OMG, my #dark #erotic #romance SHADE ADDICTION has been nominated for Book of the Month at the TBR Pile!!
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Thank you!! 🙂
OMG, my #dark #erotic #romance SHADE ADDICTION has been nominated for Book of the Month at the TBR Pile!!
Please vote here: http://thetbrpile.weebly.com/
Thank you!! 🙂
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-review for my latest release, the dark erotic romance Shade Addiction! Thank you to Bella at The TBR Pile, I’m so glad you liked the book.
Review:
“Mike is a bus driver with a past he’d rather forget. When he meets the mystery shade it’s a simple ride that turns into a rescue. What follows is a romance that may just save them both…Shade addiction starts off with a shocking scene and absolutely made me love Mike Logan. It shows his morality, his characters and I really loved the peek into his soul. Shade is so much of a mystery. She gives little hints here and there to share the bare minimum. This definitely urged me to unravel her story. They start an odd friendship with the silent hints of attractions. It escalates to something more, something neither of them saw coming. I liked their relationship. It felt very authentic and real. Flaws are natural in couples. If you enjoy slow sizzling romances then Shade Addiction should be high on your to read list!“
To celebrate this, I’m giving away 5 ecopies of Shade Addiction, and there’s a 10$ gift card up for grabs, too. Join the giveaway on: http://thetbrpile.weebly.com/reviews/giveaway-and-review-shade-addiction-by-lea-bronsen
Thank you to Forfatterforbundet (the Norwegian Society of Authors) for having me on your blog and letting me talk about my journey toward recognition as an author in my home country!
I’m a member of this association because it offers an arena for small writers in Norway, who, despite the fact that we don’t belong to the ‘elite’, want to organize ourselves and exchange experiences. I’ve finally found my Norwegian author family 🙂
Read my blog post here
Dear readers!
Whoever we are, wherever we live, we are touched by the virus pandemic. In an effort to bring our readers distraction, hope, and smiles in this difficult time, authors across the world are joining a gigantic sale on Smashwords. Starting today and through 20th April, I’m giving away my bestseller, the #dark #viking #romance Torn Avenger for #free. Stay healthy, everyone ❤
Book link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/747026
If you’re on lockdown like me and desperate for something to read, I have a #dark #erotic #romance short story releasing today on:
Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Apple iBooks / Smashwords / Books2Read
**NOTE: This is an expanded edition of the story previously featured in the anthology Passion, Pleasure, Pain in 2019**
This is your chance to get my indie books at 50 %!!
Torn Avenger / The Audition / Fiery 10-16 / Wild Hearted / High-Risk Fever / Dirty Brilliance / Carnivora part 1
#ebookweek20 #smashwords
The dark erotic romance Shade Addiction has previously been featured in the collection Passion, Pleasure, Pain: An anthology of Dominance and submission. An expanded version will be re-released by the Writers in Crime as a standalone title with a new cover on 13th March 2020.
Cover art: Pink Ink Designs
Ex-boxer Mike Logan struggles to put a brutal past behind and make ends meet as a bus driver. When a young runaway settles for an all-night ride, he seizes the chance to do a good deed—get her home safely. But first, they’ll drive around and talk.
What he doesn’t anticipate is that this broken night angel is also a sexy little minx needing a lot more…and not just the gentle kind.
#Dark #Erotic #Romance
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I’m very happy to announce that my #billionaire #MM #romance Dirty Brilliance won 2nd place in the erotica novel category in the Annual Critters Readers’ Poll 2019! ❤

As if that wasn’t cool enough, my #crime #psychological #thriller Carnivora (Part One) became no. 5 in the crime novel category!

Dirty Brilliance is touring the blogosphere with the fantastic Silver Dagger Tours!
Check out the posts (full blogger list here) and comment to participate in the giveaway.
Up for grabs are a $10 Amazon giftcard and 5 ebook copies of the book 🙂
#Billionaire #MM #Romance #BookTour #Giveaway
Woohoo!! It’s release day!!
Kace Karrington is a wealthy, self-made investor with no qualms about steamrolling others to achieve his goals. He’s attracted to men, but picks up beautiful women, giving the cold, unfeeling world of Finance the appearance he’s successful…powerful. That is until he meets a smoking hot street punk eager to show him there’s more to life than making money.
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I’m super happy to announce that my #billionnaire #manlove #romance Dirty Brilliance will be released shortly.
In the meantime, I invite you to enjoy this gorgeous cover made by Rocking Book Covers.
I love how it shows both the shiny, luxurious appearance of the Finance world and the cold darkness of the souls indulging in its shady privileges.
Oh yeah, and the guy is pretty hot, isn’t he? ❤
Blurb:
Kace Karrington is a wealthy, self-made investor with no qualms about steamrolling others to achieve his goals. He’s attracted to men, but picks up beautiful women, giving the cold, unfeeling world of Finance the appearance he’s successful…powerful. That is until he meets a smoking hot street punk eager to show him there’s more to life than making money.
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Hi everyone!
My wonderful publisher Evernight Publishing is celebrating 9 years of delivering SMART & SEXY ROMANCE to its readers. Each day, its authors share why they love being an Evernight author, and Evernight shares a prize with a lucky winner.
Today is my chance to talk about my baby steps as an Evernight author and how much it means to be part of the Evernight family ![]()
“I’ll never forget a spring day in 2013 when I, to my complete bewilderment, received an acceptance email for my rock star romance My Biggest Fan and asked my bestie DC Stone, who was already an Evernight author and had encouraged me to submit the story, “Do you think I can post the news on the reader’s group on Facebook? Or is it too soon, maybe I’m not considered an Evernight author yet and I’ll be thrown out…” She just laughed, posted the most heartwarming welcome note in the group, and the readers gave it an overwhelming response!”
Read the full post here
The first review for Carnivora gives it a full five stars and then some:
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“How do you kill yourselves when locked down for life, far away, deep down, with nothing but a dirty mattress and a hole in the ground.
Oh boy, when you love a good written, heavily intriguing, dark vicious story, READ this one! It all plays in the shadows, no safe place, not one. Forces coming from unknown places, and pitfalls everywhere.
Vigor, fortitude, exhaustion, and despair altogether.
It’s impossible for me to describe this unique read. There are a few threads running beside each other.
Tomor
He made me gnars my teeth, I got thick goosebumps and I wanted to scream. Tremendously intensely developed personality. Ghawd!!
Ed Burns
Torturously precise. Smart and vicious.
Vincent Hamilton
Anger, hatred, revenge.
Luz
Away from the one love, who matters to her. Now, a forced, non-consenting, new life. Alone with only booze.
David
Yearns for his unreachable love, terrified at the same time to meet him again.
The writing style floored me, strong lines, strong language, fast paced without a hastily feeling.
The anticipation is …killing !! I hold my breath more than once.
From different pov’s we are a witness of an intelligent, passionate intriguing story that unfolds before our eyes. It’s an extremely intense journey and it’s not over yet!! Part two is just around the corner. I CAN’T WAIT!!”
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This review is posted on Goodreads, Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram.
A big THANK YOU goes to Truus / Loveislove Reviews for the praise and the kind words. You not only made my day, you floored me too ❤
The sequel to my debut novel Wild Hearted is finally here!
He just wants to die. That’s when the manhunt begins.
#crime #suspense #thriller #newrelease
Links: Books2Read / Amazon.com / Amazon.uk / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / iBooks / Scribd / Smashwords
💥FREE EBOOK!!💥
A scorching tale of lust, abuse, and bravery
“Book of the Month” at The TBR Pile
#Dark #Firefighter #Erotic #Suspense
Get your free copy now on Barnes & Noble / Kobo / iBooks / Smashwords

I can *almost* not believe it… but I have a new cover I’m in love with and a poignant story to write ❤
Working blurb:
When the Nazis invade the south of France, André will do anything to free his country and pursue the dream of marrying his girl… even if joining the guerrilla earns him a one-way ticket on the Death Train.


Title: Passion, Pleasure, Pain: An anthology of Dominance and submission
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Cover Art: Lesli Richardson
Editors: Sandy Ebel from Personal Touch Editing, Ekatarina Sayanova from Red Quilled Editing LLC, Tracy Damron-Roelle
Keywords: BDSM, Contemporary, Erotic, Romance, Dominance Submission D/s, MF, MM, Gay, Historical, Voyeurism, Spanking, Apparatus, Bondage, Interracial, Older hero/heroine, Transgender, Futanari, May/December, Addiction, Dark, MMF, Political romance, Political fiction, Governor Trilogy, Ménage, Shifters, Hotshot, Fire Fighter, Wildfire, Friends to Lovers
In each other they found the piece of themselves they hadn’t even realized was missing.
This D/s anthology was put together by writers who hold author, Doris O’Connor, near and dear to their hearts because the genre is one that was near and dear to Doris as an author. #F*ckCancer #WeLoveDoris
Purchase Links:
Universal Book Link (UBL): https://books2read.com/dorisanthology
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/919332
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/passion-pleasure-pain
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/passion-pleasure-pain-various-authors/1130339407
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/passion-pleasure-pain/id1450314063
Amazon (US): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
Amazon (UK): http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
Amazon (CA): http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
Amazon (AU): http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
Amazon (NL): http://www.amazon.nl/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
Amazon (DE): http://www.amazon.de/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
Amazon (MX): http://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
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Amazon (JP): http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
Amazon (IN): http://www.amazon.in/dp/B07N5CGNQL/
Titles, blurbs, & author links:
You Belong to Me by Lynn Burke
Alabaster by Kastil Eavenshade
Risqué by London Saint James
Back on Top – A Wylde Shore Novella by Jan Graham
Hell’s Mercy by Katherine Wyvern
Deb by Name, Sub by Nature by Raven McAllan
Once Upon a Time by Erin M. Leaf
Shade Addiction by Lea Bronsen
Yes, Governor by Lesli Richardson
Entwined by Elyzabeth M. Valey
Burn by DC Stone
Claimed by the Stranger by R. Brennan

You Belong to Me by Lynn Burke
My entire life is one bold-faced, fucking lie. Son of Victor Laurent and sole heir to the entire Laurent fortune built up from a few great grandfathers back in the Civil War times, I’ve been raised—groomed—to be the perfect Southern gentleman. Proper and full of self-control, a man who can keep hold on the vices that help me live my daily life of pure, fucking drudgery.
I know what it means to be controlling not just of myself but of the woman who will one day kneel at my feet. The one who belongs to me, however, is promised to another—and claiming what is mine could cost me everything.
Author Bio:
Lynn Burke is a full time mother, voracious gardener, and scribbler of spicy romance stories. A country bumpkin turned Bay Stater, she enjoys her chowdah and Dunkin Donuts when not trying to escape the reality of city life.
Author Links:
Website: https://www.authorlynnburke.com/
Blog: http://authorlynnburke.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Author-Lynn-Burke-555282497937461/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorLynnBurke
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorlynnburke/
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/authorlynnburke
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/lynn-burke
Alabaster by Kastil Eavenshade
Alixandre Chastain enjoys the darker side of Paris. A Libertine by trade, no flesh is barred from his roaming hands, no matter what lay betwixt their legs. Except when news of his lustful ways reaches his God-fearing parents, they strip him of title and cast him out. Alixandre’s now adrift and with an uncertain future, but an interesting proposition by Comte Phelipe Richelien promises to replace everything he lost with a new world of decadent pleasure like no other. But can Alixandre submit to his new Master? And will his guarded heart be laid bare by one spoken word—Alabaster.
Author Bio:
Kastil Eavenshade is multi-published author pandering her romantic shenanigans. When not catering to the whims of three rescued kitties, she’s dreaming up her next heart-beating tale. No period in history–past, present, or future–is safe from the clutches of her muse.
Her passions beyond writing are drawing, cooking, and watching Pittsburgh Penguins hockey. She credits her parents for her free spirit as they’ve always supported her in every aspect of her life. Without them, she wouldn’t be here. She finds pleasure in writing anything from fantasy to romance-which sometimes parallel each other.
Author Links:
Risqué by London Saint James
Alex
Camilla Maria Campanelli. I’d caught glimpses of the woman when she popped into my Manhattan gallery—there to collect a commission for the paintings we sold for her. So let’s just say I never expected the wet-dream version of Camilla to sashay into Indigo House, an exclusive member’s only club that catered to very specific clientele with extremely particular desires.
Camilla
The night I stepped out on my balcony, I hadn’t intended to be a voyeur though I ended up being one. And what shocked me even more than my uncharacteristic behavior? I’d actually been aroused watching two strangers get their kink on. But I wasn’t into D/s. I’d never even read those Fifty Shades books all my sisters went on and on about.
So why was I affected?
I needed some real, solid answers. And there was only one way to do that.
Author Bio:
London Saint James has lived in many places but never felt “at home” until she met the real-life man of her dreams and settled down in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. London lives with her husband and their fat cat who thinks he owns them.
As an award-winning, international bestselling author, London is living her childhood dream. She knew all the scribbling she did, that big imagination of hers, and all those clamoring characters running around in her head would pay off someday.
Author Links:
Web: https://www.londonsaintjames.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LSJRomance
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LSJRomance/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/londonsaintjames/
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/london-saint-james
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/LSJRomance
Back on Top – A Wylde Shore Novella by Jan Graham
Barry Reid never imagined becoming friends with three Doms and their subs would change his life so dramatically. When he settled into marriage and family life with his wife, Meg, he set aside his dominant tendencies, happy to lead a vanilla life. With Meg’s newfound interest in BDSM it’s up to Barry to connect with his inner Dom and figure out how they can make the lifestyle work for them—even if it’s only in the bedroom.
Author Bio:
Jan Graham is an author of Contemporary Romance and Romantic Suspense. Her stories contain erotic elements, with some including elements of BDSM. She has numerous published titles to her credit, with more to come once she overcomes her current bout of procrastination. Jan lives in Newcastle, Australia where she writes, reads, feeds her Netflix addiction and drinks coffee with friends.
For those who enjoy labels and tags, as well as being an author, Jan is a submissive, an aunt, dyslexic, a lover of all things tempting and naughty (including chocolate), a participant in the BDSM community, a widow, an orphan, and sometimes a wild child.
In short, she is generally a bit of an eccentric who lives her life slightly left of center. You can find out more about Jan and her work by visiting the following links.
Author Links:
Website: http://www.jangraham.com.au
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JanGrahamAuthorpage/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jan-Graham/e/B0071Q0SA8/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jan_graham
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com.au/JanGrahamauthor/
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/jan-graham
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/916928.Jan_Graham
Hell’s Mercy by Katherine Wyvern
Wealthy, charismatic, influential and damn near immortal, Lukan Løvensgård looks like natural Dom material, and in fact he has never, but never submitted to anyone in his long life. But among all the bizarre and fantastic people roaming the far planet of Cydonia, there is one who stole his old, cold heart.
Her love comes at a price. Complete surrender.
With her impressive presence and unusual equipment, Helenay is the hottest and trendiest professional Domme in Neu Venedig and she hardly has the time to top for pleasure these days. But she knows what her old friend Lukan needs, something he never suspected. Release from power.
Author Bio:
I have entered that age when looking at beautiful male models in their prime probably makes me a cougar, ahem.
Almost all my heroines are short: that’s because I look at the world from hobbit level. Being so small I am three times more concentrated (read: obsessive) than anybody I know. I am exhaustingly creative in writing, arts, crafts… Sometimes my brain gets friction burns from hurtling at such speed from one universe to the next.
I love animals, plants, and occasionally even people.
Like Highlander I come from a lot of different places. I was born in Italy but lived here and there and consider myself simply and deeply European. I love Europe passionately, its antiquity, its diversity, its quirkiness. All my books are set in Europe, or alternate versions of it.
I have been writing since I can remember.
Author Links:
Katherine’s Blog: https://katherinewyvern.blogspot.fr/
Katherine’s Website: http://meetingivory.wixsite.com/katherinewyvern
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katherinewyvern
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatherineWyvern
Or follow her on Instagram @katherinewyvern
Deb by Name, Sub by Nature by Raven McAllan
He can command his men…
But can he command Deborah?
Major Oliver Cantor, newly back from the continent, has always wanted Deborah. However she is an innocent. A lady who has no idea just what Oliver wants, needs and desired.
Or does she?
She knows he is dominant and wants someone to be his submissive.
She also knows it should be her.
Now all she has to do is persuade him of that fact.
You’d think it would be easy, but…
Author Bio:
Raven lives in Scotland, along with her husband and their two cats—their children having flown the nest—surrounded by beautiful scenery, which inspires a lot of the settings in her books.
She is used to sharing her life with the occasional deer, red squirrel, and lost tourist, to say nothing of the scourge of Scotland—the midge.
Her very understanding, and long-suffering DH, is used to his questions unanswered, the dust bunnies greeting him as he walks through the door, and rescuing burned offerings from the Aga. (And passing her a glass of wine as she types furiously.)
Author Links:
Website: http://www.ravenmcallan.com/
Blog: http://ravenmcallan.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ravenkatyandkera
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RavenMcAllan
Once Upon a Time by Erin M. Leaf
Charlie has never been in love because he’s never believed in happily ever after. He prides himself on being a good friend and a good Dom, and that’s always been enough for him, except lately nothing feels right. He doesn’t know if he’s having a mid-life crisis or what, but his best friend suddenly looks hot as hell, and nothing about that is normal.
Ryan’s straight friend Charlie has always had his back: when he came out, when he got married, and when his husband died. He’d do anything for the guy he’s been secretly in love with forever. So when Charlie suddenly proposes a spanking scene under the guise of “relaxing” him, he almost runs the opposite direction. Except, what if this is his one chance to finally show Charlie what real love feels like?
Author Bio:
Erin M. Leaf is a romance novel devotee, the steamier the better, with a specialty in edgy erotic tension.
Author Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EdgyAuthorErin/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/erinmleaf
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erin.m.leaf/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Erin-M.-Leaf/e/B0042TXIYU/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4355929.Erin_M_Leaf
Evernight: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/erin-m-leaf/
Shade Addiction by Lea Bronsen
Ex-boxer Mike Logan struggles to put a brutal past behind and make ends meet as a bus driver. When a young runaway settles for an all-night ride, he seizes the chance to do a good deed—get her home safely. But first, they’ll drive around and talk.
What he doesn’t anticipate is that this broken night angel is also a sexy little minx needing a lot more…and not just the gentle kind.
Author Bio:
Award-winning author Lea Bronsen likes her reads hot, fast, and edgy, and strives to give her own stories the same intensity. After venturing into dirty inner-city crime drama with her debut novel Wild Hearted, she divides her writing time between psychological thriller, romantic suspense, historical romance, and dark erotic romance.
Author Links:
Website: https://leabronsen.com/
Blog: https://leabronsen.com/blog/
Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/wildhearted.author
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LeaBronsen/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeaBronsen
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6966248.Lea_Bronsen
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Lea-Bronsen/e/B00BTFT8KS/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leabronsen/
Pinterest: https://no.pinterest.com/leabronsen/
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+AuthorLeaBronsen
Yes, Governor by Lesli Richardson
As chief of staff to the governor of Florida, Carter has a well-deserved rep as a bastard extraordinaire. But when he’s dealing with two governors for the price of one on Christmas Eve, will the Master find himself outmatched and outmaneuvered by his wily political pets?
Note: This standalone short story takes place after Chief (Governor Trilogy 3) and can be read as a standalone independent from the trilogy.
Author Bio:
Author Lesli Richardson, who is better-known by her more prolific wild-child Tymber Dalton pen name, lives in the Tampa Bay region of Florida with her husband (aka “The World’s Best Husband™”) and too many pets. She writes a wide variety of heat levels and genres, from mainstream sci-fi all the way to scorching ménage.
The two-time EPIC award winner and part-time Viking shield-maiden in training loves to shoot skeet and play D&D with her friends. She’s also the bestselling author of over one hundred and fifty books and counting, including The Reluctant Dom, the Governor Trilogy, the Suncoast Society series, the Love Slave for Two series, the Triple Trouble series, and many others.
She lives in her own little world, but it’s okay—they all know her there.
Author Links:
Website: http://www.tymberdalton.com
Entwined by Elyzabeth M. Valey
Mallory Brown doesn’t go home with strangers, and while she’s all for a great spanking, she doesn’t do BDSM relationships. Fantasizing is more her speed. And when she catches a glimpse of Master Murphy, fantasies fill her brain.
But Master Murphy has other plans. He enters her life full-steam and won’t take no for an answer. While she’s compelled to say yes, is she really ready to say goodbye to her world as she knows it to become permanently entwined with His?
Author Bio:
Ely Valey is a writer of sizzling, sexy romance who firmly believes in happy ever after. From paranormal to contemporary, fantasy, or historical, she enjoys exploring her characters’ darker side and writing stories about tortured heroes, strong heroines, and all that comes between them and their love.
When she’s not writing, she can be found walking in the Spanish countryside with her black Lab and Golden Retriever mix, exploring castles, or enjoying some tapas with her friends and family.
Author Links:
Website: http://www.elyzabethmvaley.com/
Blog: http://www.inadreambeyond.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Elyzabeth-M-VaLey/217055075022594
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ElyzabethVaLey
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elyvaley/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4515587.Elyzabeth_M_VaLey
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/elyzabethmvaley/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Elyzabeth-M.-VaLey/e/B005VOP2IK
Burn by D.C. Stone
Cain Silvers is the Captain of one of the nation’s best Hotshot fire fighter groups there is, and his world has turned upside-down when his best friend’s kid sister, Chloe Crowley joins the team. Chloe has always made him uneasy with her attraction to him, something he refused to act on because of who she was and how innocent she is.
Chloe wants to make a difference in the world, and following her passion to become one of the few females in an all-male industry is just the start. She’s set on proving herself to her team, but still follows her own rules, ones that could get her into a lot of trouble.
Passion collides with desire in their story, leading up to actions that could burn everybody.
Author Bio:
DC Stone has over sixteen years of investigative experience, including working as a criminal investigator in the United States military. She currently works as an internal affairs investigation manager by day and a romantic suspense author by night. She has her Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and is dubbed, “The Investigative Whisper.” She provides numerous workshops that help authors gain insight into “digging” into a character’s mind to better understand motives, create suspense, and help maintain conflict.
When she isn’t trying to solve a new puzzle in the world of fraud, she is engulfed with coffee, her laptop, and all those crazy characters in her head. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, New Jersey Romance Writers, RomVets, RWA Kiss of Death, and the Liberty State Fiction Writers. She served as the 2014 Vice President and Conference Chair for NJRW. Find her at the following stops: Facebook PAGE, Facebook PROFILE, Twitter, and her Website.
Author Links:
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/authorDCStone
Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/dc.stone.92
Twitter: @DCStoneauthor
Website: www.authordcstone.com


Happy Wednesday, and thanks again to Angelica Dawson for organizing the MidWeekTeases!
This week’s tease is taken from my ménage erotica HIGH-RISK FEVER. In this scene, we’re continuing where we left off: Anne has brought Micaela some medicine…
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She searched for ways to keep their interaction professional. Focusing on his sickness was the only thing that could take her mind off of his sensuality. What would help fight his fever?
She nodded to his pullover. “You should take off your clothes.” Her face heated. God, the words had come out too fast, too soon. She couldn’t believe her audacity. As he gave a small smile, she explained, “It’ll help bring your fever down.”
He swallowed, and winced. “Fever is good.” His voice sounded raspy.
“I know. A high fever can be useful on the first day of sickness. But I think—”
Her instincts told her to put a hand on his forehead like a mother examining a sick child. But she couldn’t. It was hard enough to stand in front of this stud and passively receive the warmth emanating from his body—and ignore the tease in his glowing eyes. Her impulses had proved treacherous lately, and she feared they would bring her straight into his arms.
Brian. Cold fear rushed through her. Remember Brian!
She took a deep breath, avoided Micaela’s stare, and tried to control her choking voice. “I think what you need now is to bring the fever down.” She had read about it in mommy magazines. When a child had a high fever, the best way to stabilize its body temperature was to remove all the clothes and keep only a thin cloth of cotton on.
He shrugged with a white-toothed grin before proceeding to remove his pullover. Once more, damp heat drifted to her with the smell of musk and sweat, though not an unpleasant one. She couldn’t help breathing in his manly scent and wanting to memorize it.
When he folded the sweater over the chair arm and straightened, she stifled a gasp of admiration. The man was better looking than any god from Greek mythology. Dim light shone on his tanned and perfectly sculpted torso. She could only gape and stare, transfixed. Blood pulsed in her temples.
Now was a good time to leave. She’d helped him and had no business staying. From the way her body reacted to him, the situation could quickly get out of control. But she was too weak.
His dark, seducing eyes held hers and seemed to scrutinize her reaction—before a new coughing fit forced him to lean between his knees again. Scorching barks filled the room. His torso jerked back and forth, thrashing his long hair around. He coughed so hard and so long she thought he would throw up, and she stood helpless before him.
When the coughing stopped, he drew ragged breaths, groaned, and rubbed his face.
Wanting to do something to help—maybe just put a palm on his shoulder to calm him—Anne stepped forward.
With a grunt, he shot his hands to the backs of her legs, behind her skirt, and pulled her toward him. She stumbled between his spread legs with a small cry, knees pressing against the edge of the chair. He buried his face in her lap, guttural moans drowned in her skirt.
She should have pushed him away but didn’t.
Face nestled against her, he lifted her skirt and stroked her naked thighs with hard hands, sculpting her muscles, heating the skin—probably not from sexual teasing, but need, as if rough handling could ease the pain in his throat and lungs.
He moved forward on the chair, and his hot crotch met her knees. Her inner thighs and stomach filled with such intense heat, she couldn’t move. Her corrupt body overruled every reasonable thought and willingly melted into his forceful embrace. She gasped as her traitorous pussy reacted, opening and wetting with lust.
Against her will, she reached down, found his head, and entwined trembling fingers in the sweaty black locks. She pulled at his hair, pressed him to her burning core. There was no stopping, no reasoning.
Micaela’s hot, quick breaths heated the fabric of her skirt. He moaned, and the rumble resonated inside her. His groin hardened against her knees, the erection evident. With one strong hand on her butt, he moved underneath her skirt with the other and stroked up her inner thigh until meeting the wet panties.
Gasping again from the sharp rush of desire, she spread her legs like a cheap whore and allowed his fingers to explore her innermost secret and precious place. She closed her eyes, breathed deep, and followed each of Micaela’s teasing moves. His fingers not only crept inside her panties like thieves, but took possession of every sensitive part of her pussy. No doubting his experience. One by one, he parted her thick folds, explored the inner lips, and trailed the tingling skin approaching her clit.
She whimpered from sharp lust. Her breathing hitched, and her juices ran as she anticipated the bolt of lightning that would soon rush to her womb.
But instead of touching her tiny point of nerves, he went back with slow, precise movements and stopped at the entrance of her cunt, lingering. What a tease! She grunted impatience. The hard cock pressing against her knees left no question about the effort it took for him to wait.
Unwilling to cooperate, she pushed forward, pressing her cunt against his fingers. Two slid in, and she jerked her head back with a small cry of satisfaction as they grazed her inner walls. A new, intense wave of heat washed over her. Her muscles contracted around his hard fingers, demanded to be invaded, conquered, brought to another world.
He chuckled into her lap. “You so wet. So hot.”
Her eyes flew open. She’d forgotten other sounds existed in life than ragged breaths and moans.
With a rumble in his throat, he removed his warm hand from her panties and let her skirt fall. Cold air brushed the insides of her thighs, replacing moist heat as he backed off, though his other hand stayed curled on her butt cheek, each finger deep in her skin, as if he didn’t want to let go quite yet.
Why did he move away? She peeked down at the same time as he looked up.
His dark, mischievous eyes met hers, long locks hanging in his face. He grinned and shook his hair back before opening his mouth and placing glistening fingers on his pink tongue, holding her gaze with a gleam of naughtiness. God, he was such a tease, wrapping those sexy lips around his digits and sucking!
She prepared for a new round of seduction when he frowned, took his fingers out, and stared at them. Suspicion marring his features, he shot her a glance before sniffing his hand.
Her chest tightened. What was wrong, did she smell? Due to the power loss, she hadn’t been able to shower this morning, but she had washed with a cloth and soapy water. Surely that had to be good enough.
He looked up again, black eyes hardening. “Why you so wet?”
Wet? She was so engulfed in desire, it took a moment to comprehend his words.
Then it dawned on her. Oh mon Dieu. She was wet because Brian had come inside her in the cellar.
Copyright @ 2018 Lea Bronsen

Two young and indecently handsome bicyclists visit a village in the French Alps during the summer holidays. Forced by a raging storm to spend the night at the local bed & breakfast, they invade the quiet lives of hostess Anne and her husband, Brian.
A power outage plunges the foursome into darkness, encouraging new liaisons to form, life-long secrets to be unveiled, and steamy lessons to be learned. But once the storm moves on, can the four find a balance and resume their normal lives?
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So, the topic of the day is, “A book that has influenced my life”.
More than a romance author, I am a suspense/thriller/horror author. More than steamy sex scenes, I love fast, hair-raising, edge-of-your-seat action scenes. I thrive delving in the dirty and the gory, I dig imagining blood and brain splatter, and I grin anticipating how my descriptions will make readers cringe. Yeah, I am that sadistical kind of author that goes for the kill, sometimes achingly slowly, building the tension, sometimes lashing out brutal words like a punch to your gut.
Where did I get all that nastiness from, you ask, in the world of litterature? Well, if I mention Mo Hayder, James Patterson, Lisa Gardner, Karen Slaughter (such a fitting name!), Ed McBain, Robert Ludlum, Jonathan Kellerman, Chelsea Cain, Ian Rankin, and of course Stephen King, to name just a few, you get the drift. But more than any other author, Cody McFadyen has lit my murderous fuse and given me the lethal inspiration I’ve been feeding on since, with his first book Shadow Man:

To answer the topic question – has this book influenced my life? I would definitely say so, as it has inspired me to write and thus helped me become a published author, an endeavor that has completely changed the “quality” of my inner, private being.
Here is what I wrote in a review a few years ago:
“This book is without a single doubt my all-time favorite, one I have read again and again, a true source of inspiration on so many levels. 1 – The writing is top-notch, intense, pulls you forward, urges you to read on. 2 – It’s so full of emotions and gore and frantic action and suspense, you’re constantly sweating and holding your breath as you turn the pages at ligthtning speed. 3 – The main character is so alive, you crawl into her skin and feel her pain and think her thoughts before they’re even put to paper.
I want more of this, so much more, and although the sequels are very well done, I have yet to read a book that has shaken me so thoroughly and torn, stolen my soul as I was engulfed in the story and taken away to a different world.
Whoooo! I’d give it 10 stars if I could. But let it be said – it’s not for the soft-hearted.”

Happy Wednesday, and thanks again to Angelica Dawson for organizing the MidWeekTeases!
This week’s tease is taken from my ménage erotica HIGH-RISK FEVER. In this scene, we’re continuing where we left off: Micaela is sick, so Anne brings him some medicine…
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Pulse racing, Anne closed the window and faced Micaela with her hands clenched at her sides. She didn’t know what else to do with them. Nervousness and anticipation raced through her. They hadn’t been face to face since he’d approached her last night, naked and very aroused.
God. The memory sent sweet tingles to her inner thighs, and from the gleam in his eye, he seemed to be recalling the same sensual encounter.
Yet, she couldn’t help being pissed at him for trying to seduce her. Because she now knew he had a boyfriend—which meant he’d betrayed both Todd and her. His behavior ultimately was root to her immoral thoughts and Brian’s desperate reaction in the cellar. She could not let Micaela come close again. She could not slip.
He glanced from the unmade bed to the pile of folded sheets on the desk before slumping on the chair with a throaty sigh.
Anne bit her lower lip while searching for the right words to say. “How are you?”
He shrugged. Keeping his shiny black eyes locked on hers, he put a hand on his throat. “Sore.”
“Yes, I heard you cough.” She pointed to the bottles on the desk. “I brought you some medicine and pastilles for your throat.”
“Grazie.” He gave a weak nod, winced, and closed his eyes, as if in pain. In the next moment, he leaned forward to cough into his hands with his elbows on his knees. The coughing sounded like the barking of a big dog and shook his body. Long, black locks hung from his head like a curtain, jerking with each contortion.
Her stomach knotted. He might be a total stranger, but all that had happened last night inevitably connected them on some level. Which level, she wasn’t sure.
When the coughing subsided, he groaned and ran a hand along his flustered face, brushing aside a few hairs glued to his skin.
She took the box of pastilles on the table and went toward him, stopping a half-meter from his feet. Damp heat oozed from him. “Do you want a glass of cold water?”
He shrugged and clenched his teeth, as if speaking would be too painful.
“Cold water helps soothe the pain.” She opened the box. The sour-sweet scent of licorice rose to her nostrils.
Eyes feverish, he reached out a trembling palm.
She dropped the candy into it, careful to avoid physical contact—both due to the risk of contagion and because she didn’t want to know what it would feel like to touch his hot skin.
He put the pastille in his mouth and leaned back in the chair with his gaze fixed on her. Breathing deep, he sucked on the candy, but couldn’t seem to relax. Each intake of air caused his features to tighten. Tiny beads of sweat appeared all over his face and ran alongside his temples and bearded cheeks.
She closed the box and eyed him for a moment, trying to consider him as a patient and not an object of her fantasy. A difficult thing to achieve with the obvious tension between them and the way he stared into her eyes. At any moment, he could unbalance her.
Copyright @ 2018 Lea Bronsen

Two young and indecently handsome bicyclists visit a village in the French Alps during the summer holidays. Forced by a raging storm to spend the night at the local bed & breakfast, they invade the quiet lives of hostess Anne and her husband, Brian.
A power outage plunges the foursome into darkness, encouraging new liaisons to form, life-long secrets to be unveiled, and steamy lessons to be learned. But once the storm moves on, can the four find a balance and resume their normal lives?
Links:
Get the book on Amazon.com, Amazon.uk, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, and Smashwords.
Add it to your shelf on Goodreads
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So, the topic of the day is, “What would I do if I couldn’t be a writer?”
There is no good answer to that. I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, to create characters and situations (read: drama) is my personal getaway, and I’m so insanely lucky that there actually are people all over the world (!) willing to read the words I put onto paper and enjoying them, so if the means to relay my inner thoughts were to be taken away from me, it would be the same as to slowly drain me of life.
For fear that my mind, constantly bubbling with ideas, might implode, I would have to use my creativity in other fields. My inner voice does after all have a wealth of exciting new stories to tell and characters to develop, layer by layer. You can’t just ignore that.
Maybe I could draw instead, as I also used to do as a child. Or paint. Or sing. I did some pretty neat James Hetfield covers back in the day… 😉

But you wouldn’t want to hear that, would you! LOL
So okay, maybe I would do more sports, more cooking, more activities with my kids, more traveling, more reading… It would certainly give me a much more active life on the outside, but would it be meaningful enough on the inside? I hope I’ll never have to find out.
If you missed last week’s topic, “How much of me is in what I write”, I recommend you read the post here as it explains further why being a writer is so important to me!

Happy Wednesday, and thanks again to Angelica Dawson for organizing the MidWeekTeases!
I haven’t posted anything in a while due to losing my drive after our beloved friend Doris O’Connor tragically passed away a couple weeks ago. But I know she would have wanted us to “stay naughty, peeps”, so I will continue posting teases in her memory ❤
This week’s tease is taken from my ménage erotica HIGH-RISK FEVER. In this scene, we’re continuing where we left off: Anne’s husband had a “sex-emotional” fit in the cellar, and now she’s trying to recoup.
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When she reappeared in the kitchen, Todd stood in front of the stove, cross-armed, staring at a boiling kettle. Yellow candlelight danced on his thoughtful face as he turned to her, features drawn.
“Hey.” She gave him an encouraging smile. He had more on his plate than she did.
“Hey. I’m making a cup of tea for Micaela. He hasn’t eaten anything since last night.”
She nodded, closed the cellar door, and clicked off the flashlight. “Of course, make yourself at home. How is he?”
“Not well. He has a fever.” Worry flickered in his deep-emerald eyes.
“I’m going to get you the aspirin from upstairs.”
Shuffling steps sounded behind her, and Anne jumped. She was on edge and dreaded facing Brian again.
Brian entered the kitchen and looked between her and Todd with a placid face, hazel eyes devoid of emotion.
Anne sucked in a breath. Hurt and shame lurked, threatening to burst out.
He nodded to Todd. “Your friend’s pretty sick.” His low voice sounded constricted.
“Yeah. I hope he hasn’t caught pneumonia.”
Brian turned to her, eyes still expressionless. “Anne, why don’t you get him some medicine.”
“Yes.” With an inward sigh of relief—glad she was off the hook and could leave—she made for the door.
He stretched out an arm and stopped her, blocking the exit.
Her heart leapt. What did he want?
“By the way, the French family is leaving. They’ve had enough of the bad weather and want to go south.” He nodded to Todd. “That means a room is available for you and your friend. If you intend to stay.”
Calmness washed through her. For a second, she’d believed he would bring up what happened in the cellar and scold her in public. But he’s not going to make a scene.
“That’s great!” Todd smiled. “It wouldn’t be wise to move on now that Micaela is sick.”
“But I have only one room for the both of you. The other tenants are staying a while longer. I’m not sure how many days, but—”
“That’s fine. Thanks.”
“It’s fifty euro a night.”
“Sure, no prob.” Todd broadened his smile. Probably one less stone for him to carry.
An ill loved one was so heartbreaking. In the past two and a half years, Papa had progressively suffered from Alzheimer’s, losing memory, messing things around in the house, and failing to recognize his own family. Maman’s decision to move into an apartment in town was the only wise thing to do, and though she never told Anne much about her feelings, watching her beloved husband reach the end stage of life in such a condition must be extremely painful.
I pray Brian and I never have to go through that.
Brian turned to her. “Would you mind changing their bed sheets?”
“Not at all. I’m on my way.” She exited the kitchen.
Her heartbeat slowed. Flashlight in hand, she went up the creaking stairs to the landing. Micaela’s hoarse cough sounded in the living room behind her, and she paused to listen, hand on the paneled wall, wondering what she could do to help. Not much, yet.
Brandishing the flashlight, she walked past the tenant rooms and entered her empty bedroom. Among a variety of medical supplies in a cupboard, she found a small box of licorice pastilles and bottles of soluble aspirin, vitamin C, and cough mixture.
She grabbed a pile of clean sheets from the bigger closet—the one against which Micaela had pinned her—and carried everything to the vacant tenant room down the hall.
The door was unlocked. She put the sheets and medicine on a small desk in the corner. The room contained a double bed with ruffled sheets, a small table on each side, and a chair. The distinct smell from the previous tenants lingered. Dim light peeked in from two windows overlooking the street. Rain clattered on the glass panes, and playful gusts of wind made the hinges shake.
She opened a window to let in fresh air. Her hair blew back and danced around. Horizontal raindrops whipped her face, but she welcomed each cold sting as if it could wash away her confusion. Chains of heavy black clouds moved from one side of the village to the other, weighing on the neighboring buildings before being replaced with new clouds. Thunder raged like some monster in the distance, threatening to crack open the skies.
The door handle clanked behind her. She froze then turned with her heart in her throat.
Micaela stood in the doorway smiling, wearing the same pullover and sweatpants as yesterday. He stepped in and closed the door. In the dim light, his pale face looked clammy and his dark eyes shone with sickness. Yet the straight, confident way he held himself revealed not only the stance of a dancer, but pride and inner strength. Beard stubble covered his handsome chin. He reeked of pure masculine hotness.
Copyright @ 2018 Lea Bronsen

Two young and indecently handsome bicyclists visit a village in the French Alps during the summer holidays. Forced by a raging storm to spend the night at the local bed & breakfast, they invade the quiet lives of hostess Anne and her husband, Brian.
A power outage plunges the foursome into darkness, encouraging new liaisons to form, life-long secrets to be unveiled, and steamy lessons to be learned. But once the storm moves on, can the four find a balance and resume their normal lives?
Links:
Get the book on Amazon.com, Amazon.uk, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, and Smashwords.
Add it to your shelf on Goodreads
See photos that inspired me to write on Pinterest
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So, the topic of the day is, “How much of me is in what I write?”
Obviously, unless you believe in reincarnation, I’ve never been a Viking in the deep Norwegian fjords or a Ute Indian fighting for his land during the Civil War. I suck at playing ice hockey, I will never willingly pose before a camera, I haven’t ever volunteered to heroically fight fires, and I certainly haven’t killed anyone (that I know of, anyway).
But my Alv Gunnulfsen is a darn realistic gay Viking avenger and my portrayal of Native American peoples and culture will plunge you into the past so effectively, you’ll think you’re in a Western movie. My hockey champion Slay will take both a Dark Captive and your breath away on the ice rink, romance author Andrea posing in front of a sly photographer in The Perfect Shoot will make you sweat (whether it’s the intense heat from lamps or her proximity to hunky top model Yushka is for you to decide), my firefighter hero Runo will give you multiple heart failures and heart aches in Fiery 10-16, and I swear if you smell blood while reading Wild Hearted, that’s me thrusting a knife between my victim’s ribs and snickering. Or pulling a trigger so brain mass rains all over me, punching his face until it’s an unrecognizable blob, or, after having carved out his carotid, piercing it with the thin tip of a blade, just like that, for fun.
Yeah, because my characters are me. Who did you think gave them a voice, a heart, a soul, a conscience? I’m the one fighting, longing, loving fiercely, getting off, and losing my mind. If you think my characters are malicious and arrogant, yep, that’s me, hello! living out who I cannot be in real life. Does a scene with fusing body parts and loud moans make you hot and bothered? You may point the finger at me: I most likely enjoyed writing that scene. Can you feel one of my characters’ soul bleed? Oh, baby, that’s me crying my heart out. Or maybe you hear a self-satisfied cackle? Yep, I’m the whacko typing away furiously, playing with words, juggling them, carefully gauging their place in a sentence. Eh, over six hundred thousand of them have been thrown out to the wolves by now and I’m still around.
How can I describe any setting or situation if I haven’t been there and done that, you ask? And how do I create – embody – persons I’ve never met, how can I know what they think, how they feel deep inside, and how they are going to react? Well, 50 % of writing a book is research, and I thank the heavens for the internet so I don’t have to travel to the Great Plains in the US or the Sahara desert in Africa to know what it’s like over there – and the other 50 % is me, simply. I’m human, and so I make my characters human. I can be both a man and a woman, or I can choose to be a feminine man falling for other men. I can be good and bad, gentle and terrifying, a slut, a thug, a sadist plotting a vicious murder and lovin’ it, or an angel out to save the world. I can feel young and old, devoid of life or full of it, tormented or thirsting for a fight.
All it takes to start developing a new persona – a new me – is a call from one of my beloved muses talking me into writing a new story, or a publisher offering to assemble stories for an anthology. And as soon as an idea begins to form, you can betcha my character is spending days and nights hovering over my shoulder, whispering into my ear, telling me his miseries and his cravings and his dreams. I know who he is, and come hell or high water, I’ll breathe flames of passion into his soul and bleed tears of love until his story is ready for the world to read.
Thanks to BookCoverZone for another gorgeous cover!!

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Ruthless drug lord Ricardo “El Loco” Ferrer launders his black money by investing in movie productions. As a teen, he learned to enjoy blow jobs in jail. Now a man of power, his favorite pastime is checking out new acting talent…and convincing them to “please” the team of producers.
Young wannabe actor Jaden Moore comes to a shady side of town to audition for a movie part. He longs to shine, wants to walk the red carpet with cameras flashing and a crowd cheering. He assures the film director and the investors he’ll do anything to reach the top, but is he willing to comply with their dirty fantasies?
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Oh! High-Risk Fever is #2 “Best Erotica Novel” in the Critters Annual Readers’ Poll 2018!
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