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Weekend Writing Warriors #33

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Hello and welcome to another week of Weekend Writing Warriors!  I’m all a twitter today because Tuesday is release day for To Catch a  Threeve and I’ve got all kinds of promo stuff lined up.  Don’t forget to pop back in for chances to win stuff.

So today will be my last snippet from To Catch a Threeve, in which I hope to leave you all breathless and wanting more.  In last week’s snippet, Constable Axel Blackwood, in a moment of weakness, allowed desire to overcome logic when the thief he’d captured unexpectedly kissed him.

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A hot tongue probed Axel’s mouth, and he became aware of hands behind his neck, pulling him down as if the two of them could possibly get any closer. Even the slap of the dangling manacle against his collarbone didn’t wake him from his passionate trance. His hands fumbled through the folds of the cloak, desperate to touch the body he’d never stopped dreaming about.

A sharp, sparkling sensation blossomed at the base of Axel’s neck. He’d barely registered it before a flash blinded him. Paralyzed, he tumbled forward when the thief leaped to his feet, leaving behind an icy rush of air. Axel hit the ground face-first, unable to even curse his stupidity as the spell swept through him and rendered him helpless.

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This post is part of an ongoing blog hop hosted by Weekend Writing Warriors. Every Sunday, participating authors post eight sentences from a published work or perhaps their current work in progress. Then we hop to our fellow warriors’ blogs and check out all the fabulous fiction that’s happening! I heartily invite you to participate as a reader, writer, or both. It’s a great way to discover your next favorite book. Click here or copy & paste this address: http://www.wewriwa.com

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Official Blurb for To Catch a Threeve ~ Release date October 28th ~ This Tuesday! 

Release date October 28th

Release date October 28th

Axel Blackwood catches a thief and is astounded to see that he closely resembles Liam Alloway, the love he lost seven years ago in an attack by the evil woodland folk known as threeves. Axel suspects he’s fallen prey to dark magic, but can’t help becoming infatuated with his prisoner. He’s overwhelmed with the hope that he can at last bring his lost lover home, despite everything that warns him it’s all a diabolical trick.

Bryn Darrow, the half-threeve, half human orphan sent to trick Axel and rob him of much more than a simple gem finds himself equally as fascinated with his handsome human captor and the lure of someplace to call home, but he knows deep down that the constable is in love with a dangerous illusion. When he’s commanded by the threeves to murder Axel and steal a witch’s powerful grimoire, he’s forced to decide between the only family he’s ever known and the one person who might rescue him from a life of isolation and pain.

Will Axel and Bryn be forced into a deadly confrontation before they can discover the truth?

Guard Your Heart

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Welcome to the Halloween edition of My Sexy Saturday ~Don’t forget to click the link and keep hopping for a spooktastic selection of steamy fiction.

It’s been awhile since I participated, but I couldn’t resist the spooky theme. Also, it just happens my erotic fantasy, To Catch a Threeve, will be released this Tuesday, so I thought I’d share a selection of seven paragraphs in which Constable Axel Blackwood and Threeve Bryn Darrow “get to know each other”.  Despite knowing perfectly well that threeves are dangerous and diabolical folk, Axel can’t help being attracted to the thief he’s just caught, who resembles Axel’s lost love, Liam.

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He snorted and wriggled against his bonds. Nothing about his body language was like Liam. Liam had been graceful, easy, and relaxed in his strength. This sneak was strong, but more like a coiled snake, ready to strike.

Like a threeve, Axel thought. Drummond had suggested half-threeve. Was that even possible?

Now that he looked at the sneak with eyes adjusted to the dark, he noticed more threevish attributes. The large eyes were slanted, almost like a fox’s. The tips of his ears poked out of the thick hair, longer and pointier than any human’s. Had Liam looked like that?

“You’re a chatty one.” The sneak stretched out his spine and looked around. “Why do you hate threeves?”

“Why do you work for them? Why do you work their dark magic?”

“I asked first.”

To Axel’s irritation, the sneak smiled. It transformed him from strange forest creature to beautiful young man. Guard your heart, Axel.

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Release date October 28th

Release date October 28th

Official Blurb for To Catch a Threeve ~ Release date October 28th ~

Axel Blackwood catches a thief and is astounded to see that he closely resembles Liam Alloway, the love he lost seven years ago in an attack by the evil woodland folk known as threeves. Axel suspects he’s fallen prey to dark magic, but can’t help becoming infatuated with his prisoner. He’s overwhelmed with the hope that he can at last bring his lost lover home, despite everything that warns him it’s all a diabolical trick.

Bryn Darrow, the half-threeve, half human orphan sent to trick Axel and rob him of much more than a simple gem finds himself equally as fascinated with his handsome human captor and the lure of someplace to call home, but he knows deep down that the constable is in love with a dangerous illusion. When he’s commanded by the threeves to murder Axel and steal a witch’s powerful grimoire, he’s forced to decide between the only family he’s ever known and the one person who might rescue him from a life of isolation and pain.

Will Axel and Bryn be forced into a deadly confrontation before they can discover the truth?

Weekend Writing Warriors #32

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Greetings and welcome to another edition of Weekend Writing Warriors.  I might not be objective about this, but I think WWW is one of the funnest, most diverse fiction sharing hops around.  I hope you take the opportunity to check out some seriously awesome writers by clicking on the linky-loo there and continuing the journey, eight sentences at a time.

Things are getting steamy here this week as I continue with snippets from To Catch a Threeve. Last week Constable Axel Blackwood was stunned when the thief he’d just nabbed turned out to be – maybe – the long lost love of his life, Liam Alloway.

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Axel reached up to brush it away, to get a better look. When his hand touched the smooth cheek, the man grabbed Axel’s shirt and dragged him forward into a rough kiss.

For the blink of an eye, Axel’s brain resisted. Liam was dead. This was a thief in the night, not his lost love. Then his body responded to the press of moist lips to his, and logic vanished quicker than fog in sunlight.

And it was like a sunrise, the heat that surged through his body and a delectable, crazy joy that teased every corner of his being. Liam!

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This post is part of an ongoing blog hop hosted by Weekend Writing Warriors. Every Sunday, participating authors post eight sentences from a published work or perhaps their current work in progress. Then we hop to our fellow warriors’ blogs and check out all the fabulous fiction that’s happening! I heartily invite you to participate as a reader, writer, or both. It’s a great way to discover your next favorite book. Click here or copy & paste this address: http://www.wewriwa.com

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Official Blurb for To Catch a Threeve ~ Release date October 28th ~

Axel Blackwood catches a thief and is astounded to see that he closely resembles Liam Alloway, the love he lost seven years ago in an attack by the evil woodland folk known as threeves. Axel suspects he’s fallen prey to dark magic, but can’t help becoming infatuated with his prisoner. He’s overwhelmed with the hope that he can at last bring his lost lover home, despite everything that warns him it’s all a diabolical trick.

Bryn Darrow, the half-threeve, half human orphan sent to trick Axel and rob him of much more than a simple gem finds himself equally as fascinated with his handsome human captor and the lure of someplace to call home, but he knows deep down that the constable is in love with a dangerous illusion. When he’s commanded by the threeves to murder Axel and steal a witch’s powerful grimoire, he’s forced to decide between the only family he’s ever known and the one person who might rescue him from a life of isolation and pain.

Will Axel and Bryn be forced into a deadly confrontation before they can discover the truth?

Weekend Writing Warriors #31

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Hello everyone, and welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors! Today I’m off to the coast to bask in the wet and wild storm that’s a brewin’ off in the Pacific.  I’m hoping to get some hopping in while huddled in a cozy hotel room, but I might not be able to complete my rounds until tomorrow.  I won’t miss any of your great excerpts if I can help it.

I’m continuing with To Catch a Threeve until the Sunday before release day (October 28).  Last week Axel finally got a look at the thief and much to his shock, recognized him.

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“Is it really you?” Axel released the man’s wrists and pulled him up to a sitting position. Their faces were inches apart. Every bit of him looked like Liam, the boy Axel loved. And yet something was off.

“Aye, it’s me, but are you you?” The man’s look was wary and hopeful at the same time. Leaves and mud stuck to his face on one side.

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This post is part of an ongoing blog hop hosted by Weekend Writing Warriors. Every Sunday, participating authors post eight sentences from a published work or perhaps their current work in progress. Then we hop to our fellow warriors’ blogs and check out all the fabulous fiction that’s happening! I heartily invite you to participate as a reader, writer, or both. It’s a great way to discover your next favorite book. Click here or copy & paste this address: http://www.wewriwa.com

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Official Blurb for To Catch a Threeve ~ Release date October 28th ~

Axel Blackwood catches a thief and is astounded to see that he closely resembles Liam Alloway, the love he lost seven years ago in an attack by the evil woodland folk known as threeves. Axel suspects he’s fallen prey to dark magic, but can’t help becoming infatuated with his prisoner. He’s overwhelmed with the hope that he can at last bring his lost lover home, despite everything that warns him it’s all a diabolical trick.

Bryn Darrow, the half-threeve, half human orphan sent to trick Axel and rob him of much more than a simple gem finds himself equally as fascinated with his handsome human captor and the lure of someplace to call home, but he knows deep down that the constable is in love with a dangerous illusion. When he’s commanded by the threeves to murder Axel and steal a witch’s powerful grimoire, he’s forced to decide between the only family he’s ever known and the one person who might rescue him from a life of isolation and pain.

Will Axel and Bryn be forced into a deadly confrontation before they can discover the truth?

Weekend Writing Warriors #30

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Welcome to another installment of Weekend Writing Warriors, the hop that gives you a tantalizing taste of some amazing fiction.  October has arrived and along with it, oddly, the sun!  I love the fall, with its invitation to cozy up in a patch of sunlight with a good book, a cup of tea, and hopefully several cats piled on lap and legs.  WWW is a great way to find just the right read to complete this picture.  Because October is release month for To Catch a Threeve, I’m going to keep posting from this scene for the rest of the month, which quite neatly (and perhaps diabolically) will leave us at a juicy cliffhanger ending.

Last week, Constable Axel Blackwood finally caught a glimpse of the thief.

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Large eyes filled with fury turned toward him. Axel couldn’t make out the color in the odd light, but they glittered bright as a gemstone.

With difficulty, Axel pulled his attention from the entrancing eyes. As he took in the full sight of the man, his heart contracted, his vision narrowed, and his breathing stopped.

“Liam!” he gasped.

His prisoner’s expression changed from anger to confusion. Then he whispered, “Axel?”

The forest fell away as Axel reeled.

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This post is part of an ongoing blog hop hosted by Weekend Writing Warriors. Every Sunday, participating authors post eight sentences from a published work or perhaps their current work in progress. Then we hop to our fellow warriors’ blogs and check out all the fabulous fiction that’s happening! I heartily invite you to participate as a reader, writer, or both. It’s a great way to discover your next favorite book. Click here or copy & paste this address: http://www.wewriwa.com

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Official Blurb for To Catch a Threeve ~ Release date October 28th ~

Axel Blackwood catches a thief and is astounded to see that he closely resembles Liam Alloway, the love he lost seven years ago in an attack by the evil woodland folk known as threeves. Axel suspects he’s fallen prey to dark magic, but can’t help becoming infatuated with his prisoner. He’s overwhelmed with the hope that he can at last bring his lost lover home, despite everything that warns him it’s all a diabolical trick.

Bryn Darrow, the half-threeve, half human orphan sent to trick Axel and rob him of much more than a simple gem finds himself equally as fascinated with his handsome human captor and the lure of someplace to call home, but he knows deep down that the constable is in love with a dangerous illusion. When he’s commanded by the threeves to murder Axel and steal a witch’s powerful grimoire, he’s forced to decide between the only family he’s ever known and the one person who might rescue him from a life of isolation and pain.

Will Axel and Bryn be forced into a deadly confrontation before they can discover the truth?

Weekend Writing Warriors #29 & Cover Reveal!

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Ah, it’s good to be back at Weekend Writing Warriors.  I had a great time at the Gay Romance Northwest Meet-Up in Seattle. Got to play fangirl to some favorite authors, listen to insightful discussions, and spend too much money on books, but this introvert is sooo much more comfortable sitting behind the keyboard in pjs and fuzzy slippers, sharing and chatting with ya’ll.

On to the snippet!  I’m skipping ahead a bit, because i have to admit, I’m dying to get to the juicy bits.  You can read the complete scene up to this point by clicking on the Threeve tab. Last time, Constable Axel Blackwood trapped the thief in a magical net.

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The body under him started to writhe. Even through the heavy cloak Axel felt long lean muscles, taut and ready to flee at the slightest chance. He removed the manacles from his belt and grabbed one of the thief’s slim wrists.

He clamped one on and reached for the other wrist. With a sudden bucking motion, the man twisted sideways in an effort to throw Axel off his back. He only partially succeeded. Axel seized the sneak’s other arm and forced it behind him as well.

With the thief on his side now, the light of the crystal revealed a face that was clearly human.

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I’m so excited because I get to reveal, for the first time on the inter web, the cover of To Catch a Threeve.  Bask in the loveliness.  I must say Loose Id gives good cover.  A shout out to artiste extraordinaire, Fiona Jayde.

Release date October 28th!

Release date October 28th!

 

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This post is part of an ongoing blog hop hosted by Weekend Writing Warriors. Every Sunday, participating authors post eight sentences from a published work or perhaps their current work in progress. Then we hop to our fellow warriors’ blogs and check out all the fabulous fiction that’s happening! I heartily invite you to participate as a reader, writer, or both. It’s a great way to discover your next favorite book. Click here or copy & paste this address: http://www.wewriwa.com

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Official Blurb for To Catch a Threeve ~ Release date October 28th ~

Axel Blackwood catches a thief and is astounded to see that he closely resembles Liam Alloway, the love he lost seven years ago in an attack by the evil woodland folk known as threeves. Axel suspects he’s fallen prey to dark magic, but can’t help becoming infatuated with his prisoner. He’s overwhelmed with the hope that he can at last bring his lost lover home, despite everything that warns him it’s all a diabolical trick.

Bryn Darrow, the half-threeve, half human orphan sent to trick Axel and rob him of much more than a simple gem finds himself equally as fascinated with his handsome human captor and the lure of someplace to call home, but he knows deep down that the constable is in love with a dangerous illusion. When he’s commanded by the threeves to murder Axel and steal a witch’s powerful grimoire, he’s forced to decide between the only family he’s ever known and the one person who might rescue him from a life of isolation and pain.

Will Axel and Bryn be forced into a deadly confrontation before they can discover the truth?