Teaser Tuesday~ Surrender to Love (Night Calls, 3) by J.C. Valentine

The bad thing about the summer season was how long the sun took to set. Patti didn’t realize how much time had passed until she heard the heavy thud of a car door nearby. She wasn’t afforded much time to gather her thoughts before she heard the voice that made her tingle all the way down to her toes.

“So you drive a muscle car and you like to get dirty.” His voice was thick with appreciation and held a touch of laughter.

Patti used her feet to propel herself from under the car. Once she was clear, she found herself looking up into Jon’s incredible blue eyes.

“Damn, and I thought you were stunning before.” His eyes skimmed down her body, and Patti became acutely aware of how much skin she was showing. She snapped her legs closed.

“What time is it?” she asked from her prone position.

Jon held out his hand and she took it. Grasping it tightly, he pulled her to her feet. “It’s nearly eight. I’m usually late for everything, but I found myself unable to wait any longer.” He slid his gaze over her again and Patti felt her cheeks warm. 

***

Surrender to Love releases November 2013. Add it to your Goodreads today! 

 

New Release! Black Moon (Ink, 3) by Holly Hood

Slade saved her life...
but none of that matters anymore...

Torn between her love for Slade and her own existence, Hope has to fight to keep one while battling to save the other. They say it all falls apart in the end. Walking away isn’t always easy.
Hope believed in Slade…
But sometimes belief has a horrible way of destroying your life.
Can their love survive or will it all just fall apart?

Available now on Amazon!

Teaser Tuesday ~ Surrender to Love (Night Calls, 3) by J.C. Valentine

Hey, my lovely peeps! It's been a while since the last teaser what with all the giveaways and the craziness surrounding the release of That First Kiss. Slowly but surely I am getting back on track and everything is going well on the writing front, which is why I am sharing a teaser of the next book in the Night Calls series, Surrender to Love. Also, this is the first time all of you will get to see exactly who this story centers around! Remember, you saw it here first! Enjoy!!

“Listen, this is probably a little unorthodox, considering I just rear ended you.” Patti smirked as her mind practically jumped head first into the gutter.

“That came out wrong.” He straightened, combing his fingers through his dark hair as he composed himself before leaning into her window again. “Would you like to go to dinner with me?”

            Patti nibbled her lip, considering his offer. “I don’t know if that would be wise,” she said slowly. “I just got out of a relationship.”

            “Well, lucky for me, I usually prefer my dates to be unattached. Nothing dampens an evening more than having to put down a jealous boyfriend.”

            “Confident are we?”

            “Obnoxiously so.”

            Patti couldn’t stop the stupid grin from spreading across her face. Despite her reservations with…well, men in general, how did a girl say no to that? “When and where?” she asked before she could come to her senses and change her mind.

            “I have a few things to take care of first, and then I’ll call you.”

            “You don’t have my number,” Patti pointed out.

            Jon backed up toward his car, a playful smile curving his lips. He flashed the piece of paper he’d taken her information down on. “Actually, I do. Be seeing you.”

            Slumping back in her seat, Patti shook her head. What the hell was she doing? The last thing she needed to be doing was rebounding, but she was also in desperate need of a distraction. If she was lucky, this guy just might give her one.

            “Oh, and Patricia?”

            Patti twisted in her seat, hanging her head out the window. She raised her eyebrows in question.

            “I don’t know what all that was about on the phone, but for what it’s worth, I think you have fantastic legs.” He winked at her and turned away to head back to his car.

            A true smile burst across Patti’s face and she bit her lip to keep from giggling. Yep, Jon was definitely going to be a distraction. 

***

Surrender to Love has a tentative release date of November 2013. Add it to your Goodreads TBR!

Manday Hotties Blog Hop

 

Ugh, it's Monday again. 

That time of week when we take a collective sigh and hit the snooze for that extra ten. 

Well, how about some eye candy to lure you from your slumber!

HAPPY MANDAY!

Sizzling Summer Blog Hop

The Romance Troupe is hosting its first annual 

Sizzling Summer Blog Hop!

July 4th - July 7th

Please join over 40 authors and bloggers as we celebrate summer with some fabulous romantic tales. 
Each blog will feature a SIZZLING excerpt from one of the author's own books or from one of their favorite reads.

Here is mine from That First Kiss by J.C. Valentine! 

THAT FIRST KISS 
(NIGHT CALLS SERIES, book 2)

 

BLURB: Mercurial and charming, Tate Larson is a rising author and playboy who has a different woman on his arm every night of the week. Focused on his work, Tate has no plans to settle down any time soon. That is until he meets his pretty new assistant, Piper Donovan.

Desperate to escape the promise of backwater living, Piper ditched her Alabama hometown and never looked back. That was almost two years ago. Now that she is out of a job and her bank account is running on fumes, she’s desperate to find a job, fast. She finds the break she is searching for when she lands a position at Bookish Temptations. A little dancing and a lot of drinks with the girls seem the perfect way to celebrate. After a brief but explosive encounter with a man she was never supposed to see again turns out to be the same man she will be bending over backwards to please, her every instinct tells her to run. But when running means leaving the life she has struggled so hard to create, Piper decides her only option is to continue working for the devastatingly sexy Tate Larson...even if it kills her.

Unable to deny their growing attraction, they struggle to keep their distance in a relationship that requires anything but.

EXCERPT: 

“I’ll put on a pot of coffee.”

            “Nah, don’t worry about it.” Tate waved her off.

            “What do you mean, don’t worry about it?” Piper stood there holding the empty pot in one hand and a bag of fresh grounds in the other. “Half an hour ago you were yelling at me because you ran out. Now you don’t want any?”

            “First of all,” Tate said, leaning inside the refrigerator. Piper tried and failed not to appreciate the view. “I didn’t yell. Second, I reserve the right to change my mind.” He selected the jug of orange juice and began pouring a glass.

            “To be clear, you were yelling,” Piper informed him. She just couldn’t resist poking the beast.

            Tate stepped closer, setting his glass on the counter. Unsure what he was up to, Piper held her ground. She nearly sighed when he lifted his hand to brush the back of his knuckles across her cheek. “Did I scare you?”

            For a moment, Piper got lost in the warmth of his eyes. At his touch, her body flamed, acutely aware of his potent masculinity. It was the second time that day he had managed to tilt her world on its axis. “I should get home. It’s late.” She purposely ignored his question and stepped back, putting much needed distance between them. Her shaking legs barely made it to the front door and she was just slipping her purse over her shoulder when Tate’s smooth voice stopped her.

            “You didn’t answer my question.”

            “What question was that?”

            He spun her around and her eyes widened as he backed her up against the door. He leaned forward and, bracing his hands on either side of her head, hovered over her. “Did I scare you?” His face was so close; she felt the whisper of his lips against hers as he spoke.
            “You don’t scare me,” she said breathlessly. Piper was shocked at the kind of responses this man could evoke from her, how readily her body responded to him. She shouldn’t have been responding to him at all. He made her so angry, the only thing she should be feeling for him was hatred and resentment, but every time he looked at her a certain way or spoke her name in a certain tone, her traitorous body melted for him. It was humiliating.

            “You look scared,” he observed, the corners of his mouth twisting slightly.

            “What are you doing?” Piper flattened herself against the door as Tate tilted his head toward her.

            “Thinking,” he said, distracted.

            “About what?” Her heart pounded and she was finding it harder to breathe.

            His lips whispered across hers. “Kissing you.” He dragged his lips down the slope of her jaw to her neck. “Tasting you.” When he reached the curve of her shoulder his hand dipped between her legs and cupped her throbbing mound. “Fucking you,” he whispered, placing a succulent kiss to her heated flesh.

Currently on sale for only $.99! 

Amazon US * Amazon UK

***

Sizzling Summer Blog Hop 

You could win......

Grand Prize #1

An iPAD MINI

(US ONLY)

(Alternate prize for international winner)

OR

Grand Prize #2

$50 Amazon/B&N Gift Card

+ Several Surprise Digital Books

OR

Fabulous Swag Pack #1

+ $10 Amazon/B&N GC

+ Several surprise digital books

(US ONLY for Swag)

OR

Fabulous Swag Pack #2

+ $10 Amazon/B&N GC

+ Several surprise digital books

(US ONLY for Swag)

Follow all Hop announcements via

www.theromancetroupe.com

and on Twitter hashtag

#SizzlingHop

Comment on this page and hop to each stop on the list below and comment to win. REMEMBER, you must leave your email addy in your comment for it to be counted as a valid entry. Each blog you visit raises your chances of winning!

If you follow the Romance Troupe Blog by email. TELL THEM! They will put your name in the hat an extra time!!!

Good Luck and Happy Hopping!

Winners will be chosen using Random.org

A winning blog will be chosen via random.org for each prize and then another number will be drawn to determine the winning commenter. Only comments with email addresses will be considered valid entries for the prizes. This process will be repeated for all prizes. The Romance Troupe will not retain any contributions past the date of the event. All monies collected will be distributed as prizes for the event.

For my part on the hop, I am giving away a copy of That First Kiss by J.C. Valentine!  

It's simple and easy. 

Just enter the Punchtab!

---

---

Remember to check out all the great blogs on this hop listed on The Romance Troupe's page!

*New Release Alert* Bliss by Maven West

Author: Maven West

Publication: July 2, 2013

Purchase: Amazon.com

Goodreads

Happy Release Day to new author Maven West!

Blurb

Falling in love and then losing the most important person in your life…
Was it fate? For three years Morgan was married to the love of her life, Eric. A perfect marriage, a perfect friendship everything she could want, everything she needed. But when Eric dies in a car accident, everything she ever wanted is taken on that same fateful day.
And then she meets Carter Sterling, he’s your typical player. And there is one serious problem—Carter is seeing her friend, Ana.
Morgan is desperately searching for someone to fill the emptiness inside of her. But getting involved with Carter or anyone may not be what she needs. But Carter has his own plans, and Morgan isn’t part of it.
All she wants is to feel that way again…
Warning: Contains explicit situations and language.

Excerpt


I knew Eric would have wanted me to move on.
But he would have hated to know I moved on with my grief counselor.
I didn’t know the first thing about grief, or dealing with it, or how to control the breakdown I went through every night when I went back to the apartment we shared together.
I was broken.
I dropped my head back, closing my eyes as Jon’s teeth slid down the flesh of my neck. His tongue visited my earlobe and made my toes curl.
And he made me forget. There were pluses to banging the grief counselor, and also minuses, his own emotional baggage—his dead wife.
I wondered why such a man needed to bang in cars before grief meetings. But as I yanked him by his lush head of dark hair down to my tits I knew why. He was a mess just like me.
“What time is it?” he asked his breath heavy as he worked his gorgeous body back and forth in the perfect rhythm slamming into me over and over again.
I pressed my hand against his mouth making him stop talking. “I’m about to cum and you’re worried about the time?”
He went for my mouth, trying his best to plant a kiss on my lips. I shook my head; my lips were reserved for Eric and only Eric. He drew back like a snake bit him, and slapped on the expression of a man with a bruised ego.
“Not a lot of men want to fuck a girl with issues,” he said.
I stared into his eyes, flecks of gold decorated the center, and a lush set of dark eyelashes covered them. “You’re fucking me.” I reminded him straining under the weight of his muscular body, twirling my hips around his manhood to get him to forget the lecture he wanted to hand over.
He pressed his forehead into my chest, doing his best to hold onto the control. “Because I get you.”
I squeezed his ass refusing to let him stop me. “You don’t get me. You love fucking me. You miss your wife, I miss my husband and you’re the best sex I have had since he died.”
And that was all she wrote. Jon groaned pressing his face against mine, he had beat me to the finish line. I liked the sound of his voice against my ear as he exploded inside me.
 And now it was my turn to make it there,around and around I went begging my body to let go, to give in and let me remember what it felt like to release, but it didn’t happen.
I closed my eyes throwing my head back against the leather of his backseat, hot, and defeated.
“It’s past six,” Jonathan said snapping off the condom. “Shit, we’re late.”
I rolled my eyes watching him tie up the end of the rubber. He found his shirt and slipped it on using his elbow to wipe away the moisture on his window.
I was sure Eric never expected that I would be naked in the back of an old four door wondering why I couldn’t orgasm. He always knew how to get me off;
He was the epitome of what making love was all about. Anymore I seemed to be chasing the ghost of what once was.

4th of July Giveaway Celebration!

Hey, all! Welcome to the 4th of July Giveaway! 

For those of you who didn't see my earlier post, I am throwing this giveaway in celebration of my novel That First Kiss' recent success. It has truly blown me away, and as thanks, I wanted to give you something in return.

The celebration kicks off today, July 1st and will run through Friday, July 5th. 

A few things to note before we begin: This giveaway is INTERNATIONAL, however, due to  shipping costs, the First Place prize pack will be held for US RESIDENTS ONLY. Second place will receive a fully digital prize pack, however, I WILL ship the swag where ever it needs to go anywhere in the world. I'm sorry to anyone this may disappoint, but I have most of the prizes already in-home so I am responsible for any and all shipping and handling costs.

  Now let's celebrate!! 

There are (3) prize packages up for grabs and (3) winners. Here is what will be given away:

First Prize:

A Kindle Fire

a stylish ereader carry case by Verso (compatible with most ereaders)

ebook of Stranded by J.C. Valentine

ebook of That First Kiss by J.C. Valentine

ebook of Bliss by Maven West 

swag pack

Second Prize: 

$25 Amazon Gift Card

ebook of Stranded by J.C. Valentine

ebook of That First Kiss by J.C. Valentine

ebook of Bliss by Maven West 

small swag pack

Third Prize: 

ebook of Stranded by J.C. Valentine

ebook of That First Kiss by J.C. Valentine

ebook of Bliss by Maven West

To sweeten the pot, July 3-5th I am offering up the Night Calls series at half price on Amazon from July 3-5th, so if you miss out or simply can't wait to see if you've won, you can pick up Stranded and That First Kiss for at total of just $1.98!

Alright, I've said my peace. Let's get this party started!

a Rafflecopter giveaway