Holiday Howlz: Werewolf Woes

Genre(s): Paranormal, Shapeshifters, Seasonal, Christmas

ISBN: 978-1-60521-349-1

Released: December 2009

*BUY NOW FROM CHANGELING PRESS*

*Enter the discount code Decadence to get 10% off your entire order!*

Dakota Raynes has come home for one reason and one reason only… to lay claim on the woman meant to be his mate. Six years away has given him time to get the beast under control so he could be the man he thinks she needs. Now if she’d just stop being so damn stubborn!

Lily Deacon has had it with alpha men and their need to push her around. So Dakota thinks he can just waltz right in and take up where he left off? Oh, she’ll let him play all right, but only by her rules. His little Lily is all grown up, and she has a few tricks of her own.

When these two wolves collide, the county will feel the clash all the way to their boots.

• Chosen One, released from Ellora’s Cave. A wickedly delicious dessert. A dark and mysterious man. A woman who can resist neither…
• Ruthless Beauty released from Ellora’s Cave. Is deliciously wicked forced seduction your fantasy?
• Kim is pleased to announce she has sold Warflesh to Ellora’s Cave plus Breaking Chance and Emergence to Samhain. Go Kim!!!

Dawn Montgomery has two new releases and a bit of news.

• Playing for Keeps, released from Changeling Press. Sexy and fun paranormal tale…
• Decadence, a part of the deliciously wicked Sex and Chocolate series releases on October 8, 2009! Chocolate goes well with… everything.
• Dawn was a guest on All Romance Ebook’s What’s Hot in Romance radio show! She’s the second half of the show. Check it out here!

Michelle Hasker had a release and one coming soon.

• Pleasure House released from Changeling Press. BDSM fantasy come to life…
• Dragon Kin: Fire in the Sky is coming soon from Changeling Press. Office work just got so much more interesting…

Be warned it’s a naughty story with an unusual take on m/f/m, oh and there is an HEA *grin*

Anya Sigurdson is counting down the days.

She works on an array orbiting a distant star completely alone and the isolation is seriously cramping her need for sex. She’s promised herself a wild time on a pleasure planet, but until her remaining thirteen days are up, then her own fingers will have to do…or so she thinks.

Damianos has other plans. Coming from a race of pure energy, Damianos, seeks pleasure in flesh and has an unusual talent. They can fracture into as many lovers as Anya needs. She is a joy, a rare find, and they intend to enjoy her, love her every chance they can. But to keep her they need something else, an anchor, another body for them to fix in her dimension.

And a prime candidate is on his way.

A link to the excerpt is here and this is the buy link

I’ll update the link to the Ellora’s Cave website when it’s up, but here’s the link to my author page in the meantime

Edited to add: Here’s the Ellora’s Cave link

Rand has a secret. Bitten by one of the deadly shadow-snakes, he’s changed and will go to any length to see that he remains in charge of his planet—and the flesh-fruit harvest—including using his alien abilities to convince Agent Niamh Sullivan to lie to her superiors. His plan is simple, but what he doesn’t realize is that his venom is an aphrodisiac. With it, Rand has become irresistible.

Now Niamh must deny their overwhelming mutual attraction. But as their need for each other spirals out of control, the danger becomes apparent. Rand will take her humanity, take who and what she is. Niamh has to make the choice. Turn him in. Or succumb to his potent, forbidden temptation.

Here a link to an excerpt

And the buy link is here *grin*

Flesh and Shadows is the first novella I sold to Ellora’s Cave. I *squeed* all over my other half when he was trying to set up the Wii for the hobbits, lol He had no clue why I was so excited *grin*

And the story? Well Rand is just yum, a man driven by honour…and the beast within him.

You can find my other Ellora’s Cave titles here.

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Kim Knox has two new releases in May.

• May 18: Skin Magic, a free ebook, releases from Ellora’s Cave. What wanton magic will they weave…
• May 26: Flesh and Shadows releases from Ellora’s Cave. Another deliciously wicked sci fi romance.

Dawn Montgomery has two new releases in May.

• Available now: The Beast, a free ebook, releases from Changeling Press. Do you trust the beast…
• May 21: Bound in Lust, the long-awaited bound collection releases from Changeling Press.

Michelle Hasker has two new releases.

• Available now: Vampire Oracle Book One, a print anthology from Cobblestone Press with Michelle’s book The Moon
• Available now: The Witchy Woes Megabook, Volume 1. It contains the first three Witchy Woes novels in the collection and is available from Whiskey Creek Press Torrid.

Kim Knox has two new releases in May.

• May 18: Skin Magic, a free ebook, releases from Ellora’s Cave. What wanton magic will they weave…
• May 26: Flesh and Shadows releases from Ellora’s Cave. Another deliciously wicked sci fi romance.

Dawn Montgomery has two new releases in May.

• May 2: The Beast, a free ebook, releases from Changeling Press. Do you trust the beast…
• May 21: Bound in Lust, the long-awaited bound collection releases from Changeling Press.

Michelle Hasker’s Vampire Oracle Book: The Moon is now available as part of a print anthology.

• Cobblestone Press

Gingersnaps: Serendipity 5A from Changeling Press ~ See what happens when a Christmas present mixup leads to a little more heat than two neighbors expected! Available now from Changeling Press!

Del Fantasma: Winter Break from Aspen Mountain Press ~ What happens when Jack Frost takes a holiday? Will the world survive his Winter Break? Available now from Aspen Mountain Press!

Weaving Words releases today. *grin*

It’s a few hours before it goes live, but you can find out more about it here on my Samhain author link.

Easy part of his day? Resurrecting the dead. Hard part? Keeping them alive.

Kaede is a witch whose family has been bound to a powerful House for over a thousand years. And he hates it. Despite the fact that his lord, Tarou, murdered his mother, Kaede is sworn never to harm the man who could kill him with just seven words. Now he’s been commanded to use his unique powers to resurrect Tarou’s wife from the dead, and he has no choice but to comply. Things go horribly wrong when he accidentally pulls the wrong soul back. Now it’s not just his own life he must try to save.

Vara’s day couldn’t get much more bizarre. One moment she’s a captain in the Temple Guard. The next, she finds herself transported into a world of magic and witches—and stuffed into the body of a lord’s wife. Unwillingly plunged into middle of a deadly power struggle, the only one Vara can turn to is Kaede, the witch responsible for dragging her into this alien world. A witch she finds far too attractive…

Warning: This book contains the following; magic, witches and more body-swapping than is safely sane.

Excerpt

The corpse’s heart juddered and then began to pump fresh, slow blood through its decaying veins.

“Not decaying any more,” Kaede murmured.

“What was that, witch?”

Kaede ignored his lord’s question. His eyes stayed with the body on the altar, watching as the blood flushed the exposed skin not covered by its simple white funeral shift. “Nothing, lord.” His fingers dipped into the liquid gold, sweeping intricate symbols over her face and neck. The symbols writhed and Kaede snatched his fingers away. He winced. These were the final rushes of power. She was almost there, almost returned to bright life. Almost. He risked a look to the arched entrance of the ancient cavern. Light edged over the sky in a soft pale grey. It was only dawn. That knowledge had tiredness eating into his bones.

Had he only been bonded to her for a few hours? It felt like forever.

For the hours of darkness, he had stood over the Lord Tarou’s dead wife and worked his skill. A skill he shouldn’t have, and certainly not one his lord should know about. The shadows cast by the twisting patterns covering the woman’s skin danced over the cavern wall. Kaede kept his gaze fixed on his gold-smeared fingers. Tarou knew what he was and that scared him more than bringing a dead woman back to life.

How had his lord known?

Kaede’s jaw tightened. He knew his mother had to have talked in her final hours. Tarou had presided over her interrogation, obviously wrung secrets from her. The old soured anger swelled again, tasting bitter on his tongue, but he cut out those thoughts. They had no place in his head. He had a job to do.

He forced his gaze back to the woman’s face—her features calm and delicate even as she fought her way back to life. He hoped the Lord Tarou knew what he was doing. His wife couldn’t be that vital to him. The rumours ran that she was only a bartered woman from a wealthy Northern family. She had no connections, no special talents. To risk a resurrection was insane. Kaede said a silent prayer for his own soul.

Her lips parted. Dry. Cracked. With a cry, her spine arched away from the cold slab of the altar, her limbs twisting. Kaede grabbed at her arms, and held her down as her soul clawed its way back into her body. The witch willed all of his strength into keeping her still. Her soul had to settle. That fact the scrolls had stressed, stressed in blood and bone.

“Witch, what is happening?”

Kaede gritted his teeth. “She is almost back with us, lord.”

She shrieked, the cry piercing Kaede’s heart. That hadn’t been in the scrolls. A soul was supposed to crave the touch of its body. But he couldn’t panic. Not now.

She fell limp to the stone in a sudden rush. Kaede fell forward, pushing hard against her arms. She groaned. He released his tight grip and took support from the raised lip of the stone dais.

Her breathing was slow, even and there was a slight, living flush to her cheeks. The Lady Annaliese was the most beautiful woman in the king’s court. Kaede’s eyes flicked to the hovering lord. He stood taut, grim, his stark face intent in the candlelight. Tarou wanted more than just his pretty wife. It was there in his narrowed, black gaze, the whitened fingers that gripped the dagger at his hip.
Kaede stared back at Annaliese, watched as her eyelashes struggled to release the oil clogging them. He’d assumed that she was just the vacuous smile gracing Lord Tarou’s arm. He’d seen nothing special in her. Nothing at all.

Kaede rubbed gently at the muck and oil the ceremony required, erasing it from her skin in the reverse of how he had drawn it. With a final Word, the ash circle protecting them both swirled into the air and vanished.

Her eyes flickered open. They were a dark blue—evidence of her Northern Clan. There was no focus, just wild fear. Kaede blinked. He had never seen that before, none of the lords’ wives showed any emotion other than perfect serenity and happiness.

“Lady?” Kaede whispered, bending to catch sound from her parched mouth. His hand gripped the dais, helping to support his exhausted body.

Her lips moved and there was a rush of nonsensical syllables. She searched his face for understanding and her panic grew.

Pulling in his control, Kaede pressed his thumb into her forehead and forced out tired Words, grimacing at the pull of them in his flesh. He murmured a silent prayer, needing his final spell to work. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe—

“What is this place? Who are you? Why…” She reached up to tug at his thin, silver robe. Kaede lurched over her as she caught him by surprise. He stared at her as her voice faded away. A knot tightened in his stomach. What had he done? He’d failed. That failure would see her dead again. And him right along with her.

“Is she well, witch?” Tarou demanded, pushing forward to stand beside his silent wife. Annaliese simply stared at her moving fingers, examined her palm, ignoring her husband.

“Yes, lord.” Kaede pushed back the hood of his robe and held the woman’s staring eyes. “The resurrection was successful.” The lie soured his mouth.

Thanks for reading

The Talar murdered her mother and her sisters but to save her city from their attacking armada, Alena Petrova Dubov, Imperial Princess of the Rodin must put aside her hatred and sleep with the enemy.

It’s an ancient ceremony, shared with two men bred for her pleasure. Or it should have been. Her generals had chosen Vadim, son of a Talar captive, to satisfy her, joining her oldest friend, Sacha in bringing her to exquisite ecstasy.

The ritual will change her, transform her flesh until she becomes one with her city. With the prospect of her enemy’s power flowing within her, Alena is terrified of what she will become. But first she has to complete the ritual…and hope that her overwhelming attraction for her enemy doesn’t destroy the city she’s so desperate to protect.

You’ll find it here at Liquid Silver Books

And there’s an R rated excerpt in my the blog

Enjoy!