In Sky Woman, the first book of my Seeder Saga, Miri Reynolds finds herself kidnapped and taken to another planet, where she initially meets up with a shady man whose motives are less than friendly. Miri’s fair hair and blue eyes make her a valuable commodity in this land.
In this chapter, Miri tries to escape his clutches and finds herself running headlong into Lunan – who ends up being her ticket out of there. Continue reading
What happens when a sexy, sarcastic pirate meets a sensual stowaway and her secretive sibling?
I’ll give you one guess, and it starts with “S.”
STEAM. Serious steam.
Zephyr Jamieson is sailing the seas of a magical realm, where witches and mermaids and other magical creatures abound. When he pulls Rina and her brother Aven out of the hold of his ship, he can either pitch them over the side or find a way to help them get what they need…for a price.
Here are just a few of the reviews for Eight Nights At Sea:
“This love story is so softly mystical. The details wrap around your heart and pull you in.”
“This is one of the best stories I’ve ever read! I would trade places with Rina in a heartbeat! Pirate Zephyr melted my heart…”
“I absolutely loved everything about this book.”
“If you love a good pirate, or even if you don’t – this story is so magical it will make your heart spin.”
Adult romance is such a big, wide-open category.
You have everything from love stories with a steamy scene here and there to pounding, throbbing naked multi-player action that may or may not include fantastical beasts and battlefield implements.
Me, I write all kinds of stuff. I even have another pen name that I use for the more G and PG rated things like my YA fiction. And when it comes to steam, I’ve made no secret that I think story trumps sex anytime. That being said, sometimes you just want a good, dirty read and you don’t necessarily need the romance. That’s why I write both novels and novellas. Continue reading
Chell at LoveReadingLaughing just finished reading Eight Nights At Sea, and had this to say about it:
This Love Story Is So Softly Mystical. The Details Wrap Around Your Heart And Pull You In. Zephyr And Rina Dance Around Loving Each Other So Well, The Twists And Turns I Never Saw Coming. Rina’s Secret Is So Well Entwined Into The Story I Forgot She Wasn’t Who I Thought She Was (You’ll Understand That Sentence Later, I’m Not Spoiling That One For You!). Rina And Zephyr Are Not Your Typical Lovers And It Is Amazing. I Found My Self Reading Parts To My Husband Just To Share With Someone Because I Couldn’t Hold My Thoughts In. Eight Nights At Sea Are Not Enough, Britt–We Need Aven’s Story Asap, Please.
If You Love A Good Pirate, Or If Even If You Don’t–This Story Is So Magical It Will Make Your Heart Spin.
You can read the review here!
In this scene from Sky Woman, Miri is at a loss – she’s been kidnapped and has no idea where she is. She doesn’t speak the language, and communicating with Lunan and his brother, Kaivan, has been difficult. Here we see her moment of discovery – when she realizes just how far from home she really is. Continue reading
I’m busy with final edits for Someday In Dublin, so I’m going to be lazy and toss out an excerpt for Captured By The Hunter.” In this scene, runaway bride Drella has already gotten away from the hunter Jodan once, and she thinks she’s in the clear…
I’m in final edits for Someday In Dublin, which means the greater majority of that book is in the can. Whew! And now I can really begin hammering out the next project – The Elemental Destiny Series.
This is going to be a four part work – four individual full-length novels with protagonists based on their affinity for one of the four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. They won’t be releasing in that order – it’s more like Air, Water, Earth and Fire, but you get the gist of it.
Each of these characters lives partly in the supernatural world, though they are very firmly rooted in present-day earth. I’ve been kicking this one around for a good, long while, outlining and reworking the outline and fleshing it out.
One of my biggest complaints about The Seeder Saga (and I can’t help but think it was an issue for the readers) is that Books 1 & 2 are essentially stand-alone books, up until their final chapters. That’s mainly because when I wrote the first one, I hadn’t really planned for a trilogy, and then I was halfway into book two and could only hint at the plot of book three by introducing you to its hero in a passing manner.
Everything comes together in book three, with a lot of great callbacks and visits to our friends in books one and two, but they don’t really have the cohesive feel I’d like out of a series.
This one will have that, and an intricately woven plot that centers around a series of mysteries that reveal themselves through the course of the series, culminating in life-or-death decisions that will affect the entire human race.
This one is going to take a while to churn out, but it’ll be worth it, I promise. In the meantime, you’ll have Somewhere In Dublin, and I’ll toss a few more novellas your way to keep your blood pumping, I promise.
Off to work I go!
This is a sexy, steamy romance novel. You know how I love my steam, but this one…this one is mostly about the romance.
I mean, this is pure, straight-on romance. This is Mr. Darcy, touching your hand in a crowded ballroom. This is John Cusack standing outside your window with a boom box. This is Khal Drogo looking you in the eyes as you sit astride him.
You get what I mean. This story is a love story, set in the present day, with no gorgeous aliens or fantastical realms, like I usually like to escape to. This time, I escaped to Ireland, and oh, what a journey we go on with this one.
So here, for your reading pleasure, is a bit of Michael and Amy’s introduction. Enjoy! Continue reading
As I’ve mentioned before, my new novella, “Captured By The Hunter” will be out tomorrow! I have to tell you that I loved the hell out of this one. Jodan was tremendous fun to write, and the dynamic between these two…whoo baby. When you add in Sci-Fi or Fantasy, sex can go all kinds of fun places.
This is one of my longer novellas, and I briefly toyed with the idea of making it a full-on novel, but in the end, it just wasn’t going to happen. I have (and I’m not kidding) NINE books on horizon. I’m finishing up Somewhere In Dublin, then I’ve got a four part fantasy romance series waiting in the wings. I’m also working on a non-fiction book, parts two and three of a YA series and another YA novel under my other pen name. Adding yet another novel onto the pile (especially when I really, really wanted to write this story NOW) just wasn’t going to fly.
So you get a more condensed (and intense) version, and new readers get a glimpse of where I go when I get to build the universe my characters live in.
I call that a win/win.
So look for the new novella, available tomorrow on Amazon for Kindle and Smashwords for all e-reading devices and PC!
In and around working on “Someday In Dublin,” I’ve managed to bang out (heh) another of my $.99 novellas. I just need to get it polished up over the coming weekend, and I hope to have it published by April 1st!
Captured By The Hunter is the story of Drella, an intergalactic merchant’s daughter who is on the run from an arranged marriage. Her groom engages a Hunter to track her down – and this is no ordinary Hunter. Jodan is from a planet of Prims (you’ll remember them from my books Rain In The Moonlight and Changeling), a race of people who have special sensory skills – skills that make him a formidable foe…and a complete force of nature when it comes to women. Can he bring Drella back to face her wedding day? And can Drella get away from a man she’s overwhelmingly drawn to?
Look for Captured By The Hunter next week!
Britt DeLaney 