Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Blog Tour: Beauty Bites by Mary Hughes & Giveaway (Kindle or Nook!)


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Today I'm excited to be part of the tour for Beauty Bites by Mary Hughes hosted by Authors Angels.  Thanks for allowing us to participate!  Click HERE for a complete tour schedule. Be sure to scroll down below because as part of this tour the author is giving away a Kindle or Nook!  Awesome, right?!
 
Beauty Bites (Biting Love, #6)
 
Beauty Bites (Biting Love #6) by Mary Hughes
Publication Date: August 27th 2013 by Samhain Publishing
Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
 About the book: Beauty is skin deep…but the beast goes all the way.

Biting Love, Book 6

When top Minneapolis ad man Ric Holiday is asked to design a campaign for a quaint little town, his first reaction is absolutely not. Meiers Corners is too near Chicago, home of the vampire who turned him as an orphaned boy.

Then the city sends an angel-faced med student with a body made for sin to plead their case. Synnove Byornsson is the ray of sunshine Ric hasn’t felt since he was human.

Armed with determination and a micro miniskirt, Synnove is prepared to crash Holiday’s penthouse cocktail party—and to dislike him on sight. But Mr. All-Style-No-Substance turns out to have a deadly smile, a barely restrained, feral strength, and piercing blue eyes that look at her—not at her cleavage.

Unfortunately Synnove has competition in the form of a sly temptress with a counterproposal. For the first time in her life, Synnove must cash in her genetic lottery ticket and fire back with some sizzle of her own—or her beloved Meiers Corners could become the new Sin City.

Product Warnings
Contains a doctor with a bod for sin, an ad exec with a chip on his shoulder, sarcasm, sex, and a cabin full of annoying friends. Secrets are revealed. One heart-stopping, horrific moment leads to the ultimate of happily-ever-afters.



Excerpt:

I turned.

Ric Holiday in his full sizzling glory was right on top of me.

I stepped back, spine hitting the edge of the elevator shaft. My nipples reached out as if trying to stay in touch. *The erection of the mammary papilla is due to muscle contraction, like the pilomotor reflex which causes goose bumps*—Stupid nipples. “What do you want?” I spoke a bit sharply, but his heat and heady scent had goosed my frustration into borderline rudeness. I flushed but held my place. Well, fused against the corner of the shaft, I had to.

He stared down into my eyes, his own frustrated too. “I want to explain.”

“You made it clear enough. Me and Camille at the O.K. Corral, one week from today.” I looked away. The elevator was leaving.

“Synnove.” He slid two strong fingers under my chin and urged my face back to him. The blue had softened. “I’m sorry.”

“Why? There’s worse?” I scowled, but I had to work at it. Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did his fingers have to be so gentle, so warm? “You’re going to make us bikini mud wrestle?


“Ouch.” He smiled slightly. “I deserve that.”

 “No,” I grumped. “You don’t. But you’re getting it anyway.”

The grin slowly widened, making his whole face edible. “The vaunted Byornsson honesty. I’m beginning to see the advantages.”

And I was beginning to see the advantages of hot sexy sizzle. But no way I was admitting that to him. Not lying, just omission, which is not a lie. Mostly.

When my lips parted to say something that was not a lie and definitely wasn’t about how sexy he was, his eyes darkened. “Shh.”

He replaced the two fingers on my chin with two cupping hands, holding my face gently, like it was something precious. Like I was precious.

My lips stayed parted but no words came out.

In that moment of silence, he lowered his head. Slowly, so I could have stopped him.

Should have stopped him.

 Did not want to.

*He’s nothing but image.*

*Image and intense pleasure.*
*The lips have one of the highest density of nerve endings in the body…*

*Argh. Shut up and kiss him.*
While I was arguing with myself his warm mouth settled on mine, tongue sliding deftly between my lips. It rasped my sensitive skin, rubbing my lips awake like a thorough toweling. A steamed towel, hot and wet.

Confused feelings fled. I gave a little moan and opened wider.

He swept inside, all spice and heat. He groaned, a sound of masculine hunger. His questing mouth, his hot kiss, said lust plain and clear. Yet his hands were tender on my face, his sweet caress speaking of something beyond sex, a closeness that transcended the physical.

Happiness blossomed in my heart. Our groans were intertwined, mutual. For this one moment, the battle was suspended and we were on the same side.
His fingers tunneled into my hair, holding me firmly while his tongue drove deeper. He pressed closer yet, pinning me to the edge of the elevator shaft with his body, imprinting me with every muscle, every bulge, every place he was hard and primitive under his worsted.

I rippled against him and moaned softly in response. If he could generate this kind of pressure standing, how would the weight of his body feel, pressing me into a mattress?

At the thought I nearly exploded.

He shifted me, his powerful hands urging me away from where the corner of the elevator was digging into my spine and guiding me onto the wall. There he pressed me into vinyl wallpaper and kissed me like he was starving for me. The honest hunger in his kiss undid me. I grabbed his head and kissed him back with everything I had.

A big hand slid up my ribs, sparking a trail of heat, stopping under my breast. The mound throbbed, waiting, wanting, yearning for that hot hand to slide up the curve, to touch my delicate and private flesh. To brand it as his own. My soft moans shortened to whimpers, and I arched to thrust my breast more fully into his hand.

A deep rumbling started, a lion’s purr. His hand moved, fingers barely brushing the bottom curve. I stopped breathing. His fingers skimmed higher, circling nearer, nearer to the hardening tip. I twitched in anticipation, greedy for his touch on sensitive flesh barely covered by a thin blouse and the wispiest scallop of lace. Bless Twyla’s endless supply of sexy bras.

Finally, finally his thumb scraped my nipple. I shrieked into his mouth, jerking against him. My nipple furled instantly, wordlessly urging him again, more, now.

He opened his hand and covered my breast, his heat searing. Slotting the nipple between two fingers, he began to pump and tug gently, rhythmically squeezing, pulling. I thought I’d go insane from the sweet soft tugging.

Until he replaced the hand with his mouth.
His lips closed on my erect nipple through thin blouse and bra, breath wetting the material until he could have been sucking directly on flesh. It was the dream become real; it was better. More aroused than I’d been in my life, I grabbed his ears and beat my hips into him, not thinking at all, just moving. A pressure built between my legs, a hot, heavy throbbing that made me want him on his back and me naked and clamping him between my thighs.

A ding startled me; my eyes flew open. The elevator, which had gone and come back again, disgorged half a dozen professional-looking people.

Bio:
I've worked as everything from a cleaning temp to project manager for global clients. Currently I'm an author, musician, and computer consultant. I live in the United States Midwest with a basement full of spare computer parts and several musical instruments including my husband's romantic cello and my flute for playing bird parts in orchestra...ask me to tell you that story sometime :)

Hugs!
Mary

 
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29 comments:

  1. Good excerpt! Ric and Synnove have smoking hot chemistry! Though it sounds like she's going to have to fight someone for her man...lol

    Thanks for the giveaway

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  2. thanks for the giveaway. aidansmama77@yahoo.com

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  3. thanks for the giveaway!
    kathleenpower@comcast.net

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  4. Thanks for sharing the great excerpt and the awesome giveaway. I love this series and I am looking forward to reading # 6. evamillien at gmail dot com

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  5. Thanks to Waves of Fiction for hosting my book tour today!

    Hi to Maria, Kami, Kathy and Eva! Maria, thanks for your kind words--and you've nailed it, she's got a fight ahead of her. But our Dr. Synnove's worth it :) Eva, I'm thrilled you love the series :D Hope you enjoy Synnove and Ric's story. The series continues with Rocky's book, Downbeat, in March 2014 and Aiden's will be next after that.

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  6. Wonderful excerpt! I love having a hot excerpt to help me look forward to a book!

    Brooke B.
    brooke811 at ymail dot com

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  7. Holy cannoli, I wonder what happened next!!

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  8. Thank you so much, Nixie is one of my favorite characters. I picked up my copy of this one too. lisagk(at)yahoo

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  9. Congratulations on the release of your book! I enjoyed the excerpt and hearing about it! thanks!

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  10. Thanks for the excerpt! It was hot!

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  11. Hi Brooke, Arely, Lisa and Erika! Thanks for your nice comments and congratulations :) Lisa, thanks for your support!! Lots of Nixie coming in the next months. I'm writing a new story with Nixie and Julian for release this fall--it happens just before Beauty Bites. And I've got some revisions to make on Nixie's honeymoon story before I release it and Elena's in a boxed set sometime late this year or early 2014. Oh, and Nixie, Julian, and their new baby show up in Rocky's story Downbeat, slated for March 2014 :)

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  12. Hi Anne! Thanks for your kind words :) There's a mix of action, humor and sexy times in all the Biting Love stories :D

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  13. Haha, I bet her shirt was wet lol. Haven't read any of the books in the series (sorry) but from the excerpt of this book I can see I've been missing out!

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  14. This looks like a fun story, and I enjoyed the excerpt.
    Thanks for sharing, Rachel!

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  15. Seems to be a great book!

    Thanks for the giveaway!!! :D

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  16. Love the excerpt-thanks for sharing!

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  17. Hi to Nicki, Andrea, Vera and Timitra! Thanks for the great comments. Nicki--yes! Actually she worries later that her cousin will see the stain and figure out just how friendly she and Ric have gotten :)

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  18. Great excerpt and I'm wondering what happens to this couple.

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  19. Hi Maureen! Thanks for reading :) Both Ric & Synnove and Synnove's cousin Twyla and her vampire Nikos have to go through fire to reach their happily-ever-afters. But it's worth it! And there's some fun and sexy times along the way :)

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  20. Yay for another book in this series! Congrats on the new release and thanks for the awesome giveaway!

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  21. Wow, I can't believe I hadn't heard of this series before--it sounds amazing and that excerpt...so. good. Definitely putting these books on my TBR!! :D

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  22. Hello to Erin, Sara and Christine! Thanks for your congratulations and nice words :)

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