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Spotlight: Because You Love Me by Mari Carr

I’m catching up on new releases by friends of mine. Here’s an awesome new book by the incomparable Mari Carr!

Because You Love Me

Safety in numbers? Depends on what you mean by safe…

Bridget Wilder’s life is shot to hell—literally—when she witnesses the murder of her best friend, Lyle. Protective custody? What a joke. Time after time, someone has leaked her whereabouts, forcing her to run from one safe house to the next.

Tired of cold, lonely beds and living in fear, Bridget convinces her guardian cop she’s safer off the grid, following Lyle’s trail of clues to a missing flash drive that could put the killer behind bars.

It doesn’t take twins Mark and Matt James long to figure out two things. Bridget’s not only in trouble, she is trouble—they both want her. When things get a little hot and heavy one night, though, they’re stunned to discover that they don’t mind sharing. And she loves being shared.

Between the James brothers’ hot, hard bodies, Bridget finally feels safe—and loved. When a hit man tracks her down, the last thing she wants is for them to place those bodies between her and danger. But those cowboys have other ideas. Like keeping her alive long enough to convince her she belongs with them. Forever.

Product Warnings: Scary times ahead! An evil judge, a car chase, a hit man and more! Luckily, the rough times are soothed by lots and lots of ménage sex with two red-hot alpha cowboys.

Get your copy here: Samhain, Amazon, Sony, All Romance Ebooks, and Barnes and Noble

Enjoy!

Spotlight: Magnus by Jambrea Jo Jones

Every once in a while, I like to spotlight books by author friends. My old friend Jambrea has a new book out and isn’t that cover delish? Check out the blurb:

Magnus

Book one in the Semper Fi Series

Hoorah! Take no prisoners.

The military is Marine Colonel Joe “Magnus” Rivers’ reason for being. Protecting the United States of America from all threats is his sole purpose in life. His world is turned upside down when a woman is assigned to his team of elite Marines and his attraction to her threatens his career.

NCIS Special Agent Emily Patterson’s orders: infiltrate Colonel Rivers’ team and find the culprits behind a rash of kidnappings connected to a sex slave ring. Her mission parameters didn’t include an attraction for Colonel Rivers but nothing in Emily’s career could have prepared her for Magnus. Her job becomes more difficult as she gets to know the man behind the uniform and Emily finds herself wanting to prove herself to him, potentially exposing her identity before she clears Magnus.

Magnus and Emily struggle against their growing feelings for one another, both knowing the consequences of giving in to lust. Magnus is Emily’s team leader and fraternising is against the rules. Emily is investigating Magnus and his team; getting involved with him could ruin her investigation and her career.

Reader Advisory: This book contains some violence and lots of swearing and sexual assault.

Publisher’s Note: This book was previously released at another publisher. It has been revised and re-edited for release with Total-E-Bound.

You can pick up your copy of Magnus here: http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=1515

Enjoy!

2 Weeks From Today

Just realized The Purrfect Stranger will be coming out from ARe exactly 2 weeks from today! Mark your calendars!!! The blurb and cover are here: http://biancadarc.com/blog/2012/01/18/the-purrfect-stanger-cover/ or just scroll down a bit if you’re reading this on my blog. I’m looking forward to hearing what you all have to say about it!

Caturday

I think you might know that I’ve played guitar since I was a kid, so this one just made me smile.

The Purrfect Stanger Cover

Not sure if I posted this here yet. Here’s the cover for THE PURRFECT STRANGER, a short story in the Tales of the Were universe that will be coming out from ARe on February 8th. What do you think?

Here’s the blurb:

A blind date turns magical when a werecougar and a witch bridge the chasm between their very separate worlds.

Valerie Faber comes from a long line of mages of incredible power. Clan Faber is so skilled, they teach other mages how to use their abilities. All, except for Valerie. What little power she does have seems to be in the realm of housepets and familiars. Not very useful to a Clan used to epic abilities.

Keith is a werecougar with a mixed heritage that makes him a little different from the rest of his Clan. He’s overcome it all to become the local Alpha, but he hasn’t yet found the woman who can make him purr in human form.

A blind date brings them together, though rarely do shifters mix with mages. After a tempestuous night together, Keith is hot on Valerie’s trail – with the help of her feline friends and a little interference from a well-meaning family member. He’ll do anything to keep Valerie in his life, including stalking her in Clan Faber’s magical fortress.

Look for it on February 8th from AllRomanceEbooks.com!

Perfect Strangers

Neat graphic, eh? This is one of the images ARe sent me to help publicize the fact that I’m participating in their Valentine promotion this year. I’ve never really done anything like this with them before, so I’m not sure how it all works, but the general idea is that a new short story by Yours Truly, will be coming out on February 8th. It’s called The Purrfect Stranger and it’s a short story that’s part of my Tales of the Were world.

It’s sort of a stand alone story featuring one of the Redstone cousins. (You may remember Matt Redstone from Sweeter Than Wine.) It’s kind of a lighthearted paranormal in keeping with the spirit of the holiday. I’ve always loved St. Valentine’s Day, even though I’ve never really had the romantic dream most of us girls want for the day.

So mark it down on your calendars. I’ll be reminding you again as the time draws closer, of course. And I’ll reveal the cover here on the blog shortly (though if you want a sneak peek, it’s already up on my website). In the meantime, I’m fighting a dastardly cold, trying to finish my new dragon book and editing Wolf Hills. More news on that later! Stay tuned! :)

Caturday

Finally! Twelfth Night! Brotherhood of Blood

Twelfth Night traditionally signals the end of the holiday festivites. We’ll examine our last series today – until next year, I suppose – and that series is the Brotherhood of Blood. I saved one of the best for last, some might say. These stories are my vampire novels and novellas, though not every one of the stories has a vamp in them. Confusing, right?

Remember when we talked about Tales of the Were and I said we’d revisit some of the same issues when we got to this point? And I promised to go into a bit more detail. Well, it appears that time has come.

The three novellas that make up the original Brotherhood of Blood novella trilogy focus around three women who became friends in college while participating in the same study group. There were six women in total in that group and the series has expanded to include their stories as well. If you want to know the exact “order” of the stories, here goes:

1. One & Only

2. Rare Vintage

3. Phantom Desires

4. Sweeter Than Wine

5. Forever Valentine

6. Wolf Hills

Yes, you read that right. The last of the study group friends doesn’t end up with a vamp. She turns out to be a werewolf mate! How’s that for crossover? Of course, this isn’t the first time I’ve mixed up the supernatural races. SWEETER THAN WINE is mostly a menage story with a werecougar third, Matt Redstone.

Matt fans might be interested to know that we’ll meet a cousin of his in WOLF HILLS, which will be out April 17, 2012 from Samhain Publishing. We’re finalizing the edits right now and I’ll be revealing the cover on this blog soon. I’ve seen it and it’s awesome, but it has to go for final approval before I’m allowed to post it anywhere, so stay tuned for that! I promise, it’s worth the wait. Angela Waters, the artist responsible for all four of the red Brotherhood covers was tapped to do WOLF HILLS and it came out absolutely gorgeous! Sexy and smoldering and sinfully beautiful!!!

I guess you can tell I’m kind of happy with it, right?

The original Brotherhood of Blood novella trilogy is available individually as ebooks or together in print. SWEETER THAN WINE is also avaiable in ebook and print. I should mention SWEETER THAN WINE is the only full-length novel currently available in this series… until WOLF HILLS comes out. WOLF HILLS is also a novel. (I can hear you cheering!) FOREVER VALENTINE is also available separately as an ebook or in the print anthology titled CAUGHT BY CUPID which also has stories from Maya Banks and Gwen Cease.

People my age may remember an old television program called Forever Knight. A show I affectionately refer to as “vampire cops from Canada”. LOL. I chose the title FOREVER VALENTINE as a sort of homage to that show, which I used to watch late at night after I came home from grad school (which I attended in a night program while working full time during the day).

I’m very excited to have WOLF HILLS coming out in a few months. It’s the final Brotherhood story, but it also opens a whole new can of worms when we discover some secrets about the heroine’s ancestry. I’ve started work on a follow-up story. I may have a chance to work more on it later in the year.

And that’s it. The end of the 12 Series for this year. I think I’ll try to do this every year so I can get a feel for where I’m heading and what I’ve accomplished. Sort of a year-end summary. I like this idea. Thanks for playing along with me!

Happy New Year, everyone!

The Eleventh Series… String of Fate

And now we come to the String of Fate series. Oh, how I love big cat shifters.

This series is planned as a trilogy. There will be three books:

1. CAT’S CRADLE

2. KING’S THRONE

3. JACOB’S LADDER

CAT’S CRADLE is already out in print and ebook formats. It focuses on Cade, a Pantera Noir shapeshifter and the human woman who is his mate. Early in the book, Cade’s partner, Mitch, is mortally wounded and taken away by the heroine’s friend, a doctor named Gina. Gina’s hiding a great secret – she’s descended from the magical line of white tigers – the natural leaders of all tiger shifters.

In fact, Gina’s father is the Tig’ra - the white tiger king. Mitch is a golden tiger, a tigre d’or. KING’S THRONE will follow Mitch and Gina’s progress from their flight to the countryside and encounter with the deposed king, through a battle for their very lives and the course of true love and heat of shifter mating.

JACOB’S LADDER will focus on the Nyx, the queen of the Pantera Noir shifters, and her forbidden love for a human man. Although, Jake is not exactly a normal human guy. I haven’t started this book yet, but I have a good idea of where I want it to go. KING’S THRONE is already partially written and I hope to complete it later this year and get it into the pipeline for publication (which seems to take longer and longer the more successful my publisher becomes!).

You can get CAT’S CRADLE anywhere ebooks and print books are sold!

The Tenth Series… Gift of the Ancients

Gifts of the Ancients is another of the series that I intend to write more of in this new year. It’s also one of those stories that got sidetracked by its original publisher going out of business. I managed to get it re-released with a new publisher right before all hell broke loose in my personal life.

I’d already started the follow up story in this series, but as life got in the way, I didn’t have a chance to finish what I started. Maybe 2012 will be the year I finally get organized again! LOL.

Gifts of the Ancients is a series that combines two of my favorite elements – military heroes and paranormal doings. It’s based on the idea that a small group of Green Berets found the ancient city of Babylon while they were roaming the desert. In the ancient tower that magically appears out of the sand, they meet a very strange man who gifts them with powers that don’t become apparent until they get back home and start realizing they’ve been changed into something… more.

The first of the series, WARRIOR’S HEART, has one of my favorite contemporary themes – the girl next door. Hal comes back from his time in the desert a changed man who can no longer resist the love he’s carried around for a long time. Love for the little sister of his best friend.

I do have stories planned for at least two more of the men in Hal’s team. In fact, I started writing them a long time ago, but like I said, when the original publisher started the long slide to going out of business, and I didn’t want to give them anything new, I turned my attention to other things. Hopefully in 2012, I’ll be able to get back to these guys because each one of them is special in his own way.

WARRIOR’S HEART is available now from Samhain Publishing and wherever ebooks are sold. Here are a few other links: Amazon, B&N, & FictionWise.