MFRW author Ayla Ruse reveals all about Malathix Soul on Thursday13 Handed a historical romance at young age, Ayla Ruse fell in love with love and with happy endings. Having grown up living life tasting a little of this and a little of that has not changed this attitude, but it’s expanded her views. Love isn’t always happy and it isn’t always the way a person “thinks it should be.” Sometimes it’s outside the box, and it’s always a challenge. Ayla is a stay-at-home mother who also home schools three rambunctious children. In her (cough) free time, she loves the outdoors, reading, and exploring. Malathix Soul (Box Set)
Imagine Earth has established interactions with alien life. There is, of course, protocol to follow. A merchant planet, Malathix, wants to open relations with Earth and sends a ship to make this happen. When the ship enters our atmosphere, however, something goes awry, and the result is that the ship is destroyed and the Malathix are stranded. This is only a minor issue, though. The bigger problem is that their souls are stripped during the descent resulting in their inner defense mechanisms--literal metal and scary sharp-everything beasts--being left unchecked. The only way to find balance is to locate the women to whom their souls became attached, and to convince each one that they are destined to be mates.
In no particular order, here are 13 of my favorite books. Of course, I love just about everything I read from the following authors, but these particular stories stay close to my heart. Cherise Sinclair: Club Shadowlands James Rollins: Sandstorm Mary Balogh: Slightly Dangerous Julia Quinn: When He was Wicked Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Ubervilles J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter Selena Kitt: Temptation Sarah MacLean: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished Eloisa James: The Taming of the Duke James Clemens: Shadowfall Lori Foster: No Limits Shayla Black: Wicked Ties Stephen King: The Stand
MFRW author Mahlee Ashwynne hosts Thursday13 today with her latest release. About the author: "Writing
has been an integral part of my life. I have many plots in the pipeline
... so many and only one life! But I hope to get as many as I can out
there either self published or through publishers. I fell in love
with the medieval era. So much fiction that can be interwoven between
facts and real people of history! The futuristic aspect of what might be
in science fiction drew me like a magnet. I pre empted the popularity
of supernatural fiction too with my love for that genre. What I write
now reflects my interests."
ON TARGET
Genre science fiction, erotic
Blurb An assassin needs anonymity, loose ends tied up. Svanger slayers have no room for sentiment. Until one woman cracks his icy veneer.
Ace reporter Chaz Halyssion is witness to the assassination of the King of Malthusen. She has it recorded. As one of the few off-worlders there she is under immediate suspicion and on the run. Problem is the real assassin knows she can identify him but he needs her to help him get off-world.
Aldien is the last of the legendary Chameleords. The best at his job in the galaxy. He never leaves anything to chance. Chaz is his last option for escape. She dies once her usefulness is over.
In his darkness Chaz sows a thread of light and hope Aldien needs to extinguish. With regret. In the end he has to choose. He has two options. Kill her, or mind-wipe her and walk away from her forever.
1 Her family, for all its status and importance,
wouldn’t stand by her or disrupt their lives for her well-being.
2 Somehow she needed to glide through the night,
unrecognised, and make it to board the starflight home
3 As a Svanger slayer he must preserve invisibility,
nothing to connect him to a completed mission.
4 Before she hit the floor the same arms that held her
captive caught her and lifted her against a leather-clad chest.
5 “My murder. Or is rape your motivation? That’s what
you want,” she spat out in a bitter whisper.
6 “It’s a long ride to the starport. You won’t be able
to evade capture and detention alone. Not many survive questioning,
particularly where it concerns the death of their king.”
7 “Yeah, right. Obviously you have something bigger than
your ego they desire. Your natural charm leaves much to the imagination.” The
fiend was enjoying this.
8 “Listen closely. I’m telling you only once. This day
has been hell. I got squashed in crowds, singed by stray laser fire, turned
into a fugitive, ran until my lungs gave up, found myself a seedy room,
attacked by you, then my senses assaulted and aroused.” She flexed her nails
into his skin to emphasise her demand. “ I want. You give. Got it?”
9 By taking his body unconditionally she seduced his
mind.
10 “Strange woman. Naked you didn’t have any
pretensions. Dressed, you have reservations about getting up close. I don’t
think either of us is in a condition to indulge in wild uninhibited sex in this
tight space. And you are the one in danger of succumbing to an illness.”
11 “Chameleord. It gave my race the means to disguise
themselves in other appearances, including a change of eye colour. Mine are
predominantly blue-based. However, I can achieve amber, brown, emerald greens
and any other variation I can see.”
12 There was no room for sentimentality or any other
emotion. She had to die.
13 Damned if he killed her, damned if he let her live.
Either way there was a wound within him that would never heal."
Some of the most beautiful people in the world are not human. They have no soul, feel no emotion and are pure evil. You can tell by the color of their dark, dead eyes. Samuel Glaus knows this. He is the son of a human mother and soulless father. He is after all half human and a hunter of the soulless. He is also in love with one who cannot love him back.
Thalya is a soulless creature, but unlike others of her kind, she does not kill to feed her hollow soul. She hungers only for emotion and above all, she hungers for Samuel’s love. Her enemy. Her redemption. And she’s willing to kill for it.
Veil had been a step out of place all his life. Until one day he found a phone that took him on a path far beyond the world he knew. But to get all the answers he had to save the princess he fell in love with – only to lose her once he made her a queen.
Nikki never felt she quite belonged. Until she met a man who saved her life and placed her on a throne she never knew was hers. But in order to be queen and save a world at war, she had to give up Veil.
Would you walk away from the love of a lifetime if you could prevent the destruction of a planet?
It's hard to be normal when you see the dead everywhere. So I gave up. I just focus on staying out of their way. But the guy haunting my roommate is different. He's impossible to ignore, and now other people can see him too.He says my roommate is the only one who can save him from an eternity of torment. But one night he follows me into my nightmare and rescues me from my demons. Now he's all I think about. This must be what it's like to fall... for someone who can never be mine.
Caleb
A lifetime ago, I found my soulmate in the human world. But being angelborn means I don't have a soul. When I lost my one true love, I lost my future and my freedom. Now, I have a second chance -- she's been reborn and I must gain her love again or serve out the rest of my eternal sentence alone.But this time I am a fugitive with powerful angels hunting me, and I'm running out of time. You only get one soulmate, and mine isn't the broken, scarred girl, who sees what no one else can. She's a distraction I can scarcely afford -- but I'm unable to stay away from her.
Shanti never expected the trip to find herself would lead her out of this world.
While on a mission to ‘find herself’ at an Indian ashram, Shanti Rodriguez is abducted by a pair of alien brothers who sweep her off her feet, and then the planet.
Someone has a vendetta against vampire hunters. Famed vampire hunter Scar Buckley finds herself entangled in the center of a battle between vampires and hunters. She is determined to fight for her life. She needs help from the infamous Fox brothers to ensure she lives to see another day. Scar finds herself in a steamy romance she never saw coming while her ex-boyfriend stalks her. Will she live to see another day or die in the hands of her vampire enemy?
Rae Lori - “A Kiss of Ashen Twilight (Book 1 in the Ashen Twilight Series)”
Worlds collide when a Nightwalker Prince and a Aziza Fae fall in love.
Ariya, an Aziza Faerie, crosses into the mortal realm to escape a vicious and deadly elemental creature. She discovers an underground world of Nightwalkers, Lycans and Shifter Elves hiding beneath human's eyes. When she falls for the Nightwalker Regent Prince Jace Archane, love and loyalties are tested as an age-old rivalry unmasks a new enemy.
A reluctant Heir Apparent, a reluctant soul-mate and an all too eager BFF, bring lightheartedness and HOT LOVIN’ to this story of love, and finding oneself. Drake and Seth are not your normal neighbors. In fact, they’re not normal period! But neither is Roxanne Watson, their neighbor and soul mate.
The problem is convincing her to be their one and only, and oh yeah, come into their world of vampires and werewolves.Roxanne is special, but Drake and Seth are having a hard time to get her to see things their way. Even with the help of her crazy psychic friend, things are not staying on track.Roxanne wants to commit all her friends to the asylum. They’re all crazy! But as time goes on, she begins to doubt her own sanity.
Everlasting life comes with a price...her freedom.
Before the unrest of the Civil War, a young slave girl falls in love with her Master’s son. Emerald is enamored with the liberal young John Adams. After the war Emerald and John create a warm life for themselves. A life that is free from segregation and discrimination. Their serene life is turned upside down when John is nearly killed on a hunting trip with his older brother William. John and William learn that they were infected with vam pox. They are now immortal vampires with an undying thirst for blood.With this curse, John vows to preserve his human bloodline, therefore preserving his humanity. With this gift, William embraces vampirism and the power it commands. Being a vampire doesn’t change the brother’s emotions. It magnifies them. As a vampire William is still envious of his younger brother John. John has everything William craves, his human family and his beloved Emerald. William will do anything and stop at nothing to get what he wants. Vampire William always gets what he wants.
Yvonne Nicolas - “Silent Screams ~ Book 1 of the Dragon Queen Series”
Torn between darkness and light, can Rayne save mankind from evil?
R&B sensation, Sharayna “Rayne” Piers, lives her life dedicated to her music. On stage and in the studio, she pours her heart and soul into the lyrics of her songs, hoping to deliver a piece of herself to the listeners. But ever since her twentieth birthday, her seemingly normal life has taken a turn to the dark side.
Piercing screams and horrendous acts of murder seizes her mind, haunting her night and day. Women similar to her in age are vanishing all over the world without a trace. It leaves Rayne wondering if the rash of disappearances is connected to her visions. Soon, she will discover the world she was raised in is just a cover for what really hides in the shadows, and that her life as a human is a deception to mankind, a guise to conceal her true nature. Will she shun the darkness that has befallen her or step up to the throne and become what she was created to be?
Serenity King - “Passion Unleashed: Nylora's Fate”
Unleashed passion has led Nylora to a fate unknown.
Caught between Fate and Passion, Nylora finds herself trapped in a world of the unknown. Her best friend, Uta Thurmaine, warned her to stay away from Max’s bar, but she doesn’t heed her words. Will Nylora’s encounters change the course of her life forever? Or will Passion and fate collide, thrusting her into the point of no return? In the wake of a blood feud within the family, Costin Riszen has watched over the human - Nylora - for some time now. When Nylora disappears into the night, it will take all Costin possesses to find her and keep her safe - even if it means binding her to him forever to do so.
It happened, just as she was leaving work…Olivia Todd wanted nothing more than to drive home to her cabin in the woods after a hard day’s work. But after she encountered a brawny “creature” that had other plans for her, the curvaceous nurse’s uneventful life would never be the same.
He sank his teeth into her flesh…At first Olivia thought it was a dog bite. But that night, when her body became a boiling pot of lust and her thirst for release could not be quenched on her own, she began to wonder. Just what happened to her? Where did these animalistic urges and heated craving for sex—hard, fast, and rocking—come from?
A visit from detective Callan Goldstein gave her some answers, but left her body craving more than he could give her. Encountering Alaric Bridgewater changed all that…When Olivia came face to face with that thing…that being who’d claimed her…transformed her…she knew she must have Alaric in her bed. But she wanted his good friend Callan too.
With two tempting males there for the taking, what’s a newly formed werewolf to do?
Dark Sentinels – Book One: Sable Sable, a sentinel wolf shifter, is captured and locked in his wolf form until Akila, a veterinarian, tries to tame him and unleashes a 6'5" baby blue-eyed surprise.
Dr. Akila Marshall is a veterinarian with a calling – save as many stray animals as possible. The only child of wealthy, yet distant parents, she’s convinced that love is not for her. Until…
Sable’s search for his twin sister leads him to Akila. Born into a rare species of wolf shifters whose main purpose is protecting others, he has always been forced to fend for himself, but Akila’s loving, protective nature draws him – and not a moment too soon. Together, they must learn to trust each other enough to overcome a new, deadly enemy.
Weremice are known for their ability to help their bond-mates. But how can this young weremouse find a way to bring Peter back from the brink of despair and start living again?
Buy link:Amazon Barb shares 13 sentences from the novel: He went to forage for some deadwood. As he bent down to gather the not-too-green wood, he scowled at his smooth skin, courtesy of a complete epidermal regeneration due to the severe burns he'd suffered at Hunin over most of his body. He grabbed the wood, taking it back to camp without the effort it would've taken him three weeks ago—three weeks in his own, subjective time, once he was out of the damned medically induced coma and could mark the passage of time again.
Not that he had any reason to mark time anymore, but . . . small favors.
As he continued to gather wood and mindlessly bring it back to camp, he bent, stretched and placed. Granted, it was nice not to hurt. But he'd liked his scars, no matter how strange the damned doctors found it. He was sixty-nine, not eighteen, and it was right that his body showed some wear. And he was tired of everyone—his friends, his family, his doctors—telling him to make the best of a very bad bargain.
Or worse, that he should be happy, when so many had died at Hunin.
MEET Aidee Ladnier.
Aidee Ladnier began writing fiction at twelve years old but took a hiatus to be a magician’s assistant, ride in hot air balloons, produce independent movies, collect interesting shoes, and amass a secret file with the CIA. A lover of genre fiction, it has been a lifelong dream of Aidee's to write both romance and erotica with a little science-fiction, fantasy, mystery, or the paranormal thrown in to add a zing.
We Asked. Aidee Answered.
Why did you decide to write romance novels?
Because I love to read romance. There's so much hope and promise in characters falling in love, being in love, and living happily ever after.
How much of your personality and life experiences are in your writing?
I think all authors put something of themselves in their work. Although I write science fiction, my characters are still very recognizable as humans with foibles and flaws.
When did you first think about writing?
I started writing at twelve. Predictably, it was science fiction with a kidnapped space princess, a dashing hero, and lots of space ships.
What prompted you to submit your first ms?
I was listening to Kevin Allison's excellent podcast RISK. At the end of every show he says, ""Today's the day. Take a risk."" And I knew my risky thing to do would be to send in the story sitting on my hard drive.
What genre(s) do you write?
I write science fiction and mystery romance. My characters are often LGBT as well.
Would you like to write a different genre than you do now, or sub-genre?
I'd really like to try writing a YA novel. There is a dearth of LGBT YA novels and a desperate need for them.
Tell us about your latest book. What motivated the story? Where did the idea come from?
My novel The Klockwerk Kraken actually had a title before it had a story. My friend Gina Storm Grant came up with the title when I told her I'd like to write a novel about a character with tentacles. Yes, I know that's kind of weird, but I'd just attended a panel about taboos at RainbowCon 2014. They encouraged everyone to write outside their comfort zone and so I was determined to meet the challenge. As a result, my character Teo Houdin, the tentacled bartender was born--and he owned a bar, The Klockwerk Kraken.
BLURB
As the supply shipments stop coming, Teo Houdin needs all his tentacles to keep his waystation bar open. Facing a riot by thirsty miners stranded in the backwater of the galaxy, Teo helps a greenie space pilot buy a ship in return for a regular haul of liquor. But he longs for the courage to invite the enigmatic spacer to fill his lonely bed as well.
Still smarting from his newly implanted navigational ports, Jimenez knows owning his own ship will prevent him from ever being bought and sold again. For a former slave, transporting cargo through the emptiness of space sounds like paradise, but after meeting the compassionate and sexy Teo, his heart feels empty, too.
At the edge of the galaxy's spiral arm, can Teo convince Jimenez that the heart has its own tentacles and theirs should be entwined forever?"When the right space pilot walks into his bar, a desperate bartender uses all his wiles (and tentacles) to talk the man into business and his bed--but the spacer is still enslaved by his past and isn't sure he can deal with a two-armed lover, much less one with six.
Jimenez slid into an empty spot at the pale stone bar and caught sight of the clearest, happiest eyes he’d ever seen, a shade lighter than the man’s tousled brown mop above. A dimple quirked at the side of his full lips, mesmerizing Jimenez. The loud voices behind him slid away and for a moment, it was quiet in his mind. Jimenez flinched when his shoulder was jostled and the spell broke. “Hey, you okay, buddy? First time? What can I pour for you?” Jimenez blinked, realizing the tall bartender was speaking to him. The man’s smiling eyes crinkled at the corners of his bronzed face. Jimenez swallowed, and he ducked his chin, trying not to stare again, trying to hide his hot cheeks. He’d never been so close to such a handsome man. “Did you want a drink?” The bartender quirked an eyebrow. “Yeah… I mean yes. Whiskey neat.” His voice came out gruffer than he expected. “Bourbon, Scotch, Rye…?” “Surprise me.” It was a game Jimenez played. He’d order whiskey and discover what the bartender served. If he reached for the rail bottle closest to hand, it meant he would pour either the cheapest or the local favorite. If he pulled something from the top shelf, the bartender angled for a bigger tip. But if he grabbed a decanter off to the side or behind another bottle, he’d score the bartender’s personal pick. “Coming right up.” The bartender raised a tentacle in greeting, calling out to another patron. Oh, God. The man was a Pod. Of course he was. In a joint named the Klockwerk Kraken, who better to tend the bar than a tentacled man?
