Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Pages: 311 Publisher: Christi Caldwell Pub. Date: December 29, 2013 Series:  Scandalous Seasons Book 1 Genre: Historical Romance Sold by: Amazon Digital Services , Inc. Sexual Content: 4 - 5 Blurb Hopeless romantic, Lady Emmaline Fitzhugh, is tired of sitting with the wallflowers, waiting for her betrothed to come to his senses and marry her. When Emmaline reads one too many reports of his scandalous liaisons in the gossip rags, she takes matters into her own hands. War-torn veteran, Lord Drake, devotes himself to forgetting his days on the Peninsula through an endless round of meaningless associations. He no longer wants to feel anything, but Lady Emmaline is making it hard to maintain a state of numbness. With her zest for life, she awakens his passion and desire for love. The one woman Drake has spent the better part of his life avoiding is now the only woman he needs, but he is no longer a man worthy of his Emmaline. It is up to her to show him the he...

Pages: 183  Devices: Unlimited Published: January 18, 2014 Series: 1 of 4 Author Website:  www.LaurieLondonBooks.com ASIN: B009ZOZLPG Sexual Content: 4/5 Genre: Paranormal Novella Romance Blurb Haunted by loss, Cascadian assassin Rickert D'Angelus is on a mission of vengeance. Determined to stop the Pacifican army from finding a portal to his world, he leads a group of warriors into New Seattle with one goal--to kill all Pacifican soldiers.  Agent Neyla Trihorn had the perfect life until a deadly accident revealed her latent para-abilities. Now, the former fashion designer is the Pacifican army's hottest commodity in their fight against the invaders.  When Rickert discovers a beautiful, unconscious soldier on a cold mountain ledge near the portal, he realizes she's a Protection-Talent and cannot be killed. To prevent the army from using her skills again, he takes her as his prisoner instead.  But when he pulls her into his arms...

Really should be writing right now. I will, I tell myself . . . for the past few hours now. So, when all else fails, I blog. Let's start with today's People Magazine award, shall we? People Magazine selects  David Beckham  as Sexiest Man Alive for 2015. It bugs me more to keep thinking that this dude already won the award, like, ten years ago or more, only to do an online search that comes up with zilch in the fact-checking category of needless things. My vote? Ross Poldark's  Aidan Turner If I knew how to make the Eartha Kitt purr, I would. Up next, a post that includes excerpts from a list of the 2015 Nominees for Worst Sex Scenes in Fiction. And, this isn't even Romantic Fiction! It's just sex scenes inside a fictional novel, which is funny enough as is. What they've chosen as nominee material, however, is a lot more funny and even more unbelievable. A lot of 'what the hell were they thinking?'  as I read each excerpt. ...