Thursday, August 27, 2009

Thursday Thirteen!


Thirteen Mini-Excerpts from My Sexy New Sci-Fi Erotic Romance Valuable Cargo!


1.


Frowning at the woman’s cryptic answer, Tanna walked over to where her engineer stood, only to stare at the pod in stunned silence. Leala had wiped off the light coating of frost from the upper portion of the pod, and through the glass, Tanna saw that there was a man inside. A completely gorgeous—and from the parts she could see—very well built man who, shockingly, appeared to be in perfect health. The pod container must be some type of hypersleep chamber, she thought. She had heard of those, but no one had used them in over five-hundred years, not since the invention of the faster-than-light Tachyon drive. That meant the ship was even older than they had thought, back from the days of sub-light space travel.


The fact that the man was still alive after so long wasn’t the only thing that made him unusual. Not only was he all beautifully sculpted muscle, but he was also unusually tall as well. The hypersleep chamber was at least seven feet long and the guy did a pretty good job of filling it up. That meant he was at least six-four or six-five. At five-ten, Tanna was as tall as any man she’d ever met, and taller than some, but this guy would clearly tower over her. She let her gaze run over his broad shoulders and muscular chest appreciatively. Damn, the guy was built. The hypersleep chamber must be equipped with some type of electro-stimulation to keep him in such great shape for so long.

Her gaze went to his face. His body distracted her so much that she hadn’t really spent much time looking at his face, but as she took in his square jaw and chiseled features, she decided he had to be the most attractive man she’d ever seen. She stared at his dark-blond hair, fascinated by the color. She hadn’t seen that many people with blond hair in her life. And most of the people she had seen had artificially colored it. She had no doubt his was the real deal. All at once, she found herself wondering what color his eyes were. They had to be blue, she thought. That would match his hair perfectly.

Glancing at the other two women, Tanna saw he equally entranced them, and she watched breathlessly as Vi began to wipe more frost off the front of the glass to reveal a washboard stomach and lean hips.

“Vi, that’s enough,” Tanna ordered abruptly, pushing the other woman’s hand away when she started to move lower.

Vi frowned. “I just wanted to see if he’s built like that everywhere.”

Tanna wouldn’t have minded seeing more of him herself, especially since the only men she had seen naked in a while had been the computer-generated ones conjured up in the holo-chamber on their ship. And they definitely hadn’t looked anything like him. But ogling a man while he was in a hypersleep pod just seemed wrong.






2.


Getting her crew to focus on anything but the man laying in the med-bay had been almost impossible since then. Especially after Sela had hurried to the shuttle bay and briefed everyone in great detail about her patient and those parts of his anatomy they hadn’t seen yet. Her description had brought the rest of the crew running to the med-bay so they could look for themselves. Sela was just about to pull the blanket down for a little show-and-tell when Tanna finally pulled rank and tossed the other women out of the med-bay, sending them back down to the shuttle bay to take a closer look at his ship and the salvage it contained. Anything to distract them.



3.


Tanna was just wondering if she should call Sela so the other girl could check on him again, when the man’s eyelids suddenly fluttered open and she found herself gazing into the most incredible pair of blue eyes she had ever seen. She’d been right about the color, she realized a little breathlessly. And they did go perfectly with his blond hair.

He gazed up at her for a moment, and then glanced around the med-bay, confusion on his handsome face. “Where am I?” he asked slowly.

Damn, even his voice was sexy as sin. Which was surprising, considering he had just spent the last seven-hundred years in hypersleep. She would have thought it’d be more dry and raspy after so long. Apparently, Sela was damn good at her job. There should probably be a bonus in this for her.



4.


“I thought you were going to stay in bed and rest.”

Garrick paused in the middle of buttoning his shirt and turned to see Tanna Aldrick standing in the door of the med-bay, her hands on her hips, her dark eyes regarding him with a disapproving look. As the captain of a ship it was probably a stance she had used many times on her crew. And while it probably had the desired effect on them, for some reason, he couldn’t help but find it damn sexy. The pose only drew attention to her delicious curves. And the pout of her lips, which meant to imply dissatisfaction, only made him wonder just how soft they would feel on his.

When he first opened his eyes to find Tanna bending over him last night, he was too disoriented to really look at her. He had realized she was attractive, of course, but as he took in her long, dark hair, high cheekbones and full lips, he saw how beautiful she really was. And now that he was getting a look at the rest of her body, he had to admit he liked what he saw.



5.


It suddenly struck Garrick then that the things he knew about modern science and space travel were more than just a little out of date. They were positively archaic. Back in his day, he had liked to think he was a pretty smart guy, but now he felt like an idiot. He was still trying to get his mind around that when Naya spoke up.

“So,” she said. “Did you have a wife back on Earth?”

The sudden change in topic threw Garrick for a moment, but then he shook his head. “No,” he said, and was relieved at the fact. It was bad enough that his family hadn’t known what had happened to him. Knowing he had left a wife, too, would have been even more painful.

“What about a girlfriend, then?” Naya persisted.

His mouth quirked. “No girlfriend, either.”

Her eyes narrowed suspiciously at that. “You’re not into other men, are you?”

Garrick almost choked on his scrambled eggs.

“Naya!” Tanna sputtered around her tea.

“What?” the younger girl protested. “I’m just trying to figure out why Garrick didn’t have a girlfriend. It’d be just our luck that we thaw out a hot hunk of a man like him, only to find out he flies on the other side of the cockpit.”

Garrick had never heard the expression before, but it was easy enough to figure out what Naya meant, and he couldn’t help but chuckle. “I might have been in hypersleep for seven-hundred years, but I think I can safely say I’m definitely interested in women.”

Leala smiled. “Just your luck, then, because you’re on a whole ship full of them.”

Garrick’s gaze slid to Tanna, lingering there for just a moment before he turned back to Leala. “So I noticed.”



6.


Tanna felt her face color as Garrick straightened to his full height and turned to face her. Oh God, had he realized she’d been staring at his ass? She was going to have to be more careful and keep herself under control around him. She had already noticed more than once that she had a habit of standing much closer to him than was necessary. She knew for a fact the only reason she was doing it was because he smelled so damn good.

Realizing he was waiting for her to say something, she said the first thing that came to mind. “The accommodations probably aren’t what you’re used to, but it’s the best I can offer.”

The corner of his mouth curved into the sexiest half smile she’d ever seen. “It’s fine. More room than the hypersleep chamber, that’s for sure. So, I can’t complain.”

Tanna laughed. “When you put it that way, I guess you’re right. Make yourself at home. Feel free to use the computer, if you want to jump on the Inter-Planetary Database to look something up.” She gestured to the door on the opposite wall. “You’ve got your own private bathroom through there, along with a shower. Just give me a shout if you need a hand.”

The words were out of her mouth before she even realized what she’d said. Garrick had clearly picked up on the double meaning right away, though, because he was regarding her with that same look in his eye that he had earlier down in the galley when he had made that comment about still being interested in women. She blushed hotly. “I didn’t mean if you needed a hand in the shower,” she said quickly. Crap, that sounds even worse. She needed to get out of there before she really embarrassed herself.

She backed toward the door. “I’m going to go. I’m sure you can take care of yourself.”

His mouth twitched and she felt her face color even more as she realized the innuendo in the words.

“I … um … I’ll see you later.”

Eager to get out of there before she said anything else embarrassing, Tanna turned to go, but the sound of her name on Garrick’s lips brought her to a halt.



7.


Tanna could already feel herself starting to relax as she walked along the beach. Hollie had exchanged the robe Tanna was wearing for a sleeveless ankle-length dress and she automatically lifted the hem so it wouldn’t get wet. Of course, the garment couldn’t actually get wet, since neither the dress nor the ocean was really there. But the scene was so realistic that Tanna couldn’t help it.

Spotting a pod of dolphins frolicking a little ways offshore, Tanna stopped to watch them play in the surf. A moment later, she felt strong hands gently massaging her shoulders. Startled, she tensed, but then immediately relaxed again. While she hadn’t asked for sex to be included in the program, Hollie had obviously taken the liberty of inserting a partner for her. Considering that she had come into the holo-chamber to relieve some of her sexual frustration, maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea. And whoever he was, the guy had magical fingers. Damn, Hollie sure knew what she was doing. She tilted her head to the side and closed her eyes, letting out a soft sigh. “That feels amazing.”

The man pressed his lips to the curve of her neck. “I’m glad you like it.”

Tanna’s eyes flew open at the sound of Garrick’s voice. She whirled around to face him, her pulse racing. “What are you doing?”

His mouth quirked. “I was kissing your neck.”

She felt her face color. “Yeah, that much I figured out. I meant, what are you doing in here?”

He flashed her a sexy smile. “Helping you relax. That was why you came in here, wasn’t it?”

Tanna’s brow furrowed at the words, and then all at once, her eyes went wide as understanding dawned on her. Garrick wasn’t really there at all. He was the computergenerated sex partner that Hollie had inserted into the program. But how had the computer even known about Garrick? It couldn’t, not unless one of the crew had input him into Hollie’s hard drive. Tanna didn’t have a single doubt in her mind why they had done it. Though she was curious about which one of them it had been. Perhaps the bigger question was why Hollie had inserted Garrick into the program with her in the first place. Though Tanna supposed that was easy to figure out. He was exactly the kind of man that she usually requested in her holo-chamber fantasies. Big, tall, and one-hundred percent pure male. The moment his image had been loaded into Hollie’s database, he would have immediately been connected to Tanna’s preferences.
Hooking up with Garrick’s computer-generated counterpart was wrong, though, Tanna told herself. No matter how much she wanted to feel those incredible lips of his on her neck again, not to mention several other places on her body, she couldn’t do it. She’d never be able to look at him in real life if she made love to him here in this chamber. She stifled a groan.
Tanna opened her mouth to tell Hollie to end the program, but before she could get the words out, Garrick lowered his head and kissed her. That was definitely in her preference list—a man who didn’t ask permission to take what he wanted.



8.


Garrick stood in the shower, hands braced on the wall, head bent, cold water pouring over his shoulders and down his back as he gazed at the raging hard-on between his legs. After seven-hundred years, he’d almost forgotten what it was like to wake up with one, but for the past two mornings, he had woken up hard as a rock and horny as hell. Which wasn’t surprising, considering he’d spent the past two nights having extremely erotic dreams about the delightful Tanna Aldrick.

He let out a groan as an image of the beautiful dark-haired ship’s captain filled his mind. The snug-fitting breeches and curve-hugging tee she wore were a far cry from the flight suits that the female officers in the ISEA used to wear, though he suspected Tanna would look sexy in just about anything. Or nothing. His cock throbbed even more at the thought of her naked body.



9.


“Friends,” Garrick echoed. “Being friends is good. We could be more than that, though.”

He took a step closer as he spoke, his eyes turning a sexy, smoky blue. How did he do that? Tanna wondered. One moment they were teasing, the next they were smoldering so hotly it made her want to throw herself at him and beg him to take her.

She swallowed hard, trying to banish the provocative image from her mind. “I-I’m not sure what you mean.”

He reached out to gently tuck her hair behind her ear. “I think you do. There’s something between us, Tanna. I can feel it. And I think you do, too. ” He slid a gentle finger beneath her chin. “I want you. And you want me.”

As he spoke, Garrick leaned in so close that she could feel his breath stir her hair. He smelled so damn good that she just wanted to bury her face in the crook of his neck and breathe him in. God, how she wanted to make love to him! But she couldn’t do that. Malana had been right in that regard. Tanna knew what kind of effect sleeping with him could have on the crew. She had been on ships when these kinds of things went badly, and she didn’t want it happening on her ship.

“We can’t,” she said, the words coming out a groan.

He moved even closer, resting a hand on the row of cabinets behind her. “Why not?”

Being so near to him was making it difficult to think and it took a moment before she could answer. “The crew.”

“I understand. But they don’t have to know,” he said softly. His mouth was hovering dangerously close to hers now. “We could be discreet.”

God, he was good at this. She opened her mouth to protest, but Garrick must have grown tired of their verbal foreplay because he bent his head to silence her with a kiss before she could manage to get the words out. She instinctively placed her hands on his chest, intending to push him away, but when he lifted his hand to cup the back of her head, she felt herself melting against him instead. It was like she was completely powerless to stop him. Probably because she didn’t really want to.



10.


“So,” Vi said as Tanna sat down a few minutes later. “Did you sleep well?”

Tanna sipped her Espozian tea before answering. A combination of black tea and sweet spices, it was the perfect compliment to any meal as far as she was concerned. “Yes, thanks.”

Leala toyed with the handle of her mug. “Really? Because you look a little tired.”

“Yeah,” Vi agreed. “Kind of like you do when you spend the whole night in the holo-chamber.”

Tanna almost laughed. Vi made it sound like she did that on a regular basis, when in reality, she had just done it once. Hollie had come up with such a hot guy and a sexy scenario that time had gotten away from her. Vi and Leala loved to tease her constantly about it.

She stirred her oatmeal. “Well, I didn’t spend the night in the holo-chamber. As a matter of fact, I went to bed early.”

At the other end of the table, Vi and Leala exchanged looks that could only be described as amused. “That’s not what we heard,” Vi said.

Tanna tensed, the spoon of oatmeal halfway to her mouth. “What do you mean?”

Vi shrugged. “Naya told us that she saw Garrick coming out of your cabin this morning.”

Damn. If the girl had seen Garrick leaving her cabin, had she seen them kiss, too? Tanna quickly spooned the oatmeal into her mouth and dipped it back into the bowl for another. “Naya’s mistaken. Garrick stopped by to talk to me about something, that’s all.”

“Then I guess Naya’s mistaken about the kiss she saw, too, huh?” Leala asked, her lips curving into a knowing grin.

Double damn. Tanna opened her mouth to deny it, but the other women were grinning and shaking their heads.

“Don’t even try and deny it,” Leala laughed. “It’s written all over your face. I know the look of a satisfied woman and you have it. Mr. Tall, Blonde, and Hunky spent the night in your bed.”



11.


Tanna groaned. They were enjoying this, she thought, looking from Leala to Vi.

“Dammit,” she muttered. “I didn’t want anyone to know.”

Vi’s brow furrowed. “Why not?”

Tanna absently stirred her oatmeal. “I didn’t want there to be any tension on board.”

“Because you’re sleeping with Garrick, you mean?” Leala asked.

She nodded.

“That’s silly. There isn’t going to be any tension,” Vi said. “I mean, do we all wish we were the ones knocking boots with Garrick? Hell, yeah. But we all figured out from his first day on board that he was into you.” She let out a dramatic sigh. “I guess the rest of us will just have to make do with the holo-chamber version of Mr. Tall, Blonde, and Hunky.”

Tanna’s eyes narrowed suspiciously at the mention of the holo-chamber. “So, you’re the one who programmed him into Hollie!” she said accusingly.

Vi lifted her chin. “I never said it was me.”

“Who cares who did it?” Leala chimed in, leaning forward. “What I want to know is how you happened to find out about it, Cap’n? Were you getting busy with Garrick virtually before you started doing him literally?”

Tanna felt her face color even more. “No, of course not!” she protested, though she had no idea why she didn’t just admit it. The other girls already knew she and Garrick were sleeping together. “I … I was in there running an … exercise routine and Hollie just dropped him into the middle of it.”

Leala laughed and sat back in her seat. “Exercise. Right. I’ve never heard it referred to as that, but if that’s what you want to call it, fine by me.”



12.


“What the hell were you thinking?” Tanna demanded, rounding on Garrick the minute they were in her cabin. “You risked not only your life, but Malana’s as well, on some stupid rescue mission that I specifically ordered you not to attempt. Are you out of your mind?”

Garrick’s jaw clenched. “Maybe I should be asking you the same question,” he shot back. “You’re the one who risked your life to go after some stupid plasma container when you knew we were all waiting on the shuttle with a port-lock that was about to break loose.”

She folded her arms. “That stupid plasma thing is worth a quarter-million credits!”

“And that’s worth more than your life?” he demanded. “Or the life of your crew?”

She felt herself flush. God, how could he be so dense? “We’re a salvage crew, Garrick. Risking our lives comes with the job description. It’s not like we haven’t done it before.” She waved her hand dismissively. “You should have seen the time we were getting salvage off a ship that was heading into a black hole.”

Garrick swore. “Dammit, Tanna! I can’t believe you’re being so cavalier about this.”

She put her hands on her hips. “And I can’t believe you’re making such a big deal about nothing. Sure, we risked our lives, but the payoff was huge and we’re all fine. So, stop your complaining.” Turning her back to him, she reached up to pull off her ponytail holder and dropped it on the desk, then ran her hand through her long hair. “What I really want to talk about is how you disobeyed my direct order—”

“We’re done talking,” he growled.

As he spoke, Garrick grabbed her arm and spun her around. Tanna opened her mouth to ask him just who the hell he thought he was, but all that came out was a startled gasp as he sat down in the desk chair and flung her over his knee. She was so stunned that all she could do for a moment was lay there. She recovered quickly enough, though, and when she did, she immediately pushed herself upright with a hand on his muscular thigh. Or would have if a firm hand on the small of her back hadn’t pushed her back down. What the hell?

“Garrick…” she began, but once again, her words ended abruptly as his hand came
down on her upturned bottom.

Her eyes went wide. He did not just do that!



13.


Tanna wasn’t sure exactly what woke her, but when she turned over to snuggle up closer to Garrick, she was surprised to find the bed empty. Lifting herself up on an elbow, she pushed her hair back from her face with one hand and looked sleepily around the darkened cabin for Garrick. He was standing near the desk, his back to her as he shrugged into a shirt, but at the rustle of blankets, he turned to face her. Thanks to Sela’s ministrations and modern medical technology, he didn’t have so much as a bruise to show for the fight with Koralo’s men.

Even though Garrick was fine now, she still shuddered every time she thought of what could have happened to them. If Koralo’s men had stunned first and asked questions later, Garrick would be the slaver’s captive right now. She didn’t want to think what would have happened to him after that.

“I didn’t mean to wake you up,” he said apologetically.

“You didn’t.” She glanced at the clock. “What are you doing up so early?”

He looked down as he buttoned his shirt. “I never went to sleep.”

Something about the way he said the words made her frown. “Why not?” she asked, pushing back the covers. Getting to her feet, she grabbed her short robe from the arm of the chaise and put it on, then tied the belt around her waist. “Couldn’t you sleep?”

He didn’t look at her as he tucked his shirt into his breeches. “I was thinking.”

She reached up to tuck her hair behind her ear. “About what?”

“About us.”

Her brow furrowed. She didn’t like the sound of that. “What about us?”

Garrick was silent for so long Tanna thought he wasn’t going to answer, and when he finally lifted his head to look at her, his blue eyes were the saddest she had ever seen them. “I can’t do this, Tanna.”

A weight suddenly settled on her chest. “What do you mean?”

He let out a heavy sigh. “I can’t be with you anymore.”

Whatever she had expected him to say, it wasn’t that. The weight on her chest became even more crushing, making it hard to breathe, much less think. She couldn’t do anything but stand there and stare at him. “I d-don’t understand,” she finally managed. “I can’t keep putting you in danger, Tanna. It’s not fair.”

“Danger?” she echoed. “What are you talking about?”

He ran his hand through his hair. “Tanna, those men back on Xandori wouldn’t have attacked us if they hadn’t been trying to get their hands on me. I couldn’t live with myself if you got hurt because of me. Which is why I’ll be getting off the ship at whatever place we stop next.”

“You don’t have to do that. I wasn’t hurt,” she protested. “We’ll just be more careful next time.” Tears welled in her eyes. She couldn’t let him walk out of her life. She wouldn’t.

Garrick reached out to gently cup her cheek in his hand, wiping a tear away with his thumb. “Please don’t make this any harder than it is. I can’t bear it if you cry.”

She pushed his hand away angrily. “Don’t I get a say in this?” she demanded.

“Dammit, Garrick, I love you. Doesn’t that matter to you?”

“Of course it does. I love you, Tanna, too much to let you get hurt,” he said hoarsely. “Which is why I have to get off this ship.”

Tanna hadn’t even realized how much she wanted to hear Garrick say he loved her, but in all her wild imaginings, she never dreamed it would come out like this. It should have made her happy, but all it did was make her want to cry. She wasn’t going to let it end like this. Before she could say anything, though, the ship’s intercom beeped and Ena’s voice interrupted her.

“Captain,” she called her voice urgent.

Tanna swallowed hard. “Yes.”

If Ena thought her voice sounded a little funny, the other girl made no mention of it.

“You need to get up to the bridge, Captain. We have a big problem.”

Tanna sighed. “I’ll be right there,” she told Ena, then waited until the other girl had closed the com before giving Garrick a pointed look. “This conversation isn’t over.”

She didn’t wait for a reply, but instead walked over to the built-in along the wall and grabbed a fresh pair of panties from the drawer. She wasn’t letting Garrick go without a fight, and after she took care of whatever it was up on the bridge, they were going to continue their discussion. He wasn’t getting off this ship, she promised herself, even if it meant not docking anywhere for the next year. Or at least until she could get him to see reason.




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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

New Review for Protective Custody!


I'm so excited! Anya from Coffee Time Romance Reviews gave my sexy contemporary erotic romance Protective Custody 5 Steaming Hot Cups of Coffee! Check it out!

"What I love about Protective Custody is not just the interesting characters, though they help. It is more than the dialogue that pulls everything together. Even the hot sex, exciting and scorching though it is, is not the sole reason for my total enjoyment. This is a book with a bodyguard background that makes sense-Yeah! I love Paisley’s attitude, especially as she evolves her attitude about Gray. Gray is a great hero, and Ms. Tyler gives him enough of an edge to be thrilling, along with enough depth to make him a viable “long term” candidate. The villain makes sense when you realize whom it is, and has the right blend of normalcy and psychosis to be truly scary. Protective Custody is an excellent romance, and easy to recommend!"

- Anya




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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Thursday Thirteen!


Thirteen Resasons to Buy My Sexy, New Sci-fi Erotic Romance Valuable Cargo!



1. It has a super-sexy cover!

2. It has a hunky hero you're totally going to fall in love with!

3. It has a strong-willed, kick-ass heroine you're going to identify with!

4. It has a holo-chamber where you can live out all of your wildest sexual fantasies!

5. It has some very sexy spanking!

6. It has danger, adventure and endless action!

7. It has a surprise twist you won't see coming!

8. It has voyeurism!

9. It has some very cool technological advances!

10. It has passion and romance!

11. It has smokin' hot sex!

12. It's from Liquid Silver Books

13. Did I mention that AB-solutely gorgeous cover?!


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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

NEW from Paige Tyler - VALUABLE CARGO!


Hey Everyone!

I'm so excited about my sexy, new sci-fi erotic romance, Valuable Cargo, available from Liquid Silver Books!

I don't write a lot of sci-fi stories, so this one was a lot of fun to come up with. It was also a little challenging, too. In a sci-fi story, you have to spend a certain amount of time developing the supporting environment, like how the spaceship works, what the planets looks like, and how things are different than they are here on earth. That can end up being a book in itself. But you still have to tell an engaging story about a guy and a girl that a romance reader would want to sit down and curl up with. So, you can't spend so much time on the background stuff that the main story gets lost. That said, I think I've pulled it off pretty well - if I do say so myself! LOL!

I suppose the best way to introduce you to the book is to tell you a little about how the idea popped into my head. My hubby and I were up at the Marshal Space Center in Alabama doing some sightseeing when we came across this cute little model of the X-33, a sleek looking space craft that NASA was thinking about building to replace for the space shuttle. That got us talking about whether humans could ever travel beyond our Solar System. Since it would take a really long time to go that distance, we decided astronauts would have to put themselves in some kind of cryogenic suspension or hypersleep during the journey. It was right then, I knew I had the beginnings of a sci-fi story in the making!

After I played around with the idea for a while (years actually), I decided to make things a little bit more interesting by having the hero's ship go off course after he puts himself in hypersleep. Thanks to the malfunction, the computer doesn't bring him out of hypersleep when it's supposed to and Garrick, the hunky, six-foot-four, blond-haired, blue-eyed astronaut, wakes up seven-hundred years in the future to find himself on a spaceship full of beautiful women!

Mankind has changed a lot in seven-hundred years and they don't make men like Garrick anymore, so as you can imagine, the women think he's totally hot. He's only interested in one of them, though, Tanna, the ship's sexy captain. While Tanna knows the problems getting involved with Garrick could create among the crew, she can't resist and finds herself inviting him into her bed, not to mention other interesting places!

Unfortunately, Tanna isn't the only one interested in Garrick. When I said they don't make me like him anymore, I meant it. Seven-hundred years in the future, six-foot-four, blond-haired blue-eyed guys are nonexistent and there are a lot of unscrupulous people who will do anything to get their hands on him!

I hope I've whet your appetite and that you want to read more about Tanna and Garrick! If you decide to pick it up, let me know how you like it! I love hearing from readers!


They Don't Make Guys Like Him Anymore!

Tanna Aldrick is the captain of a deep space salvage ship in the twenty-ninth century. When she and her all-female crew stumble upon an ancient ship floating in the middle of nowhere, they figure they might be able to find a few valuable tidbits left on the decrepit spacecraft. But what they discover is more valuable than anything they could have ever imagined finding – a gorgeous hunk of a man from the twenty-second century, perfectly preserved in cryogenic suspension. Mankind has changed a lot in seven-hundred years, and six-foot-four, blond-haired, blue-eyed guys like him aren’t just rare; they’re nonexistent.

From the moment they revive him, Tanna finds herself falling for their handsome passenger. As logical as her reasons for not getting romantically involved with him are, however, she still finds herself inviting him into her bed.

Garrick Carlisle wakes up after seven-hundred years in hypersleep to find that everything and everyone he knew is gone. Lost and disconnected, the only thing that keeps him from completely losing it is the beautiful and sexy, dark-haired ship’s captain who rescued him.

Tanna isn’t the only person interested in Garrick, though. A man like him would bring a high price on the slave blocks on any number of planets and there are a lot of unscrupulous people in the galaxy willing to do anything to get their hands on him.

How far will Tanna go to protect her valuable cargo and what will Garrick do to stay with the woman he has come to love?



Excerpt:

To her surprise, the derelict ship hadn’t been stripped at all. There were two old looking satellites in the hold, as well as dozens of containers. They were all marked with a series of numbers and letters that didn’t mean anything to her, so there was no way to tell what was in them.

Taking out her radiac, Tanna scanned the hold for radiation. If there had been anything really dangerous, the sensors on her ship would have picked it up, but she wanted to be sure. There was a little bit of reading around the satellites, but nothing significant. The containers were completely safe.

“This looks like old test equipment of some type,” Vi said from behind her.

Tanna turned to see that Vi had opened one of the containers and was looking at a collection of metal instruments. Tanna didn’t have a clue what any of it was, but it was ancient, which meant it was going to be worth some money.

Curious, Tanna made her way over to the box Vi had opened while the other girl and Leala went off to explore the control room. She had barely started investigating when Leala’s voice came through the speaker in her headset.

“Um, Captain, I think you should see this.”

Her brow furrowing at the odd tone in her engineer’s voice, Tanna immediately set down the piece of equipment she’d been holding and headed for the control room. Seeing Vi standing just inside a doorway on the opposite side of the room, she quickly made her way over to the woman.

Letting the light from her torch play about the inner room, Tanna saw that it was a joint galley and med-bay.

“What did you find?” she asked as she stepped into the room. “Something valuable?”

Leala was standing in front of a glass-enclosed container of some sort. From her vantage point, Tanna couldn’t see what was inside it, but there was a series of brightly colored blinking lights at the bottom of the unit.

The engineer turned to her with a smile. “Oh, yeah.”

Frowning at the woman’s cryptic answer, Tanna walked over to where her engineer stood, only to stare at the pod in stunned silence. Leala had wiped off the light coating of frost from the upper portion of the pod, and through the glass, Tanna saw that there was a man inside. A completely gorgeous – and from the parts she could see – very well-built man who, shockingly, appeared to be in perfect health. The pod container must be some type of hypersleep chamber, she thought. She had heard of those, but no one had used them in over five-hundred years, not since the invention of the faster-than-light Tachyon drive. That meant the ship was even older than they had thought, back from the days of sub-light space travel.

The fact that the man was still alive after so long wasn’t the only thing that made him unusual. Not only was he all beautifully sculpted muscle, but he was also unusually tall as well. The hypersleep chamber was at least seven feet long and the guy did a pretty good job of filling it up. That meant he was at least six-four or six-five. At five-ten, Tanna was as tall as any man she’d ever met, and taller than some, but this guy would clearly tower over her. She let her gaze run over his broad shoulders and muscular chest appreciatively. Damn, the guy was built. The hypersleep chamber must be equipped with some type of electro-stimulation to keep him in such great shape for so long, she thought.

Her gaze went to his face. She had been so distracted by his body that she hadn’t really spent much time looking at it before, but as she took in his square jaw and chiseled features, she decided he had to be the most attractive man she’d ever seen. She stared at his dark-blond hair, fascinated by the color. She hadn’t seen that many people with blond hair in her life. And most of the people she had seen had artificially colored it. She had no doubt his was the real deal. All at once, she found herself wondering what color his eyes were. They had to be blue, she thought. That would match his hair perfectly.

Glancing at the other two women, Tanna saw they were equally entranced by him, and she watched breathlessly as Vi began to wipe more frost off the front of the glass to reveal a washboard stomach and lean hips.

“Vi, that’s enough,” Tanna ordered abruptly, pushing the other woman’s hand away when she started to move lower.

Vi frowned. “I just wanted to see if he’s built like that everywhere.”

Tanna wouldn’t have minded seeing more of him herself, especially since the only men she had seen naked in a while had been the computer-generated ones conjured up in the holo-chamber on their ship. And they definitely hadn’t looked anything like him. But ogling a man while he was in a hypersleep pod just seemed wrong.

“Try to control yourself.” She glanced at Leala. “Do you think he can be revived?”

Leala chewed on her lip as she eyed the equipment. After a moment, she shrugged. “The chamber’s really old, but everything seems to be functioning properly. Sela would probably know more, though.”

Sela Fanaday was the salvage ship’s resident bio-system engineer, but she also served as their med-tech when they needed one.

Tanna turned her gaze back to the handsome man asleep inside the pod. “Is this ship safe enough to bring on board?” she asked Leala.

The girl shrugged. “I don’t see why not, Captain. The sensors didn’t pick up any hazardous cargo and I haven’t seen anything dangerous. There’s isn’t even any fuel left.”

Still gazing at the man, Tanna flipped over to the ship’s frequency on her radio and spoke into the headset. “Malana, we’re bringing the ship aboard.”

“Did you find anything valuable?” the first officer asked.

Tanna only smiled. Oh yeah, they had definitely found something valuable.


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Dear God, he was absolutely perfect, Tanna thought as she gazed down at the sleeping man an hour later. The blanket that Sela had carefully tucked around him left his chest and shoulders exposed to her appreciative gaze, and she had to fight off the almost irresistible urge to reach out and run her hands over his smoothly sculpted muscles. How many hours a day would a guy have to work out to look like this?

After bringing his ship aboard, they had transferred his hypersleep chamber to their own med-bay so Sela could examine him, which the woman had done once she had gotten over her shock at seeing their cargo. Since no one used stasis chambers like his anymore, Sela had to do some research in the computer archives to figure out how to revive him. Following the procedure she had found on the computer, Sela had slowly brought him out of hypersleep. Tanna had expected him to come awake right away, but the other girl had told her that wasn’t how it worked. It could take hours for him to wake up. According to the med-tech, though, his vitals were strong, which was a good sign. That didn’t stop Tanna from worrying, though.

Getting her crew to focus on anything but the man laying in the med-bay had been almost impossible since then. Especially after Sela had hurried to the shuttle bay and briefed everyone in great detail about her patient and those parts of his anatomy they hadn’t seen yet. Her description had brought the rest of the crew running to the med-bay so they could take a look for themselves. Sela was just about to pull the blanket down for a little show-and-tell when Tanna finally pulled rank and tossed the other women out of the med-bay, sending them back down to the shuttle bay to take a closer look at his ship and the salvage it contained. Anything to distract them.

A few minutes ago, Malana had called on the ship’s intercom to let her know they had located the class and ident-number of his ship. According to the database, it had disappeared in the year 2104. Other than that, the computer didn’t know a lot about it. Or him. Malana had found some uniforms in a storage locker, though, with the name Carlisle on them. There was a shoulder patch of a flag with red and white stripes and stars in the corner on one sleeve. There was another patch underneath that, this one with the letters ISEA. A search of that acronym had turned up the name International Space Exploration Administration, an Earth-based government agency that had conducted space research in the early part of the twenty-second century. Tanna shook her head. Well, whoever he was, he was going to be in for one hell of a shock when he woke up. If he woke up.

Tanna was just wondering if she should call Sela so the other girl could check on him again when the man’s eyelids suddenly fluttered open and she found herself gazing into the most incredible pair of blue eyes that she had ever seen. She’d been right about the color, she realized a little breathlessly. And they did go perfectly with his blond hair.



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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Thursday Thirteen!

Thirteen Animals in My Facebook Zoo!




1. Alpaca

2. Bison


3. Camel


4. Grey Wolf


5. Hedgehog


6. Llama


7. Meerkat


8. Porcupine


9. Pot-Bellied Pig


10. Puma


11. Pygmy Hippo


12. Red Kangaroo


13. Ring-Tailed Lemur




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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Book Trailer for Valuable Cargo!


I did a book trailer for Valuable Cargo, my sexy new sci-fi erotic romance coming out with Liquid Silver Books on Aug 17! What do you think?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkKFPyups-U


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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Thursday Thirteen!



Thirteen Hot Hunks I've Posted on My Blog for Tasty Tuesday!


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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Big Squee! ANIMAL INSTINCT is #1 on the Bestseller List!


I'm so excited! Animal Instinct, my hot, new paranormal erotic romance and sequel to Animal Attraction, is #1 on the bestseller list at Whiskey Creek Press Torrid! So doing the Snoopy Dance!

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Tasty Tuesday!

Now, why didn't the models who posed for us in art school look more like this?!

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