Guest Author Day with Mina Carter

*waves madly* I’d like to start off by thanking Dawn for hosting me today and for Tina at Topaz for organizing everything :D

So, yes. Introductions. I have two for you today. To start with, I’d better introduce myself. I’m Mina Carter and I write romance in the paranormal, sci-fi, and occasionally contemporary sub-genres. I’ll warn you, I’m a random little bunny with more than a few kicks in my gallop ;) 

The second introduction I’d like to make is for the hero of the latest story in the Imperial Princes series. Now, a romance always has to have a good hero and Colonel Jareth Nikolai is certainly that. A living legend on the battlefield, his reputation precedes him, and he’s best friends with the Imperial Prince, so everyone at court knows to steer clear (also because he has zero patience with nobles who do nothing all day and his opinion on simpering and the latest fashions isn’t printable). His days are spent either training, or waging a one man war against the pirates that plague the space-lanes. He has no use for the usual drinking and carousing the rest of his men get up to when in home base.

Even though he has the coin for courtesans, he doesn’t have the time nor inclination to indulge in the brothels down-town anymore. Instead, he has his sights set a little bit higher. On one of the women of the Imperial prince’s harem. To touch one is death. To kiss one…there aren’t words for the punishment a man would suffer. 

None of that makes any difference to the ruthlessly efficient colonel. He’s watched one of the women, the harem-mistress herself no less, from afar for years. So when the harem is closed, and he’s offered a boon for his exemplary service, he really only has one answer…

Writing Jareth was a lot of fun. He’s the sort of hard-line, very alpha male character I love to write. The sort that could so easily slide into bad boy territory but somehow manages not to. His pursuit of Keliana is single-minded in its intensity, almost brutal in his focus on winning her heart despite her arguments, and for me, heart-wrenching when he almost loses her. Yeah, I do love to torture my characters, but you’ll have to read Harem Mistress to find out just how much ;)

Illicit love, burning hot sex...

Keliana is an imperial harem mistress, but that doesn't stop Jareth Nikolai from wanting her. A colonel in the imperial fleet and the prince's right hand man, Jareth has earned his reputation as a loyal, stone-cold soldier, but thoughts of Keliana heat his blood to boiling--even though she's the property of his prince.

Keliana knows it's forbidden, but she can't get the handsome colonel of out of her mind, nor can she ignore her dreams of one day loving him openly as a free woman. When she's called before her prince and given to Nikolai as a gift, she thinks her dreams have finally come true. Until Nikolai is raised to prince and cannot marry his harem mistress.

And deep within the shadows, enemy machinations work to keep them apart forever...

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 Mina Carter was born and raised in Middle Earth (otherwise known as the Midlands, England). After a slew of careers ranging from logistics to land-surveying she can now be found in the wilds of Leicestershire with her husband and young daughter…the true boss of the family.

Suffering the curse of eternal curiosity Mina never tires of learning new skills which has led to Aromatherapy, Corsetry, Chain-maille making, Welding, Canoeing, Shooting, and pole-dancing to name but a few.

A full time author and cover artist, Mina can usually be found hunched over a keyboard or graphics tablet, frantically trying to get the images and words in her head out and onto the screen before they drive her mad. She's addicted to coffee and Nutella on toast.

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