Hey Wylde-lings!

Did you notice I was gone for a bit? Did you miss me? I wanted to send this newsletter last week, but I got Covid, which made me feel like poop, and now I'm still feeling tired and unfocused. So yeah... My vacation in Dublin didn't end on a great note.

The week I spent in Dublin was great, though! I love that city! And, oh my God, my boyfriend and I walked so much! So much green, so much water, the air was fresh... You can find none of that in Romania. It was super windy, but there wasn't a speck of dust. While here, if I go out, in ten minutes, I feel like I need a shower. This country is so polluted that everyone is allergic to dust.

I'm glad that I got to travel, finally. I really needed it. My brain needed the reset, and I need to see new places and new people once in a while. But the airport experience post-Covid is horrible! So now I'm a bit disenchanted. Because I wanted to travel some more this summer, but with overcrowded airports and flights, and also flights being canceled all the time, it's just too hard. And waiting in line at security for hours in a sea of people... well that's the perfect way to get sick.

Right now, I'm waiting to fully recover. I'm still tired, and I find it super hard to focus. And I have two deadlines this month, and I just don't know if I'll be able to make both of them. I have no idea.

At this point, I'm pushing as much as I can. For a week, while sick, I didn't even open my laptop. I couldn't do anything. The tiniest effort sent me back to bed. No joke. So now I'm behind with everything!

These are the two books that SHOULD release this month.

Heart of a Kraken will SURELY release this month, though I can't promise June 18. I'm doing my best. If I push it a few more days, though, it won't be a disaster. It's almost ready!

And Alien's Temptation... I don't know. I still hope I can make it a June release, but I need a few more days to clearly see where I stand.

But do pre-order them, please, because they're coming.

Okay, this is the update. I hope you're doing better than me. LOL I'm leaving you with Heart of a Kraken and Alien's Temptation, and also some tasty recommendations below. Check out Celeste King, if you haven't yet. You won't regret it!

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Heart of a Kraken

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I reached the top of the ladder and stood on the narrow outer rim of the aquarium while I assessed the situation. The pillared platform where the kraken was resting was at least twenty yards away, maybe a little more. I would have to swim over to him, which left me completely vulnerable if he decided to get back into the water. As I looked at him, I could hear him making strange, deep, rumbling noises that could have passed for words in another language. Could krakens speak?

“Can he speak?” I echoed my own thoughts, shouting the question down to the doctor as I tucked the first aid kit under my arm and prepared to dive into the water.

“Yes, but there’s no time to bother with a universal translator. Tend to his wound, and then we’ll see about getting you an implant.”

A translator? An implant? Why was it that every question I asked left me with even more questions than I had before? Why couldn’t anything be simple or straightforward around here?

I turned back to the kraken and offered a tentative smile as I prepared to jump into the water.

“I’m here to help you, okay? I promise I won’t hurt you. I just want to treat your wound.”

Knowing he wouldn’t answer me with any words I could understand, I stepped off the ledge and started swimming as quickly as I could over to my buff, blue, bleeding patient. I still didn’t have a plan for what I was going to do – aside from freak out and scream my head off, obviously – if he tried to attack me, but I let my instincts and years of training take over as soon as I reached the kraken’s platform.

With both hands clutching the first aid kit and holding it out in front of me as part peace offering and part shield, I took a few slow steps toward him.

“Here we go,” I cooed, my voice barely above a whisper. Even if he couldn’t understand my words, I hoped to soothe and reassure him with my tone. “Just going to take a look at that cut and get you bandaged up, okay?”

He’d been tracking my every move with those large black eyes, his face fixed in a pained grimace as he clutched his side. But when I moved closer to him and he looked up to meet my gaze, I saw a whole other range of emotions flash across his chiseled features. He recoiled in shock, almost as if he recognized me, his eyes growing even wider in their sockets as he drew in a quick, ragged breath.

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to… oh my goodness!” I turned to look back over my shoulder. “I think something is really wrong here, Dr. Smith. Besides the bleeding, I mean. It’s like he’s… like he’s having a heart attack!”

If she answered, I couldn’t hear it. I dropped to my knees and started applying pressure to the kraken’s chest.

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Alien's Temptation

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Angie

All I wanted was to travel the world. My world. Not some alien planet that’s trying to kill me at every step.

One minute, I’m admiring the pyramids, the next, I’m being abducted by aliens. Then something goes horribly wrong, and my pod crashes on the most hostile island. And right on top of another alien’s ship!

Thev is a massive wall of green-skinned muscle, all covered in tribal tattoos. Oh, and he has long, sharp tusks! Basically, he looks like an orc from fantasy movies, but when I tell him that, he disagrees. He says he’s a Zokunian, not an orc. And he also says I’m in his way, and he’s on a mission.

I hate it that I have to beg him to help me. What I don’t hate is the Zokunian custom of going around shirtless.

Thev’rar

My mission is to find my sister, bring her home, make her queen, and then follow my calling to become a priest.

That means I will never take a mate, a fate I’m resigned to because I haven’t found the other half of my soul, and I’m too old and it’s too late.

When tiny, curvy, rosy-cheeked Angie literally crashes on top of me, I’m determined to ignore her and mind my own business. But she’s sweet, enticing, and oh-so-human! The more time I spend with her, the more I start questioning what I thought was my destiny.

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The Naga's Mate

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He may slither and hiss. But he’s all man where it counts.

Rule Number One if you’re a human woman on the alien hell world of Protheka: Don’t ever stop running.

Because if the orcs that burned your village stop chasing you, that means you strayed into Nagaland – the territory of the fiercest nightmares on the planet.

Their scales and forked tongues will mesmerize you as they catch you. You’ll end up like me – a pet to a naga general. He’ll parade you through his camp as his human female trophy as his eyes roam your very curvy, very human body.

But you won’t mind one bit.

Because he killed the orcs that burned your village. He fed you. Gave you clothes. Comfort. Security.

He gave you medicine to heal your body and gave you a bed to sleep in peacefully for the first time in your life.

But most of all…

He gave you his heart.

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Mated to the Dark Elf

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My fate as a woman is to become bed sport. If I’m lucky, I’ll die quickly.

The world of Protheka is not kind to the humans who were brought to it.

Dark Elves treat us as objects for their basest pleasures.

We exist to fulfill their darkest desires.

Out of this filthy existence, I come to feel a forbidden emotion.

Love.

It is dangerous to love in this nightmare world.

But I can’t help loving the Archduke Karl Ishiraya who purchased my existence with the wave of his hand.

He can do with me as he pleases.

Treat me in any way he desires.

I am prepared for the pain.

I have steeled myself for the suffering.

But the one thing he seeks for both him and I may be the hardest to attain and the cruelest to bear in this twisted nightmare world.

Happiness.

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Love,

Cara