Book Exposure: Write Now! How to Write a Novel in Your Spare Time, Even if You're Busy!

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Want to write a novel, but can’t find the time and don’t know where to start? Then, this is the book for you! Write Now! How to Write a Novel in Your Spare Time, Even if You’re Busy! is a step-by-step guide, designed to help you set a writing schedule, create a personalized writing plan, and find the time to write in your spare time, whether you are a novice or an experienced writer.

Not only will Write Now! guide you through the process of creating a writing plan tailored to your needs, it is also a comprehensive guide to writing fiction, taking you from your pre-writing activity through to publishing.

In this book, the author speaks directly to the reader, using examples as she goes, and also includes examples of outlines, a character analysis, a story map, and more, ensuring your success on your writing journey. So, if you have ever wanted to write a novel or are having a hard time finding the time to write and don’t know where to start, then this book will help you to Write Now!

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Author Tip: Portfolio

Every author should have a portfolio of work. Whether this is just a website or an extensive paper form, there are really cheap ways to do this, that still look profession. Why is it important? Because your readers need a way to view your work and get to know you. Also, it's good to keep in mind that a lot of people don't have Facebook, so try to make yourself available on as many avenues as possible.

Today, I'm going to talk about a paper portfolio. This is great for book signings or just something to carry in your bag, for those moments when you're asked about your work. It's so much easier to get someone interested in your books if they can see a cover or read a blurb, immediately  than it does to show them a business card. Inevitably, they get shoved in a pocket/bag and forgotten about. Visually, it's harder to forget a great cover or a phrase from a blurb that intrigued you. People are, scientifically, more likely to remember something they see than something they're only told about.

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My recent project was to take one of those booklets that come with collectable cards and turn it into a portfolio.

How? Well, it's pretty easy. It does take up a lot of paper (plain or photo - your choice) and lots of printing, but it's well worth it. Plus, you end up with a visually pleasing booklet of your work, that is protected from damage, greasy/dirty fingers and wear and tear.

I got mine recently, from the Minions explosion that's been happening. It was easy to pick up the "starter pack" which was a magazine, with cards and the binder. I did this for the binder, because it's cheaper to pay £4-£5 for this starter pack than to try to find one available elsewhere. These packs are aimed at kids, with pocket money, while individual items are aimed at adults who make a wage. Unfair, but true. Plus, you can gift the rest of the pack to a family kid, so it's not a total waste. (You can buy these in most newsagents/news paper stores, especially supermarkets, at the magazine section)

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After buying your pack, it's a simple matter of taking measurements. I measures the Minions insert, for the front cover and the size of one of the cards, for the inserts inside. As it's designed for individual cards, you can actually fit +250 inside one book. This is great, because my plan is to make 1 card for the series/book with the blurb on it, then one card with the book cover. When you don't have much to put in it, you can fill the back with extra business cards (to hand out), character cards and extras, that are all easy to fit in the slots, for those emergency moments.

So, the measurements for this Minion pack are as follows:

Front/Back Cover = W: 14cm H: 19.2cm

Inserts = W: 6.2cm H: 8.8cm

I'm sticking with this, as this allows some wiggle room on either side as well as being accessible if they need changed or rearranged. I'm also arranging mine my series, as there's so much space.

If you're using another size of folder, you can convert to pixels (which Picmonkey uses for size) here at Unit Conversations.

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Phase 1: Front and Back covers

The front cover will be simple: my logo, with a background of some sort, on the front. On the flip side, will be my bio. The back cover will be similar: an image related to me or my writing, then on the flip side, a list of all my books. These two pages can be updated as and when needed.

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Phase 2: The guts.

For this, I'll be making one Blurb for each solo novel or for each series. Then I'll make one card for each book cover in that series or for that novel.

Example:

 I have to print, to check that the writing can be read on the blurb. But, the great thing is that it's easy to fix.

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Phase 3: Insert into Doc

The easiest and simplest way to print these is to insert each into a word document. Keep them at their natural size, but if they change, it's easy to right click each picture, to re-set the size to the above measurements.

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Phase 4: Print

You can do this on photo paper (for that clear, crystal, professional look) or on plain paper. As this will be an every day item, for events, hopefully manhandled a lot, and in a protective cover, the choice is totally up to you. You can be economic, in using plain paper, knowing that you might have to update it a lot or that it might get dirty. Or you can go all out with the photo paper for a sturdier book.

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Phase 5: Share!

Take it with you everywhere. The size of this little book makes that easier on you, since it's not a massive A4 folder. Even if it's just to have those extra character cards or business cards on hand, it will always come in handy.

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Book Exposure: Sensual Diversions: 14 Sexy Shorts Presented by Lavish Publishing

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Have you ever wanted to get straight to the point, get down to business, and forget the fluff?

This Valentines, fourteen romance and erotica authors cut to the chase in this unique collection of sexy bits and tell-all short stories. Tales that are personal and touching, heart wrenching, tear jerking and bodice ripping, on your knees and against the wall bangers. One night stands, loves of a lifetime, boy next door, bad boy vs good guy… we have it all! What’s your pleasure, pick your poison, a different man every day for a fortnight… need we say more?

WARNING: Mature Adult 18+ for graphic sex, coarse language, and mild violence. Reader discretion is advised.

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We're so glad to say that our very own Sophie Slade has been asked to contribute to this. A Valentine's Day anthology, SENSUAL DIVERSIONS, created by Lavish Publishing and Samantha Jacobey with by HOTT! It will feature a clip of Sophie's book CROSSROADS (ETERNALLY YOURS BOOK TWO), as well as her personal narrative, FIRST TIME, FIRST LOVE!

The SENSUAL DIVERSIONS Boxed Set Pre-Order is now up ... and is now just ,99 cents! Fourteen sensual stories by fourteen authors and my story FIRST TIME, FIRST LOVE is included! I'm not sure how long the pre-order price will be just .99 cents before it's Feb. 14 release! So, get your copy today!

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Please sign up for the tour and book release party! We're going to have a rockin' time with a GREAT lineup of author takeovers! Check it out! Also, we'd love your help with the Thunderclap, to get the word out about this awesome anthology.

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Lexi Ostrow has been in love with the written word since second grade when her librarian started a writing club. Born in sunny southern California she’s spent time in various places across the country and can’t wait to settle down somewhere in the French Quarter when she’s able too.

Lexi has been a writer ever since the second grade in some form or another. Getting her degree in creative writing and her master’s in journalism she couldn’t wait to get a chance to put her fantasies down on paper. Her debut novel, Torn Between Two Worlds is something that was simmering in her mind since middle school and she’s so grateful to put it out into the literary world. From paranormal romance to thriller there isn’t a genre she doesn’t love to spend her time reading or writing.

Reading and writing are her first loves but her passion for shopping, love for yummy food and her love for all her many pets. She hopes to one day help other readers fall in love with writing as she did.

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Alliance of Silver and Steam

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Demon in Steam (Alliance of Silver & Steam, #0.5)

In the London Underground the Alliance of Silver and Steam is all that protects humans from demons.

Felicia Gannon is no stranger to the demons that lurk in the night. After her parents were murdered in front of her the Alliance took her in and trained her. Vengeance became her only drive.

Greyston Westham is more than just the devilishly handsome Captain of the Guard. He's an Incubus Demon who hunts his own kind because they have no use for lesser demons like himself.

When a murderer is running lose that only the Alliance can deal with Felicia and Greyston are thrown together in a deadly game. Can she overcome her hatred of demons and give into the relationship that will save her life? Or will Felicia's hatred be her doom.

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Nightmare in Steam (Alliance of Silver and Steam, #1)

Eliza Kempe Dorley is always left in the background. As a female, being top inventor for the Alliance of Silver and Steam has as many draw backs as perks. She’s in charge of the creation of the many tools the Alliance uses in pursuit of the demons that run lose in the London Underground, which means without her, the demons would be harder to put down. It also means she misses all of the action and has never had the chance to really use any of her inventions.

Lucius Cooley Willan is a Nightmare Demon with a penchant for gambling and sleeping with women he shouldn’t’t and it’s landed him in hot water. Now he spends his nights slinking in humans dreams and unleashing terrors so strong it kills them so he can capture their soul for his boss. But when he’s ordered to attack the group that hunts his kind he’s enthralled by the feisty inventor he comes upon.

Eliza’s victim to Lucius in a way no others have been, a sensual dream that she can’t shake when she wakes up. When he bumps into her at the trains she’s an addiction he can’t shake. When he outright disobeys the demon who controls him for some out of dreams interactions with the Eliza, it will be up to him to save her from the nightmare he’s put her in.

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Bite of Silver (Alliance of Silver & Steam #2)

Odette Cosgrove’s father is Master Thomas Agardawes, head of the Alliance of Silver and Steam. She has grown up in the center of the Alliance of Silver and Steam; her childhood spent learning how to fight and take down the creatures. When her father asked her to head up a chapter of the Alliance in America she accepted. Love was waiting for her, but so were demons who knew she would be unready to handle them and they tore her new life apart sending her running back to London.

Philippe Clemis is The Alliance of Silver and Steam’s best hunter. He’s killed hundreds of the vile demons and kills without remorse. When Odette shows up back in London after her family was slaughtered he’s assigned to get her reacquainted with guild ways - he’d rather be cleaning up the toilets. The obstinate female drives him crazy and makes him mad with desire because she challenges him in a way no one ever has.

When a Kappa Demon attack on Philippe claims Odette instead the pair will have to work together to stop her transformation into the vampiric little demon. A journey across Europe and into hell itself to find a cure will force the pair to determine if what they feel is love or hate if they are going to make it back alive.

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Guardians

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Torn Between Two Worlds (Guardians, #1)

Her heart was torn differently than others, between two worlds. Her choice would affect her position in each.

Ciara Miller was born the same as others, but she got a little something extra. When she was younger she learned she was a Word Speaker, someone who could create life from stories. Her gift is incomplete until her 27th birthday, before then all she can create is things she, and others like her can see. Evil wants her gift as well and the characters she choses to create become her Guardians against the unseen attackers that want to use her skill. Just before her 27th birthday, fate has a surprise for her.

Stryder is a demon, created to be a backup plan for the Horseman of the Apocalypse, War. Since the day he learned he was nothing more than pawn he and his brothers had been seeking a way to betray hell and fight on the side of the angels. His world is torn apart again when he finds out he's nothing more than a story and given the option to protect a human female, Ciara, or die.

Ciara hates Stryder for replacing her former Guardian. But she cannot deny the lust and connection that rocks through her every time they touch. She could deny it all she wanted, but she belonged to Stryder and when they find themselves thrown into a war bigger than them both she must choose between her reality bound heart and her fantasy bound soul to save them.

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Worlds On Fire (Guardians #1.5)

Julian Michelson is a firefighter in a small town in Alabama. He's been struggling for years to prove to himself that Word Speakers, people who can pull characters from books, exist. Why? Because he's supposed to be one and he's failed every step of the way and a war is supposedly coming.

Serena, a princess in fictional medieval Britain, is the epitome of a good girl. She lives to appease her father and her country. That is until she felt a strange voice in her head before waking up and seeing a handsome man through the flames of a fire in a strange world. Now she's stuck in his world and is none to happy with him despite her fascination with the new world and her growing attraction for him.

Julian must make amends to Serena, his first and only Guardian, because if she leaves he can kiss his gift goodbye. A lust they can't deny spikes between them as Word Speaker and Guardian and they must decide – are they in the fight together, or do they go their separate ways?

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Darker Side of Worlds (Guardians #2)

Dale grew up fighting for self respect and the respect of others. Being a Word Speaker hadn’t helped. Most of the Guardians he had sought out those that were decidedly darker and fighting on what could be seen as the wrong side of the war. When Ciara gives him her gifts to follow her own happy ending he’s forced to see his self worth and honor her precious gift.

Breena is a dark sprite in charge of sneaking through dreams to steal information in a war between the Seelie and Unseelie court in her world. Finding out she’s a book character destined to save the life of a human wasn’t her cup of tea - but it was her father’s. Commanded to get close the Word Speaker Dale so they could all enter his world she’s forced to leave what she knows behind and corrupt a man on the brink of finding himself.

When passion ignites between Dale and Breena he finds himself seduced by the darkness once more. He’s tangled up in a web that threatens to change his stance in the war just before his 27th birthday. When her true intentions come out he will have to choose between dark and light, and where he stands in the war.

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Christmas Wish

The Assistant's Christmas Wish (Christmas Wish, #1)

Leena has been in love with her boss, Nick DeMarco, for almost eight years. But he's never given her any indication that she was special to him. Their relationship was close, but rarely outside of a business function. So when he invites her to be his fake girlfriend at his family's Christmas week she is thrilled and ready to show Nick just what he's missing out on, her only wish for the Christmas season.

Nick wouldn't admit it to anyone except his brother, but his assistant Leena is the only woman he's had feelings for in quite some time. He didn't want to seem like a powerful boss trying to seduce his employee so he had ignored his desire for her for the past five years. When the opportunity to take her to his family's chalets opens he takes it, intent on seducing her.

When things begin to heat up with Leena and Nick, both are pleasantly surprised. But a winter storm traps them in the chalet just as Nick's older brother Jake arrives. When he makes no attempt to hide his attraction to Leena the whole vacation becomes heated. What will happen when the storm lifts, will the assistant have gotten a her Christmas wish?

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In Service

Sinking Ships (In Service 1)

Ashley has grown content with her life. Her husband is in the United States Coast Guard but has been assigned a land unit. Which means more time with him and no chance of danger. But then he gets bad news. He's been put on special duty assignment that will mean months of deployment in various open waters. Because he's in the Coast Guard, Ashley assumes that nothing can go wrong.

Waterways have been under attack from pirates of all kinds in the past years. Travis's cutter is destined for waters where they have been seen and there's no telling what his ship will encounter.

Left alone with her memories of their life together Ashley will face the toughest deployment separation yet. Will a lifetime of memories be enough to keep her and Travis from falling apart?

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Awakened By Blood

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Blood on Silk (Awakened by Blood, #1)

The debut of a seductive new contemporary series of vampires, lust, and revenge.

While in Romania researching historical superstitions, Scottish academic Elizabeth Silk comes upon the folk tale of Saloman, a seductive prince staked centuries ago, legend's most powerful vampire. Now, in the ruins of a castle crypt, Elizabeth discovers supernatural legends that have come alive. Her blood has awakened him. Her innocence has aroused him. But Elizabeth unleashes more than Saloman's hunger, and it's going to unite them in ways neither could have imagined.

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Blood Sin (Awakened by Blood, #2)

The author of Blood on Silk brings readers the next novel in her seductive new Awakened by Blood series.

Months after her dangerous encounter with the vampire overlord Saloman, Scottish academic Elizabeth Silk is still trying to cope with both the demands of her vampire-hunting bloodline-and the desire she feels for Saloman, the immortal she brought back from the grave. But when Saloman's ancient sword becomes the object of a ruthless race between humans and vampires, Elizabeth must decide between unwanted loyalty, or unholy love.

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Blood Eternal (Awakened by Blood, #3)

Despite the growing passion that unites them, all is not well between Elizabeth and Saloman. She refuses to follow him as he builds his influence among the human population and consolidates his rule over the vampire world. A shocking revolt is just the latest crisis that's call him away.

But under Saloman's regime, vampires have become less concerned with secrecy. And after he joins forces with vampire hunters, Elizabeth begins to understand the inevitable collision of the two worlds. She could be a conduit between humanity and the undead-is she can manage to play both sides and stay alive...

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Blood Hunters

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Blood Guilt (Blood Hunters, #1)

The first of a new vampire romance series, a sequel to the Awakened by Blood trilogy.

Mihaela, a fearless vampire hunter secretly haunted by loneliness and childhood tragedy, finds it difficult to adjust to the new world order where vampires are not always the bad guys. She's taking a much needed vacation in Scotland when she sees a little boy being chased through the streets of Edinburgh. Rescuing him brings bigger problems - two vampires from her past: Gavril, who killed her family; and the reclusive and troubled Maximilian, gifted Renaissance artist and one-time overlord of the most powerful undead community in the world. Maximilian once saved her life and now needs that favor returned.

The earth moves for Mihaela in more ways than one. From Scotland to Budapest and Malta, she races against time to prevent a disastrous, vampire-induced earthquake and save an innocent yet powerful child – all while fighting a dreadful attraction to Maximilian, her only ally, whom she can’t afford to trust. For Maximilian, the hunter becomes a symbol of renewed existence, as he struggles to accept his past and rediscovers his appetite for blood and sex - and maybe even happiness.

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Blood of Angels (Blood Hunters, #2)

Obsession... a wounded hunter, a damaged vampire.

Six months ago, vampire hunter and inventive genius Istvan nearly died in the seminal battle that would change the relationship between humans and vampires forever.

A year before that, he first encountered sexy vampiress, Angyalka, owner of the Angel Club, favored haunt of the undead. Istvan won that round, but when he recklessly seeks her out again in search of the secret of angels, he's alone and so exhausted he can barely stand, let alone fight vampires. Plus Angyalka's out for revenge, and very happy to use his powerful sexual attraction to her…

But Angyalka has her own secret weaknesses as well as terrifying strengths even she doesn't understand. Their battle becomes one of wits and sex, but when someone bombs the club, they fight together to contain all the threats closing in on the Angel, from humans and vampires, including the sadistic killer who could just be dangerous enough to finally topple undead overlord Saloman.

As Istvan struggles to harness the mysterious power of angels, Angyalka needs a deeper strength to send away the fascinating hunter who delivers on all her deepest sensual desires and yet can't come to terms with her vampire nature.

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Blood Descent (Blood Hunters, #3)

A child is born...into the final showdown of Vampire and Hunter

The face of a killer, the heart of a lost child… Konrad once led the legendary first team of Hungarian vampire hunters. Now, refusing to ally with the undead, he goes his own way, slaughtering vampires across the length and breadth of Europe.

The dying thoughts of one such vampire send Konrad to Britain in search of a dangerous instrument that might be just what he needs in his obsessive war with undead overlord Saloman – a war he’s determined to win at any cost. The only being who can lead him to the instrument and its current, evil possessor, is sexy, mysterious, young Glaswegian vampire Maggie, who holds herself aloof from her own kind.

Maggie sees much more than Konrad’s anger and cruelty. She makes it her mission to reach beyond the horrors of his past and find the man he should have been. Difficult, when he threatens her heart as well as everything she believes in; and when her whole being clamors for his body and his blood.

While journalists circle, about to break the news of vampire existence on mainstream television, Elizabeth Silk labors to give birth to Saloman’s daughter, and Maggie plays a dangerous game that risks everyone for her belief in one troubled man.

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Blood Prophecy (Blood Hunters, #4)

BLOOD PROPHECY by Marie Treanor

Blood Hunters Series Book Four

From a shameful past, rises a vital destiny...

"The junkie whore shall save the trinity in the first hour." So spoke the insane Luk, last of the Ancient undead prophets. The enigmatic vampire Dmitriu believes he knows the junkie whore in question, destined to save the daughter of his creator Saloman.

But the Edinburgh prostitute Janine, who once showed Dmitriu kindness, has not only got clean; she's become a vampire hunter, determined never to be helpless in anyone’s power again; and Dmitriu's pretty high on her kill list. Instead of renewing his beguiling sexual relationship with her, he has to kidnap her to force her cooperation. Bombarded with sensual memory and the lust Dmitriu still inspires in her, Janine also has to fight her way through renegade hunters, Dmitriu's rebellious creation, Antonia, the bizarre Militant Church for the Defence of the Holy Trinity and the first anti-vampire protests. It’s too much; the prophecy could be broken.

Unless Janine's destiny is Dmitriu.

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Blood Chills (Blood Hunters, #5)

From sensitivity to sensuality...with the vampire who chills her blood

Cyn can sense undead presence from a touch, from the feel of the air. Her gift leads her mercenary band of hunters on the trail of a monster who's killed two women in New York - to the being Cyn least wants to set eyes on again: the Hungarian vampire, Bela.

Now the iconic violinist with a local rock band, Bela seems less interested in proving his innocence - if, indeed, he is innocent - than in seducing Cyn - no easy task when the very presence of vampires sickens her. Plus Cyn wants revenge for the murdered women, and for her partner Rudy who lies in hospital, critically injured.

But neither Cyn's gifts, nor the killer she pursues, are exactly what they seem. Allying with Bela might be a lethal mistake, but as everyone she loves comes under attack, Cyn finally learns to trust her instincts, and discovers much more than the intense physical pleasures behind her chills.

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Blood Hungry (Blood Hunters #6)

A love doomed by time

Tough young ex-soldier, John Ramsay is in Amsterdam with his posse of vampire hunters, investigating the bizarre nightly battles between local vampires and skinheads, when he finds himself transported from his hotel bed to a strange, sleazy nightclub. There, he encounters a dangerous, beautiful young woman who stakes and seduces with equal style. Although he knows nothing about her, she appears to know everything about him.

Eva's Amsterdam assignation has gone horribly wrong. The vampire lover who once drank her blood, is dead. Grieving, frustrated, full of hunger she can never assuage, she's looking for trouble when she finds John Ramsay, the reason she can never truly fall in love with anyone else. Now, at last, she wins his attention and his love - a happiness she's doomed to lose, for tangled with John's mystery of a spontaneous world-wide epidemic of skinhead fights, are events twenty years in the future that will threaten the fragile peace between vampires and humans.

John and Eva work together to prevent a disaster spanning two decades. But destiny seems determined to keep them tragically apart...

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Serafina's

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Serafina and the Silent Vampire (Serafina's, #1)

Silence has never been so sinful…

Welcome to Edinburgh's unique psychic investigation agency, Serafina's.

Serafina MacBride is psychic - but not strictly honest. While staging a hilarious vampire attack at a client's party, Sera is stunned to encounter a real vampire - annoying, gorgeous and inaudible to everyone but her. When her client's son is found dead with puncture wounds in his neck, she tracks the silent vampire to his lair.

But the amoral and seductive Blair is also on a mission - to find and kill a nest of young vampires who've invaded his territory. Soon Sera is drawn into the bizarre world of the undead, where danger lurks in the shadows along with forbidden sensual delights - and a murderous conspiracy to flood the world with financially astute vampires who talk.

Supported and hindered by Blair's eccentric, undead friends, and by her own motley crew from Serafina's, Sera and Blair uncover surprising truths about each other and about the mysterious Founder from whom all vampires are descended.

In the end, Sera draws on powers she never knew she had in a frantic fight to defeat the forces of evil and preserve the strange, complicated being she's trying so hard not to love.

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Serafina and the Virtual Man (Serafina's, #2)

Real man versus dead man - no contest!

Dale Ewan, the wealthy owner of Genesis Gaming, has a serious poltergeist problem. In desperation, he calls on Edinburgh's unique psychic investigation agency, Serafina's.

But Sera and her hacker friend, the beautiful and aggressive Jilly, find more than one spirit haunting the ugly country house. While Sera fights the poltergeist, Jilly encounters what appears to be the ghost of Dale's brilliant ex-partner, Genesis Adam, trapped in his own new virtual reality system.

Jilly delves headlong into Adam's mystery. How did he get there? Why is he more exciting and attractive than any of the real men in her life? How are Jilly's own criminal brothers involved in his death? And what are Dale and his wife Petra hiding? Apart from the body buried in their garden...

While Jilly falls in love with the sexy, virtual ghost, Sera has problems of her own, not least the shadowy presence of the undead Founder that seems to threaten Sera, her vampire lover Blair, and all her friends.

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Serafina and the Leprechaun's Shoe (Serafina's, #3)

Delicious, deadly distraction...

Jack Urquhart, over-qualified and underpaid researcher for Serafina's Psychic Investigations, has a big decision to make: stay in his fun, dead-end job, or grow up and join the family firm. On his way to give the family his decision, he's delighted to be side-tracked into the case of a rock singer's mother who vanished into thin air before several admittedly wasted witnesses, leaving behind only a half-made shoe.

But Sinead's disappearance isn't the only weird happening at Roxy's housewarming party in the Scottish Highlands. There's satanic rock band, Grimm and the Reapers, plus ghosts, banging walls, a zombie dog, and, very probably, migrating leprechauns. Most worrying of all to Roxy, quiet, clever Jack excites her muse and all her senses as no other man ever has. Meanwhile, hedonistic rock star Mike Grimm is determined to get Roxy back in his bed by any means.

It takes the combined might of Serafina's to defeat the forces haunting Roxy's house and find Sinead. And it takes the sexy, wise, turbulent Roxy to get under Jack's skin and make growing up and risking his heart not only necessary but fun.

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City of the Damned

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Loving the Wolf (City of the Damned, # 1)

In the depths of nuclear winter a self-sufficient cop leaves the safety of her Dome City and travels north in search of her missing brother. In the City of the Damned, where radiation poisoning has created new mutant species, April sets off a chain of events and deceptions destined to change the life of all the city’s inhabitants.

For Max, who has felt little but blood thirst for many years, the blinding sexual pleasure he experiences with April becomes an obsession. When wolf and vampire collide, one will be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice, for the survival of their world.

Like wolves, the lupi mate for life. As for vampires… they mate for something more…

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Loving the Vampire (City of the Damned, # 2)

In the City of the Damned, where radiation poisoning has created new mutant species, the lupi April has never come to terms with the wolf inside her. She is certainly not prepared for her powerful attraction to a dangerous vampire. Capturing Max after the lupi’s battle with the hunters, she sets off a chain of events and deceptions destined to change the life of all the city’s inhabitants.

For Max, who has felt little but blood thirst for many years, the blinding sexual pleasure he experiences with April becomes an obsession. Yet it is he who is called upon to sacrifice his own survival for the good of the world.

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Loving the Man (City of the Damned, #3)

The vampire Katia holds only contempt for humans. She has no reason to spare David, whom she encounters digging up pre-apocalypse “artefacts” on the edges of the City. And yet she lets him go. Her very desire drives her away from him.

But David has other ideas. A man with no mutant “gifts”, yet he is unafraid of either her superior strength or her vampire nature. Instead, he risks his life for a moment of her time, pursuing her relentlessly until Katia recognizes her own human passions, and her importance in the City’s past and future is revealed.

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Psychic Seduction

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Hunting Karoly (Psychic Seductions, #1)

You're not meant to fall for the bad guy...are you?

On the rain-soaked, famously mean streets of Glasgow, Jenny, a reluctant psychic, hunts Karoly, a dangerous but incredibly sexy vampire.

Clad only in his antique kilt, he hangs around wedding receptions, biting the guests and seducing an unsuspecting vampire hunter-Jenny. Half ready to stake him, half ready to beg him to have sex with her again, Jenny sets out to hunt Karoly.

After amazing, intense sex and a dramatic exit from Glasgow, he follows Jenny to London, fueling both her growing awareness of her psychic powers and the hot, sexy dreams that fill her nights, leaving her to wake up panting. When he shows up at Jenny's workplace, cooking for her friends and apparently determined to share her life, Jenny has to figure out who's hunting whom-and if she's ready to share her life with the evil, sexy, gorgeous undead.

Publisher's Note: Previously published elsewhere as Undead Men Wear Plaid, the story has been expanded and revised for Ellora's Cave.

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Guitar Man (Psychic Seductions, #2)

Book two in the Psychic Seductions series.

Ellie's a powerful psychic who can't seem to hold onto her man. When she's dumped at the altar-again-she swears off men and takes her wounded heart to Scotland, where she promptly runs into the best-ever one-night stand from her past, sexy, adventurous busker Chris.

Chris is as hot-and as good in bed-as he was when they first met. But something's different now, something that changes him into a terrifying threat all her psychic abilities can't overcome. Now it's up to Ellie-free Chris from the evil possessing him, and claim him as her own.

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Freeing Al (Psychic Seductions, #3)

Book three in the Psychic Seductions series.

Big Al MacNab is in trouble. Recently out of prison, he's running his late uncle's pub in the Scottish Highlands and trying to make a success of a local music festival. But he's haunted by his own past-as well as by two persistent ghosts. Every criminal in the country wants to kill him, the police want to put him back in prison and his mother wants him to stop swearing. He doesn't need a sexy vampiress serving drinks in his pub, let alone showing him kinky new uses for the restraints in his cellar.

Draguta, a vampire in search of a cause, has come to Scotland to find her ex-lover, Karoly, who owns the Transylvanian castle she wants to turn into a vampire safe house. Biting Al releases a lot of pent-up lust that has to be assuaged. Falling in love with Al revives a compassion and humanity she no longer knows how to deal with. Worse, she knows that after helping to free Al from his problems, she has to free him from herself.

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The Gifted

Smoke and Mirrors (The Gifted, #1)

Deceit and desire, and a treasure beyond price...

When struggling Scottish writer Nell Black accepts a one-off job with the police, translating for an arson suspect from the isolated ex-Soviet republic of Zavrekestan, she stumbles into a terrifying world of organized crime and paranormal abilities that turns her whole belief system upside down. Faced with an incomparable thief, hit men who spontaneously combust, gangsters, drug dealers, British Intelligence and a fiery goddess, Nell no longer knows who to trust. The man who saves her life is a criminal to whom deceit is second nature. He has more smoke screens and more plans in motion than anyone else can keep track of. He is, moreover, probably insane. Even his fellow gangsters are afraid of him. So why is he the one man Nell wants to touch her?

Rodion Kosar is in trouble. His convoluted plans all lead to one goal - the retrieval of his treasure - and to achieve that, he needs Nell to believe he isn't the bad guy. He has many reasons beyond his own desires to make love to her. Especially when a plan goes wrong and he has to play dead before someone really kills him - either the police, the menacing Russian crime lord known as the Bear, or the powerful Guardian of the Gifted whom he's defied once too often. Nell's burgeoning gift of second sight could be his best route to the treasure, and yet keeping her with him spells danger. For Nell has her own agenda, her own mission, and she could just as easily cause his final downfall.

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