Brindle Chase's "Dark Is the Night" - CONTEST!

I'm delighted to have Brindle Chase and his book Dark is the Night, a fantastic erotic paranormal romance involving world's sexiest vampire and a police woman who can heat up the sheets, too, here today. He's giving away FIVE copies to folk who leave a comment and their email addresses!

Brindle brought an excerpt and a bit about the book, too, but first,

A few lines from Amazon reviews:

"I was sucked right into this story and couldn't put it down..."

"This book is so worth reading!"
Senior Reviewer for The Paranormal Romance Guild

"...a well-written dark adventure...that will keep you turning the pages from beginning to end."

"The book just oozes sensuality and is one of the best erotic romances I've read in a while...I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys spending time with a dark, sexy vampire  - a smart sexy woman, some grit thrown in..."

Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team

“Katherine—”

“Answer me, Please.” I looked up and stared into his eyes. I wasn’t judging. I had to know. I had to confirm my suspicions before I got myself into a hell of a lot of trouble covering up for him. He needed to see in my eyes what he could feel in our bond. My entire life was forfeit once I destroyed all evidence that might lead anyone to him.

He shifted up onto his knees and moved to me. His strong hands encircled my shoulders and it was all I could do not to fall into his arms. His black eyes, fierce and magnetic captured mine as he stared into me for several long minutes.

“Katherine, you need to understand. My kind. We. We are human and we are not. At our core we were once human as you are. We think, look, and act much like humans, but deeper, inside our damned souls, we are predators.”

“So you kill for the fun of it?”

“No Katherine. It is the hunt. Our survival. Our sustenance.”

“To drink blood?” I could only make assumptions but vampire lore was fairly mainstream these days. Drinking blood, can’t go out in the sun, fangs, and all that bullshit.

“Yes,” he said.

“If it is the blood you need, can’t you just get it from a blood bank or something?”

“This is where humans lose their feeble grasp on what a vampire is.” His eyes flared glossy black and then narrowed on me and I felt like a gimp-legged rabbit that rounded a corner to find a hungry wolf. Dead.

“Well?”

“We are predators. A leopard can be given a carcass to eat and it will sustain him, but he will wither over time without the hunt. A vampire is much the same. Even more so, Katherine. I hunt because I am a hunter. I kill only what I need to survive, but kill I must. It is what I am.”

I asked a blunt question so I shouldn’t have been surprised by his abrupt declaration. My skin broke out in goose bumps and fear crept into my throat and strangled me as I gazed into those eyes. I could feel it as easily as I could read it. He was the pinnacle of the food chain. There was none higher. No killer—no beast was as deadly as the vampire before me. The one who had claimed me. Who owned my heart.

A bit about the book:

Katherine Wells is Cleveland’s top homicide detective and she’s hot on the trail of the Antoinette killer. The string of burnt and beheaded bodies have little in common, except they keep turning up. In search of clues, she encounters Alexander. His intoxicating old world persona captivates her and she suddenly finds herself in a torrid love affair. The passion is overwhelming and her sense of law falls into blissful chaos.

As an elder vampire, Alexander struggles for anonymity in the modern world. Killing isn’t personal; it’s to prevent them from becoming the undead. His kind can’t be discovered. With Katherine’s investigation getting too close to the truth, the other vampires demand he eliminate Detective Wells.

Katherine discovers Alexander’s supernatural secret and he learns Katherine’s the detective he must silence. The revelations are shocking. He’s everything she ever wanted and everything she stood against. Torn between a love like no other and the law she’s sworn to uphold, she must choose. Against time, the police and the other vampires, they must destroy the evidence she’s collected and join the undead.

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The Secret Cravings of Secret Cravings Authors

Ever wonder what authors who write fantasies fantasize about? Here, bared for all to see, are the secret cravings of a brave few Secret Cravings Publishing authors. To learn more about the authors, their books or buy one, click on the author's name to go to their page on the  Secret Cravings Publishing website.

Love to have your comments on our cravings, your cravings or cravings in general!

Thank you, SCP folks, for participating.

Jean Joachim
Book:  Now and Forever 1, a Love Story
Craving: One night alone with one of my heroes, Mac Caldwell, Danny Maine, it's hard to pick. Maybe all of my heroes. Don't want to leave anyone out! Unfortunately that can never be, so I guess I'll have a tiramisu cake that wouldn't make me fat.

 Kellie Kamryn
Book: Monkeys, Sex and Other Birthday Surprises
Craving: Lindt Peanut Butter and Chocolate Balls

Daisy Dunn
Book:  Hunger's Prey, Book One in the Hunger seriesCraving: My secret craving is to have the perfect body, then buy myself the skankiest, hottest outfit I can find. Then, I'd pick up the sexiest man I could (someone like Jimmy Thomas) and have a night of wild, uninhibited, animalistic passion for a night!! OR Eating a tub of peanut butter chunk chocolate ice cream without the guilt.

                                             

Marie Rose Dufour
Book: Fated Mates
Craving: My secret craving is to lick chocolate sauce off of Taylor Kirtsch's abs! I have a thing about great abs on a guy. I want to lick them.

 Drea Becraft
Book: Forget the Yesterdays
Craving: I secretly crave adventure. Believe it or not I don't mean in the bedroom I mean the adventure of travel.  I would love to tour Europe or hell anywhere outside the US.  

Dawne Prochilo
Book:When We Meet Again 
Craving: My secret craving has always been to have my man gently caress my cheek with his fingertips while looking longingly into my eyes and telling me he loves me unconditionally. 

Giselle Renarde 
Book: Callie and the Hipsters
Craving: As many of my readers know, my girlfriend is a trans woman--where I have an "innie" she has an "outie" if you catch my drift.  Anyway, my secret craving is to switch parts.  I would love to know what it feels like to get hard and feel my girl's lips around me and... well, *ahem* do some other stuff too...  *smiles innocently*

  Lacie Nation

Book: So Beautifully Broken

Secret craving: to be a character in an erotic romance novel...with vampires! I would totally be down for that.

 

Sable Hunter
Book: A Wishing Moon
Craving: to be sexually dominated.









Curious about the rest of the Secret Cravings Publishing writers? Check them all out at Secret Cravings Publishing. Thanks for stopping by.
 

TUESDAY TALES - THE HALLOWEEN PARTY

Note: Spookalicious winners posted at end of this blog.

Here is my Tuesday Tale for the evil holiday. Be careful what you wish for...you might get it!

THE HALLOWEEN PARTY

Cal Brophy, head of the mailroom at Goodhue, Walker and Bates Advertising, walked into Mr. Goodhue’s office and sat down.

            “Cal, I need your help. I want the best Halloween Party ever. Something new and different. So I’ve come up with a contest.”

            “I can’t imagine…”

            “This year we’ll provide costumes, Cal. And I’m leaving those choices up to you. Everyone will appear in costume and we’ll have a “guess the employee” contest. The person who identifies the biggest number of employees, wins. Of course you won’t be eligible. Here is the name and number of the company supplying the costumes.”

            ‘But Mr. Goodhue…”

            “That’s all, Cal. By the way, you get a bonus for doing this. Have fun.”

            Cal went out into the hall and returned to his office.

            I was going to surprise Cecily in account services…wear the same costume as Derek the account manager who’s lusting after her. Then I could get her in my office and wham! But now?

            Dennis, his assistant, joined him at the elevator on their way to lunch. As the elevator doors were closing, Chastity Daniels came running up. Cal put his hand on the elevator door and stopped it for her.

            “Thanks, Cal.”

            Chastity, one of the art directors, was wearing a dark purple suit with a scoop-neck aqua shell that showed off her large bosom. Dennis stared at her in appreciation though Cal ignored her shiny light blonde hair and slender legs. He only had eyes for Cecily. Chastity wasn’t pretty by fashion magazine standards. Her nose was a little too big and her blue eyes were a little too small, but she dressed nicely, had a good figure and had been admiring Cal for months.

            Dennis leered at Chastity and she managed a small polite smile in return.

            “What’s new, Cal?” she asked.

            “Working on the Halloween party,” he mumbled, lost in thought.

            Cal spent the entire afternoon working on the problem, then he got it. After shutting himself away for the afternoon, he came out beaming and walked to Mr. Goodhue’s office on his way home. He stuck his head in, made a thumbs up sign and went to the elevator. Again he bumped into Chastity Daniels.

            “Such a big smile. You must have had a good day.”

            “Wait until the party. You…and everyone else…are going to be surprised…totally surprised.”

            “Now I’m looking forward to it, Cal.”

            “You have no idea,” he said as he walked out the front door and headed to the subway home.

**** 

            The day of the party arrived and everyone was buzzing about it. No one had been able to pry the information from Cal as to who got which costumes. Cal sported a Cheshire Cat grin all week before the party but didn’t confide in anyone, including Dennis, his closest confident.

            At four o’clock on Friday, Mr. Goodhue made the announcement over the interoffice loud speaker that the workday was done and everyone was to put on their costumes and come to the large conference room for the party.

            Office doors slammed shut as people ripped open their costume boxes and changed their clothes.

            “Batman! I hope Cecily is Cat Woman,” Derek to Sam, who returned to his own office to don his costume.

            At five p.m., the doors opened and the hallways filled with…batmen and catwomen! All the men were dressed at Batman and all the women at Catwoman! When everyone filed into the conference room, Mr. Goodhue cheered!

            “Brilliant, Cal! Now this will be a real contest!”

            While Goodhue and his assistant, Stacey, got people lined up with pens and scorecards for the contest, Cal sought out Cecily. He doctored her costume with a red circle glued to the back on one ear so only he would know which one was Cecily.

            Beer and wine flowed and hors d’oeuvres were served. Cal finally spotted her taking a glass of wine.

            Good. Drink up. Tonight you’re mine, baby.

            Cal had often imitated Derek to amuse Dennis as they sorted the mail. Now he cleared his throat and approached Cecily.

            “Cecily, you’re hot in that,” Cal said, sounding like Derek.

            “Derek?”

            “None other.”

            “God, you look like everyone else,” she moaned.

            “Come with me and I’ll show you how I’m not like everyone else,” he said, taking her hand and leading her into the mailroom. He closed the door and pulled down the shade.

            “Why are we in here?”

            “No one will find us here.”

            “This is that little twerp’s office isn’t it?”

            “Who?”

            “That little asshole, Cal whatever, isn’t it?”

            “Asshole? I thought you liked him?”

            “Who could like him. He’s stupid, obnoxious and funny looking, ugly, actually. Notice no mirrors in here. He’d probably break the glass with his big nose,” she said and began to giggle.

            “But you call him…”

            “Sure, sure. I call him ‘honey’. I call everyone ‘honey’, except you Derek. You I call stud,” she said, kissing Cal.

            “Why?”

            “Never know when I’m going to need him, ya know? He handles the mail and always gets my packages out first. I think he wants to screw me. Not in this lifetime. Now you are a different story. How do you get this costume off?”

            As Cecily began to struggle with her costume. She gave up and sidled up to him.

            “Give a girl a hand here,” she said, moving up against him and cupping her hand over his crotch.

            Cal shoved her hand away and turned to leave.

            “Do it yourself,” he said as he pushed through the door.

            “Derek! What’s the matter?”

            Cal began to sweat. He wasn’t sure if it was the costume or his encounter with Cecily. Tears of humiliation formed in his eyes. Cecily, cool, beautiful, tall, stacked Cecily, just the office bitch. He slumped down on a stool in the art department. Blinking back tears, he picked up a can of beer and drank it, not caring whose it was.

            “Treats or trick,” came a small female voice from the corner of the room.

            “It’s trick or treat.”

            “You look like you need a treat…like you’ve already had the trick, Cal.”

            His head shot up.

            “How do you know it’s me?”

    “I can tell by your walk.”

            “Who are you?”

            “Not supposed to tell.”

            “I’m not in the contest.”

            “Chastity here.”

            “Hi,” he said, strolling over to the walls. He looked at the art displayed there. Chastity had won several awards for her designs in direct mail and print advertising. He looked over all the ads, reading the headlines and looking at the colors and layouts.

            “This stuff is pretty good,” Cal said.

            “Thanks. It got me a raise and promotion.”

            He looked at her with new respect.

In the tight-fitting costume she looked sexy. The black outline of the fabric emphasized her rounded figure and her blue eyes looked brighter through the mask. Chastity smiled warmly at him and he saw her for the first time.

            “Do you want to come to dinner with me?” he asked, anxious not to be alone.

            “I’m waiting for someone,” she said, hesitating.

            Dennis walked in still wearing his costume but the helmet rested in his hand instead of on his head.

            “Dennis?” Cal asked, his eyebrows raised.

            At the door, she stopped and turned to Cal.

            “Would you like to join us for dinner?” Chastity asked, holding out her hand to him.

            Cal grinned.

            “Sure,” he said and followed them to the elevator.
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A few words about Halloween when I was growing up. It was one of the biggest days in my small, suburban town. Everyone got into the act from stores putting up their windows for a window painting contest to people inviting trick-or-treaters into their homes for cider and donuts. 

The elementary school parade, the man who put a walkie talkie in a pumpkin on his lampost so it would talk to you, to the generous people who took time to compliment you on your costume. Thank you all. You made Halloween a memorable experience for me year after year and it is still one of my favorite holidays. 

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EVERYONE'S A WINNER! I will draw ten names of people who will each receive a copy of one of  my books, their choice, of:

Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights

April's Kiss in the Moonlight

Now and Forever 1, a Love Story
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A BIT ABOUT MY BOOKS

My newest release: April's' Kiss in the Moonlight (contemporary sweet romance)

April McKenna finished graduate school with honors and on her way back to a boring life her father mapped out for her, she meets a nice man and runs off with him. But tragedy strikes and April finds herself in Pine Grove, recovering from an accident. She meets Gavin Dailey, the hunky fireman and carpenter living there. Gavin has dated almost every eligible woman in the county, but April knocks him off his feet. He pulls out all the stops to win her until he meets a stumbling block he didn't expect. A near-tragedy from the past gives April the moxie to make the right decision for her future.
Quote from the book:  
He bent his head to her neck again and inhaled deeply, closing his eyes.
“Thought I recognized it...spring roses,” he said.
“What?”
“That's what you smell like. I'm going to call you „Springtime‟,” he said.

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Now and Forever 1, a Love Story  (contemporary sensuous romance)

Callie Richards is no stranger to tragedy, it has happened twice in her life. Now, two years after the heart-breaking death of her fiance she is enrolled in Kensington State University to get her Masters degree. While she is coping with moving forward alone, she meets the handsome dean, Mac Caldwell, who has his own baggage, being an adorable son and a nasty ex-wife. On top of this, Mac heads up the team to fight a drug gang that has students in it's nasty grip. Can Mac and Callie find a way to keep love alive through the trials they are about to experience?
Quote from the book: 
"He kissed her awake and made love to her again, while the day was just beginning and their love was still so new."

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Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights (Contemporary sweet romance) - a runaway wife, philandering husband and a surprising encounter with a man she knew twenty years earlier as a child. Sunny has choices to make to become independent, strike out on her own and still make room in her life for love and a special man.

(Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights is getting a new cover and will be back up for sale soon. It is available for give-away.)

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Here is a snippet from my new release, "April's Kiss in the Moonlight":

Gavin followed her, determined to make his point all the while drawn to her like a moth to a flame.

“I studied French language, culture, and. . .” he got in front of her, forcing her back against the shed.

Gavin put a hand against the wall on either side of her head, and moved right up against her, his chest lightly touching hers. They were close enough he could smell the freshness of her newly washed hair, feel the warmth of her breath on his neck, close enough for their lips to meet. Trying hard to resist her, he leaned down slightly, his lips barely touching her ear.

“. . . and . . . how to make love to a woman,” he whispered. “Would you like me to show you?”

A little bit about the book: 

Fresh from graduate school, April McKenna, beautiful and brilliant vows to strike out on a new path rather than return to San Francisco to take a job with her father’s firm. She meets Rusty and sets off for an escapade that ends in tragedy. Injured and alone she is taken in by Sunny Davis, a friend of her mother’s who lives in a small town in the Catskill Mountains in New York.

During her recovery, April resolves to carve out an exotic life of travel and adventure. But she didn’t count on a sexy fireman upsetting her plans. Gavin Dailey has dated practically every woman in the county, but when he meets April, he knows he’s finally found the one he wants.  Only a stubborn man like Gavin wouldn’t let April’s resistance to his charm and his small town change his plans. Determined to win her, he pulls out all the stops until he encounters one stumbling block he didn’t count on. Only a near-tragedy resurrected from the past gives April the tenacity she needs to make the right decision for her life in April’s Kiss in the Moonlight.

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