Hey all, sorry been such a crappy blogger….promise once my kiddies are back in school things will change! Here is a treat I stole from Vivi Anna…..for all you True Blood fans, enjoy!
Hey all, I’m over at THE BRADFORD BUNCH today blogging about covers. I’ve dug up some cool pics of oldies but goodies! All in celebration of my very own first cover, which I’ll share as soon as I can!
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Welcome to another cool entry for Snippet Saturday! Today’s theme is “First Physical Touch.” Sigh…always an exciting time in a book.
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I’ve decided to share a piece of a scene from the current book I’m working on, His Darkest Craving. It’s the second book in my jaguar warriror’s series and is Jagger and Skye’s story. In this particular scene, Skye has just woken up and has no clue where she is….
Her eyes frantically searched the immediate area and she swallowed thickly when the arm around her midsection tightened, as if the man she was with knew she was desperate to flee. The hand that had been relaxed on the ground slowly found its way to her body, and began to lazily caress the flesh of her belly.
Skye hissed as liquid fire followed in its wake and her skin popped out in a rash of goose bumps as she held her breath, not knowing what to do.
No, that was wrong. She knew she should be kicking and screaming and doing whatever the hell she could to leave.
She knew that.
But Christ, it felt so damn incredible to just lie there, in someone’s arms and drift away on a sea of sensation.
Why couldn’t she, for just once, give in to the emotions and feelings that ran so very deep inside of her? Why?
She groaned as both of his hands found the burgeoning softness of her breasts, and when they began to massage the turgid peaks that strained against the thin fabric of her tank top, her head fell back against his hard chest and she sighed softly.
His scent was in the air, heavy and intoxicating. It awakened a need so painful; she felt tears begin to gather in the corner of her eyes. His mouth began to slide up the side of her neck, and delicious shivers of hot desire followed along the trail he blazed; his tongue hot and wet.
When he claimed her small ear as his, enveloping the soft lobe into the hot cavern of his mouth, her hips began to gyrate back into his body, and she moaned loudly as her belly began to quiver with a hot flush of desire.
Never had she felt this wild. The feel of his hardness, in particular the straining length of cock at her back, was almost more than she could bear, and when his arms began to slowly pull her tank top up over her body, she clenched her teeth in anticipation.
Cool air teased her heated flesh but her breasts were instantly engulfed with two large, warm and rough, male hands. The thumbs began to expertly caress the puckered hardness of her nipples, and each pass of his hands, sent a shot of hard edged desire straight to the pulsing center between her legs.
She could feel the wetness that pooled there, in the soft juncture that ached to be touched, and she slowly moved her legs, enjoying the friction this movement caused. Indeed, Skye could smell her own arousal, and she smiled as a low groan of need sounded behind her.
Slowly, the arms began to turn her, and she found herself pulled up the long, muscled length of her mystery man. Her eyes were still closed, so heady was the sensation of skin on skin. Her own hands crept up, and her fingers ran quickly over what she already knew, was an incredible specimen of manhood.
Up her body was pulled, until she knew his face was there, right in front of her. She licked her lips and slowly opened her eyes.
The most incredibly sexy eyes she’d every seen on a man stared back at her, deep green with desire, and fringed by the longest lashes imaginable. He was dark, sexy, with longish wavy blue black hair and she had to physically stop her hands from burying themselves into the silken waves. Her eyes continued to study his straight noble nose, chiseled cheek bones and square jaw. He was beautiful and she ached to touch his lips to hers.
She felt a small shot of alarm and while wanting to banish it to the back of her mind, and to just enjoy this god she had woken up next to, she paused.
And then she felt the world tip, and her eyes began to widen as her belly lurched. Along the side of his neck were the tell tale tattoos of her enemy. Her eyes followed them down and she felt her fear begin to gather as the strange tattoos continued down his left arm and wrapped themselves lovingly along his rock hard abs.
Her eyes flew back to his and she noticed the change reflected deep inside of his. Wariness now circled about, replacing the dark desire she’d first witnessed.
He was one hell of a male specimen for sure.
But he was jaguar. And she’d kill herself before she let him touch her again.
Without warning her knee came up sharply and she didn’t pause as he reacted to a shot right at the most vulnerable place a man could be hit.
He roared in anger as his grip loosened and she rolled away from him, her legs beginning to churn as she wildly looked around for escape. She was in a cave of some sort. Frantically her eyes sought an exit, and she bolted towards long beams of light that beckoned from down the narrow tunnel.
Skye didn’t bother looking back. She was down the tunnel in an instant and as the light became brighter, she tapped into her eagle, and felt the large raptor explode as she leapt out into the sun.
I hope you enjoyed! Please make sure to visit the following authors who are all participating this week!
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Hey all, been quite neglectful of my blog as of late but well, summer is here and I’ve been one busy ladeeeeee!
After returning from Nationals my baby bro got hitched and I had four days to recover, get organized and then we headed up north to a cottage ofr a week of fun in the sun, um, I mean rain!
It rained for four days but the kids didn’t mind and the back end of our vacation was quite bright! I spent time with the family, my bestie girlfriends, Terre, Crystal and Tammy, our hubbies, kids and yes, we took our dog too!
I did however have copy edits arrive the day before we left so I had to be focused and work on them as well as my ms, which I can say is an inch away from completion. And that, feels good!
Not sure if I shared before but my lovely editor Esi sent me a peek at my cover and well, I’m in love. It’s beautiful. As soon as I get the go ahead I’ll post it, but until then, it’s my secret little pleasure to peruse every time I walk by my laptop. It’s set as the background and well, I dont’ know if it’s newbie stuff or what but I love it!
I also worked on the back cover copy of my book and I have to say, it rocks. A huge shout out to Lauren Hawkeye and my agent Laura Bradford for their input. The final version was a combinaiton of all our efforts!
So, now I’m staring down the barrel of finishing my second book and looking ahead to the future. What are my goals? Well, I’m hoping the opiton I write will knock my editors socks off and I’ll snag another contract with Avon before the year is out. I also hope my agent loves the new version of my YA cause I really want to finish writing it and have something else out on sub.
simple, no? haha, I wish…..Looking forward to working on edits for my Samhain release……and knocking around a host of ideas in my head…..what about you guys? What’s everyones goals for 2009 and then 2010?
