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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Red Stilettos Contest!
I’m celebrating the print release of my newest Ellora’s Cave title, RED STILETTOS with a new contest. The anthology includes my story Head Over Heels, plus Whirlwind Affair by Francesca Hawley, Dear Sexy Lexie by Ashlyn Chase and Bad, Bad Girlfriend by Delilah Devlin.
The rules are listed on my website home-page and all you have to do is follow them to be entered in the drawing. And for those of you who comment today some lucky person will be receiving a download of IOU, my short story that’s part of the Carnal Reunions anthology with Resplendence Publishing.
RED STILETTOS:
A New Year’s Day auction and a pair of legendary red stilettos guaranteed to bring the wearer their heart’s desire have four friends pooling their money to take a chance on love. Here’s a blurb and excerpt from Bella’s story, the heroine of Head Over Heels.
Height-challenged Bella Jacienski literally falls head over magic red stilettos into sexy philanthropist’s Rhys Vincent’s arms and wonders if the legend attached to the shoes is true. Has she found her heart’s desire, a passionate, lust-crazed lover who wants only her¬—always?
Rhys can’t keep his big hands off the curvy shopkeeper. Her smile captivates him and her lush body has him behaving totally out of character. Heated glances and sizzling touches turn into a hot office interlude and wild break-the-bed sex that only make him want her more. She thinks the shoes are magic but Rhys knows that Bella is all the magic he needs.
Excerpt:
Rhys Vincent ground his back teeth and took Veronica Smith–Hathaway’s elbow as they crossed the street. It was snowing and not for the first time did he wish he were wearing boots instead of dress shoes with his tux. Ronnie didn’t seem to notice the puddle that soaked her designer heels or the frigid wind that tore at the edges of her flimsy black evening coat. Neither had been designed for January in Kansas City.
Veronica—Ronnie—was his best friend Brian’s estranged wife. She had insisted she knew a shop that had the fedora they needed to complete the scavenger-hunt list—right after he’d politely refused her offer to give him the best sex of his life. Was it too much to ask for a woman who didn’t have an agenda to want to have sex with him? He’d been down the revenge-sex path years ago and it was one he didn’t want to take with a woman he’d known for twenty years.
He’d promised Brian that he’d keep an eye on her and that meant he couldn’t very well let her walk around alone in the Crossroads art district after dark.
As CEO of the Vincent Foundation, he’d put Veronica in charge of the annual event as a favor. One he was coming to regret. He was still trying to figure out why Brian was so worried about a wife he’d clearly been neglecting for the past year when Ronnie leaned over and peered into a dimly lit shop.
“There it is,” she hissed, pointing at a weathered brown fedora, jauntily perched on a torso mannequin’s head. Before he could figure out why she was hissing, he glanced through the window, started to shout and everything went into slow motion.
He saw a pair of curvy legs that ended in sexy red spike heels leaning forward and overbalancing a rickety ladder. The bell over the door jangled as he pushed it open and sprinted three full strides. He reached her before she finished screaming.
“She” was an armful of black and white fluff he grabbed and swept out of the way as the ladder fell.
Maybe he couldn’t breathe because she’d smacked him square in the chest but he didn’t think so. Although it could have been because her arms were wrapped solidly around his neck, as if she didn’t intend to let go anytime soon. Fine by him.
He didn’t know if she was shocked that he’d caught her or because she knew the shudder that rippled through her like a faint orgasm had telegraphed its way into his fingertips. She looked like a naughty fairy-tale princess with big blue eyes. A fall of silky dark hair brushed the top of her black turtleneck and her creamy cheeks were flushed as bright as an apple. She knew.
Have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend and until next month,
Happy Reading!
Paris
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19 comments:
OMG, what a cover - and what a story, Paris!! Congrats on the print release - hope you burn up the internet with your well-deserved sales! :)
Congratulations Paris on the print release. I loved the excerpt-it's so flirty!
XXOO Kat
Enticing excerpt and cover both. Congratulations....Jean
Paris,
I want this book. Oh, how I wish I had a ereader. I'm looking. I'm hoping for one for Christmas.
Great cover and story.
Paris,
Congrats on the print release! The cover is awesome and I'm sure the stories are just as awesome!
Congrats on your release.I read the excerpt and love it.
loretta
lbcanton@verizon.net
Tina,
Thanks so much! Yeah, I love this cover too:-)
Thanks, Kat:-)I had fun with this story!
Aw, thanks, Jean:-)
Sandy,
Be very, very good or very, very bad and maybe Santa will notice;-)
LOL! this one is in print though, so you won't need it!
Carla,
Thank you so much:-)
Loretta,
Thanks for stopping by, glad you liked the excerpt!
Carla,
Congratulations! You've won a download of IOU! Thanks for stopping by to comment:-)
Love that cover...hope you get to sign lots of them!
Marianne/April
Thanks, April! My hand isn't cramping yet, LOL! but I've signed a few:-)
Congratulations on the print release. And the cover - oh my, it sizzles!
Great cover, great excerpt. Can't wait to read the book. Congrats.
RomanceBookLvr,
thanks so much!
Thanks, Barbara!
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