic. We dare you!

Carolina Wolf by Sela Carsen (psst! This is me!)
Debra knows that the teensy amount of witchcraft in her veins isn’t worth getting excited about. Yet someone—or something—thinks it’s worth attacking her. Rescuing her seals Maddox’s fate, but only if he can protect her from a rogue of his kind. A werewolf with a nasty streak…and a preference for raw meat.

The Ghost Shrink, the Accidental Gigolo and the Poltergeist Accountant by Vivi Andrews
Lucy is doomed. Not to death. To nightly visits from recently deceased Casanovas without the bodies to scratch her itch. Then a living fantasy arrives on her doorstep. Is her dry spell at an end? Not hardly. Jake has been sent to prevent her from getting laid until a particular horny phantom—and key witness in his investigation—pays her a visit.

ParaMatch.com by MK Mancos
Even though she lives without a paranormalady, Lucille has managed to carve a niche for herself with a paranormal matchmaking service. Enter Jager, deposed king of the Titans and successful paratrader. She can match anyone, except him. She doesn’t know that he’s out to negotiate the deal of a lifetime—a future with her.

Witches Anonymous by Misty Evans
Amy is done with Devil-worshipping. After swearing an oath never to use magic again, she’s in the market for a normal guy to complement her new lifestyle. And Adam looks like perfect hero material. Lucifer, however, isn’t about to be nice about letting her go…

Warning: This book contains hunky werewolves, smart-A** women and men who think that’s sexy, magic, angels, medieval legends, inter-species romance, disco music and flatulent Boxers. (The dogs, not the underwear.)

Read An Excerpt Online

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“The Scroll Thief: a Tale of Ithian” by R. F. Long

Love is the wiliest thief of all.

A Tale of Ithian

Malachy and his sister rely on his talents as a thief to survive the dangerous streets of Klathport, former capital of the once-great kingdom of Ithian. Stealing a few papers should have been a simple job. Instead, it nearly costs their lives and throws them into an improbable alliance with a shape-shifting official, a desert tribeswoman, and a healer of enchanting beauty.

Cerys is far more than a simple healer—and the roots of her mission go deeper into the past than anyone can know. She needs Malachy’s skills to recover a stolen scroll, one that can be used to rewrite history and, in the wrong hands, release the dark powers of the Demon Realm.

Her mission was supposed to atone for a dreadful, long-ago act. Instead, it unleashes a chain of events which sees them pursued through city and desert by the fearsome Dune Witch and a killer known only as His Lordship. Romance, tragedy, and adventure blend in a tale of a magical land on the brink of war, and five unlikely allies who, by putting their lives—and their hearts—on the line, have the opportunity to finally set things right.

But at a terrible cost.

Warning: Contains scenes of graphic violence and torture, captivating magic and beauty, two dashing heroes, three gutsy heroines, several love stories and a heartbreaking sacrifice.

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Read an excerpt HERE.

ISBN 978-1-60659-542-8

How far would you go to set a tortured spirit free? While preparing a haunted house for their town’s annual Halloween fundraiser competition, lovers Corey, Keith, and Landon stumble upon the ghost of Civil War Union soldier, Major Joseph Harland.

When the Major mistakes Corey for the woman who murdered him during the war, he sets out to seek his redemption in ways they never dreamed possible.

Click here to read an excerpt.
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Visit Stephanie at http://www.stephanieadkins.com

When a restless ghost licks at your blood, it’s a whole new kind of burn ….

Rachel Sutherland loves control—her job, her life and the men who pass fleetingly through. Yet she aches for someone who doesn’t care about who she is, who would take her for his pleasure and hers. Shame that man is only a fantasy.

Jareth is a fae, bound to the mortal realm by a curse, and he needs Rachel. His curse has always meant a woman’s pleasure must come before his own, but to break his curse he must force a woman to submit to his needs. Rachel is that special woman, one found after centuries of searching.

Now Jareth forces her to find pleasure in ways Rachel never thought she could. A pleasure that could prove more dangerous than she ever believed possible.

Reader Advisory: Is deliciously wicked forced seduction your fantasy? Then prepare to sizzle as a sinfully handsome fae works his sensual magic in Ruthless Beauty.

Read an excerpt here

You can buy it here

And my EC author page is here

Ellora’s Cave website seems to be down, so the above link is the Jasmine Jade site

Zerah’s Chosen, Book I of the Guardians of Zerah romantic fantasy series, is out today from Drollerie Press!

Fate chose those who were worthy and marked them at conception. This mark sealed their destiny.

Kieran of Aipa is Death’s Guardian, marked from birth into servitude to a people who have shunned his very existence. He resents his position and all that it entails. A life without freedom, without choice, without love. Misunderstood and feared for his power, Kieran is an outsider among his own kind until he meets the one person who seems to look past Death’s mask into the man below.

Amaya of Delmar has lived at the Temple for as long as she can remember. It is her stronghold until Kieran arrives and changes everything. A victim of her empathic power, Amaya is drawn to Kieran, who violently possesses what they’ve all been denied: Emotion. What begins as an innocent friendship soon blossoms into something forbidden.

The future of their entire world rests on one choice and two lives led by the hands of fate down a path of imminent destruction.

“Naughty or Nice” in Under the Covers anthology, by Crystal Jordan

Dayna Sharp has the perfect job, the perfect man…the perfect life. So why is the prospect of marrying Mr. Wonderful so perfectly boring? It’s a question Dayna can’t shake when she brings her fiance home to meet her spectacularly un-boring family–and finds herself pursued by a bad-boy bearing gifts that could burn a hole in more than her Christmas stocking…

Read an excerpt here!

Los Angeles
Present Day

Japanese-American Emmi Maeda set aside her film school studies following the sudden deaths of her father and brother. At odds with her mother and burdened with the guilt over her role in the tragic accident, she moves in with her uncle Jake and comes into possession of an antique mirror. While accompanying Jake to Japan on a film shoot, Emmi is caught in a freak storm and plunged through time–into Feudal Japan and the world of samurai.

Kyoto, Japan
1864

The city of Kyoto is ablaze with violence and on the brink of civil war. Nakagawa Kaemon is a young samurai with a secret. He gathers information on those who claim to “Revere the emperor” but harbor their own agenda to control the country. Kae is honor bound to execute anyone who poses a threat to the throne even if it is Emmi, the unusual young woman he has come to love.

Quick, go over to my website and check out what Alisha Rai has to say about virgin heroines! It is a cherry poppin’ good time. Trust me, she knows of what she speaks. Whipped Cream Erotic Romance gave her FOUR cherries for her MBAM number one ranked ebook CABIN FEVER.

Myla by Moonlight is now available from Samhain Publishing

Magic bites… and its name is Myla.

Created at Prince Taric’s birth, Myla is a spell, an enchantment designed to appear and protect him when he needs it most. She has always been content to do her duty…until one night of forbidden passion leaves her longing to experience life—and love—as a mortal woman. Yet the risk is too great. Even if her blood runs as red as his, she can never give him the one thing he needs: a child.

Taric’s blessing—and his curse—is knowing the kingdom’s future depends on his producing an heir to continue the bloodline. His bond with Myla has always been that of protector and protected. When it suddenly becomes something much more, he unwittingly sentences his people to certain death.

An old enemy is plotting to destroy all he holds dear: his lands, his people, his father, and his lover. And this time, even if they fight tooth and blade, their shared magic may not be enough to save them…

Click here or here to read an excerpt.
Click here or on the cover to purchase.

The cover is, uhm, yeah, whatever but seriously, this book could melt frozen yogurt!!

Here’s the blurb:

Creamy – Chosen One By Kim Knox
A wickedly delicious dessert. A dark and mysterious man. A woman who can resist neither…

One of many trained tasters to the sovereign, Ceta Lars doesn’t want to be chosen. Compounding Ceta’s fear of the unknown is her attraction to Iason, the sovereign’s paladin. For years, her glimpses of his dark perfection have tantalized her, stolen into her dreams, filled her thoughts with wild, erotic fantasies. Except he’s the one man she can’t have.

The sovereign’s sentient female ship has other ideas. Her hungers rule and she wants Ceta and Iason. Together. One taste of the creamy ambrosia of her creation, and her two reluctant lovers will come together in a fire of scorching, orgasmic lust and passion that neither can deny—that could destroy them both.

Read an excerpt here

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WILD, TETHERED, BOUND by Stephanie Draven

What if monsters of ancient myth are made, not born? And what if you find out that you’re one of them…

Lieutenant Nick Leandros is a battle-hardened soldier who thinks he’s seen everything. But nothing prepares him for the horror he encounters in a dark, war-torn forest. The carnage fractures him–body and soul. Split into three separate men with three savage wills, he struggles to tame the cunning creatures and hold them inside.

His only hope of salvation is Dessa, a beautiful dryad who is bound to Nick by mystic forces. She alone understands what he has become, and Nick is the only man who can give her the child she needs. But the cruelest, most lustful part of him demands her submission as the price for his help. With her powers waning every day, time is running out for Dessa to save the last forests of her country…and to heal the man she’s come to love.

Yup, That is me. I had my first release yesterday(sqeee)and I have been making blog rounds, promo’ing, chatting and generally showing off and saying LOOK AT ME, BUY THIS!!

By the way… GO BUY JINXED!!

Back on track here…

Through the miracle of modern technology, I’ve received some emails, twitter tweets, Yahoo IMs, blog comments, etc from some who did buy JINXED and actually read it already.

~One woman told me she was going to reread it today because she was sure she missed something because she was laughing too hard.

~I got one tweet that just said “DOG TURD TURBAN!! OMG ROFLMAO!!” (you have to read the book to get it)

~One emailer told me she had some bladder issues while reading. Mmmmmmmkay…er…sorry??

~One woman thanked me for making her cry and laugh, said she needed it. My pleasure.

~I got a tweet telling me the sex was hot! (cool)

~I have had a few comments on how bubbly and funny I must be in real life. People, I am boring!  I am! Like dead starfish on a hot boardwalk for three days boring.

~Apparently some of my free reads were also read (Yay!) and a person asked me why the comedy is toning down in them. Am I funnied-out?

No.

But as in life, relationships are not all laughs. Yes, you have to laugh through your tears but tears do come eventually. The laughter returns, always in my work, but no one wants to overdose on comedy. You need to balance the funny with the real, too. In Beauty and the Badge (freebie read series), Jace is not the comedic point pf view, Dayna is. So Dayna is where you will get your comedy.

JINXED has this also. As many laughs that are in it, and I do hope you laugh, there is a real story there, one that I hope touches your heart. Jinx and Frannie have real issues- Issues you can’t just slap a clown nose on and forget about. Comedy is one aspect of that story, a big one but the bones of the tale are those of human frailty and trust, something I hope everyone can identify with.

So day two of published author status and all is good. I am going to go check out the Naughty Girls Next Door. I guest blogged there way early this mrning. I hope I made sense. Stop by and leave me a comment there for a chance to win a free copy of JINXED!

Hey All! I’m squeezing in here today to share a little buff yumminess in the way of my new erotic-paranormal story Hotter Than Hell available now from TWRP-Scarlet Rose. Here’s some blurbage for your reading pleasure.

Fallen angels never have it easy. So it is with Damon Serif, who’s just landed the most difficult assignment possible—protecting his sexy neighbor, Ivy Hawthorne, from a hoard of water demons bent on making her their queen. Though keeping the smoking-hot costume designer out of evil’s clutches is something he’s trained centuries for, Damon knows the real challenge is having her close without tasting her charms and indulging in her rather unique perspectives.

Ivy’s luck is finally changing. After years of designing costumes for off-Broadway plays, she’s finally got a shot at the brass ring. But now, her sizzling neighbor is following her around the city, insisting she’s the target of a demonic conspiracy. What’s more, his mere touch causes her body to climax with an intensity of which she’d only dreamed.

When Damon and Ivy connect, even the demons feel the heat, because together they are…Hotter Than Hell.

******* how about a little sample?*******

Excerpt:

Damon gave her a lazy smile then sat down beside her. “I got the message.”

What message was that? How badly she wanted to undress him and then slather him in cream cheese and eat him like her morning bagel?

“Yes. Well, sorry. I’m not normally so rude.” Or so orgasmic. Should she apologize for that, too? No, better to write that off as an anomaly.

Damon flashed perfect white teeth at her. “It’s all right. I took you off guard.”

Not nearly as much as with the full court nipple-press he’d put on her.

She took another sip of the wine. This one more of a gulp. At the rate she drank, she’d need him to walk her back to her door.

Time to bring the conversation back around to its original point. “What answers do you need from me?”

He set his wineglass on the end table, then turned to fully face her. He rested his arm on the back of the sofa, brushing the ends of her hair with his fingers. “Do you normally hang out in bars infected with darkness?”

There he went into that demon thing again. “By that I’m assuming you mean the marids and not the fact Daggers caters to the whole low lighting motif.”

“You know what I mean.” The back of his hand stroked her cheek. Intense desire curled around her heart.

“Yes. And I’m not so sure they were after me. Looked more like they were chasing you.”

He gave her a smile one would use to indulge an idiot child. “Normally humans can’t see them. That’s what makes them such a danger to you.”

“So why did we see them tonight?”

“I don’t know the answer to that yet, but I intend to find out. Until I do, promise me you’ll not venture in there.”

“I go to Daggers all the time and never have a problem. It’s where my contacts hang out and I network.”

“Even your contacts are dangerous. Believe me when I say your friend tonight had less than your best interests at heart.”

“And who are you, my guardian angel?”

“Yes.”

-Enjoy!! – Kate

I am. Seriously. Shaking in my big girl panties.

Why??

Lemme give you the scoop, c’mere.

Okay, first my debut JINXED comes out in *gulp*Sqeeeee* four days. Four. F. O. U. R.

Second, I am playing guest blog hopper for promo and face it, I am really not that interesting. What am I going to write about? I have no clue.

Third, I am running my first ever contest on my website starting on the 9th and uhm, I haven’t figured out what to do yet. Shhhhh, don’t tell anyone.

Fourth, today is the first day of summer vacation meaning, I have three children under foot, two of which are Kindy age. So yeah, they require…stuff. Like food. and drinks. And playtime and…time.

Fifth, I have a deadline approaching (At the speed of light on acid) and see #4. It is very very hard to write intense, life altering sex when your knees are being used as the drawbridge for a hostile pirate ambush.

Sixth, My husband informed me we are hosting his family reunion picnic. Joy. *insert sarcasm at random*

Seventh, that deadline thing, kinda a new story deal for me, different approach. So far it is working but the risk is real too. It will either work or not but not knowing before hand is scary.

Eighth, waiting on word from a publisher. *fingers crossed* Side note: did you know it is capable of sending a grown woman into a panic when she realizes she has not refreshed her email for 30 whole minutes? doesn’t matter thatit may take months to get that return email but if she misses a 30 minute block, it makes her heart thud out of her chest because you just never know.

Ninth, Repeat #4

Tenth, repeat #1

Repetitively.