Friday Smiles!

Happy Friday, Ya'll!

I feel like a kindergartener stand up for show and tell...a HUGE smile on my face and my pretty, pretty picture on display!  In this case it's the new cover to my recently sold, second book in the Northwood Jags series, erotic novel!

Huh.  See now I have a picture of that in my head and I really need to edit that first line!  Let's try this...

I feel like a kindergartener Jamie, at the erotic book club, standing up for show and tell...a HUGE smile on my face and my pretty, pretty picture on display! 

Yeah, that works better.  What?  Oh, erotic book club, you didn't know Talbot's Peak had one of those?  Yep, they sure do.  It's held in a back room at Java Joes.  Marissa relegated them there when Mistress P decided to learn Photoshop and took great joy in producing explicit book covers.  She's been missing Burgess something fierce.

Anyway, no, Penny did not produce my book cover.  That came from the wonderful Liquid Silver Books art dept.!  Didn't they do an awesome job! 

The Submission is set to release on 1/27/14...check out the blurb below.  I'm still working on edits so an excerpt will come at a later date.  :)

Blurb: Two is better than one.  Most would agree with that statement, but not full-blooded shifter LeAnn Turone.  To accept her need for multiple partners means facing a lifetime in a one-sided triad.  She’s better off denying her heritage even if that means walking away from two of the most delectable alpha males she’s ever met.

Rick Taylor and Trent Warren each think they’ve found their mate in LeAnn, but a midnight meeting deep in the woods proves them wrong.   Not only do they both long to connect to the sexy, but skittish, female they also find themselves attracted to one another.

Each member of this triad must free themselves from the fear of the future and submit to the greater power of love.
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Stay warm, wallow in your own special brand of wickedness and have a wonderful weekend!  

Serena

Sunday Smiles

Good Morning and Happy Sunday smiles to everyone out there.  I just had to share my happy news!  A Magical Return now has a cover!  Woot!!

Cover Artist, Amanda Kelsey, has scored big once again, in my book, with this rocking, sexy, I'm never letting go of you looking cover.  The colors are perfect for the story, the woman has that delicious gleam in her eye and the guy is just plain hawt!  Plus, check that tat...can you get a Charley horse from smiling? ~wink~

I gush because honestly I still feel like a newbie in this world wind life of an author.  Who knows, maybe a new cover still feels this way (I hope, I hope) even after the 10th, 15th or 20th book.  ~fingers crossed my muse and luck hold out that long!~

So how about a blurb to go along with this lovely cover?  I'm still looking for excerpts so I'll have to get back to you with that,  but I do have a Sunday Snippet.  Enjoy!

Blurb:

The Loss


Conleth “Cole” Douglas, warlock and vessel, needs a miracle. A destructive force has taken hold of his town and it will take more than just he and his magical Other, Cole, to eradicate the Evil. When an attempt to open his lover, Emterra, to their shared destiny fails, Conleth and Cole take extreme measures to stop the rising darkness. Their only option: take it, and themselves, into another realm.

Emterra “Irene” Azzurra, untapped witch and vessel, has given up on finding her own happy-ever-after. Devastated by the loss of her one and only love she becomes disinterested and remote, closed off from a life without Conleth. Even her job as the mayor of the dying town of Douglasville, MO, fails to sustain her, until she gets a blast from the past…

The Return

He’s back, alive and whole, but he didn’t come alone. The evil they’d hoped to contain in a distant realm has returned with him and is out to finish the job it started. There can be no failure this time, the now middle-aged, Emterra must accept her Other or doom the town to an agonizing death.

Skeptical of his sudden homecoming, Emterra is afraid to hope that his return could be true. She balks at the idea of opening her heart to him again. Especially when he looks like the same young Goth from ten years ago and tries to convince her she’s sharing skin with a magical being.

Can Conleth prove his claims of magic and the Others to be true? Can Emterra allow herself to believe in love and his wild claims? Or will the returning Evil finally swallow this town and all its inhabitants into the deepest realms of hell.



Snippet:
Giant plumes of fire shot into the air, bracketing both the stage and Conleth ‘Cole’ Douglas within their heated embrace. The pyrotechnic display filled the night sky with showers of crackling flames.


An unknown force had let loose a demon within the town of Douglasville. Malevolent was too nice a word for this beast. This evil was a promise maker, a soul sucker, a bloody life taker, and now it was Conleth’s job to send it back to hell. The only problem--he wasn’t nearly strong enough on his own. For this, he needed Em.

Emterra Azzurra was many things to him, his friend and lover, his soul mate--but right now what he needed the most was the thing inside her. Deep within the body, he knew quite intimately, was a being of magic, a source of goodness, an Other--one who had the ability to work with his own Other to defeat the evil bearing down on them now.

 

New release - new book trailer for Whirlwind Affair

Hi everyone.
I have my cover from EC now. It's another gorgeous design by Syneca! So I'm going to do one more bit of blatant promotion. Here's the full fun with my new release.

Whirlwind Affair
Release Date: March 10, 2010
ISBN: 9781419927577
Coming Soon from Ellora's Cave Publishing


Plus-sized Erika Bergstrom is shopping in an upscale adult boutique when handsome Rodrigo Torbellino asks for help finding a gift…for someone else. Just her luck! But as he flirts with her, she discovers he’s shopping for a bridal shower gift for a friend, not a lover. So when he asks her to model some sexy lingerie then seduces her in the dressing room, Erika gives into her urge for a wild new experience…a one-night stand.

The next morning, Erika’s body is sated from pleasure. Rigo obtains a promise that she’ll call him and tells her that if she doesn’t call him, he’ll find her. She’s intrigued and thrilled with his obvious interest until she discovers Rigo is the head of the company her brother wants the family to partner with, so she doesn’t contact him. A month passes. When they meet again the fire between them burns just as bright as ever, but does Rigo want the business deal or her?


I also have a new book trailer/video for Whirlwind Affair. Thanks to the fabulous Paris Brandon for creating the video for me! Check it out.

At Last!

Did you ever have a book that just wouldn't leave you alone? The characters were insistent about telling you their story and the plot came to you at odd times, waking you up or making you dig for a pen and any scrap of paper so that you could get an idea down?

Assassin's Kiss was just that kind of book. I just found out last night that it will be available from Ellora's Cave September 25! Here's a sneak peak at the cover and blurb. I hope you enjoy it!

“You can only take so much away from a person before they either fight or give up.”

Kira Randall


Her only crime was being born. She is the key to a secret that the Jaguar Council will kill to keep and their ancient enemy, the Brotherhood, will kill to possess. Kira Randall, a two-natured, jaguar shifter in heat treks to the Guatemalan jungle, desperate for the sex she craves. What she finds is danger, death, and Bastian, a blatantly sexual three-natured, Jaguar assassin who rescues her from the rogues he's been tracking, only to find she is more dangerous.
Halflings have been forbidden by the Jaguar Council for centuries. Killing her should have been easy.
Torn between his desire for Kira and his duty to protect the Jaguar People, Bastian can’t resist the first touch of her naked flesh or her heated demands.
Yielding to a dangerous, forbidden passion, they are caught in a treacherous web of deceit as they race against time, fighting their way through a growing list of enemies to save the same Jaguar People who would condemn them. Their only hope is each other.

Assassin's Kiss
by Paris Brandon
Copyright 2009
Coming Soon from Ellora's Cave

Hugs,
Paris