Archive for March, 2011

Inflamed!

Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2011 by maricarr

 Inflamed has released at Ellora’s Cave! It’s a cowboy novella with lots of m/m/f red hot action. :)

Stuck in a rut in every way possible, Keri decides her first step in a bid for change is moving back to the Texas home she left years ago. The second step? Spicing up her sex life with the crazy-hot cowboys she left behind. Too responsible (and smart) to touch her way back when, Max and Shaw filled Keri’s hottest teen dreams. Now she’s older, wiser—and more than ready to make up for lost time.

Max and Shaw were always fond of Keri, but the stunning woman strutting back into their lives is a far cry from the serious, studious teen they remember. She wants to take a walk on the racy side—with both of them—and the cowboys are only too happy to oblige. As they suspected, the sex is explosive, though Max and Shaw aren’t sure Keri can really handle everything they have to give.

Nor do they know if she can handle the sexy secret they’ve yet to divulge.

Excerpt:

Shaw tossed back the last of his beer and then waved the waitress over, asking her to set them up with another round. They’d danced up a sweat, Max and Shaw each taking turns with Keri on the floor.

“Thought you said you couldn’t two-step,” Shaw said. She’d more than held her own, twirling to the music like a professional dancer.

She laughed. “You were right. I’d never had the right partners before.”

Shaw considered her answer and the way she looked at them. Her gaze was hungry, inviting. He glanced at Max, but his friend shook his head slightly. Obviously Max was going to be stubborn. Shaw was tempted to pull him outside and tell him how often Keri’s hand had grazed his ass when they were dancing. She was putting out more than a few signals, and his pigheaded friend was pointedly ignoring them.

Shaw looked at her flushed face and decided it was probably time for a break.

“How about a game of pool?” he suggested. “There’s a small room off the back of the bar that doesn’t get used much.”

Keri nodded quickly. “Sounds like fun. I haven’t played pool since college.”

Shaw rubbed his hands together as they rose and started toward the back room. He gave her an appraising look. “Is that right? Hmmm. Maybe we should come up with a wager then.”

Max shook his head, laughing. “He’s a shark, Keri. Beware.”

“Oh, you don’t have to worry about me,” Keri replied. She stood and let Shaw tug her toward the pool room before continuing. “I may have been gone awhile but I have a very long memory. Don’t think I’ve forgotten about you scamming me out of two weeks’ allowance while teaching me how to play Texas Hold ’Em my sophomore year.”

Shaw laughed at the memory. “Hey, darlin’. I warned you before you joined that game, if you played with the big dogs, you were bound to get bit.”

“Maybe so, but be warned, sometimes the puppy bites back.”

Her sexy innuendo was accompanied by a quick glance below his waist. Shaw reconciled himself to the fact that his cock—which had been residing at half-mast most of the night—was finished fooling around and had made a full-fledged appearance. Nothing short of sex or a quick hand-job in the bathroom was going to cure that affliction. Keri noticed his problem and gave him a wicked grin.

“By the way,” she said, “you can’t claim that as a handicap.”

Shaw’s mouth went dry at her red-hot tease and he looked around to see if Max had heard. Sadly, his friend was still at the table handing the waitress some money and grabbing their fresh beers. Fuck. It was going to be a long night.

They walked into the back room and claimed the pool table just being vacated by a couple of cowboys. The room was dark and dingy and the table wasn’t exactly level, which explained why no one ever used it. Shaw was simply using it as an excuse to get Keri alone for a little while. The loud music was dimmed by the walls, so there was no way Max could continue to pretend not to hear that she was coming on to them.

Shaw narrowed his eyes as one of the men leaving the room slowed his departure to check out Keri more thoroughly. She was wearing a miniskirt that was two inches too close to baring too much for Shaw’s comfort. While he hadn’t minded getting a good look at her long, luscious legs in the truck on the way here, he’d been battling the impulse to pulverize every man who’d leered at her since they’d entered the bar.

“So how do you want to do this?” Keri asked as she picked up a pool cue. “Kind of hard to play pool with three people.”

“You’re on my team,” Max replied, entering the room and setting the beers down on the lone table. “We’ll take turns shooting against Shaw.”

Shaw narrowed his eyes. “How come you get Keri? Maybe I want her on my team.”

Keri laughed. “Believe me, I’m going to be the weakest link. Personally, I think you two should be fighting over who has to take me.”

Shaw suppressed a groan. He wanted to take her, all right. “I don’t think that’s ever gonna be a fight Max and I will have.”

Max threw him a warning glance as he bent down to rack the balls. “We’ll take turns. I get Keri for the first game. You can have her next time.”

“Or,” Shaw said, rubbing chalk over the tip of his cue, “we could share her. She’ll play with both of us.” Shaw walked up behind her, bending her slightly over the table. “In the interest of sharing our vast experience with you, of course.” He handed her the stick and wrapped his arms around her, pretending to show her how to hold the pool cue. The move was purely sensual. Shaw ignored the daggers he could feel Max shooting in his direction as his friend finished racking the balls. Shaw was done pretending so that Max could soothe his guilty conscience. She may still be sweet Keri, but she wasn’t an innocent by any stretch of the imagination. Time to take off the kid gloves.

Keri grinned as she looked over her shoulder. His wicked intentions weren’t lost on her. She bent lower and pushed back slightly, her ass rubbing against Shaw’s cock.

“Like this?” she purred.

He gritted his teeth in an attempt to withstand her sneak attack. She’d taken him down with his own weapon. There was no way to mistake her movements as anything other than a pure come-on.

All bets were off.

Four Days!

Posted in Rhian Cahill on March 30, 2011 by RC

It’s four days until I leave for RT and I’m finally feeling a little excited. (*snort* try bouncing off the walls) Bought a new wrap/top thingy today (along with an armload of books) which I’ve washed (the wrap thing not the books) and once it’s dry I’ll be putting it in here….

But I thought I should get a start on filling the bags so I headed for my wardrobe and after TWENTY minutes ended up with this…..

Yep, a t-shirt and pair of jeans. *sigh* This is gonna get nasty I can just feel it. Aside from those I’ve got my toiletries bag ready to go (never unpacked from last weekend) and I’m pretty sure I’m buying some new clothes in LA (sshh, don’t tell Mr.C.) but other than that I haven’t a clue what to pack. Is it cold in LA right now? I hate the cold and I’ll just have a miserable time if I freeze (not to mention the hell I’ll make everyone else’s lives *grin*) so I need to know these things which of course will require research. In other words I’ll be emailing Lila and finding out what the temps have been like and whether or not the hotel has the air-con cranked right up to sub-arctic. I will be packing my stripper jacket….what? Doesn’t everyone have one? Oh, alrighty then, moving right along……*grin*

So peeps, what do I need? And will you all get offended if I say I’m probably bringing three pairs of shoes and no make-up?

Rhian

Uninspired – that’s me.

Posted in Rhian Cahill on March 28, 2011 by RC

I’m having a shocker. It’s Tuesday down under and I should be way ahead of where I am but as usual I’m not. *sigh* I’m still on a high from last weekend and I’ve discovered (like most drugs) that high has seriously impaired my memory. I can’t remember names to go with all the faces I met. *gasp* I feel so bad. *hangs head in shame* I know I’m going to do it again at RT so I’ve decided to employ my new toy to help me out.

Samsung TAB

I got the TAB with my new phone the other week and while I’m still learning the in’s and out’s I do know it has two cameras (why two I’m not sure) so I’m going to try to take pix and then somehow record who’s in them. May need to get one of the Tribe to teach me before I leave on Monday. Anyone out there got any tips for working my new toy?

MONDAY!! That’s right, this time next week, myself, Lexxie Couper, Jess Dee and Aussie author Sami Lee will be in LA! I can’t wait. And because RT doesn’t really get going until Wednesday the lovely FB (Lila’s other half) will be showing us around and taking us shopping!! Woot! Oh wait, I’m not really a shopper. LOL Oh well, I guess I could make an exception this once. *grin* So where would you suggest we shop? And please don’t say Rodeo Drive. As much as I’d love, LOVE, L.O.V.E. to shop there it ain’t gonna happen. *sob*

Anything else us Aussie’s should know before we hit town?

Rhian

Conference hangover.

Posted in Rhian Cahill on March 28, 2011 by RC

I have one! This past weekend I attended the Australian Romance Readers Convention in Sydney. Wow! Every little bit of me hurts including my teeth! LOL We talked and laughed and just generally had a great time. ARRA did a BRILLIANT job of organizing the event and I’ll be signing up for the next one for sure. I got to catch up with author friends, make new author friends and best of all meet readers! Readers whose names and faces are a blur because I was so thrilled that they wanted to chat with me. But what made my weekend was the readers who came up to me to tell me how much they loved the coyotes. I’m still smiling. So while I’m sitting here with my sore feet up and a cuppa at my elbow I’m contemplating doing it all again next week at RT. Considering I feel like I could sleep for a month after two days what am I going to be like after five days! I’m not looking forward to that conference hangover but I can tell you now it’ll be worth every second of the pain. LOL

You know I made sure I had my camera, even took the charger in case the battery died and I didn’t remember to take it out of my bag until Mr.C asked where it was during the awards dinner. *hangs head* But Mr.C, being the hero that he is, ducked up to our room and managed to get some great pix of us during the dinner.

Our table at the awards dinner.

Our table at awards dinner.

Lexxie Couper being her usual animated self.

Jess Dee, Rhian Cahill, Lexxie Couper & Heather Boyd

It was a great weekend and I met such great new friends to share my love of romance with. AND I get to do it all again next week!

Rhian

A Completely Random List of…

Posted in Lexxie Couper with tags on March 24, 2011 by Lexxie Couper

…my current Top Five. For no other reason than I love making Top Five lists.

Feel free to share yours as well :)

Top Five Fav Movies

1/ The King’s Speech

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/ The Shawshank Redemption

3/ Jaws

4/ Love Actually

5/ The Fifth Element

 

 

Top Five Fav Books

1/ Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

2/ Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

3/ The Fever series – Karen Marie Moning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4/ Black House – Stephen King and Peter Struabb

5/ Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Jeff Lindsey

 

Top Five Ice Cream Toppings

1/ Crushed Tim Tams

2/ Chopped banana

3/ Milo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4/ Cottee’s Ice Magic

5/ Strawberry syrup

 

Top Five Fictious Heroes

1/ Mr. Darcy – Pride and Prejudice

2/ Roland of Gilead – The Dark Tower series

3/ Jericho Barrons – The Fever series

4/ Yossarian – Catch-22

5/ Dr. Horrible – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top Five Songs

1/ Always – Bon Jovi

2/ Telegraph Road – Dire Straits

3/ Raise Your Glass – Pink

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4/ The Anthem – Good Charlotte

5/ In The Air Tonight – Phil Collins

 

Top Five TV Shows

1/ Dexter

2/ House

3/ Californication

4/ Chuck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/ The Big Bang Theory

 

 

So there you go, a random collection of my current Top Fives. What do you think? Does it give you any further insight into the oddity that is Lexxie? :) Care to share some of your own?

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