Monday's Muse

Last week was a complete disaster for me :(    I wish I could just pull the sheets over my head, go to sleep and wake up with a do-over.  Do you ever feel that way?  All I can say is I am actually glad it's Monday for once because it's the start of a new week with limitless possibilities and opportunities :)  (no I'm not actually feeling that chipper and optimistic, but I'm faking it until I make it kind of thing...hoping to get me out of my funk)

This week's Muse is a bit more...revealing than normal, but I just loved his physique and couldn't resist.

This week at Seductive Musings:

• I have family visiting all this week so I won't be blogging.  I hope you will find yourself back here next Monday for a new week and Muse.

Finally, I'd like to congratulate all of the authors with new releases this week, especially Musings authors Vicki Lewis Thompson, & Vivian Arend!  Congrats Ladies!!!

 

 

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Blog Hop: Sinful Sirens Giveaway

 

I don't know about you, but during the summer months I like to turn up the heat in my romance reading in direct correlation to the temperature outside :)  I can't wait for summer to get here because some of my most favorite erotic romance authors have books coming out soon!  Here are the erotic romances that I am most looking forward to this summer (in order of release date):

Rocky Mountain Rebel by Vivian Arend (5/21/13)

The best type of growing up involves getting down and dirty

Vicki Hansol made different choices than her less-than-reputable mom and sister, yet her fiery temper has left her branded with the same town-bad-girl label. When she desperately needs a change of scenery, her get-out-of-town-free ticket arrives—and requires she face down one of her deepest fears.

Easygoing Joel Coleman has nothing to complain about, but he’s never really done anything to brag about either. The youngest member of the Six Pack Ranch is looking to make some changes in his life that include stepping out from under his twin brother’s shadow.

So when the bold beauty with the smart mouth approaches him with a proposition, Joel is intrigued. Her request for him to teach her to ride soon takes on a whole new meaning. All that passion in his arms, his bed, in the barn…hell, anywhere he can get it? Bring it on.

But tangling the sheets leads to unanticipated complications, and by the time the dust settles, everything family means is going to be challenged.

Caution: Saddle up for some youthful vigor applied with great enthusiasm. Ropes, rails and raunchy sex—there’s more places to get dirty around the ranch than first meets the eye.

This is Who I Am by Cherise Sinclair (5/28/13) (no book cover was available nor is it available for pre-order yet...hello, that's just two weeks away, what are they waiting for?)

When trying to save a woman from slavers, Sam screwed up. Royally. Now Linda wants nothing to do with him. Or with BDSM. She won’t even admit she’s a masochist. As a dominant and sadist, he can give her what she needs, and when an opportunity arises, he slips into her life, intending to make amends. She’s everything he knew she would be…except for her bullheaded determination to be ‘normal’.

Now the horrible time is past, Linda just wants to return to her small conservative town, pick up her quiet life, and be normal. But how can someone who likes pain be ‘normal’? To her dismay, when someone spray-paints her home with obscenities, Sam shows up to rescue her. Again. Doesn’t he understand that the last thing she needs in her life is a sadist? He’s amused by her objections. But his dry sense of humor can’t disguise that he’s tough as nails and dominant and stubborn. He’s not going to let her drive him off this time. Soon she realizes she wants him to stay.

When he takes her to the Shadowlands, she feels as if she’s found a home…until she hears a voice from out of her nightmares.

Fire Inside by Kristen Ashley (6/4/13)

Lanie Heron isn’t looking for love—no surprise, considering her last serious relationship nearly got her killed. So when Lanie propositions Hop Kincaid, all she wants is one wild night with the hot-as-hell biker who patrols with the Chaos Motorcycle Club...

For Hop, Lanie has always been untouchable. She’s too polished and too classy for his tastes. But when she gives Hop the once-over with her bedroom eyes and offers him a night in paradise, he can’t say no. And he doesn’t regret it when he finds that Lanie is the best thing that’s ever happened to him—in or out of bed. Now the trick will be to convince her of that.

One Sweet Ride by Jaci Burton (6/4/13)

Gray Preston was born into money, but he’s built his racing empire on hard work and muscle. And now that Gray has millions of fans, his senator father sends one of his aides, Evelyn Hill, to elicit Gray’s help in garnering votes for the upcoming national election. Gray wants nothing to do with his estranged father’s campaign, but Evelyn can be pretty persuasive. She’s willing to learn about racing, and maybe even get a little dirty.

Evelyn’s number-one goal is politics, which makes working with Gray difficult, because his only passion is fast cars. As she and Gray spend time together, he teaches her about the sport he loves, and she learns a lot about the man behind the wheel. The more she learns, the more she wants him. But any desire that threatens to derail the carefully laid plans for her future is a dangerous one.

With the passion Gray and Evelyn share running hotter than either imagined, one of them is going to have to compromise, or else run the risk of losing more than their hearts.

Entwined with You by Sylvia Day (6/4/13)

The worldwide phenomenon continues as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts, and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires…

From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn’t resist. I saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside–so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat.

No one knows how much he risked for me. How much I’d been threatened, or just how dark and desperate the shadow of our pasts would become.

Entwined by our secrets, we tried to defy the odds. We made our own rules and surrendered completely to the exquisite power of possession…

 

Turn and Burn by Lorelei James (8/6/13)

 Tanna Barker is a world champion barrel racer. But her personal life has been less of a success, and she’s feeling adrift. After her mother’s unexpected death, her father has remarried, and sold the Texas ranch she called home. Now a rodeo injury has left the restless spitfire holed up in Muddy Gap, unsure what her next move should be.

Until she meets her match in a wild, wild cowboy

Veterinarian August Fletcher has always put his job first. He’s never found a woman who could handle his on-the-road lifestyle. But when sassy, sexy Tanna blows into town, he finally finds the woman of his fantasies. And there’s something between them, but she claims she’s been burned by love ’em and leave ’em road dogs before. How can Fletch prove that he’s in it for the long haul, and that their sizzling relationship is better than winning any rodeo medal? It’ll take some sweet persuasion to convince Tanna that Muddy Gap is where she belongs.

Caught Up in You by Roni Loren (8/6/2013)

The girl who has spent her life running is about to be caught . . . by love.

After a shaky past, Kelsey LeBreck’s future is looking good. She’s been saving money for culinary school with her earnings from The Ranch, a private BDSM resort. Even better, she’s landed a day job where she can practice baking and flirt with her favorite customer. However, having secret fantasies about Wyatt Austin is where it has to end. If there’s one thing Kelsey knows can derail her, it’s a relationship. But when a danger from her past threatens to steal her fresh start, the intense executive may be the only one who can help her.

Wyatt doesn’t have room on his agenda for dating, but something about the pretty young waitress stirs desires he thought were long buried. So when he needs someone to pose as his girlfriend at an important business retreat and finds out Kelsey needs to go off the grid for a while, he can’t resist making her an offer. Soon, Kelsey learns that Wyatt’s power in the boardroom is no match for his power in the bedroom, and she wonders if her heart will survive. Because Wyatt Austin is a man who gets what he wants, and now he wants her.

I thought long and hard as to what book I'd like to giveaway and I finally decided that I wanted to giveaway a book by Kristen Ashely since she has become my new obsession.  I wanted to giveaway her new upcoming book Fire Inside, but I found with the previous book, Own the Wind, that if you hadn't read Motorcycle Man before Own the Wind, then it may not have been as good.  There's a lot of backstory that connects the two books that enriches the storyline of Own the Wind and heroine in Fire Inside played a major role in Motorcycle Man so I have a feeling that this book will also be better if you've read Motorcycle Man first.  But not everyone may have read Motorcycle Man so I had a bit of a dilemma.

So....with that in mind I decided to giveaway one digital copy of either Motorcycle Man (book 1), Own the Wind (book 2) or Fire Inside (book 3) from either Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Amazon for the Kindle or Kobo to one lucky Musings follower.  That way if you've read some but not all you can pick the book that you need, or if you haven't read any of them yet then you can start with Motorcycle Man (the hero in this book made many favs lists last year).  The digital book will be gifted to you via one of these three retailers. 

Enter to win in the Rafflecopter form below (US & International as long as you can accept an e-book gift from either Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Kobo):

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