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It officially releases today! Run out and buy a copy, you know you want to!

The Between. A race of people between light and dark. Good and evil. Human and animal. The world discovered their existence over a decade ago, and so far the balance between humans and Between has been precarious at best. One bite is all it takes to cross the line from human to Between. It doesn’t matter what species of shapeshifter bites a human–only the soul can dictate what kind of animal is most suited to a Between. Many humans think they’re dangerous and should be locked away, while others covet their power.

On a fateful camping trip, fiery Oregon beauty Rhiannon Reid is kidnapped and turned into a “Between”–a magical shape-shifting creature. Now forced to prove her worthiness to the group’s golden king, lion-shifting Elan Delacourt, the two test each other’s strength and character–but lose themselves in the hot-blooded battle…

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The Between. A race of people between light and dark. Good and evil. Human and animal. The world discovered their existence over a decade ago, and so far the balance between humans and Between has been precarious at best. One bite is all it takes to cross the line from human to Between. It doesn’t matter what species of shapeshifter bites a human–only the soul can dictate what kind of animal is most suited to a Between. Many humans think they’re dangerous and should be locked away, while others covet their power.

On a fateful camping trip, fiery Oregon beauty Rhiannon Reid is kidnapped and turned into a “Between”–a magical shape-shifting creature. Now forced to prove her worthiness to the group’s golden king, lion-shifting Elan Delacourt, the two test each other’s strength and character–but lose themselves in the hot-blooded battle…

Barnes & Noble is shipping it, though it doesn’t officially release until the end of the month. Get it now!

My book formerly titled “Every Witch Way” has received its official title and release date. Yay! It’s going to be called EMBRACE THE NIGHT and will come out on June 1, 2011.

I also have an excerpt up for you, if you’d like to read it.

Here’s what the book is about:

Witch Chloe Standish is a biochemist working on a cure for werewolves when her research partner and ex-boyfriend Damien ends up murdered. And she’s the only suspect. She’s brought in for questioning only to find the detective working on the case is the warlock she spent a wild night with after Damien dumped her for a vampire. As if her day couldn’t get much worse, she finds that her other research partner sold out their work to terrorists who want to overthrow the werewolf pack leaders. They killed Damien for his part of the formula, and now only thing that’s missing is Chloe’s work.

The last thing Detective Merek Kingston needs is to feed the obsession he’s had for the witch who disappeared from his bed after the best sex of his life. She’s the one thing he didn’t see coming. And that’s the worst part–his ability to see the future is dormant where Chloe’s concerned. Only the most important people in his life let his gift rest, and he’s lost every single one of them. He doesn’t want to deal with the possibility of losing someone else he’s come to love, but if he doesn’t protect Chloe, he might lose her anyway. The consummate cop can’t let an innocent woman die, regardless of the cost to himself. Even if it means dragging the city girl out of Seattle and locking himself in a room with her to guard her day and night, he’s not going let terrorists take what’s his.

Just got the final, final, final word on the Wasteland anthology. The release date has been scooted a few times, but no it’s unleashed on Amazon, so I’m guessing it’s officially official. Woot!

Pre-order it in print here!

The Wanderer by Crystal Jordan
For his inventions, Ezra can demand whatever price he wants, and now he wants the fierce warrior, Kadira. Kadira fights her unexpected need for him with all her strength. The trouble is, the more she resists, the more he seems to like it.

The Whore by Lilli Feisty
Prostitution is the only life Bryn knows until she escapes aboard a pirate ship, dressed as a boy. In the arms of Captain Xander and his lover, Hawke, she finds true freedom. Yet danger awaits them at the next port…

The Breeder by Eden Bradley
When Nitara looks into the eyes of the man to be sacrificed along with her virginity, she sees not an animal, but the man who haunts her erotic dreams. Realizing the temptress is as much a prisoner as he, Akaash escapes with her into the arms of his bonded lover, Dhatri. There, she learns loving two men is worth every sacrifice.

The Priestess by R.G. Alexander
On a dangerous journey to an ancient city, High Priestess Xian and her guard, Hel, find a battered stranger. Her attraction to the mysterious Siraj makes Hel’s blood boil, forcing him to cross a line never before dared. And reveal secrets that change everything.

Warning: Contains hot pirates, sexy Sun Guards, dirty and dusty warriors with big swords, three-way, more-way, straight-way, bi-way, anal sex, spanking, naked wrestling, voyeurism, exhibitionism, pretty much every “ism” because, c’mon, it’s the Smutketeers!

I’m headed off this afternoon for my semi-semi-semi-annual (okay, I don’t know if that’s right, but we do it every couple of months or so) lunch with Kate Pearce. We can dish about writing, books, agents, boys, fictional boys in our books. Ya know, important, official writerly stuff.

It’s the perfect time since we both have books releasing next month. I have my “Between Lovers” novella in the Sexy Beast 9 anthology, and she has her first pararnormal historical, Kiss of the Rose, coming out. I critiqued it and it is awesome. Plus, did you see the cover love her publisher gave her? Gorgeous! And just right for the book, which is even better!

I just found out that On The Prowl is going to have a Thai edition. How cool is that? This is my first foreign sale! Woot!

I’m happy to announce that I sold a co-written erotic shapeshifter anthology with Loribelle Hunt to Samhain Publishing. This antho will be split into four ebook novellas for release in November ’10, December ’10, February ’11, and March ’11, and one single print anthology called FORBIDDEN PASSIONS in early 2012.

Here are the tentative titles and blurbs for the stories. I’m so freaking stoked!

FORBIDDEN PASSIONS by Loribelle Hunt and Crystal Jordan

King Leonidas I of Sparta became legendary for his bravery in the face of an onslaught of Persian forces under the command of Xerxes I. So impressed with the Leonidas’ courageous death, the hunter goddess Artemis made his sons more than men. They became wereleopards, and over the centuries have scattered to the four corners of the globe.

The current ruler of the Leonidas family, Hector, went missing the same week as his eldest son’s mate. An uneasy truce exists between the wereleopards and werewolves of America. Each claim half of the country as their territory–wolves in the east and leopards in the west. But someone aims to upset that balance, and Hector’s sons must uncover the plot…and save their father.

“Stolen Passions” by Crystal Jordan

Lyra Marcus is attacked and left unconscious in the middle of the desert. When she awakens, she realizes the horror of her predicament. She’s a werewolf in the heart of wereleopard territory. Worse still, she’s discovered by Zander Leonidas, one of the sons of the most powerful leopard family. She might die at her enemy’s hand, but she won’t go down without a fight.

Zander has no intention of killing the little she-wolf who landed on the doorstep of his family’s resort, but he wants to know how she ended up there. What he never expected was to find himself drawn to a wolf. Sex is one thing, but the urge to mark her as his mate is almost irresistible. A woman like her shouldn’t fit him so well–a match between their kinds would rock the foundations of their world.

But whoever left Lyra for dead doesn’t intend to fail again, and Zander’s not about to let anyone touch his woman.

“Passions Recalled” by Loribelle Hunt

When both his mate and his father died in a freak accident, Jason, the oldest Leonidas brother left home and became a park ranger in the Florida Panhandle. The distance and solitude suit him. After all, the less he cares, the less he hurts.

With a hurricane bearing down on the coast, his job is to secure and evacuate the park. As the storm worsens to a point where evacuation is no longer possible, he discovers Celeste Lykaios injured and unconscious. The problem is…his mate died over a year ago.

Celeste’s world has turned upside down. After being gravely injured in a plane crash, Jason abandoned her. In a mere twenty-four hours she finds out her werewolf step-father lost her birth father’s land, her family hid her survival from Jason, and her new fiancé is a killer. She goes to the only person she is certain can keep her safe, driving straight into a hurricane only to be attacked before she finds him. She wakes up in Jason’s home with no idea how she got there or why.

They take shelter from the storm to unravel the betrayal that split them apart, but first have to face the danger stalking Celeste.

When the storm passes, one question remains. If his mate–a human–survived the airplane crash that was supposed to have taken her life and the life of his father…what happened to the stronger wereleopard leader?

“Fleeting Passions” by Crystal Jordan

Cleo Nemean is on the run from her violent past when she takes a job at Refuge Resort. She spends an evening toasting her escape and ends up having a one night stand. The catch? Her one night lover is Adrian Leonidas, her new boss . . . and they accidentally marked each other as mates.

Just when things couldn’t get any worse, her werebear ex-fiancé tracks her down, bent on bringing her back under his control. Terrified, she bolts, leaving behind the safety of Refuge . . . and the protection of her new mate. The one thing she can’t risk is Adrian’s life.

Adrian is a man of supreme control. Whether he meant to mate with Cleo or not, she’s now his woman and he’s not about to see her harmed before he has a chance to explore the undeniable heat between them. He follows her and uses her as bait to set a trap for her ex. He’s going to end the threat to her life once and for all.

But the trap is sprung too soon and it leaves them both in mortal danger.

While they survive the encounter, they’re left to wonder who tipped off the werebear about their location. It’s one too many bad coincidences for the Leonidas family. They need to find out if there is a traitor in their midst . . . and how all of this ties into the disappearance of their father.

“Renegade Passions” by Loribelle Hunt

Wereeagle Alexandra “Ajax” Petros is destined to lead her people…and running from that fate. She’s spent several years in the Messenger Corps, the elite werebirds who carry communications between the different were species.

As a bird, she’s neutral and her people have enjoyed and prospered under that neutrality. When she uncovers a plot by one of her own to not only steal her throne, but destroy the leopards and wolves in the process, what will she decide? Face the threat on her own and take her rightful place, or stick to her neutrality in the coming war?

Only one man has the power to make her choose, the power to make her forsake her oath to her people’s ways. But what does Nicodemus Leonidas want from her? Her help…or her soul?

Nico is the family’s coldly methodical security expert. The last thing he wants while trying to discover what happened to his father is the werebird who literally drops into his lap. She’s driving him crazy, but their chemistry is incredible–and if she insists on sticking her messenger nose into the middle of wereleopard business, who is he to stop her?

Except everyone in this game has secrets and Ajax’s are the biggest of all. When the dust has settled and Nico’s family is reunited what will become of the mate he was so reluctant to claim? He must either convince her to stay with him or follow her as she pursues her own destiny. For the first time in his life, Nico lets his heart–not his mind–decide his fate.

I got a new review from Joyfully Reviewed!

The Wanderer by Crystal Jordan
The Wasteland, Book 1
Samhain Publishing
Erotic Science Fiction/Futuristic/Paranormal
ISBN: 9781609280314
Reviewed by Talia Ricci

Kadira is a Wanderer. She is untouchable, valued, and detested all in one. To touch her means instant death and Kadira finds this satisfactory. Her family murdered, she knows that she will never have the loving touch of a mate. She refused to depend on anyone but herself and this had been highly successful thus far. And then she meets Ezra.

Ezra knows what Kadira is and he doesn’t care. She needs his knowledge in order to help her adopted people, but that is all – or so she says. Ezra knows differently. Her desire is evident in her eyes and for once he is going to take what he wants and doesn’t care of the consequences.

The more Kadira fights her feelings for Ezra, the more he desires her. He loves her unconditionally and she makes him shudder with longing. It was fun to watch Kadira realize this and learn to live with the knowledge that no matter what she did, that love would continue.

New beginnings in the harsh land of the Wasteland shine through in The Wanderer. Kadira and Ezra make an unlikely couple, but one deeply embedded in each other’s hearts and mind. I loved Crystal Jordan’s mojo in this futuristic love story!

I’ve got nothing much to say this week. I’m working at the library and we had our big faculty retreat this week, which just meant a super-duper holy-Jesus long meeting. No fun in Whoville.

I’m also working steadily on deadlines for my new books. I sent out some new novellas to Samhain, so there should be more details about that coming soon. And, the biggest news I have this week is that I changed agents and have signed with Roberta Brown of Brown Literary Agency.

That’s about it. School’s out for summer at the university, so the library is quiet and unexciting.