Monday Meme

You Are a Mohawk

You are a true rebel. You enjoy flaunting your nonconformity. Your idea of style is not fitting in with the crowd. You like to look unique. At your best, you are creative and ready to challenge the status quo. At your worst, you are surly and stubborn. You sometimes scar people.

What Hairstyle Are You?

Passing It On

I'm at Romancing the Blog today talking about passing my love of reading on to my son.

My mother was definitely influential in my reading. She encouraged me and fostered the lurve of books by taking my brother and I to the library on Saturdays. I still get that same rush of excitement whenever I step into a library or a bookstore. Sometimes, though, I think my mother cursed my love of reading. She'd snatch my book and lock me out of the house in the summertime in the hopes I'd get a bit of a tan. I spent our last family vacation together in Myrtle Beach reading Love and War by John Jakes. (I could read the books but not watch the miniseries, a blog for another time, I suppose).

Monday Meme

Your Name's Power is Perception

Your name's power is that it helps you be perceptive. Your name conveys both wholeness and wisdom. People who meet you can't help but think you are enlightened. You try to live your life with flexibility and insight.

What's Your Name's Power?

The Combat by Crystal Kauffman

Amidst a cataclysmic war between the Guardians, an ancient sect of gargoyles charged with policing vampirekind, and a maniacal vampire king who intends to enslave humanity for the sinful pleasures of vampires worldwide...

Desperate to locate her missing sister, Gabrielle Langston travels to San Francisco expecting to find Linna in a fanatical Goth community of wannabe blood suckers. Instead Gabrielle discovers real--real!--vampires, sexy gargoyles, and an undead prince intent on claiming her as his bride.

Though it's been over eight hundred years since a vampire killed his young wife, the scars on Davin McCain’s soul still burn deep. He has risked his life for the Guardians for eight centuries, yet never again has he risked his heart. But when he rescues feisty Gabrielle, drugged by the vampires to make her insatiable, Davin is lost to the charms of the pretty, green-eyed human.

Gabrielle's dangerous idea to infiltrate the vampire coven is the only chance the Guardians have to finally locate the vampire’s “Palace,” but Davin realizes while he’s just found the mate he wants by his side for eternity, he could lose her in mere days.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Exhibition/voyeurism (scene includes anal play/intercourse, moresome m/f/m/m), sex in shifted form, violence.

Now Available at Loose Id.

Congratulations, Crystal, on your debut!!!

Reckless Behavior by Amanda Young

After six months with his lover, Cody yearns for monogamy. The threesomes he and Dante engage in are fun, but he needs more from the man he loves. Although Cody longs to tell Dante how he feels, he fears love and fidelity are two words missing from his older lover’s vocabulary.

The discovery of a naked man in Dante’s apartment confirms Cody’s worst fears. The cliché Dante uses as an excuse for his betrayal further clouds the issue at hand. Cody doesn’t know whether to trust the word of a man notorious for screwing around, or believe the worst and walk away from love he wants more than anything.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, male/male sexual practices, ménage (m/m/m).

Related to Reckless Seduction.

Now Available at Loose Id.

Congratulations, Amanda!!!

Monday Meme

You Color Your Life With Intense Warmth

You are a down to earth, stable person. You can be relied on. You enjoy the outdoors. There's something about being in nature that makes you feel really blissful. While you are responsible, you aren't boring. You have a lot of flair and style. You enjoy creative projects of all sorts. You're a very visual person.

How Do You Color Your Life?

Eldritch Legacy 1: Secrets Revealed by Katrina Strauss

The king's fiercest warrior, Lord Eldritch, hides his face behind an iron mask, and his tortured past beneath a hardened shell. For nineteen years the Black Magi have ruled the land; the evil king's knights enforcing the ban on all forms of magick once practiced by the common populace. And none have been more feared than Eldritch.

A young peasant, beautiful in body and soul, Inga was orphaned as child and raised to hide her healing gifts in ordered to stay free. She is plagued by nightmares of Eldritch -- and shaken when her dreams take an unexpected sensual turn.

Rumors of a practicing medicine woman reach the Magi and Eldritch must investigate. He finds a strong-willed maiden who ignites his passion and stirs memories of a love long lost. Self-protective, he imprisons Inga in the castle dungeon where he may possess and keep her forever. In time Inga learns that, even in submission, she wields power over her captor. Can she inspire Eldritch to face his past and challenge the king while she, herself, resists the seductive lure of dark magick?

Publisher's note: This book is a re-edited, revised version of a title previously released by another publisher, and contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, BDSM them and content (including/not limited to tethering, voyeurism), dubious consent, homoerotic sexual situations (f/f, m/m), menage (m/f/f and m/f/m).

Now Available at Loose Id.

Congratulations, Katrina!!!

Monday Meme

You Are Orange Juice

You are an energetic, driven, motivated person. You are always eager to get started, and you face each day with optimism. You are bright and hopeful. You tend to see what's right as opposed to what's wrong. You are generous and caring. You're always happy to give someone else a little energy boost!

What Kind of Juice Are You?

Support Your Local Library

In a quest to be more diverse with my reading -- or liven up my choices -- I'm participating in a reading challenge for 2009: J. Kaye's Book Blog: Support Your Local Library.




Because I wasn't certain how many library books I'd actually finish, I only signed up for 12 books. I have a tendency to place holds on whatever titles catch my fancy, then am unable to read them all because, imagine that, they're due at the same time! And since most of the books I want to read are new releases, there's restrictions on renewals.....

Anyway

I've already read 12 13 library books, with lots more on the horizon!