Beguiled by Paisley Smith

The Civil War has torn Belle Holloway’s world apart. Left to manage her Georgia plantation with little help, she is exasperated when the Union Army adds to her burden by leaving a wounded soldier behind. But upon closer examination, Belle is shocked to discover the soldier is actually a beguiling woman.

Clad in male attire, stubborn, brash Alice O’Malley awakens a passion in Belle she never knew existed. Alice dominates Belle’s lonely existence with taboo pleasures and erotic escape. Soon Belle realizes she is more than willing to submit her body and her heart to the woman whose strength and compassion she admires -- until those very attributes prove to be the catalyst that could destroy their newfound love.

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

Now available at Loose Id.

Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Paisley!!!

My Two Doms by G.G. Royale

Haley has been seeing two very different doms, and they both made her happy in their own way. Gregory...older, calm, and willing to show her off. And Jason, a possessive and fiery younger man.

When the two men finally meet up, Haley realizes she doesn’t want each man on separate nights anymore; she wants both of them together! But the two doms are so different -- and so often at each other’s throat -- that she doubts she can have what she desires. Will a surprise weekend together help the men bond or just cause more conflict?

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: BDSM theme and elements, menage (m/f/m).

Now available at Loose Id.

Congratulations, G.G.!!

Make Me by Sierra Cartwright

Competent and in control, Ms. Inamorata, Hawkeye’s righthand woman, has the perfect relationship with hunky fellow operative Wesley Lowell. Several times a week, she shows up at his house, has fabulous sex, meaningless conversation, and then returns home and to her regular life.

Dynamic and determined, Wes has had enough. He’s tired of playing by her rules. He wants more than passion from Inamorata, he wants commitment. One evening, as she’s yet again climbing from his bed to leave him in the middle of the night, he acts, snagging her wrist and refusing to let her go. He bends her over the bed, and takes her the way he wants to: hard, fast, dominating.

Against her own wishes, she responds to his more heated sexual demands. For the first time since they’ve been together, he makes her beg for an orgasm, and beg she does. This oh-so-sexy man turns her life upside down, until she realizes she needs him not only as a demanding lover, but needs him by her side to solve a case that causes past and present to collide.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: BDSM elements.

Now available from Loose Id.

Congratulations Sierra!!!

Ready and Willing by Cara McKenna

At thirty-two, Abby’s pretty much got her shit together. She has a good job, a cozy home, a supportive family...and a biological clock that’s starting to feel more like a time bomb. Turned off the by the cold science of artificial insemination but wary of the complications that might come from enlisting a close male friend, Abby settles on a happy medium. She places an ad in a newspaper and goes in search of men willing to help her conceive the good old-fashioned way.

Believing she's got the best of all worlds, Abby selects two candidates—Noah, a fun, handsome man she instantly connects with, and Rob, a red-hot up-for-anything guy with body to die for. But Abby winds up with far more than the utilitarian, no-strings-attached sex she bargained for, including an impromptu threesome and an unexpected romance that threatens to ruin her best-laid plans.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Menage (m/f/m).

Now Available at Loose Id!

Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Cara!!!

Down on the Boardwalk by Suzanne Rock

Gwen's psychic abilities first make her an outsider among the werewolves. Then they make her a slave. Forced to use her power to help a deranged werewolf seek vengeance, she gives up on her dream of ever being accepted and loved. That is, until Nico and Tony are thrown into her cell. Her attraction to the Kyron Pack brothers is immediate and overwhelming. As she submits to the physical attraction, old wounds heal and her powers strengthen. The brothers think she can save them, but to do so would require more than just physical intimacy, and would reveal a secret too dark and horrifying to share.

When Nico and Tony use their lust to help their battered mate, buried memories rise to the surface, and jealousy threatens to destroy the fragile wolf in their care. As each of them bonds to Gwen, they begin to withdraw from each other. Now they must heal their inner scars and forgive the past if they ever hope save Gwen and escape the Boardwalk alive.

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

Now available at Loose Id. Congratulations, Suzanne!!!

Reckless Heart by Amanda Young

Cast out of the family home for being gay, Milo Santiago considers himself lucky to have a soft place to land. However, crashing with his older brother isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Desperate for an escape from his dismal reality, he turns to work and casual hookups to take his mind off his troubles.

He isn’t prepared for the Campbell Brooks or being rejected in front of all his coworkers. Another run in with the older, enigmatic man is serendipitous, but not entirely unwelcome once he gets a gander at Cam in a pair of tiny swim shorts. One hot night leads to a weekend of debauchery. Long before the weekend is through, Milo finds himself falling for the mysterious man who insists on keeping things casual. Milo doesn’t want to let Campbell go, but there doesn’t seem to be any other option.

Afterward, Milo isn’t sure if they’ve parted ways as friends or lovers. Cam’s eventual return leaves Milo with a hard choice. A little persistence could go a long way toward landing the man of his dreams. Or it could alienate Cam and send him running right back to New York for good.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Male/male sexual practices.

Now Available at Loose Id.

Congratulations, Amanda!!!

Marked for Desire by Jennifer Leeland

If Leo Eyler had any other way to find his enemy, he would use it. A stubborn princess doesn't suit his plans. Unfortunately, Princess Sera Placido is his only clue. The last thing she wants to do is cooperate with a Nyral Dominant who can’t keep his hands off her.

When Leo insists on running her security against the deadly Brotherhood, Sera realizes that assassins and a life-sucking planet may not be the most dangerous thing she has to deal with. Her growing passion for Leo is. For although they clash, he intends to win both her body and her heart, and she's having a hard time resisting.

If they're going to survive, Sera has to learn to submit. Leo teaches her that she's marked for desire.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, BDSM theme and elements, female/female interaction, moresome (m/f/f/m with homoerotic interaction), voyeurism.

Now available at Loose Id.

Congratulations, Jennifer!!!

Interdependence by Dee Carney

Jonah Ballard has seven days to find a way to stop the possession trying to consume him or resign himself to preternaturally induced madness. His twin brother, Elijah, has no intention of letting that happen. Their father’s legacy has doomed them from a young age, but the brothers will have to trust each other as never before if they’re going to survive.

A chance meeting with emotionally ravaged Laurel Butler might provide the brothers part of the solution that they’ve been searching for. In the next seven days they have convince Laurel to take them into her bed, the first step toward the beginning of the end of their curse.

As the hours rush by, both old and newly formed wounds threaten to break the bond the trio is only now starting to forge. For how can a woman who has nothing to live for, who toys with death on a daily basis, and who doesn’t know how to save herself, save them?

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

Now available at Loose Id.

Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Dee!!!

The Flapper and the Fellow by G.G. Royale

Professor Winthrop sees the house and position swap as the perfect opportunity to finish his treatise on the Reconstruction. He’ll have to teach history at a boarding school for privileged bumpkins from the plantations, but he’ll also be able to immerse himself in his research.

An additional boon for Dr. Winthrop is the fact that Miss Davillier has left her elder sister to work for him. When he arrives at the New Orleans address, he meets Miss Dorothy Rose Davillier, by no means the spinster he was expecting: dark hair slicked to her skull, stockings rolled down, a cigarette in one hand and a trumpet in the other.

Dot is sure she can teach a thing or two about life to the stuffy prof. He seems to have no soul, and she knows just how to fix that. She begins pulling him along to hear the music of the city. As she teaches him, she also helps with his research and feeds him the food of the South. She is free with her favors, and as Winthrop learns to love the feel of her body, Dot realizes that she can learn about love from the older man.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, BDSM theme and content.

Now available at Loose Id.

Congratulations, G.G.!!!

Doms of Dark Haven anthology

Three women, three Doms. One extraordinary night. Welcome to Dark Haven, and may all of your darkest wishes come true.

featuring "Met Her Match" (a Hawkeye story) by Sierra Cartwright, "Educating Evangeline" by Belinda McBride, and "Simon Says: Mine" by Cherise Sinclair

Now available at Loose Id. Congratulations, ladies!!

Stick Shift by Lissa Matthews

An orchestra musician, a private music teacher, and a homebody, Lily’s a full-figured, quiet woman who lives a fairly simple and solitary life. Aside from music, she has one big passion: stock car racing. She’s been a fan for as long as she can remember and makes the yearly pilgrimage to Daytona as often as she can. When she’s offered a chance to get away to North Carolina and attend two weeks of races, she jumps at it. Little does she know what that chance has in store for her…

Cam Carter is one of the most successful young drivers in the top tier of the stock car racing circuit. All over the country, he’s well known to racing fans, loved by some, respected by a few, and hated by others. He’s arrogant, strong willed, and a consistent winner. What he doesn’t have is balance…until he meets a pretty, very curvaceous, and unassuming fan named Lily.

Lily fears the difference in lifestyles, ages, and personalities while Cam in turn, embraces them. Can they find a way to cross the finish line and take the checkered flag together or will the obstacles push against them until they crash and burn?

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

Now Available at Loose Id.

Congratulations, Lissa!!!

Love in Death's Embrace by Trina M. Lee

When night falls, Luca Alexander prowls the dark, seeking the one vampire that will set him free. Living with a curse brought on by his father, Luca’s only hope for a normal existence lies in the destruction of Arden Ashton and every vampire descended from him. When a run in with one of Arden’s lackeys leads Luca to new information, it’s just what he needs to continue the hunt. What Luca doesn’t anticipate is the enchanting redhead that quite literally falls into his lap.

Kat De Witt isn’t sure what to think of the intriguing vampire hunter. Unable to resist, she lays a daring kiss on him, an act that neither of them can stop thinking about. Kat knows there is something about Luca that makes him like no other human. Yet, she would never guess how deeply entwined their paths are. A vampiress, sired by Arden Ashton himself, Kat has no way of knowing that in order for Luca to be free of his curse, he has to kill her.

One stolen kiss in a darkened cemetery changes everything. How can Luca escape the curse when he’s falling in love with the enemy?

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Light bondage, violence.

Now available at Loose Id.

Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Trina!!!

Monday Meme

Your International Spy Name is Sass Goodnight

Your Code Name: The Pirate You Reside in: Miami Why You're a Good Spy: You're a good liar

What's Your International Spy Name?

Blogthings: Take a Quiz. Annoy Your Friends.

Monday Meme

You Are Calm and Comforting

You're the type of person who can sit all day in order to keep someone in need company. You are kind and giving. Helping other people is your one, true person in life. You give a first impression of blending in. And it's somewhat true - you need to be drawn out. You are an armchair spiritual leader. You can bring peace to those who can't usually be comforted.

The Chair Test

Blogthings: Learn Something Surprising About Yourself

Reader, I Married Him by Janet Mullany

Two con artists descend on the heroic Miss Jane Eyre, presenting themselves as her cousins Diana and St. John Rivers, and discover the dark secret of Thornfield Hall. Edward Rochester, whom Jane was to marry, is her prisoner and sex slave, but he’s tiring of the game.

Diana frees him and herself, finally able to choose love and the life she wants. St. John, who fears he’s lost his nerve as a con man, becomes Jane’s lover with reenactments of her sadistic Lowood School memories, and love sets him off on a new adventure in pursuit of Jane.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Captivity, partner swapping, voyeurism.

Now available at Loose Id. Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Janet!!!

Monday Meme

You Are a Conjunction

You are a deep thinker, and you're always looking for the connections between things. You see the whole big picture as far as the world goes. You are good at developing intricate theories. In your view, we are all interconnected. The little things we do effect one another, and the results are pretty interesting. You tend to be a mix and match type of person. You like unusual pairings - in food, style, and in company.

What Part of Speech Are You?

Blogthings: Our Quizzes Weren't Written By Bored 12 Year Olds

Enough by Stephanie Adkins

When does “too much” become “enough”?

As far as Morgan Shay is concerned, the sex and the parties can never be enough. Determined to live her life to the extreme, she never once blinks an eye when it comes to romps in the sack with men, women...anyone who strikes her fancy or makes her panties wet. But when faced with a psychotic ex-lover, Morgan soon realizes that “too much” has dire consequences she never dreamed possible.

Best friend and partner in all things wicked, Dalton watches from the sidelines as Morgan slowly descends into a lifestyle that, for him, has become monotonous and lonely. Can his love for her save her from the dangers of a life on the edge? How do you even go about being "enough" for the one you love when all that person wants is "too much"?

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Exhibitionism, menage (m/f/m), voyeurism.

Now Available at Loose Id.

Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Stephanie!!!

Guardians Realm: The Clash by Crystal Kauffman

Cvetelina Maldonova knows Agent Almaden wouldn’t have come all the way to Romania to ask for her help if he wasn’t forced to--he can’t stand her undead guts. He’s the most pigheaded human she’s ever met. And having lived for six hundred years, she’s met a lot. Not only does Robert believe he can cure his son of vampirism, he won’t listen when she tries to tell him an assassin has him targeted. He’s going to get his fool neck bit, and Cvetelina knows she’ll be blamed if he returns to his agency in a coffin. Whether he likes it or not, she’s sticking to him like glue. At least he’s easy on the eyes, and when Cvetelina looks into his cool blue ones, she can almost see daylight again.

But when he’s dosed with Tourin and goes mad with sexual need, that’s the last straw. She grabs the nearest thing she can find to restrain him; the sex-ties in her bedroom. Suddenly Robert is bound and helpless, and things are looking more interesting. What to do, what to do...

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

Now available at Loose Id.

Congratulations Crystal!!!

February Historical: Promise Me Tonight

A talented new author makes her debut with a sexy regency tale of the boy next door-and the girl who drives him wild...

Isabella Weston has loved James Sheffield forever. Her coming-out ball seems a perfect opportunity-and James is soon stunned to find that the impish girl he once knew has blossomed into a sensual goddess.

When Izzie kisses James, her artless ardor turns to a masterful seduction that drives him mad with desire. But James is determined never to love. Can Isabella convince him that a life without love might be the biggest loss of all?

I do not remember who told me or where I saw the buzz on Ms. Lindsey's debut. Twitter, I'm sure. Regardless, I'm a sucker for BFF's-little-sister-is-love-of-my-life trope (or any variation on this theme), so I picked up Promise Me Tonight.

It wasn't what I thought it would be. And that's not a bad thing -- it far surpassed my expectations.

The final third of the book wherein *SPOILERS* Izzie decides to go on with her life despite being completely miserable five minutes earlier didn't ring 100% true to me, especially given Isabella's determination to force James to admit he loves her. Yes, I understand being devastated; yes, I understand threatening the solicitor for information about the man who essentially ran away from you on your wedding night. Still, it seems to me she would have reacted differently rather than accepting her fate. *END SPOILERS*

And because I so enjoyed Ms. Lindsey's writing, I'm planning to read the second book of the series, Tempting the Marquess, once it releases in June.

A Year of the Historical Challenge, hosted by KMont

Monday Meme

I do drive fast...

Your International Spy Name is Glam Intrigue

Your Code Name: Timberwolf You Reside in: St. Petersburg Why You're a Good Spy: You're a fast driver

What's Your International Spy Name?

Blogthings: Discover the Parts of Your Personality that Have Been Hiding

The Lovely Kittengirls of Mew Orleans by G.G. Royale

Margot Granville has spent five years trying to find a master in the BDSM underground of New Orleans. No man has been able to fulfill her needs. After another failed happening, she has a dream: kittengirls. She decides to throw a burlesque show with a complete cat theme, partly to get her mind off things and partly to see if there’s anyone left out there who could give her what she wants.

Maxwell Billew has what seems to be the last available hall in New Orleans, and Margot is practically begging him to let her rent it. But what’s it for? Maxwell learns of Margot’s plans and proclivities, and the brown-haired beauty intrigues him. Could she be the one who can accept him for the Dom he is, or will his penchant for punishment scare her off?

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, BDSM theme and content, spanking.

Now Available at Loose Id. Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, G.G.!!

This Side of Heaven by Fallon Blake

Samara Hale has learned to keep everyone at arm’s length, with good reason. Abandoned by a father she’s never known, she’ll do anything to not become her mother and waste her love on a man who will only end up leaving. A powerful empath, she’s grown comfortable hiding behind her self-imposed walls. On the heels of her uncle’s death, a stranger shows up claiming to be a Telal, a half-demon, half-angel. She’s sure he’s out of his mind—unbelievably hot, but still, out of his mind. When she’s attacked by demons, he’s the only one who can save her. Samara will have to trust him with her life. She’s just not sure she can trust him with her heart.

With a forbidden love, an ancient prophecy, and demons on the hunt, Nathaniel knows this would be the worst time to act on his feelings for his mortal charge. But with Samara’s life in danger, he must not only come face-to-face with temptation, but with an old rival whose ambitions include claiming Samara for Lucifer himself. Nathaniel will risk it all to save the woman he loves and he can only hope Samara will take a risk of her own.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content and graphic language.

Now available at Loose Id. Congratulations on your debut, Fallon!!!

Cold Victory by Fiona Jayde

Intergalactic warfare has not been kind to humans. Convicted pilot Zoya Scott has the chance to avenge her family, redeem an act of desperation with that of sacrifice. She’ll end this war if she betrays the man whose touch burns through her soul, the man whose ship and crew she must destroy. The man who is her bloodmate.

Commander Galen Stark never expected the convicted pilot on his ship to be anything more than a good looking inconvenience. A small brush of their hands grips him with vicious lust, a need he can’t control. She is his bloodmate--a biological reaction burning through his veins.

Except his bloodmate carries an explosive. And Stark may have to give the order to destroy them all.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Dubious consent.

Now available from Loose Id. Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Fiona!!!

Sugar Rush by Lissa Matthews

Graham Hall is twenty-six and has a dream job as a travel writer. He's come to Colorado for work and a little personal down time. With his article done and the six-month lease up on the small cabin in the valley, he's stayed around until his next assignment. In a downtown Denver bar, Graham meets Edward and after a short conversation agrees to a blind date with Edward's business partner, Jane. After all, what could it hurt?

Jane is completely oblivious to the machinations of Edward and Graham and shows up at Graham's cabin to deliver a box of handmade chocolate truffles. From the minute Graham opens the door, Jane falls head over heels in lust. A plus size, mid-thirties woman, Jane isn't sure what Cowboy Surfer, as she's dubbed him, sees in her or why he's so tenacious in his pursuit and tries throwing him off at every turn.

The inability to say continue saying 'No' leads to hot, scorching sex and a lot of follow-up phone calls opening Jane's eyes to the realization that maybe life doesn’t have to revolve around chocolate truffles, but rather around a delicious, well traveled younger man.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Dubious consent, voyeurism of male/male sexual interaction.

Now available at Loose Id. Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Lissa!!!

Eldritch Legacy 3: Fates Fulfilled by Katrina Strauss

Marissa Blackwell and Devon Eldritch are first cousins, best friends, and heirs to a winery fortune. Before claiming their inheritance, they must survive for two years without their family's money.

Street-smart Marissa is up for the challenge. By day, she works in the corporate world while by night, she explores the BDSM scene. Gorgeous photographer Gareth Neville lures out her Dominant side, but it's a mysterious masked Dom who learns her most secret desires. Torn between two men, undecided between dominance or submission, Marissa must choose the lover who truly meets her needs.

Meanwhile, rich and spoiled Devon is free to embrace his vampire fantasies and study the path of the Magi. When he meets fetish model Celeste Dupree, he finds a woman willing to explore his darkest dreams. But as he and Celeste ride the razor's edge together, they must control the dangerous power their passion unleashes.

Drawn to the dark side of the underground, each cousin finds the darker side of man. After a set of grisly murders, Devon is tagged the primary suspect. In proving his innocence, Devon and Marissa's unusual legacy unfolds, and the fate of the Eldritches comes full circle.

Surviving it is only the beginning.

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 theme and content, knife play, spanking, vampirism, violence.

Now Available at Loose Id. Congratulations, Katrina!!!

Miami Heat by Savannah Stuart

When Madison Dubois witnesses a terrible crime, she goes to the only place she knows she’ll be safe, Detective Rafe Jackson’s house. Rafe has been in love with Madison Dubois for longer than he cares to admit. Unfortunately for him, she views him as a big brother. Or so he thinks.

When she shows up on his doorstep terrified for her life, he has no choice but to keep her safe. Undeniable sparks fly when they’re forced to share a roof. Unless he can keep her alive, their relationship might not have a chance to even start, despite the Miami Heat.

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

Now available from Loose Id. Congratulations on your Loose Id debut, Savannah!!!

Challenge!

[Every time I hear the word "challenge," I think of The Cosby Show episode where Cliff gets into a tap dancing contest with an older gentleman who shuffle-ball-changes all over Cliff's butt.]



2010 looks to be an amazing year if you're a reader. I've decided to participate in several reading challenges, two of which are over there -->

I'm looking forward to where the year will take me, in my reading life and otherwise.