Month: September 2009
Ruthless Beauty releases today!
Rachel Sutherland loves control—her job, her life and the men who pass fleetingly through. Yet she aches for someone who doesn’t care about who she is, who would take her for his pleasure and hers. Shame that man is only a fantasy.
Jareth is a fae, bound to the mortal realm by a curse, and he needs Rachel. His curse has always meant a woman’s pleasure must come before his own, but to break his curse he must force a woman to submit to his needs. Rachel is that special woman, one found after centuries of searching.
Now Jareth forces her to find pleasure in ways Rachel never thought she could. A pleasure that could prove more dangerous than she ever believed possible.
Reader Advisory: Is deliciously wicked forced seduction your fantasy? Then prepare to sizzle as a sinfully handsome fae works his sensual magic in Ruthless Beauty.
Read an excerpt here
You can buy it here
And my EC author page is here
Ellora’s Cave website seems to be down, so the above link is the Jasmine Jade site 🙂
So I needed a reward icon
Yep, it’s been a long time, but with edits on Warflesh, blurb and art cover form and writing Her Dark Soul, I needed…something.
This is also my wallpaper on my mac. It’s quite distracting, lmao
The Warflesh blurb here!
I got the bare bones of the blurb together and my EC editor, Suz added the sizzle *grin*
Wow, these things are hard to write. Give me a 7k sex scene any day! lol
Warflesh blurb
Fina Brodie is warflesh. Enhanced by her government to bring ultimate pleasure, her negotiation skills secure anything her superiors want. The choice of pleasure she offers has always been hers. Until now. She’s not meeting Kian, Lord of the Tir, to negotiate for their mysterious spice-water. She’s payment.
And she’s not alone in bringing pleasure to the mysterious Tir leader. The man Kian has chosen to join them in the very sexual, very public spring festival, has long headed her “never ever” list. Add the spice-water, which is a rocket fuel to her already highly evolved libido, and it makes her reactions to Jonathon Raegh all that more dangerous.
But the Tir have a hidden agenda, and as the aphrodisiac qualities of the spice-water ignite long-suppressed lusts, Kian, Fina and Jon find it in the heat and passion of the arena.
Reader Advisory: Let there be no confusion. The spring festival is a sexual feast between two incredibly sexy men and one very lucky woman. Get the ice water ready!
Sneak Peek: Emergence – a naughty snippet
Blurb
Jaime has one night left before life, as she knows it, is over.
The forbidden offspring of a human and a mythoi, she’s lived her life with her human father. Until now. Come morning, the First Dragon, leader and ruler of the mythoi will own her. Her life will be completely under his control – what she wears, what she eats, when she sleeps. And with whom.
She’s determined to spend her last night in the comfort of a stranger’s arms. A final fling. However her stranger, Kaden Rhodes, is not who he appears to be and the connection growing between them is hot, fast and completely irresistible. They’re playing with their lives because if the First Dragon finds out about them…they’re dead.
Emergence (c) 2009 Kim Knox – unedited excerpt
“Who are you?” The question escaped after I dragged needed air into my lungs. My hand framed the hardness of his smooth jaw. His amber eyes had darkened and something sparked in their depths, a fire than made me want to strip him and fuck him. “What are you?”
“What you need.”
A chair clattered to the floor behind me and my backside hit the cool mahogany table. “That’s not an answer.”
A brief, hard smile cut his mouth and need for him tightened low in my belly. “Do you want to say why you want me here? Why you want to fuck a stranger?” His smile grew and something must’ve reflected in my eyes as he said, “I thought not.” He brushed tangled hair back from my forehead and the unexpected tenderness hurt my chest. I breathed past it. “So, till the morning, we’ll both have our secrets. Agreed?”
My throat ached and I couldn’t speak. I nodded, instead.
“Good.”
He tugged at my clinging top, pulling it over my head. Cool air brushed over my bare skin. The top slid from his fingers, dropped in a golden puddle on the carpet and Kaden let out a slow breath. My nipples hardened under his intense gaze and everything in me ached for his warm lips, his tongue to find my skin and lick—
“Here on the table?”
“You want to eat, instead?”
The smile he turned on me then, wicked, possessive squeezed my heart. “Later. I promise.” He leaned over me, his lips close to mine. “Right now, I want you.”
I resisted the urge to cover his mouth with mine. If I was getting naked, then I wanted to run my fingers, my tongue over the smooth muscles hinted at under his shirt. “Then you have too many clothes.”
His fingers moved and the shirt joined mine on the floor. My own hands, nervous, eager, reached for him and Kaden shivered under the first touch of my fingertips over the rippled hardness of his stomach. His breath warmed my cheek. “Better?”
“Almost.”
“You want more?”
“I want all of you.”
Kaden grinned. “I can do that.” His smile turned evil and he traced a slow, shuddering path over my ribs to the thin-banded edge of my skirt. He made quick work of the zip. I wriggled and the skirt, and my underwear, joined the growing pile on the floor “Though you first.”
“So it seems.” His hands were already moving to his trousers and my fingers covered his, joining him in pushing the heavy fabric away from his hot, smooth skin. I traced my fingers along his cock, my thumb teasing over the sensitive head and Kaden hissed. “Ready?”
He laughed and gripped my hips. “Isn’t that obvious?”
My thighs held him, my calves sliding over the hard, hot muscle of his legs, tugging him closer. This first time would be fast, fierce and my blood pounded at the thought. I guided him, teasing his cock over my wet flesh, little sparks of need firing under my skin as I made both of us ache for more.
“Jaime…”
My name was a soft growl and his shadow thickened around him, encasing us, vast wings cocooning my own shadow, melting over it. The feeling was…bliss, deepening at the first push of his hips, of the slow, slow tease of him into my body.
Kaden’s ragged breaths rushed warm over my mouth and his darkened eyes held me. “We need to fuck you. Right now. Hard.”
“We?”
“My…” He sucked in a breath and I had to have imagined his pause, when he rolled his hips. The sensation of him hard and deep within my body rioted in my flesh and I groaned. “My shadow. It wants yours.”
I blinked. The idea seemed forbidden…and delicious. “We…” He distracted me with a palm sliding up my spine, pressing me hard to his chest. His mouth brushed my jaw, my chin. He nibbled at my bottom lip and the urge to deepen the kiss, to find a fast and furious release warred with my need to question him. The question won. “How? I’ve never…”
“I know.” The satisfaction thickening his voice had me pushing against him. He groaned and his teeth sank, hard, sharp. The sudden pleasure-pain forced me to grab at him, pull him tight against my body. “Let us share both of you.” The words brushed my skin and my shadow stretched, her curiosity peaked. “Don’t deny yourself this pleasure.”
Thanks for reading. 🙂
This story is out next June with Samhain Publishing
Dark Host trailer :)
Lexxie Couper made me this 😀
Blurb
Feline Mosaic, Charis Sur, thought her mission aboard the INS Pagidion would be quick and easy. All she has to do is watch her target and keep him alive until Betelgeuse goes nova.
Simple. Until one of the passengers drops dead in front of her.
Suddenly everything is not simple. Her life depends on a successful mission and she has to protect her target from whatever killed this man. That throws her into the path of Jason Narak, the one man she never wanted to see again. The man who burned her six months before. Yet, even as her past with Jason hurls her mission, her life into disarray, Charis finds that…something…is waiting for them aboard the INS Pagidion.
It calls itself darkness. And it needs a host.
Excerpt Monday: Warflesh – sneak peek
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WARFLESH – by Kim Knox
Here’s a sneaky peek at my latest novella for Ellora’s Cave. No date yet, it hasn’t been edited and I think it’s only me, my editor… and now you who’ve read this… *grin*
Short blurb
The emperor of the Hatrailt is old, dying and he needs spice-water to stay alive. He will sacrifice almost anything to get it…and that includes Fina Brodie
Fina is warflesh. Enhanced by her government to bring ultimate pleasure, her negotiation skills secure anything her superiors want. The choice of pleasure she offers has always been hers. Until now. She’s not meeting Kian, Lord of the Tir, with her guard, Jon Raegh, to negotiate . She–they’re–payment.
Excerpt
The warm scent of his skin taunted her and she focused on every breath. She had to, because the need to surge forward and take his luscious mouth consumed her. “This is a part of the mission, Jon. We drink the water and we…resist.”
“Resist?”
Her flesh tightened at the promise in his question. He moved closer, his hands sliding over the smooth leather of the seat, bringing his tempting mouth so much closer to hers. She swallowed and couldn’t stop her instinct to lift her face to his. “As I said—”
“I could take you right here, right now and no one would have to know.”
Jon’s warm breath brushed over her lips and she groaned. It had nothing to do with her reawakened longing for him. Nothing at all. Her years of training had evaporated under the force of a too pretty face and an alien drink. “Captain…”
“This isn’t whatever the hell was in that water.” He fixed his gaze on her mouth and her lips parted involuntarily. “Had a senior Captain not been on the deck, I would’ve pushed you up against the hull of this transport and fucked you.” His thumb traced over her jaw, her chin, the contract electric. “You wanted that. You want me.”
Her throat tightened, the thud of her heart too loud in her ears. This wasn’t the Jon she knew. No, the spice-water had him in its grip. The painful memory from the darkened alley reared again, of how she had witnessed the heat die in his eyes. She’d thought to grab her chance after he’d been called up to the Antilles Squadron as she was unlikely ever to see him again. But Jon had pushed her away, stood back and coolly said he was sorry for giving her the wrong impression. The memory pricked at her growing need. Seven years and the pain of his rejection still twisted her insides. His desire for her was false. And it stabbed at her, more than his disinterest ever could.
She forced out her answer. “No. It never occurred to me.”
“Liar.”
Fina straightened, her fingers pressing the cup hard into her palm. She needed something to distract her, but even the pain of the cold metal into her skin didn’t work. “I don’t appreciate being called a liar, Captain Raegh.”
His eyebrow lifted. “I could use my mouth for things other than accusation.”
“Our orders are to drink only.”
“Really?” His thumb drew light across her bottom lip and the simple touch pulsed hot under her skin. Her tongue tip flicked against his thumb tip and he sucked in a quick, harsh breath. “Why?”
“Orders are orders.”
His thumb slipped away, but his fingers splayed over her cheek, her neck, tangled in her hair. His lips almost, almost brushed hers. It forced her heart into her throat and she couldn’t breathe. “You’re an ambassador.”
“Today. Most other days, I’m a grunt.” And that was an unwanted truth. She had no power, no say in her mission. She pulled in air and his breath mixed with hers, sweet, wanted and her spine arched, closing the millimetres that separated their mouths. Her lips touched his and her chest hitched. Jon’s fingers curled in her hair and his slow tasting of her upper lip, the light graze of his teeth pulled a low moan from her. “We…shouldn’t.”
“Who’s to know?”
The question sank through her and the little cup in her hand bit hard into her palm as she squeezed it. “Lord Kian would…” His tongue teased over her lip and she tilted her head, drawing them closer until her mouth covered his.
Fina closed her eyes and listened to the wild beat of her heart. What the hell was happening? How could a simple, almost chaste kiss have her blood pounding and her flesh tight? And a kiss would hardly be considered a breach of his orders. Wouldn’t it? It had to be, because she couldn’t pull away.
The thought of pushing for more peaked her nipples. Jon. This was Jonathon Raegh, a man she had ached for. She teased her tongue against his and his fingers curled, fisted into her hair, his moan mixing with hers. Damn, he tasted…incredible. Just sweet and hot and unlike any man in her long, long career. Fina deepened the kiss and it was just a kiss, nothing more. Harmless. Innocent. She broke her grip away from the cup to trace light fingertips along his smooth, warm jaw, to ease into his hair and urge him closer, harder.
“This is resistance?”
His question, rushed, wild burned through her and she took his mouth again. Couldn’t help herself. His taste was addictive. Just a kiss. Harmless. But not innocent. Not this time.
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Pimpage: Myla by Moonlight by Inez Kelley
Myla by Moonlight is now available from Samhain Publishing
Magic bites… and its name is Myla.
Created at Prince Taric’s birth, Myla is a spell, an enchantment designed to appear and protect him when he needs it most. She has always been content to do her duty…until one night of forbidden passion leaves her longing to experience life—and love—as a mortal woman. Yet the risk is too great. Even if her blood runs as red as his, she can never give him the one thing he needs: a child.
Taric’s blessing—and his curse—is knowing the kingdom’s future depends on his producing an heir to continue the bloodline. His bond with Myla has always been that of protector and protected. When it suddenly becomes something much more, he unwittingly sentences his people to certain death.
An old enemy is plotting to destroy all he holds dear: his lands, his people, his father, and his lover. And this time, even if they fight tooth and blade, their shared magic may not be enough to save them…
Click here or here to read an excerpt.
Click here or on the cover to purchase.
Sale! Emergence to Samhain Publishing *bounce*
Samhain bought my futuristic dragon/gryphon shifter novella *bounce*
Here’s an unofficial blurb *grin* It has a tentative date of June 2010
Jaime has one night left before life, as she knows it, is over.
The forbidden offspring of a human and a mythoi, she’s lived her life with her human father. Until now. Come morning, the First Dragon, leader and ruler of the mythoi will own her. Her life will be completely under his control – what she wears, what she eats, when she sleeps. And with whom.
She’s determined to spend her last night in the comfort of a stranger’s arms. A final fling. However her stranger, Kaden Rhodes, is not who he appears to be and the connection growing between them is hot, fast and completely irresistible. They’re playing with their lives because if the First Dragon finds out about them…they’re dead.
State of the nation…
I know, I’ve been a blog slacker again. Blame the evil Twitter, I do, lolol
Anyway, what have I been up to?
As of today, the hobbits go back to school, so I have by days freed up and I can write–and not surf, honest. Though Frodo’s future in the school is still up in the air. Why am I surprised? It’s been uncertain from the second day… 😉
I’ve got some writing groove back. I subbed Emergence to my editor and I’m waiting impatiently for a reply *grin* At the minute, I’m writing a fantasy; haven’t written one of them since Skin Magic and I’m quite enjoying it. It’s a virgin menage. I know, I couldn’t believe it either when my heroine decided she was ‘…untouched…’ I also have a demons story on the go that is set in Demon’s Desire‘s world. My first sequel of sorts. I also have a super-duper-top-secret project I’m working on… *shhh*
And…the hobbits are up and I must get breakfast 🙂
KIM KNOX 