Showing posts with label rosanna leo. Show all posts
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Spotlight with Rosanna Leo


I'm pleased to have Rosanna Leo here today...

SUNBURN BY ROSANNA LEO


Sunburn blurb:

Patience O’Conner is a travel blogger who lives for her work. Her dedication to her readers brings her to the famed Helios Resort in Mexico, a locale that stuns her with its beauty but at which she suffers from some very strange accidents. 
Luckily, hunky resort bartender Apollo Delos is always there in the nick of time, a malcontent guardian angel. Apollo stuns Patience again and again with his life-saving abilities, to say nothing of his smoldering looks and apparent desire to keep her alive.
Before long, Patience wonders if there is more to the sexy bartender than mixed cocktails and insane first-aid skills. Something strange is happening at Helios and Apollo doesn’t want to talk about it.
Can Patience open herself up to this enigmatic man, even though she is terrified to be vulnerable again? And can Apollo recover from an eternity of hurt and learn to trust once more? They must both decide before Death comes calling.



Sunburn Excerpt:

She put her hand on his arm to get his attention. A sensual shiver ran up his spine. “You do understand why I can’t drink, right? I come from a family of addicts. The addictive gene is in me. I can’t slip up even once. I’m terrified I’ll fall into the same patterns.” She paused, her eyes haunted and dark. “I was addicted to something, to someone, once. And I didn’t recognize myself by the end. I can’t go back there again. I have to stay strong.”
His head spun. Who was this person to whom she was addicted? He had to know. Was she married before? Was it a boyfriend?
Who hurt her?
He had to know, but there’d be time to find out later. Right now, she looked ready to crumple. Damn. Their conversation had struck a nerve in her.
He rushed out from behind the bar, knowing only he had to make her feel better, and pulled her into his arms. She yielded, all warmth and softness against him. She laid her head against his neck, and a tear dripped onto his skin.
Shit.
“Patience,” he whispered into her hair. “Please don’t cry. I won’t let him hurt you.”
Apollo with all his heart was making a vow. He wouldn’t let anyone hurt her; not the demon, and certainly not the little shit who’d hurt her once before.
She looked up, tears streaming down her face and her chest rising and falling with shaky breaths. “I’m sorry. It’s not like me to cry. I don’t know what came over me!”
“By all the gods,” he murmured, in a trance. Even in pain, she was mesmerizing. There was a healthy sheen to her skin. Her cheeks were rosy with emotion. Stray hairs had escaped her ponytail, ornamenting her face. “You are so beautiful.”
Her lips parted in a welcome she probably didn’t even realize she was extending. She sighed, and her breath poured over him, heating him to the core. He had to kiss her. There was suddenly no option but to kiss her.
He brushed his lips against hers, feeling no resistance. He moved slowly, bestowing feather-light kisses all over her mouth. And then, shocking and exciting him, her tongue slid into his mouth. Penetrating, seeking more.
Hungry.
Inflamed, he held her tighter, moving his body between her legs as she sat on the bar stool. Their kiss deepened as their tongues played and probed. He bit her lip, none too gently, and she moaned.
Oh, sweet Pandora’s box!
But as quickly as the kiss had crushed them, it was over. Patience pulled away and out of his arms. Dazed, his heart palpitated as she scrambled off the stool. And before he could recover to stop her, Patience ran away down the wooden path toward the lobby.






You can find Rosanna Leo at www.rosannaleo.blogspot.com

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Tease Us Thursday...

 
We're back! And I have some pretty enticing teasers to share with you...
 
*Some excerpts contain adult content*
 
Elodie Parkes
He looked inside and satisfied there was no one in there he pulled Millie gently into the room and closed the door.
 
Millie waited. August stood very close to her and put his hands on either side of her rib cage, holding her like that he bent his head to hers and began to kiss her. Millie felt his lips against hers in his slow, sexy kiss and kissed him back with all the need she felt. August moved his hands a little, and his thumbs found her nipples hard, and pressing out to him through her silk shirt. He stroked them gently and kissed her, his tongue finding hers, and then receding to kiss her again, his lips closed soft and lingering. He whispered to her. “You are lovely”.
 
Millie was clinging to him and he began to unbutton her shirt. He kissed down her neck and then along her shoulder. He put his hands inside her shirt and unfastened her bra. Millie gasped with pleasure as he cupped both her breasts in his cool hands and kissed down the swell of them to suck first one nipple, and then the other, until Millie thought she couldn’t stand up.
 
August kissed up her throat to her lips as Millie unbuttoned his shirt and moved her hands over his chest. His skin was smooth and his muscles hard. Millie moved her lips over his, a soft touch, a gentle brush, and then a deep breathtaking kiss.

 
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Katie Ellison
 
He always seems completely unconcerned about being naked. He walked along the corridor back to the kitchen still drying himself. He did actually wrap the towel around his waist before accepting the glass I handed him and then walked out onto the balcony as I checked the meal.


“Won’t be long” I told him, feeling quite happy that I was organising things so well. I joined him at the railings, looking down at the river. Even as high up as we were, there was very little breeze, it was still warm and, of course, being early evening, still completely light.

We chatted on, pausing as he stepped back to the kitchen to top-up our glasses whilst I continued to admire the view.

“I love looking down on everything from here. You are so lucky” I told him as he returned. He handed me my glass and cuddled in behind me, kissing my neck and ear.
As he slid his arms around me, I realised he didn’t have his glass and didn’t have his towel either!

“You can’t stand out here without anything on!” I laughed. I could feel his erection pressing against my hip through the robe and then as he adjusted his position and lifted the robe slightly, I felt it bare against my skin.

I shook and twisted “Vince, you’re naked. Someone will see!!!” His erection was rubbing over my bum and stopped, resting erect between my cheeks as he pressed me gently against the railing.
 
 
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Suzanna C. Ryan


Cyrus waited with Emmy in the very swank restaurant. They’d ordered steak tartar and were enjoying it when Alkmene and Triad entered. They could have been actors for all anyone knew as the hostess sat them at Cyrus’s table. It had been month since she’d ran away into the past, he’d never get over seeing her beautiful face. What disturbed him was the creature with her. The fucking angel was gorgeous. Cyrus hated any kind of rivalry and this angel, spelled trouble. He was almost sorry he’d changed Emmy. Now he’d have to contend with showing her South Hedonism and throwing her out into its inhabitants.

“Cat got your tongue Cyrus,” Alkmene said.

“My dear you look lovely tonight. Oh and I’d like you to meet Emmy a most gratifying and insatiable piece of now immortal ass.” Cyrus said.

“Yes, I’m a vampire now. Hi, Triad, this is so exciting,” Emmy, said.

“Emmy, you’re a fucking vampire, do you understand what that is?”

“Of course I do, Triad. Cyrus is really good at fucking and his cock’s as big as yours.” Emmy said.

Triad was livid.  He had attributed her zaniness to innocence. It was the reasons why he fell in love with her. Now, there was evilness beneath her words, and lifelessness.
 
 
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Maggie was shivering. All over. And it was magical.
What he’d done to her … she’d never felt anything like it. When he’d taken her and delivered her the most pulse-pounding orgasm she’d ever had, she’d begun to think maybe he was telling the truth.
Could selkies really exist?
She caught herself believing the lie for a moment and looked at him as he pulled out. His eyes were still closed, as if the feeling had been too much to bear. She felt it too. In fact, she’d never experienced anything like it. When Calan had come with her, a circuit inside her had shorted. All the little paths to her heart had been realigned somehow.
Something had changed.
He climbed off her, offering her a strangely shy smile, and helped her sit up. He then grabbed a small towel from his bathroom and insisted on tidying her up, wiping her sex with a gentle hand.
Maggie stared, unable to speak.
Once he was satisfied with his handiwork, he dropped a tender kiss on her lips. He then stood and started to get dressed. She shifted to look at him as he dressed. He leaned over and grabbed his jeans, hoisting them up to his waist, and she swallowed the disappointment she felt in seeing his incredible lower half disappear. Calan was unspeakably gorgeous, fallen angel gorgeous. His dark hair seemed to shimmer with a light of its own. His lips were luscious and his every muscle seemed sculpted by God’s hand.
 
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Tease Us Thursday...


 
Looking for a weekend read? Check out these enticing excerpts...
 
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A loud gasp exhaled from her lips as he covered her love button with his lips and tongue, and sucked it firmly but gently, long and slow.  Knots tightened and snapped as tremors of miniature orgasms exploded through her body, growing in intensity with each suck and lick.  Unconsciously her hands found her nipples, as his tongue worked little miracles on her tingling, burning clit, and her tweaks added to the growing rays of energy running through her body and along her legs and arms, to the very tips of her toes and fingers.  Her buttocks tensed and lifted as he inserted a finger into her yoni, working the end as her juices ran freely over his chin and down his neck.  Having to be conscious of not making too much noise added to the growing sexual tension within her, and whines and moans escaped her lips as the force of orgasm came relentlessly closer and closer, driven by the ministrations of his tongue and fingers.
 
Then, it was upon her, waves of pent-up passion and frustration giving way to an eye-splitting,mind-blasting, lung-emptying eruption of orgasmic fury, the intensity of which had her gripping the hair on his head, and waving her legs over his shoulders,her stomach buckling, as he sucked her harder and harder, drawing wave after wave afresh and powerful.  She felt totally empowered and, at the same time, totally powerless, as tsunami after tsunami turned her into a billion quivering, screaming nerve endings.
 
 
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Rosanna Leo

Maggie watched as he finished his hasty preparations. There were a couple of old bales of hay sitting on the ground. Calan covered these with the blankets. Even while covered, she could smell the sweet perfume of hay. Somehow, the fragrance only served to arouse her to a greater degree. She’d always had a fantasy of being taken in a stable, and it appeared that fantasy was about to come true.

Calan stopped what he was doing and looked at her. His lips slightly open, his eyes dark and hungry, he advanced on her, backing her up to one of the larger bales of hay. She could smell him now. Delicious man and leather,the sea and hay and desire. Totally scrumptious.

He cupped her face in both his hands, while one of his legs slid between her thighs. And then he kissed her. Not asking permission, just taking what she was so ecstatic to give. Devouring her. Gliding his tongue between her lips, opening her up to him. Claiming her as effectively as Angus had claimed Elsie.

And Maggie had never been so happy to be so vulnerable. She licked at his lips, putting her own stamp on his body, marking him in her mind. She leaned in to nibble at his full bottom lip and he pulled away, moving his mouth out of her reach. She leaned in farther, tried to kiss him again, and once more he retreated. She looked up at him in question. Calan grinned at her like a fiend.

“You tease,” she whispered with a smile.

“Just trying to make you want me, lass,” he murmured, his hands probing her lower back. He moved his right hand over her ass, and she felt his middle finger slide along the center seam of her jeans, between her cheeks.

Her entire body erupted into flames.

“You do want me, don’t you?” he whispered.

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Tease Us Thursday...

Here we are again... Maybe you'll find something to entice you from one of these awesome authors...

Some teasers may contain adult content.

Rosanna Leo


They all watched as an old pick-up truck pulled into the gas station lot. As she pulled out the nozzle, Jules checked out the driver. And then she did a double take.
Driving the pick-up was the most scrumptious specimen of manhood she’d ever seen. He was tall and buff and had windblown blond hair. And, she noticed as her tongue dried out, he wasn’t wearing a shirt. As the truck approached, she could make out the clear definition of his pecs, the muscular shoulders and arms. And as he parked his truck next to her Jeep, she took note of a strong jaw, full lips and hair that kept falling into his eyes. Tom Brady at his finest could not have looked so fine.
Jules tried very hard to pick up her jaw and not drip gas on her shoes.
Somehow, she managed to insert the nozzle into her tank and watched as Mr. Mitchell headed over to speak to the man. She’d never seen him before. There was no way he was from Riverbend. She knew everyone in town and would never have forgotten someone so … edible.
Not that she cared. She was through with men. They no longer had anything to do with her master plan. If she wanted her B&B to be a success, she couldn’t spend her time drooling.
The stranger jumped out of his truck and his eyes landed on Jules. He grinned at her and nodded, but his brown eyes narrowed, as if her appearance annoyed him in some way. Feeling flushed, and a little annoyed herself, she gave him a curt, little nod and tried to concentrate on pumping gas.
The half-naked muscle man laughed at something Mr. Mitchell said, then spoke. “I don’t suppose you sell drinks in your store. I could murder a root beer right now.”
His voice was soft and deep. Upon hearing him, Jules felt a low throbbing in her belly, a clenching of her womb.
Oh my God. What is going on here?
Mr. Mitchell motioned to his grandson. “Gary, fetch the man a root beer.” And then he said something else, but she didn’t hear it.
She was too busy watching a lone bead of sweat as it trickled slowly between the stranger’s pecs. She dragged her eyes back up to his handsome face, only to find him staring at her. Grinning. His eyes knowing and seductive.
She felt her face combust, a veritable explosion of scarlet.
Mr. Mitchell’s lips were moving again, even though she barely registered his words at first. “Where are my manners? I should introduce you two young people.”
Feeling a sudden, overwhelming need to escape, Jules laughed nervously and got back into her Jeep. “Sorry, Mr. Mitchell. I’m late. Gotta run! Bye!”
And then, not knowing why and feeling the eyes of the blond man on her back, she fled the gas station. It was rude, she knew, but she didn’t want to know the gorgeous man’s name. Didn’t want Mr. Mitchell introducing her to the county’s next young stud. She had just made up her mind men were not going to be a part of her life. Certainly not such a hot commodity.
The stranger with the sinful bod was a prescription for heartache. Just as Kevin had been. It was best to give men like him a very wide berth.
So he might think she was a little flighty, possibly abrupt. If it helped her keep her sanity, it was worth it. What did she care what Thor thought of her anyway?
Her mind made up, and her behavior rationalized, she headed for home.


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Siggy Buckley

We started out in the kitchen where I opened a bottle of white wine, leaning against the kitchen counter.  Guy kissed my neck, my favorite erotic zone.  How did he find that out so quickly? He let a few drops of wine drip into my T-shirt, and then lifted it to lick up the wine that had trickled down my bra.  Then, to my surprise, he unbuttoned my jeans and let a drop or two run into my belly button, mopping it up with his tongue.  The next trickled into my pants.  Guy lifted me onto the counter, started to take off my jeans so that I could embrace him better with my legs.
“I want to lick you all over,” he whispered.  I had no objections.
“Where do you want to go?” he asked.  “To the swimming pool on the rooftop?” That sounded a bit too chilly for me.  I led him to my bedroom instead where we continued our exploratory journey on the black sheets.  He watched me undress.
“Do you have whipped cream in the house?” I had a bottle of the spray variety, which may not taste as good as fresh whipped cream, but is very versatile.  This too was a first for me, sensational in its concept and effect.
Everything felt wonderful: the sparks, the arousal, our playing around with each other, our intimacy.
“My biggest aim is to give you pleasure.  Tell me what you want.”


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“Mason, is that you?” Allen asked from behind her.
“Yes. Is this amusing little sub yours?” the man asked.
“Not mine. My responsibility though. What did she do?”
“May I be so bold as to ask for a formal introduction?”
“You may. She’s new and she's agreed to allow me the pleasure of handling her introductions tonight,” Allen said, taking the plate from Julie’s hand and setting it down. “Let’s move out of the crowd. Maybe somewhere quieter?”
The man named Mason turned loose of her curl after one final tug then ran his gloved fingers along the arc of her shoulder. Julie didn’t look back. She kept her eyes down and followed Allen from the hall.
As he traversed the edges of the ballroom, her heart took up an irregular rhythm at the thought that she was about to encounter her first Dom aside from Allen and Dante up close and personal She was surprised he even wanted to meet her after the way she'd spoken to him. What Dom wanted a disobedient, unruly sub? A cold sweat beaded across her back at the thought perhaps he was a pure sadist and liked an out of control servant he could regularly torture. Contrary to her brain telling her that was the furthest thing from what she wanted, a silky, smooth thread of need wrapped around her heart and drew tight before winding its way down to vine around her womb, which constricted in response. She shuddered. Definitely scary.
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Kaylie Newell
A wife leaves her abusive husband, but soon realizes nothing will keep him away.  Not even death.
"Who is this?" she repeated, trying to keep the edge of hysteria from her voice.
"Don't you recognize me?" The voice was no more than a whisper. She could barely make out the words.
"Excuse me?"
Nothing. Just slow breathing. In and out.
Her hands shook, rattling the phone against the small diamond studs in her earlobes. This was beyond any prank call she had ever gotten. Someone knew who they were calling. They had found her number somehow and decided, for whatever reason, to put the fear of God into her.
And it was working.
She took a breath, unable to hang up. She stood frozen, and as the light in the apartment grew dimmer by the second, the shadows stretched across the floor like gnarled hands reaching from beyond the grave.
Tears burned her eyes, and she bit the inside of her cheek in an effort to gain some sort of clarity. "If this is some kind of twisted joke, it's not funny."
The breathing on the other end of the line suddenly stopped. And then there was a long, sickening exhale of air. It reminded her of how her mother had sounded on her death bed, when she had been so riddled with cancer that it squatted in her very bones. She'd called to Josie, wanting to hold her hand and hadn't been able to speak. The raspy breathing was the only sound she'd made. Her chest wheezed and crackled with each intake of breath. Josie had been scared then. And she was scared now.  
"No...joke," came the reply.  And the line went dead.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tease Us Thursday

 

Yes, it's that time of the week again! Let's see who can tease us today...

***Some excerpts may contain adult content.***


“Maia, what’s wrong? If you don’t you want to do this…”
“I do.” She opened and closed her mouth a few times, feeling so inadequate before his golden, manly beauty. “It’s just—oh God, here comes my stupid insecurity. You’re so goddamn perfect. Why would you want me?”
His eyes widened and he blinked at her a few times. His brow creased in an expression of great tenderness. “You have no idea how beautiful you are,do you?”
Her eyes suddenly misted, big fat wuss that she was.
His mouth set in a tight line. He grabbed her hand and pulled her into the bedroom. Once there, he wheeled a gold-leaf cheval mirror out of the corner and stood her in front of it. Still overwhelmingly naked, he stood behind her and looked at her in the reflection. Slowly, he ran his hands up and down her bare arms. “I’m going to show you how very beautiful you are.”
Finally, he finished with the damn zipper, easing it down the curve of her buttocks. Then he peeled the dress off her body and let it slip to the floor, and helped her step out of it. Maia didn’t want to look at her near-nude reflection, but Eric would brook no opposition. He made her look at herself. In nothing but her silk panties and heels, she felt über-exposed, but he was drinking in the sight of her in the mirror.
Just when she thought he might finish with this weird experiment, he helped her take her shoes off and set them aside. And then he hooked his fingers in her panties, still looking at her in the mirror. “Watch,” he whispered.
Oh-so-slowly, Eric pulled the undies down over her hips, smiling slightly as he did so. She couldn’t tear her eyes away from the sight. Especially when she saw how his eyes focused on her pubic area. His lips had parted, and she saw her own chest heaving in the reflection.
Once the panties were off her, he stood still behind her. His large hands came up to fondle her breasts, and she sucked in air at the sensation.“Look how sexy you are,” he breathed. “Your cheeks are flushed. And I can already see the moisture between your legs, right there on your delicious thighs.”
“Please,” she begged, turning away from the mirror.
Gently, but forcefully, Eric spun her around. And made her look. And she did.


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Kaylie Newell

A journalist stumbles onto the story of a lifetime.  And finds herself falling in danger.

He turned to her, his movements deliberate and measured. Her pulse thumped in her neck, her body heating in areas it shouldn’t have. The tops of her breasts swelled over her arm which attempted to cover them, and she was aware of every single inch of exposed skin that he’d be able to see, even through the cloudy glass of the shower door. Still, she didn’t move, the words that she wanted to say thick and catching in her throat.
Condensation dripped down the glass, creating jagged lines of clarity where there weren’t any before. She could tell his eyes were moving over her. He didn’t bother hiding it. They took her in, from her ankles, up the curve of her legs, over her hips, and toward her dripping chest. The knowledge sent a thrill through her. She was painfully self-conscious by nature; never in her life had she stood naked in front of a man. And certainly not one like this, a brooding, dangerous stranger. Yet she could feel the incredibly erotic, feminine power she had over him, simply by standing in one spot and staring right back. It was enough to make her body tremble in places she didn’t even know she had.
Just when she couldn’t stand the tension one second longer, just when she thought she might actually open the shower door and pull him in with her, he turned away and walked out the door.

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Lyncee Shillard

Tasarla Romaney

From the Hollow King - Book 1 in The Night of the Gryphon series.

"I love you, Sancha." Jalie's words faded and he realized he could no longer feel her body against his.
He stood on a rock, the blackness rolled away like a foggy mist in the early morning. Slowly, he turned a circle looking for recognizable landmarks and seeking Jalie. "Tikeee-tikeee," rumbled through the air with such force the ledge under his feet vibrated. His staff magically appeared in his hand. A gray cloud rolled toward him. The number of swangve moving in his direction stalled his heart. There had to be hundreds of them. The steady flapping of the swangve's wings created a dust twister on the basin floor.
He forced air into his lungs and twirled his staff, rolling his shoulders. "I have fought you every night since leaving my home. Evil, I stand ready."
A swangve dropped from the sky landing in front of him. "Animal whisperer this is not your fight. We would not harm you."
"You killed my father. Destroyed my home." Sancha swung the staff and was rewarded with the sickening sound of bones shattering.
The swangve fell backwards off the ledge, tumbling to the basin floor. Another swangve stood to his left. "You're outnumbered. Your entire species is. Join us. Become our leader."
Sancha dropped and drove his staff into the snake like appendage protruding from the swangve's stomach. The swangve shrieked, "tikeee-tikeee," in a pitch so high it almost deafened him. Sancha forced the swangve to the ground.


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