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Coming this Friday to @ExtasyBooks ~ Embracing Passion #NewRelease #EroticRomance #Polyamory #MFRWHooks

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A single wrong assumption can be costly…

I’m so excited to see this book hit the stands this coming Friday. It’s been a long labor of love – the finale to the Passion series, set in a fictional center for sex studies and sexuality.

Welcome to MFRW Hooks, where the authors of Marketing for Romance Writers
share snippets from their stories to entice you into wanting more.
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EXCERPT

New York, New York 2014

Chapter One

“You’re telling me she’s doing nothing illegal?” Detective Thomas Walker remained stoic, assessing the graying man and woman he’d known for years. He’d stopped by the rest area kiosk to determine whether the couple managing the place was aware of the young redhead operating out of their parking area.

Raymond Stevens shrugged, and his wife, Nora, shook her head. “Dee’s a sweet girl,” Nora said. “She’s stopped by a few times with fresh coffee and doughnuts. She has a delightful smile and a big heart.”

“Coffee and doughnuts?” The damn woman was brazen, if not smart. These two wouldn’t likely testify against her. “What about you, Ray?”

The older man shrugged again and glanced at his wife. “She’s a nice girl. Not breaking any laws that I know of. She doesn’t camp overnight. I’ve been here at midnight, and the parking lot is empty. Sometimes her car is here before seven when we open. Of course, it’s not like she’s around on a daily basis.”

Tom shook his head and glanced at his watch. If she was on schedule, she was due back in about twenty minutes. He’d watched this drama unfold several times now. She’d have a car—an empty rental car—parked at the south end of the parking area. A trucker would pull through the parking area designated for trucks no later than mid-morning and stop across from her vehicle. The redhead would often kiss the driver before climbing down from the cab and strolling to her car as if she didn’t have a care in the world. The trucker would then be on his way.

And she was a nice girl doing nothing illegal? “Do you suppose she has a special interest in semis?” he said, more sharply than he’d intended.

“She’s not a whore,” Nora retorted, tucking a strand of hair back into her silver bun, “if that’s what you’re thinking.”

“Really?”

“We’re not naïve,” Nora protested, “but several truckers over the past several months have talked to us about Dee. They praise her like she’s a modern-day Florence Nightingale. They’re discreet, never going into detail, but it’s clear they’ll defend her any way they have to. They describe her in glowing terms as easy going, a good listener, fun to laugh with.”

“I bet. She must be worth a lot.”

“Nora already said the girl’s not a prostitute.” Raymond bristled. “Whatever Dee does with those guys, she doesn’t charge a dime.”

Scowling, Tom said, “How do you know that?”

“We were more than a little curious at first when we realized there was a pattern of a woman parking a car here to go off with truckers. We wanted to be sure we weren’t being misused.”

“And the truckers talk to you about her? About not paying?”

“I don’t think anyone is trying to hide much,” Nora pointed out. The sixty-something woman’s eyes sparkled. “The guys probably aren’t telling their wives about her, if they have wives.”

“But they tell you?”

Raymond chuckled. “People coming through the rest area seldom tell us their names.”

Tom checked his watch again. The Stevenses smiled at him. “Thanks, I’d better be going.”

Nora nodded. “She should be back soon. She’s usually quite punctual.”

“Another plus, I assume. She must have a lot of repeat customers if she’s so damn good.”

“They’re not customers, and she’ll only go off with a trucker once,” Nora responded.

“Once? You sure?” That didn’t compute at all. Repeat customers was the foundation of the prostitution trade.

“Once.” Nora clucked at him. “Doesn’t that make Dee even more mysterious, perhaps more special to the guys? She’s almost like a mirage.”

“Or a will-o’-the-wisp,” Raymond said with a trace of awe.

“Oh, I do hope you get to meet her, Detective. You’ll find out that what we’re saying is true.” Nora beamed at him. “I’m sure you’ll like our Dee.”

“You bet I’m going to meet her,” he grumbled.

Tom walked toward his car, which he’d left parked next to the rental. He’d meet Dee, all right. Only her name wasn’t Dee. It was Rosanne Falcon.

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Now in her late twenties, Rosanne Falcon’s life has finally come together—a Ph.D., a prestigious research job, and two exquisite lovers, one of each gender, to complete the package. The intense bond she shares with Simone Stone was augmented rather than broken when Simone met and married Boyd Roberts, and the three have forged a fulfilling polyamory relationship. More would only be trouble.

Widowed by a tragic accident several years earlier, Detective Thomas Walker is nearing retirement after twenty years on the police force and ready to change careers. Fully convinced the hot redhead who meets truckers at the rest area he’s staked out is a prostitute, he sets out to build his case against her. He is dead wrong, but each layer he uncovers of what she really does for a living challenges long held assumptions. Can he overcome his deep-seated bias to make room for what’s possible?

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Sew Into You by Amity Malcom #LGBTQ+ #sapphicromance

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I ran into this exquisite book on Instagram during Pride Month and fell in love with it, so I invited the author to be my featured guest for August at my monthly LGBTQIA post over at the Sweet ‘n Sexy Divas blog.

You won’t want to miss her story, her excerpt, or the book, so with no further ado, here is the link:

https://sweetnsexydivas.blogspot.com/2023/08/inspiration-for-sapphic-romance-sew.html

Sew Into You is a sapphic contemporary romance full of second chances at first love, an adorable cat named Taylor Swift, a pot smoking grandma, and a supporting cast of characters undeterred by societal constructs of what a relationship should look like.

So much for a repeat hug… #SnippetSunday #SnipSun #RomanticSuspense #Sale #99¢ #MFRWAuthor

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Welcome to Snippet Sunday – ten (or so) sentences from all your favorite romance authors! You’ll find them all at this Facebook Group every Sunday:

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Picking up where we left off last week with The Heist, MF romantic suspense. Kara is meeting Ted – The Art Council Investigator – at the airport.

EXCERPT

Stepping out of the plane gangway into the waiting area, Ted Springs scanned the small crowd waiting to greet passengers over the heads of others disembarking in front of him. He spotted her immediately. She stood at the edge of the crowd and gave a tentative wave when she recognized him.

He nodded in return, trying to be patient with the older ladies ahead of him and a family with two young children. Wearing a simple pink dress that buttoned down the front and fell nearly to the knees, Kara Daniels looked both professional and sexy. Tossing dark hair over her shoulder, she looked much more collected than when he’d last seen her, but then this was not a surprise meeting.

His chest tightened as he neared her. Her breasts were as substantial as he’d remembered. He could still feel them crushing into his chest outside Alice’s office. That had been a shock—a shock he definitely wanted to re-experience.

Kara extended her hand in greeting. So much for a repeat hug.

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A Heist? A Murder? It’s villain’s choice.

A special-order art theft? Tedious, but seamless – until small town museum director Kara Daniels calls in the experts. Furious her favorite trio of priceless impressionist paintings has been stolen from its traveling exhibit on her watch, Kara is determined to save not only the paintings, but her future in the art world. She’ll stop at nothing to entrap the thief.

Ted Springs knows the underbelly of the criminal world a little closer than he might like—but he’s turned it to good advantage, first as a police officer, and now as detective for the Upper Midwest Arts Council. His job? To guarantee the security of the valuable paintings in the Council’s traveling exhibits.

Heat sizzles when Ted and Kara collide—can they work together, before it’s too late?

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REVIEWS

Five stars at Goodreads: “The sex is hot and I loved the phone sex scenes. Never did I expect the ending. It was brilliant. The Heist is a winner!” Sheila G.

Five stars at Amazon: “From the start, the perspective of Kara, the museum’s director and the thieves are cleverly interwoven…  rich in detail…   held my interest and kept me reading forward.” Gaele  “Very hot…engaging, entertaining, funny and serious, well written and extremely enjoyable to read.” Donna H.

He’d never been very patient with himself… #NewRelease #EroticRomance #Contemporary #TimeTravel #MFRWHooks

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Just Released: From Beyond the Curtain

Book Two of my Seren’s Story series that began in Wales
during the Roman Occupation of Britain.

BOOK INFORMATION

Title: From Beyond the Curtain
Series: Seren’s Story, Book Two
Publisher: Extasy Books
Release Date: July 14, 2023
Length: 22,500 words
ISBN: 978-1-4874-3897-5

EXCERPT

Set-Up: Here’s a peek at the hero – hard at work on his rehab after his initial appointments with Gwen:

“Damn.” Dante groaned, pulling the stiff green band across his chest to the right. His therapist had said this would help heal his rotator cuff injuries. What had she called the exercise? Horizontal abduction, if he remembered right. He didn’t really care what it was called. He could tell it helped. Already his shoulder was a little less painful—unless he skipped a day. That was motivation enough to keep going.

Still, after three weeks of rehab, he’d expected to be further along toward a full recovery. His therapist claimed he was making very good progress, given the extent of the initial injury. He grimaced as he repeated the exercise with the band. He might be patient as he prepared legal cases, as he coached kids on the ball diamond, or as he made love to a woman he desired, but he’d never been very patient with himself. He wasn’t used to functioning at less than full throttle.

He shook his head and continued the drill. Gwen McFarland was proving to be a tenacious coach. She never let up. Even when they took a break for him to relax a muscle, she would demonstrate yet more exercises. And her voice stayed with him even now. Stretch, relax, stretch.

Dante dropped the band and reached for the bottle of water he’d left on his den desk. Fortunately, her sense of humor encouraged him to go beyond what he thought were his limits. He also couldn’t shake the eerie feeling that he’d met her in some other place. But he couldn’t recall ever doing so. Certainly he’d remember the tall, dark-haired woman with copper-tan skin. He thought of her as his personal drill sergeant.

He swallowed more water, knowing he’d sweated out more than he was taking in. He smiled. She wasn’t all drill sergeant.

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Is she a ghost? A visitor from another time and place? A siren? A temptress? Or just a meddling dream mistress?

Seren has bided her time for centuries, waiting for the moment when two of her descendants fall in love and release her, finally, from the place between worlds. The many gifts Seren has inherited from her ancestors—time travel, entering dreams, telepathic communication—have been unsuccessful thus far. Will Gwen and Dante be the ones?

Gwen McFarland has always been in touch with her Celtic roots. When Seren—who looks to Gwen like a Celtic goddess—materializes and invites her to a love tryst in another time and place, she does not hesitate. That Seren sometimes brings along another woman is simply an added benefit.

Fast paced trial lawyer Dante Emmanuel has no time for sentimentality or relationships. A string of satisfying sexual encounters suits him just fine. He’s mystified when a recurring figure enters his dream life, but he won’t turn down Seren’s exotic sexual talents or the dreams that now seem more real than ever.

Who will make the first move in this three-part game of chess? Timing is everything.

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Out Now! Gaelic Magic by Fiona McGier #NewRelease #MFRWAuthor @ExtasyBooks #Romance

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Gaelic Magic by Fiona McGier

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Naomi is a romance novelist. Her best-selling series is about a Scottish Thane from the past. Her other series is about a female spy.

When Naomi has anxiety attacks, she seeks help from an experimental dream therapy. The doctor warns her she’ll have him in her head, watching as she remembers scenes from her life. She laughs and warns him about the other voices who live in her head, always telling her their life stories. His assistant, Will, wears a kilt to meet her for the first time. They both fight their initial attraction, but it grows stronger.

Finding out that Will is the seventh son of a seventh son is an amusing detail, until they discover that the unseelie have taken up residence in his head–but he has no idea why, or what they want him to do, to get them to leave. When Naomi and Will get close to the reason for her anxiety attacks, she realizes she could be in danger. Will their relationship survive? Will they?

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EXCERPT

Set-up —Naomi is having coffee in a place on the campus, near where she’s been going for her dream therapy. When she sees Will, the sexy young Scotsman who is the grad student helping her doctor, she waves him over to sit with her as they drink their lattes. She wants to date him but knows they can’t—not until her therapy is over.    

“The kilt you were wearing the first time I met you didn’t look that heavy.”

“Ach, that’s true. But Ah was wearin’ what the website called an everyday kilt, made of a polyester and wool blend. So it wasnae as heavy as a traditional kilt. It also wasnae the Hamilton tartan neither.”

“Oh, that’s right. Every clan has a tartan of their own, right?”

“Aye, lassie. And some of the larger clans, like the Stewarts or the McDonalds, have more than one tartan, depending on which branch of the clan ye were descended from.”

“But your family, the Hamiltons, only has one tartan?”

He nodded. “Aye. It’s a red dominant, with three stripes o’blue close together and a thinner white stripe.”

“I’d love to see you in your full formal dress wearing your proper tartan kilt. I’ll bet you really look good in it.”

Will’s blush darkened, which was made all the more visible by his very pale skin.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to embarrass you. Was that too personal of a comment to make to someone I’m just having coffee with? I told you I really loved the Scottish culture when I was there. That is, after all, how I got the ideas for my very first book I had published. And where I got the idea for Laird Duncan MacLeod.”

Will’s lips twitched again. “But, lassie, if it’s cold enough to be wearin’ the kilt, ye’d be a fool to go bare-chested, wouldn’t ye?”

Naomi smiled back at him. “I suppose so. But it’s a romance novel, dude. We women aren’t as visual as you men are, but we still like to look at a well-built man’s chest. In fact, that’s probably why your mom and sisters read my books. There’s always a sexy man on the cover. Gives them someone to fantasize about while they read.”

“And yer no embarrassed about the view into yer mind that ye give to yer readers?”

Naomi sat back, her eyes widening. “What do you mean?”

Will shifted around as if suddenly uncomfortable. “Well, Ah havenae read any of yer books, but Ah’ve paged through them when Ah found them lyin’ aroon the hoose. They’re, uh, explicit.”

Naomi felt her lips twitching now. “Of course they are! That’s what most romance readers want. They want to be swept off their feet by a romantic hero who falls so deeply in love with the heroine that he’ll do anything to protect her, or to win her love, if she’s hard to convince. And when they finally do get to fall into bed, the whole idea is to satisfy the readers as much as the characters.”

Warming to her topic, Naomi continued. “And what few men seem to realize is that they don’t have to ask that perennial question anymore about what it is that women want. All they have to do is pick up a romance novel, preferably one of mine, and read it. That will tell them all they need to know about how to satisfy a woman.”

Will blushed again, an even darker shade of red.

ABOUT MY STORY:

For many years, I’ve resisted even READING Highlander romances, let alone writing one, since the accent doesn’t say, “Hello, sexy Scotsman in a kilt,” it says, “Hi, Dad.” Me late faither was from Glesga, and his accent is what I hear in “me heed,” when I think of him. But the idea for this book came to me in a dream, as the best of my story arcs usually do, so I had to write it. I just hope my dad doesn’t haunt me once it’s published–there are steamy scenes he’d not appreciate, when they’re written by his daughter! LOL.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I write romances that involve strong, independent women who don’t mind casual flings, but who are not looking to fall in love. Enter the man who decides this is the woman for him. I think that how they ultimately both realize that they have found the one, is the most interesting part of a romance. I read and review romance because, as I’ve told my long-time HEA, the only men I’ll cheat on him with live in books. Some I write, some I read. And he’s okay with that. Phew!

Blog and Website: http://www.fionamcgier.com

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“This is what I dreamed of…” #MFRWSteam #EroticRomance

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Welcome to the MFRW Steam Hop,
where the authors of Marketing for Romance Writers
entice you with steamy excerpts from their erotic romance stories.

Scroll to the end for more of this week’s tempting excerpts.

For this month’s steam, I’m sharing from my newest release, From Beond the Curtain (Seren’s Story, Book Two).

EXCERPT

Set Up: After visiting a southern Arizona Native American site, Gwen and Dante have returned to her home. They’re in her back yard – which has a tall privacy fence.

“Ah yes, this is what I dreamed of.” Gwen struggled to get the words out. Fully nude, she lay back on the pool deck with her legs draped over Dante’s shoulders. Equally nude, he stood in the pool and slid his tongue the full length of her pussy. His tongue traced her outer folds, then gently separated the inner folds. He seemed in no hurry, totally focused on her pleasure.

Gasping for air, Gwen tried to wait patiently. She’d never had a lover take this much time. Had he lost his way? Clearly not. The tip of his tongue began probing, seemingly a millimeter at a time. She kicked her heels against his back, spurring him on. She heard him chuckle. Then he suddenly drove his tongue home.

“Oh my god.” Gwen squirmed trying to take more of him in. His tongue retreated and re-entered, finding its own rhythm. “I’m close,” she muttered. “Make me come.”

No sooner had she spoken than she felt a finger find her nubbin. “Yes.” The finger tapped and the tongue increased its pace, driving her beyond knowing what or how.

Her body shook. She knew he somehow stayed with her. She felt her release. She’d forgotten to warn him. Too late, but just right. She heard him say something. Maybe amazing. But syllables were lost as he continued swallowing her offering.

At last her body stilled. Cool air chilled her pussy as Dante stood and lowered her legs. She pried her eyelids open. He looked overjoyed. She scooted back a little on the towel. “Don’t go anywhere. Damn, you have an amazing tongue, counselor.”

BOOK INFORMATION

Title: From Beyond the Curtain
Author: Adriana Kraft
Series: Seren’s Story, Book Two
Publisher: Extasy Books
Release Date: July 14, 2023
Length: 22,500 words
ISBN: 978-1-4874-3897-5
Genres: Contemporary Erotic Romance, Paranormal, Time Travel

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Is she a ghost? A visitor from another time and place? A siren? A temptress? Or just a meddling dream mistress?

Seren has bided her time for centuries, waiting for the moment when two of her descendants fall in love and release her, finally, from the place between worlds. The many gifts Seren has inherited from her ancestors—time travel, entering dreams, telepathic communication—have been unsuccessful thus far. Will Gwen and Dante be the ones?

Gwen McFarland has always been in touch with her Celtic roots. When Seren—who looks to Gwen like a Celtic goddess—materializes and invites her to a love tryst in another time and place, she does not hesitate. That Seren sometimes brings along another woman is simply an added benefit.

Fast paced trial lawyer Dante Emmanuel has no time for sentimentality or relationships. A string of satisfying sexual encounters suits him just fine. He’s mystified when a recurring figure enters his dream life, but he won’t turn down Seren’s exotic sexual talents or the dreams that now seem more real than ever.

Who will make the first move in this three-part game of chess? Timing is everything.

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