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Angela’s Epistles

by eileentroemel, posted in Book Tour
The Gap Year
Angela’s Epistles Book 1
by Rita Kruger
Genre: SciFi LGBT Romance
Angela Wright might have everything her father’s money can buy, but that meant nothing to her on the night of her twenty-eight birthday. She is angry and a little bit drunk as she flees the scene of a fight with her mother.
All her life she has done the right thing. But she is tired of living under her mother’s shadow. How can she ever compete with Margaret Wright, the first Human judge on the Intergalactic High Court?
Within the space of a few days, Angela drops out in the last semester at Intergalactic Bureau of Investigation Academy, signs a bounty hunting contract to find the top ten criminals in the galaxy, and kisses Brenda, her best friend since childhood.
She might be late, but at last she is blooming.
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Sins of the Fathers
Angela’s Epistles Book 2
Angela Wright is new to bounty hunting, and on her way to find Nuremburg, a cop-killer. She is also new to Uranus. And to loving a woman. She thinks she’s doing rather well, for a late bloomer.
She learns that Uranus’ has a nickname. “Black widow.” Interesting Creatures. An underground where the resistance live in squalor. And a box with journals and pictures from her father, Winston James Wright.
Only, he died when she was six years old.
Meanwhile on Earth, a stalker rears his head. His has his eyes and mind on Angela’s girlfriend, Bren.
Maybe blooming isn’t really what she thought it would be. Or maybe it is just that everyone else had a head start.
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Dancing in the Dark
Angela’s Epistles Book 3
This is book three of Angela’s Epistles Series.
Finally Angela tastes success in as a bounty hunting. The Top Ten list of worst criminals was changing because of what she did. Having conquered her new career, she now turned her mind to new endeavours.
Bren, her girlfriend, was still plagued by a stalker, and the police was not helping much.
Angela starts to read her father’s journals, at last. He speaks about a betrayal. They are also filled with concern for the atrocities that was happening on Uranus. Therefore she sets forth to rescue her brother from the Black Widow (Uranus). She has a brilliant scheme, a map, and just in case, a Plan B.
But can she leave Uranus untouched? Will its darkness touch her? Will she, and the team of people who are gathering, be able to get to the stalker before he gets to Bren?
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Dark Eclipse
Angela’s Epistles Book 4
This is book four in Angela’s story.
The attack on Bren unleashes all kinds of trouble in Angela’s life. With Bren and Angelo both in hospital, she is almost living there. Heading for a nervous breakdown, she is able to get them both in one room, with a guard outside. And an extra bed for herself.
In the middle of this she needs to find answers. What really happened on the night Bren was attacked? Where did she go? And why did she make those calls to Bren?
No, WHO made those calls to Bren?
Prof Linden and the top students go through Bren’s case file and find some irregularities. Evidence is missing. The police investigation is going nowhere. All fingers point to the stalker being a policeman. Soon the Intergalactic Bureau of Investigation takes over. Can they find the truth?
And Margaret wants the journals her father wrote for her. She is willing to take Angela to court.
Adulthood has a fierce bite. Can Angela hold on amidst all
the twists and turns life is throwing at her?
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Masquerade
Angela’s Epistles Book 5
This is book five in the ANGELA’S EPISTLES series.
Life after the attack on Bren is hard on our relationship. Her walls are up so high I cannot reach her. But I know it’s not only the attack. I lied to her. Everything between us is tainted.
Angelo has found love! I’m happy to have my brother here.
Only, he isn’t my brother, is he?
The board members of Search International is having a party. Only, it turns into the worst idea ever. I should have expected that for them. Anyway. The new target on the International Bureau of Investigation’s Top Ten list is Identity Thief. Which means I have to go to the bank right after the party to ensure my money is protected properly.
And then the hunt starts.
Can I find a way to reach Bren in her tower of pain? How deep does the investigation into the mining atrocities in her father’s journals go? And what other secrets will he share with her? Will Margaret change her mind about wanting the journals? And can Angela find the Identity Thief before he finds her?
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Close Cuts
Angela’s Epistles Book 6
This is book six in the series Angela’s Epistles.
Follow the escapades of Angela, Bren and the people they love. This time Angela has to face enemies from within and without. But can she do this without the support of her lover, Bren, who had always been the rock on which she could stand?
Margaret, her mother, is still fighting her around every corner.
Added to this is a trusted friend that turns into an enemy.
The Identity Thief seems like a walk in the park in the middle of Angela’s storms. But will she ever find this elusive criminal?
What new secrets will her father’s journal reveal? Can she heal the damage to her relationship with Bren before it is too late? Can she survive in a world filled with people that want to kill her?
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Rita Kruger lives in Vereeniging, South Africa. She is wife, granddaughter, daughter, mother, and grandmother. Most of childhood happened within the pages of books. Stories conspired to carry her away from the world she knew. The places and people books introduced her to were much more exciting than her boring existence.
Currently married to her personal MacGyver, she surrounds herself with what enriches her body, mind and soul. Family. Friends. Nature. Great food. Good wine. Mountains of books. She writes novels challenging major themes of her life in the genres of fantasy and gothic horror, which she loves.
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Hybrid

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Hybrid: Adapt or Die
by Rebecca Henry
Genre: SciFi Horror, Romance
Agent Van of the CIA is sent to an Australian underground military surveillance base called Pine Gap. Agent Van finds himself thrown in a conspiracy cover up of an ancient alien race known as species X. He falls in love with Annika, a mysterious and uncommon woman who displays unusual abilities, leading Van to question her own origin. Mystery and horror explode around Agent Van during a cave diving exhibition to search for a lost colleague referred to as Agent One. The only clue for Agent Van and his team is a cryptic message carved on a wall inside the bleak cave that reads “Agent One is gone. No more Agent One.” Terror arrives as the agents are trapped inside the ominous cave. Agent Van soon learns that there is more to Pine Gap than Species X.
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Best Selling Amazon Author of Hybrid: Adapt or Die. Her debut novel was The Lady Raven: A Dark Cinderella Tale, which was published in 2017. The Lady Raven, is for those who have an infinity for fairy tales retold with a link to witches, magic and the macabre. Rebecca’s second novel, Louisiana Latte, a chick lit comedy was released February 28th 2019. Louisiana Latte, is a feel good comedy that focuses on the bonds of sisters, and how audacious life can be when you have a diva for one! Rebecca’s third novel Hybrid: Adapt or Die, is a sci-fi, horror, romance novel. It takes the reader on a wild ride of government conspiracy theories, ancient aliens but also touches your heart with a tender love story. Hybrid was released August 1st 2019. Her fourth novel Conjure Lake, a ya, dark fantasy, horror novel will be released in 2020. The entire first chapter is included at the end of Hybrid first edition copies. You can find all of Rebecca’s books on Amazon
Rebecca Henry is a world traveler living abroad in England. Besides being an author, Rebecca is also a podcast talk host on the show The Latte Talk. The podcast was inspired by her latest novel, Louisiana Latte and her diva sister Deb. She is a serious vegan, gardener, crafter, wife and mom who practices yoga. She loves to laugh, her drug of choice and loves all things witchy with a hint of the macabre. Her favorite holiday is Halloween and her favorite movie of all time is Practical Magic.
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Dragon’s Claw

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Dragon’s Claw
by Brynna Curry with Alyria Curry
Genre: Sweet Fantasy Time Travel Paranormal Romance
When a magic sword falls into Catryna Logan’s hands, she is faced with the reality of demons, dragons and a past that can’t possibly be real. Or can it? To escape the evil serpent demons searching for her, she will have to put her past and future in the hands of the dragon demon king Kairyuu. But will trusting him cost her everything?
Bethany Cagle, who writes as Brynna Curry, was born south of the Mason-Dixon Line in a small Alabama town. Growing up, books fueled her dreams and imagination, ultimately became her sanctuary during the hardest times in her life. After living all over the southern states, she finally landed back in north Alabama where she met her husband, Jackie. She spent a wonderful twenty-two years with her hero, raising their three children.
Now widowed, she spends her free time writing and tending her ‘army’ of feral cats and rescued strays. Her furry minions, Jace, Styxx, Beerus, and Asheron, are always willing to keep her company while she works. She insists love is the truest magic and with it, every day is an adventure.
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Love on the Line

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Love on the Line
Women at Work Book 1
by Kirsten Fullmer
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Romance
She’s an ordinary girl in an extraordinary situation.
Andrea left her comfortable home and her family to take a job building a pipeline with her estranged grandpa, Buck. She’s always been curious about his job, and why her mother dislikes him so much. She doesn’t expect, however, to uncover buried family secrets, for the job to be so difficult, or to be the only women on site.
Rooster isn’t a bad guy. He respects women; he was raised by one of the best. But that new girl on the job is too small and feminine. She’s a distraction, plain and simple, and she doesn’t belong on a pipeline. This job is his chance to impress Buck Brennan, a pipeline legend, and no girly greenhorn or workplace romance is going to ruin it for him.
Will Andrea prove herself to her grandfather and forge a relationship with the old man, or will continuous disagreements and unexpected sexual tension between Andrea and Rooster derail their hard work? Find out in this extraordinary coming of age story
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Kirsten is a dreamer with an eye for art and design. She worked in the engineering field, taught college, and consulted free lance. Due to health problems, she retired in 2012 to travel with her husband. They live and work full time in a 40′ travel trailer with their little dog Bingo. Besides writing romance novels, she enjoys selling art on Etsy and spoiling their three grandchildren.
As a writer, Kirsten’s goal is to create strong female characters who face challenging, painful, and sometimes comical situations. She believes that the best way to deal with struggle, is through friendship and women helping women. She knows good stories are based on interesting and relatable characters.
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Switched in Time

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Switched in Time
by Breanna Hayse
Genre: Time Travel Romance
Nya Lynn Crow is stuck in a boring life. Her only real joy exists in attending BDSM and kinkster parties with her best friend, Tawni. However, even those events are being ruined by a woman who’s out to destroy her, and because of whom Nya ends up being drugged, beaten and left to die on a mesa in the Sandia mountain foothills.
She tries to walk home in the dark and stumbles on to ancient Indian burial grounds, only to awaken in the care of two very handsome ranchers who are strong, kind, and ridiculously old-fashioned. While they nurse her back to health, she finds herself yearning for modern conveniences—conveniences that she soon discovers have not yet been invented.
Flint Masters, stern cowboy and owner of High River Ranch, takes an instant shine to this beautiful but strange ‘half-breed’, but her lack of proper manners and inability to follow direction grate on his nerves. As a result, Nya soon discovers that all the fantasies and role playing games she so enjoyed enacting before at BDSM events are nothing like the reality of a real, old-fashioned spanking. She’s also quick to learn that her sexual appetite is something beyond the ‘polite society’ expectations of a gentleman rancher; and her desires end up inviting not only another switching, but also fulfillment the likes of which she’s never before experienced.
Can a modern, sexually expressive, and highly opinionated young woman survive in the Old West in 1863, surrounded by cowboys, Vaqueros and Apache Indians?
Especially when time proves itself to be cyclic, and Nya finds herself face to face with her old nemesis once again—only this time, the evil woman is trying to not just destroy her, but every Apache and Vaquero in the territory. Nya must decide whether to stand up to her for once and for all, or to run and hide, and she ends up risking everything, including her blossoming relationship with Flint, to saves the lives of the people around her, and to hopefully make the future a better place for all of them.
This fast-paced Western adventure is full of what fans have come to love and expect from Breanna Hayse; gorgeous men; strong, opinionated, curiously vulnerable women; sizzling spankings and rich historic detail; with a witty dose of humor thrown in for good measure.
BDSM/AP lifestyler Breanna Hayse strives to give her readers truth and reality of the BDSM/Age-Play/Total Power and Erotic Exchange lifestyle.
Who am I?
I’m a native Californian gone ‘wild’, and had the opportunity to travel the globe and discover the world through the eyes of both a Marine Intelligence specialist and a BDSM lifestyler. I left the service to go into hospice nursing and grief counseling, eventually working as a marriage and family therapist for those involved in alternative lifestyle development. This experience has allowed me to gain unique inspiration for my books and offer realistic plots and relatable characters.
In 2004, my husband, John, and I joined forces to work with both submissives and dominants- teaching, training, listening and loving. Our goal was to take the mystery and fear out of the lifestyle and mentor people in safe, consensual and healthy relationships.
My first book, The Game Plan, was published in 2012 and opened the door to the now-booming world of Age-Play literature. Since that time, I’ve devoted my ‘spare’ time to writing, researching, community involvement, and private and group pro bono counseling in deviant behavior, alternative lifestyle, and addiction recovery.
I was formally ‘dungeon trained’ as a Domme before discovering my submissive side when I joined the service. My scenarios are pulled primarily from either personal experience or observation, including spending time in BDSM clubs as the safety/medical officer. My multi-faceted background allows me to glean from many avenues and give a unique and intelligent literary experience through elements of fantasy and fiction. I also discuss the questions and psychology of the lifestyle in a manner that is fun and informative, and based on ‘the real deal.’
I live with my husband, musician, and fellow-author, John Hayse, and two border collies in southern California. We practice a 24/7 D&S relationship with speckles of AP (and many trips to Build-A-Bear), and happily spend every moment together that we can. My hobbies include my puppies, hiding my vanilla salt-water taffy where John can’t find it, exotic art, collecting inspirational trinkets, and developing my own paddle line. You can also see me as a featured author/instructor in professional conference settings and as a Sexpert for kinkyliterature.com.
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Noelle Rahn-Johnson

by eileentroemel, posted in Author Interview

Noelle and I started talking on social media and we have a lot in common including a nearly similar book title! She’s from the Midwest and so am I!

Author Bio

Noelle currently lives in Northern Minnesota with her husband, their four children, two dogs, two rats, a handful of goldfish, and a very spoiled cat. She spends most of her days puttering away on the keyboard with a breathtaking view of a lake in her backyard as a source of tranquil inspiration. Her and her husband were high school sweethearts, and will be celebrating their 25th year of wedded bliss in August of 2017. She enjoys fishing, reading, shopping, writing, and spending time with her family.

Tell us about yourself

Well, I’m a married, mom of 4 with a granddaughter. I’ve been writing since 2014, but didn’t publish my first book until 2015. I currently have 9 books out and writing 2 at the same time currently. I live on a lake in northern Minnesota with my hubs of 25+ years, 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 6 pet rats and a handful of fish.

When did you know you wanted to be an author?

I didn’t know I wanted to be an author. I just had an idea of a story one day and wrote it down. It became the Pieces Trilogy and I just haven’t stopped since.

What genres do you like to read?  Are these the same genres you write in?

I’m a romance freak. Any HEA romance except for historical, I’m good. I write what I read. Contemporary, shifter, vampire, NA/College. 18+, I like it steamy but not over the top.

Is your book for adults, young adults or children?

My books are all 18+ because of the language and sexual scenes. But they are not erotica or 50 shades. I have written a child’s book, but I’m waiting for some more money to come in so I can get the illustrations done.

What is your current release or project?

The last book I did release was Secrets Past. I’m currently writing Hidden in the shadows which is book 2 in the Shadows series AND The Queen’s Justice, which is a stand alone.

Tell us about the key characters

Well, in Hidden in the Shadows there is Samuel who is a skinny red head and a red macaw shifter. Jamison is a silver backed Ape in Remote Oregon. They meet under different situations and there is sex, drama and love.

What is your blurb or synopsis of the book?

Squatting on the forest floor, hidden behind and under the tall, thick ferns, Jamison watches as a red macaw flies and dodges trees, scrambling away from two other macaws chasing him.

When the red bird miscalculates his turn, and flies head on into a tree, the other two birds squawk and fly away.

Jamison lumbers over to where the injured bird lays. Seeing that the bird may be injured, he carefully picks it up with his huge, thick hands and cradles it into his massive chest. He brings it to his home to take care of it until it heals.

When Sam wakes, he’s no longer in the forest trying to get away from the aggressive female and male shifters. But now he’s lying on a soft leather couch. In someone’s home.

The female and her boyfriend wanted a three-some, but Sam’s not bi, he’s totally GAY!

He knows he won’t have children the normal way, but adopting isn’t out of the question. Sam’s lived his adult life alone. His parents abandoned him when he came out to them as gay. And that didn’t sit well with their flighty and all-mighty life style.

When Sam meets Jamison’s almost black eyes, attraction, heat and ‘mate’ screeches through his brain. Sam’s a skinny white boy with flaming red hair.

Will this lumbering, muscular, dark chocolate skinned, shifter of a man want him?

Could the hulking man want more than just him and a roll in the leaves?

Will their animal shifter be accepting of each other?

One flying and the other a chest pounding, beefy shifter?

Share an excerpt.

Chapter 1

Jamison

I’ve lived on the very outskirts of this town called Remote, Oregon for all my adult life alone. For three reasons only-It’s beautiful, private and quiet. Those three things alone make it worth my while, but also my animal can go ape wild if he wants too and we don’t need to worry about humans interfering. My beast doesn’t like being alone, but I can’t help that.

There are a few shifters in this area, but we pretty much keep to ourselves. Shifters are all over the world, not just where their animal is originally native from.

I live in a small two-bedroom one-bathroom rustic cabin home. I have wood to burn for heat, and a small heater in my bedroom for those freezing cold nights when my balls are about to fall off. I have electric and running water, so I’m not too far off the grid, but I do like my peace and quiet. And my small home is right on the edge of the forest and mountains.

Currently, I’m in my animal form munching on the berries I love so much, and my huge sausage looking fingers squish a few, so I lick the berry juice off them. I drop a few as I’m startled by a loud squawk and a few screeches coming from somewhere in the upper boughs of the massive pine trees. I’m sitting here in the depths of the forest, forced to listen to the constant squawking of the damn birds flying overhead.

Do you have a favorite scene?

Not yet. I’m only about 12,000+ words into the book, but it’s already getting interesting.

What advice would you give a beginner?

Don’t give up on your writing. Stay writing one book at a time or you’ll never finish. Promote, promote promote!! If you wont do it, it wont sell. If you have questions, ASK them!! Nothing is stupid if you don’t know the answer to it.

Social media links:

Website- www.noellerahnjohnson-author.com

Facebook Profile- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009651673610

Amazon- http://amzn.to/B5gWiE

Facebook Author page- www.facebook.com/AuthorNoelleRahnJohnson/

Twitter- https://twitter.com/noelle_rahn

Goodreads- https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14153352.Noelle_Rahn_Johnson

Dorothy Michaels

by eileentroemel, posted in Author Interview

I’ve met a number of lovely authors on social media of late. Here’s a conversation with one!

Author Bio

Dorothy Michaels has lived many different lives. A wife since she was 18 years old, she became a proud mother of two. From there she evolved to become a life guard for the Girl Scout troop she led. This in turn led to becoming a swimming instructor, life guard instructor, CPR instructor, and First Aid instructor through Red Cross. She combined being a Realtor for five years to becoming the Assistant Pool Director before she returned to school to become a Physical Therapist. After graduating she also taught Physiology for a local college while being a full time Physical Therapist. What can she say, she loves to teach as well as continually learning.

Dorothy has been a voracious reader of romance novels throughout all that time, falling in love with every one of the heroes she was reading about. They are all so sexy!

Dorothy is a published author in fiction as well as a nonfiction article for a professional journal for physical therapy.

She lives in Michigan with her husband and daughter in what she laughingly calls her zoo. Two dogs, two Amazon parrots, a bearded dragon, and a 125 gallon salt water aquarium. Dorothy loves writing, gardening, cooking, painting, and reading romances.

When did you know you wanted to be an author? 

Since high school

What genres do you like to read?

Primarily romance novels, Suspense, Thrillers, Mysteries

Are these the same genres you write in?

I write romance novels primarily, but I have written several children’s books that will be published under a different pen name

Is your book for adults, young adults or children?

Adults 18+ years old

What is your current release or project?

Coming Undone (Some Like It Rough)

Red-Hot Rescuer will be released in the next three months

Tell us about the key characters

Cole is a billionaire focused on continually making money and enjoying his bachelor status to the max at the beginning of the book.  However by the end of the week he spends with Mari, he is seeing there’s so much more to life and makes changes necessary to expand his lifestyle to include a monogamous relationship with Mari, changes in his corporate life and weaving philanthropy deeply into his new life with Mari.

Cole in his own words:

I’m a nose to the grindstone kind of guy.  I learned everything I know about making money from my best friend’s father.  He’s one rich bastard. I intend to be richer.  I’m close, very close, and I’m not stopping now.  The only time I’m not working on my bottom-line is when I’m with women.  When it comes to women, I’m a player.  I admit it.  In fact, I own it.  I’m proud of the fact that I’ve fucked more women than I can count.  I’m not opposed to going at it all night, but one night is where I draw the line.  My rule?  Avoid relationships like the plague.  They’re messy.  I’m used to my conquests seeing me as a means to an end.  They like to be seen with me. I’m good in bed and the women who share mine like having that bragging rights.  They aren’t interested in the man behind the money.  That’s always been all right by me.  
But when Kode, my best friend, decides to hold his wedding and the week-long celebrations before it at the Empress Hotel on Grand Cayman Island, I see her.  She’s the only bright spot through all the boredom of schmoozing with the rich and famous.  She’s a little sandy blonde spitfire who works as the Empress Hotel event planner.  Her startling light blue eyes captivated me.  She would laugh and flirt with everyone making sure they had a good time, except me.  I couldn’t stop following her with my eyes as she flitted from one place to the next.  But she avoided my eyes whenever she was near me.  Never before have I had a woman totally ignore me.  She was such an enigma.  Yet somehow, it made me want her more.  

Mari is strong woman who has been knocked down by life and stands back up to continued on in her own terms.  She was born wealthy but turned her back on it to marry for love instead of producing baby billionaires. When her husband and daughter were killed she finished her college education and moved to Grand Cayman Island to start an entirely new life. 

Mari in her own words:

I’m an event planner at the Empress Hotel on Grand Cayman Island.  I escaped there to begin my life over again after my husband and daughter were killed in a vehicular homicide.  I’ve been celibate since then by choice.  One man who was present for all the parties to celebrate the wedding I have been working on this week stood out from all the rest.  He was breathtaking to look at.  I felt a sexual charge whenever I was near him but I refused to make eye contact.  He was a hot topic among the other women working the events with me.  It was whispered that he was a business mogul himself who was regularly photographed with various beautiful women and fucked them all.  None of that interests me in the slightest.  But whenever I was near him I could feel the sexual energy pouring off his body, smell the pheromones in the air.  It made my insides quake whenever I felt him watching me, tracking my every movement – and that was the entire time I was in the same room with him. I felt his predatory power; his sexuality as his arresting blue eyes followed me, drank me in, and called to me.
The fact that he looked like a cross between an NFL quarterback and a male model didn’t help my peace of mind either.  His clothes were obviously tailor made for him fitting him to perfection in a way that accentuated his broad shoulders, expansive chest, narrow hips, and the bulge in the front of his pants. It spoke of another asset that made the women around him drool. But the last thing I wanted to do was hook up with a manwhore. And I certainly wasn’t interested in being just another notch on his bedpost.
But somehow his presence on the island made me want, no, need to make some changes in my life.  It’s time to stop the five-year drought of being celibate.  I now long to let my hair down and live life to the fullest instead of just planning other people’s life events for them. I love my job but all work and no play – or sex for that matter – is making me feel like I am being left behind and that simply has to change starting now.

Share an excerpt

When we near the Open Ceiling cave, the guide points out a red birch tree.  “The islanders call it the tourist tree because it is red and always peeling just like the tourists.”  He grins with amusement.  Everyone in our group chuckles at his humor.  He points out another very slender tree and tells us it is a pepper cinnamon tree that smells like cinnamon but tastes like pepper.  My curiosity got the best of me.  I had to go over and smell the bark.  “It really does smell like cinnamon,” I report to Cole.  “Come over here and give it a whiff.  It smells so nice.”

Cole inhales a lungful, and then leans over to whisper in my ear.  “I like the smell of your pussy better.”  The combination of his come-fuck-me voice his blatant gaze scatters goose bumps across my skin.  Even in this group of strangers, Cole’s eyes broadcast pure sex.  His look tells me he wants me and that he will take me and fucks me into submission the first opportunity he has.  I clench under his powerful stare.  My breath hitches and I blush.  He smiles at my body’s response.  One of the pair of older women walking behind us fans herself dramatically before she looks at her friend and says, “I wish I had a man look at me like that!”  Then they giggle like schoolgirls.  She pats my arm as she walks by and tells me, “You’re a lucky girl to be with this one.”

I gaze up at Cole.  With his just-fucked hair, two-day growth on his strong jaw and molten blue eyes outlined with their sinfully long dark lashes, he is the epitome of male perfection.  “I am lucky, aren’t I?”  He gives my hand a little squeeze and winks at me.  Cole is trouble.  Big.  Fucking.  Trouble.  And he is making it difficult to breathe right now because my heart is beating so fast from the excitement of being near him.  Somebody needs to pinch me so I know I am not dreaming right now.

 Definitely out of my league.  And he has ruined me for all other men with his lovemaking.  The bar was now simply set too high for any other man to live up too.

Do you have a favorite scene?

I like the kidnapped scene where Mari stays calm under pressure so she can escape.

What advice would you give a beginner?

Keep writing everyday, learn as much as you can from other authors, and never give up.

Links:

amazon.com/author/dorothymichaelsbooks

Contact

dorothymichaels301@gmail.com

Beneath the Surface

by eileentroemel, posted in Book Tour
Beneath the Surface
Secrets In Oak Creek Book 2
by B.K. Stubblefield
Genre: Mystery, Romance
“He clutched his head in his hands. His shoulders shook, but no sound came. Minutes stretched, interrupted only by the pop of burning wood.”
Ryan Collins had it all – financial freedom, an exciting career, and attractive women. A favorite photographer in the glamorous world of fashion, his lifestyle is the envy of many. Only a few know of the demons that haunt him.
When Ryan and Emily Carmichael discover Oak Creek’s dirty secret, they become witnesses to a drug crime. With Ryan’s plans for a career change temporarily on hold, the physical and emotional attraction to Emily grows strong. But a twisted truth taught so many years ago spirals to the surface and strangles his heart. A romantic relationship just isn’t meant to be.
While assisting a friend with a documentary in the African wild, Ryan is forced to confront his terrors. As the battle within rages will he be able to permanently silence the voices this time? Will he find a way back to Emily, and the happiness he so desperately craves? Or is it too late?
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Secrets in Oak Creek
Secrets In Oak Creek Book 1

A small town with a dark secret. A new arrival in grave danger. Can she solve the mystery before she ends up the next victim?

The best part of Emily’s childhood may have been the time she spent with her quirky aunt. So when her favorite relative passes away, she drops everything to attend the funeral in the small town of Oak Creek. But she never expected to inherit her aunt’s entire estate, including her massive black dog Bentley. Just as she starts to get the hang of small-town life, an unknown driver runs her off the road and sends her to the hospital.
As doctors tend to her and she makes a connection with a charming Oak Creek resident named Ryan, Emily racks her brain to figure out who would want her dead. When sparks start to fly between her and the Good Samaritan that sat by her bedside, they team up to solve the mystery. Digging into the crime starts to reveal a dark side to Oak Creek and long-held secrets nobody wants revealed. Emily and Ryan must uncover the truth before her assailant comes back to finish the job.
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B.K. Stubblefield is a new writer with a passion for animal rescue. After adopting her new dog Harper, she was quickly overwhelmed with the challenges of raising a “puppy on steroids”. Together with her close friend, Debra Wagner, she published ‘Rescued: A Tale of Two Dogs’, two nonfiction tales of love, patience and commitment.
In an effort to help bring awareness to animal neglect and abuse in our own neighborhoods, B.K. Stubblefield shares several short stories of animals brought out of the shadows and into the light of love in her second book “Rescued: Out of The Shadows.”
Fictional short stories and memory books/journals continue to carry the theme of dog rescue.
B.K. Stubblefield is also a contributing author to “Be Their Voice: An Anthology for Rescue, Volume I & II
Her debut novel, ‘Secrets in Oak Creek’, a mystery/romance, was published in November 2017.
Born and raised in Germany, the author has spent many years supporting her husband’s military career. Moving between Europe and the United States, she now makes her home in the small rural town of Elizabethtown, Kentucky where she enjoys the slower pace of small town living. Early morning weekend walks with her dog Harper are among her favorite activities.
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The True and The Crown

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One Kind of Wicked
The True and the Crown Book 1
by May Dawson
Genre: Reverse Harem Fantasy Romance
There’s no place like Avalon, land of mists and magic. Exiled to your world for my father’s sins, I longed for home. But Avalon is no place for the dark lord’s daughter.
Until I’m invited home to attend the academy of magic. I’m no fool. I know there are strings attached.
Those strings may have something to do with three handsome, alluring men who befriend me.
I can’t trust them, but I can’t resist the pull I feel for them, either. It’s been a long time since I had friends.
I don’t know how long I’ll last at the academy. My father’s henchmen, the True, want me to restore his wicked glory. The Crown wants to use me to destroy the True.
And in the midst of all this swirling intrigue, I’m getting abysmal grades in both Calculus *and* Casting.
These men seem determined to tutor me, fix me and most of all, protect me.
But my deep, dark secret is that the dread magician’s daughter…doesn’t have her magic anymore.
When they realize how useless I am, will they still stand by my side?
Welcome to a world where redemption is possible, where friendship and adventure and magic abound, and where love means never having to choose.
One Kind of Wicked is the first in a five book university-age academy reverse harem series
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Two Kinds of Damned
The True and the Crown Book 2
The True want me. The Crown wants to use me. But what do I want?
The academy of magic doesn’t have frat parties; it has balls with tuxedos and flowing champagne and chocolate fountains. Oh, and masked debauchery. Lots of that.
Unfortunately, instead of enjoying the debauchery with the three alluring magicians I’m falling for, I’m there to draw out the True henchmen. I’m nothing but bait in a ball gown.
To serve my country—and to stay in Avalon—I need to play the part of a villain. The True need to think I can be persuaded stand alongside them as they destroy Avalon.
At least these three men see me as I really am: a woman who just wants a second chance.
Unfortunately, they’re hiding secrets of their own…
And some of those secrets will be revealed, even before the masks come off.
Three Kinds of Lost
The True and the Crown Book 3
The university of magic is no place for the dark lord’s daughter…and the Crown Prince’s birthday ball is no place for her either.
But it’s not the kind of invitation that a girl can reject. So, my men and I pack up our fancy clothes and off we go to the prince’s castle. We have a mission along the way. The secrets that have kept me safe until now are crumbling. I need my magic back, now.
Without my magic, without being useful to the Crown, I can look forward to a one-way ticket back to your world.
Or a one-way ticket to dead.
But while my men and I hunt the man who stole my magic and
destroyed part of my soul…
…he’s hunting me too.
By the time our battle is over, every truth will be revealed. Every lie will be destroyed.
Will Avalon ever be the same?
Will my heart?
May Dawson writes reverse harem romance about magic, strong women, and the men who love them. A native New Yorker, she’s settled in Virginia, where she is raising two red-headed troublemakers and a passel of cats.
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The Touching Time Series

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The Emperor’s Seal
Touching Time Book 1
by Amanda Roberts
Genre: Time Travel Romance
The Emperor’s Seal – the divine symbol of the Emperor on earth – is missing. The Empress will do whatever it takes to get it back.
Jiayi has a gift – she can travel through time just by touching historical artifacts. More than anything, she wants to escape the clutches of the Empress and run away to a foreign land. Finding the Emperor’s Seal could be her only chance at freedom, but is she willing to risk the wrath of the Empress?
Historian and wannabe archaeologist Zhihao has no love for the Empress or the Qing Dynasty, but when the Empress orders him to find the Emperor’s Seal in exchange for funding China’s first history museum, he cannot refuse. It is only after he accepts the assignment that he realizes the key to finding the seal lies in the hands of a palace slave.
Civil unrest and encroaching foreign powers threaten Jiayi and Zhihao’s mission and lives as they hunt for The Emperor’s Seal.
The Empress’s Dagger
Touching Time Book 2
As the Qing Empire continues to crumble, the Empress is more desperate than ever to find a way to secure her stranglehold on the country. Every day, she forces Jiayi to use her powers to see into the past to the time of Empress Wu to discover the secret to securing power.
But Jiayi already knows the answer.
Empress Wu’s dagger is more than it appears. Blessed with an ancient power, the dagger can be used to make and destroy empires.
Jiayi’s ability to travel through time is growing stronger, and she is not sure she wants to use that power to prop up a dying empress. There is only one man she wants to save. The man she lost her heart to. A man who died over a thousand years ago.
Zhihao knows he cannot fall in love with Jiayi, a palace slave. But with each passing day, his feelings grow stronger.
When a ghost from his past walks into his life, Zhihao may have to choose between his country and the woman he loves.
Secrets will be revealed in the second exciting installment
of the Touching Time Trilogy!
The Slave’s Necklace
Touching Time Book 3
Kill the Empress, save the world.
That is what people from all sides are telling Jiayi. She not only has the power to kill the empress, but to set up a new future for China. Jiayi has spent her life as a palace slave. Freedom for China could mean a lifetime of servitude for her.
And Jiayi is tired of living for everyone else.
As Jiayi’s powers grow, she finds herself living more and more in the past, even as the future is barreling toward her.
Zhihao’s past is catching up with him, leaving death and heartache in its wake. Zhihao is going to have to make a choice, but he isn’t sure he can do it alone.
Jiayi and Zhihao stand on the precipice of a new world. But they will only survive if they can overcome the past and stand together, no matter how much it hurts.
Get lost in time in this thrilling conclusion to the Touching Time Trilogy!
Amanda Roberts is a writer and editor who has been living in China since 2010. Amanda has an MA in English from the University of Central Missouri. She has been published in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies around the world and she regularly contributes to numerous blogs. Amanda can be found all over the Internet, but her home is AmandaRobertsWrites.com.
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