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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Guest Post: The Pack or the Panther by Tara Lain Book Tour


Cole and Paris Sitting in a Tree--K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

Hi everyone. I’m Tara Lain and I’m delighted to be here smelling sheep! I write The Beautiful Boys of Romance -- unique, charismatic heroes -- and most of my books have two of them since I write a lot of MM romances. Since I also write erotic romance, you can imagine I need to create many, many love aka sex scenes. One of the fun things is finding new situations and settings in which these scenes can occur. Hey, I’ve even had my guys making out underwater. You should have seen me at the computer holding my breath to figure out if they could really DO that!

In my brand new release, The Pack or the Panther, one of my heroes is a werewolf and the other is a panther shifter -- AND an exotic dancer. Oh the possibilities *rubs hands together in glee*. Imagine what that cat can do. Legs behind the head. Legs in front of the head. Legs anywhere he wants. Of course, I couldn’t resist putting my two lovers in the forest and letting my cat swing, climb, and otherwise slink through the trees as he lures my poor defenseless werewolf into his arms. It’s their first real love scene and one that neither of them will forget. If you look down below here, you’ll see a snippet from that very scene. I hope you enjoy it. and be sure to enter to win my prizes on the Rafflecopter. Thanks so much for coming by.



The Pack or the Panther
(Tales of the Harker Pack Series)

By Tara Lain
Cole Harker, son of an alpha werewolf, is bigger and more powerful than most wolves, tongue-tied in groups, and gay. For twenty-four years, he’s lived to please his family and pack—even letting them promise him in marriage to female werewolf Analiese to secure a pack alliance and help save them from a powerful gangster who wants their land. Then Cole meets Analiese’s half-brother, panther shifter Paris Marketo, and for the first time, Cole wants something for himself.

When Analiese runs off to marry a human, Cole finally has a chance with Paris, but the solitary cat rejects him, the pack, and everything it represents. Then Cole discovers the gangster wants Paris too and won’t rest until he has him. What started as a land dispute turns into World War Wolf! But the bigger fight is the battle between cats and dogs.

  

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Excerpt

Cole’s lips turned up just a smidge. “Uh, you look good. I wasn’t expecting to see you.”

“What the fuck?” He threw his hands in the air and collapsed in a wing-back chair. 

“You came to my show. Of course you expected to see me.”

“Uh, I mean I didn’t expect to see you off stage.”

Paris frowned. What kind of game was this? “What in the hell are you talking about? You came here to get me.”

“No.”
“What do you mean ‘no’?”

“I didn’t come here for you at all. I remembered that you said Eliazer came here to see you, and it was the only place I knew to look for him. That’s why I came.”

“Not for me?” He wanted to scream and he wanted to cry. Which one would win?

“No. You said to leave you alone.”

“You son of a bitch!” Paris leaped out of the chair and hurled himself across the room at Cole with his fingers extended like claws. He hit the wolf like a missile and scratched at his face. “You bastard. You sucked me in and got me involved with your ridiculous pack crap.”

“Wait. Hold on.” Cole wrapped a huge arm around his middle, pulled Paris’s back against his chest, and held him with his feet off the floor. The big, dumb, bastard!
Paris kicked his feet, which was humiliating. “Let me go.”

“And let you scratch me? No way.”

Paris shook his head wildly. Frustration. “Why did you—? Why didn’t you—? Shit!”
 “Uh-uh. You’re just a confused kitty.”

He had to stop this. Heat pushed behind his eyes. Damn. What was going on? The words flew out. “You didn’t come for me.”

For a second Cole said nothing. “You said you didn’t want me. Hell, you practically tore down your parents’ office door proving it.”

Paris frowned. “That’s right. I don’t.”

Cole loosened his grip just a little and let Paris’s feet hit the floor, though his strong arms still held Paris’s body tight. It felt way too good. “So why should I come looking for you?”

“Because you want me?”

“What gave you your first clue?” His voice held laughter.

“The nine-inch steel rod sticking in my butt?”

A big hand slid down the front of Paris’s robe. “Oh, like the tentpole I see you’re sporting?”

Cole’s fingers brushed the silk robe aside and closed around Paris’s erection. “Tell me you don’t want me.”

“I don’t.” But his hips were thrusting his cock into Cole’s hand. Liar hips.
Cole pressed tight against Paris’s butt. That big cock nestled between his ass cheeks. More!

Oh hell. He was burning up! He turned in Cole’s loosened embrace and grabbed his face, pushing his mouth hard against those carved lips. He reached down, managed to pull Cole’s zipper past that hard-on from heaven, and stood on tiptoe so he could rub their dicks together.

 Cole pulled back, gasping. “I don’t have long. Lindsey is outside waiting for me.”
A low growl trembled past Paris’s lips. Shit, where did that come from?

Cole’s eyes widened. “Linds? He’s just my friend. But Eliazer is out there. I don’t want to put Lindsey in danger.”



Paris heard his own breath, hot and hard. “Fuck me quick. I can’t stand it if you don’t.”


About the Author:
Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 23. Her best­selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. She lives with her soul­mate husband and her soul­mate dog in Laguna Beach, California, a pretty seaside town where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!
               

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Cover Reveal: Corporate Affair by MaryLynn Bast

Sheep friend, and author Mary Lynn Bast is revealing the cover for her new paranormal romance series Panther Pride Saga releasing March 17, 2013!

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Title: Corporate Affair (#1) Author: MaryLynn Bast 
Series: Panther Pride Saga 
Genre: Paranormal Romance/Shifters 
Publisher: Werewolf Tails Publishing 
Release Date: Mar 17 2013 
Editions/Formats It Will Be Available In: E-book & Print 

Harper Malone is the owner of a large construction and architectural firm. He knows how to negotiate and be patient. The Panther prowling inside of him is not quite so patient. The moment she walks into the room his heart races and his senses go on high alert. Harper knows immediately he has to have her.

After going through a nasty divorce and moving to a new city Emily Tatum immerses herself into her new job. She has sworn off men, yet finds herself in bed with her boss.

Can Harper make her forget the feelings of betrayal and let her guard down? Can she trust the man, the panther, and really love again?



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About the Author:
MaryLynn Bast moved to Las Vegas in 2010. As a consultant with a contractor for the US Military, she travels from base to base across the country and around the world. MaryLynn enjoys traveling and spending time with her family. In her free time she writes paranormal fantasies and erotica.


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Friday, January 25, 2013

Alexa Egan visits the Alpha Male Diner

Today we have something a little different being served. Alexa Egan created a Irish shifter dish with a regency flair. But be careful if devouring this at night... it has quite a bite.  




Captain Mac Flannery (Panther Shapechanger) 
recipe by Alexa Egan
Demon's Curse (The Imnada Brotherhood Book #1) 


Equal parts hard-edged British soldier and legendary Imnada shapechanger 
2 cat green eyes 
1 pair of sensuous lips (may need tenderizing, but once softened are enough to overwhelm the most discerning palate) 
1 set of battle-hardened shoulders burdened by the pain of exile 
2 hands (strong enough to force a surrender from a ruthless killer, yet gentle enough to force a surrender from a beautiful woman) 
A dash of Irish charm 
1 potent dose of vicious Fey-blood curse 

Mix ingredients together under the light of a full moon for best effect 

*fur optional if served after dark 

Taste Test

The temperature dropped as the sun sank lower toward the horizon. His body cramped, his nerves aflame with the curse’s blue fire. Every breath came laced with glass. Every movement pushed the needling, searing agony closer to his heart.

“Let me help you,” Bianca urged. “If you lean on me, we can get you back to the house. Jory can—”

“Leave,” he answered. “Leave now and don’t turn around. Not for any reason.”

“I can’t. What if she returns? What if something happens?” She grabbed him under the arm in an effort to hoist him up. “It’s a short walk. We can make it.”

He clamped his jaw against a scream, his weight too much for her as he slithered back to the ground. “Please, Bianca. If you . . . if you care for me, just go.”

“I’m not going anywhere.”

“Bianca, I . . .”

Too late.

Swallowed by the curve of the earth, the sun’s golden edge disappeared, the curse boiling up through him like lava, nerves flayed raw. With a roar of fury and despair, he stripped off his clothes even as the flames consumed him in a blue-white inferno. He toppled back to the turf as lightning arced through him, corrupting his body, spearing his brain.

True to her word, she did not leave. Blind to all but the river of flame, still he sensed her presence like a rock upon which he might anchor himself. An oasis of calm where all else was a fiery whirlwind.

“‘By night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not,’” she quoted as night overtook them both.

As oblivion claimed him, he answered her, his lips curled back over extended fangs, a rumble deep in his pounding chest. My mistress with a monster is in love.



Demon's Curse (The Imnada Brotherhood Book #1)  

A rising star on the Covent Garden stage, Bianca Parrino believes she has everything she wants. Independence. Wealth. And a life finally free of her violent, abusive husband. But when her close friend, Adam, is murdered and Bianca is suspected in his death, she is unwittingly drawn into the search for his killer and soon must question everything she believes—about her friend, about herself, and about a world she never knew existed.

A member of the mysterious race of shape-shifting Imnada and part of an elite military unit, Captain Mac Flannery gathered intelligence during the Napoleonic wars. As a result of a savage massacre, Mac and the men he served with are cursed. Now one of them has been found murdered, and Mac suspects the existence of the Imnada has been discovered at last. His only link to unearthing the truth is the beautiful actress who turns up unexpectedly at Adam’s funeral.

Before long, Mac has more to contend with than Bianca’s overt mistrust, his ill-fated attraction to the haughty and beautiful actress, and his ongoing search for an end to the curse. Because Adam’s killer is back, and Mac is next on his list.


About the author:

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Alexa Egan lives in Maryland with a husband who’s waiting impatiently for her fame and fortune to support them in a new and lavish lifestyle, three children for whom she serves as chauffeur, cook, nurse, social secretary, banker, and maid (not necessarily in that order), one cat, one dog … and twenty-seven fish. You can find her at her website 
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