To celebrate the upcoming
release of Surrendering to the Beast,
Tina is giving away FIVE full-length,
bestselling, award-winning romances to one lucky winner - 25 titles to choose
from.
SURRENDERING TO THE
BEAST
(Book Two – Taming the Beast
series)
Erotic Paranormal - Romantic
Comedy
Available for
pre-order September 13
Blurb:
When she’s good, she’s very good. But when he’s
bad, she’s better.
Taming the Beast, Book 2
As a good fairy, Heather is empathetic and chaste to a
fault. No bad language, no dirty thoughts, flirting and no sex. But when a
satyr named Daemon steps up to her reception desk at From Crud to Stud, she
finds herself on the fast track to exquisite corruption.
Daemon is the total bad-boy package with a kiss straight
from the dark side. Though he’s here for a supernatural makeover, Heather can’t
imagine why any red-blooded woman would want him to change.
A disciple of the god of wine, Daemon has had his share of
good times. But sex has never been this good. Heather brings out a new side of
him, a side that makes him want to protect as well as pillage.
But Daemon needs a little creative backup to help set his
fairy’s naughtiness free. And that means bringing in Mistress Jin. Under the
genie’s tutelage and Daemon’s shameless lust, Heather is about to learn what it
means to let loose.
Warning: Not your
typical bedtime story. May lead to indecent behavior, a taste for voyeurism,
discipline, bondage, m/f, m/f/f and f/f action, which will result in screaming
orgasms. Proceed with caution.
Excerpt:
Heather steeled herself to do battle with Satan. Cautiously,
she faced her webcam and his image on her computer monitor. This evening, he’d
assumed the form of a European playboy, a snifter of cognac held casually in
one hand, dark hair slicked back, his blood-red ascot contrasting nicely with
his white shirt and navy blazer.
He certainly knew how to dress.
“Cara mia.” Heat smoldered in his voice
and dark eyes. “What can I do to you?”
“For me,” she corrected gently, wondering when he’d ever get
that right.
Grinning, he focused on her white peasant blouse and jutted
nipples, her areolas tightened from the chilly weather, not him. Tonight was
damp and cool thanks to a spring storm that continued to rage in the French
Quarter. Lightning flashed and the office lights flickered.
Flames flared briefly in his pupils. “We’ll do many things
to each other, no?”
Heather smiled politely, a knee-jerk reaction for a good
fairy. Needing to get tough, she held up his overdue bill, hoping he’d look at
it rather than her chest. Her hand shook so badly the paper rattled.
“How you tremble,” he cooed. “How pale you are. Allow me to
put some color in your lovely cheeks. Heat that will last an eternity.”
Her skin got even clammier. “Please, just pay your account.”
She waved the paper and talked fast before losing her nerve. “Your grandson
failed to show for his last two appointments. I’m sure he had a good reason.
Unfortunately, he didn’t call to cancel.” She offered an apologetic smile and
pressed on. “Because you’re the cardholder, we had to charge you for the time.
I’m so sorry, but it is the rule.”
One she was honor-bound to enforce as an employee of From
Crud to Stud, a makeover service for supernatural beings. Howls from weres,
hisses from vampires and obscenities from demons poured from the treatment
rooms. Those poor souls were going through proverbial hell to suppress their
beasts. They longed to date mortal women without freaking them out, while also
winning their hearts the normal way. With real charm, not magic, with integrity
and love, not lies and manipulation.
But these makeovers took the staff’s valuable time and
clients needed to pay for the effort. Even Satan should understand that.
He gave her an indulgent smile. “What charges?”
Gasping, she dropped the flaming paper in her trashcan
before it burnt her fingers.
“Later,” he said and killed the call.
Hurriedly, Heather put out the small blaze, chiding herself
for letting the account get to this point. She should have been firm with Satan’s
grandson when he signed up for the service. Determined to make up for being too
nice, she brought up her bank account to pay the charges herself. She was about
to transfer the funds when the lights flickered twice, thunder boomed and the
front door flew open, banging against the wall.
She flinched.
A blast of dank air and rain blew inside, followed by a guy
who looked to be thirty or so. He wore a black cowboy hat, snug navy tee,
low-slung jeans and cowboy boots.
Once he shoved the door shut, he slumped against it,
breathing hard.
Heather stood so quickly her chair rolled into the wall.
He didn’t notice. He’d closed his eyes and raised his face
to the ceiling, his prominent Adam’s apple bobbing with his hard swallow.
Alarmed yet intrigued, she regarded the short, dark hairs on
his throat and took the rest of him in. His rain-dampened hair was the color of
dark chocolate, thick and wavy, flowing to his broad shoulders. They heaved
with his next ragged breath. Tall, possibly six-three, he was lean yet
muscular. His wet tee clung to his well-defined pecs and abs, those bruising
biceps. Stubble covered his strong jaw, upper lip and cheeks. His bronze skin
spoke of days in the sun.
Even from where she stood, Heather smelled his scent. Clean
and masculine, a woodsy, fresh fragrance along with something else…the
unmistakable odor of liquor.
Uh-oh. It wasn’t often that mortals, drunk or otherwise,
happened upon this place. When they did, Heather had ironclad rules to follow.
First, buzz Constance, a voodoo priestess who could remove memories by laying
her hands on someone’s head. Following that, Heather was supposed to buzz
Becca, a half-mortal witch who owned this place.
Heather leaned over her desk to press the intercom button.
The guy turned to her, blinked slowly and stared.
Her hand stalled.
His eyes were amazing, the color of Lipton tea, ringed by
long, sooty lashes, his attention riveted as he drank her in. Given his slow,
sexy smile, Heather suspected he was undressing her with his eyes.
She swallowed and was about to press the button when he
groaned suddenly and mournfully, the sound of someone in serious pain.
Heather paused and
decided not to call for anyone just yet. “Are you all right?”
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unrepentant chocoholic, I’ve flown a single-engine plane (scary stuff), rewired
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