Kia Ora...

This week has been pretty rough and it wasn't about being hit with big things, but just lots of little things that seem to come all at once that were quite overwhelming. At the start of the week there was a decent size rainstorm, one that saw the rain find every entry point it could into my house including through a light switch which saw me clambering out of bed at 4am to flick the circuit breaker for the lights off... then it was two days to get an electrician out to make sure it was safe. I mean water and electricity don't mix, and my house is old... however it meant going two night without lights and it's winter...so yeah. And then on top of that, the tab broke on the can of fish I wanted to use for dinner, and then the can opener broke.... I know, I know, little things... but they all happened in a twenty-four hour period..

Okay not all bad stuff happened this week and some of it I will share later in the newsletter. But one good thing is that my daughter won a scholarship to attend an introduction to the Health Sciences dept at her university of choice! She is stoked, though a little worried about traveling on a plane by herself for the first time!!

Right... book stuff time :)

Updates

• Knight (Crime Lords 4) is with my beat/proofer extraordinaire! Expect the release date to be in the next week, ten days tops!
• Finishing up the Anthology Short... more details on this will be further done!
• Next up is working on Runway Riot (House of Bolton 4): FF Romance between a model with a stalker problem and her mafia bodyguard.

Cover Reveal - Knight (Crime Lords 4)

• MM Romance - Mao and Jun's story
• Second Chances
• A husband caught up in his ideas of granduer
• A husband tired of being ignored
• New Enemy
• One leaves
• One is going to need to grovel hard

Start the series here with Misaki, Aidan, and Kristof's story.

Anthology Announcement

I can finally announce the details of the Super Secret Anthology I've been working on!!

O Deadly Night: A Dark MM Charity Anthology

Release Date: November 15, 2022

Special Preorder Price: $3.99

Cover design by Teased by Antonette

Blurb

Sometimes the happiest season of all is hiding the darkest secrets.

Twinkling lights and festive songs are in every shopping center and on every street corner. But what lurks in the dark alleys beyond the main street decorations? Who hides behind the joyful enthusiasts with a dangerous bah humbug attitude?

Join eleven dark MM authors as they explore the darker half of the holidays while also spreading cheer and support to LGBTQ youth.

*O Deadly Night is a Dark MM anthology with all proceeds to be donated to The Trevor Project and featuring stories by:

Nicholas Bella

E.B. Burns

Abrianna Denae

Elouise R East

Taylor J Gray

Mandy Greenwood

Rorie Kage

Leigh Kenzie

Davidson King

Claire Marta

Faith Ryan

Add to TBR here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61377514-o-deadly-night

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Today's scene is a short one that did quite the make the cut for Dukes (Crime Lords 2)... in fact it's a scene that I wrote two different versions for but used neither.

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“Why is Ji-Hun looking for you?” Kristof asked, his fingers twitching as they rested on the table next to his knife and fork. “And I don’t think it’s in a good way either… Ji-Hun sounded kind of pissed.”

Misaki narrowed his eyes at the man sitting across the table from him, curious as to why Kristof was asking such questions. “I don’t know,” he replied with a shrug of his shoulders.

Kristof snorted. “Yeah, not buying it. Ji-Hun doesn’t make such requests for no reason at all.”

Placing his knife and fork down, Misaki wiped his mouth with the napkin and dropped the balled-up fabric onto the plate. “So maybe there is a reason Ji-Hun’s looking for me. Not a good reason either… but then again, Demetri isn’t a child who can be bossed around, nor does Ji-Hun have any real claim over him anymore.”

“Meaning what, precisely?” Kristof growled.

“I fucked Demetri. Several times in fact. Well… truthfully, Demetri was the one doing the fucking.” Misaki didn’t know what reaction he expected from Kristof, but it wasn’t the coldness that swept through the apartment and hardened the man’s gaze. “He has no claim on Demetri.”

“You’re a fool if you believe that. Maybe once Ji-Hun has finished with you, you’ll learn not to be such a goddamned whore!”

“What the fuck do you mean by that?” Misaki hissed.

“I called him. Planned out this whole dinner-” waving at the plates in front of them, the romantic setting, and everything “-in order to trap you here for Ji-un to come and collect.”

“You fucking what?” Misaki screeched, pushing back from the table, and searching for the fastest way out of the apartment. There wasn’t one. “Why would you do something like that?”

“When you touch something… someone that doesn’t belong to you, why shouldn’t you pay the price,” Kristof stated without an ounce of regret in his voice. “There are always consequences for your actions, even for fucking whores like you!”

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Knight (Crime Lords 4) - Coming Soon!

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