U.K. Kink (British Invasion) by Silence O'Shea

Babysitting a British dance troupe isn’t one of Caitlin’s career aspirations, but before she can say “male strippers”, she finds herself the newly appointed caretaker for the Fire from Lancashire. Keeping five gorgeous guys on task is hard enough; living under the same roof with the luscious lads is near torture, especially when one begins starring in her naughtiest fantasies. Too bad about that “no fraternization” clause in her contract…

With a single kiss, Cait went from sweet caretaker to must-have sexual conquest. Oliver wants the voluptuous beauty badly, contracts and clauses be damned. Then one of his mates comes up with a way for Oliver to get his cake while the rest eat too. Their employer might fire one man for ravishing Cait...but certainly not all of them. Right? After one taste, Oliver knows she’s definitely worth the risk of finding out.

U.K. Kink is a fantastic short novel written by indie author Silence O'Shea. With great characters, humorous dialogue and some uber steamy scenes this was an enjoyable read that is hopefully the beginning of a series of equally fun books about more male strippers.

What a dream job Caitlin lands the caretaker for a house with 5 smokin' hot male strippers from England (swoon just from the accents) Oliver has wanted Cait from the beginning but he has gotten to his breaking point the way around getting fired for sleeping with Cait all 5 of them will. This leads to some panty wringing scenes with Cait and 4 of the strippers then later just Cait and Oliver.

I am hopeful that Ms. O'Shea will be writing more of these books at least for the rest of the men in the Fire from Lancashire.
It was a fun fast read that was perfect for an afternoon.






About the Author:
Silence O'Shea lives in a tiny woodland town in the extreme Northern U.S., where the citizens like to consider themselves pious and upright. In reality, the lust-filled locals generate enough heat to melt the polar ice caps. As in any good Catholic town, dirty deeds are afoot behind closed doors. Some people just have to share their exploits--and Silence is a superb and trusted listener. She'll never spill anyone's secrets, but that doesn't mean she can't use the naughtiest bits and most colorful characters as inspiration for her work.

Silence is a lifelong reader and newbie author, and as such, is open to any and all input from fellow booklovers. If you like her work, please let her know. If you weren't overly fond of a story or character or setting, etc., have advice or suggestions, or would like to see her try a particular something, by all means, friend her on Facebook and drop her a line. She's a friendly sort who wants to hear from everyone.


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Books on my just for me list

Sometime I read stuff just to read it, not to review it or as part of a tour but just because. Today I wanted to share with you the books I have on my short list of books to read just for me in the next few weeks.

Beauty Awakened (Angels of the Dark)
Gena Showalter



Wild Invitation: A Psy/Changeling Anthology (Psy-Changeling 0.5, 3.5, 9.5, 10.5)
by Nalini Singh



Too Devious to Tame (The Giovanni Clan #3)
by Doris O'Connor


Illicit Desire (Outlawed Realm)
Tina Donahue


Sunburn
by Rosanna Leo


Divine Creek Ranch series Heather RainierTell me whats on your to be read list in the just for you/just for fun category.

Cover Reveal: REALM OF SECRETS by MaryLynn Bast

Release Date: October 26, 2012

Synopsis
Schadoh Aphenithea has always looked up to her older sister and willingly follows in her footsteps, venturing out into the new realm where humans and other strange creatures exist.
Unexpectedly, Schadoh meets Dakota who turns out to be her best friend and protector. With the threat of vampires invading Loxy and Earth, she will need all the help she can get when the portal to her realm is closed. She is forced to remain in the earth realm and live as a human. Something she finds is not quite as easy as it looks from the wall of mists. Schadoh must learn to co-exist in the earth realm while keeping the secret that other realms exist.

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MaryLynn Bast moved to Las Vegas in 2010 from Texas, where she grew up. She works as a consultant with a contractor for the US Military, traveling from base to base across the US and around the world. Whenever possible, MaryLynn enjoys spending time with her husband, children and friends. In her free time she writes paranormal fantasies, loves to read and travel.

Review Ballroom Blitz by Lorelei James

Title: Ballroom Blitz
Author: Lorelie James
Release: October 2nd 2012
Published by: Samhain Publishing, Ltd
123 pages
sequel to a 2008 anthology called Wicked Garden


She’s got the rhythm, but he’s got all the right moves.

A Two to Tango story.

After years on the road, rock drummer Jon White Feather is home from tour to reassess his music career. When his shy niece begs him to take a ballroom dancing class, Jon agrees, aware he’s not Fred Astaire material. Still, it stings when his sexy-hot instructor—who makes his heart do the cha-cha—deals his ego a low blow: he has no rhythm.

Maggie Buchanan is doing everything to make ends meet since her IT career fizzled, including teaching couples dancing at the community center. She’s prepared for anything—except her immediate attraction to the bad boy rocker who doesn't know his right foot from his left.

As Jon sets out to prove he can rock his body—and hers—their sexual chemistry burns a path across the dance floor, straight to the bedroom. And Maggie wasn't expecting a man with limited dance skills would know exactly how to sweep her off her feet.

My Review:
Jon White Feather, know with his band as Johnny Feather, walks into a ballroom dance class he promised his niece he would take her to knowing he has two left feet but wanting to be their to help his niece do something that makes her feel good about herself. When he lays eyes on Maggie he is immediately smitten.

Maggie Buchanan loved to dance as a teen but she bowed to family pressure to do the logical thing and got a degree in IT so she could get a "real" job. When corporate downsizing catches her and she is out of a job she moves home to South Dakota and picks up a part time job teaching couples ballroom dance .

Jon and Maggie have instant chemistry and the sexual heat is evident almost from the start of the book. Maggie is wary of the bad boy Jon presents as a public image and doesn't want to be just the flavor of the week. Jon isn't used to women not throwing themselves at him and finds he likes the challenge that Maggie presents.

With his carrier going through some changes and new bands wanting to meet with him Jon find he is being pulled in many different directions. Maggie still looking for a full time job in IT is also preparing for regional and national dance competitions she isn't sure if she wants to keep dancing or chase down the IT job leads that she has.

Ms James as has done it again with another fantastic book that is so well written you fall in love right along with the characters she has written. She does a amazing job telling the story of two artists at cross roads in there lives and the hot steamy love affair that can either complicate decisions or make those decisions for them.
Even with this being a short novel the story is so well crafted that we don't feel like anything was left out and it never feels like the story was rushed.

I give Ballroom Blitz my highest rating of Chocolate and Roses!

I purchased my copy of this book at Amazon

Review: Seduced by A Pirate by Eloisa James

Author: Eloisa James
Title: Seduced By A Pirate
Series: Fairy Tales #4.5
Publication: October 30th 2012
Published by: Avon Impulse
100 pages



Blurb:
In Eloisa James's companion story to The Ugly Duchess, Sir Griffin Barry, captain of the infamous pirate ship The Poppy, is back in England to claim the wife he hasn't seen since their wedding day . . . but this is one treasure that will not be so easy to capture.

Written as a short novel companion to The Ugly Duchess, Seduced By A Pirate reads just fine as a stand alone.

Sir Griffin Barry, former Captain of the pirate ship turned privateer ship The Flying Poppy, has returned to England after being at sea for the last 14 years. He is finally going to meet his wife of one day and is rather nervous about it. Having been married to a girl he had never met at the tender age of 17 he failed to consummate the marriage on his wedding night.

Phoebe Eleanor Barry is the wife Griffin left behind. When she learns of his return to England in the newspaper all she can thing of is how to get out of their marriage.
She is happy with her life in the country with her 3 children, the nanny and a nurse she doesn't see a need for a husband to come and interfere with everything she has built.

Phoebe is the older woman (by 3 whole years) that young Griffin was so in awe of at their wedding that he gets stage fright and is unable to perform. He escapes into the night and isn't heard from for 14 years. Now Griffin is ready to settle down with his wife and start a normal life. It's going to take his powers of persuasion to get Phoebe to give up her tranquil life and let him in.

This short novel has it all it has swashbuckling pirates, mistaken identity, infidelity, nervous virgins, rampaging hormones and family reconciliation. The story is funny, heartwarming, well written and has enough steam for a sauna. We are able to get enough of the back story that everything makes sense with no big info dumps. The characters are lovable and well rounded. Even with this being on the short side it is written that you don't feel like the author left out huge bits.
I give Seduced by a Pirate chocolate and roses.

I received a copy of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review

Love's Debt Review & tour wide giveaway

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Author: Rachel Brimble
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Length: 91 pages
Genres: Historical Romance

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*BLURB*
To keep herself from the depths of poverty, Milly Shepherd needs to be appointed manager of the Red Lion Tavern. The elderly owner is in failing health and has promised her the job permanently if no one more suitable applies. Milly will fight with her entire being to make the job her own.

Joseph Jacobs needs to supplement his income to pay off his father’s creditors and save him from debtor’s prison. Though the job as manager of the local tavern looks promising, Milly is favored by both the owner and customers. Instead, Joseph swallows his pride and agrees to tend bar.

As they work together, their attraction grows, their goals cross, and both Millie and Joseph find they must face their fears …the question is whether they face them alone or together?

*My Review*
Milly Shepherd has know poverty, she has worked hard to bring herself and her mother and sister out of the depths of the slums to where she now has a good job and the money to take care of her family.

Joseph Jacobs was raised with wealth until his fathers gambling first drove his mother away and now his father has creditors after him while Joseph works two jobs to try to keep him out of prison.

The sparks between Milly and Joseph are immediate and they build quickly, Joesph is a good honorable man and Milly is a smart and hard working woman. From the beginning you are rooting for them to make a go of it.

I have to say I am so glad I don't live in 1890! I know there are very few of us who aren't acquainted with at least some debt, however we no longer have the threat of debtors prison hanging over us. Debtors prisons were horrible places that people usually died while hoping for someone to pay their debt. This is the threat hanging over Joseph's father. It makes for a compelling story.

This short novel was written well, developed well and the characters are likable and realatable (that's a word right, it is now!) I give this book red roses!

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*EXCERPT*
“No, I take it from here.” His jaw tightened. “I mean it, Milly. I don’t want you in there.”

“Why are we arguing about this? I thought we’d built a trust between us.”

His gaze darted over her face, lingered at her lips. “This has nothing to do with trust.”

“Then what?”

“Pride. If I haven’t got that…if I’ve stooped so low as to put a woman at risk, then there’s no point in going on at all. I won’t do it, Milly. I won’t expose you to whatever is behind that door. If you can’t stay here, then go back to the tavern. I’ll see you there shortly.”

His face was set, his shoulders stiff and Milly’s irritation grew. She poked a finger into his chest. It was like iron. She swallowed. “Have you heard the saying, pride before a fall?” He nodded. “Good, because if people don’t reach out to other people, Joseph Jacobs, they fall further than ever with nobody there to catch them.”

“Milly--”

She raised her hand. “Go. Do what you want. I’ve got more important things to worry about that a man full of so much pride, he looks fit to burst.”

Turning, Milly gripped her bag tightly in her hand and strode away. She did not look back, and she didn’t stop walking. Her stupid heart had let her down. Made her get involved in a man’s life and begin to care about him. Well, the buck stopped there. No more. If Joseph Jacobs ever needed her help again, he could take a long walk off the dock.

Blinking against the rare sting of tears, she tilted her chin and retraced her steps across town. Her shift at the tavern started in an hour’s time, but that didn’t matter; there was always plenty to be done and at least there, she was appreciated. Joseph certainly didn’t see what was right in front of his damn face.

Yet each step that took her across town weighed heavier and heavier. She’d seen where he and his father lived. It was little better than a hovel. She’d seen the newspapers stuffed around the window frames in an attempt to keep out the cold, the bare floorboards, and thick layers of soot from the fireplace spilling into the room. The landlady should be seeing to that, all of it. Bitter resentment furled in Milly’s stomach as her past flashed through her mind. She’d pulled her family from the gutter, and the future looked brighter than ever before.

Which didn’t help the nagging feeling that she could do more—wanted to do more to help Joseph. But she couldn’t. It would mean putting a hold on her own plans. All for a man she had hardly known more than two weeks.

She curled her hands into fists. This feeling inside her was new. This sense of wanting to fight for someone outside of her family. How had it gotten like this? To kiss him was bad enough, but to have this…this fear for him? That scared her more than anything.

*ABOUT THE AUTHOR*
Rachel lives with her husband and two young daughters in a small town near Bath in the UK. She started writing short stories about eight years ago but once her children were at school, she embarked on her first novel. It was published in 2007. Since then, she’s had several books published with small presses as well as securing her first contract with Harlequin Superromance in May 2012.

Represented by US agent Dawn Dowdle, of Blue Ridge Literary Agency, Rachel is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association and Romance Writers of America, When she isn’t writing, you’ll find Rachel with her head in a book or walking the beautiful English countryside with her family. Her dream place to live is Bourton-on-the-Water in South West England. And in the evening? Well, a well-deserved glass of wine is never, ever refused…

*Contact Rachel*
Website - http://www.rachelbrimble.com
Blog - http://rachelbrimble.blogspot.com
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/rachelbrimble or @rachelbrimble
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rachel-Brimble/181873201887441
Happy Reading, Carin

Look what I found FREE at Amazon!

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The Pirates of Vampire Island (Steamy Voyages #1) $25 Givaway & review

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Series: Steamy Voyages, Series #1
Author: Phoenix and Lover Boy
Publisher: Self (Amazon and B&N)
Length: 61,700 words
Genres: Paranormal Romance (Adventure)
Heat Level: Sizzling


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*Author Blurb*:
Pretty Jane O'Doherty always chooses the wrong kind of guys. Her specialty seems to be guys who have serious flaws and who break her heart.
Her last breakup was a year ago and still she can hear his final words, "I'm sorry, Jane. I've found someone else."
A 30-day cruise through the exotic Indonesian Islands with her best friend seems like the perfect distraction to mend her broken heart.

On board, she meets devastatingly gorgeous Nick, who attracts women in droves, including our lovely Jane.
And she meets Peter, who is the cute geek with puppy dog eyes.
Will either one just lead to another broken heart?
Should she run the other way from them both and just enjoy the cruise?
But before Jane can decide, the ship is attacked by modern day pirates.

Unlike the pirates of old, these guys are vampires and are more interested in human treasure than gold and jewels.
They take over the ship and take twelve women hostage.
And the handsome pirate leader—with eerie chalk-white skin, and red eyes, is looking for a special prize. He wants a woman for his mate and queen . . .

Jane catches his eye, but she, along with Nick and Peter, manage to escape in a lifeboat and onto the open sea.
They drift for fourteen days before finally finding an island.
But the fates are cruel, and their island turns out to be the home of the pirates and the lair of the Vampire.

The Pirates of Vampire Island is non-stop action . . . filled with adventure, suspense . . . and steamy romance.

*My Review*
What a better way to get over a broken heart than to go on a fun cruise and learn to scuba, at least that is what Jane has convinced herself. With cute single men she and beautiful places to scuba Jane is trying to get over the fact she has horrible taste in men and the latest has broken her heart. When the hottest man on board takes an interest in Jane she is thirlled, she also meets an adorable, shy man who knows some of everything. When the 3 of them are stranded on an island peoples true colors begin to show.

Of all of the island that the could land on some how they end up on the same one as the pirates that took over the ship, vampires if Peter is to be believed. As we learn more about Peter, Jane and Nick through the exciting and sometimes frightening adventure they have in trying to save themselves, and the captives from the cruise ship, Love starts to bloom and strengths that Jane never new she has are shown.
I love that Jane has the chance to pick between Mr Hot and Super Geek and that she becomes a strong woman who is able to realize her own worth.

The imagery and the setting is so well written that you can picture the island, the cruise ship, the vampires and the characters with absolute clarity. I felt like that the author was describing real places and events they were so well written. I loved the love story that developed but would loved to have seen more of a true break from the "other guy", not the villain but the other man. It seemed like there was just something missing when Jane finally decides.
I love that the ending included a HEA but also left you ready for the next book, Overall a well written, short novel with the set up for a series. I give this my second highest rating of red roses.

*Excerpt*
A warm wind fanned my face. I watched the colorful flags wave in the breeze, as our sleek cruise ship, The Jakarta, cut through the Southeast Asian waters.
We had boarded the cruise in Bali. Yesterday, we stopped at Komodo Island for diving, sightseeing, and ogling the famous Komodo dragons. Now we were sailing due east through the Flores Sea. I was so looking forward to seeing some of the thousands of large and small islands, each exotic and mysterious, with strange creatures, amazing fish and birds, impenetrable rainforests, and people who still lived in the stone age.
The ship was a small luxury liner that held ninety passengers and a crew of thirty. And though the posh thirty-day cruise was a beacon for singles looking to be pampered, the main billing was its stops to scuba-dive off a few of the seventeen thousand islands of the Indonesian Archipelago – our ultimate destination the Forgotten Islands in the Banda Sea.
They would even teach us how to scuba for free; I had always wanted to learn. I tried it yesterday and was hooked.
I left the deck and went back to my cabin, which I shared with my best friend, Remy. She had dresses and shoes all over her bunk. I plopped down on mine and sighed.
"What're you going to wear tonight?" she asked as she grabbed another dress and held it up to her, turning this way and that in front of the mirror.
"I don't know. I don't feel very social today. Maybe I'll just order something and eat here. And read."
"Which one?"
"Which one, what?" I asked.
"Dress … dress."
"Oh yeah, dress. I like the red one on you. Looks great with your blonde hair."
"Done." She started hanging the other gowns. "Wasn't that guy last night tasty?"
"Who? The one every girl's eyes were glued to?"
"No. No. Who can be interested in a guy who attracts woman in packs? No, the one last night at dinner. With the green eyes and sweet smile. Zack."
"Oh, yeah. Nice."
Actually, the guy who attracted every female on the ship had also attracted me. I had seen him by the pool with his ever-present fan club. The guy had it all. A classic Greek face, black curly hair, olive complexion – probably never visited by a zit. Fabulous build. He seemed to be charming the knickers off every young woman aboard. Maybe that's what my bad mood's about, I thought. Being attracted to the gorgeous guy started me thinking about Tony again – and the phrase that runs over and over in my head – "Jane, I'm sorry. But I've found someone else."

I hadn't been attracted to a man since my fiancé left me for another girl a year ago. You get burned, and you stay away from the stove.
I sighed. I had to stop this. I jumped off my bed. "I need to shake this off. How about a swim?
"Sure."
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*About the Author*
I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in California. I came from a long line of Americans who were pioneers and individualists. The family tree is filled with rugged people: rough coal miners, pioneers, and farmers living in log cabins in the early west. I wrote A Whisper from Eden, A Historical Fantasy, but like to write in several genres.

Lover Boy (aka my husband) was born and raised in Anaheim, California and wishes to remain anonymous because he doesn’t want anyone to know he likes to write romance novels. (Let's keep his secret.)

We wrote THE PIRATES OF VAMPIRE ISLAND, A Paranormal Romantic Thriller (Steamy Voyages #1). And we are working the sequel to Steamy Voyages and a dystopian thriller, The Trash Pile People. We live in Hollywood with our ornery tomcat, Snickers.

Website: http://www.fictionbyphoenix.com
E-mail: read@booksbyphoenix.com
Twitter: @PhoenixRead
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Sept 17: Shah Wharton's WordsinSync (Guest Post/Review)
Sept 18: My Reading Obsession (Review)
Sept 28: Night Owl Reads (Guest Post)
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Oct 3: Kristy Centeno (Guest Post)
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