A Good Sub Would by Sierra Cartwright

Shelby, a wanna-be sub, hasn’t found a Dom strong enough to push past her need to be in control. Her experiences as a sub have been yawn-inducing. She’s fantasized plenty, though, about Trevor Lawton, one of Dark Haven’s legendary, mouthwateringly firm Doms.

As the stakes get higher at the charity poker match, Dom Trevor Lawton is fascinated by the woman kneeling across the table from him. Problem is, she’s not a good sub. Oh, she tries, and she’s lovely. But she’s not very good at following orders. The woman needs a firm, unyielding hand... One like his.

Note:  A Good Sub Would was previously released as part of the Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Night anthology.

Now available at Loose Id!  Congratulations, Sierra!!

Sealed by Magic by A. Catherine Noon and Rachel Wilder

Seattle has been at peace since before it was founded on the banks of the Puget Sound.  The war between the witches and the snake shifters ended and they now live separate lives.  Generations of distrust have kept them separated, until Ari Fitzgerald meets sexy Zachary Bennett, a young witch from the Queen City Coven.

  Ari is the son of the lamia king.  He needs to find the source of the black market trading in lamia venom before any other snake shifters are hurt, or worse.  The young ones are most at risk, because their venom is more potent.  Ari discovers the source is a witch and suspicion falls on Zac and his coven. Ari doesn't want to believe it.

  Zac works for his brother-in-law, a powerful bear shifter who doesn’t care about shifter politics.  When three coyote shifters come to town, looking for black-market lamia venom and a witch to kidnap, Zac gets caught in the middle between the bears, the lamiae, and the power-hungry coyotes. He's going to need all the help from Ari that he can get.

  Ari and Zac must find the source of the venom before the city erupts into a dangerous war, with the two of them on opposite sides.

Now available from Loose Id!

Congratulations, ladies!!

Simultaneous!

When I think of the word "simultaneous," I never fail to hear Chef from South Park in my mind. 

And while I enjoyed South Park once upon a time, and Chef's song "Simultaneous" cracks me up, I'm not referring to the simultaneous action Chef is referring to.  I'm thinking about simultaneous actions characters perform -- or attempt to perform -- in narrative prose. 

Simultaneous action is the term I use in edits when an author has a character do something that's physically impossible or when a character does two things at one time.  For example:

Walking through the kitchen, Jana emptied the trash can. 

Jana can walk through the kitchen, yes, and Jana can empty the trash can, but Jana cannot perform both of these tasks simultaneously.  (This is a bad example because I cannot correct the simultaneous actions without completely rewriting the sentence.)

Here's a better example:

Pulling out of the driveway, he drove down the street.  

The aforementioned "he" cannot pull out of the driveway and drive down the street at the same time, so a better way to rewrite this sentence to avoid simultaneous actions would be:

He pulled out of the driveway, then drove down the street.  

As I hope you can see, the leading cause of simultaneous actions occurs when -ing verbs are used at the beginning of a sentence.  Once begun, it's a difficult writing crutch to break, but I think if a writer is aware during the drafting or self-editing phases, the problem of simultaneous action is easy to manage. 

Keep It Together by Lissa Matthews

Jilted bride? Check. Hangover? Check. Shotgun? Double check. Wayward groom's half-brother Colt on her porch the next morning, hat in hand, concern in his sexy blue eyes, and apologies on his full kissable lips? Uh… Check?

That was six months ago. Now, with a job she loves, her heart mended and her pride put back together, the last thing Chrissie expects is that same half-brother standing behind her saying he's got an answer for her. Problem is, she can't seem to remember what she'd said on that long ago day that would warrant a visit from him.

Colt does, and as the CEO of a cookie company, it's his job to pay attention to the details. “Maybe I should have married you instead.” She'd been right. He was the brother she should have married and all he has to do is convince her of it with a blend of persistence and seduction.

But their first kiss is hotter than the southern Georgia summer and catches him off guard. She's primed and ready to burn up the sheets and he's not inclined to say no. Will she believe that he won't ever leave her? Maybe. If he brings her cookies…

Now available from Loose Id!

Congratulations, Lissa!!

Entwined Fates: Her Pirate Master by Trista Ann Michaels

Jacquelyn Marcone is taken hostage by infamous space pirate, Haydrian Victis. He plans to use her as bait to lure Captain Jack Marcone. Unfortunately, or possibly fortunately for Jacquelyn, Haydrian has no idea that Jacquelyn is the 'Jack' he's hoping to bait.

Haydrian’s intent was never to actually take her, but just make the man he was looking for think he did. But the pretty blonde who constantly fights him at every turn becomes too much of a temptation to ignore. 'Jack' will make a few discoveries of her own, such as her desire to sexually submit, her shocking reaction to flogging, and the fact that her Pirate captor isn't at all who she initially thought.

Desperate circumstances can make people do things they normally wouldn't and for this Pirate/King that rings all too true when he finds he must become a thief in order to save his people. He's survived many battles, but the one thing he may not survive is the hurt he'll feel when he finds out the delectable blonde submissive he's falling in love with is the infamous Captain 'Jack' Marcone he's been determined to get revenge against.

Now available at Loose Id!

Congratulations, Trista!!

Brainy and the Beast by JM Cartwright

Robotics researcher Henry Travis uses his brain for just about everything, but once he meets Nick Shelton over the hood of his 1960 Mercedes 300, he's at a loss. How does he control his attraction to this brash, sexy mechanic?

Nick owns his own classic car garage, and he is more than willing to hit it with the brainy, seriously hot, Henry. What he doesn't need is the aggro that comes with feelings. But since his 14yo nephew, Grant, has come to live with him, he's been dealing with aggravation every day. And now his dad lives with him, too. A dad who doesn't mind commenting on Nick's lame parenting skills.

With Henry turning his crank in a big way, and Nick enjoying not being in charge for a change, things heat up pretty fast. They're actually dating, with dinner and everything, before he knows it. And the after-dinner drinks at Henry's gorgeous house have Nick wiping the sweat from his brow.

But Henry and Grant don't get along; Nick isn't sure he wants a relationship at all, and Nick's dad, Big Mike, has an opinion on everything.

How's a guy to have fun on the weekends - even during the week, for crying out loud - with all the family baggage hanging around?

Now available from Loose Id!

Congratulations your Loose Id debut, JM!!

Submissive by Moonlight by Sindra van Yssel

Marisa is a witch. Nolan is a cop - and a skeptic of all things supernatural. When Marisa's vision helps Nolan find a missing girl, he puts her on the suspect list. But when he searches her home, he not only finds that she's innocent, he discovers she shares his interest in BDSM. In a small town it's almost impossible for Nolan to find a good play partner, and Marisa is the perfect woman. But Nolan can't pretend to believe in her psychic gifts even though the sex is definitely magical.

Marisa had given up on ever finding a Dom, but now one has found her. When he ties her up he's the kind of hot she's dreamed about, but outside the bedroom there are plenty of challenges confronting a skeptic and a witch. Marisa and Nolan seem incompatible, and neither the Goddess nor hard logic offer any solutions unless they discover that two opposites can make the perfect team.

Now Available at Loose Id!

Congratulations, Sindra!!

Club Wicked 2: My Wicked Nanny by Ann Mayburn

Young nanny Anya Kozlov takes a job at the elite BDSM club, Wicked, in order to pay for her upcoming trip to Paris. Donning a mask to disguise herself she uses the fake name of Dove. On her first night she is shocked when she finds out that the man she is a nanny for and has an enormous crush on, Jesse Shaw, is also a member of Wicked. When Jesse expresses his interest in teaching her about the dark pleasures of Dominance and submission Anya is helpless to resist, even though she is lying to him about who she is.

Jesse can't seem to get Dove, out of his mind. It's been five years since his wife passed and for the first time he feels something beyond physical lust or friendship for a woman. He is angry and hurt when he finds out that Dove is really Anya, his meek and mousy nanny. With only a few weeks left before Anya leaves for Paris, Jesse is determined to get her to not only tell the truth, but also mark her heart and soul so that she doesn't forget him when they are an ocean apart.

Now available at Loose Id!

Congratulations, Ann!!!

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!!!