Owner of a Lonely Heart Accepted for Publication!

Owner of a Lonely Heart has been accepted for publication by Siren and slated on the April 4th calendar.  This is my first MFM.  It was very difficult keeping the two men apart.  I had to keep reminding myself, after writing 20+ MMFs, "oh, wait.  They can't touch.  Stop touching!"  The various positions are really limited with MFM, aren't they?  It's a whole new way of looking at things.  Not difficult to do when these men are your heroes:

 

She’ll guard you, but she’s no angel. 

Curvy, well-seasoned U.S. Marshal Bettina Crenshaw has landed a spicy assignment—protecting hotshot, tough-as-nails biker Taos Hopewell from the thugs he’s testifying against.

Sheriff Crispin Marwick has isolated himself on his horse ranch since a divorce and a tour of duty in Las Vegas’s vice squad went sideways.  Aristocratic and hot enough to melt steel, straight shooter Crispin finds himself reeled in by the spitfire marshal and the bad boy she’s guarding.  Crispin surprises himself by suggesting a few risqué rounds of cops and robbers, and the chase is on.

The only break Taos ever had was the shelter of his motorcycle club.  But that haven has turned to hell, and he’s on the run, scrambling to build a new life.  The forbidden temptations of his bodyguards are about to turn falling off the face of the earth into a little slice of heaven.

 

Naturally, the curvy Inspector Bettina Crenshaw is played by Mary McCormack:

 

 

My peeps had the time of their lives "canyon carving" through the Valley of Fire, Nevada, near their hometown of Rescue.

 

 

Her Master's Choice--First Chapter

HER MASTER’S CHOICE

Bound to Please 1

KAREN MERCURY

Copyright © 2013

 

Chapter One

“Did he describe it as an ‘orgasmic explosion’?”

Shannon Bloomfield giggled. She dug her forearms into the comfortable position on her desk where she often hunkered down and Skyped with her BFF, Natasha Woolf. The two women got a sheer kick out of ruthlessly tearing apart food critic Bletchley Park. His purple prose and use of absurd metaphors made him the laughingstock of the foodie world—but maybe that was why he was so popular. People enjoyed “hate reading” his blog just so they could revel in savagely picking it apart later.

Natasha tossed her hair over her shoulder. “No, this time he went for ‘a regular tornado of flavors.’”

“Hoo, boy,” said Shannon. “He’s getting into the weather metaphors now. ‘A seismic cataclysm of cilantro and cumin.’”

Natasha laughed until her eyes were wet then took another sip of her hibiscus tea. She liked to pour it into a margarita glass so she could pretend they were enjoying cocktails, but they usually had too much work to indulge in that. Natasha had to leave her apartment soon to head to her new restaurant in the suburbs of Tucson. The two women used to work together here in the hills of Berkeley—thus the name of Shannon’s restaurant, The Wolf and The Fox.

Awesomesauce Cover Reveal

I am SO excited to reveal the cover for The Good Switch, due out December 20.

I modeled the heroine Natasha after Angie Harmon--you can totally tell!  It's amazing how close Les gets to the original.

 

 Natasha Woolf’s delinquent teen son is giving her nothing but headaches.  Enter Ari Braverman, politician turned powerful food critic, and she welcomes the help.   Ari is a charismatic, cultured silver fox in an expensive business suit, and Natasha wants to restore order to the chaos that has become of her life.  Ari’s brand of domination equals security and safety for her. 

After a nasty breakup in Washington, DC, Ari hesitates to accept a new submissive.  But he discovers the spitfire restaurant owner has a feisty side that refuses to offer total surrender, and he’s surprised that her rebel play turns him on.

When his old girlfriend Kelly pops up begging to reconcile, Ari sends the ex-sub packing.  Kelly worms her way into the graces of politicos supporting his Congressional bid, with deadly intentions for the sub who has taken her place.  Natasha must fight tooth and nail to prove she is…THE GOOD SWITCH.

 

 

Cover Reveal: Three For All

Tah-dahhh!  Here's Les Byerley's new cover for my 10/4/13 release, Three For All.  It's Book #3 in the ever-popular Hell's Delight series.

 

 

Widowed Hannah O’Loughlin can’t believe the two hottest men in Hell’s Delight seem to want her.  Colt Gatling owns the Lay-Z-Boy Ranch that she tried unsuccessfully to buy.  She should hate Colt, but is drawn to his powerful physique and dominant ways.  And tattooed sex toy shop manager JD Harmon is a dangerous showstopper with his erotic gypsy eyes. 

 

 Hannah doesn’t want to burden JD and Colt with her old baggage.  She needs to restore her reputation after her husband was murdered in Montana, but a whackjob with a bad mullet, Roscoe Flantz, is pinning  the blame on her. 

 

You can’t keep a good man down, and JD and Colt race to protect Hannah from the unfashionable stalker who insists that all he wants is her dead husband’s plastic dinosaur.  JD and Colt are hell-bent to prove to Hannah that they love her, even with past baggage.  They’re in it…Three For All.

 

The Subject Was Rose is up for preorder at Siren

My newest MMF, The Subject Was Rose, is up for preorder at Siren.  This is the followup to The Sublime Miss Paige and tells the story of lovely 3-star chef Rose Britton who meets her future lord and master, Drake Stinson, when he complains about her pepper pot soup.  Drake is struggling to break free of his hedonistic, self-centered past, and he can't handle it when he spies on Rose and the exotically beautiful Jesse Factor in a clinch in his kitchen.

 

When three-star chef Rose Britton agrees to have her portrait painted by top designer Jesse Factor, she has no clue their sexy scenes would be so rudely interrupted by powerful billionaire cattle rancher Drake Stinson, who busts in like a Dominant house on fire.  After having sworn off men, suddenly Rose has two of them and quite a mess on her hands.

Drake has led a shallow, jet-setting lifestyle for decades.  Just as he decides to open up and allow a deeper relationship with Rose to form, he's confused by his heteroflexible passion for Jesse too.  Drake initiates the couple into the intricacies of his sexual power structure, and they all want much more than a trivial hookup. 

But Drake is haunted by a corrupt deal his father made fifteen years ago.  Now greasy Fed, Burt Macklin, is back demanding a multi-million dollar payoff for a large chunk of Drake’s ranch.

 

Cover Reveal: The Subject Was Rose

I am so proud to reveal my latest cover by the talented Les Byerley, The Subject Was Rose.

 

When you see the sinspirational photos I emailed Les you will see that he was spot on with at least one of the models.

 

For the billionaire cattle rancher Dom, Drake Stinson, I was sinspired by this gorgeous model, Stephen Ritts:

 

 

I've never used a model before as sinspiration.  I've always used actors because I like to see them walk, talk, move around.  I think Les's model is right on target.

 

The heroine was based on Georgia King, a Scottish actress who briefly appeared this year in The New Normal.  I actually liked that show before it was cancelled.  I must have the worst taste in shows because every one I like gets cancelled.  Every one I'm "meh" about gets renewed.  I just noticed the guy next to Georgia looks sort of Like Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer.  I think it's her fiancé.

 

 

Then the beta hero, the interior designer Jesse Factor.  I gave him blue-green eyes and made him 1/4th black, 1/4th Cherokee, and 1/2 Dutch.  I think that pretty well describes Jesse Williams, Dr. Avery from Grey's Anatomy:

 

 

I think Dr. Avery is the only decent "noob" on that show.  I can live without any of the others who have joined in the past five or so years.

 

So there you have my big cover reveal for The Subject Was Rose.  Here's a little blurbage until I get a buylink on Siren's site:

 

When three-star chef Rose Britton agrees to have her portrait painted by top designer Jesse Factor, she has no clue their sexy scenes would be so rudely interrupted by powerful billionaire cattle rancher Drake Stinson, who busts in like a Dominant house on fire.  After having sworn off men, suddenly Rose has two of them and quite a mess on her hands.

Drake has led a shallow, jet-setting lifestyle for decades.  Just as he decides to open up and allow a deeper relationship with Rose to form, he's confused by his heteroflexible passion for Jesse too.  Drake initiates the couple into the intricacies of his sexual power structure, and they all want much more than a trivial hookup. 

But Drake is haunted by a corrupt deal his father made fifteen years ago.  Now greasy Fed, Burt Macklin, is back demanding a multi-million dollar payoff for a large chunk of Drake’s ranch.

COMING AUGUST 30, 2013

 

 

 

 

 



New book cover for Two Sirs, With Love

I've got a new book cover for Two Sirs, With Love, due out from Siren on May 6th:

That title was just BEGGING to be utilized, wasn't it?  Here is the blurb:

Felicity McQueen, fresh from her Dominatrix lifestyle in Europe, isn’t supposed to mention her past when she arrives at her sister’s Triple Play Lodge in Utah.  Ian Lawson is a mild-mannered accountant.  The highlight of his year is extending a tax deadline.  He longs to bust out in a wild adventure like the commandos he works for.

When he sets eyes on the tigress Mistress Felicity, he knows she’s the one who can fulfill his most forbidden fantasies.  But Dr. Victor Reznik has the same ideas.  He’s in town to nab a sicko transporting illegal exotic animals, and the three band up in an undercover sting.

With Felicity’s pleasure chest of toys, she instructs the innocent men in the bondage arts. The men become play partners to satisfy Felicity—and themselves.  Will they learn to play nicely with each other?  Or will they throw down their toys and go home once the smuggler is caught?

 

I imagined Felicity looking like Christina Hendricks from Mad Men.  She'd make a great Domme, don't you agree?

 

The other two men need no introduction:

 

Excellent trio, I think.



 

 

 

The Grass is Greener has a new cover

The Grass is Greener will be book #3 in the McQueen Was My Valley series set in Utah.

 

Prim and proper doctor Sasha McQueen meets the dashing commando Rowan O’Shea at the scene of a terrorist bombing.  Her best friend’s last words, “Tony Danza,” mystify them.  When the bomber turns to stalking Sasha, he mingles with the fursuited fans at the Triple Play Lodge’s Great Utah Furfest, and he could be anyone in a cartoon disguise.

Sasha’s heart is hardened as she recovers from a lousy marriage.  She knows the grass isn’t greener on the other side of the fence.  But when she spies on Rowan getting frisky with the sweet boy-next-door game warden, Perry Donovan, her determination to avoid men goes out the window.  Their bondage forced orgasm games open up a wanton, wild side of Sasha she never knew existed.

Assisted by undercover Furries, the trio stalks the bomber instead of waiting to be preyed upon.  Together they discover love, security, and the answer to “what does Tony Danza have to do with anything?”

 

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I based Perry Donovan on Ryan Gosling, and you can see that Les Byerly did a good job of matching Perry to Ryan.  In Books #1 and #2 I built up to and foreshadowed the arrival of this Furry Convention.  My editor said in Woman on Top, "why do you keep mentioning these furries?  Are you repeating yourself?" I said "They'll wind up being important in Book #3."  As you can probably tell, this book is fairly light-hearted and even silly in some spots.  I'll post the excerpts in the Excerpt section right now.  But you have to read it to find out the answer to what Tony Danza was doing on some pathetic, shoddy comedy tour of the Midwest.

 

 

Three Hearts Beat As One...

....is climbing the charts at Siren!  Three Hearts Beat as One was released February 4th and already seems to be is my bestselling book.  It's an easy, breezy stand-alone that can probably be read all in one sitting--or not, if you're a slow reader like I am.

It's got all sorts of silly stuff, like the bad guy trying to burn down Chase's sex toy shop by squirting motion lotion all over some sex manuals.  Then the Perverted Mayor (who looks like The Governor in Walking Dead) goes out of control after seeing the trio getting hot and heavy in a hardware store display window.  It's a nice Valentine's-themed quick read.

Awesomesauce New Book Cover

Yay!  Here's the new cover for my February 4 Valentine's-themed book, Three Hearts Beat as One:

 

 

 

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 In Hell’s Delight at a Valentine’s Day charity auction, newly-divorced Lacey Dvorak is won by two smoking hot—but unfortunately gay—merchants. She is pleasantly shocked to discover the bidding was no empty gesture. The men have been looking for a third woman to complete their union.

Rancher Devin Jonas and sex toy shop owner Chase Moran want Lacey in their bed to initiate her in the intricacies of their BDSM power plays. And Chase has an entire store full of toys they can play with—if they can learn to share. Testing each other’s limits and boundaries, each one wants the upper hand.

But when Lacey’s cheating ex gets wind of the new lovers’ arrangement, his wounded pride leads him to a hateful campaign of vengeance against Chase’s store, and the sleazy mayor uses his leverage to get his heart’s desire Devin to do his bidding.

Don’t they know? Cheaters never win, at least not in Hell’s Delight.

 

 

 

 

 

Woman on Top available for Pre-order

Woman on Top, #2 in the McQueen Was My Valley series, is available from Siren for pre-order as of today:

 

Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Ménage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, light consensual BDSM, spanking, sex toys, HEA.  Sextreme

Wild child Brooke McQueen has promised to behave, starting a new life at her sister’s Triple Play Lodge in Utah.  But she falls hard for the wounded mercenary and antiquities expert, Adrian Kinsey, and can’t keep her hands off him.  Adrian wants nothing to do with another woman after he was betrayed by a fiancée back east, and game warden Gabriel Verona offers to be a buffer zone between the destined lovers. 

The trio tries to pretend it’s all merely a lusty game of bondage and discipline as they hook up around the lodge.  They walk a delicate balance in their power plays, but Adrian can’t avoid his passion for Brooke forever. 

A despicable animal poacher they’ve nabbed vows revenge.  Emotions run deep as they scramble to keep one step ahead of the unbalanced criminal.  Brooke’s deepest desire is to emerge as the woman on top of every game.

New Book Cover for #2

Woman on Top, January 2013

#2 in the McQueen Was My Valley series

 

 

Again my people are in a cave on a Utah mountaintop.  I don't really know why Brooke McQueen is wearing high heels, but I figure no one will really be able to see them.  It looks like the artist put an arch from Arches National Park between the two men which is cool.  The alpha hero in the middle is supposed to be Damian Lewis, and the guy with his back turned to us is Joe Manganiello.  Yeah.  Of Magic Mike fame.  He recently did a hilarious stint on How I Met Your Mother, brobeans.

 

Wild child Brooke McQueen has promised to behave, starting a new life at her sister’s Triple Play Lodge in Utah.  But she falls hard for the wounded mercenary and antiquities expert, Adrian Kinsey, and can’t keep her hands off him.  Adrian wants nothing to do with another woman after he was betrayed by a fiancée back east, and game warden Gabriel Verona offers to be a buffer zone between the destined lovers. 

The trio tries to pretend it’s all merely a lusty game of bondage and discipline as they hook up around the lodge.  They walk a delicate balance in their power plays, but Adrian can’t avoid his passion for Brooke forever. 

A despicable animal poacher they’ve nabbed vows revenge.  Emotions run deep as they scramble to keep one step ahead of the unbalanced criminal.  Brooke’s deepest desire is to emerge as the woman on top of every game.

 



McQueen Was My Valley, Newest Series

Something Sinful This Way Comes

Releasing December 7, 2012

#1 Something Sinful This Way Comes

Xandra McQueen has a whole new lease on  life after inheriting the Triple Play Lodge in Utah.  Rid of an abusive crime lord boyfriend, she revels in her new relationships with the former commando Nathan Horowitz and the gentle game warden, Julian "Fresh Air" Longtree.

 But a stalker upsets her bucolic existence, breaking into her suite to steal photographs.  Nathan, running from the nightmare of his most recent African mission, puts his heart and soul into tracking down the blackmailing pervert.  But he just lost a beloved partner.  He BASE jumps from desert spires to help himself forget.  Why does he want to add not one but two more loves to the mix?

Xandra knows she has fallen for two damaged, broken spirits in Nathan and Julian.  Together, they race to unmask the stalker, piecing together the crimes as well as the mysteries of their menage. 

Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Ménage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, light consensual BDSM, spanking, sex toys, HEA

 

#2 Woman on Top, coming January 2013

 

 

 

The Obedient Servant Released Today!

The Obedient Servant

Releasing November 2, 2012
#6 in the Going for the Gold series

It’s time for revolution in California, and pioneer Milo Stephens is the man to lead the republic into a new dawn. Tallulah Crabtree knew she could hide in this remote frontier.  She has no intention of repeating a marriage to an abusive philanderer.  But when rebel leader Milo bumps into her at her Blue Wing Inn, her passion for him opens up old wounds.

Milo has only consorted with men since the death of his wife and child.  He thinks he’s just toying idly with Corporal Reynaldo Vargas to pass the time.  But Tallulah and Reynaldo have plans for the dangerously hot Milo.  The man they both love is about to set a torch to the old rule.  But to love again requires trust and submission, and the domineering Milo stubbornly refuses to play the role of the obedient servant.

 

#6 The Obedient Servant

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