Available Now: LEAD ME NOT by Ann Gallagher

My first book written as Ann Gallagher is now available! Lead Me Not is a sweet gay Christian/inspirational romance, and is available from Riptide Publishing.

Riptide Publishing * Amazon * Barnes & Noble * AllRomance

Isaac Morris has devoted his life to preaching against the sin of homosexuality. But when his sister proposes a documentary to demonstrate once and for all that it’s a choice—with Isaac choosing to be gay as proof—he balks. Until he learns his nephew is headed down that perverted path. Isaac will do anything to convince the teenager he can choose to be straight . . . including his sister’s film.
When Isaac’s first foray into the gay lifestyle ends with a homophobic beating, he’s saved and cared for by Colton Roberts, a gentle, compassionate bartender with a cross around his neck. Colton challenges every one of Isaac’s deeply held beliefs about gay men. He was kicked out by homophobic parents, saved from the streets by a kind pastor, and is now a devout Christian. Colton’s sexuality has cost him dearly, but it also brought him to God.
As the two grow closer, everything Isaac knows about homosexuality, his faith, and himself is called into question. And if he’s been wrong all along, what does that mean for his ministry, his soul, his struggling nephew—and the man he never meant to love? 
- See more at: http://riptidepublishing.com/titles/lead-me-not#sthash.JvstSFk7.dpuf

Isaac Morris has devoted his life to preaching against the sin of homosexuality. But when his sister proposes a documentary to demonstrate once and for all that it’s a choice—with Isaac choosing to be gay as proof—he balks. Until he learns his nephew is headed down that perverted path. Isaac will do anything to convince the teenager he can choose to be straight . . . including his sister’s film.
When Isaac’s first foray into the gay lifestyle ends with a homophobic beating, he’s saved and cared for by Colton Roberts, a gentle, compassionate bartender with a cross around his neck. Colton challenges every one of Isaac’s deeply held beliefs about gay men. He was kicked out by homophobic parents, saved from the streets by a kind pastor, and is now a devout Christian. Colton’s sexuality has cost him dearly, but it also brought him to God.
As the two grow closer, everything Isaac knows about homosexuality, his faith, and himself is called into question. And if he’s been wrong all along, what does that mean for his ministry, his soul, his struggling nephew—and the man he never meant to love? 
- See more at: http://riptidepublishing.com/titles/lead-me-not#sthash.JvstSFk7.dpuf

Isaac Morris has devoted his life to preaching against the sin of homosexuality. But when his sister proposes a documentary to demonstrate once and for all that it’s a choice—with Isaac choosing to be gay as proof—he balks. Until he learns his nephew is headed down that perverted path. Isaac will do anything to convince the teenager he can choose to be straight . . . including his sister’s film.

When Isaac’s first foray into the gay lifestyle ends with a homophobic beating, he’s saved and cared for by Colton Roberts, a gentle, compassionate bartender with a cross around his neck. Colton challenges every one of Isaac’s deeply held beliefs about gay men. He was kicked out by homophobic parents, saved from the streets by a kind pastor, and is now a devout Christian. Colton’s sexuality has cost him dearly, but it also brought him to God.

As the two grow closer, everything Isaac knows about homosexuality, his faith, and himself is called into question. And if he’s been wrong all along, what does that mean for his ministry, his soul, his struggling nephew—and the man he never meant to love?

 

Isaac Morris has devoted his life to preaching against the sin of homosexuality. But when his sister proposes a documentary to demonstrate once and for all that it’s a choice—with Isaac choosing to be gay as proof—he balks. Until he learns his nephew is headed down that perverted path. Isaac will do anything to convince the teenager he can choose to be straight . . . including his sister’s film.
When Isaac’s first foray into the gay lifestyle ends with a homophobic beating, he’s saved and cared for by Colton Roberts, a gentle, compassionate bartender with a cross around his neck. Colton challenges every one of Isaac’s deeply held beliefs about gay men. He was kicked out by homophobic parents, saved from the streets by a kind pastor, and is now a devout Christian. Colton’s sexuality has cost him dearly, but it also brought him to God.
As the two grow closer, everything Isaac knows about homosexuality, his faith, and himself is called into question. And if he’s been wrong all along, what does that mean for his ministry, his soul, his struggling nephew—and the man he never meant to love? 
- See more at: http://riptidepublishing.com/titles/lead-me-not#sthash.JvstSFk7.dpuf

NOW AVAILABLE: Starstruck and Precious Metals

Now that I'm more or less settled into Seattle, I can actually catch up a bit! I had one book out last week, and one comes out today.

First up, today's release: the first book in the new multi-author Bluewater Bay series, STARSTRUCK, available from Riptide Publishing. Available on Amazon, AllRomance, and Barnes & Noble.

Hollywood is full of dirty secrets, but Carter refuses to be Levi’s.

Retired action star Levi Pritchard has made a quiet life for himself in the sleepy logging town of Bluewater Bay, Washington. But then Hollywood comes to film the wildly popular television series Wolf’s Landing, and Bluewater Bay isn’t so sleepy anymore. His retirement doesn’t stick, either, because he’s offered a part on the show—exactly the kind of complex role he’d always wanted, one that would prove him more than a glorified stuntman. The only catch? He has to stay in the closet—no matter how attractive he finds his co-star.

Carter Samuels is the critically-acclaimed male lead on Wolf’s Landing. And now, the man who inspired him to take up acting—and made him realize he’s gay—is joining the cast, and sparks fly between them instantly. But Carter is out and proud and determined to stay true to himself.

Remaining just friends is the only thing to do, as both the studio and Levi’s disapproving, dysfunctional family remind them daily. Except their friendship deepens by the day, tempting them with what they can’t have but both desperately need.

And last week's release, also from Riptide Publishing, is PRECIOUS METALS, a steampunk story set in the Klondike Gold Rush like Noble Metals. It's available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and AllRomance.

For Constable Paul Benson of the North-West Mounted Police, monotony is a blessing. As a provision inspector below the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush, he’s seen miserable conditions and gold fever turn civilized prospectors into madmen.

Joseph Starling is on his way to the Klondike to find the men who savagely beat him, murdered his eldest brother, and stole their mining machine. They’ll kill his youngest brother if Joseph doesn’t operate the machine for them—it won’t work without him. With time running out, Joseph must purchase an expensive ticket aboard a crash-prone airship. But the station is miles away through dangerous terrain.

Under orders, Paul grudgingly escorts Joseph, but quickly finds himself intrigued by the young man. As they make their way toward Juneau, it’s not just the need for warmth that drives them closer together. But neither man can draw an easy breath until they make it to the gold fields . . . and there’s no guarantee that Joseph’s brother will still be alive when they do.

NOW AVAILABLE: Hostile Ground

Hostile Ground, a suspense novel written with Aleksandr Voinov, is now available from Riptide Publishing!  Also available on AllRomance, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.

After the deaths of three undercover cops investigating a drug ring in a seedy strip club in Seattle, Detective Mahir Hussain has been sent to finish the job. He joins the club’s security team in the hopes of finding enough evidence to bust the operation before the men in charge find a reason to put him in a shallow grave.

To protect the strippers, only gay men can work the club. Ridley, the cold and intimidating head of security, knows exactly how to test potential new hires—including Mahir. From the minute they meet, Mahir and Ridley engage in a dangerous dance of sex and mind games. Mahir needs to find his evidence before Ridley figures out he’s a cop—and before they both grow too close to betray one another.

As the game goes on, Mahir burrows deeper into the operation, where he learns there’s much more happening than meets the eye . . . and why every cop who made it this far has been silenced with a bullet.

NOW AVAILABLE: It's Complicated

The seventh book in the multi-author Tucker Springs series, It's Complicated, is now available from Riptide Publishing, as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and AllRomance.

After their umpteenth breakup, Brad Sweeney and Jeff Hayden are living apart and starting over from scratch. The morning after a promising first date, they’re more optimistic than ever that they can make it work this time . . . until Jeff’s ex-wife and business partner calls to announce she’s pregnant with Jeff’s baby. Brad’s already competing with a demanding business for Jeff’s time. Now there’s a baby on the way, and worse, he’s afraid Jeff is still carrying a torch for the woman who’s carrying his child.

Jeff is desperately trying to keep his life together, but before he can even get his head around the news that he’s going to be a father, his ex announces that she wants to leave Tucker Springs. Now he either has to take over her role at the shop while ferrying the baby back and forth from Denver, or move the business—and himself—with her.

Brad and Jeff knew reconciliation wouldn’t be easy, but they’re rapidly running out of room for compromise. And sooner or later, something has to give.

NEW RELEASES: If It Drives, Guarded, and For The Living

It's been a busy week -- three new titles launched! I didn't want to do a post for each release because that would just clutter everything up, so I've rounded them up for a single post.

Cat Grant and I are pleased to announce the release of our kinky rock star novel, Guarded, available on Amazon, AllRomance, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Smashwords.

 On the surface, rock star Jordan Kane has it all. No Rules is burning up the charts and headlining a world tour. His bodyguard doubles as his hot, kinky boyfriend who knows just how to push all his buttons. But behind the scenes, he’s suffocating. 

Jase never imagined he’d have a shot at bedding the larger than life rock star, never mind dominating him, but now he’s worried he’s in over his head. Jordan’s kinks run deep, dark, and sometimes dangerous, putting Jase’s desires to both pleasure and protect him at odds. 

They might have a fighting chance at finding the safe, happy medium between what Jordan needs and what Jase is willing to give, but there’s one problem: Daniel, Jordan’s childhood best friend, the band’s talented guitarist—and the volatile, hard-partying drug addict. Jordan is determined to save Daniel from himself, but Jase has been there, done that, and desperately wants to protect Jordan from the inevitable heartache of watching an addict self-destruct. 

When Daniel goes off the rails again, Jordan calls off the tour to get him help. Tension within the band skyrockets and pressure from the record label sends Jordan into a dark spiral. Now his band—and his life—are balanced on a knife's edge, and Jase is the only one who can pull him back... but only if the echoes of his own tragic past don't push him over instead.

Aleksandr Voinov and I have been busy too, and we're taking you back to Market Garden in the seventh book in that series, If It Drives, available from Riptide Publishing, Amazon, AllRomance, and Barnes & Noble.

If it flies, drives, or fornicates, it's cheaper to rent it. 

After driving James Harcourt, his wealthy banker boss, around for a year and a half, Cal isn’t surprised by much anymore. Not even James’s regular trips to Market Garden, London’s most elite gay brothel. 

But when James leaves the Garden alone one night and turns to Cal instead, Cal’s floored. After crushing on his boss for ages, it’s his wet dream come true . . . until the awkward morning after. Cal still has a job to do, but he wants to offer more. Yet James doesn’t take him up on it; he keeps Cal at arm’s length and continues his chauffeured jaunts to Market Garden. 

As Cal learns what James needs from the rentboys, he tries to fill that need himself. But there’s more to James’s penchant for rentboys than Cal realizes, and it may be one role that Cal can’t fill without overstepping his duty.

And finally, I've re-released my novel, For The Living, and it can be found on Amazon, AllRomance, and Barnes & Noble.

For the last year, Jay Warren has struggled to find the nerve to tell his wife he’s gay. Every time he gets the chance, though, he freezes up. He’s ashamed of hiding it all this time and he doesn’t want to hurt her, and the guilt has been almost unbearable. 

Then his wife dies suddenly, and Jay’s conscience threatens to eat him alive. 

Funeral director Scott Lawson deals with the bereaved every day, and he’s all too familiar with the inside of the closet. He offers Jay some much-needed compassion and understanding, and from that connection comes a friendship that quickly—perhaps too quickly—turns into something more. 

But are grief, guilt, and loneliness the only things tying them together? Or will Scott get fed up with being used as an emotional crutch before Jay realizes what he has? 

This book was previously published.

 Stay tuned -- Roped In (written with Marie Sexton) is out later this month, as is the seventh Tucker Springs book, It's Complicated!

NOW AVAILABLE: If It Drives (A Market Garden Tale)

Red Tie is back, y'all!  The seventh Market Garden story, If It Drives, is available now from Riptide Publishing, and can be purchased directly or from Amazon, AllRomance, or Barnes & Noble.

If it flies, drives, or fornicates, it's cheaper to rent it.

After driving James Harcourt, his wealthy banker boss, around for a year and a half, Cal isn’t surprised by much anymore. Not even James’s regular trips to Market Garden, London’s most elite gay brothel.

But when James leaves the Garden alone one night and turns to Cal instead, Cal’s floored. After crushing on his boss for ages, it’s his wet dream come true . . . until the awkward morning after. Cal still has a job to do, but he wants to offer more. Yet James doesn’t take him up on it; he keeps Cal at arm’s length and continues his chauffeured jaunts to Market Garden.

As Cal learns what James needs from the rentboys, he tries to fill that need himself. But there’s more to James’s penchant for rentboys than Cal realizes, and it may be one role that Cal can’t fill without overstepping his duty.

NOW AVAILABLE: Static

I'm so thrilled to announce that my transgender science fiction novel, Static, is back! Riptide Publishing has revised it, given it a gorgeous cover, and now...here it is!

Static can be purchased directly from Riptide, as well as on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and AllRomance.

After two years together, Alex has been dreading the inevitable moment when Damon learns the truth: that Alex is a shifter, part of a small percentage of the population able to switch genders at will. Thanks to a forced implant, though, Alex is suddenly static—unable to shift—and male. Overnight, he’s out to a world that neither understands nor tolerates shifters . . . and to his heterosexual boyfriend.

Damon is stunned to discover his girlfriend is a shifter, and scared to death of the dangers the implant poses to Alex’s health. He refuses to abandon Alex, but what about their relationship? Damon is straight, and with the implant both costly and dangerous to remove, Alex is stuck as a man.

Stripped of half his identity and facing serious physical and social ramifications, Alex needs Damon more than ever, but he doesn’t see how they can get through this.

Especially if he’s static forever.

NOW AVAILABLE: The Best Man (with previously unpublished epilogue)

I'm pleased to announce that The Best Man has been re-released with an additional epilogue that was not included in the original version.  The book can be purchased from Amazon, AllRomance, and Barnes & Noble.

Jon Beatty thought he’d found the best man for him until Craig walked out. To add insult to injury, Craig's got a new lover—a woman—and wants Jon to be a different kind of best man…at his wedding. 

Reasoning that the only way to get over one man is to get under another, Jon heads out to Wilde’s, the night club on Capitol Hill famous for its hot clientele and hotter bartenders. Jon just wants to get drunk and get laid, and bartender Liam Sable is more than willing to help with both. 

Their one night stand turns into a rebound fling, but as Jon moves on with Liam, Craig starts having second thoughts about the break-up. His tiresome antics are the least of Jon and Liam’s worries, though. The least annoying, and the least dangerous… 

This book was previously published, and includes a newly added epilogue.

Also, for the Tucker Springs fans, After the Fall is now available for pre-order from Riptide Publishing! It will be available for download on October 7th (or October 5th if you pre-order it).

After years of saving every penny, Nathan has finally managed to buy the horse of his dreams. He’s looking forward to a summer of exploring the Colorado mountain trails above Tucker Springs with Tsarina. But on their very first ride, a motorcyclist makes a wrong turn, scaring Tsarina into bolting and leaving Nathan with a broken leg, a broken hand, and a ruined summer. 

Ryan is a loner and a nomad, content with working odd jobs before moving on to the next town. Feeling guilty for causing the accident that leaves Nathan in two casts, Ryan offers to keep Tsarina exercised until Nathan heals. 

Despite their bad start, Nathan and Ryan soon become friends . . . and then much more. But with a couple of nasty breakups in his past, Nathan doesn’t want feelings getting involved—especially knowing that Ryan will never settle down. But since when do feelings ever listen to reason? 

NOW AVAILABLE: Unhinge the Universe

It's finally here! The first book Aleksandr Voinov and I wrote together, Unhinge the Universe, is now available from Riptide Publishing, and is also on AllRomance, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Rainbow ebooks.

SS Lieutenant Hagen Friedrichs is the sole survivor of a party sent to retrieve his brother—and the highly sensitive information he’s carrying—from behind enemy lines. But his daring rescue attempt fails, and Hagen becomes the prisoner.

Allied command has ordered Captain John Nicholls to extract critical intelligence from their new Nazi POW. His secrets could turn the tide of the war, but are they real? John is determined to find out . . . and to shatter the prisoner who killed his lover during the attack on their tiny base. The deeper he digs, though, the more he realizes that the soldier under the SS uniform is just like him: a scared, exhausted young man who’s lost loved ones and just wants to go home.

As captor and captive form an unexpected bond, the lines quickly blur between enemy, friend, and lover. And as horrifying rumors spread from the front lines and American soldiers turn their sights on the SS for vengeance, John may be Hagen’s only hope for survival.

COMING SOON: Unhinge the Universe

Today, Aleksandr Voinov and I were finally able to reveal the cover and blurb for our upcoming World War II historical novel, Unhinge the Universe. It's currently available for pre-order from Riptide Publishing, and will be released July 15.

We're both really excited about this one. It's my first foray into World War II (certainly not Aleks's -- if y'all haven't read Skybound, YOU MUST), and it was the first book we wrote together when we formed our unholy alliance last fall. It's got all kinds of fun stuff: men in (and out of) uniform. Two snarly Alphas who don't want to play nice and definitely don't want to back down. A captor and captive who are never quite sure who's really in charge. 

There's also a bathtub involved at some point. Just sayin'.

Give me one fixed point and a long enough lever, and I'll unhinge the universe. — Archimedes.

December 1944 – The Battle of the Bulge 

SS Lieutenant Hagen Friedrichs is the sole survivor of a party sent to retrieve his brother—and the highly sensitive information he’s carrying—from behind enemy lines. But his daring rescue attempt fails, and Hagen becomes the prisoner. 

Allied command has ordered Captain John Nicholls to extract critical intelligence from their new Nazi POW. His secrets could turn the tide of the war, but are they real? John is determined to find out . . . and to shatter the prisoner who killed his lover during the attack on their tiny base. The deeper he digs, though, the more he realizes that the soldier under the SS uniform is just like him: a scared, exhausted young man who’s lost loved ones and just wants to go home.

As captor and captive form an unexpected bond, the lines quickly blur between enemy, friend, and lover. And as horrifying rumors spread from the front lines and American soldiers turn their sights on the SS for vengeance, John may be Hagen’s only hope for survival.

NOW AVAILABLE: Finding Master Right

Finding Master Right is now available from Riptide Publishing, and can also be purchased from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and AllRomance Ebooks. (other links will be added to my website as they're available)

It's all fun and games until somebody falls in love. 

Chase has just arrived at a much anticipated leather convention, and he’s about to lose his mind. Not only is his ex attending, but Chase is also rooming with Derek, a submissive he’s been dying to top. Although Derek is in search of a Dom, he made it painfully clear when the two of them hooked up for a very hot—but very vanilla—night just before the convention that he wasn’t interested in submitting to Chase. 

Derek isn’t stupid. No matter how desperate he is to submit to Chase, he wants no part of a rebound relationship. As long as Chase is still pining after the sub who broke his heart a few months ago, Derek’s keeping him at arm’s length. Besides, there’s another Dom at this convention, the gorgeous Master Raul, who Derek is determined to attract. 

But when Chase and Derek are confronted with all their kinks, from ropes to leather, bondage to flogging—not to mention each other—they can only ignore their mutual attraction for so long.

How It Happened: The Story Behind FINDING MASTER RIGHT

In May of last year, I spent four days in Chicago, and wound up writing two books as a result. One was From Out in the Cold, which came out this past December from Loose Id. That one happened because my overactive imagination ran away with me while I was standing on a train platform at some unholy hour and pondering what sorts of unsavory things happened in places like that in the dead of night. Those of you who've read the book probably know which scene I'm referring to.

The other story spawned by that trip is decidedly lighter, though, and that's the one I want to talk about now: my newest release, Finding Master Right. (I just noticed that both titles begin with the letter 'F'. That is  purely coincidence.)  So if the first book was the result of some brain-wanderings while standing on a train platform, where in the world did this one come from?

Glad you asked.

It all started on my last night in town. Sarah Frantz and James Buchanan suggested going to the International Mister Leather convention, which just so happened to be going on the same weekend. They wanted to check out the vendor fair on Sunday. Now, I had planned to drive home on Sunday, but decided this was an interesting opportunity. So I let my husband know I'd be staying an extra day, and followed James and Sarah to the hotel where IML was being held.  Much of that story can be found in this blog post, written shortly after the experience. And there are photos!

So we wandered down the crowded aisles, checking out everything from floggers to books to devices I'm still not entirely certain I understand. We watched demonstrations that made me understand why we had to sign a waiver (two, actually) stating we understood there would be explicit sexual content and we wouldn't be offended by it. At every turn, I was fascinated.  I saw bootblackers, furries, people in head-to-toe vinyl or leather, people in almost nothing, bullwhip demonstrations, and a guy in a gladiator costume with a really wicked cool Centurion-style helmet that I regret not photographing.

I watched a man get into a vacuum box, and when all the air was sucked out, the sides clung to him and he was completely unable to move except for his head. People rolled the box over, turned him this way and that, and there wasn't a thing he could do about it.

A lot of things I saw were very much out of my comfort zone, but still interesting to watch. Mind you, I wasn't looking at any of this with a judgmental eye. Even the things I found amusing were amusing in a "that's not my thing, but you enjoy it, so more power to you" kind of way. It's difficult to convey being intrigued and at times amused without making it sound like I thought I was walking through a freak show. That's absolutely not the case. It was interesting, enlightening in a number of ways, and certainly got the plot bunnies stirring inside my skull. But let's face it: it's difficult not to chuckle when you're watching someone get rolled around in a vacuum box, or when listening to a frank discussion about the texture versus aesthetic properties of a blown glass dildo.

As a side note, they say the sense of smell is the sense most likely to be tied to memories. That made the first half hour or so of the convention a little odd for me. Why? Because there was a lot of leather. A LOT of leather. Which is awesome, right? Totally. Except it also brought about some incredibly incongruous déjà vu relating to my horse show days. For me, the smell of leather, much like that of beauty bark or carnival food, will forever be tied to horse shows, and there are times when that sensory connection is...well, enough to short circuit my brain. Seriously, it's a very bizarre experience to take a breath and have your brain filled with images from horse shows, and then have someone walk past you in assless chaps and nothing else.  Now I'm almost afraid to go to a horse show.

Eventually, though, I got used to the smell, and my brain stopped trying to conjure up horses and saddles. Good thing, too; that would have been really weird when we got to the booth selling toys molded from horse penises. No, I'm not making that up, and no, I did not take any pictures.

Anyway, where was I? Oh, right. The book. So I'm wandering down all these aisles with Sarah and James, and I'm in a perpetual state of sensory overload. Not just from the leather smell, but just seeing all the different products available, the huge variety of people, and the demos. At some point, I said to James and Sarah, "I am so going to write a book about this."

Okay, I say that a lot. And sometimes the experience or whatever is inspiring me at the moment gets tucked into the back of my brain, and it may or may not ever resurface in the form of fiction. Other times, it becomes a book, or at least a piece of a book (like the scene that inspired From Out in the Cold).

This one, though, stuck with me. Part of that has to do with Sarah informing me that yes, I would write a book about it if I knew what was good for me (she didn't word it exactly like that), but part of it was just the fact that everything about IML stuck with me. There was a story there. There had to be.

When I left Chicago and headed home just hours later, with nothing but my thoughts and a dying iPod to keep me company through the endless landscape of cornfields and truck stops, I kept thinking about the convention. And I kept thinking, "What if?"

What if a couple of guys met there?
Better yet, what if they knew each other already?
What if they both wanted each other, but couldn't have each other, and were somehow stuck together during a convention like that?
What if they want each other, can't have each other, and are rooming together?

Somewhere around Walcott, IA (the biggest truck stop in the world), I realized they were close friends who'd met through a local dungeon. Between Walcott and Des Moines, I figured out that Chase was a Dom who wanted to top Derek so bad he could taste it. And along the way, as I-80 took me through the unchanging scenery--have you ever driven through Iowa? It's like watching paint dry--toward Nebraska, everything else began to crystallize. The ex-boyfriend who's also at the conference. The other man Derek covets as his Dom. The pair of bears who rock Derek's--and, unexpectedly, Chase's--world at a leather bar one night. A bondage demonstration that seems like a good idea until it actually starts. All of that set against the backdrop of a leather convention (and the leather bar that James, Sarah, and I went to the night before IML).

By the time I had to stop for the night at some motel in the middle of nowhere, the story had almost entirely come together. I was too exhausted to drive another mile, but sat on the rock hard motel bed and wrote in my notebook until every scrap of the story was on paper. In my horrible, Mayan hieroglyph handwriting that even I struggle to decipher, but on paper nonetheless.

And across the top of the first page, in decidedly clearer printing, I wrote the title: Finding Master Right.

And here we are.

..

It's all fun and games until somebody falls in love. 

Chase has just arrived at a much anticipated leather convention, and he’s about to lose his mind. Not only is his ex attending, but Chase is also rooming with Derek, a submissive he’s been dying to top. Although Derek is in search of a Dom, he made it painfully clear when the two of them hooked up for a very hot—but very vanilla—night just before the convention that he wasn’t interested in submitting to Chase. 

Derek isn’t stupid. No matter how desperate he is to submit to Chase, he wants no part of a rebound relationship. As long as Chase is still pining after the sub who broke his heart a few months ago, Derek’s keeping him at arm’s length. Besides, there’s another Dom at this convention, the gorgeous Master Raul, who Derek is determined to attract. 

But when Chase and Derek are confronted with all their kinks, from ropes to leather, bondage to flogging—not to mention each other—they can only ignore their mutual attraction for so long.

Finding Master Right will be available June 17th from Riptide Publishing, and if you pre-order it, you can download it at midnight on June 14th!

Lots and lots of pretty covers!

The art department at Riptide has been busy this week (Samhain too, but I can't show that one off just yet), and they've sent over three shiny new covers this week!

If It Fornicates and Capture & Surrender are both available for pre-order, and Finding Master Right won't be too far behind.

NOW AVAILABLE: Covet Thy Neighbor and Test Drive

Two new releases this week!!

First, Covet Thy Neighbor, book #4 in the Tucker Springs series, is available from Riptide Publishing, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, AllRomance Ebooks, and Rainbow Ebooks.

Opposites attract, but heaven help these two.

Tattoo artist Seth Wheeler thinks he’s struck gold when Darren Romero rents the apartment across the hall. The new guy is gorgeous, witty, and single, plus he’s just the right blend of bold and flirtatious. Perfect.

Except then Darren reveals that he moved to Tucker Springs to take a job as the youth pastor at the New Light Church. Seth is not only an atheist, but was thrown out by his ultra-religious family when he came out. He tends to avoid believers, not out of judgment but out of self-preservation.

But Darren doesn’t give up easily, and he steadily chips away at Seth’s defenses. Darren is everything Seth wants in a man . . . except for that one massive detail he just can’t overlook. Is Darren’s religion the real problem, or is it just a convenient smoke screen to keep him from facing deeper fears? It’s either see the light, or risk pushing Darren away forever.

Also, Test Drive, a contemporary short story, is available from Amber Allure. Additional links will be added here as they are available. This story is part of the Office Affairs Amber Pax, and can be purchased individually or along with the other stories by Heidi Champa, Christiane France, Sean Michael, and Anne Brooke here.

Sean Waters is down on his luck thanks to the economy, and winds up working for his domineering father’s car dealership. It’s not the greatest job, but it’s a paycheck. The only problem? He’s got a wicked crush on the general manager, Jackson Shaw.

When Jackson suggests a drive in one of the brand new sports cars, Sean has no idea it’s not the car Jackson really wants to take for a spin.

They both need this job, though, and the boss isn’t keen on employees getting involved with each other. But it’s just a lusty little crush anyway, so they can move on and pretend nothing ever happened.

Can’t they?