Series Spotlight, Excerpt and Giveaway: Bayou Magiste series by Gianna Simone

 

Claimed by the Devil (Bayou Magiste Chronicles #1)

by Gianna Simone (Goodreads Author)

Helene Gaudet is finally free of her past—including a rage-filled ex-husband whose curse has left her unable to have children. Helene shares the agony of those memories with no one—certainly not with a Marchand.

Her lonely life is upended when she encounters who she believes is her perfect Dom in an Internet chat room. To her shock, her Dom is none other than Devlin Marchand, the very person who handed her over to a dark sorcerer to be killed. Yet Devlin proves himself to be a loving Master, and lust and love grow with each tormenting, releasing, encounter.

But guilt over his past betrayal is multiplied when he learns the curse that has dogged his lover for years comes from the trove of magic created by his very own family. Devlin fears all he has built with Helene will be destroyed. Can they overcome the past to have a future together?

Title: Claimed by the Devil (Bayou Magiste #1)
Author: Gianna Simone
Genres: Erotic Romance, Paranormal Romance
Categories: Interracial/MulticulturalErotic Elements: BDSM
Publisher: Sizzler EditionsRelease Date: August 27, 2013
Heat Level: Sizzling
Word Count/Length: 115,000 words/300 pages

Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18395696-claimed-by-the-devil

Series Spotligh and Giveawayt: Loving Dangerously series by A.M. Griffin

LOVING DANGEROUSLY SERIES SPOTLIGHT:

The invasion changed everything. It took only weeks for aliens to destroy Earth and take prisoners. Now, fighting for their survival in the wilds of space, humans face a dazzling array of new experiences—and pleasures. Their lives may have changed but one thing remains the same—out there, somewhere in the galaxy, there's great love and passion for each of them if they’re brave enough to embrace their destiny.

Series spotlight and Giveaway: Kiss across Time series by Tracy Cooper-Posey

KISS ACROSS TIME 

Kiss Across Time, Book 1  

Genre:  Time travel, MMF ménage romance, contemporary and historical settings 

Format:  eBook and print 

Short novel length 

Available at Amazon:  Amazon Kindle | Amazon Print 

*KISS ACROSS TIME will be FREE from July 24 - 28 for Kindle* 

A single kiss can change more than one life…or two. 

Taylor Yates is fired for insisting the Fifth Century Arthurian poet, Inigo Domhnall, existed. When she hears Domhnall’s lyrics in a death metal song, she engineers a meeting with lead singer, Brody Gallagher. An unintended kiss sends them spinning back to the poet’s time, when Saxons were pillaging King Arthur’s Britain. 

Brody’s all for kissing her again.  More, he wants her to kiss his friend and lover, Veris, to see what will happen.  When Veris’ kiss sends them back to the time of the Vikings neither man is willing to let Taylor simply walk out of their lives. 

But Brody and Veris are more than lovers and sexual playmates, as Taylor learns when they investigate the kisses that send them across time.  The secrets they share have the power to completely alter her life. 

Guest Blog and Spotlight: Author of the Penton Legacy, Susannah Sandlin

A Brave New (Vampire) World

Susannah Sandlin

One of the fun things about writing fiction is building the world in which your characters are going to live. If you’re writing contemporary fiction, you get to decide where you want your story to take place, but you’re pretty much dealing with humans.

Paranormal fiction throws that door wide open, but it’s a crowded genre. Have shapeshifters lost their furry fun? Are vampires all bled out?

When I set about writing my Penton Legacy series, everybody told me vampires were done. Stick a fork in ’em. Move on to something else.

But I had this idea that wouldn’t leave me alone—the idea of what might happen to vampires if much of the human blood supply became lethal to them? What if they tumbled to the bottom of the food chain instead of reigning at the top?

What might happen? Well, for one thing, the city vampires would fan out into rural areas in search more humans who hadn’t gotten the vaccine that started the problem to begin. There would be human trafficking—for blood purposes. Probably, the vampire leaders and lawmakers would be overrun with dissatisfied vampires run amok and struggling to hang onto their power.

At the opposite end of the scale, maybe a master vampire had figured out a way to keep his clan together, along with their willingly bonded humans, in a symbiotic relationship. He buys up an isolated, abandoned mill town in rural Alabama.

And the town’s name is Penton.

There were a few other decisions to be made—how much traditional vampire lore to use, and how far afield I wanted to stray.  Here are a few considerations if you’re considering a vampire novel:

--Feeding. Do you want your vamps to feed from humans, from each other, only from the opposite gender, or from animals? Can they eat food? Does feeding involve sex, or does it depend? Is some kind of bond required between a vampire and whomever he or she feeds from? For the Penton series, my vampires can feed from each other in an emergency (if one has recently fed and the other hasn’t), but eventually have to feed from humans. Gender doesn’t matter, and it only involves sex if they want it to, although the act of feeding and being fed from is apparently VERY pleasurable. They don’t eat food, but can drink alcohol, although it has little effect on them.

--Dead or Alive? You have to decide whether or not you want your vampires to truly be undead. Do they have a heartbeat? Are they physically incapable of waking and moving during daylight hours? If so, can they go outside or must they stay in a light-tight space? My Penton vampires are not undead, but evolved. Their hearts beat slower, their blood is a slightly different color. They go into “daysleep” during the day but the very strong and very old vampires can move around a little as long as they avoid sunlight. They breathe…but it’s more out of habit than necessity.