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Friday, 31 July 2015

An Always Cambridge Anniversary and #Giveaway, #mafiaromance #romanticsuspense

I just realized August 1st marks the 1st anniversary of the release of the fifth book in the Always Cambridge Series— Afterlife. 

 
This series is a favorite of mine and a dream come true. Literally. What started out as a grainy vision on a rooftop, turned into a six book romantic suspense mob series and my best selling books to date. I love my Cambridge characters and even now they still pester me. Maybe someday my lovelies. So many stories, so little time. For fans of the Cambridge series, I have been jotting things down, but to date, there are other stories clamoring to be told first.

For those new to the saga, The Always Cambridge Series starts off pretty tame but the violence and the sex amp up as Holly turns age appropriate. You'll probably fall in love with a character or two, but as bodyguard Randy Phillips often warns his young charge, in this profession, you don't get close. 

There are some awesome reviews on Goodreads if you'd like to know what other readers have to say about it.

In celebration of our anniversary, I'll be giving away an e-copy of the first book in the Always Cambridge Series. Leave a comment below and a quick word about a special milestone in your life and don't forget an email address. I will pick a winner at random (with the help of random.org), next Friday August 7, 2015. 

Violence, Danger, Sex, Obsession, The Mob, The Feds and so much more.

Follow the saga from the beginning... Always Cambridge

The Always Cambridge Series chronicles the life of Holly Cambridge through her tumultuous childhood and violent teen years and the consequences that stem from being the daughter of mob boss, Bill Cambridge.

 ~ ~ ~ ~

He is her guardian, but she’ll do anything within her power to protect him. His only duty is to keep her safe, but he can’t save her.

Holly Cambridge is just a typical kid, or so she thinks, until one day, she takes a good look around and realizes her friends don’t have bodyguards dogging their every step.

At the age of sixteen, Holly is assigned a new bodyguard, Randy Phillips. He is a tall, muscular, God-like force in the young, impressionable and lonely girl’s life. He is her friend, her confident, her conscience, and the older man she adores beyond reason.


Randy Phillips is fully aware of his young charge’s adolescent crush on him. Although he is flattered by the adulation, he maintains a safe distance and professional demeanour until Holly is wounded in a rival family blood feud, and the course of both their lives is changed forever.


Author Note: This series is a true saga. Each new installment begins precisely where the last ended. The books should be read in sequence.


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Mob life is forever...  
Family saga, crime, romantic suspense, mafia romance

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Don't forget to leave an email address to enter the contest.

Saturday, 4 July 2015

This #CanadaDay #July4th wkend Your Mission if You Choose to Accept It... #MustRead #MafiaRomance

This Holiday Weekend, Your Mission if You Choose to Accept It...  

Catch up on the series fans, readers and reviewers are calling an addictive roller coaster... Always Cambridge 

  Mob life is forever...


Violence, danger, hot sex, the mob, the feds, life altering choices, an angsty love triangle and so much more!  

The Always Cambridge Series chronicles the life of Holly Cambridge through her tumultuous childhood, violent teen years, into adulthood, and the consequences that stem from being the daughter of mob boss, Bill Cambridge.

Check out the Awesome Reviews and Ratings at Goodreads or simply add the AC Series books to your TBR list...

 ... Absolutely amazing series, with a strong female heroine! Love it! 

 ... I highly recommend this series!

...I have not enjoyed a book series this much in a long time if ever

 ... this plot is intriguing and well done

... HK's writing style is very easy to read, you are dragged into the whole book, I couldn't put it down.

... This book is one of the best that I've ever read! It keeps your attention from the very beginning until the end. The main female character is strong, brave and I like her so much. Well written and bravo for the author! [Multiple] POV that I also liked very much. A MUST READ book and Series!

I am only sorry that not so many people from my surroundings have heard about this Series that deserve more to talk about it. It is about mafia, secret and forbidden love with dark elements in it, including hot explicit scenes... 


A thrilling comment from a fan of the Always Cambridge Saga...
...This series would make an excellent movie! 


Follow the saga from the beginning...   Always Cambridge (bk 1)
Always Holly #6 

The entire Always Cambridge Series from eXtasy Books

Author Note: This series is a true saga. Each new installment begins precisely where the last ended. The books should be read in sequence.
  
 Who are you rooting for?
Team Alex, Team Victor, Team Randy or Team Holly!

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Wishing you all a Safe and Happy 
Canada Day and Fourth of July Weekend!  

Saturday, 20 June 2015

#Saturday7 Simply the Best #MySexySaturday

Welcome to the 97th week of My Sexy Saturday.

This week’s theme is Our Sexy Best and it brought to mind another song: Tina Turner’s The Best. If you haven’t heard this song, you should look it up because it has all the emotion needed for a hot, sexy romance. The one line that really carries this theme is the second one: Better than all the rest. This line is what this theme is all about.
This theme has no genre, no rules except that the characters know their other half is better than all the rest. They may have had lovers before but nothing compares to the lover they are with.

Funnily enough, I have a character nicknamed Best. An overbearing, straight-laced Federal Agent; SSA Alex Orton. Here's a snippet from the second book in the Always Cambridge Series : Running

It was actually funny how when my bottom dropped out, I always crawled back to Alex. I thought back to day I’d dubbed him, Agent Best. If nothing else we'd known how to push each other's buttons.

Let’s go over the file.” I knew he was only humoring me. “We’ll start with the Cambridge file. And if there is time we will attempt to outline the Mayhue…” 


I’d sat back in the chair and folded my arms. “Perhaps there is another agent…” I all but dismissed him. It pissed him off, just as I'd hoped it would. 


“Another agent?” He leapt from his chair in outrage. 


“Your obvious hostility towards me seems to be clouding your judgeme…” 


You, Miss Cambridge, know nothing of me! I am the best! If you wish to meet your objectives, you need me!” He'd boasted.

Biting back a smile, I met his level hostile stare and spun the file on the desk towards me. “Well then,
Agent Best,” I challenged. “Can we get started?” 



BLURB:  

The Always Cambridge Series chronicles the life of Holly Cambridge through her tumultuous childhood, violent teen years, into adulthood, and the consequences that stem from being the daughter of mob boss, Bill Cambridge

No matter how far or fast you run, you'll never escape the past.

It’s been three years since anyone has seen or heard from Holly Cambridge. But when she surfaces, she doesn't return home to the loving arms of her family. Instead, she heads straight to the FBI offering information that will destroy the Cambridge crime family.

Special Agent Alex Orton sees Holly Cambridge as nothing more than the next commendation standing between him and the ultimate promotion. What he doesn't bargain for is the shy, damaged, but feisty little woman that convinces his superiors to let her infiltrate a rival family, with Alex heading up the mission.

Holly and Alex clash at every turn, but Alex is intrigued by Holly’s sharp mind and boundless courage and must constantly fight his burgeoning feelings for his lovely informant. Alex is a strict disciplinarian of the rules and can’t reconcile the girl who can’t play by them.

As Holly carries out the sting and insinuates herself into the enemy’s camp, she develops a close and common bond with the middle Mayhue son, the exotically good looking and charismatic Victor. The very man who could end her life, if he were to discover her secret.

Hands tied, Alex must stand back, for the good of the team, and watch the tragedy play out. 



Follow the Saga from the beginning... Always Cambridge   

Hope you enjoyed this week's snip. Hop on through the linky list below for this week's MSS participants.
Have a Sexy Saturday! 

Saturday, 25 April 2015

#MySexySaturday There would be nothing satisfying her hunger tonight...#erotic #excerpt

Welcome to the 89th week of My Sexy Saturday.

This week’s theme is Sexy Me Twice and this is where just once is not enough. Think lovers who can’t get enough of each other. Where they spend every waking moment together. And it’s in a very, very sexy way. 


This week I'm sharing a particularly graphic adrenaline fueled sex scene following up from last week's shoot out with the rival mob family. Randy and Holly try to erase the horror. 

EXCERPT: Law and Order : Crime and Chaos (Always Cambridge Book 4)

“More! Please. More!” She begged. She grasped my chin and began to devour my mouth again. “I want all of you, Randy,” she said, into my mouth.

“What more can I give, Hol?” I asked dragging my mouth from hers. Still connected, I kissed my way down her neck. She arched her back again, using the wall for leverage. She cupped her own breast and offered it up to me. I sucked her pebbled nipple into my mouth and she made the most mollified sound deep in her throat.


“Mmm.” She tasted sweet. I sucked the delicious nub and flicked it with my tongue, enjoying the clenching and quivering of her inside muscles as her arousal heightened in intensity again. She let go of her breast and reached down between us, fingering her clit. I wanted to take it into my mouth and give it the same attention I was giving her breast. I started to lower her legs, but she tightened them around me.


“No, don’t leave me,” she moaned.


“I wanna kiss you.” We began a battle of wills. I took her mouth to shut her up and began to demonstrate what I wanted to do to her. “Let me lick you,” I asked, when I felt her wilt. She cried out at my suggestion.


I slapped at the lever of the shower, turning the water off. I set Holly down and

removed what was left of my shirt and stepped out of my pants. I picked her up and took her into the bedroom. Both of us still dripping, I tossed her on the bed and spread her legs wide. She watched me until I tongued her wet slit. She closed her eyes and moaned loudly as I lapped at her. I slid my thumbs between her lips and held her open. Her swollen nub poked out. I flicked it lightly with my tongue, barely even making contact with the sensitive bud and was rewarded with another throaty groan. It sounded like my name. Not Mayhue’s name. Mine. I tortured her with my tongue, letting my soft strokes become more eager and heavier until she was writhing, her hips bucking as she came.

She scooted out from under me and we’d been together enough for me to know what she was after and I was more than willing to let her have at it. She pushed me onto my back and lowered her head, taking my cock between her hot lips. She sucked me with her talented mouth and stroked me with her hand, using the two in tandem bringing me to the edge of orgasm. I grabbed her by the hair. I wanted to come inside her. She knew what I wanted. She straddled my hips and guided my quivering dick into her slick heat. She rode me. I came almost instantly, but she needed more. She ground herself against me, seeking her own release. I had a feeling there would be nothing satisfying her hunger tonight.

  
 BLURB:

 The wheels of justice might turn slowly, but destiny's punishment can be swift and merciless.

    The Always Cambridge Series chronicles the life of Holly Cambridge through her tumultuous childhood, violent teen years into adulthood, and the consequences that stem from being the daughter of mob boss, Bill Cambridge.
    

In the next highly charged installment of the Always Cambridge Saga, all the men in Holly’s life come together in one common goal—to keep the woman they love alive.


Special Agent Alex Orton of the FBI prepares Holly for the rigorous court proceedings to come, where she will testify not only against her own family, but also against the Mayhue crime family, including Victor’s volatile and sinister older brother, Lorenzo.
    

However, in the midst of all the personal turmoil, Holly’s first love and former bodyguard, Randy Phillips, emerges from the chaos. He vows to not only stand by her through the trials, but accompany her into Witness Protection and her afterlife, if in fact they make it that far, as both the Mayhue and Cambridge crime families swear retribution.
    

But in a twist of law and fate, Lorenzo Mayhue is unexpectedly released from prison and lures Holly to the Mayhue Excavating warehouses under the guise of Victor.
    

Five people enter the storehouse, but only three walk out.

Hope you enjoyed this, intense snippet from the fourth book in the Always Cambridge Series, Law & Order : Crime & Chaos. Nothing sexier than a man laying it all on the line for his woman.

 Follow the saga from the beginning... Always Cambridge 
The Cambridge series should be read in sequence.
Check out the linky list below for all the MSS participants.
Have a Sexy Saturday!  

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

An Always Cambridge #Giveaway Christmas #BYOB Bring Your Own Body Armor! #mob #RomSusp

Wishing you all the blessings and spirit of the season
Happy Christmas 
&
Merry Cambridge!

A Cambridge Christmas Consists of Wiseguys and Mobsters—
Armed and Dangerous. 
Join Us, Won't You?

Follow the saga from the beginning... Always Cambridge

This Holiday Season catch up on the Always Cambridge Series and find out why readers can't get enough. It's the gift that keeps on giving!

Once the meal is over and the company goes home, the last thing you want to do is clean up, so instead, jump into the life of Holly Cambridge, a not-so-typical teenager. This six book saga follows Holly from age nine, into her forties. From her early years with father and mob boss, Bill Cambridge, to her violent teenage years and a burgeoning relationship with her bodyguard, Randy Phillips, to her years on the run as an informant for the FBI, and Special Agent Alex Orton. To infiltrating a rival family and finding herself in the arms of her natural born enemy, Victor Mayhue, and loving it!

Violence, danger and sex!
The mob, the Feds and so much more!

The twists and turns will keep you on the edge or your seat but keep the tissues handy too.

Hang on and enjoy the ride. Oh and you might want to bring your own body armor! Christmas at the Cambridge compound can turn dangerous in the blink of an eye.
 

*** GIVEAWAY***
As a Christmas/New Year's treat, I'll be giving away the first three books in the series. That's Always Cambridge, Running AND Misfortune of Birth to ONE lucky winner. Leave a comment and an email addy for a chance to win the first three books in this SIX book series.

Be forewarned this is a true saga. Each new installment begins precisely where the last ends. The books should be read in sequence. I'm only offering half of the series in this giveaway. 

I'll choose a winner, at random with the help of random.org, Friday January 9th, 2015. 

For more on this series click HERE or check out the reviews and ratings on Goodreads.

Sandra from Goodreads : 'Wow, just wow! Perfect conclusion! For the first time since I've been reading books, I wish there are more books in Series!'

Naksed   'I have not enjoyed a book series this much in a long time if ever.'

Thursday, 27 November 2014

Mission Possible—If You Dare—This Thanksgiving Weekend Devour the entire Always Cambridge Series

Happy Thanksgiving! 

If you're looking for a little diversion from the food and family overload this holiday weekend, why not sample this compelling, dramatic and addictive series. 

Compelling * Addictive * Emotional * Dramatic * 

Violence, Danger, Sex, The Mob, the Feds and a whole lot more!
The mob story with love triangles, heartbreak and life-altering choices!


Follow the saga from the Beginning....

The Always Cambridge Series chronicles the life of Holly Cambridge through her tumultuous childhood, violent teen years, into adulthood, and the consequences that stem from being the daughter of mob boss, Bill Cambridge.

Author Note: This series is a true saga. Each new installment begins precisely where the last ended. The books should be read in sequence.

(available at eXtasy Books)

He is her guardian, but she’ll do anything within her power to protect him. His only duty is to keep her safe but he can't save her...   

Holly Cambridge is just a typical kid, or so she thinks, until one day, she takes a good look around and realizes her friends don’t have bodyguards dogging their every step.

At the age of sixteen, Holly is assigned a new bodyguard, Randy Phillips. He is a tall, muscular, God-like force in the young, impressionable and lonely girl’s life. He is her friend, her confident, her conscience, and the older man she adores beyond reason.

Randy Phillips is fully aware of his young charge’s adolescent crush on him. Although he is flattered by the adulation, he maintains a safe distance and professional demeanour until Holly is wounded in a rival family blood feud, and the course of both their lives is changed forever.




Book Two
Running
eXtasy Books

No matter how far or fast you run, you'll never escape the past   

 It’s been three years since anyone has seen or heard from Holly Cambridge. But when she surfaces, she doesn't return home to the loving arms of her family. Instead, she heads straight to the FBI offering information that will destroy the Cambridge crime family.

Special Agent Alex Orton sees Holly Cambridge as nothing more than the next commendation standing between him and the ultimate promotion. What he doesn't bargain for is the shy, damaged, but feisty little woman that convinces his superiors to let her infiltrate a rival family, with Alex heading up the mission.


Holly and Alex clash at every turn, but Alex is intrigued by Holly’s sharp mind and boundless courage and must constantly fight his burgeoning feelings for his lovely informant. Alex is a strict disciplinarian of the rules and can’t reconcile the girl who can’t play by them.


As Holly carries out the sting and insinuates herself into the enemy’s camp, she develops a close and common bond with the middle Mayhue son, the exotically good looking and charismatic Victor. The very man who could end her life, if he were to discover her secret.


Hands tied, Alex must stand back, for the good of the team, and watch the tragedy play out.


Book Three

eXtasy Books

When constantly surrounded by violence, corruption and immorality, how do you keep from becoming the very thing that you abhor 

 Holly Cambridge barely recognizes herself anymore. Pretending to be another person is beginning to wear thin. Disguised as Randi Yates, she entangles herself into the perilous life of the irresistible Victor Mayhue. But day by day, she falls more desperately and impossibly in love with her natural enemy. Together they explore a highly sexual, dark and dangerous relationship. The lines between right and wrong and good and evil, begin to blur. And while attempting to shield and protect Victor from the Feds and even his own family, Holly loses sight of her original goal.

Victor understands her more than anyone she’s ever met. Essentially they have lived the same life. He is her other half. But once he discovers who she really is and what she’s done, there will be no going back. Victor Mayhue is not a second chance kind of guy.

And in the end, one of them will be forced to face their true nature.  




Book Four
Law and Order, Crime and Chaos
eXtasy Books


The wheels of justice might turn slowly, but destiny's punishment can be swift and merciless    


In the next highly charged installment of the Always Cambridge Family Saga Series, all the men in Holly’s life come together in one common goal—to keep the woman they love alive.

Special Agent Alex Orton of the FBI prepares Holly for the rigorous court proceedings to come, where she will testify not only against her own family, but also against the Mayhue crime family, including Victor’s volatile and sinister older brother, Lorenzo.


However, in the midst of all the personal turmoil, Holly’s first love and former bodyguard, Randy Phillips, emerges from the chaos. He vows to not only stand by her through the trials, but accompany her into Witness Protection and her afterlife, if in fact they make it that far, as both the Mayhue and Cambridge crime families swear retribution.


But in a twist of law and fate, Lorenzo Mayhue is unexpectedly released from prison and lures Holly to the Mayhue Excavating warehouses under the guise of Victor.


Five people enter the storehouse, but only three walk out.


Book Five
Afterlife
eXtasy Books

Dreams of second chances are only nightmares in the making    

Holly Cambridge and Randy Phillips are dead!

But they re-emerge in Witness Protection as Beth and Andy Gregory, far away from the mob life that nearly destroyed them.


Can Holly finally realize her dream and live in peace without the threat of violence shadowing her every step? Settle down in one place, put down roots with the husband and the loving family she’s always dreamed of?


Or will the Mayhue vendetta reach across the ocean and strike Holly where it hurts the most?




And the Conclusion to the Always Cambridge Series

eXtasy Books

Only the worthy are rewarded with happily-ever-after
       
In this final emotional installment of the Always Cambridge Saga Series, Holly Cambridge lives a quiet unassuming life as Beth Gregory in Witness Protection.

While drowning in heartrending grief, Holly struggles to move on with her life. Her nights are filled with nightmares of ghosts and regret. Her days seem unending, grey and lifeless. She plods through for only one reason. One very important one.

But one surprise meeting brings a ray of light into her darkness, in the form of Victor Mayhue, the love she’d been forced to leave behind.

However, with that glimmer of hope, Victor forces Holly to face the demons of her past. She is compelled to confess her sins and reveal the secrets she and Randy had squandered a lifetime to hide. And she must suffer the harshest judgment of all, from the one person whose esteem and respect mean more to her than life itself.

Will the Mayhues finally destroy the existence Holly has always dreamed of by taking away the one thing she’s fought her entire life to achieve? Or in the end, will Victor ultimately realize the role he was always meant to fulfill?

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Wishing you all a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving! Cheers!

 

The Cranberries and Spice Thanksgiving Blog Hop, hosted by Natasha Blackthorne,  is still going on, if you'd like to enter. I'm offering a $10 Amazon (or ARe) giftcard to one winner and a free ebook (of mine) as a secondary prize. There are 39 other authors sharing hot excerpts and giving away other great prizes. (warning some on the excerpts including the one I shared are +18) The hop continues until December 5th. I will announce my winners on the 6th. So start hopping! Go!

Friday, 8 August 2014

#MySexySaturday - A Promise of Dancing... Naked #erotic #romanticsuspense

Welcome to the 54th week of My Sexy Saturday. 

 My Sexy Saturday weekly blog hop featuring 7 paragraphs, 7 sentences or 7 words of a sexy snippet from a WIP or published work

Do You Think I’m Sexy? ~ @MySexySaturday #MySexySaturday #MSS54

The sexy theme this week is perfect for the mob boss' son, Victor Mayhue. He is sexy with a capital S and dark and dangerous to boot.


He's probably the most naturally sensual and sexual character I've ever had the pleasure to write but his one little flaw—he knows just how potent he is and he always gets what he wants. (well almost always)


Here's an excerpt from Book Three in the Always Cambridge Family Saga Series 

Misfortune of Birth

A little set up for this snip, as the title of this post suggests begins with a promise of dancing naked but Victor decides to torture Holly out on the dance floor first.
  
He was intoxicating. He could talk me into, kiss me into, touch me into anything he wished because I wanted it too. My desire for him overrode everything else. My sense, my principles, my goals, my life. He kept up his assault on my lips until he moved to my ear. He used his tongue expertly. Even his elevated breathing in my ear excited me, just knowing that he was turned on.
 

“Do you know what I’m going to do to you, with my tongue, when we get upstairs?”
 

A wet rush of heat gathered between my legs at his words.
 

“First, I’m going to unlace these ties.” I felt his fingers toying with the ties at my nape as if he might undo them now in front of everyone. I never knew with him. He just might. He might not. He could start making love to me right on this dance floor in front of everyone and no one would stop him, least of all me. He’d most likely start an island wide orgy. Eros would be proud. Victor also embodied sexual power.
 

He pulled one string taut, then took the string and ran it over my shoulders, part way down my arm, causing me to erupt in goose bumps.

“I’m gonna peel this down,” he brushed his hands down my ribs so lightly, making me feel like he’d just removed the tight fitting bodice, all but the rush of the cool air hitting my overheated skin missing from his demonstration. I squirmed against him as he swayed with the music.
 

“I’m gonna kiss you, right here.” Gently he plucked my taught nipple begging for his touch. Thank goodness for the darkness. I should be appalled that he would do such a thing in public, but he had me wrapped up in such a sensual haze, I just wanted more.

Damn, sometimes seven paragraphs just isn't enough! :D

Author Note: This series is a true saga in the sense that each new installment begins precisely where the last ended. The books should be read in sequence. 

Follow the saga from the beginning... Always Cambridge


I hope you enjoyed this week's shot of sexy. Don't forget to check out all the other MSS authors from the list below.
Have a Sexy Saturday!