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Tina Donahue has a new release. Stolen Desire is the fourth book in the series Outlawed Realm, and she's here today to share it with you. This series is Erotic Urban Fantasy Romance, but we're sharing some PG teasers. Enjoy!
One touch is never enough.
Her freedom depends on one man. A criminal to his realm…
One minute, Paige Ross is outside a Seattle bar, grieving
a failed engagement. The next, she jerks awake in a weird, candlelit room with
velvet walls, black silk sheets, and a man who motions for silence.
Paige has little choice but to trust the powerful
stranger who promises a way out of what looks like Satan’s brothel. And pray
his promise to keep her safe is as real as the heat burning in his eyes.
Banished from E2’s ruling elite for supposed crimes
against the realm, Zekin risks everything to rescue those brought to E5 for the
guards’ carnal pleasure. Paige will be leaving this inhospitable realm of fire
and ice—if he can somehow forget the way she melts in his arms.
Safe—temporarily—in an underwater world populated by
strange creatures, Paige’s sexual awakening explodes into an unquenchable need
that consumes them both. But the guards will be looking for her. And Zekin’s
plan to send her home is a dangerous journey she cannot—will not—take without
him.
EXCERPT:
Thick gray clouds rolled above them, heavy with more snow. A sliver of bluish-white light poured through a gap in the cloud cover, as though the moon were trying to bleed through. Its rays swept across the land, which shimmered in the frail glow, sparkling like thousands of diamonds. The effect lasted only a moment, and then the light receded, with shadows once again taking over the hostile terrain.
As though that worried him, Zekin
increased his already fast pace, pausing only once to shove her clothing into a
snowdrift, burying it.
Why?
Paige wasn’t able to ask. She struggled to
keep up, gulping air. It should have been icy, hurting her throat, but wasn’t.
The transparent mask no doubt heated it. How was that possible? Desperate for
answers, she cried out, “Where are we going?”
Zekin looked over. “A colony where you’ll
be safe.”
Paige dug her fingers into his hand.
“Where are we? What is this place?”
“E5.”
What in the hell was that? A government
installation where scientists conducted classified studies and had pleasure
slaves on the side? That made absolutely no—
Wait a sec. Suddenly, Paige recalled Zekin
mentioning E1 when he’d first come into her room.
“I’ll do all I can
to bring you back to E1,” he’d promised her then.
Instinctively, she held back. Just as
quickly, Zekin yanked her forward.
“Don’t fight me,” he warned, “or you’ll
end up like the others you saw outside the guards’ outpost.”
Paige shivered so badly, her voice shook.
“Did those bastards throw the bodies out there after they murdered those
people?”
“Only some. The others they pushed out
there to die.”
“Why?”
“They weren’t useful any longer.” Again,
he glanced over. “When one of the guards found you and brought you here, they
got rid of the other woman. That’s what they do when they tire of females from
your realm, or the pleasure slaves they haven’t already killed.”
Paige was about to pepper him with more
questions. Instead, her mind snagged on one word—realm.
“You mean country?” Maybe she’d been wrong
about his nationality. It wasn’t Greek or Middle-Eastern but Russian. Could be
this was Siberia. In a weird sort of way, that made sense. “Is that what you
meant—my country? The USA? America?”
He regarded the landscape past her. “We
have to hurry before the other guards return and see us.”
Paige couldn’t imagine how that was
possible. The material covering them was the same tint as their surroundings,
making them virtually invisible…unless the guards had some kind of special
eyewear, like night-vision goggles, that allowed them to see what the naked eye
couldn’t. “How far is the colony?”
“Past that body of water.” He gestured
toward what appeared to be an enormous frozen lake ringed by drifts.
As Paige scanned the area beyond it,
searching for some sort of building, a flock of birds flew over the lake. At
least she thought they were birds. Their thick feathers were an ashy white,
their wingspans enormous, like nothing she’d ever seen.
They flew in an odd formation, not the
usual V pattern, but in a perfect circle. Paige couldn’t help but stare at the
phenomenon. How in the world did they do—
A thunderous crackling sound interrupted
her thoughts, and the again screeching wind.
She flinched. Zekin released her hand and
moved in front, his body pushing hers back, shielding Paige as something
shattered the ice from beneath the center of the lake. Within seconds, a
creature pushed through, hurling its milky body upward. The waves that followed
it froze instantly in the raw air, the ends of the water curled over like a
fine crystal sculpture. As massive as a blue whale, the creature surged from
the lake, a horn protruding from its snout, no doubt what pierced the ice. With
blinding speed, it penetrated the circle made by the birdlike creatures.
Shrieking wildly, they scattered, but it
did no good. The whale-like thing swung its monstrous head back and forth,
gulping several of the creatures before gravity pulled it back down to the
water. A thin sheet of ice formed instantly, hiding its exit. Harsh winds
toppled the frozen waves as easily as if they’d been a house of cards, then
pushed them against the snowdrifts, returning the scene to the relative calm of
a few minutes before as though none of the carnage had occurred.
Paige continued to hyperventilate. What
kind of fucking nightmare had she stumbled into? Was it possible she’d been
drugged and was hallucinating? If not… Aw crap, she didn’t want to think about
that.
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Desire-Outlawed-Realm-Book-ebook/dp/B0F9LP3TFZ/
You might want to start with the first book in the series, although you can read them as standalones.
BOOK ONE – OUTLAWED REALM
Erotic Urban Fantasy Romance
AMAZON:
https://tinyurl.com/2p8t73s
Blurb:
His hunger for one woman will make him a traitor to his world…
From a
portal in his lab on E2, one of the five dimensions of Earth, quantum physicist
Nikoli Zorr gazes on everything forbidden to him. Passion. Desire. The
exquisite pleasure of running his hands over the lush curves of a young woman
he should have stopped watching weeks ago.
His duty
is to close the portals that keep the monsters out of E2—and never interfere
with the inevitable fate of those on the other side. Yet he can’t bring himself
to abandon the woman who has captured his soul.
Psychologist
Regina Page is trying to focus on her client, and off the mysterious,
unbearable sexual cravings that consume her when she’s alone in her bedroom.
The next moment she’s attacked by vampires, then swept into another realm by
Nikoli, a stranger whose touch awakens that same raw desire. Whose eyes are
already filled with farewell.
Yet
beneath their undeniable carnal lust, something else stirs. The beginnings of
illicit love. The unexpected need to protect him. Even if it means risking
body, blood, and soul to defeat the merciless horde…for a future that was never
meant to be.
Tina’s an Amazon and international bestselling novelist who writes passionate romance for every taste – ‘heat with heart’ – for traditional publishers and indie. Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, Romantic Times and numerous online sites have praised her work. She’s won Readers’ Choice Awards, was named a finalist in the EPIC competition, received a Book of the Year award, The Golden Nib Award, awards of merit in the RWA Holt Medallion competitions, and second place in the NEC RWA contests. She’s featured in the Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Before penning romances, she worked at a major Hollywood production company in Story Direction.
On a less serious note: she’s an
admitted and unrepentant chocoholic, brakes for Mexican restaurants, and has
been known to moan like Meg Ryan in When
Harry Met Sally while wolfing down tostadas. She’s flown a single-engine
airplane (freaking scary), rewired an old house using an ‘electricity for
dummies’ book, and is horribly shy despite the hot romances she writes.
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Thanks for hosting me, Brenda! :)
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome. Good luck with the book, Tina.
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