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Satellite of Love by Christa Maurice

1/31/2017

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Christa Maurice has a rocking promotion to tell you about. Her book Satellite of Love, Drawn to the Rhythm #1, is on sale for 99 cents through March 5. Here's what it's about.

Blurb

Reluctantly on her way to a blind date, second grade teacher Maureen detours into her mechanic's garage because her brakes are squeaking. Her regular mechanic isn't there but his very intriguing brother Michael is. Michael tells her that he can't let her drive home with her brakes in that condition and offers to take her out to dinner in his 1972 Plymouth Satellite. Maureen can't believe how instantly and powerfully she's attracted to this grease monkey and neither can any of her friends, but since he's only going to be in town for a week, she doesn't want to waste an instant.
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Except that grease monkey, is no grease monkey. He's Bear D'Amato, rock 'n roll drummer and in a week he's headed back to get ready for a world tour with his band, Touchstone. When he first meets Maureen, he just wants to go out with her a few times like a normal guy, but as the relationship deepens, he realizes he wants more than just a couple of dates. He wants a lifetime.

Maureen is shocked by his revelation, but she realizes she wants a lifetime, too.
Now all they have to do is convince the rest of the world.


Excerpt

“Did you have sex with that girl?”

Michael glanced over his shoulder and frowned. “Maybe. I think so.”

Maureen tried to draw a deep breath, but it caught on the steel bands around her lungs. She didn't expect him to have been a saint, but to not remember? Another steel band tightened around her head and the room went a little flat and sideways.

“Listen baby, those girls don't mean anything. When you're out on the road they're everywhere. It's like exercise.” He flushed.

“You weren't jogging with her.”

“No.” Michael slouched.

“And you're going to be out on the road soon.” Maureen folded her arms to keep her body from flying apart. How had she gotten mixed up in this?


“Yeah, but it's different now. Why go out for hamburger when I've got steak at home?” He stroked her cheek.

“What if you get hungry while you're out?”

“Baby, I'm not going to.” He put his hands on her neck and leaned his forehead against hers. Her view shrank to just him. Just his eyes. “I love you, Maureen. Ever since I met you, everything's been different. You're all I need.”

“What if the hamburger is particularly insistent?” Cyndy looked like the type to take no as a challenge. And there were thousands of girls like her. Maureen bet there were a dozen in the building right now. None of them would think twice about having sex with him. They might not even think of it as cheating.
He might not think of it as cheating. “If I'm going to marry you, I need to know you're going to be faithful.”

“I promise you I will give new meaning to the word faithful.”

“That's what I'm afraid of.” Maureen bit her lip. If he cheated on her all of these people were going to know. They would be laughing about how naïve she'd been, believing he wouldn't be with another woman when so many willing ones were available.

All she could see was his eyes and eyes never lie.

“You have nothing to fear. I am forever yours. Faithfully.”

 
Bio

Christa Maurice spends a lot of time lost in imagination. When not writing, she loves to travel and has spent several years living overseas. She spent four years living in Abu Dhabi where the temperature was always hot, the sunrise and sunset were pretty stable year 'round and she could go weeks without speaking to a man who wasn’t selling her groceries. You know shat happens to a woman living in what amounts to a harem situation? She spends a lot of time talking about shoes and thinking about men. Which brings us right back to being lost in imagination…
 
Book links
Amazon www.amazon.com/Satellite-Love-Drawn-Rhythm-Book-ebook/dp/B00IPQWZ8G/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=chrismauri-20&linkId=2a142b34d7291e5a90b991a1ada7bffa
 
Barnes & Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/satellite-of-love-christa-maurice/1118903122?ean=9781616504892
 
iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/satellite-of-love/id963024265?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
 
GooglePlay
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Christa_Maurice_Satellite_of_Love?id=ImD0AgAAQBAJ&hl=en
 
Kobo   
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/satellite-of-love-1

​Author links

​Website  https://christamaurice.com/
 
Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/ChristaMauriceWriter?ref=hl
 
Twitter  @ChristaMaurice
 

Goodreads  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8050672
 
Amazon  page  www.amazon.com/Christa-Maurice/e/B00N82BJFC/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1426607489&sr=1-2-ent
 
Mailing list   http://eepurl.com/4VZuD
 
Crew  https://www.facebook.com/groups/705305729633725/
 



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Selkie's Lure by Rosanna Leo

1/18/2017

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Welcome, Rosanna Leo, to my blog. Please tell us more about your latest release, Book 3 in the Orkney Selkies Series.
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Blurb

Amy Woods, one of TV’s famed Beast Seekers, has come to Orkney, Scotland, to hunt sirens. One of them killed her sister and she has sworn revenge. Most people think she’s crazy for believing in monsters. She knows the truth. But while patrolling one of Orkney’s cold beaches, she runs into a naked selkie man rather than a siren, and he proves to be an alluring distraction.

Edan Kirk is a selkie, one of an ancient race of seal shape-shifters. When he hears of Amy’s intention to hunt sirens, tragic memories overwhelm him. He knows he must get rid of the pesky human. As much as he tries to convince her she’s on a fool’s errand, he can’t resist trying to protect her. After all, he has heard the enticing song of the sirens and he knows its deadly power.


As Amy and Edan engage in a battle of wits and wills, other emotions rush to the fore. Their connection is intense, the sort to come along only once in a lifetime. Edan recognizes her as his mate. However, another woman has set her sights on him as well, one whose powers of seduction are legendary. One whose voice has driven men to madness and devastation. 

Can Amy accept Edan as her mate, making her home in the world of the supernatural? And can they save each other from a beast that cannot be destroyed?

 
Excerpt
 
After patrolling the shore for the better part of an hour, Edan began to feel the call of his bed. He might possess more stamina than a human man but it had been a long day. Resolved to catch a couple hours of sleep before morning, he swam toward the shore. Relinquishing his pelt, letting it slide from his body, he stood up straight.

A man appeared before him.

No. A woman.

Because she wore fatigues, he was momentarily confused, but there was no mistaking her buxom figure. She was certainly doing her best to look like an army man, right down to her combat boots.

The lass smiled and aimed a camera phone at him. “Hello, sailor. Did you fall off your boat?”

Fuck. What sort of woman walked on the beach at four in the morning? “Something like that.”

Despite the obvious threat posed by her camera, he couldn’t help noticing she was a beauty. Perhaps not in the Hollywood starlet sense, but her imperfections intrigued him. She’d pulled her chestnut hair back into a tight ponytail. There was an asymmetry to her face that gave an edge to delicate features. Her nose was slightly crooked near the tip and one eyebrow arched higher than the other. Her generous mouth was compressed but it looked capable of wide smiles.

And her scent. It hit him hard and made him see stars, like that time his younger brother Calan lobbed a dictionary at his head. She smelled like strawberries, juicy and ripe from the bush. Interesting, considering she was dressed like Rambo.

His gut turned, as if skewered on a rotisserie. As his innards roiled, he couldn’t help wondering what it would be like to wind her ponytail around his fingers, draw her close and...

“Well?” Her eyebrow quirked even higher.

How much had she seen?

He stepped toward her but when she snapped several photos in quick succession, he stopped moving. “It’s not polite to take photos of a man in his birthday suit.”

“Yes, but you’re not quite a man, are you?”

She’d seen everything, then. He’d simply have to persuade her not to trust her senses. He’d talked himself out of worse scrapes. Edan waved his hand in the direction of his crotch. “I’m all man, lass, as you can see.”

She indulged in a quick glance. Her eyes widened in clear wonder, as if she’d never seen anything quite like him before. “Something more, then.” She nodded toward his pelt. “I’ll take that, please.”

“I don’t think so.” He hedged his bets he could convince her to give up whatever mischief she’d planned. How had he missed her on the beach? Too distracted by the thought of Breena, perhaps. “You’ve seen enough to understand I’m a selkie. If you know that, you know I need this pelt. If you’re looking for a lover, you need to be wily and steal the skin. I won’t just hand it over, unless of course you can prove to me you’d be worth a tussle.”

“I’m not looking for a lover and I don’t want to tussle with you.”

“I’d say that was a shame, you know, if you didn’t look as if you were out to blackmail me.”

Two men, also dressed in camouflage, emerged from behind a sand dune. One of them looked as if his sole hobby was frequenting the gym. Although the other man was smaller in stature, he presented more of a threat and it had everything to do with his professional-looking video camera.

“I’d give her the pelt if I were you,” the bigger man said.

“Who the hell are you people?” Edan demanded as he slowly handed the skin over to the woman.

She took it but didn’t lower her phone. “We’re the Beast Seekers. You’re our first selkie. Smile for the cameras.”

 
Buy the book
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Selkie’s Lure will be available for purchase firstly at Liquid Silver Publishing: http://liquidsilverpublishing.com/
During release week, it will be available at Amazon, iTunes, B&N, Kobo and Google Play.
Goodreads link: www.goodreads.com/book/show/33264951-selkie-s-lure-orkney-selkies3

 
Author bio
 
Rosanna Leo is a multipublished, erotic romance author. Several of her books about Greek gods, selkies and shape shifters have been named Top Picks at Night Owl Romance and The Romance Reviews.

From Toronto, Canada, Rosanna occupies a house in the suburbs with her long-suffering husband, their two hungry sons and a tabby cat named Sweetie. When not writing, she can be found haunting dusty library stacks or planning her next star-crossed love affair.
A library employee by day, she is honored to be a member of the league of naughty librarians who also happen to write romance. Rosanna blogs at www.rosannaleoauthor.wordpress.com

 
Author links
 
Amazon author page: www.amazon.com/Rosanna-Leo/e/B007X5P4I8
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rleoauthor/
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/5826852.Rosanna_Leo
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/rosannaleo/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rleoauthor1
Twitter: www.twitter.com/LeoRosanna

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