Showing posts with label Gritty Romance. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Virtual Tour: Make You Burn By Megan Crane


Meet the Deacons of Bourbon Street, bad boy bikers who are hell on wheels—and heaven between the sheets. Megan Crane revs up an irresistible new series co-written with Rachael Johns, Jackie Ashenden, and Maisey Yates.

Sean “Ajax” Harding’s oaths are inked into his skin. Once second-in-command of the Deacons of Bourbon Street motorcycle club, he left New Orleans to protect the brotherhood, and only the death of his beloved mentor, Priest Lombard, could lure him back. Walking into the old hangout gives him a familiar thrill—especially when he gets an eyeful of the bar’s delectable new owner. A wild ride with her is just the welcome Ajax needs. Then he realizes that she’s Priest’s daughter, all grown up and totally off limits.

Sophie Lombard loved her father, not his lifestyle. She’s done with bikers . . . until Ajax roars into town—arrogant, tough, and sexy as ever. And although he treats her like the Catholic schoolgirl he once knew, Sophie’s daydreams tend to revolve around sin. With the very real possibility of heartbreak looming, Sophie knows better than to get too close to an outlaw. But every touch from Ajax is steamier than the Louisiana bayou—and heat like this may just be worth getting burned.
When I think of an MC romance, the first thoughts that come to my mind are that it will be a little dark, gritty and have the I don’t give a fuck attitude that we have all come to except from our bikers.  Now don’t get me wrong, I love a sweet MC romance but I think the true MC romance readers have missed the naughtier, grittier bikers that have us blushing (well not me I don’t blush) with their dirty mouths and wet between our legs at the same time.  Make You Burn is exactly that.  It is gritty, it’s hot, it has a biker who is the epitome of an asshole and the daughter of a biker who may want to deny she is a true biker bitch but that is exactly who she is. 

Ajax, don’t call him Sean unless you want your face rearranged, is the VP of the Deacons of Bourbon Street.  He returns back after being exiled ten years prior when the man who was more like a father to him than his own ever was, dies.  Priest also happens to be the father of Sophie, the biker bitch who hates bikers.  From the second he lays his eyes on her again he knows he wants her but in typical biker fashion doesn’t want to admit that a bitch has his attention more than business at hand.  Ajax will make you mad while at the same time make your panties wet.

Sophie is tough, she knows the biker life.  Her father was the President of the Deacons Of Bourbon Street and raised her to know the life and her place in it.  Thing is, that’s not the life she wants and she sure as hell won’t let Ajax bully her around, no matter what even if the sexual chemistry between them is explosive.  I give her credit, she doesn’t just take Ajax’s shit, she gives it right back to him. 


This is the first book in this series and it looks like the next book has a different author, but if this is how Megan Crane will be writing in the future you can count on me to read it.


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“My daddy told me I could dress up like a drag queen and wander the streets of the French Quarter over his dead body,” Sophie Lombard said as she tugged off the glittery mask— and there was no doubt about it, goddamn it, it was her. “So it was now or never, really.”
Ajax knew that face, though he took the stripper cosmetics and the hooker lashes as another insult, when the face he remembered had been scrubbed clean and sweet and pure. And when she peeled the acrobatic headdress from her head and sent it skidding a few feet down the dull sheen of the bar, her long, dark, wavy hair tumbled down past her shoulders, a thick and shining rope of it he wanted to wrap around his hands while he took her—
Jesus Christ.
He stared at her, willing this to be some kind of homecoming-inspired hallucination, but no. He was sober at the moment, he hadn’t touched the funky stuff in years, and this was Sophie Lombard all grown up. She was a lush little package, all taut curves and a belly ring, just like a couple of his preferred wet dreams. She had the most perfect set of plump, round tits he’d ever seen, even with the stupid tassels jutting from them, and they definitely should not have been on display for the entire fucking city like that. Or ever. What the hell was the matter with her? More to the point, he absolutely could not fuck her in the Priory toilets, no matter what bad decisions his cock was agitating for even now.
A man did not fuck the daughter of his beloved father figure when said father figure’s body was barely cold. Even if the daughter in question was dressed for a long night on the pole and had basically just advertised that she was for sale to the better part of New Orleans.
Not in the toilets, anyway.
When she only slipped onto a bar stool, making no attempt to cover herself or change what passed for her clothes, Ajax decided he’d had enough. It was high time he took control of this shit.
Before he lost what was left of his.
“Hey, Sophie,” he said. He didn’t have to raise his voice to command the attention of the entire bar. He saw her stiffen like she recognized his voice and he couldn’t deny that he liked that. He was never meant to go unnoticed, not here. Not in the only place he’d ever belonged. “Is that what you’re wearing to the funeral?”
She turned toward him slowly. So slowly he had a lifetime or two to remember her as a little girl. Sophie of the big, wide eyes and sparkly little laugh. Sophie in thick dark braids and skinned knees. Sophie, who Priest would have died to protect, which meant any of the brothers would have done the same. Sophie, who had never been meant for a sticky dive bar and a pair of pasties, no matter how hot she looked in both.
Sophie, who glared at him down the length of the bar with a notable lack of the respect Ajax was used to receiving, especially from soft, breakable females who usually purred and got silly when they took a good look at him.
“Oh, hey there, Sean,” she replied after a long moment, her green eyes cool and haughty, like she was a goddamned queen instead of a half naked girl with a death wish, throwing around names she knew better than to use. “Long time no see.”

“Call me that again,” he suggested, in what he considered a friendly manner given the insult she’d just thrown at him, though he wasn’t entirely surprised when Tulane backed away from him in a wide-eyed rush, “and I might be the last thing you ever see.”
“Let me guess,” she replied, “you spent all this time in charm school?” Was it his imagination that she sat taller on her stool, then arched her back just enough to make those tits stick out a little further? Like she was trying to fuck with him? “Between you and me, you might think about asking for your money back. I don’t think it took.”
He forgot who she was for a moment, forgot the respect she was owed because of her father. He grinned at her instead, the way he would any other bitch who got in his face like that, flinging down challenges from across a public bar like he was some dickless frat boy. Ajax had always had a pretty face. No one tended to notice it much after the first time he grinned at them like that, though.
“No need to resort to all this flirting, baby,” he told her softly. “If you want to hop on and ride my dick, just ask.”
Sophie smiled at him, and it was not a nice smile. It was all the proof he needed that she wasn’t that sweet little girl he remembered, and he was a sick fuck, because it fascinated him to see she had her father’s fangs when she felt like showing them. He wanted them sunk in his neck. He wanted her to draw blood.
He wanted her, bad.



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Megan Crane is a New Jersey native who had great plans to star on Broadway, preferably in Evita, just like Patti LuPone. Sadly, her inability to wow audiences with her singing voice required a back-up plan. Accordingly, she graduated from Vassar College and got her MA and PhD in literature from the University of York in England. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on AIDS literature, mostly so she could wallow in her obsession with the remarkable multimedia artist David Wojnarowicz and her idol, the bitter and hilarious David Feinberg. After many years in the rain and subject to the whim of seasons, she followed the sun to Los Angeles, where she lives with too many pets and an artist named Jeff. She is still plotting her Broadway debut.




Monday, January 19, 2015

Series Blitz: Unexpected series By: Amity Cross




Blair is looking for an escape.
West is looking for a connection.
 
One down and out woman. One isolated rock star. Life at the top is lonely, but so is life at the bottom.
 
Blair is just looking for someone to take the edge off her crappy life. Dull the pain, breathe a little life into her neglected body. A chance meeting at a bar leads to a night of passion. No names, no personal details. Just sex.
 
Well, it wasn't personal until she sees the guy standing on a stage ten meters in front of her. How the hell didn't she realize that the guy who blew her mind is the guitarist out of that dirty rock 'n' roll band, Affliction? And why is he chasing her down the street? And how does he know her name?
 
Sometimes you find the things you didn't even know you were looking for in the most unexpected places.

Warning: This book is EROTIC ROMANCE and contains a lot of descriptive sex, strong language, lickable rock stars and one a** kicking female lead. 18+ due to mature sexual content




Author Note

Unexpected was originally released throughout 2014 as a serial in three parts. They were:

Unexpected #1
Unexplainable #2
Unintended #3 

NOW AVAILABLE AS:

Unexpected: Part 1

FREE NOVELLA

This edition is the first part of Blair and West’s story as told in the original version of Unexpected.



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Unexpected (Unexpected #1-3)
 
This edition is the entire collection as a full, stand alone novel.

If you enjoy Blair and West’s story, please consider reading Unexpected: Affliction. It follows the other members in the band as they chase their happily ever afters. It includes all three parts in the single edition.


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UNEXPECTED: AFFLICTION
(Unexpected #3-6)

Joe Fox is the calm inside the hurricane that is rock outfit Affliction. But underneath the surface he's struggling against his own brewing category five.

When he meets Alexis Storm something Undeniable sparks between them.

Sasha Montgomery has everything she ever wanted.

As the manager of Affliction, she's got everything she ever dreamed of. . . except guitarist Mick Savage.

Watching him from the sidelines is Unbearable, but when he finally realises what her feelings are…everything is going to change.

Rob Hancock was never the savior type.

When he saves Lilly Hunter from a nasty situation, he's about to get more than he bargained for. Now he's her savior and will do whatever it takes to make her safe.

And when push comes to shove, he'll be Unstoppable in his desire to deliver her from her demons.

Warning: These books are classed as EROTIC ROMANCE and contain a lot of descriptive sex, strong language, lickable rock stars and a whole lotta a** kicking female leads. Strictly 18+.

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I recently became a fan of Amity Cross, so when I had the opportunity to sign up to review the Unexpected series from her I jumped right up and said hell yes!  With Unexpected and Unexpected Affliction instead of two books, it really is six books total as these used to be broken up into novellas but have been brought into the two respective books named above.  These are not your sweet, nice romances, not even close.  They are hot, erotic, will make you wet your panties one minute and scream in frustration the next. 

In Unexpected we have Blair and West’s story and these two are anything but perfect.  Each have secrets, West can be a massive asshole and Blair a massive bitch.  When we first meet them Blair just wants a distraction, one that a night of sex can provide for her.  West wants a connection and he feels one with Blair, going into their night together he knew this but he wants more.  They don’t even exchange names. Both want to dominate the other in bed so that makes for some extremely explosive sex. 

Unexpected is a rollercoaster ride throughout the entire book.  If you are looking for a book that is not always pretty, is gritty, angsty, will make you want to scream one minute and change your panties the next, then Unexpected is one for you. 

In Unexpected Affliction, we get the stories of the band members Joe, Mitch and Rob.  We first meet them in Unexpected and I really wanted their stories as well.  And let me tell you that I was not one bit disappointed.  None of these guys are perfect, and the woman are not weak minded, they kick some serious ass.  Like Unexpected, it is broken into three parts and each part is one of the guys story’s.  Christ could these guys get any sexier? 

I highly recommend this series, I just devoured them.  Lately I have liked more of an edge to by books and these were perfect for me.  Amity Cross is quickly becoming an author that I must read, and I can’t wait to check out the rest of her books.


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Author Bio

Amity Cross isn't her real name. That's no secret.

She is the author of wicked stories about rock stars looking for redemption, gritty romances featuring MMA fighters and dark tales of forbidden romance. She loves to write about screwed up relationships and kick ass female leads that don't take s**t lying down.

Amity lives in a leafy country town in southern Australia and can be found chained to her desk, held at ransom by her characters.

Don't send help. She likes it.

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Unexpected: Part 1
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Review: Selling Out (Lost Girls #2) by Amber Lin



Shelly Laurent is high priced call girl. She’s decided to get out the life and start over. But she can’t get out. Her pimp keeps pulling her back in. At the latest party her pimp has sent her to, she finds “Ella”. Ella doesn’t want to be a working girl. Shelly sets out to help her.

Shelly takes “Ella” the only place she can think to take her Detective Luke Cameron’s. While there she overhears him talking about bringing her in. Come to find out, all the men at the party she was at were killed and she and Ella are the prime suspects.

They run. Shelly does some investigating and finds out things are not as she thought.

I really wanted to like this story. I liked the first one and was looking forward to getting Shelly’s story. But the reality of the story didn’t live up to what I was looking for.

The story was a lot of exposition from Shelly on her life and what she wanted or what she thought she wanted. It was very difficult to get into it.

The ending was awesome. Full of action and Luke and Shelly fighting for each other. I loved Luke! He was awesome. He saw through Shelly’s defenses and just waited her out. He wasn’t what I thought. He was more. He was better. Shelly was very difficult for me to connect with. 

I’m hoping there are more in this series. I like the idea of it and I really want to read more.


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