A cult of sex faeries start taking men hostage…including Claire’s boyfriend.

Book Two of the Curtain Torn Series

When Myrna Terrence’s husband is abducted from her dream by fairies, she asks Claire for help. Claire investigates and discovers other married men of Four Corners have been kidnapped. Men who share enough similarities to suggest the kidnappings may be related.

She learns the abductions are the work of The Aeval, a cult of sex faeries whose mission is to ensure women are pleasured by their husbands. Dell decides he and Claire should go under cover—under the covers. By pretending to be a married couple who are having trouble in bed, they hope to lure The Aeval to them.

The plan works almost too well. They don’t have to fake the chemistry between them, nor the resulting frustration when they stop themselves from going too far. The Aeval take the bait, and Claire must confront a goddess, the truth, and her fears about Dell in an effort to save his life.

But if she succeeds, those same truths may be what sends him out of her life forever.

Warning: this title contains the following: hot nekkid men with wings, regular nudity, and prolonged sexual tension followed—finally—by explicit sex. And the faeries who punish husbands for not “pleasing” their wives are entirely fictional (sorry!).

Excerpt available…here

And you can buy it here

“Ms. Hart has created a beautiful, romantic love story set within a magical world that is both whimsical and crystalline pure. The chemistry between her two main characters is spellbinding and ethereal.” – Cerri Ellis

I’m blogging over at The Novelty Girls today! Come visit!

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Take the Sex and the City Quiz.

Fiery, self-assured, and snappy, you are most like Miranda Hobbes, the successful lawyer in the group. You pretend that you can take or leave love but deep down inside you wish for it to find you. You don’t open up easily, and often disguise your vulnerability with sarcasm and jokes. Fashion isn’t your strongest point – it’s smart business suits by day or sweatpants by night for you. This doesn’t count you out of the nightlife though, so throw on your best A-line dress and do your fabulous red hair, because it’s time to go out on the town with some of your best friends!

I’m headed to California for Calamity Jane’s graduation, but will be back Sunday. Don’t bother behaving with out me, just clean up the party mess before I get back!

Things that should be fun to see:

1. M and I are going to see the Sex and the City movie. Hope it’s good as we both liked the series!

2. Calamity Jane and her three brothers (we have trends for the one girl to three guy ratio of kids in my family) may force M and me to play a rousing game of flashlight tag in which you run around at night playing hide and go seek and if you get hit with the flashlight before you make it back tot he safety of the house, you’ve been “tagged.” Can be fun and exhausting, but also terrifying as some people are willing to be tagged if it means they can scare the pants off of you first.

3. My family in a celebratory drunken stupor. The last graduation in the family was my college graduation and we had someone drunk and passed out on the front lawn to greet the last-arriving guests. Drink early and drink often, I suppose.

4. M and I are avoiding the fun of camping at my aunt’s house with all the drunken family members by getting our own hotel room. Even though there will be two best, this will no doubt confirm my family’s assumption that M is my “special friend” and we’re have wild monkey lesbian sex. For shame!

5. Happy Graduation, Calamity Jane!

We’ll see if any of this actually happens. I’ll report in when I get back!

Hey, everyone! The RWA National Conference is just around the corner and it’s time for the PI party! This year is going to be a bit different. Instead of a luncheon, we’re having a cocktail party to give people an opportunity to network in a less formal environment. The focus of the gathering is erotic romance, but it’s a great chance to mingle with lots of industry professionals from all genres! Everyone is welcome!

Our two featured speakers are Susan Swinwood from Harlequin Spice as well as Lucienne Diver from The Knight Agency. Some of our other registered guests include Roberta Brown, Sarah from Smart Bitches, several editors from Grand Central Publishing, Janet from Dear Author, and loads more editors and agents! (And, hey, I’ll be there with the Mad Madam M…you know that’s what’s really important, right? Come play!)

The cost is $25 for PI members and $35 for non-members. It includes a cocktail, appetizers and a nice little favor! The party will take place on Thursday, July 31, from 5-6 pm. We’ll start registration at 4:45.

For more information, or to register, click here!

Well, this is one way to sell a Mini-Cooper. Let a dominatrix whip it.

View at your own risk: http://www.mini.ca/DominateWinter

This just in from the Mad Madam M front! Her email is just TOO funny so I’m copying and pasting it below for your edification and amusement.

It took me an hour to vote this morning. An HOUR. And not because there was a large queue of civic minded individuals wishing to have their democratic voice heard…that I could have handled. Instead I think a untalented 3 Stooges Tribute Troupe decided it would be fun to try to run a polling place. I should note that I was also turning in absentee ballots for my parents, but still…AN HOUR!!!

Here’s breakdown of the events:

8am – I arrive at the polling place (local middle school) and marvel at the fact there are open spaces right next to the door. (I now realize it is because people could sense the incompetence and simply avoided the area entirely.)
8:09 – I finish voting.
8:10 – I start explaining to Polling Person #1 (PP#1) that I need to drop off two absentee ballots for my parents. (Note: My parents had already filled in my name and I had signed the envelope as well to certify that they wanted them dropped off at a polling place.)
8:15 – PP#1 and I get into a ‘discussion’ over whether or not I need to sign the “Make a Mark” section of the absentee ballot envelope (You know the place if you can’t sign you name where you are supposed to make a mark…)
8:17 – PP#1 is joined by PP#2 & PP#3 who all assure me I am supposed to sign there. However, PP#4 is on my side saying that would nullify the ballot.
8:20 – Manual is consulted by PP#2, PP#3 & PP#5, because yes it takes 3 people to look at one manual.
8:22 – No answer found…
8:25 – I start mentioning that I need to get to work, but I am told that if we don’t get this worked out they are going to throw the ballots in the trash, so I wait.
8:30 – The manual is still not providing an answer so PP#4 suggests calling the main polling place for the county.
8:32 – Phone number finally found… (See what I mean about the incompetence!)
8:35 – On hold
8:40 – Still on hold, although, PP#2 & PP#4 assure me that this should only take a minute
8:45 – Still on hold…
8:50 – FINALLY AN ANSWER!!! GUESS WHO WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!!! MEEEEEEE!!!! FUCKING IDIOTS!!!! JUST READ THE FUCKING ENVELOPE!?!?!?!?!!?
8:51 – As I exit PP#1 asks if I want an “I Voted Sticker”. I take the sticker and refrain from adding “Damn right I want my sticker!”
8:52 – Get into my car to leave only to have school bus pull up behind and block my exit. It appears to be loading kids for a field trip to some sort of water park.
8:59 – Still waiting for punk-as kids to get on the bus…
9:01 – Finally I exit onto the street; the ordeal is finally over.

And they wonder why people don’t find the time to vote…

Some of you know, I’m OCD about having checklists. Unless I have a list, I am not a happy girl. It reminds me of all the things I need to do, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment when I can check stuff off the list and see it dwindle. Yeah, I’m weird. I’m okay with that–I drank the Kool-Aid a loooong time ago. I guess we all deal with our balancing act of writing, life, volunteer activities, promotion, work, in different ways. We find the way that works for us. For me, that means being an OCD list maker. If it’s not on one of my lists, I guarantee it will not get done because I’ll totally forget about it.

So, here’s the current to-do list for June.

1. Finish rewrite on current hateful project

2. Go to cousin’s graduation in California

3. Conduct a workshop for Passionate Ink

4. Guest blog over at Shelley Munro’s blog

5. Harass my Stroke of Midnight final judges (as part of the PI VP job) to make sure they get their entries back to me on time

6. Complete proposals on next two projects I’d like my agent to shop

It looks like a pretty manageable list to me…what’s on everyone else’s list? What strategies do you have for keeping it all straight and making sure nothing falls between the cracks?

My girl Lillian Feisty has a new ebook out with Harlequin Spice Briefs. It’s a naughty, naughty menage story, so you know you want to check this out!

They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But for Chloe, life in “Sin City” has been all business without a hint of the adventure and naughtiness aluded to in that slogan. Until now! With Walker and Jo in town, Chloe’s about to end her long dry spell and live her ultimate fantasy–a menage a trois with the two sexiest men she knows. As the three of them plunge into wild sexual exploration with passion and inventiveness, Chloe soon discovers what new heights of sensuality can be experienced when so many hands, lips and organs work together to drive her beyond the limits of ecstasy.

Buy it here!