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Friday, October 29th, 2010
Snippet Saturday – Spooooky

It’s that time of year, people. The creepy crawlies start coming out of the woodwork and this week’s Snippet Saturday is no exception.

In this scene from Entwined Hearts, our bad guy, Asmodeus (a totally not nice demon) is healing from his butt kicking by our awesome heroines. But what he’s thinking about doing to them…is far from nice. Put this guy on the naughty list already (((shiver)))!

Enjoy this snippet from Entwined Hearts and don’t forget to visit our awesome authors. Links are at the end of this snippet.

Entwined Hearts
Nicole Austin, TJ Michaels, Ciana Stone and N.J. Walters
Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved
Book five in the Hearts of Fire series.

Blurb: The Chosen. Eight strong individuals gifted with unique paranormal abilities and tasked with protecting shards of an ancient crystal—the Heart of Fire.

Brought together by destiny, each couple has managed to bond and fuse their crystal pairs through a hot and intense sexual joining. The four couples have overcome great personal challenges and remained apart, preparing to face an ancient evil once again.

Now the time has come for the eight Chosen to join forces and defeat Asmodeus, Prince of Hell, once and for all. Their plan is clear yet complex—activate a hidden energy network, gather on spiritual lands and fight an epic battle between good and evil, which will impact mankind for eternity.

Of course, nothing ever goes as planned. And Asmodeus has some tricks the Chosen never anticipated.

Note for Readers: You must be over eighteen to read this excerpt. This is a very very nasty bad-guy moment. Explicit…very.

“Fucking Chosen women and their goddamn mates,” Asmodeus shouted to the empty darkness. Or he tried to shout. His energy was at such an all-time low the intended bellow came out more like a poof of lukewarm air. He wanted to smash something. Unfortunately his corporeal skin wasn’t cooperating, and wouldn’t until he could return to the human realm to replenish.

The rule: Look but don’t touch. It applied to all supernatural beings when they walked among the living, among the fleshlings. Up there, he could manipulate events, orchestrate chaos and influence anarchy by nothing more than suggestion solely to siphon the energy of dark emotions. It was easy enough to play puppet master with weak-minded humans.

But the Chosen? To them a whole different set of rules applied.

Those females weren’t completely human. They were Chosen, given supernatural gifts, for a purpose—to carry and protect a piece of the Heart. Funny he was the one from whom they were to keep it. Damn Atlanteans and their forethought. In all the endless time he’d spent looking for the Heart it hadn’t crossed his mind that the Atlanteans had entrusted it to generation after generation of protectors. Those protectors didn’t carry the Pieces of Eight, but simply passed it down to predesignated non-Chosen custodians. That is the sole reason he hadn’t detected the Pieces of the Heart until this century. Genius, really. Only the Chosen could use the stones, awaken their power, so to keep them dormant, passing from hand to hand, until their true protectors came of age was simply brilliant.

Now he’d learned the hard way that the females had found their mates and those bastards had special powers that complemented the women. In fact, they’d all managed to kick his ass and send him back to this hidden plane to heal. Oh, but there would be a reckoning.

Asmodeus would have shaken with anticipation of the coming battle if he’d had the energy. He felt his power returning but he was a long way from full strength. Hell, he was a long way from half strength.

He rolled over in his bed—yes, bed. Funny how people always thought hell was all spiritual death, darkness, fire and brimstone. Oh there was plenty of that, sure, but not here. This place was a small palace, complete with large rooms, high ceilings and an obedient staff to see to his every
comfort.

This particular room was his favorite. Right now, because of his healing eyes, it was rather dim. It was typically lit by sconces that emitted a soft blue glow, powered by the spirits of the inhabitants of this place. The floors were a light blue tile, naturally warm to the touch given that they were in hell and all.

“Hey! You there,” he called to one of the few creatures brave enough to remain this close to him in this realm. “Bring me another. Quickly.”

The creature, a stubby-legged grayish-looking imp of some kind or another, he really didn’t care what exactly, scurried away. Moments later the thing brought in a kicking, struggling lesser demon. Asmodeus inwardly flinched as he took hold of the nasty thing and began to siphon off its life force. Puh. It was disgusting. Demon essence tasted like dirty succubus ass and contained barely any energy to regenerate him, but it was better than nothing.

Usually he took his time regaining his power, simply resting among his own kind wandering the comfortingly dim halls, hot sex with a major demoness or two until he was strong enough to materialize again up above. Once he was there he’d find an unsuspecting victim to manipulate. It was as simple as finding a man or woman. All he need do was observe them for a few minutes to gain insight into their sexual urges and desires. Once acquired he would pervert them until the human drowned in their own base desires and succumbed to the darkness Asmodeus forced on them. Once their sexual energy became so black and depraved that it scared the human, Asmodeus could dine. Dine on the darkness, the fear, the confusion. And most of all, the deliciousness of the sex itself.

Just the thought of it made him hard.

A malformed, burned and blackened hand, compliments of his last battle with one of those fucking Chosen, reached down to stroke his thickening cock. At least the bitch hadn’t burnt it off. Asmodeus closed his eyes and slid into a fantasy of his own making—one where each Chosen woman kneeled before him in chains, broken in both body and spirit.

His penis grew and elongated until it resembled a thick tentacle with a cock head on it. Seven more erupted from his body making a total of eight long cocks, ready to fuck.

Each woman submitted to him knowing they had no choice. Their men were chained to the walls where all they could do was watch. But they would have their turn soon. Oh, so soon.

All four women took him in their mouths, each sucked a writhing cock and whimpered when he forced them to take him deeper. Misery was written on their faces.

“You.” He pointed to the oldest. Memory was her name. He’d learned that the hard way. She looked up at him with hatred in her eyes. Good. He wanted her to hate him. He could do a lot with that particular emotion. “Turn around.” She started to stand. “No, turn around on your knees just as you are.”

The moment her kneecaps hit the rough stone floor his super-long cock plunged deep into her pussy. The woman screamed and the other three jumped to their feet to help her.

Good, good. Just what he wanted. Let them try to fight him here. They struck and were blown back. They hadn’t known that whatever energy they put into attacking him was turned against them as if they attacked themselves.

On the ground again, he ordered them all to assume his favorite position—asses up, heads down. In seconds he pumped away, fucked all of them in their hot little human cunts. God, human pussy was the best. There was nothing in all the known worlds like it. Warm. Wet. Hot. Addictive.

He had four cocks deep inside the Chosen, but he had four more with nothing to occupy them. For awhile he made the females suck him off while he fucked them, all eight tentacled rods in play.

Their men pulled and wrestled against the chains that held them to the walls. He turned to them.

“You wish to play along?”

Their only reply was to snarl and growl at Asmodeus while watching him fuck their women—all of whom panted and pleaded for more.

Well it was his fantasy, wasn’t it?

With a thought the men’s clothes vanished and the chains tightened. Half of his cocks left the suctioning mouths of the Chosen and made for new targets.

The men went still, the horror of Asmodeus’ intentions reflected in their eyes.

Oh yes, this was going to be good.

Snippet Saturday Authors this week:
Mari Carr
McKenna Jeffries
Taige Crenshaw
HelenKay Dimon
Shelley Munro
Shelli Stevens
Jody Wallace
Eliza Gayle
Ashley Ladd

Monday, October 25th, 2010
Quick Review – Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter, #1)Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Believe it or not, this is my VERY FIRST Sherrilyn Kenyon book. It’s also the first in the Dark-Hunter series and I absolutely loved it. Set in modern day New Orleans this book digs a bit into mythology in a unique and refreshing way. Now I’m off to find books on Talon and Acheron – yes, I’m skipping most of the series because I really like the characters that were introduced in this first book, so I’m looking for books in the series that are specific to their stories rather than the spin-offs.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
Snippet Saturday – A ‘lil help from my friends

Could you imagine a book that only had the hero and heroine in it? No family. No friends. No good or bad guys. Just…them. Perhaps it’s possible, but even movies like The Blue Lagoon where most of the movie was spent with just Emaline and Richard, you still had the scary ‘cut-off-your-head’ people, eventually their baby son, and even the sea creatures added to the backdrop of their lives. A supporting case is needed, whether it’s for a good book, a good movie, even our everyday lives require more than just ‘lil ole us.

Well, you guessed it! Today’s Snippet Saturday theme is secondary characters. ‘Cause we all occasionally need a little help from our friends *sing that Beatles song with me, everybody!* ;D

After this snippet from my newest release, Death and Roses, please be sure to visit the other Snippet Saturday authors whose links are below. Enjoy!

Death and Roses
A Hunter’s for Hire novel
Copyright 2010, TJ Michaels
Published by Ellora’s Cave
All rights reserved

“Okay, here’s what we have. I did a bit of hacking into the IMF communications systems through the central servers on Amalgama,” Tie informed them.

Scharsi felt her brows crawl up her face in astonishment. How the hell had he done such a thing?

“I used the secured housing unit in Sector Two. I figured I’d get more information from the lower ranks chatter than bothering with the upper asses. Also, those asses figure they don’t need much security on the internal systems since the soldiers can only use those channels to talk to each other. And I was right. It seems that the good Captain Tanil’s former unit, Kev, is missing.”

“What? Missing? But Kev is SS,” Tanil said.

“How does a Super Soldier go missing? It’s unheard of. No one just drops out of the corps and no one leaves. We escaped, but we’re the exceptions, not the rule,” Scharsi said.

“True,” Tie responded. “But word is that the job to kill Tanil was botched by a SS. This particular missing SS, to be exact.”

“Bullshit. SS’s don’t botch jobs,” Regan said.

All of them nodded in agreement. So that meant only one thing. Tanil’s jaw clenched in anger as he voiced the length the corps would go through to keep its secret. “It means that Kev didn’t intend to kill me. If he had, I’d be dead. Period. But Vulf would know that just as well as we do. He would have concluded that Kev defied his orders. Then Kev gets “disappeared” or Vulf risks the SS being questioned by his handlers. The SS wouldn’t hesitate to reveal his actions to his handler. After all, he couldn’t be punished for carrying out a kill order, ‘cause an order is an order is an order. Follow it, or else.”

Scharsi added, “But Vulf is a different story. Even he wouldn’t be exempt from punishment for ordering the assassination of a fellow Amalgamation officer.”

“Former Amalgamation officer, thank you very much,” Tanil said.

“Right.” Regan smiled. It was a scary thing to behold, that smile.

“I’m not sure I understand this handler-to-soldier relationship,” Cerise questioned, her pretty brow scrunched into a frown.

“Vulf can give orders to the units under his command, but he can’t order them to keep whatever they see or hear from their handlers. The handlers have the real control, the real authority. Super Soldiers know that much better than the fucktards like Vulf do. It’s pounded into them each and every day.” Scharsi said.

“And contrary to the myths perpetrated by the feds, Super Soldiers aren’t walking zombies with no minds of their own. They aren’t stupid.”

“Why thank you, Tanil dear,” Tie said sarcastically. Cerise laughed outright. The sound was infectious even as Tie batted his lashes at Tanil with a genuine twinkle in his opaque grayish-whites that declared his modified genes.

After getting her giggling under control, Cerise leaned into Tie and said, “Give them the last, babe.” Tie looked up at the little princess as if she hung the moons. Then again, to this particular male, perhaps she hung every moon in this quadrant.

For a moment, Scharsi was distracted at her own happiness—happiness that she’d found love and that her fellow SS had too. What were the odds?

“And last, we have information from some of our contacts that strange, even unknown illnesses have been reported in some of the resistance camps. Thankfully none of those who’d gotten ill were high up enough on the food chain to spill much to their Amalgamation “doctors”. They did notice, however, that the doctors were awful tightlipped in telling them what they had. Gave ‘em shots that hurt like hell, though.”

“So, where are we going? What’s the plan?” Scharsi asked point-blank.

“Tell us what you think is the best way to go,” Tie said. “After all, you’re the one trained for analytics and reasoning. It only makes sense that you would come up with what makes the most sense, then let us work up the logistics on how to make it happen. While my specialty is computers and technology, I really just like to blow shit up.”

Regan slipped an arm around Tie and said, “Well that makes two of us.”

“Three of us, baby,” Cerise chimed in.

Regan’s lips spread with a grin that made Tanil’s stomach dance and the skin over his spine dampen with a cold sweat. He sent up a silent prayer.

Dear Gods, thank you that these people are on our side, otherwise I’d be shitting in my pants just now. Amen.

He couldn’t help but wince as he rubbed the spot where a crater from Kev’s laser pistol used to be. Nor, even in the levity of the moment, could he suppress the grief that welled up in his soul to know that someone, Kev, had knowingly given his life for him.

SNIPPET SATURDAY AUTHORS:
Mari Carr
McKenna Jeffries
Taige Crenshaw
Vivian Arend
HelenKay Dimon
Lauren Dane
Lissa Matthews
Shelley Munro
Shelli Stevens
Jody Wallace
Ashley Ladd

Friday, October 15th, 2010
Snippet Saturday – In Between’s

This week’s theme is In Between’s. If you like menage, this theme is for you!

I’m not blogging today for Snippet Saturday, but wanted to post the links to the fabulous authors who are posting this week. Enjoy!

Mari Carr
McKenna Jeffries
Taige Crenshaw
Vivian Arend
HelenKay Dimon
Lauren Dane
Lissa Matthews
Shelley Munro
Ashley Ladd

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Quick Review – Sin Undone by Larissa Ione

Sin Undone (Demonica, #5)Sin Undone by Larissa Ione

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is my first Larissa Ione book and my god, it has everything! I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that integrated so many different types of paranormal beings (vamps, demons, shifters, etc) seamlessly! The plot was totally unique and the world in which they play is very well done. This is book five in the series so now I’ve got to get the previous volumes.



I was able to read this book independently without reading all the others, though I did get a bit lost a few times in who was who. Overall, it was a fabulous book.



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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Quick Review – Killbox by Ann Aguirre

Killbox (Sirantha Jax, #4)Killbox by Ann Aguirre

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Another awesome read in the Sirantha Jax series. Watching the evolution of Jax is heart-rending. I totally love when a book engages my emotions, but I think the difference in this book was that there was more fear, sadness, anxiety and terror where the others had non-stop action. I must admit, I literally screamed “Nooooo!” at the end. Why? Cliffhanger! And now I’ve gotta wait until the next book to see what the heck happens to Jax and Hit. Grrrrr (in a totally good way)!



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