Thank you Dawn for inviting me to share an excerpt from my latest release, Deviant Devil, Hades Squad Book #4. It’s been a wild ride with the Hades Squad, and to think that this all began when Loose-Id sent out a call for Christmas song themed books. A Paratrooper in a Pear Tree was born, and then all these buddies of the hero of Paratrooper, crowded my head. Where in heck I came up with Sinner, Lucifer, Devil, Demon, and Satan is still a mystery to me.
Devil’s ornery and charming and I had a blast writing his and Jessica’s tale.
Here’s the blurb:
Devil pulled the auction card from the envelope and read, “One blowjob in a private room. Condom mandatory. Touching only on my part. This is what you didn’t specify. Clothing, position, restraints. Forty-five seconds have elapsed. I can keep you here as long as I want until I come in your mouth, latex covered, as specified.”
The last person Devil expects to see in a BDSM club is the best friend of his buddy’s new wife, Jessica Blaine. The all-American apple pie woman he wants so badly it’s her face he sees every orgasm for the last nine months. Is she playing? Exploring? Tough, she’s on his turf now, she’s put herself up for auction, and by God she’s his for the night.
Jess is scared spit less. She’s going to suck off the man who may have killed, Aung, the college student she mentors who vanished three weeks earlier. When the wrong man, a masked stranger, wins the auction, she has no choice but to proceed. Horrified when she not only responds to the masked stranger, but climaxes, Jess flees.
Devil lets her go fully intending to reel her in. His way.
Excerpt:
This scene takes place after Jessica was won by the wrong man at an auction in a private BDSM club. Forced to hire The Hades Squad to find the student she mentors who’s gone missing, she arranges a meeting for a time when she knows Devil’s supposed to be at a conference. Unfortunately, Devil finds out about the meeting and shows up.
Jess slid Devil an under the lids peek only to shudder when she met his piercing glower. Angry aggression lasered from his narrowed eyes. His forward posture, the way he maximized his body print, arms angled to the table’s edge, shoulders aimed in her direction, spiked goose bumps on her arms and neck.
“Why are you here, Jess?” Devil leaned closer.
Flinching, she shifted away, her rear end sliding off the edge of the chair. She focused on Satan. “I don’t want Devil involved.”
The door banged open.
She didn’t know the man standing in the doorway.
His bulk, military stance, the way he cocked his head, and the three lines of a tattoo doing a hide and seek with his black T-shirt slithered a slimy sensation across her nape. While he didn’t look familiar, his carriage and enormous build reminded her of someone. And his mouth with the sneer at one end triggered a flashed memory.
No.
It couldn’t be.
This was not the man who’d won her at the auction.
The man took one look at her, his jaw dropped, and he blurted, “Oh crap.”
That voice.
The three-pronged fork tattoo on his bicep.
It couldn’t be.
An invisible force vaporized all the breathable air.
The room did a carousel-run-amuck series of endless spins.
Her vision blurred, bitterness coated her tongue, and the double espresso she’d drunk earlier puddled at the back of her throat.
It hadn’t been Devil in Bacchanal’s private room.
For there in the doorway loomed the man who’d won her in the auction.
She cupped a hand over her mouth, lurched to her feet, and raced for the bathroom.
The man jumped out of her way and blurted, “It was Devil not me. He took my place. He rigged the whole auction.”
After she’d emptied her stomach and washed up, the words boomeranged in her head. She leaned on the bathroom counter when her knees went weak. Relief had her sagging and that wouldn’t do. Checking her reflection, she tidied her hair, pinched her cheeks, squared her shoulders, took a deep breath, and opened the door.
Walking the plank couldn’t have been worse than the long walk down the narrow hallway. The deafening thumping of her heart hammered away rational thought. Calling on the years spent hiding any show of emotion from the great-aunts who’d raised her; Jess schooled her features into a calm, placid mask.
She glanced neither right nor left, entered The Hades Squad conference room, focused on the far wall, and strolled around the oval table. Taking her seat with all the dignity she could muster, Jess inhaled before looking directly at Satan. “I apologize for keeping you waiting. A momentary stomach upset.”
“Pack up Jessica.” Devil’s tone didn’t brook any argument.
Her peripheral glance caught him addressing Lucifer and Satan and the man who’d won her in the auction. “Meeting’s adjourned.”
Jess gripped the chair’s arms, her nails digging grooves in the upholstery.
Shallow breaths. Don’t look at Devil. Don’t remember the feel of his tongue, the pull of his mouth.
Think of Aung.
Aung.
Missing at least twenty-five days.
It took less than a minute, but the seconds ticked by on a Galapagos evolution scale. All her senses heightened. Brakes squealed on an adjacent road. Devil’s musk and patchouli aftershave crowded her nose. Her reflection in the burnished surface of the mahogany mirrored her feelings, jagged, distorted, blended.
Hire someone else.
She latched onto the idea and said, avoiding everyone’s eyes, “Actually, now that I think of it, perhaps it would be better if I took my business elsewhere.”
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I’m celebrating Deviant Devil’s release with a contest. Visit my site and answer these questions and you’re entered in a drawing for a restaurant gift certificate and a copy of Deviant Devil.
1. What’s Sinner’s real name?
2. What shape is Nalini’s belly ring?
3. What’s the name of the private BDSM club where Devil wins Jess in an auction?
Liked this? Then check out Book 1 and 2 in the series...
A Paratrooper in a Pear Tree
Hades Squad Book 1
Loose Id Publishing
Available NOW
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Ordered to “sex up” former bestselling author Nadine Roland’s latest manuscript, armed with whips, cuffs, and copies of “classic” (who knew?) porn movies, Destiny travels to Healey, Alaska, and a remote mountain cabin.
Deployed to fight an- out- of- control brush fire, Master Parachutist Lincoln Chapman is the last to exit the plane, he veers off course, his chute fails, and his reserve opens at the 10,000 mark.
Deployed to fight an inferno, Master Parachutist Lincoln Chapman’s veers off course, his chute fails, and his reserve opens at the 10,000 mark. The paratrooper lands in the pear tree adjacent to Destiny’s cabin.
The man’s massive and unconscious. The cabin’s cold and isolated, and Destiny’s no girl scout. Then Linc wakes to Destiny’s Madonna features, stripper body, sex toys, and 70’s porn DVDs. Just as they're trying to leave, electricity fizzles. There's only one way to stay warm. Luckily they have all the supplies they need.
Lucifer's Choice
Hades Squad Book 2
Loose Id
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Nalini learns Lucifer’s in Santa Fe. Her teenage crush on Lucifer’s never wavered even though she hasn’t seen him in eight years. Now she needs to lose her virginity to avoid marriage--could the fates have been kinder?
Lucifer never loses his cool, never acts on impulse, until one sultry Santa Fe night when he beds a mysterious exotic beauty who seems vaguely familiar. Their shattering sex stuns Lucifer; he suggests another date. Nalini informs him she’s engaged. He’s outraged--she used him.
It doesn't get much better when he learns his mysterious beauty is also that runaway bride.
3 comments:
Oops - my bad Dawn. Deviant Devil is actually Book #3 of the Hades Squad series.
Book #4 is actually Demon Seed.
*chagrined*
Jianne
No worries...but I got to admit....this sounds absolutly fantabulous. I got to grab it.
One question: Do we need to read the stories in order or are they stand alone titles?
All of my books are standalone.
Mainly because I detest having to read books in order myself.
And they can also be read in any order. I never make a reference to one of the other books in the current book that isn't fully explained.
Jianne
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