Welcome to Tease Me Tuesday!

This week, I shall begin the fun with an excerpt from my October Kensington Brava, MUST LOVE VAMPIRES.

Now, for the record, you can read one excerpt from MUST LOVE VAMPIRES on the MUST LOVE VAMPIRES book page of my website.  You can check it out any time, anywhere.

See—I told you I was a tease. :dancer

But today’s excerpt is exclusive.  Posted only here & only once.

So spread the word to all your reader friends that they should get their little butts over here right now today, & then…

Enjoy! :vamp

With a scream, she came around him, flexing, tightening, bringing him with her like a backdraft. While the orgasm ripped through him, making him gasp, making him stiffen inside of her, he tipped her head and couldn’t resist any longer. The truth would come out soon enough, and she would know everything.

Opening his mouth, he skimmed his teeth—fangs and all—across her skin, finding just the right spot. And then he sank them in, bit deep, letting her blood spill over his tongue even as he filled her with his essence.

It was everything he’d dreamed of and more. She tasted like honey and flowers and sunshine—or what he imagined sunshine might taste like, since he hadn’t actually seen the big ball of fiery gas in decades. For long, drawn-out moments, he simply held her, drank her, absorbed her into himself as much as he could.

Suddenly, though, he realized she wasn’t moving. Was perfectly, almost deathly still, and not just in the post-orgasmic, too-sated-to-budge way. Loosening his grip, he took a last sip and ran his tongue over the two pristine puncture marks in her throat, using his unique vampire enzymes to seal the wound. Then he cupped her chin, brought her face around to his while still caressing her stomach and between her breasts.

“Are you all right?” he asked softly, bussing her cheek.

She licked her lips, the tendons of her neck convulsing as she swallowed. “You bit me,” she said, sounding a little dazed, a little confused.

“Yes,” he admitted, not wanting to have this particular conversation right here and now, but knowing he had no one but himself to blame for the timing and circumstances.

She licked her lips again, moving away from him slightly so that he slipped out of her warm, wet body. He bit back a groan at the loss of her heat, her nearness, but didn’t try to stop her.

“You bit me,” she repeated. This time, her voice carried a note of astonishment edged with anger.

Uh-oh.

Lifting a hand to her throat, she felt the marks, violet eyes widening when she realized it was a hell of a lot more than the average love bite.

“You bit me—” Her accusations were all annoyance now, any signs of perplexity gone. “—and you broke the skin.”

“I’m sorry,” he told her, and he meant it. He’d loved drinking from her, having her share that part of herself with him, but he had dropped the ball on the whole red light/green light asking permission thing beforehand. “I should have told you sooner. I should have explained instead of just jumping in like that.”

Looking at her fingers, rubbing the red-smeared pads together, startlement flashed across features. “I’m bleeding.”

Still on her knees, she turned to face him. “What the hell were you—”

Lifting her head, she stopped in mid-sentence, shock causing her eyes to pop. She went white as a sheet, her mouth dropping open.

“Oh, my God,” she breathed, and Aidan knew his belief that she would understand and accept him, and that they’d live happily ever after had been sorely miscalculated.

And then her eyes rolled back in her head, her body went slack, and she hit the sheets in a dead faint.

Where To Buy

Amazon :: Kindle ebook :: Barnes & Noble :: NOOK ebook

Borders :: Indiebound

Book Depository (free international shipping)

Even if I haven’t been paying attention, I can always tell when the release of a new book is getting close because the reviews from all those ARCs I sent out start rolling in.  Thankfully, most of them are good ones.  Some are even fan-tabulous! :getdown

And of course I’m going to share them with you. (It may be Monday, but I’m pretty sure this will only whet your appetites for tomorrow’s Tease Me Tuesday. :wink )

This one comes from our very own sometimes Darling Debby at SingleTitles.com:

“Heidi Betts pens another culinary masterpiece for our reading pleasure—Must Love Vampires

Nightclub dancer, Chloe Lamereaux, is sure Aidan Raines is the answer to all her needs. He is charming, rich and very sexy. He is also a bit mysterious and has a few secrets. Even if he does not like the sunlight, he asked her to marry him and she is going to do just that. Chloe has a few secrets of her own, but there is time enough for that after the wedding.

Charlie, Chloe’s twin sister, is convinced there is something not right with Aidan and his brother, Sebastian. Convinced the two are vampires, she decides to get the story of her life for her little tabloid paper. She convinces Chloe to let her take her place at the nightclub when her shadowing of him gets her nowhere. Charlie is soon in over her head when the seductive, mysterious Sebastian has her at his mercy. Are they looking for more than just some hot loving?

Two sisters and two brothers find each other under usual circumstances but find wonderful love in the process. Charlie and Chloe in many ways were opposite as were Sebastian and Aidan. Read Must Love Vampires to experience the rush and the dance as these four find their love.

Heidi Betts is truly a Master of Metaphor, or perhaps just skillful at similes or handy with humor. However you label her, Must Love Vampires is filled with humor, metaphor, and similes, used in such a way as to delight and entrance the reader. Must Love Vampires will take its place on your keeper shelf.”

Whoo-hoo! Oh, yeah…  Thank you, Debby! :getdown    So glad you enjoyed it, & thanks for all the great quotable quotes.  I’m going to wear them out, that’s for sure. :howyoudoin

Where To Buy

Amazon :: Kindle ebook :: Barnes & Noble :: NOOK ebook

Borders :: Indiebound

Book Depository (free international shipping)

Apologies, apologies. It has been the busiest of weeks/weekends, & I totally blanked on today’s post.  (We are also in the middle of a nasty thunderstorm & I need to get this done before the power goes out. :hide )

So I’m going to skip my usual Happy Sunday gratitude list & go straight to the prize announcement from Free Book Friday.  But please, PLEASE go ahead & post what you’re thankful & grateful for this week, & I may chime in later, too. :whichone

And so, for Jessica Andersen’s Harlequin Intrigue At Close Range…

:getdown LeeAnn Pratt!!! :getdown

Congratulations, LeeAnn! :claphat Please contact me with your name & mailing information, & I’ll get your book out to you as soon as I can!

And Happy Sunday, everyone, even if I did drop the ball this week! :knock