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What kind of hero makes you melt?
Do you like the quiet, sensitive type, like the hero in Soft Sounds of Pleasure, Colton De Marco?
(excerpt)

Colton stood frozen just inside Lila's garage, his eyes riveted on her gesture. It was like she'd stepped out of his head. She was dressed the same. Even her hair was the same, flowing out the back of a baseball cap, the same jail-break tendrils cuddling her face. The only difference he could see was that this time, when she raised the shirttail to her face, the two items making his cock hard were the adorable dimples just above her ass.

He wanted to swirl his tongue around those little dips.

He wanted to hold her till she cried her last tear.

He wanted to make her laugh.

He wanted her.

He gripped the potted orchid in his hand and adjusted his damn jeans. His movement finally caught her attention, because she dropped the shirt and glanced over her shoulder.

He smiled as she stepped to the radio and reached to turn the volume down. "Is that for me?" she asked.

Having Lila smile back at him was like basking in sunshine after a cold rain. He had to clear his throat before he could speak. "My way of saying thanks. Well, this and lunch, because if you're not busy, I'm going to insist."

Or perhaps you're more drawn to Colton's older and more dominant brother, Daniel, the hero in my upcoming release, Wildly Inappropriate?

(unedited excerpt)

"Last year Brian sent six skinny bleached blondes in bikinis. They were supposed to wash our trucks, I guess, but ended up washing each other." Some emotion flashed in his eyes. She thought it might've been scorn. "One of 'em wrote Brian's offer in shoe polish on my windshield." His expression became stern. "Getting those six back into that van was like herding wet cats. Two female customers who had their vehicles up on lifts and couldn't leave haven't been back to the shop since. Now, he's sent you. Why am I finding it so hard to throw you out?"

Cynda had no idea how to respond. The stinging handprints on her butt were warning enough not to think out loud.

"So, I hope like hell Brian picked your outfit and not you. It won't matter, really, because if you want to go through with this, I'll be choosing your clothes." He shoved his fingers through his hair, whirling away to begin pacing back and forth. "What's your name?"

The soft feeling his comment about her hair had induced evaporated with his insult, but she answered his question. "Cynda Avery."

He continued talking, his long legs eating up the distance between the back door and the table where she sat. His pacing made her think he was the one on a chain, but that made no sense. "I'm not going to put my cock in you, Cynda, but if you'll allow me the privilege, I want to make you come. Look at this as an exercise in trust. And to see if we're compatible, before we discuss anything else."

This white boy is nuts. Cute as hell, but crazier than a bedbug. She laughed harshly, so off-balance by his odd assortment of declarations she forgot she wasn't supposed to speak. "Yeah? And what's in that for you?"

"I'm a man who likes to take control, Cynda, but I don't object to proving I deserve to be in control of a woman's body."

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The Bad Apple of Erotic Romance? Seriously?

It's a bold claim, particularly for a new author, I admit. 

With a name like Eden, how can I not be fascinated with the little event that's said to have transpired in the Garden of Eden?  And which juicy fruit did Eve supposedly use to tempt Adam into sin? The apple, of course.

So why a 'Bad Apple'? Who wants to read about people being good when they select an erotic romance novel? I know I certainly don't. I hope you don't either, because I can promise you right this minute, my characters get up to all sorts of juicy sexual shenanigans as they seek love and sexual fulfillment. They're all guilty of being bad. In the good way.

It's said that one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch. That's my goal, and the logic behind the tag line. I hope to spoil my readers, by giving you stories so juicy and satisfying that you'll keep coming back again and again for another naughty taste.  

So, in the words I imagine Eve said to Adam on that fateful day...Come on, take a bite. What can it hurt?

 

(Credit to Nichole Pattinson, for making me this fabulous pic --thanks so much! I love it.)

You'll be able to get your first bite of my work tomorrow, when my short story, Cum, They Told Me will be published by Naughty Nights Press, as one of eight hot holiday reads in their Christmas Anthology entitled Doing The Naughty List Twice.

~Teaser for Cum, They Told Me ~

Sophie Weller has had a rough year. She's being forced to sell the company she has poured her heart and soul into for the past nine years as part of her divorce from her cheating, drug-abusing husband, a disgrace to the uniform of the NY Yankees. She spent a terrible eighteen hours with her mother, trapped in a car hanging off the side of an embankment, and she comes out of that misadventure knowing she will do anything to avoid ending up as shallow and bitter as her mother, resolving that as soon as the ball drops in Times Square, she will devote the next 365 days to seeking only her pleasure. 

On New Year's Eve, she meets with her attorney, Kendall Davis Laramie III, and her hunky Texas-bred buyer, Matthias Jackson, to complete the two items that will release her from the unfulfilling life she's been living: her divorce and the sale of her company, Banger and Lever Optics.

Before the ink is dry on the first contract, Sophie begins to fancy taking a bite of both men. Matt and Davis definitely want to share a taste of Sophie. But is that all they want from her?

~***~

Purchase links will be posted here as soon as I have them. The anthology will be available on Amazon, Smashwords and All Romance EBooks.

Welcome  to Eden's Garden, where juicy and sinful is in everything on the menu. Please visit often, as the offerings are nothing if not naughty. Feel free to comment as well as share this blog with your friends who enjoy a hot read.

Affectionately,

Eden