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The Complex Book Series. 

A Lone Planet.


One Complex.


Unlimited Chaos. 

http://www.thecomplex.info


The small population of Incubi in the Complex is clinging to old traditions and shunning contact with other species. Each year, the Incubi fight for the privilege to lead and mate. Only one can win. Kearn Layk never planned on winning, only doing better than last year’s previous dismal result that left him at the bottom of the pack. A year’s worth of secretly training more than paid off. He shocks everyone and wins. In the process, he makes an enemy of the man who was leader. Now filled with the burning desire to find a mate, he goes in search of a woman.

Phoebe Evans came to the Complex to reinvent herself. Being surrounded by the Metas is as strange as it is fascinating, but she hasn’t had the courage to date one yet. Then she meets Kearn. He’s smart and interesting and most definitely not Human.

Incubi traditions and Humans desires clash, and as new ideas are tested, old enemies rise up and threaten lives. Not everyone wants to see the Complex succeed.

https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Touch-Complex-Book-0-ebook/dp/B01MTOP7TZ/ 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/hungry-touch/id1177903882?mt=11 https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/hungry-touch

For vampire Charles Redfort, Christmas is a bitter reminder of the day he was killed by a werewolf. After fleeing the vampire army he was created to serve in, he has lived in exile in England. Once a year he allows himself to tell the truth about his life over dinner. Then he eats the man he’s hired for the night.

Blake Wells is an engineering student by day and escort by night. He works Christmas because he doesn’t want to see his father, and his mother doesn’t want to see him. When he meets Charles, he thinks he’s gotten a bonus present that he can’t wait to unwrap. But as the truth is revealed, Blake will have to think fast to live until morning and convince Charles to give up his lonely life.

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Advent Calendar "Bah Humbug."

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N48IS92
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thevampiresdinner-2173074-145.html
https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/the-vampires-dinner-by-tj-nichols-7978-b

SILENT NIGHT, FINAL NIGHT

A Christmas Horror Story

by Linda Mooney writing as Gail Smith

Word Count:  20.3K
$1.99 e 

A family on the run, searching for food, shelter, and others not infected.

A plague is wiping out the population, stealing the humanity from people and turning them into monsters. Kem and Armand are willing to do whatever it takes to protect their daughter and survive. Nothing is promised, not life, not their next meal, not even a decent night’s rest. 

The quality of life is quickly diminishing. How much is too much? How long until the fight for survival is no longer worth it, and it’s time for a dignified end rather than a slow, painful death?

Excerpt and buy links.

Other News

Dani Harper's ghostly Christmas romance, THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT, is FREE on Kindle from December 14th until December 18th! 

A woman who talks to ghosts.
A man mistaken for dead.
An ancient evil that stalks them both.

Starting Wednesday, get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/HOLIDAY-SPIRIT-wants-Christmas-ghost-ebook/dp/B013Z0F31M 

PS - on Wednesday, if you don't find this free, just give it a little time and try again later. Amazon can be a little slow at posting these freebies!

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Hungry Touch

The Complex series is released tomorrow (10 December). It's a multi author series. 2016 was the year I said yes to a lot of things that crossed my desk even though I didn't how I was going to get them done :) This was one of those projects. The idea sounded fun and I'd just done a similar thing with the Skeleton Key series and I love to write sci fi.

It's a shared world (much like the ES Siren series) but instead of building the world with 2 friends the world was set, all I had to do was decided which mythological being my alien, or Meta as they are called, would be based on.

I went with an Incubus.

And I made them parasitic.

And I thought it would be fun to write a secret baby story.

I could've made it easier on myself, but what fun would that be?


The Complex Book Series.
A Lone Planet. One Complex.
Unlimited Chaos.
http://www.thecomplex.info

The small population of Incubi in the Complex is clinging to old traditions and shunning contact with other species. Each year, the Incubi fight for the privilege to lead and mate. Only one can win. Kearn Layk never planned on winning, only doing better than last year’s previous dismal result that left him at the bottom of the pack. A year’s worth of secretly training more than paid off. He shocks everyone and wins. In the process, he makes an enemy of the man who was leader. Now filled with the burning desire to find a mate, he goes in search of a woman.

Phoebe Evans came to the Complex to reinvent herself. Being surrounded by the Metas is as strange as it is fascinating, but she hasn’t had the courage to date one yet. Then she meets Kearn. He’s smart and interesting and most definitely not Human.

Incubi traditions and Humans desires clash, and as new ideas are tested, old enemies rise up and threaten lives. Not everyone wants to see the Complex succeed.

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Guest Post: Excerpt from Marcella Burnard's DAMNED IF HE DOES

Veronica: It’s our pleasure to have Marcella Burnard as our guest today, with an excerpt from her new book DAMNED IF HE DOES.

The Story:

Rejected by heaven, twisted by hell, what’s a damned dead man to do when he stumbles upon a life and love worth fighting for?

Though damned for his earthly sins, Darsorin Incarri likes being an incubus. Prowling women’s dreams to siphon off their sexual energy for Satan's consumption has its perks: an array of infernal power and a modicum of freedom. Sure, Ole Scratch holds Dar’s soul in thrall, and Dar has to spend a few hours recharging in Hell every day, but it could be much worse. All he has to do is hold up his end of his damnation contract – five women seduced, satisfied and siphoned per night for eternity. So when he encounters gorgeous, bright, and funny Fiona Renee, it’s business as usual. Deploy the infernal charm and rack up another score. Except it doesn’t work. She’s immune. He has to find out what’s gone wrong or face Lucifer's wrath.

Fiona Renee has the life she’d always wanted: a career, a home, a cat with a bad attitude, and peace. Fiona’s dated. Had boyfriends. And hated every minute of it. She’s reconciled to being lonely. So when a man shows up in her bedroom in the middle of the night demanding to know why her dreams turn to nightmares every time he tries to seduce her from within them, Fiona winds up negotiating a contract with a demon that allows him access to her life. She never anticipated that it would also give him access to her heart. If she's going to fall in love at all, something she never thought would happen, shouldn’t it be with someone who’s alive? If Fiona wants to hang on to Darsorin, she has to find his true name—the one he’d been given at his birth over a thousand years ago. But Satan, himself, stands in her way. Even if Fiona can dodge Lucifer, she and Darsorin have to face the question neither of them can answer: What happens to a dead man if you manage to wrest his soul from the Devil?

The Excerpt (Darsorin has a run in with Fiona’s landlady):

With a noise like a saw drawn across ice, a key slide into the lock on the front door.

Archimedes growled.

Darsorin frowned. Fiona came in the back door. Unless she’d walked to work.

The door opened.

Carrot and peeler still in hand, he peered around the archway into the hall.

The landlady eased into the entryway, book clasped to her bosom with one arm. She shut the door.

“Mrs. Murphy,” he said, racking his brain for any indication that she was supposed to have been in the duplex that day. There wasn’t one. Inability to forget anything, ever. Demonic perk. If Fiona told him to go to Hell when she came home, his perfect memory would be a curse for the rest of eternity. “What can I do for you? Fiona is still at work.”

“Good. I came to deal with you,” Mrs. Murphy said, her mouth set in a grim line. She marched toward him.

The cat hissed.

Dar glanced over his shoulder at Archimedes. He stood, fluffy tail bristling, the fur along his spine standing on end, and yellow eyes fixed with baleful intent upon the hallway. A comment Fiona had made caught Dar, he hates everyone.

Dar set the half-peeled carrot and the peeler back on the cutting board and started for the cat. “Mrs. Murphy, you’re frightening Archimedes. Let me . . .”

“You have done more than enough, Demon,” the landlady snapped. “I know what you are. And after what one of your kind did to my baby sister, I made sure I’d know exactly how to deal with one of you. Incubus.”

Darsorin rocked

.

The woman raked him with a derisive look, but her cheeks flushed, and she couldn’t complete her dismissive set-down.

Arching his back, Archimedes warbled a battle cry at the woman.

“Don’t you take that tone with me,” the landlady said, striding to the cat. In one swift move that left Darsorin breathless with rage, she swept Archimedes from the counter.

The cat yowled and struck out, claws flashing.

“Ow! Why you—”

“Don’t you dare touch that cat,” Darsorin snarled, summoning the power of Hell. Not how he wanted to sentence himself to spending a couple of regenerative hours in the lakes of fire, the scenery left so much to be desired, but he refused to let anyone be mean to Archimedes.

Fiona had been right. They couldn’t stay here. They wouldn’t.

“Fiona’s on her way home,” he said, gathering power and shaping it into one specific, emotion-laden intention. “You will not be here when she arrives. Time for you to LEAVE.” He threw every mote of unholy power into the word.

Ole Scratch knew the application of overwhelming force. He provided generously for his incubi. Malevolent will rolled in through his feet, flooded him until his vision swam with the pain. He released it in a sweep of his fingers.

It swarmed Mrs. Murphy.

He smiled.

The power bent. Piled up as if against a wall. His smile died. The wave crested, rolling back to smash down on his head. He yelped.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Damned-If-Does-Marcella-Burnard-ebook/dp/B01HR5R2DI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468351315&sr=8-1&keywords=damned+if+he+does

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/damned-if-he-does-marcella-burnard/1124047954?ean=2940153409252

KOBO: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/damned-if-he-does

IBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/damned-if-he-does/id1129608995?mt=11

Author Bio:

Marcella Burnard graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a degree in acting. She writes science fiction romance for Berkley Sensation. Her first book, Enemy Within won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice award for Best Futuristic of 2010. The second book in the series, Enemy Games, released on May 3, 2011. An erotica novella, Enemy Mine, set in the same world as the novels was released as an e-special edition by Berkley in April 2012. Emissary, a sword and sorcery short story released in the two volume Thunder on the Battlefield Anthology in the second half of 2013. Nightmare Ink, an Urban Fantasy novel from Intermix came out in April of 2014 and the second in that Living Ink series, Bound by Ink, came out in November 2014. She lives aboard a sailboat in Seattle where she and her husband are outnumbered by cats.

You can find Marcella here:

My website: www.marcellaburnard.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Marcella-Burnard-312302197270/

Twitter: @marcellaburnard

Instagram: marcellaburnard (but I warn you – this is almost 100% cat photos!)

Eliana: Pain and Pleasure

Take an extra 10% off Eliana this week at Loose Id!

While my new book, Eliana, is set in the same world as my previous books (and features a character from Levade), there are no horses in this book. My mare Carrma is somewhat displeased, but I have mollified her by taking her lots of apples.

Thinking back to the inspiration for this book, Eliana whas a character I had created for an ill-fated sequel to my first demon book, Demon's Dance. She was a dominant, no-nonsense kind of woman who knew both how to inflict pain and how to help others heal from it. I didn't want to give her up and started thinking about how she might have gotten involved with the Wardens--a group of men and women dedicated to hunting incubi and aiding their sexually promiscuous offspring. And, more importantly, why and how she became a dominant.

In one way, this book is Eliana's origin story, but  after finishing Levade I realized how Eliana could mesh with Konstantin, one of the characters introduced in that book, and that became an interesting story in itself--how does the son of a crazed Nazi geneticist become a healer as well as a submissive, and what lasting effect will that have on him?

So despite the title, Eliana isn't just about Eliana. There's Kon, and his male dominant, Dane, and all sorts of learning and growing and healing for all three.

Oh, and sex. Did I mention there's lots of sex?

Cover art by the fabulous Anne Cain.

Also--now available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble: Love, lust and Lipizzans. Capriole. In PRINT!!!!

Carrma sez, "Buying my human's books will help her make sure I have enough hay to eat and a warm blankie during freak snowstorms in southern Arizona. Plus you get to read about Lipizzans like me."

Evey Brett