Finally! HER LOVER'S SECRET is released!

At long last, here it is, the fourth instalment of my SECRET PLEASURES series. I meant to publish this ages ago, but circumstances seemed to conspire against it. Health, crises of confidence, changes of direction with the story, they've all delayed a release that should have happened not just months but years ago.

Anyway, here's the blurb... and my massive, abject apologies to those who've been waiting HER LOVER'S SECRET. I hope you enjoy the love story of Rachel and Lawrence, their sensual adventures and the way they surmount the obstacles that life throws in their path to happily ever after.

When Rachel spills wine all over herself and a devastatingly handsome older man at her friends' wedding reception, she little realises that it's the beginning of a heart-stopping journey of sensual discovery.

Lawrence Brady is stunned discover his state of sexual ennui shattered by the beautiful young woman who upends her glass of red wine all over him. Rachel wants to learn the delicious secrets of BDSM, and he's just the man to provide her 'education'... in a thrillingly intense but short-lived no strings affair.

But what if their fling becomes more? Will Lawrence's secret destroy their chance of happiness and a future together?

Amazon :: US :: UK :: CA :: AU

Also from :: Kobo :: iBooks :: Nook

There's a short excerpt here.

There's also a naughty nibble from HER LOVER'S SECRET at Book+Main - the new site for romance readers, where you can find excerpts, teasers and tasters from hundreds of authors!

Mindy

Last Thursday, 15th March, our dear little cat Mindy died suddenly. It happened super quickly and she probably didn't know what was happening and had no time to be frightened. When I found her, on the bedroom floor, she looked peaceful and her pose was relaxed.

We miss her terribly. She was sweet, affectionate and good-natured. Perhaps the gentlest and cuddliest cat we've ever had. We adore her surviving brothers, Mork, Felix and Prince, but they are very different personalities, so without Mindy there's a gap.

A week on, the pain of her loss is beginning to ease a little. It's still keen, but we're beginning to function again, and hopefully, before long, we'll be in a position to remember the good times with little Min, rather than dwell on the fact she isn't here any more.

In the end, the joy of living with her for five years far out balances the sorrow we're feeling now. Like our other beloved feline friends we've shared our lives with, she enriched us.

RIP MINDY

IN LOVE WITH TWO MEN - now available in print!

Get your print edition from:

Amazon :: UK :: US :: CA :: AU

Also available from :: Barnes and Noble

IN LOVE WITH TWO MEN - menage romance x 2!

I've bundled my two menage romance novellas POWER OF THREE and TEMPTED BY TWO into one steamy love triangle anthology! So if you enjoy stories where one woman falls in love with not one but two gorgeous men, and you haven't tried either of these stories before, this is the collection for you.

It's also a bargain to buy these two vacation set tales together! ;)


POWER OF THREE

Sun-drenched days and lush steamy nights stir strange desires in singleton Laurie Jones. Jilted by her philandering fiancé, she’s not a woman to wallow in self-pity, so she’s turned her honeymoon into a solo holiday.

But a surprise is in store for Laurie in the form of Ed and Denny, two gorgeous hunks sharing a nearby cabana. Golden boy Denny, and dark, enigmatic Ed are committed lovers, but they adore women too, and the handsome, generous pair quickly draw Laurie into a sizzling sensual threesome that begins to heal the pain inflicted by the fiancé who betrayed her.

As the holiday progresses, the three explore each other's bodies in a feast of delicious pleasure and experimentation, while forming a close and caring emotional bond.

But only too soon, it's time to go back home...

Can Laurie's simmering Caribbean idyll become something deeper when she returns to the cooler shores of England? Can her holiday fling become the love of a lifetime... with two wonderful men?

TEMPTED BY TWO

When executive woman Katie Warren arrives in the picturesque village of Little Marplethorpe for a country holiday, to reassess her life and her future, she doesn't bargain on ending up in a hot three way love affair with a man she's admired from afar... and his gorgeously handsome male partner.

Marcus Dane and Owen Foster are lovers, committed for a lifetime, but they both enjoy the company of women as friends and bedmates too. Encountering Katie at an exhibition of his work, Marcus knows she's just the kind of bold, daring, imaginative woman who'll relish sensual games shared with Owen and himself.

But what none of the trio expects is that their intense, steamy threesome will quickly deepen into a bond that's a lot more than just simply fabulous physical pleasure.


IN LOVE WITH TWO MEN is available from Amazon:

UK :: US :: CA :: AU

Also from :: iBooks :: Kobo :: Nook

DELICIOUS things now in print!

Here are DELICIOUS PLEASURE and DELICIOUS PAIN posing naughtily on the pink pouffe in the Dumpster Office of Doom!

DELICIOUS PLEASURE is a collection of short fiction devoted to general sensuality and naughtiness, while DELICIOUS PAIN features stories and short novellas devoted to BDSM and erotic power play.

I hope you like the covers that I designed myself. They're simple enough, but I think they turned out well.

Here are the buy links for Delicious Pain

AMAZON UK  

AMAZON US  

AMAZON CA  

AMAZON AU 

BARNES & NOBLE

More info about the stories in Delicious Pain here

Here are the buy links for Delicious Pleasure

AMAZON UK

AMAZON US

AMAZON CA

AMAZON AU

BARNES & NOBLE

More info about the stories in Delicious Pleasure here

Here's the pretty! WILD IN THE COUNTRY

The print edition of my super steamy, super length novel WILD IN THE COUNTRY is here!

Very pleased with the result as I designed the cover myself. The gorgeous stock image makes it, of course. Perfectly captures Flora in dreamy soft focus.

Read an excerpt and check out the buy links here

Big in Japan... sort of...

These arrived this morning!

They're my author copies of a Spice Briefs anthology that's been published in Japan. I don't know what the antho is actually called though. Maybe a Japanese speaker could help? But it includes my story Second Time Around, from my Risque Reunions trilogy. Other authors in the antho include Megan Hart and Jackie Barbosa...

I always get a kick from translations! Love to think of people reading my stories in lands so far away... :)

Portia in Print!

I've been foofing about with Createspace, and making print copies of some of my self published work. Some time ago, I published a print copy of Lessons and Lovers, with a beautiful cover by Croco Designs, but in the last week or so, I've gotten experimental and started making my own print covers and interior files, using Photoshop and Vellum. A fantastic YouTube video from Elizabeth Ann West really helped me gain the confidence to try making covers.

Of course, the crunch will come when the proof copies arrive, in a week or so's time, but here are the covers I've come up with so far, for WILD IN THE COUNTRY, and my little kink anthology DELICIOUS PAIN.

I will post again here with pix of the actual books when they arrive, and also when the go live and are available to buy!

WILD IN THE COUNTRY is out now!

Well, after a long, long wait and years of being unavailable, WILD IN THE COUNTRY is finally published again! 

This is my saucy country romp novel, and it’s a bumper one, over 300 pages. It’s been slightly edited, to highlight a growing romantic relationship, in and amongst the general sex high jinks, and deliver a more clearly defined ‘happily ever after’.

Here’s the blurb:

Welcome to the naughtiest little village in England!

Flora Swain is a newcomer to the village of Marwick Magna, renowned for the inspiration it provides to painters, authors and other artistic types. Impetuous and strong-minded, Flora is no artist – yet. But there are creative urges within her, she is convinced, and she's come to the country to give them life and expression.

The strange thing is that most of Flora’s urges turn out to be almost entirely sensual. Is it the mystique and undoubted physical allure of her new neighbour, Declan McKenna, that’s driving her wild? Or the explicit messages which appear daily in her post? Or could it be that country life has revealed to her a daringly sensuous new self? 

Could Wild Flower be the real Flora Swain?

It’s available from the outlets listed below, and I hope to have a print edition out in the not too distant future. 

Amazon UK https://goo.gl/QD9jT9

Amazon US https://goo.gl/rkRHhJ

Amazon CA https://goo.gl/aw9m4W

Amazon AU https://goo.gl/B8onAH

Nook https://goo.gl/twrQND

iBooks https://goo.gl/vhjm2e

Kobo https://goo.gl/e7tmMY

Goodbye 2017... Hello 2018!

No resolutions... just hopes for a good year!

Seasons Greetings... Prince is not amused...

All the best for the Festive Season! 

Working on Wild - cover preview

I'm currently working towards self publishing this older title of mine, WILD IN THE COUNTRY. And this cover perfectly expresses my vision of Flora, the heroine. When we were discussing ideas for covers for Wild, my buddy Saskia Walker mentioned the dreamy sensuality of the old Cadbury's Flake television adverts, and that really inspired me! With that in mind, I was lucky enough to find this image fairly quickly on a stock site.

Although WILD IN THE COUNTRY has been published before and edited twice, I knew it needed a bit more work. Mainly to pick up odd little punctuation blips and things that slip in during file conversion and what have you. But as I worked on it, I knew I had to make some slight changes to the story. This book was originally written as a kind of crazy sex romp, with Flora as a free spirited girl, kicking over the traces of an old, more boring life, when she moved to live in a village full of rampant sensualists who enjoyed partner swapping and a host of wild erotic games. That's still the main... er... thrust... of the story, but thinking about Flora, and Declan, the central male character in the story, I wanted to give them a real romantic relationship. One that starts as part of the sexual experimentation they both enjoy in the village community, but growing and developing into something deeper, more forever... and in the end, exclusive. 

But that has to develop properly, and Flora can't go straight from wild experimentation, with Declan just one amongst a whole bunch of equally important lovers, to snap, he's The One. So I have to build in some more gradual realisation of their growing affection, maybe even an evolution that neither she nor he are consciously aware of while it's building. 

And of course, that takes much longer to do, and a lot more brain thrashing than just a simple check for misplaced punctuation and whatnot. I was hoping to get the new version of Wild out before Christmas, but if I'm honest with myself, I don't think that'll happen now. 

Will many people read this new version when I've written it? Who knows... But I'll have had the pleasure and challenge of revamping and revising it. A bit of proper mind work, to keep the old little grey cells from atrophying! 

And if anyone fancies a flavour of Flora *before* the revamp, you'll find her as Katy, in IN THE AIR TONIGHT. Many of the usual Wild suspects are there too, but under different names...