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Do you believe in lust at first touch?
Neither did he…
Mohegan:
As if electrocuted by two-twenty volts, I stare with my mouth dropped open. I know a God-damned spell when I feel one but can’t break free. That gorgeous witch swears it’s not her doing but I’m not buying it. She’s a little liar. Don’t get me wrong, she’s stunning and I’d do her in a heartbeat but that’s not the point. I don’t like being compelled to do anything. Besides, I got serious Guild work to do. There couldn’t be a worst time to get shackled.
Olivia:
He obviously doesn’t like this attraction any more than I do but there’s nothing to worry about. I don’t need a boyfriend and if I did, I certainly wouldn’t choose him. All male witches, healing or warring, are arrogant, pig-headed, and best if bedded for one night. Otherwise, they try to tell you what to do, where to go, and are generally a pain in the ass. Besides, this one’s got a shadowy side, I can feel it hovering right under the surface.
Is it lust or love?
How do two people, forced together by an ancient spell, find their real feelings?
2017 Rone Paranormal Finalist writes another spell-binding tale of Magic and Mating
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Encephalopathy? What’s that? A nice way of saying my f**kin’ brain has holes?
CJ
I don’t believe it. Sure, I’ve been knocked around a little. What player hasn’t? But if what the doc says is true, things have got to change because there’s no way I’m letting my new wife become my nursemaid. She deserves better than that, better than me. Whatever it takes, I’ll make her go. I’ll just have to become the a**hole I used to be.
Mel
What the heck is wrong with CJ? I need to tell him something really, really important but he keeps avoiding me, using his ‘game-focus’ as a lame excuse for not coming home. I know we talked about having kids, someday. How’s he going to react when he finds out someday is right around the corner?
I know it looks bad but there is a HEA guaranteed, absolutely! This novella stands alone but a whole lot more fun if you’ve read the first two in the series.
Now for the Deals!!!
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She’s my physical therapist, a nice girl from Iowa, and I’ll be damned if I can handle her sweet touches…
It’s none of my business that her ex locked her out and took everything she owned. What am I supposed to do? After my unfortunate accident, social media is all over me, just waiting for my next mistake. I even offered her cold, hard cash and she refused, suggesting I’m trying to buy her sexual favors.
Now she’s got this cockamamie idea that she could get back on her feet with a wedding. Pretending to be married might be just the thing to sweeten my side of a million-dollar deal so I offer my services. What I don’t figure on is those sweet baby-blues. The minute they focus on me, I’m toast.
Warning. This novella contains graphic language, steamy, sexual scenes, and respectfully deals with the delicate topic of a woman recovering from childhood abuse.
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I wrote the first draft of Dangerous Code over four years ago but put it aside. At that time, it would’ve been considered science fiction. Now, not so much.
Detective Colin O’Brien? Let’s just say he’s my dream guy. He can tell what you’re feeling by reading the tiny tics in your expression. An alpha male, he takes charge and is not intimidated by a brilliant woman. However, under that tough exterior, he’s wounded from a really bad first marriage. It’s so rotten he hasn’t wanted to talk about it. Don’t worry. I’ll get it out of him in my next book.
I love Megan, AKA Jenna Jones. I guess there’s a lot of me in her. I was heavy as a kid, but she’s a lot smarter and richer.
LOL. I also have a tendency to mix metaphors and can be slow at telling what people are really saying. Under it all, my feelings are hurt easily and more than anything, I want people to like me but I hide it well.
My altar ego has a day job. She writes software and technically manages multi-million dollar projects. My company is on the leading edge of everything to do with speech. It isn’t that much of a reach to know where software is heading.
Jason, the story’s artificial app, is a mere stone’s throw into the future. Because it can code itself, it has unlimited potential. But just like a human, it needs to weigh out the junk from the real when it searches the internet. Sometimes it works and sometimes, well, let’s just say that can be bad.
Are you interested in more stories with this couple? I have so many ideas… What if Jason finds out there’s a plot to kill the president. What if the CIA is involved? Who would believe an AI application?
I think Colin and Jenna have a rocky road ahead of them. Two people so dissimilar are bound to have a lot of fights. Don’t worry though, I’m sure they’ll find their HEA… hee hee, eventually.
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LOL! One of my dearest writer friends set me straight yesterday. I was feeling a bit down. I know this latest book is one of my best and the cover is awesome so what was I doing wrong?
She suggested I emphasize the sex. The story is secondary.
Sex sells.
Okay then. Here is my latest attempt at ‘How to write a blurb’
Let me know what you think.
“Great read! I really enjoyed this suspenseful, erotic romance by Stella! I’ve read all her other books and loved each one. Can’t wait to read more contemporary romance by this author. Well done!”
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I’d tried to be gentle. Hadn’t I watched her every sweet expression, made her explode and scream out my name? More than once? But then again, there was that one moment, right as I entered, where her body had stiffened.
“Do you want me to go?” I hold my breath, awkwardly leaning against the door frame while she puts our leftovers in the microwave as if we just hadn’t had mind-blowing sex.
“No.” She says it so quietly I can barely make it out.
My gut wrenches. Somehow, I’d made her feel bad.
Escaping my self-made exile, I walk across the room, wrap her into my arms and whisper in her ear, “Did I hurt you?”
She twists around in a flash. “No, no. I just don’t want you to think… Oh, I don’t know what to say. I’ve never ever done something like this before.”
She’s telling the truth and Neanderthal-man is thrilled but there’s a twisting in my gut that I haven’t felt for years. Meggie is obviously one of those good girls. The kind that save themselves for marriage. So why did she come on so strong?
And more importantly, why did I respond?
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I just wanted to say hi and thank GOD last week is over. I won’t go into details but suffice it to say I had enough bad luck piled into one week that I probably will only have good for many weeks to come.
Needless to say it’s nothing like the week that Jenna Jones has in my latest book, Dangerous Code.
First three chapters are on Instafreebie, if you’d like to start now.
It’s 5:30AM and as always I am up and writing! I had to pause today to send an Amazon gift card to my daughter Sarah, in Italy. Her birthday is March 30th. Last week we visited my other daughter, in Queens. I love how diverse they are and yet, in ways. very similar.
My husband finished my taxes for last year and woo hoo! I actually made money as a writer!!! My goal is to double my income every year… starting this year (ah.. I don’t want to double a negative number, right?) Anyhow, I have high hopes!
In April, BookBub has agreed to a promotion of ‘How to Seduce a Queen,’ perhaps one of my favorite books! Soul Mates is asking for me to write another Medieval. I would love to bring back Marcus and Ann. I’m thinking they’ll be quite different when their kids become rebellious teenagers. And as king Edward ages, he becomes more difficult to stay allied with. Surely there’s a tale to be told.
So many stories dancing in my head, so little time.
Dangerous Code is just the beginning of the crime solving trio of Dr. Jones, her AI unit, and Detective O’Brien.
So, bye for now.. I have to get writing!
Fondly,
I’ve had so much success with my first three chapters on Instafreebie, (over 100 downloads a day), that I’m releasing my latest book a full week early.
This thriller-romance is a rewrite of my very first novel from about four years ago. The original story hasn’t changed much but thank God my writing has improved since then.
What’s truly amazing is how my story might’ve seemed like sci-fi back then but now is not! I also have to say, it’s fun to speak like a New Yorker from Brooklyn. I lived there in my twenties and worked in Manhattan.
I like this crime solving trio so much, you can be sure you will be hearing more from Jones, O’Brien, and JASON.
LOVE YA,
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OMG!
I can’t believe there’s two feet of snow on the ground and Spring is right around the corner.
I only have a moment to write a few thoughts.
Of course, I’m thinking about my release day for Dangerous Code. Early reviewers are liking it a lot.
And I’m trying to remember my only Irish ancestor.
Unlike those that came in the 1800’s mine was here almost a century earlier. He lived in Vermont, a wealthy landowner.
She was very young French girl, an indentured servant who had come to the new world with nothing but hope. There is no record of the French girl after she leaves Vermont. I suspect she changed her name and started over. A young unmarried woman in the colonies would be unwelcome in all but a brothel.
I feel for her, poor dear.
Her Vermont family must have loved her very much because when she ran off, they treated the resulting babe, my great, great, great, as their own.
Would the Irishman have provided for the child? No one knows because he was found face down in flooded waters the very next spring.
If the bastard raped the young woman, good on him for ending up dead.
I would rewrite history. Our heroine finds another Irishman, a kind man with a gentle smile, who has need of someone to take care of his two children…
Of course they fall in love and have the mandatory HEA.
