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June 24, 2011
| Vol 4, Issue 275
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Summer is here in full force! Besides hot weather, kids out of school, pool parties and time at the beach, it also means lots of summer reading. Here are some staff picks to keep you going.
From Cat:
New York is having a summer heat wave and three women are feeling it-and dealing with it-each in their own steamy way....
Summer Fever by Donna Hill
Nina Forbes is excited to house sit in the Hamptons-but her handsome neighbor, Barbados native Ian Harrison, excites her even more. Soon the two are sharing conversation, kisses...and sizzling sleepovers. Ian promises to keep in touch after he returns home in the fall. But as the days pass, Nina fears their passion was just summer fever...
One Hot Summer by Niobia Bryant
After a high-profile divorce, event planner Simone "Love" Lovey swears off dating famous people...until sexy star athlete Maleek Trenton enters her life. Their romance is bliss, but Love again finds herself amid paparazzi, groupies-and calls from a woman who claims she's involved with Maleek, and has intimate details to prove it...
Too Hot To Handle by Zuri Day
Choice McKinley gets stuck in an elevator during a blackout, on the hottest July 4th ever. That she's locked in with gorgeous Trey Scott only adds to the heat. Soon, relief from the high temperature requires clothing removal and sultry kisses. But Trey doesn't know Choice is his boss's off-limits daughter-and Choice doesn't know Trey is a wanted man. All that will come after the doors open to reality...
From Julie:
Brand new from author Bella Andre, The Look of Love
Chloe Peterson is having a bad night. A really bad night. The large bruise on her cheek can attest to that. And when her car skids off the side of a wet country road straight into a ditch, she's convinced even the gorgeous guy who rescues her in the middle of the rain storm must be too good to be true. Or is he? As a successful photographer who frequently travels around the world, Chase Sullivan has his pick of beautiful women, and whenever he's home in San Francisco, one of his seven siblings is usually up for causing a little fun trouble. Chase thinks his life is great just as it is-until the night he finds Chloe and her totaled car on the side of the road in Napa Valley. Not only has he never met anyone so lovely, both inside and out, but he quickly realizes she has much bigger problems than her damaged car. Soon, he is willing to move mountains to love-and protect-her, but will she let him? Chloe vows never to make the mistake of trusting a man again. Only, with every loving look Chase gives her-and every sinfully sweet caress-as the attraction between them sparks and sizzles, she can't help but wonder if she's met the only exception. And although Chase didn't realize his life was going to change forever in an instant, amazingly, he isn't the least bit interested in fighting that change. Instead, he's gearing up for a different fight altogether...for Chloe's heart.
From Kat:
A paranormal erotic with an unexpected ending from author Stacey Kennedy, 'Til We Meet Again.
Ethan Thomas has spent years alone--trapped forever between worlds. Once a soldier in the Civil War, he's now a ghost bound to a chaise lounge that once belonged to him. He's spent centuries lingering in Savannah, Georgia, waiting to be saved... Cassandra Cole is an interior designer hired to restore an old Victorian home. As she begins to furnish the house, strange happenings erupt around her. She suspects the house is haunted. Determined to find out, Cassie sets out to discover who the ghost is, why she feels a connection to him, and what she has to do to free him. The answers will surprise her in ways she never imagined.
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Anyone? Anyone?
From time to time readers email us looking for a book they cannot remember the name or author of. Our staff is good about hunting these down, but if we cannot locate it we turn to you, our readers, for help. Can you identify this book? Please send your answers to [email protected]
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For this week: I read this book a few years ago about a Investigating Company ran by two couples. One couple was already together and were trying to 'set up' the remaining two people. They were called in to investigate a BDSM club where the subs were being taken/and or killed? The couple had to go undercover at the club to find the criminal. From Last Week: I read this except on the internet, but didn't note the name of the book and the author. Now I've become obsessed with finding it. Here goes. The story is about a woman in her 50's that is widowed. The marriage was not a good one (husband cheated). She meets a man (CEO I think) who is also in his 50's. He has an ex (maybe wife or girlfriend). The daughter of the woman is upset about them dating because she thinks her father was great and doesn't understand how her mother can date another man. The ex of the man wants him back and starts causing problems. The woman thinks the man is cheating on her and breaks up with him. He's not and vows to win her back. I hope you can help. Thanks in advance. No Answer Yet
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Lycan Heat By: S. K. Yule Price: $4.99 Vampires/Werewolves, Paranormal/Horror, Shape-shifter
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Tyler's Cowboy By: Amber Kell Price: $4.23 Erotica, Gay, Westerns/Cowboys
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Best Buddies By: Cain Berlinger Price: $2.00 Erotica, Gay, Drama
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Keeping Faith By: Kris Norris Price: $4.23 Erotica, Multiple Partners, Contemporary
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You Can't Go Home Again By: Aubrianna Hunter Price: $5.99 Erotica, Contemporary
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Walk in the Shadows By: Ginny Michaels Price: $4.23 Vampires/Werewolves, Paranormal/Horror, Erotica
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A Demon Affair By: KevaD Price: $1.49 Sci-fi/Fantasy, Gay, Short Stories
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Nibiru Vampire Warriors - Chp. One By: D. J. Manly, A. J. Llewellyn Price: $4.23 Vampires/Werewolves, Erotica, Gay
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Without Consent - Volume 2 By: Bo Alexander Price: $4.99 Erotica, Suspense/Mystery
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Death in the Rockies By: habu Price: $3.99 Erotica, Gay, Suspense/Mystery
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Hey Jealousy By: BA Tortuga Price: $2.99 Erotica, Gay, BDSM
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Without Consent Volume 3 By: Bo Alexander Price: $4.99 Erotica, BDSM
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Clarity By: Jourdan Lane Price: $0.99 Vampires/Werewolves, Paranormal/Horror, Gay
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Snow's Heat By: NIcole Hicks Price: $2.99 Paranormal/Horror, Shape-shifter, Contemporary
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Playing With Prudence By: Rachel Randall Price: $5.08 Erotica, BDSM, Historical Other
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Competitive Elections and the American Voter By: Keena Lipsitz Price: $49.95 Political Science
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The Tongking Gulf Through History By: James Anderson, Nola Cooke, Tana Li Price: $59.95 History
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What You Will By: Kathryn Schwarz Price: $55.00 Nonfiction
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Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights By: Dorothy Hodgson Price: $47.50 Sociology
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Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics By: Gary Smith Price: $94.95 Mathematics
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The Chaos Pendulum (Book 2 in the Crisis Trilogy) By: James LaFleur, Gordon Massie Price: $2.99 Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Avebury Cosmos By: Nicholas Mann Price: $9.99 History
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Uncommon By: Owen Hatherley Price: $9.99 Music
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Afterlife Unveiled, The By: Stafford Betty Price: $9.99 Nonfiction
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Art and Science of Light Bulb Moments, The By: Tom Evans Price: $9.99 Self-Improvement
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Christian Atheist By: Brian Mountford Price: $9.99 Religion & Spirituality
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Die to Love By: Unmani Liza Hyde Price: $9.99 Religion & Spirituality
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The Change Election By: David B. Magleby Price: $32.95 Nonfiction, Political Science, Analysis
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| Wildfire would like to welcome author Lizzie Lynn Lee.
Lizzie Lynn Lee Julie: Welcome, Lizzie. To get us started can you tell us a little about what you are working on or have coming out? Lizzie: I've stumbled into a writing mood recently and have just finished writing several novellas. Chain of Lust, Dragon Hunts and Werebeasties for Total-E-Bound, and Sarah's Lion and Fever Lust for Summerhouse Publishing. I also have written a couple of short shorts as free reads and they've kept my muse going. Julie:I love reading the warnings on the blurbs for many books. If you could write a warning label for yourself as a person or an author, what would it say? Lizzie: "For Adult Use Only." LOL. I have a dirty mouth and dirtier mind. Hazard of the job. Julie: Do you have any guilty pleasures? Lizzie: Oh yes. I love Korean soap operas. I don't know why. The plots are often stupid and the acting is horrendous, but for some strange reason, I can't stop watching them. Julie: Name one thing readers would be surprised to know about you. Lizzie: I was in an all girl heavy metal band when I was a teenager. We toured to some cities. I was the lead guitarist. I know, that's a long way from becoming an erotica author, but I still play guitar these days when I'm stuck writing a particularly difficult character. Julie: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? Lizzie: Tokyo, Japan. I'm an otaku-an anime and manga geek (I know, it's sad), and Tokyo is the mecca of everything anime, manga, and cosplay. I also love the people (they're so polite), the food, the shopping and overall, Japanese culture. Julie: How do you get yourself in the mood to write? Lizzie: By getting rid of distractions. Like phone, music, TV, or internet. I'm one of those people who get easily distracted by the shiny. Julie: If someone hasn't read any of your work, what book would you recommend that they start with and why? Lizzie: Orient Fevre. It's my favorite story I've ever written and also the hottest. The book practically wrote itself and it also has some of the best jokes I've ever come up with. Lizzie Lynn Lee is an incurable chatterbox, a bookworm and a night owl, since most of her stories are done in the wee hours of the morning because of her caffeine-induced insomnia. She's a big South Park fan, and fluent in Cartman speak and is currently working on mastering her Kennynese. Visit her site: www.ilizzie.com to see a complete list of her titles, read exclusive excerpts, hot erotic shorts or watch the trailers of her books. Backlist: Lady of the Snow, Changeling Press Prince and the Assassin, Changeling Press The Flight of the Heron, Changeling Press Eve of Seduction, Changeling Press Deus Eve Machina, Changeling Press Switched, Changeling Press Dragon Kin: Savannah's Menage, Changeling Press Sex and Chocolate: Charly's Chocolate Factory, Changeling Press Fierce Heat with Celia Kyle, Liquid Silver Books Original Sin, Loose Id Instinct, Changeling Press Claimed, Changeling Press Hot-Blooded, Changeling Press Orient Fevre, Total-E-Bound Gilded Cage, Total-E-Bound Corporate Plaything, Total-E-Bound Maison Plaisir, Total-E-Bound The Last Siren, Summerhouse Publishing Jennifer's Lion, Summerhouse Publishing Wet, Loose Id Coming soon: Sarah's Lion, Summerhouse Publishing Fever Lust, Summerhouse Publishing To Bed a Goddess, Total-E-Bound Private Sessions, Total-E-Bound Links: Website |
| Us by Mary Calmes This story is 4 flames. Stories have frequent love scenes that are explicit and described using graphic and direct language. It was after six when he finally walked through the front door of his loft. When I turned I saw him shaking rain off his trench coat before hanging it up on one of the wooden pegs.
"Hey," I smiled at my boyfriend Davis Boone as I turned from where I was staring out the window at the lights of downtown San Francisco. "You're late."
"I called," he said, his voice husky. "You didn't pick up."
"I probably didn't hear it." My mouth had gone dry. Something about the way he was looking at me...
He crossed the room, reached out and put a hand on the back of my neck.
"You look nice." I told him. He was standing there in a black suit with a charcoal gray dress shirt underneath the jacket, open at the collar, showing a hint of the white T-shirt underneath. His tie was nowhere in sight.
"I look like I do every day after work," he said, staring at my mouth.
"Yeah, but I don't normally see you," I told him, trying to calm down. I had the strongest urge to grab him and kiss him, then throw him down and make love to him right there on his living room floor. It was like I hadn't seen him in days instead of just nine short hours.
We had flown in from Chicago two nights before because I was finally able to travel and the long-distance love of my life had insisted that I come home with him for the two weeks of recuperation time that my captain had made me take. Being shot and thrown into Lake Michigan, left for dead, had made people worry. Davis had been a basket case, especially since I hadn't been the one to call him. He got the news from my mother that her son, the homicide detective, was fighting for his life in the hospital. I had woken up to find him hovering over my bed looking worse than I had ever seen him. Even when his parents threw him out of the house and out of their lives for being gay, he hadn't looked quite so bad, quite so pale.
"I'm okay, baby," I had told him, reaching for his hand.
He had clutched mine so tight, his beautiful blue eyes swimming with tears.
"As soon as they let you out of here," he sucked in his breath, "you're coming home with me, Cam. Swear it."
"Oh, I promise," I smiled as my eyes fluttered closed. "Sounds like heaven."
"Cam?"
His voice brought me back to the present.
"You okay?" he asked, studying me.
I just stared into those magnificent cobalt eyes of his.
"I missed you today. I'm so sorry I had to go in."
"Life of a litigator," I teased him.
"There was no way around it, but I'm all yours now for the next nine days."
I leaned forward and kissed him, breathing him in, pushing my tongue inside his mouth as he parted his lips and let me. Something about him submitting to me was always so sexy. I groaned deep in my throat, put my hands flat on his chest, pressed against him, and kissed deeper. He made a noise in the back of his throat and I felt myself get hard. It was time to stop since we were supposed to be going out, so I tried to pull back.
"No-no," he breathed against my mouth, hands on my face to keep me there, but I had to step back to catch my breath.
He crossed his arms, leaned against the wall and looked at me.
"What's with you?" I asked him, swallowing hard.
I saw his jaw muscles tense as he shook his head just barely. "Tell me."
"You," he said like I should go first.
"I just wanna put my mouth all over you," I said honestly.
"Okay," he smiled at me, his dimples appearing like magic, his eyes firing.
I tried to smile but I was suddenly aware that it was raining again. Water snaked down the window glass and that, combined with the lights and the darkness, soothed me. It had been a cold gray day, my favorite--the kind of day best spent in bed under the covers watching movies. Had Davis been able to stay home with me that would have been heaven. But as it was, I hadn't stepped foot out of his loft. I was still working on getting stronger, still recuperating from the shooting that had nearly taken my life. I realized how much I didn't want to go to dinner with his well meaning friends; home with Davis was where I wanted to stay.
"Cam?"
I turned to him. "Tell me what's wrong with you?"
He shrugged, "Same old story. Nothing's changed."
"Like what?" "Like I love it when you visit and it kills me just a little when you leave."
I nodded. "Then maybe we should think about me moving here."
He froze in place and I had to smile.
His eyes widened before he cleared his throat. "Really?"
"Yes, really."
"Cameron Mancini, are you screwing with me?"
"No," I chuckled.
"Jesus, Cam, I've wanted you here since we agreed to start this thing three months ago."
I had known the man forever, since we were kids. We had finally both been in the same place at the same time--heart, mind and soul--and had decided to take the plunge and chance turning a rock-solid friendship into love.
"I hated that you were so far away when I got shot," I confessed.
"Yeah, I wasn't all that excited about it myself."
"So we should maybe discuss the logistics of me moving here and figure out a timeline."
"Oh, yes, please," he beamed at me.
The way he was looking at me played hell with my concentration and the feeling was back from earlier that I wanted to attack him. "Just move here, move in with me, live with me," he said, leaning in, his mouth hovering over mine. "I would be the happiest man alive."
"Yeah?" I smiled.
"Yeah, I want you with me more than anything."
I put my hand on the back of his neck and pulled him to me. I licked his lips before I kissed them, ran my tongue inside his mouth, and then pushed in deeper. He tasted so good.
"Come to bed," he said gruffly, his mouth on my neck, kissing, sucking. His hands under my T-shirt on my skin were so warm.
"Not yet," I said and sank to my knees in front of him, my hands on his belt buckle.
"Oh, God," he moaned and braced himself on the counter, gripping it for support.
I smiled when I heard him catch his breath, thrilled that I could cause that reaction before I took the long hard length of him down the back of my throat.
"Jesus, you're gifted."
I smiled around his cock.
"Oh please, Cam."
I sucked and laved, bathed and licked. When he came apart under the twin assault of mouth and hands, bucking against me, coming hard, I swallowed it all down, holding him through shuddering aftershocks.
"Cam." My name came out of him breathlessly and I liked the sultry sound.
"I wish I could do the caveman thing and throw you over my back and carry you off to bed."
"It's not necessary." He smiled, his eyes glazed and heavy-lidded. "Just lead, I'll follow. I always follow."
I turned and walked toward the other side of his loft where behind a wall of glass, his bed waited. When I stopped and turned he was right there.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"I want you naked on the bed."
Wicked, wicked smile as he started shedding clothes very fast, not giving a damn about how expensive his suit was, wanting only to comply with my wishes. As I went to his nightstand and retrieved the lube, I heard his breath catch.
"You missed me," I said, stating a fact.
"Oh, yes."
Minutes later, as I had one hand on his hip, anchoring him down and the other on the small of his back as I slowly entered him, he told me again that yes... I had been missed. I loved feeling the muscles in his back working, loved watching the thick, hard length of me slide into his silky hole. And the way he writhed under me, the way the muscles in his firm round ass gripped me, made it hard not to come before I even started stroking in and out of his hot, wet, tight channel.
"I'm gonna come again," he whimpered. "Baby, please."
I thrust hard and deep, my body out of control as I filled him with my release.
"Oh, yes," he purred contentedly.
I collapsed on top of him and he laughed as he was pinned to the bed.
"Shit, I'm sorry, I've got no stamina."
"Do you hear me complaining?"
I smiled into his thick blond hair. "Kiss me," he begged.
I eased out gently so I could roll him over on to his back and take possession of his mouth.
The kissing was endless; I couldn't seem to stop, even though the inside of my mouth and my tongue felt raw, and my lips felt swollen and bruised from kissing. We finally parted because our dinner date was looming and we both had to shower.
"What're you doing?" I asked, then chuckled when I realized what he was doing. Instead of getting ready when he got out of the shower, he had stretched his long golden body out on the bed and was lying there, looking up at me, eyes unfocused as if he was under a spell. "We're gonna be late." I smiled at him, admiring the lines of him. "You like looking at me."
"Yes." Everybody loved to look at him--the man was gorgeous after all.
"You like touching me, too. "No good can come of this," I assured him, pulling on my pale blue cotton dress shirt and fixing the collar before I started buttoning it up.
"Come kiss me some more." He taunted me, rubbing his stomach slowly, seductively, his eyes heavy lidded, his lips with the hint of a smile. "You know you want to." His voice was full of gravel.
"No," I grunted, turning toward the bathroom because I needed to shave. "It's too much. Everybody always said it was."
He was up off the bed and in front of me so fast. "What?"
I smiled at him, seeing that he was aroused again. What the hell was I going to say to his friends? Sorry, we didn't make it to dinner because we got caught up fucking and couldn't seem to stop? "Nothing."
"No. What'd you say?"
I sighed. "I love to kiss. Making out gets me all hot, but most guys don't wanna spend that much time lettin' me. I worry that it's taking too long sometimes, so I stop before I'm ready to, ya know?"
He nodded, reached out and put his hands on my face. "You can kiss me as long as you like. Just thinking about your tongue in my mouth gets me hard."
It didn't get much better than that. I leaned in and kissed him, trying to make it fast and light so I wouldn't get excited again, but his lips fit mine so perfectly and he made those noises in the back of his throat that drove me crazy. When he trembled, I ended up pushing him down on the bed all over again. I took my time because I wanted to and it felt like there was only us in the world, me and him, together while it rained outside. I couldn't remember ever being so content.
We never made it to dinner.
Mary Calmes currently lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, with her husband and two children and hopes to eventually move off the rock to a place where her children can experience fall and even winter. She graduated from the University of the Pacific (ironic) in Stockton, California, with a bachelor's degree in English literature. Due to the fact that it is English lit and not English grammar, do not ask her to point out a clause for you, as it will so not happen. She loves writing, becoming immersed in the process, and falling into the work. She can even tell you what her characters smell like. She works at a copy store but has been unable to incorporate that into a book... yet.
Backlist: Change of Heart, Dreamspinner Press Trusted Blood, Dreamspinner Press The Guardian, Dreamspinner Press Timing, Dreamspinner Press His Hearth, Dreamspinner Press Tooth & Nail, Dreamspinner Press Romanus, Dreamspinner Press The Servant, Dreamspinner Press
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