Golden Heart winner for Best Contemporary Series in Suspense/Adventure, The Midnight Effect by Pamela Fryer released last week. It starts off with a bang and doesn’t let up until the end — oh, and it has a sprinkle of the paranormal and a dashing hero to die for too

The Midnight Effect by Pamela Fryer

A wounded cop. A frightened woman. A desperate race to save a child in danger…

In a single phone call, Lily Brent’s entire life—past and future—becomes foggy with confusion and danger. Her estranged sister is dead, and the body is lacking one definitive mark: a surgery scar from the kidney Lily thought she’d donated to her sister long ago.

There’s more than a mystery on her hands. There’s a niece she never knew she had, and a madman on her trail who’s hell-bent on getting the child back.

When a beautiful woman crashes her car into his remote mountain gas station, followed closely by a man with a silencer-equipped pistol, three years of inactive duty fall away as Miles Goodwin springs into action. He saves Lily and her golden child, but nothing can save him from the painful reminder of the family he lost. Retreating to his emotional coma, however, isn’t an option; they’re far from safe.

There’s something strange about a six-year-old girl who’s never eaten a hamburger or heard of Tinkerbell—and who seems to be the source of psychic phenomena so powerful, someone’s willing to kill to get her back.

 Warning: Contains heart-pounding suspense, a charm-your-socks-off kid, and a compelling romance that may inspire you to combine your DNA with someone you love!

This is my last latest release that I need to catch up on posting about

It’s a red-hot paranormal with some demons, a few vamps, a fair amount of bad language, copious amount of naked action and a potential apocalypse. Fun in the Australian sun

Death, the Vamp and His Brother by Lexxie Couper

When it comes down to love or duty, pick a side—and pray your heart survives.

Death exists for one purpose and one purpose only: to sever the life-threads of the living. She does her job with pride and an unwavering commitment. Nothing ruffles her. Until she encounters Patrick Watkins. The Australian lifeguard pushes all her buttons—and makes her tailbone itch like crazy. And when her tailbone itches, it means trouble is brewing. Big trouble.

Ven’s gut tells him that Death is taking aim at his kid brother. He should know—he died and was turned vampire while trying to prevent another failed murder-attempt eighteen years ago. Patrick is meant to do something important in the world, and Ven will do anything to keep him safe. Even take on Death herself. In more ways than one.

As far as Patrick’s concerned, the whole thing is a load of bull. But what if everything Death tells him turns out to be true? How is he expected to save mankind from the worst fate of all—the Apocalypse? Especially when all he can think about is how quickly he’s falling in love with the most feared Horseman of them all…

Warning: This book contains enough heresy to shame the Devil, more scorching sex than one person can handle, Oh, and lots of Australian colloquialism. A bloody lot of Australian colloquialism.

If yesterday’s Batteries Not Required didn’t grab you with its naughty title, sexy cover or blurby goodness…maybe you’re in the mood for a spicy vampire-meets-empath short story?

“Mortal Compass” by Ann Cory 

There’s always a choice…even if the options are deadly.

Rook Vasser hunts with the fate of his vampire clan riding on his shoulders. Without the clan’s stolen moonstone, an all-out war and his leader’s death are inevitable. Acting on a tip, he heads deep into the Blood Mountains, confident the stone is within his grasp. He doesn’t expect to find it hanging around the neck of a beautiful mortal—or that it will be nearly impossible to get it away from her.

Ember Chalane came to the mountains to recharge her critically low healing powers. The lovely stone she finds lying in the grass is more than a shiny trinket. She discovers it restores and enhances her empathic ability, flooding her body with fresh life force she’s unwilling to give up—not even to the dark, sexy vampire who wants it back.

Rook tries everything to get his hands on the stone, including seduction…only to learn that not only does it protect her from his bite, without it she becomes dangerously sick. With time running out, Rook faces the darkest of choices—save his falling clan, or save the woman for whom he’s fallen.

Warning: This title contains some naughty bits! A bit of Alpha male attitude, a bit of explicit sex with a hot vampire, and a bit of a bite!

Yes, I dropped off the face  of the earth.

Yes, I’ve been terribly bad at replying to emails, responding to posts and making decisions on submissions.

I’ve had some stuff going on and don’t want anyone to think I’m ignoring them in particular… I’ve been unbiasedly MIA to everyone. But am working on getting my butt back into gear…

Anyway, I’ll go into some of my news later, but first I want to talk about my releases. I’ve had 3 kick-ass releases in the past 3 weeks and want to brag share  

So, on with the sexy goodness…

“Batteries Not Required” by Anara Bella

Wanted: One fling, orgasmic satisfaction guaranteed.

In Dana Appleby’s experience, really bad, boring sex and long-term relationships seem to go hand-in-hand. Enough is enough. She’s now on a mission and her main objective is finding excitement in the bedroom. And she knows just who she wants to give it to her: Reese Cooper.

Short-term relationships are Reese’s specialty—and so is sex. Dana’s proposal to have a little fling is right up his alley, but things go awry when he starts to realize short-term isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And suddenly the idea of Dana moving onto someone else doesn’t appeal one bit.

So, what’s a guy to do? The only thing he can do. Set out to show Dana that long-term doesn’t necessarily mean boring. Not with relationships—and definitely not with sex.

Warning: This book contains graphic sex, a scorching office quickie and the teensiest bit of newbie handcuff play. Please note: Batteries not included with this book. But don’t worry, you won’t need any.

I had 2 new great releases last week.

Flawed: Red-hot fantasy menage (with a touch of m/m thown in for fun)  and The Redeeming: hot paranormal with angels, demons and a second chance at life and love. 

Flawed by Ember Case

Cover art by Anne Cain

Their passion is perfection…but treachery lurks in the shadows.

Emilia ra Elawyn, Princess of the Silverhaven Bright Elves, is shocked when she overhears her stepmother’s plans to banish her from court to the dry deserts of the barbarian horde. Emilia’s sin? Her magical stone, the source of the power to rule over her people, has not awakened. Without it she can never claim the throne.

Desperate to escape her fate, she offers herself to a visiting Shadow Elf ambassador—and his guard. Once compromised, she’s certain the barbarians will refuse her.

Rorek Northmark can’t deny the princess tempts him to distraction. It isn’t as simple as allowing himself—and his guard, Jo’el—to indulge in her luscious body. Touching her means getting tangled up in court politics, the one thing he wants to avoid. Still, her plea touches the only soft spot in his hardened heart, and he can’t bring himself to push her away.

Yet nothing is as it seems in the Bright Court, and their one night of exquisite pleasure could trap them all in a web of mortal danger…

Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex (including m/m and m/f/m), naughty language, some magical sex along with sexual magic, a desperate princess and the men who love her, elves and spells and betrayal oh my! and enough heat to start small fires. Cold drink recommended.

The Redeeming By Shiloh Walker

Cover art by Scott Carpenter

Bred for destruction but longing for redemption, this second chance is all they have.

Faced with the choice of torment or redemption, Jonah accepts the bargain laid out by his guardian angel as he lies dying in the street alone. Change…or die. Not a hard choice, it seems. But then he meets Lily and has to wonder just what he’s agreed to by accepting this new life.

Even the angels call Lily unique—and she is. Born of a demon, but longing to be more, her one wish is granted—temporarily. But now her time is running out and she has an impossible task set before her. It doesn’t help that she can’t stop thinking of Jonah…or the very real demons that will come hunting her once they realize where she is.

With demons and angels tracking their every move, Jonah and Lily have a life to save before they can save themselves.

This book was previously published.

Warning: This title contains some hot loving, a desperate struggle between wrong and right, some angels, some demons and a race against time.