The first book in my paranormal romance series, Otherworld Protector, will be published on December 1st by Harlequin Nocturne, and I was overjoyed last week to learn that it has been nominated for a Romantic Times (RT) Reviewers' Choice Award!

I'm delighted to have been nominated alongside my fellow Nocturne authors Linda Thomas-Sundstrom, Karen Whiddon and Michele Hauf. What awesome, talented company to be in! Well done and good luck to all nominees in all categories. It's an amazing line up. 

RT gave Otherworld Protector 4.5 stars and said: The relationship between Cal and Stella is unique, complex and deeply sensual. Their forbidden romance keeps the tension ratcheted high. An engaging supporting cast and plenty of cunning and intrigue makes this a story readers will savor until the very end.
Full review here.  

Otherworld Protector, The Otherworld Series, Book One
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A Sorcerer… Secrets and Seduction… 

When Stella Fallon journeys to Spain for a dream job, she never suspects that a cataclysmic confrontation is looming. Or that she is the last in an ancient line of dark sorcerers. 
For her new employer—an electronics billionaire—is actually a Faerie King desperate to harness Stella's powers so he can rule the Otherworld.  
The only one who can protect Stella is a man she once thought her guardian angel. Cal becomes human, but his centuries-old secret could destroy her trust. Still, the pair cannot deny their white-hot attraction as they seek refuge in a cave to prepare for a battle of epic magnitude…

Otherworld Protector is available to pre-order from 
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Welcome to the 117th week of My Sexy Saturday.

This week’s theme is is While You Were Sexy

So many things can happen while you were sexy…things like falling in love with someone other than your boyfriend/girlfriend…or maybe taking a risk you wouldn’t normally take. That’s what the movie is all about…having a dream and risking for that dream…only to find it wasn’t what you really wanted or needed anyway. Our stories have lots of those themes.

Love is a dream for some, a risk for others. Sometimes it’s fulfilled or sometimes it just isn’t what the characters imagined. Remember Scarlett O’Hara at the end of Gone With The Wind…she realized she never really loved Ashley to begin with…it was Rhett all along. We think you get the drift of what this week’s theme is. 

As always, the rules of My Sexy Saturday are simple. Each blogger posts an excerpt that is 7 paragraphs or 7 sentences or 7 words that coveys true sexiness between their characters. My excerpt this week comes from my Erotic Romantic Suspense story 'One For Sorrow'. 

Excerpt
“Dora.” Finn emerged from the narrow passage between the two cottages and stayed there, watching her. She wondered if he might have been waiting for her. She hoped he had. Very aware suddenly of the expanse of leg between skirt and shoes, she went to him. He drew her further into the shadows.

“I’m going to dinner at Eamon Archer’s house.” He hadn’t asked, so why did she feel the need to explain?

“I like this.” He slid his hand inside the sleeve of her blouse, caressing her upper arm. Dora had never been keen on relationships. The sense that her body was someone else’s to touch—to own—had never been a comfortable idea for her. How then, in this short space of time, had she reached a point where she never wanted Finn Brodie to stop touching her?

“I’d rather be here with you.”

“I know.”

Drawing her into his arms, he held her in that way that was unique to him. Exquisitely tender and yet heart-stoppingly stimulating. His lips, although they barely touched hers, told Dora a thousand things he could never articulate with his stilted speech. With a murmur of surrender, her own lips parted, allowing him to probe her mouth with his tongue, tasting and testing her. Breaking the kiss to move his head lower, he found her nipple, sucking hard through the thin fabric of her blouse. Weak-kneed, Dora leaned back against the cottage wall. Taking her hand in his, Finn placed it inside his jeans so that she could feel the taut muscles of his lower abdomen. Eagerly, Dora’s fingers travelled lower, seeking out his cock within the tight confines of his underwear. He was rock hard.

Dora groaned. “Is this what my life is going to be like from now on, Finn? I’m going to be soaking wet all the time, thinking of you?”

​One For Sorrow is available from Amazon

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Don't forget to check out this week's other My Sexy Saturday Bloggers!
Unrandom Randomness - Bronwyn Heeley
One World Singles Blog
Pepper's Fetch: A Time For Us
Kacey Hammell
S. J. Maylee
Daryl Devore
Lucy Felthouse
Victoria Adams
Peggy jaeger
Marie Tuhart
Capri Montgomery
Ashe Barker
Jessica E. Subject
Alexis Duran
Maxine Douglas
Celine's Dreams-Erotic Romance by Celine Chatillon
April Kelley
Aubrey Cara
Demelza Carlton's Place - A Free Show
XtraOrdinary Romance
Savanna Kougar Title Magic
Shelli Rosewarne
Thianna Durston - M/M Romance with a hint of spice
H K Carlton
Christiane France
KC Kendricks Between the Keys
STEPBROTHER CHRISTMAS
Alexis Alvarez - Submission and Passion
F. Leonora Solomon -- While You Were Sexy. . .