I have the cover for my latest novel, ROSE, and I couldn't be more thrilled. This is another original piece by Christine Griffin. Christine has done many of my other covers and each time it's a real gem.
I've been busy on a lot of new work. Several full-length novels, part of the "Blooming" series that begins with Lilac, have been contracted with tentative release dates. A third is a work in progress. See details below:
ROSE
ROSE, a new historical has been contracted by Loose ID Publishing with a release date of March 2nd.
THE ETHIOPIAN: His early years in Ireland spent in shackles as a brothel slave, forced to perform perverse carnal acts on demand, Amaurus the Moor now craves the delights of dark carnality. His particular specialty is provoking climax in a partner by dispensing pain in equal portions to pleasure. A woman crying out in tethered bondage, her every orifice filled, her greedy buttocks raised to the whip’s sharp kiss comprise both his skill and his inclination. His unwillingness to inflict his unnatural predilections on a wedded wife condemns him to the solitary life of a nomadic mercenary. No home. No begotten children. Definitely no innocent virgins…
Then he’s seduced by a fair maiden whose illicit passions match his own.
THE WITCH: Disenchanted with her many spell-casting screw-ups, the Council of Immortals strip Treasa of her magical powers and erase her memory. However, the gods and goddesses are not without mercy. In their infinite wisdom, they give the shallow and vain virgin a second chance, a quest to redeem herself. To accomplish the feat, Treasa must employ her vast store of womanly wiles on Amaurus the Moor…
While disguised as a lad, hampered by amnesia, and without knowing the simple quest was a complicated ruse all along.
“Amaurus the Moor tries to deny his forbidden passion for his male slave, a wickedly cunning submissive all too willing to please him in every way…for her own self-serving purposes.”
THYME
Thyme - a time travel erotic romance has also been contracted by Loose-Id Publishing with a tentative release day sometime in May.
With a temper to match her flaming hair, an argumentative streak a mile wide, and a curvy full-figured shape, Regina is a vavavoom sexpot.
A lot of good it does her with men.
Her 36-Ds intimidate nice guys and draw creeps out of the woodwork. Frustrated and hurting after a recent breakup with her apathetic boyfriend, she decides to shake up her boring life by vacationing solo in Europe.
First stop: the Tower of London.
She's minding her own business, doing the sightseeing routine at the tourist trap, when she’s stalked, then captured by some twisted weirdo who actually thinks he’s a medieval warrior from Norman times. After introducing himself as Lord Raven, he drags her to his castle bedchamber, where he strips her naked and ties her up like a rump roast. And he’s acting starved. Then, he starts talking trash, something about making her his mate.
His mate! This, to a feminist! What will her girls back home think?
Just her friggin' luck, the kinky abduction scenario really does it for her, and she falls for him hard. Until -- he starts spouting a whole lot of crap about Time Travel.
As soon as she unlocks her lips from his, she’s so outta there.
Maybe.
W.I.P
My current work in progress is a steampunk piece set in the still somewhat puritanical 19th century Boston. The tale of an emotionally and physically flawed publisher/inventor and a strong sexually charged but still vulnerable woman author.
This will be another in the Blooming Series tentatively titled VERONICA