Book Tour for Cream by Zenobia Renquist (Excerpt & GIVEAWAY)

Today, I’m pleased to welcome fellow Ellora’s Cave author Zenobia Renquist to the blog! Read on for an excerpt of her new release Cream and be sure to comment for your chance to win a $25 Starbucks gift card. Find out where she’ll be today here and stop by those blogs as well for more chances to win.


BLURB:

She’s entered a world where blood, sex, and cash rules everything around her.

What do a four hundred-year-old vampire and a mid-level necromancer have in common? Money. Jeliyah needs it to pay off the people who trained her and Teaghan enjoys killing to get it. Together they hunt rogue vampires—assuming Teaghan can focus on something other than getting her in bed and Jeliyah doesn’t put a bullet in him first.

The uneasy partnership promises to be lucrative until Teaghan and Jeliyah get on the wrong side of a feud. Jeliyah is forced to use forbidden magic and finds herself bound to a man she should hate—but whom she can’t stop fantasizing about.

Every second they stay alive fuels a growing desire Jeliyah is unwilling to deny. Is it the magic? The danger? The only way to get the answers she craves is to outrun the enemy or kill them. She knows Teaghan’s preference but it’s Jeliyah who must put their mind-blowing sex aside and make the choice that will decide both their fates.


Read the first chapter here.

Excerpt

Teaghan kicked the room door shut behind him and then laid her on the nearest bed. “At least this time you’re not glowing. Let’s not make a habit of this.”

“I feel the same.”

“Then again…” His gaze wandered to her breasts.

Images of Teaghan running his hands over her breasts and teasing her nipples entered her mind. She reared up and smacked him at the same time she brought her other arm up to guard her chest.

Teaghan didn’t react except to grin at her. “You’re flushed, necromancer. Your heart rate jumped too. My little idea get you all hot and bothered?”

She glared at him.

“No? How about this one?”

A mental picture of Teaghan yanking off her panties so he could run his tongue over her clit invaded her mind. The detail was so vivid Jeliyah felt her pussy twitch in anticipation. Damn the man and this stupid mental connection. It might be one way, but she had access to his thoughts and now he wasn’t trying to hide them. “You can’t do that without an invitation.”

“So invite me.”

“Shouldn’t you be going to sleep? The sun is up.”

“Sun’s got nothing to do with me.” He moved closer, planting his hands on either side of her legs and leaning into her. “Invite me.”

Jeliyah scooted back off the bed and away from him. Once on her feet, she said, “Don’t get all cocky just because I took some of your blood, vampire. I told you that was a one-time thing and not to get ideas.”

“Yeah, I heard you but,” he hopped the bed and crowded her against the wall, “here’s the thing. You could have gotten the same results by asking me to open a vein. A simple prick to the finger for a few drops of blood would have sufficed. You kissed me, necromancer.”

“It was a split-second decision. Back off.” She clutched the necrome at her throat and said, “Shield.”

Teaghan laughed as the shield expanded to include him. “Forget something important, did you? Your necromes recognize me now. I’m not a threat.”

Shit. She’d forgotten one of the major side effects of Recognize. Her necromes—and any others made from her blood—no longer worked against Teaghan. There was no way to deactivate Recognize either, just like an invitation once given.

She shoved at his chest but he kept leaning forward until his lips were close to hers.

He said, “Let’s talk about that kiss.”

“It was spur of the moment. It meant nothing.”

“Care to test that theory?”

“You can’t. I haven’t invited you.”

“Kissing is the one thing I don’t need an invitation to do.” He pushed his lips against hers as he forced her hands over her head and pressed his body closer.

Jeliyah couldn’t turn from the kiss, though she tried. This wasn’t fair. Vampires needed permission to enter a person’s body. Why didn’t that extend to kissing? And why was she giving in to his kiss?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Zenobia Renquist lives in her imagination. When not traveling through her fantasy worlds, she can be found in Hawaii living with her husband and two cats.

She is an Air Force brat turned Air Force wife, which means she’s accustomed to travel and does it whenever possible (so long as she doesn’t have to fly). Her favorite pastime is torturing her characters on their way to happily-ever-after for the enjoyment of her readers.

On the few occasions her muse flees the scene of the crime, Zenobia likes to read (comics, manga, and romance), go to the movies, play a few levels of whichever puzzle game has hijacked her interest or experiment with a new chain maille weave.

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It's Release Day for Too Much To Lose by Missy Jane!

Fellow EC author Missy Jane is celebrating the release of Too Much To Lose, the final book in her Love Beyond Barriers Series. It's available today from Ellora's Cave. Check it out!



Blurb:
Shayla loves her life in New York. She loves her job, her freedom and her friends. What she doesn’t love is going home to an empty bed every night. There’s definitely a solution for that in Texas…Ben. The only problem is she’s not certain she’s ready for another serious relationship.

Ben fell head over heels for Shayla almost from the moment they met and it was obvious the attraction was mutual. However, great sex is all she’s willing to give. She tests his patience at every turn and his endurance whenever they’re alone together. He doesn’t know what more to offer.

It might take a force of nature and the emotional past coming back to haunt her before Shayla realizes what they have is definitely Too Much to Lose.

A Romantica® erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave

Buy it here!

About the Author:


Ms. Missy Jane is the alter ego of a married mother of four who was born and raised in Texas. A few years ago she finished reading a book by Mercedes Lackey and thought "Now, what if..." and a monster was created. Missy now spends most of her time lost in worlds of her own making, alternately loving and hating such creatures as vampires, shape-shifters and gargoyles (to name a few). When not writing, she spends her time reading, taking photos of her beautiful daughters and training her husband to believe she's always right.

Excerpts from Missy's paranormal and erotic tales can be found at http://www.authormissyjane.com and http://msmissyjane.blogspot.com/. Missy can also be found online at:
https://twitter.com/msmissyjane & https://www.facebook.com/pages/MissyJane/208776832491620.

Book Tours Coming Soon

Starting this month, I’ll be hosting fellow authors here on my blog. Some of the visits will be in conjunction with virtual book tours and will involve giveaways, so be sure to drop by regularly!

Excerpt from Her Errant Earl

As promised, below is a never-before-seen excerpt from Her Errant Earl. Unless you've read the book, that is. In which case you've definitely seen it before. Don't forget that I'll be on tour this week (see schedule in the post below) and you can comment for your chance to win an Amazon gift card and an e-copy of A Mad Passion (which is still one of my favorite books I've ever written). Oh, and stay tuned for an excerpt from the sequel to Her Errant Earl, which will hopefully be available this summer!

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An Excerpt From: HER ERRANT EARL
Copyright © SCARLETT SCOTT, 2013
All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.

He grinned down at her. “What is life without a spot of trouble now and again?”

Easy, she supposed, for him to say. He’d never had to move an ocean away from the world he knew only to be abandoned in a countryside with only a gaggle of servants for company. But holding on to resentment couldn’t be beneficial to the tentative truce she’d struck with her husband, and she knew it. Perhaps he was right after all. Maybe she should trust him.

Could she? Though it was balmy in their chamber from the warmth of the summer sun, she shivered.

“Cold?” He scooped her up into his arms in one effortless motion. “I can warm you.”

No one had ever carried her before either. Apparently, it was to be a night of many firsts. Victoria threw her arms about his neck to hold on to him as he crossed the chamber to her bed. She took the opportunity to study his handsome profile. His jaw was strong, stippled with the day’s growth of dark whiskers. Unlike many English gentlemen, he eschewed a beard and mustache. She found it enhanced the physical beauty of his face. Mesmerized, she lifted a hand to again feel the rough texture of his stubble against her palm. He turned slightly to press a kiss to her inner wrist. A giddy jolt of pleasure shot through her. Surely he wouldn’t be so tender with her unless his intentions were honest. Their consummation had not been nearly so prolonged or personal.

A spurt of hope joined the pleasure. She fervently hoped he would not make her the fool again. You mustn’t think too much, he had said. Only feel.

How freeing it would be to do so with him. To trust if she dared.

Book Tour for Her Errant Earl (erotic historical romance)

Starting on Monday April 22 and running through Friday May 3, I’ll be doing a virtual book tour for Her Errant Earl, my erotic historical romance that was released last month from Ellora’s Cave. Stop in and comment at the blogs I’ll be visiting each day for your chance to win an Amazon gift card and a copy of A Mad Passion. Here is the rundown of where I’ll be:

Monday April 22: The Muse Unleashed

Tuesday April 23: Rachel Leigh

Wednesday April 24: Books & Other Spells

Thursday April 25: Fantasy Powered by Love

Friday April 26: Books to Light Your Fire

Monday April 29: We Love Kink

Tuesday April 30: I Heart Romance

Wednesday May 1: Love Triumphs Past and Present

Stop 2: All I Want and More

Thursday May 2: Words of Wisdom from the Scarf Princess

Friday May 3: Love Saves the World

Please join me! As part of the tour, I will also be releasing several exclusive excerpts here at the blog. Want to know more about Her Errant Earl? Check out my website.

Pinterest Board for Win My Love

The Pinterest Board for Win My Love is now live. Check it out here. And for an exclusive excerpt, check out my website right here.

Win My Love Release Date & Teaser

I’m back from vacation in a sunny, tropical place that—believe it or not—I was ready to leave. Sometimes Dorothy, there’s no place like home.

While I’m playing catch-up with all the things I missed, here is some news:

Win My Love now has a release date of June 27th! I’m super excited to share this book with you. Derek and Wynne are both close to my heart and I hope you’ll love their story as much as I loved writing it. Here is the now-official blurb:

Wynne Carter’s one-night-stand with Hollywood bad boy Derek Shaw resulted in life-changing consequences in the form of her precious daughter. Years later, she isn’t prepared to face him or his questions when he returns to her small town seeking answers.

With his acting career on hiatus thanks to his wild past, discovering he has a daughter is reason enough for Derek to stick around. Spending timing with her mom isn’t too shabby either, and soon he can’t keep Wynne or her long legs off his mind.

Wynne knows a man like Derek is made for sin, not happily-ever-afters, but resisting him proves pretty darn impossible. For a while, it looks as if the unlikely pairing of the single mom and the heartthrob might make it after all. Until Hollywood wants its leading man back, and their new relationship threatens to fall apart forever.

As always, I will be picking an exclusive excerpt to share on my website, http://www.scarsco.com. The page for Win My Love is in progress and should be up by the end of the weekend, excerpt included.

In the mean time, here is a teaser:

“Your breaking rules is not my fault,” Wynne snapped, hating that what he was saying had a ring of truth. “And stop standing so close to me.”

A slow grin of realization spread across his face. “What’s the matter? Afraid you can’t resist me?” He moved even closer, so close she could feel his hot breath on her cheek.

“No.” She pushed at his shoulders—a mistake since once her hands were there, they lingered. Derek, meanwhile, didn’t budge. “Derek, just stop.”

“Stop what?” His beautiful mouth was haunting her now. If she leaned just a little bit closer, swayed forward the slightest bit…

No. She had to pull herself together. She hated this man. She wasn’t attracted to him. Even if her palms were tingling and his shoulders felt incredibly broad and strong beneath her hands. Even if he was more beautiful than any man had a right to be. Even if the title Sexiest Man Alive was the world’s biggest understatement.

There was one problem with her reasoning. She couldn’t seem to take her hands from his shoulders or keep them from sliding down across his impressively sculpted pecs. Mmm. It just felt so nice. He felt so nice, and it had been oh so long since she’d been with a man. Five years, to be precise.

No. She couldn’t be doing this. Shouldn’t be doing this.

“Stop,” she said again, as much to Derek as to herself.

His eyes burned into hers, blue and fiery. “I’m not doing anything.”

She knew, and that was the problem. She wanted him to be doing things—things like kissing her, for instance. Damn it, why did she have to have such a weakness for this man, of all men in the world? Why did he have this power over her?