Special Edition: New Year’s Giveaway — Review & Giveaway
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Sylvia Day’s upcoming release PRIDE AND PLEASURE, available January 25th
I was hooked at “the cover”.
Yes, I’m still a sucker for a gorgeous cover. Guess you can tell I’m not an e-reader yet. Soon, I hope, but as of this post, I’m still a paper book gal. And, boy was I sucker-punched by the cover of Sylvia Day’s, PRIDE AND PLEASURE.
No, really…I could just sit and stare. (Okay, I did just sit and stare…)
When I finished ogling, I turned the book over and read…
Wealth has its dangers…
There are disadvantages to being an heiress, as Eliza Martin knows well. Fortune hunters flock to her, acquaintances lie and pander, and lately, someone is engineering “accidents” to propel her to the altar. But Eliza will not be bullied, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. All she needs is a man to infiltrate her assemblage of suitors and find the culprit. Someone not easily noticed; a proficient dancer, quiet, and even-tempered.
…so do certain menThief-taker Jasper Bond is entirely too large, too handsome, and too dangerous. Who would believe that an intellectual like Eliza would be seduced by a man of action? But the combination of her stubbornness and the mystery makes the case one Jasper can’t resist. Client satisfaction is a point of pride and it’s his pleasure to prove he’s just the man she needs after all…
Oh… My…
I had to open the book and read the first sentence:
As a thief-taker, Jasper Bond had been consulted in a number of unusual locations, but today was the first in a church.
Well, damn. Now I’m hooked. I’m going to have to stop what I’m doing and read until I lose interest.
Several hours and half the book later…no, I’m not freaking kidding…I had to stop reading because I was hungry, I had to pee and the employees at my local McDonald’s where I’d sat down for breakfast several hours prior were shooting me is-she-ever-going-to-leave? glances.
As I closed the book and slunk out of the fast food restaurant, I wondered if the rest of the book would hold up. I often find the second half of novels otherwise well done, lacking.
Sometimes the characters don’t live up to their promises in the beginning. (See my Brava Blog post today for more on promises.) Sometimes the plot peters-out or fragments. Sometimes the story just drags.
None of that happened in PRIDE AND PLEASURE. I read the second half as quickly as the first, with just as much interest. Past the mid-point, Sylvia amped the suspense plot, complicated the romance and kept the pace kicking along.
There are so many well crafted storytelling elements in PRIDE AND PLEASURE, I decided to use the novel as the subject of my first regular column at Savvy Authors, a monthly article reviewing fiction novels from a writer’s perspective and spotlighting effective use of craft. So, if you’re interested in developing your writing to the level of this National Bestseller, Sylvia Day, stop by Savvy Authors February 2nd for my debut column.
Of course, I also suggest picking up a copy of PRIDE AND PLEASURE for yourself, because my description would never transcend the experience of reading it yourself.
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble.com
Borders.com
Books-a-Million.com
IndieBound.com
BookDepository.com
Read an excerpt: HERE.
Or you can enter to win a copy: Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Contact Info:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Tomorrow, A special day for WRITERS! Margie Lawson will be here with a mini-lesson and lecture packets to give away!
>Special Edition: New Year’s Giveaway — Review & Giveaway
> Sylvia Day’s upcoming release PRIDE AND PLEASURE, available January 25th
I was hooked at “the cover”.
Yes, I’m still a sucker for a gorgeous cover. Guess you can tell I’m not an e-reader yet. Soon, I hope, but as of this post, I’m still a paper book gal. And, boy was I sucker-punched by the cover of Sylvia Day’s, PRIDE AND PLEASURE.
No, really…I could just sit and stare. (Okay, I did just sit and stare…)
When I finished ogling, I turned the book over and read…
Wealth has its dangers…
There are disadvantages to being an heiress, as Eliza Martin knows well. Fortune hunters flock to her, acquaintances lie and pander, and lately, someone is engineering “accidents” to propel her to the altar. But Eliza will not be bullied, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. All she needs is a man to infiltrate her assemblage of suitors and find the culprit. Someone not easily noticed; a proficient dancer, quiet, and even-tempered.
…so do certain menThief-taker Jasper Bond is entirely too large, too handsome, and too dangerous. Who would believe that an intellectual like Eliza would be seduced by a man of action? But the combination of her stubbornness and the mystery makes the case one Jasper can’t resist. Client satisfaction is a point of pride and it’s his pleasure to prove he’s just the man she needs after all…
Oh… My…
I had to open the book and read the first sentence:
As a thief-taker, Jasper Bond had been consulted in a number of unusual locations, but today was the first in a church.
Well, damn. Now I’m hooked. I’m going to have to stop what I’m doing and read until I lose interest.
Several hours and half the book later…no, I’m not freaking kidding…I had to stop reading because I was hungry, I had to pee and the employees at my local McDonald’s where I’d sat down for breakfast several hours prior were shooting me is-she-ever-going-to-leave? glances.
As I closed the book and slunk out of the fast food restaurant, I wondered if the rest of the book would hold up. I often find the second half of novels otherwise well done, lacking.
Sometimes the characters don’t live up to their promises in the beginning. (See my Brava Blog post today for more on promises.) Sometimes the plot peters-out or fragments. Sometimes the story just drags.
None of that happened in PRIDE AND PLEASURE. I read the second half as quickly as the first, with just as much interest. Past the mid-point, Sylvia amped the suspense plot, complicated the romance and kept the pace kicking along.
There are so many well crafted storytelling elements in PRIDE AND PLEASURE, I decided to use the novel as the subject of my first regular column at Savvy Authors, a monthly article reviewing fiction novels from a writer’s perspective and spotlighting effective use of craft. So, if you’re interested in developing your writing to the level of this National Bestseller, Sylvia Day, stop by Savvy Authors February 2nd for my debut column.
Of course, I also suggest picking up a copy of PRIDE AND PLEASURE for yourself, because my description would never transcend the experience of reading it yourself.
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble.com
Borders.com
Books-a-Million.com
IndieBound.com
BookDepository.com
Read an excerpt: HERE.
Or you can enter to win a copy: Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Contact Info:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Tomorrow, A special day for WRITERS! Margie Lawson will be here with a mini-lesson and lecture packets to give away!
New Year’s Giveaway: Day 12, Alison Kent
>Alison Kent is another Twitter buddy! I appreciate her humor and her insight and have enjoyed conversing with her online. (If you’re not seeing a pattern here yet…let me spell it out for you — Twitter = priceless writing friends.)
If you go to Alison’s website, you’ll see she is a long-time, prolific author in various romance genres from romantic suspense to contemporary, and everything she writes has lots of sexy spice.
Alison has generously donated TWO books for the giveaway, both contemporaries published by Kensington Brava, both with mouth-watering hero covers.
Up For Win Today:
<<< Those two hunks right there…drool…
One copy each: NO LIMITS and WITH EXTREME PLEASURE
To enter:
One tweet and you are entered for the whole month!
Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Book Summary:
NO LIMITS:
Simon Baptiste’s latest SG-5 mission just went south in a major way. With his career on ice for awhile, it seems like a good time to take care of some business back home in Louisiana. Simon knows it ain’t going to be pretty. He’s got some old enemies in Bayou Allain who won’t exactly roll out the red carpet. But Simon’s first night back is more than he bargained for. Not only has the homestead gone to hell in a hand basket, but there’s a half-naked woman hiding inside it—a woman whose face Simon knows all too well. It’s Michelina Ferrer, the sultry spokesmodel for her family’s Ferrer fragrance empire—and Simon’s been staring at her picture on a billboard outside his Manhattan apartment for weeks…
Micky Ferrer came down to Bayou Allain looking for her old college friend, only to discover that Lisa Landry has been missing for days. As soon as Micky starts asking questions around town, someone runs her car off the road. She’s hiding out in the old Baptiste place when Simon shows up—and he’s the hottest thing she’s laid eyes on since she got to town. Simon agrees that something strange is going on and that Lisa’s disappearance may be tied to it. As he and Micky search for answers, the sweltering heat makes it hard to keep their heads straight or their hands off each other…even as they unravel the small-town secrets that some people are willing to kill for…
WITH EXTREME PLEASURE:
After three weeks in Manhattan, Kingdom Trahan is ready to get back to bayous, crawfish boils, and afternoons fishing on the Gulf. But before he can pull out of the parking garage, he meets a curvy detour. King noticed Cady Kowalski on the photo shoot he just endured—sexy and confident, with a waifish look that belies the way she corralled him into submission using only a can of hairspray. Yet Cady isn’t confident now. She’s bruised, edgy, and desperate to get out of town…
For years, Cady has been looking over her shoulder, wondering when the gang of drug-running criminals who killed her brother would make their move on her. She’s grown used to having no one to turn to, no one to trust. But King isn’t walking away—not even when their lives are threatened, again and again. Drawing Cady’s pursuers out of hiding is the only way to end this, and it’s also the most reckless thing they can do…short of diving into a red-hot affair from which there’s no turning back.
Recent Releases:
THE ICING ON THE CAKE, September 2010, is one of the first three reality based romances published by HCI True Vows.
Contact Info:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Blog
Email
Tomorrow: Special review & giveaway of Sylvia Day’s upcoming release PRIDE AND PLEASURE
>New Year’s Giveaway: Day 12, Alison Kent
>Alison Kent is another Twitter buddy! I appreciate her humor and her insight and have enjoyed conversing with her online. (If you’re not seeing a pattern here yet…let me spell it out for you — Twitter = priceless writing friends.)
If you go to Alison’s website, you’ll see she is a long-time, prolific author in various romance genres from romantic suspense to contemporary, and everything she writes has lots of sexy spice.
Alison has generously donated TWO books for the giveaway, both contemporaries published by Kensington Brava, both with mouth-watering hero covers.
Up For Win Today:
<<< Those two hunks right there…drool…
One copy each: NO LIMITS and WITH EXTREME PLEASURE
To enter:
One tweet and you are entered for the whole month!
Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Book Summary:
NO LIMITS:
Simon Baptiste’s latest SG-5 mission just went south in a major way. With his career on ice for awhile, it seems like a good time to take care of some business back home in Louisiana. Simon knows it ain’t going to be pretty. He’s got some old enemies in Bayou Allain who won’t exactly roll out the red carpet. But Simon’s first night back is more than he bargained for. Not only has the homestead gone to hell in a hand basket, but there’s a half-naked woman hiding inside it—a woman whose face Simon knows all too well. It’s Michelina Ferrer, the sultry spokesmodel for her family’s Ferrer fragrance empire—and Simon’s been staring at her picture on a billboard outside his Manhattan apartment for weeks…
Micky Ferrer came down to Bayou Allain looking for her old college friend, only to discover that Lisa Landry has been missing for days. As soon as Micky starts asking questions around town, someone runs her car off the road. She’s hiding out in the old Baptiste place when Simon shows up—and he’s the hottest thing she’s laid eyes on since she got to town. Simon agrees that something strange is going on and that Lisa’s disappearance may be tied to it. As he and Micky search for answers, the sweltering heat makes it hard to keep their heads straight or their hands off each other…even as they unravel the small-town secrets that some people are willing to kill for…
WITH EXTREME PLEASURE:
After three weeks in Manhattan, Kingdom Trahan is ready to get back to bayous, crawfish boils, and afternoons fishing on the Gulf. But before he can pull out of the parking garage, he meets a curvy detour. King noticed Cady Kowalski on the photo shoot he just endured—sexy and confident, with a waifish look that belies the way she corralled him into submission using only a can of hairspray. Yet Cady isn’t confident now. She’s bruised, edgy, and desperate to get out of town…
For years, Cady has been looking over her shoulder, wondering when the gang of drug-running criminals who killed her brother would make their move on her. She’s grown used to having no one to turn to, no one to trust. But King isn’t walking away—not even when their lives are threatened, again and again. Drawing Cady’s pursuers out of hiding is the only way to end this, and it’s also the most reckless thing they can do…short of diving into a red-hot affair from which there’s no turning back.
Recent Releases:
THE ICING ON THE CAKE, September 2010, is one of the first three reality based romances published by HCI True Vows.
Contact Info:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Blog
Email
Tomorrow: Special review & giveaway of Sylvia Day’s upcoming release PRIDE AND PLEASURE
New Year’s Giveaway: Day 11, Kris Kennedy
>My friendship with Kris Kennedy developed from a combo of Twitter chat and critque partner intro. Yet another sweetheart of a person as well as a talented writer of sexy romance.
Kris writes medievals, but works to keep them accessible—both in language and tone—to the modern-day reader.
“I don’t ‘thee’ and ‘thine,’ I like adventure, and keep it plenty hot.”
~ Kris Kennedy
Before you write medievals off as not being ‘your thing,’ read one of Kris’s stories — especially the IRISH. It could be exactly what a non-medieval lover would, well…love.
And here’s your chance to give it a try!!
Up For Win Today:
A sexy romantic adventure, THE IRISH WARRIOR. This novel is a 2008 Golden Heart Winner and a Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick! Any way you look at it, THE IRISH WARRIOR is a winner!
A sexy romantic adventure, THE IRISH WARRIOR. This novel is a 2008 Golden Heart Winner and a Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick! Any way you look at it, THE IRISH WARRIOR is a winner!
To enter:
One tweet and you are entered for the whole month!
Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Book Summary:
Inhibited, accountant-minded Senna de Valery comes to Ireland to finalize a deal that will save her faltering wool business. What she gets instead is a cunning English lord with dangerous ulterior motives.
Forced to rely on her wits, not her ledgers, Senna frees an Irish warrior chained in the prisons, and together they flee across the war-torn land of medieval Ireland. But Finian O’Melaghlin is much more than a charming, roguish warrior. He is councilor to his king, on a grave mission to recover military secrets, and has a dangerous agenda of his own.
Read and excerpt: HERE.
Upcoming Releases:
- DEFIANT, April 2011 Set on the eve of Magna Carta, Jamie, one of King John’s chief lieutenants is sent on a mission to bring in an exiled priest who has information that could destroy King John’s throne. It’s a simple mission, until Jamie comes up against a thief. Eva, a beautiful, startling woman, not only gets in his way, literally, but upends all his plans. When the rebel barons send an armed mercenary after the priest as well, Jamie and Eva form an explosive alliance, embarking on an adventure that will betray the truth about their identities, reveal their unexpected loyalties, and unleash a passion that could seal their fates forever.
Works In Progress:
Currently, Kris is working on another medieval, as-yet untitled, which will be out in 2012.
Contact Info:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Email
Tomorrow, Alison Kent, prolific, multi-genre romance author
>New Year’s Giveaway: Day 11, Kris Kennedy
>My friendship with Kris Kennedy developed from a combo of Twitter chat and critque partner intro. Yet another sweetheart of a person as well as a talented writer of sexy romance.
Kris writes medievals, but works to keep them accessible—both in language and tone—to the modern-day reader.
“I don’t ‘thee’ and ‘thine,’ I like adventure, and keep it plenty hot.”
~ Kris Kennedy
Before you write medievals off as not being ‘your thing,’ read one of Kris’s stories — especially the IRISH. It could be exactly what a non-medieval lover would, well…love.
And here’s your chance to give it a try!!
Up For Win Today:
A sexy romantic adventure, THE IRISH WARRIOR. This novel is a 2008 Golden Heart Winner and a Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick! Any way you look at it, THE IRISH WARRIOR is a winner!
A sexy romantic adventure, THE IRISH WARRIOR. This novel is a 2008 Golden Heart Winner and a Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick! Any way you look at it, THE IRISH WARRIOR is a winner!
To enter:
One tweet and you are entered for the whole month!
Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Book Summary:
Inhibited, accountant-minded Senna de Valery comes to Ireland to finalize a deal that will save her faltering wool business. What she gets instead is a cunning English lord with dangerous ulterior motives.
Forced to rely on her wits, not her ledgers, Senna frees an Irish warrior chained in the prisons, and together they flee across the war-torn land of medieval Ireland. But Finian O’Melaghlin is much more than a charming, roguish warrior. He is councilor to his king, on a grave mission to recover military secrets, and has a dangerous agenda of his own.
Read and excerpt: HERE.
Upcoming Releases:
- DEFIANT, April 2011 Set on the eve of Magna Carta, Jamie, one of King John’s chief lieutenants is sent on a mission to bring in an exiled priest who has information that could destroy King John’s throne. It’s a simple mission, until Jamie comes up against a thief. Eva, a beautiful, startling woman, not only gets in his way, literally, but upends all his plans. When the rebel barons send an armed mercenary after the priest as well, Jamie and Eva form an explosive alliance, embarking on an adventure that will betray the truth about their identities, reveal their unexpected loyalties, and unleash a passion that could seal their fates forever.
Works In Progress:
Currently, Kris is working on another medieval, as-yet untitled, which will be out in 2012.
Contact Info:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Email
Tomorrow, Alison Kent, prolific, multi-genre romance author
>New Year’s Giveaway: Day 6, Lauren Dane
>I first learned of Lauren Dane through my critique partner, Elisabeth Naughton. I have followed and chatted with Lauren on Twitter and will participate on a workshop panel with Lauren and several other authors at the RWA Conference in New York 2011 (if RWA approves the proposal, that is).
Lauren is one of the most prolific authors I’ve ever met. Her work is quality entertainment. Her covers frame-worthy! So don’t miss your chance to miss this one!
Up For Win Today:
Lauren’s most recent release, INSIDE OUT, book three in the Brown Siblings erotic romance series.
To enter:
Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Book Summary:
Ella Tipton is a survivor. In the wake of an attack that left her nearly dead, she’s spent each day putting her life back together. Once vibrant and outgoing, she’s needed to reclaim the best parts of who she was while retaining the hard won lessons. There hasn’t been room for any romantic entanglements, even if she were ready. Still, it didn’t mean she had to stop sneaking looks at Mister Tall, Dark and Tattooed himself.
Security professional Andrew Copeland isn’t quite sure when his jones for the lovely and decidedly skittish Ella developed. He’s known her for years, has watched her triumph over the pain she’d been dealt. Cope is no stranger to women, but he knows the nervous flush he gets every time he talks to her is different than any attraction he’s had in the past. Determined to get Ella to let him in, Andy does the one thing he can think of to get close: he offers her hands-on training in self-defense.
While Ella’s sure he’s just being nice, the prospect of being able to touch him and gain the tools to push away the last vestiges of her fear is more than she can resist. Soon enough, Cope shows Ella his feelings are far more than friendly and re-ignites something deep inside her. Before long desire and love turn them both inside out.
Works In Progress:
This woman makes me dizzy!!!
- MESMERIZED, Berkley Heat, Phantom Corps #2/Federation Chronicles #4, April 2011
This is a futuristic and the next in the Phantom Corps series and features Andrei Solace and his childhood love/sweetheart Piper who also happens to be a badass mercenary. - Dirty/Bad/Wrong in the THREE TO TANGO Anthology, Berkley Heat, May 2011
This is a small town, menage romance, set in Petal (those fans of the Chase books will recognize one of the hero’s family business as the Honey Bear, the cafe in town and Polly Chase even makes a brief appearance) - GODDESS WITH A BLADE, Carina Press, June 2011
Lauren’s first urban fantasy - ONCE AND AGAIN, Samhain Publishing, August 2011
Lauren’s return to Petal with Nathan Murphy’s book – a second chance at love/reunited lovers story - NEVER ENOUGH (Book 4 in the Brown Siblings series), Berkley Heat, September, 2011
The last in Lauren’s Brown Siblings books and Adrian Brown’s story - HEART OF DARKNESS: BOUND BY MAGIC Series, Berkley Sensation, November 2011
This is the first in a brand new paranormal romance series. It’s set in the same world I wrote my novella Sensual Magic in and features Meriel Owen, a witch and Dominic Bright, an outclan bad boy who is also a witch in a very dark world where witches run themselves like corporations.
Contact Info:
Website
Twitter
Blog
Email
Tomorrow, Cynthia Eden, Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Author.
New Year’s Giveaway: Day 6, Lauren Dane
>I first learned of Lauren Dane through my critique partner, Elisabeth Naughton. I have followed and chatted with Lauren on Twitter and will participate on a workshop panel with Lauren and several other authors at the RWA Conference in New York 2011 (if RWA approves the proposal, that is).
Lauren is one of the most prolific authors I’ve ever met. Her work is quality entertainment. Her covers frame-worthy! So don’t miss your chance to miss this one!
Up For Win Today:
Lauren’s most recent release, INSIDE OUT, book three in the Brown Siblings erotic romance series.
To enter:
Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Book Summary:
Ella Tipton is a survivor. In the wake of an attack that left her nearly dead, she’s spent each day putting her life back together. Once vibrant and outgoing, she’s needed to reclaim the best parts of who she was while retaining the hard won lessons. There hasn’t been room for any romantic entanglements, even if she were ready. Still, it didn’t mean she had to stop sneaking looks at Mister Tall, Dark and Tattooed himself.
Security professional Andrew Copeland isn’t quite sure when his jones for the lovely and decidedly skittish Ella developed. He’s known her for years, has watched her triumph over the pain she’d been dealt. Cope is no stranger to women, but he knows the nervous flush he gets every time he talks to her is different than any attraction he’s had in the past. Determined to get Ella to let him in, Andy does the one thing he can think of to get close: he offers her hands-on training in self-defense.
While Ella’s sure he’s just being nice, the prospect of being able to touch him and gain the tools to push away the last vestiges of her fear is more than she can resist. Soon enough, Cope shows Ella his feelings are far more than friendly and re-ignites something deep inside her. Before long desire and love turn them both inside out.
Works In Progress:
This woman makes me dizzy!!!
- MESMERIZED, Berkley Heat, Phantom Corps #2/Federation Chronicles #4, April 2011
This is a futuristic and the next in the Phantom Corps series and features Andrei Solace and his childhood love/sweetheart Piper who also happens to be a badass mercenary. - Dirty/Bad/Wrong in the THREE TO TANGO Anthology, Berkley Heat, May 2011
This is a small town, menage romance, set in Petal (those fans of the Chase books will recognize one of the hero’s family business as the Honey Bear, the cafe in town and Polly Chase even makes a brief appearance) - GODDESS WITH A BLADE, Carina Press, June 2011
Lauren’s first urban fantasy - ONCE AND AGAIN, Samhain Publishing, August 2011
Lauren’s return to Petal with Nathan Murphy’s book – a second chance at love/reunited lovers story - NEVER ENOUGH (Book 4 in the Brown Siblings series), Berkley Heat, September, 2011
The last in Lauren’s Brown Siblings books and Adrian Brown’s story - HEART OF DARKNESS: BOUND BY MAGIC Series, Berkley Sensation, November 2011
This is the first in a brand new paranormal romance series. It’s set in the same world I wrote my novella Sensual Magic in and features Meriel Owen, a witch and Dominic Bright, an outclan bad boy who is also a witch in a very dark world where witches run themselves like corporations.
Contact Info:
Website
Twitter
Blog
Email
Tomorrow, Cynthia Eden, Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Author.
>New Years Giveaway: Day 4, Monica Burns
>Monica Burns and I are Twitter buddies. By now, that’s probably become familiar news to you all. I have met quite a few of my author-friends on Twitter.
As an author living in a small community without in-person access to an RWA chapter or other romance writers within about 150 miles, I thank God for social media.
Monica is an award winning erotic and historical romance author. She is a 2005 RWA Golden Heart Finalist as well as a 2009 Eppie winner!
She is also running a promotional blog from January 17th through March 1st starring more than 35 bestselling historical romance authors, including Sabrina Jeffries, Madeline Hunter, Lorraine Heath, Sarah MacLean, Julianne MacLean, Lucy Monroe and many more!
Up For Win Today:
Monica’s most recent release, PLEASURE ME. Talk about a scorching cover…this one burns right through the screen! Gorgeous!!!
(Note: This book is not available until March 2011)
To Enter:
Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Book Summary:
Youth and beauty are a courtesan’s greatest assets. At forty-one, Lady Ruth Attwood appears to have lost both, as her latest lover just abandoned her for a younger mistress. Struggling with the knowledge that she’s no longer considered desirable, she’s uncertain whether to be offended or flattered when a younger man makes her an unusual offer. In need of funds, she agrees. But then she does the unthinkable. She falls in love.
Despite his reputation as a man’s man, Baron Garrick Stratfield has never been with a woman. His physical impairment is such that he knows not even a whore will touch him, and he needs a mistress who’s willing to be kept without sharing his bed. But passion is just a delicious kiss away because his new mistress is wreaking havoc with his senses. Worse yet, someone is not only out to ruin his reputation, but frame him for murder.
Read First Three Chapters: HERE
Works In Progress:
INFERNO’S KISS, the third book in the Sicari series.
Contact Info:
Website
Blog
Promotional Blog: Begins Jan 17th and runs through March 1. Daily giveaways & grand prize
Tomorrow: Elizabeth Craig, writing as Riley Adams, mystery writer and blogger extraordinaire!
New Years Giveaway: Day 4, Monica Burns
>Monica Burns and I are Twitter buddies. By now, that’s probably become familiar news to you all. I have met quite a few of my author-friends on Twitter.
As an author living in a small community without in-person access to an RWA chapter or other romance writers within about 150 miles, I thank God for social media.
Monica is an award winning erotic and historical romance author. She is a 2005 RWA Golden Heart Finalist as well as a 2009 Eppie winner!
She is also running a promotional blog from January 17th through March 1st starring more than 35 bestselling historical romance authors, including Sabrina Jeffries, Madeline Hunter, Lorraine Heath, Sarah MacLean, Julianne MacLean, Lucy Monroe and many more!
Up For Win Today:
Monica’s most recent release, PLEASURE ME. Talk about a scorching cover…this one burns right through the screen! Gorgeous!!!
(Note: This book is not available until March 2011)
To Enter:
Follow me on Twitter: @joanswan & send me a tweet with #newyear in the message. (Tweet Here)
Book Summary:
Youth and beauty are a courtesan’s greatest assets. At forty-one, Lady Ruth Attwood appears to have lost both, as her latest lover just abandoned her for a younger mistress. Struggling with the knowledge that she’s no longer considered desirable, she’s uncertain whether to be offended or flattered when a younger man makes her an unusual offer. In need of funds, she agrees. But then she does the unthinkable. She falls in love.
Despite his reputation as a man’s man, Baron Garrick Stratfield has never been with a woman. His physical impairment is such that he knows not even a whore will touch him, and he needs a mistress who’s willing to be kept without sharing his bed. But passion is just a delicious kiss away because his new mistress is wreaking havoc with his senses. Worse yet, someone is not only out to ruin his reputation, but frame him for murder.
Read First Three Chapters: HERE
Works In Progress:
INFERNO’S KISS, the third book in the Sicari series.
Contact Info:
Website
Blog
Promotional Blog: Begins Jan 17th and runs through March 1. Daily giveaways & grand prize
Tomorrow: Elizabeth Craig, writing as Riley Adams, mystery writer and blogger extraordinaire!