Blurb
One
touch is never enough.
Her
freedom depends on one man. A criminal to his realm…
One
minute, Paige Ross is outside a Seattle bar, grieving a failed
engagement. The next, she jerks awake in a weird, candlelit room with
velvet walls, black silk sheets, and a man who motions for silence.
Paige
has little choice but to trust the powerful stranger who promises a
way out of what looks like Satan’s brothel. And pray his promise to
keep her safe is as real as the heat burning in his eyes.
Banished
from E2’s ruling elite for supposed crimes against the realm, Zekin
risks everything to rescue those brought to E5 for the guards’
carnal pleasure. Paige will be leaving this inhospitable realm of
fire and ice—if he can somehow forget the way she melts in his
arms.
Safe—temporarily—in
an underwater world populated by strange creatures, Paige’s sexual
awakening explodes into an unquenchable need that consumes them both.
But the guards will be looking for her. And Zekin’s plan to send
her home is a dangerous journey she cannot—will not—take without
him.
AMAZON:
https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Desire-Outlawed-Realm-Book-ebook/dp/B0F9LP3TFZ/
Excerpt
Thick
gray clouds rolled above them, heavy with more snow. A sliver of
bluish-white light poured through a gap in the cloud cover, as though
the moon were trying to bleed through. Its rays swept across the
land, which shimmered in the frail glow, sparkling like thousands of
diamonds. The effect lasted only a moment, and then the light
receded, with shadows once again taking over the hostile terrain.
As
though that worried him, Zekin increased his already fast pace,
pausing only once to shove her clothing into a snowdrift, burying it.
Why?
Paige
wasn’t able to ask. She struggled to keep up, gulping air. It
should have been icy, hurting her throat, but wasn’t. The
transparent mask no doubt heated it. How was that possible? Desperate
for answers, she cried out, “Where are we going?”
Zekin
looked over. “A colony where you’ll be safe.”
Paige
dug her fingers into his hand. “Where are we? What is this place?”
“E5.”
What
in the hell was that? A government installation where scientists
conducted classified studies and had pleasure slaves on the side?
That made absolutely no—
Wait
a sec. Suddenly, Paige recalled Zekin mentioning E1 when he’d first
come into her room.
“I’ll
do all I can to bring you back to E1,” he’d promised her
then.
Instinctively,
she held back. Just as quickly, Zekin yanked her forward.
“Don’t
fight me,” he warned, “or you’ll end up like the others you saw
outside the guards’ outpost.”
Paige
shivered so badly, her voice shook. “Did those bastards throw the
bodies out there after they murdered those people?”
“Only
some. The others they pushed out there to die.”
“Why?”
“They
weren’t useful any longer.” Again, he glanced over. “When one
of the guards found you and brought you here, they got rid of the
other woman. That’s what they do when they tire of females from
your realm, or the pleasure slaves they haven’t already killed.”
Paige
was about to pepper him with more questions. Instead, her mind
snagged on one word—realm.
“You
mean country?” Maybe she’d been wrong about his nationality. It
wasn’t Greek or Middle-Eastern but Russian. Could be this was
Siberia. In a weird sort of way, that made sense. “Is that what you
meant—my country? The USA? America?”
He
regarded the landscape past her. “We have to hurry before the other
guards return and see us.”
Paige
couldn’t imagine how that was possible. The material covering them
was the same tint as their surroundings, making them virtually
invisible…unless the guards had some kind of special eyewear, like
night-vision goggles, that allowed them to see what the naked eye
couldn’t. “How far is the colony?”
“Past
that body of water.” He gestured toward what appeared to be an
enormous frozen lake ringed by drifts.
As
Paige scanned the area beyond it, searching for some sort of
building, a flock of birds flew over the lake. At least she thought
they were birds. Their thick feathers were an ashy white, their
wingspans enormous, like nothing she’d ever seen.
They
flew in an odd formation, not the usual V pattern, but in a perfect
circle. Paige couldn’t help but stare at the phenomenon. How in the
world did they do—
A
thunderous crackling sound interrupted her thoughts, and the again
screeching wind.
She
flinched. Zekin released her hand and moved in front, his body
pushing hers back, shielding Paige as something shattered the ice
from beneath the center of the lake. Within seconds, a creature
pushed through, hurling its milky body upward. The waves that
followed it froze instantly in the raw air, the ends of the water
curled over like a fine crystal sculpture. As massive as a blue
whale, the creature surged from the lake, a horn protruding from its
snout, no doubt what pierced the ice. With blinding speed, it
penetrated the circle made by the birdlike creatures.
Shrieking
wildly, they scattered, but it did no good. The whale-like thing
swung its monstrous head back and forth, gulping several of the
creatures before gravity pulled it back down to the water. A thin
sheet of ice formed instantly, hiding its exit. Harsh winds toppled
the frozen waves as easily as if they’d been a house of cards, then
pushed them against the snowdrifts, returning the scene to the
relative calm of a few minutes before as though none of the carnage
had occurred.
Paige
continued to hyperventilate. What kind of fucking nightmare had she
stumbled into? Was it possible she’d been drugged and was
hallucinating? If not… Aw crap, she didn’t want to think about
that.
Other
books in the series:
BOOK
ONE – OUTLAWED REALM
AMAZON:
https://tinyurl.com/2p8t73s
Blurb
His
hunger for one woman will make him a traitor to his world…
From
a portal in his lab on E2, one of the five dimensions of Earth,
quantum physicist Nikoli Zorr gazes on everything forbidden to him.
Passion. Desire. The exquisite pleasure of running his hands over the
lush curves of a young woman he should have stopped watching weeks
ago.
His
duty is to close the portals that keep the monsters out of E2—and
never interfere with the inevitable fate of those on the other side.
Yet he can’t bring himself to abandon the woman who has captured
his soul.
Psychologist
Regina Page is trying to focus on her client, and off the mysterious,
unbearable sexual cravings that consume her when she’s alone in her
bedroom. The next moment she’s attacked by vampires, then swept
into another realm by Nikoli, a stranger whose touch awakens that
same raw desire. Whose eyes are already filled with farewell.
Yet
beneath their undeniable carnal lust, something else stirs. The
beginnings of illicit love. The unexpected need to protect him. Even
if it means risking body, blood, and soul to defeat the merciless
horde…for a future that was never meant to be.
BOOK
TWO – OUTLAWED REALM
AMAZON:
https://tinyurl.com/yamzv7k9
Blurb
Pleasure
that destroys all thought. Love that shatters all barriers.
Marked
for extermination, Lukan has miraculously escaped E4’s Pleasure
Palace. There, sex slaves satisfy the cravings of E2’s rulers for
voyeurism, bondage, dominance, submission, punishment, and more.
However, his freedom is not enough.
He
left behind Arez, who once saved his life and captured his heart.
Within her fragrant, heated caress, he knew everything denied
him…rapture born from yearning, contentment fueled by tenderness
and love. Determined to deliver Arez from certain death and have her
for his own, Lukan embarks on a rescue he may not survive.
Arez
has known only carnal submission and loneliness before Lukan. She
aches for his strong arms, his fevered kisses. Upon his return, he
offers danger and hope for a future. How can she resist? Never fully
tamed, she wants Lukan more than life. But to flee from this twilight
dimension to another, to find freedom and their destiny, they must
first outwit this plane’s human predators and its monsters.
BOOK
THREE – OUTLAWED REALM
AMAZON:
https://shorturl.at/Y7gsO
Blurb
Passion
without limit. Carnal hunger that knows no bounds.
Within
Earth’s five dimensions, nothing is as it seems…and desire is
never far away.
In
E4’s jungle, Kuma’s the Alpha werewolf bent on revenge against
the hated guards. Swept with them from that dimension to E1, he
prowls Seattle at night, stopping the thugs from abducting women for
use as sex slaves in E4’s Pleasure Palace.
On
her way home from her nursing job, Gwen senses danger in the night’s
shadows. A stranger attacks. Clinging to consciousness, she watches
the impossible, a wolf fighting him off…protecting her. She wakes
in her own bed, convinced it must have been a dream until she sees
Kuma in human form. Virile, intense. A man like no other.
Within
his powerful embrace, Gwen experiences rapture she didn’t believe
existed. His unrestrained lust and burning need end her loneliness,
though not the menace they face. The guards are a constant threat in
their hunt for women and their determination to see Kuma dead.
Together, he and Gwen must fight—for his life, her freedom, their
future.
About
Tina
Tina’s
an Amazon and international bestselling novelist who writes
passionate romance for every taste – ‘heat with heart’ – for
traditional publishers and indie. Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly,
Romantic Times and numerous online sites have praised her
work. She’s won Readers’ Choice Awards, was named a finalist in
the EPIC competition, received a Book of the Year award, The Golden
Nib Award, awards of merit in the RWA Holt Medallion competitions,
and second place in the NEC RWA contests. She’s featured in the
Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Before penning romances,
she worked at a major Hollywood production company in Story
Direction.
On
a less serious note: she’s an admitted and unrepentant chocoholic,
brakes for Mexican restaurants, and has been known to moan like Meg
Ryan in When Harry Met Sally while wolfing down tostadas.
She’s flown a single-engine airplane (freaking scary), rewired an
old house using an ‘electricity for dummies’ book, and is
horribly shy despite the hot romances she writes.
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