Hump Day Hook!

Okay, because Six Sentence Sunday may not be quite enough...I'm trying out another snippet list. This one is called Hump Day Hook. Participants post paragraphs on Wednesdays.

So here's a paragraph from THUNDER, a 1Night Stand story from Decadent Publishing.

 

 

          The thuds from upstairs sent a shudder through her, and she glanced down at the protective circle of salt she’d cast to form an energy boundary on the buffed, patterned parquet wood floor in the master bedroom. Didn’t seem like the thing was doing much good. But who the heck knew if she’d even drawn it right. She wasn’t a very good witch.

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Six Sentence Sunday 1/13/13 - Taryn's Birthday Edition



Another year down, another year older. (Which, as anyone will tell you, beats the alternative.)

And another six from FROST, releasing from Decadent Publishing February 12, in time for Valentine's Day.

Max Raines is one of my hottest heroes ever.  Literally and figuratively.

 

Without warning, he swept her into his arms as if she weighed no more than dandelion fluff, a sturdy arm braced behind her knees. His strength, the way he’d so neatly seized control, nearly made her swoon again. His size dwarfed her. She curled her hand against his neck, sifting her fingers into the black hair at his nape, as she’d been longing to do from the moment he entered the gallery. The inky locks were deceptively soft. Unlike the otherwise hard-as-marble male.

 

 

Birthday surprise: If I get more than 25 comments today, I'll give a random commenter a copy of SLEEPY HOLLOW DREAMS or HEALING HEARTS!

 

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Six Sentence Sunday 12-23-12

Six more sentences from FROST, my third sexy paranormal 1Night Stand story, coming soon from Decadent Publishing. (Hoping to share cover deliciousness with you soon!)

The man was too freakin’ gorgeous to walk the planet. If he were a piece of sculpture, Michelangelo’s David would vacate his pedestal in embarrassment and shame and run crying back to the little kids’ table.  She imagined threading her fingers through those dense, midnight locks, pulling him closer, letting him nibble on her… touching the brutally-carved face, the sharp, high cheekbones giving way to shadowed hollows, bone-rigid jaw, full kissable lips.

This time, instead of fleeing, the annoying voice inside her woke up and called an audible.

Kiss me. Kiss me. Kiss me. Make me yours. Fuck my freakin’ brains out.

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Six Sentence Sunday 10-21-12

LIGHTNING, my debut 1Night Stand story for Decadent Publishing released this week! The blurb, excerpt and trailer are below. You'll also see the trailer for THUNDER, which is releasing in the next week or so!

Here's this week's six from LIGHTNING:

Her ability to make rational decisions rapidly fled. He’d all but imprisoned her, not allowing her to move. The sensual heat of his presence seeped into every one of her cells, engulfing her in a heady daze, soothing her, melting her. Whoever the hell this guy was, the megawattage he put out made the small buzz she’d gotten from the Sex on the Beach look like a blip from a fizzing quadruple-A battery.

 

Her awareness of him zoomed into hyperdrive. The guy stood so close she smelled his aftershave—fresh, clean, citrusy—and his arousal—erotically musky and male.

You can find LIGHTNING at:
Amazon| Barnes & Noble | Decadent Publishing | All Romance

Blurb:

In mystic Sleepy Hollow, succubus Lily Night put her prom date, Campbell Jones, into a coma after a night of wild, unbridled sex. She has steered clear of mortals ever since, afraid of damaging them or worse, not to mention the inconvenience of knocking out the power every time they have sex.

Successful architect Campbell Jones has lived with strange powers and a sexy secret since that prom night. He’s buried himself in work to forget the woman who’d dumped him at the ER then vanished from his life without a trace.

Neither Lily nor Campbell have forgotten that night or the love they’d shared. Will a 1Night Stand help them bury their past?

           Excerpt:
 

“A little higher and more to the left.”

Lily Night narrowed her eyes as the building maintenance man shifted her framed diploma on the freshly-painted wall opposite her desk. She tried not to ogle the firm ass encased in a pair of tight jeans or the way the man’s shoulder muscles rippled beneath his T-shirt.

Maybe if I pop an Altoid, I’ll have an excuse to wipe away the drool.

She refrained from jumping the handsome worker dude’s bones. The last time she’d dallied with a human, the encounter had not gone well. Vivid images of that long ago prom night bombarded her. Campbell Jones had been a young, strapping, hunk-and-a-half football player and they’d started their date full of hope and expectation and lust. When he’d adjusted the fragrant gardenia corsage on her wrist, she’d inhaled his crisp, citrus scent and thought she might swoon at the sight of him in his tux. The black material stretched across broad shoulders that mirrored the promise of the bruising man he’d be in his prime. But she’d all but sucked him dry as flashes of lightning crackled over their heads. By the time dawn painted the sky, she’d turned him into a mere shadow of his former self. Literally.

And briefly knocked out cell phone service in the lower Hudson Valley, as well.

She’d sworn off humans ever since. Instead, she pulled all-nighter after all-nighter to evade the dreams in which men called to her—and to avoid the university dating scene that inevitably led to frequent and addicting sex.

Mortals. Bleh.

And here are the videos!
LIGHTNING:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2gz0LqF-fs&feature=youtu.be

THUNDER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWB9zh4OZjc

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Six Sentence Sunday 9-30-12

The final galley of LIGHTNING is approved! Official blurb and official excerpt received. You can check those out here, if you're so inclined.

So...another six today from LIGHTNING, of course!  Releasing Friday, October 19 from Decadent Publishing.


At least incubi could keep up with her on those occasions when she absolutely climbed the walls and needed to scratch her itch. But there was no percentage in screwing them. No emotion. No real fulfillment. A few brief moments of sexual satisfaction before it was wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, and on to the next willing customer.

Such was the non-sex life of a succubus too afraid of emergency rooms to get laid by normal mortal males.

 

 

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Six Sentence Sunday 8-26-2012

Another six from LIGHTNING, coming in late October (still tentatively) from Decadent Publishing's 1Night Stand series.

 

“Sorry to keep you waiting, sweetness,” a deep voice said behind her, as a  man’s large hand clamped down on her bare shoulder, interrupting her thoughts.

   The gruff sensuality of the voice, the maleness of the roughened hand against her flesh, sent a tiny lick of pleasure racing through her. The surprise of the masculine touch sparked immediate shimmers of electricity.  Ozone crackled, brief as a spent match, a mere flicker in the air before her eyes.
        The man seemed not to notice her charged reaction, as his fingers, strong and firm, meandered up the side of her neck, holding her in place. Small bursts of sizzling arousal popped across her nerve endings.