• 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…

For today’s Bookmania, I’m reading Shadowlight by Lynn Viehl. She sweeps me away again and again with her Darkyn world. It’s a recommended read all the way, and I’ll be posting a review on my site this weekend.

Shadowlight by Lynn Viehl

With a single touch, Jessa Bellamy can see anyone’s darkest secrets. She’s tried to hide her psychic ability from everyone, but a biotech company called GenHance has discovered her talent, and intends to take her, kill her and harvest her priceless DNA to sell it to the highest bidder.

A mysterious photographer named Gaven Matthias is also interested in Jessa; he’s been trying to find her for months. When GenHance makes their move, Gaven has no choice but to kidnap Jessa himself so he can protect her and convince her to join him in helping protect others like her.

Jessa discovers that she can’t see any of Gaven’s secrets, so she doesn’t know if he’s telling the truth, but as a monstrous assassin created by GenHance’s experiments closes in on them, she must decide if the strong attraction they share is proof enough that Gaven is her greatest ally — or is a smokescreen hiding a terrible secret.

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Doesn’t she look fabulous?

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• Skin Magic, a free ebook, released from Ellora’s Cave. What wanton magic will they weave…
• Flesh and Shadows released from Ellora’s Cave. Another deliciously wicked sci fi romance.
• Kim is pleased to announce she has sold Ruthless Beauty to Ellora’s Cave. Check it out HERE.

Dawn Montgomery had two new releases in May and a bit of news.

• The Beast, a free ebook, released from Changeling Press. Due to an awesome response to the short story, Dawn will be continuing it for an end of summer download from her website. More to come…
• Bound in Lust, the long-awaited bound collection released from Changeling Press.
• Dawn has a new release coming in July. More on that later.

Michelle Hasker had two new releases.

• Vampire Oracle Book One, a print anthology from Cobblestone Press with Michelle’s book The Moon
• 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.

*WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS UNEDITED AND MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 18*

“Your arrival marked the coming of the storm. No living soul outside the beast has ever stepped foot on these premises during his turning. They will wonder if it was you who brought the hard winter.”

Rose tried to ignore the whisper of truth in its words. Yes. They would blame her, but that was nothing new. What worried her was whether they would blame the beast.

She wanted to go to him. Needed his touch. She clenched the banister. Two nights of torture, of waiting. She wanted him, all of him.

“It is an unholy obsession.” The wraith grew closer. It’s chilled fingers scraped along her spine leaving ice in their wake.

Was it speaking of her obsession or its own? Terror ran along her nerves. She knew it was the wraith. He needed to feed in order to grow stronger.

“Rose.” The Beast’s throaty voice banished the fear from her mind. Warmth and lust coiled in her stomach.

“Sir.” She dipped her head but couldn’t tear her eyes away from his descent.

Dark black hair was pulled back in a tight tail. Loose tendrils touched his cheeks where not even a five o’clock shadow remained. His jaw was firm and full sensual lips begged for her kisses. She had it bad. He watched her with an unreadable expression. Would he dismiss her? Her stomach twisted. She’d disobeyed him. Would he send her away?

He stopped within a breath’s reach and reached out to curl one strand of her hair around his finger. “Are you still so brave, my sweet Rose? Will you truly give your body to the devil himself?”

“You’re no devil.” She meant it despite the tremble in her voice.

His thumb brushed her lip and she let a soft sigh escape her mouth. “That remains to be seen.” He dipped his head and she met his lips for the softest kiss she’d ever imagined. His tongue teased and tormented hers until a moan slid from her throat.

Since I’m currently working on a title for the Changeling series, Sex and Chocolate, I’ve had this decadence on my mind.

So, without any further ado, here are a few facts you may or may not have known about chocolate:

White chocolate is not a chocolate at all. It is actually made of confectioner’s sugar, cocoa butter, and milk solids. While it does come from the cacao bean (via cocoa butter), it doesn’t contain cacao solids so is not recognized by the FDA as an actual “chocolate.” As a matter of fact, a majority of the ivory white chocolate you can purchase today on your grocer’s shelves do not contain cocoa butter at all.

You can tell the difference between true white “chocolate” and the imitation in two ways. True white chocolate is ivory in color and consistency and has that cocoa butter taste. The imitation has vegetable extracts and animal fat (look at the ingredients!) and is almost tasteless in comparison.

Cacao beans were used as currency for the Mayans and Aztecs. It was also considered an aphrodisiac and only the richest of their people could afford to drink the bitter chocolate brews they concocted.

In 1960, Hershey’s chocolate syrup was what Alfred Hitchcock used as blood in the now infamous shower scene in the movie, Psycho.

Chocolate can be lethal to dogs. Theobromine, an ingredient that stimulates the cardiac muscle and the central nervous system, causes chocolate’s toxicity. About two ounces of milk chocolate can be poisonous for a 10-lb puppy. Dark chocolate takes even less. Keep that in mind around small kids who like to “share” their goodies.

For many years it was thought that chocolate was bad for your health. It has been proven, however, that dark chocolate can actually benefit the body. This dark decadence has the highest antioxidant content of any other food.  Good to know.

Dark Chocolate is also a mild stimulant (to help a bit with concentration). This effect is actually increased in horses, so it is forbidden in horse racing.

I hope you enjoyed this week’s edition of Brain Fluff! And now back to my Dove dark chocolate and Reese’s PB minatures.

I am. He’s my inspiration for the contemporary I’m finishing. *WEG* Have an awesome day, ya’ll.

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.

So you have been warned. Over 18s only

Ruthless Beauty

(c) 2009 Kim Knox

“Rachel…”

Warm breath brushed against her breast. She twisted against the mattress, pushing down the weight of the sheets and blankets. Half-lidded and still groggy from sleep, her eyes focused on the hazy gold of the surrounding light and on the naked dark haired man licking the underside of her breast.

“What the—“

He sucked her nipple into his hot mouth, his teeth grazing the hard nub and it broke her words. Sensation rioted through her flesh. He looked up and his silver-cast eyes glittered. The hot curl of lust tightened in her belly as he tugged at her nipple with strong, white teeth and she couldn’t help the escaping groan. Her stranger grinned, something wicked and her heart thudded. He was beautiful, sculpted perfection and she knew him. He was the stranger from her fantasy.
She sucked in a quick breath. A dream, she was in a dream.

“Want me to fuck you, do you Rachel Sutherland?” His strong hands gripped her hips as he knelt over her, his breath hot over her belly. She ached for him to sink lower, for his mouth, his tongue to find her pussy. “What me to take you?”

“Yes…” The word escaped on a gasp.

His tongue teased over her mons and he held her down as her hips bucked. “My first taste will be kind.” His breath brushed warm over her sensitive skin and his silver eyes fixed on her. They glittered and fire rushed through her blood at the wicked promise shining from him. His words teased her. “A single memory to soften what is to come.”