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From the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Olivia Cunning…
One Starry Night…
In high school, Jake was the bad boy who made Michelle burn with desire, took what he wanted from her body, and broke her heart. In hindsight, Michelle never should have gotten tangled up with the aspiring guitarist in the first place. In high school, Devlin was a sweet, shy geek who’d had a crush on her, but when he’d found the courage to ask her to Prom, she’d turned him down flat. In hindsight, she should have worried more about the quality of the boy than her reputation with the popular crowd. But this isn’t high school anymore. At her ten year class reunion, Michelle finds her once popular crowd lacking, but finds both the man who broke her heart and the one she once rejected irresistibly sexy. She wants them. Both of them. And they want her any way—every way—they can have her. Can she resist either man? Does she even want to try?
New York Times bestselling author Nicole Edwards is heating things up with Boots Optional, a sexy new ménage novella which is the first book in a hot new series called Dead Heat Ranch. Grace Lambert is familiar with hard work, long days, and handsome cowboys. She’s been working for her family’s dude ranch since she was old enough to ride a horse and she’s not afraid to get her hands dirty. What she is afraid of is the heat that’s been generating between her and not one, but two sexy cowboys who’ve set their sights on her. And each other. Grant Kingsley and Lane Miller have both had their eyes on Gracie for years, but the feisty cowgirl has managed to keep them at bay. As far as they are concerned, cowboys don’t give up, and neither of them is ready to give up just yet. Not on her and not on the heat that transpires between the two of them. Find out what happens when the sultry Texas nights get as hot as the fierce Texas days.
New York Times bestselling author Cherrie Lynn gets it hot in here with SHAMELESS. It’s a vacation Meredith Taylor will never forget. A sunny beach, good friends and good times. But when she overhears a couple having a passionate interlude on the balcony above her one night, she can’t get the man’s sultry voice out of her mind. Especially when she figures out exactly who that man is…
Cameron Moore always had an eye on his best friend’s little sister but considered her strictly off limits, choosing to satisfy his lust elsewhere. Now Meri seems to want to annihilate every wall Cam’s put up against her. The beach is hot, the drinks are cold, Meredith is irresistible, and something has to give. Will it only be the walls between them, or their hearts as well?
New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby brings you PLAYING WITH FIRE, a ménage novella. Bailey Whitworth is a charity event organizer and a woman exploring her sexuality. Kevin Welling and Gray McDermitt are firefighters and best friends who share everything. Bailey always knew her sexual appetites were “different”, but she had no idea that she could fall in love with two men at once. What will she do when she has to choose between them? Or will she have to choose at all?
From USA Today bestselling author, Lainey Reese comes Guarding Nadia.
When Nadia Dixon walked into the offices of CJ Investigations, the last thing she expected to find were men who looked more like GQ models than bodyguards. It was desperation that brought her to their door however and she prayed that the two sex gods were more than just pretty faces.
Caleb and Jonas had started their security firm together after leaving the Secret Service. They had the lethal skill and training to safeguard anyone, including the gorgeous erotic author. Considering her stunning beauty, alluring sensuality and decadent profession, the only wonder was that she had drawn out just one obsessed fan. After hearing Nadia’s story and seeing for themselves the threat that she was under, they knew they could keep her safe from any stalker.
Their only worry…who was going to keep her safe from them?
I was lucky enough to get to interview Olivia Cunning! I have loved everything that Olivia has written and One Starry Night was no exception.
Did you go to your 10 year high school reunion?
No. I didn’t go. I couldn’t afford the plane ticket and it was over 2000 miles from where I lived at the time.
Whose high school experience can you relate the most to…Michelle, Devlin or Jake?
Probably Devlin, but I wanted to hang out with Jake’s crowd. Ha!
Who would you have gone for in high school…the bad boy or the sweet nerd?
I always went for the bad boy. And they still appeal to me, but I’ve never been able to maintain a stable relationship with one. It’s fun while it lasts!
Who would you go for now…the sexy, frisky roadie or the hot, rich business man?
Like Michelle, I refuse to choose.
If you could go back and ‘re-do’ one moment during high school, would you and if so, what would it be?
That’s a tough question. Mostly because it was so long ago that I don’t remember it much. I had a friend who I knew was taking drugs during French class. I wish I would have been a better friend to him. He later got into some trouble (stabbed a guy who made fun of his girlfriend and shoved him into the school’s swimming pool) and I don’t know where he is now, but I worry about him. He really was a very troubled kid and no one stood in his corner. Not the teachers. Not his parents. Not even me. And the girlfriend dumped him.
Was the Sinners connection always planned for One Starry Night or was it an awesome accident?
I knew Sed and Jake had a connection before I started, the surprise was the connection between Jake and Trey. It was a very delightful surprise, I must say.
Whose POV did you enjoy writing in most…Michelle, Devlin or Jake?
I really enjoyed writing them all, but I do love to write dialogue for a character who has a dirty mouth and Jake has quite the dirty mouth on him.
Thanks for having me on your blog! And I hope you enjoy One Starry Night in the Some Like it Hot anthology.
Some Like It Hot by Olivia Cunning
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
*ARC Given to Blog for Honest Review*
3.5 “Here’s to the Night” “I want it enough” “…it wasn’t even the same fucking sport.” “One shot” “Bruce” Kisses
You cannot tell me five of the hottest authors I have ever read are putting together an anthology and expect me not to go fangirl crazy. This is like giving my eyeballs an orgasmic dream come true! I have loved all of these authors separately but I was just giddy over the prospect of what they could do when the combined their forces of delicious goodness…they’re like the Smut Superhero Avengers…here to make us swoon and drool. Mission accomplished ladies…mission very well accomplished.
One Starry Night
There are two things I have come to expect from Olivia Cunning…amazing characters that I instantly fall in love with…and hot-mind-blowing-melt-your-brain-with-amazingness sex. One Starry Night did not disappoint on all fronts. I loved more than anything in the world the Sinners connection, because…it wouldn’t be an O.C. book without one…but I loved the premise period.
“I do want you to know that I’m not that scared little girl anymore. If I see something I want, I pursue it and I don’t give a damn about the opinions of others.”
“Do you see anything you want?” he asked, lifting his eyebrows in question.
She grinned and his heart rate tripled at the suggestion in her striking blue eyes.
“I might,” she said, “but I don’t think he’s interested.”
He pulled her against him and swayed with her to the music once again. “I’m pretty sure he is.”
So what happens when you take a former cheerleader who was afraid to go against the popular kids and mix her with her old high school bad boy flame (the one that blew her mind but she kept behind closed doors…or under bleachers, whichever works)…and then add a dash of the former geeky kid that everyone made fun of who grew up into the smoking hot über rich dude that everyone wants to bone? Awesome…that’s what you get…a whole lot of awesome. I liked it…it was different…and it kinda felt like Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion meets…well…a really awesome porno. Michelle Tanner is given every girls dream…Jake Tremaine and Devlin McAllister…and she enjoyed the hell out of both of them!
‘There was nothing in the world but her. It had always been that way for him. It was as if the decade they’d spent apart didn’t exist. He was completely infatuated with this woman.’
At first I was a little conflicted cause…I really liked Jake but Devlin was just hitting all my happy places and I didn’t wanna choose, so I sure as shit didn’t want Michelle to have to choose…and thus the greatness of Olivia comes into play – don’t choose, have both! Win-Win and I’m a happy little book worm. God bless America, I didn’t know you could pack that many orgasms into so few pages…but, she did it, she rocked it and I couldn’t get enough of it.
“So much for my attempts to protect you from his libido,” Devlin said and joined them on the bed.
“You should probably be more concerned about protecting me from her libido,” Jake said from between her legs.
“He’s right,” Michelle said and sighed when Jake’s tongue flicked over her sensitive clit. “I’m constantly horny. Maybe the two of you could manage to keep up with me if you worked together.”
If anything, that’s the one drawback to novellas…I always want more period, so like novellas are the thing I love to hate. It’s enough to pull me in, hook me and then it’s over and I don’t wanna get off the party bus. It’s quick…it’s sexy…maximum hotness, no angst and I was left smiling (and praying for more later).
Boots Optional
Well damn it if Nicole Edwards can’t write these spot on amazing Texas men that just blow my mind. I drool every time…I just can’t help myself. She continuously creates these incredibly engaging characters that are emotional…sensual…commanding…powerful…sexy – it’s a heady and addictive combination. Boots Optional is the kick off to The Dead Heat Ranch Series…of course, based in Texas (where all good cowboys come from) and man…this is going to be a good one, I can tell already.
‘That damn sure wasn’t indifference he saw in her blue-green gaze.
That was lust.’
I love that this series is about sisters and while BO is focused on Gracie…we get to meet all 5 of the Lambert sisters. Abigail Grace Lambert is…a good girl and a hard worker…but all work and no play makes Gracie a stick in the mud – one that Grant has been trying to cut loose for years. All it took was a little extra effort from Lane to peel away those layers and…click…everything just feel into place. Like a perfect puzzle, these three just work…but damn it was torture getting there.
‘“Understand what?” she asked, the words little more than a croak.
“We want you,” he answered.
“Me?” Gracie cleared her throat. And her mind. This was bullshit is what this was. “Me?” she asked again adding another dose of incredulity for good measure. “From the looks of it, y’all want each other. Not me.”
“Gorgeous, things aren’t always as black and white as you want them to be,” Lane offered.’
Nicole likes to angst me, I’ll give her that – but I’ve always like her specific angsty torture…she knows how to squeeze the heart just right but man, the sweet sexy goodness I was rewarded with once the torment was over – H.O.T.N.E.S.S! Boots on or off, I don’t give a hoot – any way you slice it, the sex was fabulous. I need to look into making a trip to a dude ranch…pronto!
Shameless
Cherrie Cherrie Cherrie…now that’s how you write a novella. Damn! It started off with a little intrigue, pulled me in with emotion and angst, more than satisfied me with some steamy sex and then finished me off with a wonderful HEA. I loved it. It had everything I look for in a full length novel, just condensed…and it totally worked for me.
“Are you sure?” he whispered in her ear, and she knew he wasn’t asking about Alyssa’s absence.
Meri slipped her hands up his chest and into his thick, dark hair, staring up into his eyes. “Absolutely. Completely.”
Meredith Taylor and Cameron Moore…the little sister and the brothers best friend – it’s a story that has been told before but I could listen to it time and time again. I love the tension, the withholding of feelings, the fear of rejection, wondering if he’ll ever stop seeing her as a ‘kid’…there isn’t a whole lot about it that I don’t love…and Cherrie Lynn wrote Meri and Cam brilliantly. I loved them both…even with the way it starts off and what brings them together – usually that’s not my style, but…for whatever reason, I liked it.
“What I’m saying, Meredith, is that if I get inside you, don’t ever plan on getting me out.”
I really can’t get over how much I loved this novella…I think it had a lot to do with Meri because I did connect a lot with her. The story is told from both Cam and Meredith’s POV’s, alternating chapters, but it was good…it worked. Of course I adored every delicious inch of Cam…and I couldn’t get over his feelings for Meredith…*sigh*…it just made him that much more perfect. And Good God the two of them were blissfully sexy…addictively passionate…mouthwateringly sensual…I was in lust with the two of them. All that pent up time and longing did them good IMO…they set the pages on fire! (and I loved it!)
“Fuck, do you know what you’re doing to me right now, kid?”
She laughed. Yeah, she could feel exactly what she was doing to him. “I have an idea. And I thought we had gotten past the ‘kid.’”
“I like teasing you.”
“I think boys only tease girls when they have a crush on them.”
“Then expect me to keep doing it for a long, long time. Kid.”
Shamelss was hot, sexy and packed a punch – a quick little story to set your kindle on fire, melt your heart (and your panties) and leave a satisfied little book worm in it’s wake. Perfect!
Playing With Fire
How??? How does she do it every mother loving time??? I don’t get it….I don’t know if I want to get it…I just want Kristen Proby to keep doing it! She successfully renders me into this pile of loving mush and I can’t get enough of it. The characters…the sexiness…the magical way I just fall into their world…it’s like a blissful little bit of paradise.
‘I’d be stupid to say no.
And I may be a lot of things, but stupid isn’t one of them.’
Alright…so one hot and sexy firefighter is enough to get me to surrender all my wits, but two equally delicious, yet equally different firefighters…and I just gave into the awesomeness. Gray McDermitt and Kevin Welling…Bailey Whitworth never stood a chance. She tried to put up a fight….and her logic is sound – the decision to choose is too tough…but why pick one over the other when you don’t have to? Hello…where’s the fun in that! God, Kristen knows how to write these insanely sexy alpha men to a fuckin T! They’re brilliant…passionate…charismatic…kind…sensual…just – perfect!
“Do I mind?” He laughs and tucks a strand of my hair behind my ear. “Baby, that’s like asking me if I mind if you breathe. You can do any damn thing you want ot me and I’ll fucking love it.”
That’s what got me…of course I loved Bailey, I always love Kristen’s heroines, but Kevin and Gray are just divineness wrapped in sex and dipped in lust – and I couldn’t help but adore them. I loved how different they were…Kevin is fun and playful and doesn’t hold back while Gray is calm and serious and more reserved. There is no way to choose between the two, it’s impossible, but that’s the brilliance of this book…you get the best of both worlds.
‘“What’s different about me?” she asks with a frown.
“Everything,” we reply in unison.’
They doubled my pleasure and my fun (and Bailey’s too) – I also loved the With Me In Seattle series reference…that was a nice touch, very subtle but I appreciated it. I enjoyed the alternating POV’s…it was nice and changed up the pace – definitely kept you wondering whose head you might be in next, but it was never confusing…just fun. The angst was limited, mostly just down to the good stuff…lots of hot-n-sexy good stuff. Of course my favorite part was the ending…sweet, endearing and fabulous ending to Bailey, Gray and Kevin. Love! <3
Guarding Nadia
Way to end with a bang! Guarding Nadia had something that none of the other books had…something that set it apart – suspense! And considering the word count, Lainey packed as much as she could into it without sparing the steam I have come to expect from her writing. It was intense…it was seductive…and good lord have mercy it was sexy as fuck.
‘Someday, somehow she would find Mr. Right. Someday. Until then, she would just make do with writing about him.’
Two Dom’s plus One Erotica Writer = a freaking amazing idea! Nadia was a perfect blend of sensual and submissive while still having a sweet and kind personality…she was easy to connect with. Plus, the fact that she was a writer made her that much closer to my heart. Caleb and Jonas…oh my delicious and sexy alpha Doms…they do make the world go round. While Caleb and Jonas have a lot in common…the striking differences of what set them apart are what I liked most. Caleb is ‘Mr. Serious’…all business and usually with the calmer head while Jonas is more casual and leads with his heart.
“Behave.” He admonished. “Or you’ll get a spanking when we get there.”
“If that was supposed to scare me, sir, it missed its mark,” she taunted.
Was the relationship that formed between these three fast? Yes…it was – but it was a whirlwind of perfect timing, high emotions and intense sexual chemistry and for all the right reasons, I got it. I would have liked a little bit more BDSM…but the BDSM we are given is creative and a little bit of change of pace from the norm – so points for Ms. Reese on that. Everything about Nadia, Caleb and Jonas was electric and powerful…and that especially came through in their sex scenes…oh-em-gee and be ready for the amazing sex scenes. Just…yum!
‘Nadia was startled, but far from scared, even as she looked up into what she was sure was Jonas’ most forbidding expression. They were her guardians, her protectors, and now, also her lovers. Fear was the last thing she felt for them.’
So just when you think the ending is going to be safe and sound after all that tension…Lainey gets ya. I really thought she was going to leave me hanging…which made me a little sad, but I should know better by now. Fabulous ending to a delicious sensual novella.
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Olivia Cunning
Combining her love for romantic fiction and rock ‘n roll, USA Today Best-Selling Author Olivia Cunning writes erotic romance centered around rock musicians. Raised on hard rock music from the cradle, she attended her first Styx concert at age six and fell instantly in love with live music. She’s been known to travel over a thousand miles just to see a favorite band in concert. As a teen, she discovered her second love, romantic fiction — first, voraciously reading steamy romance novels and then penning her own. Olivia’s first book in her Sinner’s Tour Series, Backstage Pass, was published in 2010 by Sourcebooks. Book two in the series, Rock Hard, was published in 2011 and the third book, Double Time just released November 2012. The last two books in the series are expected to be out in 2013. Aside from the Sinners Tour that launched her career, Olivia has been hard at work on a few other series and stand alones . . . of course with the music turned up.
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New York Times bestselling author Nicole Edwards
Nicole lives in Texas with her husband, three kids and four dogs. It’s quite the household and most of the time you’ll find her locked away in her office – dubbed the writing cave. When she’s not there, you’ll probably find her reading or hanging out with the dogs and kids, doing her best to keep them in line. And no, for the record, it doesn’t usually work.
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New York Times bestselling author Cherrie Lynn has been a CPS caseworker and a juvenile probation officer, but now that she has come to her senses, she writes contemporary and paranormal romance on the steamy side. It’s *much* more fun. She’s also an unabashed rock music enthusiast, and loves letting her passion for romance and metal collide on the page.
When she’s not writing, you can find her reading, listening to music or playing with her favorite gadget of the moment. She’s also fond of hitting the road with her husband to catch their favorite bands live.
Cherrie lives in East Texas with said husband and their two kids, all of whom are the source of much merriment, mischief and mayhem. You can visit her at http://www.cherrielynn.com or at the various social networking sites. She loves hearing from readers!
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New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby
KRISTEN PROBY is the USA Today bestselling author of the popular With Me in Seattle series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong characters who love humor and have a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type—fiercely protective and a bit bossy—and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves. Kristen spends her days with her muse in the Pacific Northwest. She enjoys coffee, chocolate, and sunshine. And naps. Visit her at KristenProby.com.
USA Today bestselling author Lainey Reese
Lainey lives in lovely Lake Stevens, Washington. She is the author of the sizzling New York series, including the USA Today best seller Innocence Defied. Lainey’s first novel, A Table for Three, was nominated for best debut novel of 2010 by the Romance Review and the fun hasn’t stopped since the minute that book hit the shelves. Most days when Lainey isn’t tucked in front of her computer she can be found out exploring the beautiful Pacific North West with her daughter and their two beloved pups. For more on Lainey and the books available, you can visit her website @ www.laineyreese.com
