1-800-DOM-help offers MORE!!!

It's truly an amazing week for the authors of the 1-800-DOM-help series...not just ONE release this week but THREE awesome stories coming out from three awesome authors.

Check 'em out...

Desiree Holt delivers DELIGHT ME on January 26

Francesca Hawley comes out with CONTROLLING INTEREST on January 28

Michelle Polaris fills out the trio with FETTERED LOVE also releasing on January 28

Want more?

How's this:

Dani suspects her growing dissatisfaction with the lifestyle suggests she might be in need of a role reversal. When she finds a mysterious business card, she calls the number, 1-800-DOM-help, and is paired with Ethan, a sexy-as-sin sub. Dani learns the erotic effects of weislding the whip and the intense arousal that stimulating her sub with toys can bring.

As their sessions progress, Dani and Ethan explore every aspect of D/s play - from restraints to punishment to exercising control to achieve mind-blowing orgasms - and Dani comes to understand the value of receiving trust, as well as giving it. But her newfound, strong emotional feelings for Ethan scare her to death. Their current course could change her life forever - if she's brave enough to accept what's being offered

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Mozelle "Mouse" Vincent inherits money, a club, and her boss' son as a business partner when society leader Regine Stuart dies. Torin Stuart knows what his late mother's wishes were for his exclusive BDSM club, Erotically Bound, but he's pissed that he's forced to trust Mouse - especially when her inherently submissive nature arouses the sexual Dominant in him.

After baring all in a heated intense scene, Mouse realizes they still have to work together, but now Tor challenges any business suggestion she makes. When she wants to offer educaiton classes, Tor dares her to organize the class and participate - as a submissive. To his chagrin, Mouse agrees, but he can't stand the thought of any other Dom touching her. Suddenly there's far more at stake than the controlling interest in their club...because love is the ultimate prize in their power exchange.



Kirk, Master to his long-time lover Evan, decides it's time to place his permanent collar around Evan's sexy cock. But when he proposes, he faces a surprise. Evan wants a child. So where will they find a kinky woman to help?


A mysterious card with the 1-800-DOM-help number advertises assistance for unusual proglems in the BDSM community. When Evan calls, he recognizes the voice of Sarah - Kirk's best friend from childhood, Evan's Mistress of several years in college. They both loved her and suffered betrayal when she walked out of their lives.


Now she proposes to be the mother of their child. No strings, just a chance to have the men she respects and loves back in her life. Evan embraces the idea whil Kirk rages with mistrust.


At Evan's request, they share one night of passion, Kirk and Sarah working together to dominate Evan in the scene of his erotic fantasies, hoping it wll be enough to rekindle trust and make all their dreams come true.

DON'T MISS THESE STORIES - and don't forget to get your copy of the first two stories in this multi-author series:

Christine D'Abo's COMMANDING ACQUISITIONS and my NEEDING HARTE!

AND - check out our group blog HERE!

Mark Your Calendars!

Romantic Times BookLovers Convention
Marilu Mann will be there!

Come meet your favorite authors. See some really hot cover models from Ellora's Cave and the Mr. Romance 2010 Competitors. Get lots of free books. Go to the Faery Ball and the Vampire Ball and...

DO NOT MISS the Ellora's Cave 10th Anniversary celebration - help us "PAINT THE TOWN RED!"
Learn more here.

SEX AND TROUBLE

Now that I have your attention! How's this for some interesting fun?

Sex and Trouble

(cover by the fabulous Syneca)

You know it’s going to be a bad day when:
1. Your father dies leaving you a creepy old Victorian home.
2. Your butler isn’t really a butler, but he comes with the house.
3. Your father’s enemies are after everything in the house—including you and the butler!

Meet Marielle Greenlea. She’s just learned that her inheritance involves not just an old house but also a butler who’s says he's a demon. And not just any demon. He’s a Hedonae—or sex demon—who has been bound to the house by her estranged father. Now, not only does Marielle have to deal with her inheritance which includes learning that she's a hereditary witch, but she also has to figure out how to set Rosier free. Because no way is she keeping a slave—no matter how sexy he is!

Rosier can't believe he's still captive to the Greenlea family. Now he has to deal with a woman who's sexy as sin but unaware of her own appeal. A fledgling witch who doesn't really believe he's a demon. But once she sees his-ahem-horns, she has to face facts. One of those facts is that the only way he can be released is through sex. But he wants to go home and if that means making her scream with his name over and over, well, he’ll just have to grin and bear it.

Mari wants to help him but as the reigning Popsicle Queen according to her exes, she knows she can’t. Three simultaneous orgasms when she’s never had even one? Now she has to find the keys to her power, defeat her father’s enemy AND have mind-blowing sex? What's a girl to do when an inheritance leads her to Sex and Trouble? Lie back and enjoy, of course!

We'll let you know when it's released!!

Another Release for the Lara Punches Fundraiser

July 3 marked the release of Katherine Kingston's Phantom Affair. Read more about it on her website and enjoy this lovely cover!

This a another story in the Lara Punches Fundraiser. The other titles currently released in this fundraiser are: Best Friends Forever by Kate Douglas; Honey by Ari Thatcher; Sweet Buns by Marilu Mann; and Phantom Affair by Katherine Kingston.

Look for Stray Lovers by Dalton Diaz releasing on July 31!

Also included in the fundraiser - with release dates coming soon - A Little White Lie by Mackenzie McKade; Brown Paper Packages by Christine McKay; Giggles by Gabby by Ashlyn Chase; Just Being Neighborly by Kaenar Langford; Marry Me Marietta by Cindy Spencer Pape; Nightwalker's Pet by Cricket Starr; and Tuesday Afternoons by Brynn Paulin.

Don't miss any of these great books!

RELEASE DATE FOR HONEY

One of our fellow EC Authors has a new release available today - her name is Ari Thatcher, and the novella is called Honey. Why am I telling you this? Well, because Honey is part of the fundraiser for the family of Lara Punches. Lara's life ended suddenly and tragically and several EC authors have donated a portion of the proceeds of their stories to Lara's family.

Here's a link to Ari's website with the cover for Honey - http://arithatcher.com/honey.html There's an excerpt and a buy link on there as well.

Look for our contribution to this cause coming next week - June 26 - a lovely little story called Sweet Buns. :) We'll share that cover as soon as we have it.

Thanks!

Sex, Love & Other Oddities...

There’s an uproar about romantica / erotica and “real” romance in the publishing industry. The question seems to be what, exactly, is romance? What is romantic? What is erotic? When does romance turn into erotica and when does romantica / erotica become pornography?

Here’s my take…

There are many facets to romance. What you find romantic depends on how you were raised, your belief systems, the person you’re with, and what you want out of a relationship.

If you’re a health fanatic, you’re not going to find a candlelit dinner of steak and lobster drenched in butter with ooey-gooey chocolate cake for dessert romantic –no matter how much time and effort your partner put into that event.

If you’re truly into the environment and saving it, you’re not going to be thrilled with someone who brings you a bouquet of wildflowers – even if they picked them themselves – actually, ESPECIALLY if they picked them.

If you’re focused on family and on a specific set of family values, you’re not going to be excited about a romantic get-away to a hedonistic setting to indulge in sexual fantasies.

BUT…

If you’re reading about a health fanatic, you WANT him/her to be ‘tempted’ by that chocolate cake and the butter-drenched lobster…you WANT him/her to have chocolate dribbled on some part of their body for their lover to lick off. That’s erotic. If the licking turns to lovemaking, that’s romantica. If the two of them decide they can work past the indulgence of one and the sparseness of the other and have a lasting relationship in spite of their differences, that’s romance.

I think I need help...

They say the first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem...

Hello, my name is Cai and I’m a book addict. I’m not trying to make light of addictions, I honestly believe I have an addiction to the written word.

If I have any “extra” money, I hit the used book store.

I ask friends and family to give me gift certificates to book stores instead of any other gift. - or I tell them books I'd like to receive as gifts if they ask.

I constantly surf Amazon, Books A Million, Borders & B&N websites to see what new releases are coming out.

I’ve signed up with various publishers to get their newsletters and be notified by email when my favorite authors have new books being released.

I hoard books that I’ve been given as gifts, taking them out over and over again to read them.

I recommend books to others, trying to get them as hooked as I am.

I’ve even been known to GIVE books to others hoping they’ll love the author as much as I do and then that they’ll share their addictions to other authors with me.

I buy e-books and devour them over my lunch hour at work.

I ALWAYS have a book in my purse or bag or in my car and if I'm sitting in the car or in a waiting room somewhere for more than 5-10 minutes, I will pull the book out and start reading.

I have a "connection" at a used bookstore who calls me when my favorite authors have a new release or when she gets a book in that she knows I (1) don't have, (2) am looking for, (3) have read other books by that author and haven't read this one.

I go into the bookstore with a list of books I want if I can't find them, I'll drive to another bookstore - no matter how far away it is.

I've been known to "hide" books so that no one in my family knows I've spent money on them.

I've foregone buying lunch to buy a new book.

Is there a twelve-step program for someone like me? Is there any hope for someone like me? How does one overcome an addiction to reading – and quite honestly, should one want to???