My little blog is a stop on the lovely Vanessa Vaughn’s Pack of Lies blog tour this month. As a fan of all things paranormal and erotic, I was hooked from the synopsis:
When Jack is attacked by a powerful werewolf one moonlit night, his world is forever changed.
Marcus is that wolf, the strong leader of his pack, who never imagined a mere mortal could ever escape him, much less ever become one of his kind. And yet, as time passes, he can’t deny the handsome human is slowly beginning to change.
No longer the civilized architect he used to be, Jack feels a new power coalescing inside of him. He barely even recognizes himself as he becomes more sexual, more impulsive, more wild in every way.
But as the bite transforms him, it also binds he and his attacker together forever. The two share a powerful unbreakable link, no matter how forcefully they may each try to deny it.
Marcus is already hiding secrets from the other wolves, and his position as Alpha is threatened. Could Jack be the new ally Marcus needs to set things right, or will their desire for one another draw them away from all they know and alter the course of their lives forever?
As far as I’m concerned, the only thing sexier than vampires is werewolves (hmm… and maybe werecats). I loved Vanessa’s sexy beasts and was delighted to find out this is the first in a series of erotic werewolf novels. Here is a brief excerpt to entice you, too:
The moon.
That soft sensual glow is always with me. Even when I can’t see the night sky, I feel its dark caress.
As the moon’s phases change, it breathes a coy suggestive whisper in my ear. It presses close, and I feel its fingers brush my skin. That light sparks something inside of me. Something primal. It starts a fever somewhere deep and spreads like slow-burning fire through my limbs.
I can always sense the Change starting. The full moon’s strong hand curls around my throat. I feel its grip tighten like a man’s thick fingers on my neck. When that grip makes me suddenly lightheaded, my pulse quickens, and I sink quietly to my knees. I know I have to give myself over, and I know how impossible it is to resist.
Some humans dream about submission. They crave it, complete with soft tortures and the smooth caress of expensive leather. They want to be bound and made to feel wonderfully, blissfully helpless. They enjoy feeling compelled to give in.
Humans like to play with their toys.
But what do they know about pleasure and pain so naturally intertwined?
When the animal in me takes over, I feel sensations more intense than any whip could offer. My teeth descend to sharp lethal points against my tongue, and I feel the lovely, horrifying ache as bones lengthen and skin is stretched.
But that ache only makes me smile.
In that instant of agony, my instincts wash over me like a hard drug flooding my veins.
Desire takes over—the desire for sex and for the hunt—obscuring all logical thought, all worries,absolutely all guilt. I feel ecstasy as I flex my teeth and claws. I feel a need building urgently and unstoppably between my legs with an intensity that few experience.
So, you see, as the gut-wrenching agony of the Change grips me, so does the all-consuming pleasure.Perhaps that is why we wolves prefer our hunts so vicious.
And our sex so rough.
I think maybe I might be a werewolf at heart. 
Thanks, Vanessa, for inviting me to be a stop on your blog tour. Pack of Lies is filled with hot men and delicious sex-- a perfect summer read!
Some pictures from my first Fairy Tale Lust reading Friday night at Bean There Cafe in Norfolk, Virginia. It was a lovely evening with champagne, fairy tale cake, chocolate, a signature “Lusty Latte” (dark chocolate, cherry and amaretto), body painting by Jeff Edney Studios and a lively and supportive crowd of friends and strangers.
I read Charlotte Stein’s deliciously spooky “The Return” and my own demonic “In the Dark Woods.” I was in a dark mood, apparently.
The woodland faerie Pyper and me after the reading
Pyper and Fairy Tale Lust
Taking a reading break to enjoy a Lusty Latte
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My book on a cake! (And beautiful flowers from my best friend Sheri.)
The Kindle version of Fairy Tale Lust was #11 and the print version was #36 on Amazon’s Books>Literature & Fiction>Short Stories>United States list. I know, I know, that doesn’t seem like a big deal given the many, many categories and genre lists. However… please note the books below the Kindle version and above the print version. Holy cow, the company we’re keeping!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I say it’s worth a very sweet little prize package. I’m looking for photographs of Fairy Tale Lust in the wild-- on the shelves in your local bookstore or in your hand as you check out with your very own copy.
E-mail your photo (along with your name and location of the bookstore) to and I will post it at the Fairy Tale Lust blog (and maybe here, too) and credit you for the find. On August 1, I will choose three lucky winners to receive prize packages that will include five anthologies that feature my stories, along with some chocolate goodness from Fairytale Brownies. (I make excellent brownies. Ask anyone. But these… oh my, they are good.)
Please note: I will not be giving away Fairy Tale Lust as part of these prize packages because I want you to buy the book!
18 and over, please. Other than that, anyone anywhere can enter. I’d love to see photos of Fairy Tale Lust in bookstores all over the world!
Fairy Tale Lust is my pretty, pretty book and I hope you will buy it, love it, hug it, squeeze it and call it George (and tell everyone you know to do the same). But Fairy Tale Lust is not the only book tapping into the eroticism of princesses in castles and beasts in the woods. In fact, erotic fairy tales are hot right now and there are several authors and editors putting their own spin on this sexy new sub-genre.
So, if you loved Fairy Tale Lust and are lusting for more naughty fairy tales, you might want to check out these other pretty, pretty books:
Alison Tyler has edited the wonderfully titled Alison’s Wonderland, a veritable feast of 27 erotic fairy tales. I’m delighted to say that several of the authors in this collection also have stories in Fairy Tale Lust, including: Shanna Germain, Allison Wonderland, Janine Ashbless, A.D.R. Forte, Andrea Dale and Saskia Walker.
In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed is a collection of erotic fairy tales by the talented Mitzi Szereto. Bonus for academics and fairy tale geeks: each story includes an introduction detailing its historic origins.
Enchanted is another single-author collection of erotic fairy tales. Nancy Madore followed up this wildly popular collection with Enchanted Again, a collection of erotic stories based on nursery rhymes and Enchanted Dreams, a collection of supernatural erotica. I can’t wait to see what she enchants us with next.
Finally, if short stories only whet your appetite for something longer, you might want to take a look at Cathy Yardley’s Enslave: The Taming of the Beast, a novel length erotic retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Ms. Yardley’s previous erotic fairy tale novels include Crave: The Seduction of Snow White and Ravish: The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty.
Enjoy this banquet of fairy tale lust and please add your own erotic fairy tale recommendations in the comments!
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