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Enjoy At Dead of Night by Bethany Leigh!

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Red herrings meet red bottoms in this tale of detecting, discipline and life decisions.

After eight years of working as a PI, Lucy Ogilvy finally has a murder mystery to investigate. Who did kill Marilyn Carter, a convicted murderer who is now a prominent Christian evangelist?

Lucy’s investigations bring her back in contact with her ex-boyfriend Noel. They’d like to get back together – but he insists on a domestic discipline relationship, and forbids her to take unnecessary risks for work.

Can Lucy accept Noel’s discipline? And how do you investigate a murder without taking a few risks, anyway?

 

Enjoy a free excerpt below!

Back at her flat, she made sure she looked good before heading off to Leicester Square. She put on new jeans and a strappy top, brushed her hair thoroughly and applied make-up and perfume. Then she caught the bus to the train station. It was better to use public transport tonight as she definitely needed a fortifying glass of cider if she was going to have a conversation with Noel. Plus, if he asked her back to his place, it would be easier just to go back with him without her car…

Stop it, she told herself. Getting back with Noel would mean telling him that that spanking had been okay. And it hadn’t been. Even if she had probably deserved it – no, she corrected herself, she’d probably totally deserved it – it wasn’t his place to dish out punishment. Spanking was all very well in the bedroom – it was a turn-on and led to great sex – but for real punishment? No. Just no. Being a successful PI meant taking risks. Sure, other people might consider her decisions dangerous and foolhardy, but for her, such actions might be career enhancing. Noel, as a journalist, should have understood that. If he didn’t and if he wanted to get back with her, then she was going to make that very clear to him.

Buy it here:

Amazon: At Dead of Night

Amazon UK: At Dead of Night

Blushing Books: At Dead of Night

 

Author Bio:

Bethany Leigh is a newbie erotic romance writer published by Blushing Books. Her first novella, Freedom, is set in a kinky alternate Edwardian era, and her second, At Dead at Night, is a murder mystery set in present-day England. Her short story anthology, A Cure for All Ills and Other Stories, will also be published by Blushing Books, and includes contemporary, historical and time-travel stories set in Australia, England and the Czech Republic.

She enjoys writing (and reading!) about strong-willed heroines crossing swords with alpha heroes.

 

Author links

http://bethanyleighromance.blogspot.com.au/

Twitter: @writerbethany1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bethany-Leigh-108399886191157/

Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Bethany-Leigh/e/B018Z9NLSK/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1449447482&sr=8-1

 

 

Enjoy Theirs To Punish by Renee Rose!

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The lovely Renee Rose, number one bestseller in Erotic Sci Fi and Erotic Paranormal fiction on Amazon, is plugging my book on her blog. So in return, hear all about her contribution to the  Bound, Spanked and Loved anthology!

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Bound, Spanked and Loved: Fourteen Kinky Valentine’s Day Stories

***14 ALL-NEW novellas! Available for a limited time only!***

Bound, Spanked and Loved: Fourteen Kinky Valentine’s Day Stories is the HOTTEST box set of the season, brought to you by fifteen New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling authors of bdsm and spanking romance. Lose yourself in a whole lotta naughty with this sexy collection of ALL-NEW, standalone novellas sure to set your e-reader ablaze and leave you breathlessly panting for more.

Publisher’s Note: The stories included in this smoking hot collection are MF, MFM, and MMMF pairings. Some contain taboo subjects and no-holds barred BDSM and spanking scenes. All will make you blush hard. ***over 700 pages of brand new stories***

Renee’s smoking hot contribution to the anthology is Theirs To Punish.  When a billionaire’s daughter-turned-ninja picked Casino Magnifico for a heist, she didn’t take into account one thing–actually–two. Twin owners Joe and Alex Jamison won’t hesitate to employ a little corporal punishment to bring the virgin socialite in line…

Enjoy a a free excerpt!

Excerpt:

 

(From Theirs to Punish by Renee Rose)

 

Alex watched the beautiful burglar wrench her hands against the zip ties.

“Easy, love. Those will dig into your flesh if you struggle.”

He would switch to bondage tape when he had a chance, but for the moment, he didn’t trust the little tigress until he had her immobilized. He flipped her to her back where her bound hands lifted her pelvis.

Damn, that turned him on. She turned him on. Dressed in a skintight black catsuit, her long lean body just wouldn’t quit. Funny how when he’d thought the burglar was male he’d been ready to throttle him. Discovering this beautiful waif breaking into his brother’s safe, though… Well, he still wanted to punish her, but only in the most erotic way.

He pulled out his cell phone and dialed his brother Joe. “I caught her.”

“Her?”

His lips stretched into a wolfish smile. His brother would enjoy this one as much as he did. “Mmm hmm. Cutest little cat burglar I’ve ever seen.”

Her cheeks colored in an enchanting blush, and she brought her knees up to kick.

Still holding the phone, he moved swiftly to straddle her, squeezing her legs together between his thighs. Her scent filled his nostrils—sweet, sensual, earthy. Delicious.

“I’ll be right there.”

“We’ll be waiting.” He hit end and looked down at the struggling thief. “Enough.” He gave her face a light slap—not with any force, just enough to establish dominance.

Her eyes widened in shock, and suddenly her body fought him in a different way, her hips arching, breasts thrusting toward the ceiling.

Oh, hell yeah. She liked being his prisoner. The situation that had been a pain in his ass just became a lot more interesting.

And da-yum, she didn’t appear to be wearing anything under her skintight black ninja clothes. Her nipples poked up under the thin fabric.

It took all his self-control not to pinch them. He gave his head a quick shake to clear it. “What’s your name, ninja girl?”

Want to read on? Buy it from one of the links below!

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Annabelle’s Awakening is on sale now!

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The Honourable Annabelle Spencer will soon become the Duchess of Rothmuir, and she can’t wait to get married! It’s not the beautiful dress or the opulent wedding ball that she’s looking forward to the most, however. All she wants is to be naked in the arms of her love Daniel, the Duke of Rothmuir, once more.

But it has now become clear that there is more to marrying Daniel than simply becoming his duchess. In addition to being a powerful peer of the realm in Victoria’s England, he is a proud member of the Ruttingdon Club, an exclusive group of titled noblemen who enjoy inflicting pain while taking their pleasure. Annabelle is determined to accompany Daniel to meetings of the Club when they are married, but he is unsure whether she can cope with the physical and psychological demands that appearance at club meetings place on females who attend these exotic functions.

Can Annabelle endure the strict training the Club requires? Will she master her fear of bodily exposure in front of strangers? Can she and Daniel build a life together that balances duty to their roles in society with their desire for dark sexual pleasure?

Read Annabelle’s Awakening, the second in the Ruttingdon Club series, to find out!

Buy from Amazon.com here!

Buy from Amazon.co.uk here!

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Curious about how Annabelle met her duke? Read The Incorrigible Annabelle Spencer, available from Amazon and the Blushing Books website!

Not long now!

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Annabelle’s Awakening, the second in my Ruttingdon series, is due out on the 17th of January! It’s the follow up to The Incorrigible Annabelle Spencer, and follows Annabelle as she negotiates both marriage to a powerful nobleman and entrance into the Ruttingdon Club, a select and secretive BDSM club known by only a few.

You can read the first chapter of the book for free here! It will be available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes and Noble and the Blushing Books website.

Look out for the beautiful cover made by the lovely people at Blushing Books –

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The Honourable Annabelle Spencer will soon become the Duchess of Rothmuir, and she can’t wait to get married! It’s not the beautiful dress or the opulent wedding ball that she’s looking forward to the most, however. All she wants is to be naked in the arms of her love Daniel, the Duke of Rothmuir, once more.

But it has now become clear that there is more to marrying Daniel than simply becoming his duchess. In addition to being a powerful peer of the realm in Victoria’s England, he is a proud member of the Ruttingdon Club, an exclusive group of titled noblemen who enjoy inflicting pain while taking their pleasure. Annabelle is determined to accompany Daniel to meetings of the Club when they are married, but he is unsure whether she can cope with the physical and psychological demands that appearance at club meetings place on females who attend these exotic functions.

Can Annabelle endure the strict training the Club requires? Will she master her fear of bodily exposure in front of strangers? Can she and Daniel build a life together that balances duty to their roles in society with their desire for dark sexual pleasure?

Read Annabelle’s Awakening, the second in the Ruttingdon Club series, to find out!

 

I think I’m growing as a writer.

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Figuratively speaking, anyway. I’m already 5’10”, I don’t need to be any taller.

I was just updating my Amazon Author Central pages when I noticed a new review on my Victorian Vices series. It’s one of those damned with faint praise ones – I can’t tell if she’s being a bit snide and taking a pop at the genre or just words things badly.  The first time I got one of these reviews I was quite upset. Now, though, my skin is thickening and I’m starting to think like a real author.

I added up how much it cost her to share her feelings – £9.78 – and thought about what I’d spend her money on instead.

Like me, love me, flame me, shame me – just buy my books, if you please. I’ll work through my emotions on the lovely foreign holiday you’re helping to send me on!

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Blonds may have more fun, but they don’t seem to pose for cover art

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I’ve never really had a thing for blond men. I tend to go for the tall, dark and handsome type, from the suaveness of Cary Grant to the sheer muscular masculinity of Joe Manganiello, taking in Karl Urban, Rock Hudson and Jason Momoa on the way. Jamie Dornan has to have the beard, as does Henry Cavill. Kit Harrington has to have those curls.

There are exceptions, of course. Chris Pine is naturally dark but I only find him attractive when they make him blond for Star Trek. Ditto Chris Evans as Captain America. I’m pretty sure that Chris Hemsworth would be attractive no matter what the hair colour, but he’s very pretty to look at as a blond.

Perhaps I have a blond Chris thing? I don’t know. The problem is, my preference for dark haired men bleeds into my work. I have a natural default setting when describing my heroes, and they basically are a variation on this –

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I’m trying to get better with every book I write, and I realise that this is an issue for me, so I’ve deliberately written blond heroes in A Captain For Christmas and my upcoming and as yet unfinished third book in the Ruttingdon Series. I’ve tried to challenge myself to make these blond men attractive to me – if I find them sexy, my readers should, right?

If only I could find images for my covers for them…

You’d think that there’d be a few blond male models for romance novel covers, right? Some? A handful? One?

Not on the sites I’ve been looking at. There are hundreds of brunet models. There are one or two with chestnut or red hair. There was one in a stunningly awful blond wig, but no natural blonds at all.

It’s too late to go back and change the hair colour of my hero in Ruttingdon 3. He has a cameo in the second book, Annabelle’s Awakening, and he’s blond there. That book is due to be published in a week, so that can’t be changed. I’m stuck with a blond Duke of Buckingham whether I like it or not. The cover of A Captain For Christmas has a  dark haired model as the fantastic cover artist at Blushing Books obviously couldn’t find a blond man either.

Where did all the blond men go? Is this why so many romance novels have covers with a man with no head at all? They can’t find any blonds, so they decapitate them?

Blond models of the world! You are needed! Otherwise I’m just going to go back making all my heroes look something like this –

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Or this.

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Or this.

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Actually, what the hell am I complaining about?

Perhaps one of the resolutions should have been to be better at time keeping

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I’m not fond of New Year’s resolutions; I forget them, get stressed out by them or just plain don’t want to do them about four days into January. I know I am not alone in this.

The only New Year’s resolution I have ever kept was that one year I decided to learn how to do something artistic and/or craft-y. I am notoriously bad at this sort of thing, so I decided that I was going to learn to do something. Thanks to one of those part-work magazines I learned to knit. I’m not amazing at it, but I can follow a pattern, increase and decrease and even turn a heel for socks although I have never mastered knitting on circular needles or anything fancy like that.

I do need to overhaul my life, though. This year I’ve decided to do three things. I am going to improve my physical health by eating healthily and taking more exercise. I’ve already started by rejoining Slimming World, and a good friend has already sent me a text demanding that I drag her with me. I have a subscription to the local swimming pool but I’m going to delay going until at least February. Too many Resolutioners will be taking up the lanes right now!

I am going to save money by putting some aside every day (I’m trying the penny for each day of the year method – a penny for the 1st of January, two pence for the 2nd of January, three pence for the 3rd of January, etc). It’s going to get difficult when the amounts start getting bigger, I know, but I’m interested to see how well I’m going to manage it.

My third resolution is to write at least 500 words a day. My real life job is incredibly time consuming, often encroaching on my time at home both in the week and on weekends. I need to keep writing, though – I have Ruttingdon 3 about a third done, with ideas for Ruttingdon 4, Victorian Vices 4 and a brand new series all being added to. I think that I can manage 500 words a day. I’d like to get three books written this year, which is asking a lot with my schedule, but I’ll see what I can manage. Ruttingdon 4 is supposed to be a novella, although the last novella I tried to write ended up being 70000 words by the end, so I’ll have to wait and see.

I’ve started the money saving, I’m 35000 words into Ruttingdon 3 and apart from a small blip at lunchtime today where I accidentally found myself in McDonalds enjoying their nasty, delicious food, I’ve been eating more healthily since the start of the year. there have been vegetables on my plate. Actual vegetables. Not novelty chocolate ones wrapped in foil to look like vegetables actual vegetables.

I’m definitely on the right path. As long as that path doesn’t take me through McDonald’s, I’ll be fine!