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Shiloh Walker

Veil of Shadows…

I got the cover for VEIL OF SHADOWS…follow up to THROUGH THE VEIL

9.2010

Veil of Shadows

From an author known for her “romantic spine tinglers” comes the thrilling follow-up to Through the Veil, featuring a beautiful captain who’s lost her magic—and the stranger who will either be her great love, or her greatest enemy…

With demons running amok throughout the forests and mountains, a rebel army has been established to win back the land—and a new soldier has appeared out of nowhere to join them. His name is Xan, and his past is a mystery to everyone, including Laisyn Caar—a beautiful captain in the rebel army—who is shocked by the powerful, all-consuming desire she feels in his presence. But now isn’t the time for distraction. The future of her land—and of her people—is in her hands. On top of that, she’s been stripped of her magic—and without it she feels like part of her soul has been stolen away.

But when she discovers the dark secrets of Xan’s agenda, it will be up to her to determine whether the man she’s starting to love is a friend of her people—or a dreaded enemy…

Excerpt

I just love that cover. ;o)

Ashleigh Raine, New Releases

Forsaken Talisman now available in paperback!

It’s been out of print for several years. It’s been completely rewritten with approximately 20,000 more words added. It’s got a shiny, gorgeous new cover. And it’s finally available in paperback again. Yay!

Nationally bestselling author Anya Bast gave us a great cover quote for this book, and I can’t thank her enough for it: “Forsaken Talisman is a romantic, action-packed adventure you won’t want to miss, filled with characters the reader will care about from the first paragraph. Ashleigh Raine delivers a thrilling story that will have you turning pages well into the morning hours.”

Forsaken Talisman, book two in the Talisman Bay series, is Dusty and Skylar’s love story, but you also get to spend time with many other characters you met in book one of the series, Lover’s Talisman, as well. More mysteries are unveiled, surprise relationships are evolving. If you haven’t read the series yet and you enjoy paranormal romantic thrillers with hot sex, we hope you’ll give this series a try.

Read the blurb and excerpts.
Buy at Amazon (currently 25% off)
Buy at Borders
Buy at B&N (currently 27% off!)
Buy at Book Depository (15% off and free shipping worldwide!)

Lucy Monroe, romance, Uncategorized

Children of the Moon Book Release

I’m so excited about the release of this book.  After hundreds of reader emails and lots of prodding from the characters, I finally got the book written despite life going to heck in handbasket around me. Just goes to show that the silver lining is sometimes a true book of the heart. 🙂

Moon Craving
Feb 2010 – Berkley Sensation
ISBN-13: 978-0425233047
Children of the Moon Book 2

If it were up to him, Talorc—laird of the Sinclair clan and leader of his werewolf pack— would never marry. But when the king orders that Talorc wed an Englishwoman, the lone wolf is shocked to find his mate in the strong-willed Abigail. And after an intensely climactic wedding night, the two fiercely independent souls sense an unbreakable bond…

Deaf since childhood, Abigail hopes to keep her affliction from Talorc as long as possible. And for his part, he has no intention of telling her about being a werewolf. But when Abigail learns that the husband she’s begun to love has deceived her, it will take all of his warrior’s strength—and his wolf’s cunning—to win his wife back. And Talorc will have to face his biggest challenge yet: the vulnerability of a man in love…

As a special thank you to readers, I’m giving away a prize pack of pamper yourself products and paranormal romance. All you have to do to enter is send an email with Moon Craving Contest in the subject line to moon_craving at yahoo dot com before February 28th, 2010. The drawing will be held March 1st and the winner will be announced on my personal blog.
Shayla Black

Countdown to DELICIOUS!

Wicked Lovers, Book 3
Publisher: Berkley HEAT
Genre: Erotic Romance
Release Date: March 2, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-23242-2
Pre-order: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Borders |
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Pre-order Download: Kindle | Nook

He can’t control his desire.

Luc Traverson’s entire future is planned out—but there is one very sexy obstacle in his path: Alyssa Devereaux . She’s a former exotic dancer turned strip club owner and restaurateur. Recently, Alyssa and Luc shared one night of wild abandon that left Luc terrified by his loss of self-control—and Alyssa desperate for more.

And that’s just the way she wants it.

Fulfilling a promise, Luc is the guest chef for Alyssa’s restaurant debut. The sight of her makes Luc wild, so how can he survive a week without letting loose and ravaging her—especially when she’s begging for it? Luc’s desire for her explodes when he realizes he isn’t the only man desperate to have her. But one of the others is deadly. And that’s not the end of Alyssa’s secrets…which are as dark and mysterious and enticing as her fantasies.

Just over a month until the release of DELICIOUS!

I’m super-excited about returning to contemporary erotic romance after a long absence, and folks who have been waiting for Luc Traverson’s story will get their wish. March 2 is just around the corner!

To read the first chapter, click here and enjoy!

Contests, Shiloh Walker

Hunter's Fall…Help out Haiti…

Okay, so I want to do something to help raise money for Haiti.

Here’s the thing… I try to do auctions thru ebay sometimes, but that’s not going to work this time… I’ve only got one ARC in the house and it’s already got an owner-just haven’t mailed it out.

ARCs are the best way to generate money on ebay and it will be months before I have another one.

So how about this instead…

  • I can dedicate a book to anybody I want.

And if you’ll help out Haiti, you can get a chance to have your name mentioned in the book’s dedication.

How?

Like this…donate a minimum of $5 to your online disaster relief charity of choice.  Please note, this is for disaster relief… while I love the polar bear, the polar bear isn’t affected by the crisis in Haiti.   If you’re not sure where to start, you can check out the charities listed at Charity Navigator:

Helping the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake

I love Charity Navigator-I like seeing how much money is actually going to the programs and stuff-the site is awesome for that.

Go to my personal blog to find out more…

Shiloh Walker

Shayla Black, Uncategorized

Holiday Favorites!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve – LOL! Or happy other holiday you might celebrate at this time of year. I’ve finished shopping (finally!) and I’ve got all my closest family around, so it’s going to be a wonderful holiday.

So many folks have treasured holiday traditions wrapped up in favorite foods, goodies that bring back fond memories of holidays past, filled with love and laughter. One such recipe belonged to my great grandmother. My mom remembers this from her childhood, as do I. This is a great breakfast food, and it’s easy to make.

SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE
Batter:
1/4 lb butter (softened)
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup sour cream
1 tbs vanilla
Mix and beat for 3 minutes

Filing:
2 tsp cinnamon
4 tbs brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
3 tbs butter (melted on top of batter)

Grease tube or bundt pan well. Pour 1/2 batter in. Sprinkle on half of filling. Then pour the other half of the batter on the filling. Sprinkle remaining filling on top. Pour 3 tbs butter (melted) on top. Bake at 375 for 40-45 minutes. Enjoy warm, cold, reheated – even freeze and defrost. Great stuff!

2010 is just around the corner. If you’re looking forward to something new or resolving to try a new-to-you author, here’s a list of my current and upcoming titles:

SEDUCE ME IN SHADOW ~ Doomsday Brethren 2 – Available now
POSSESS ME AT MIDNIGHT ~ Doomsday Brethren 3 – Available now
DELICIOUS ~Wicked Lovers 3 – March 2
“Mated” (a Doomsday Brethren novella) Untitled Anthology – September
“Her Fantasy Men” FOUR PLAY Anthology – October
ENTICE ME AT TWILIGHT ~ Doomsday Brethren 4 – November
EMBRACE ME AT DAWN ~ Doomsday Brethren 5 – December

I hope that you all have a great holiday season! Happy reading!

Lauren

Catching Up!

Let’s see, I worked on INSIDE OUT all weekend long. Loving the chemistry here between Cope and Ella. Glad that’s working, LOL. I need to make major progress this week as my parents will be here next week and the kids are all off school as of Friday.

Various and sundry book stuff:

Over at Rhapsody I’m bundle priced! Coming Undone and Laid Bare sold together in hardback!

INSATIABLE is up for pre-order at Amazon!

TRINITY is finally available at the Kindle store – thanks to everyone who wrote in on my behalf!

You can pre-order COMING UNDONE for Kindle and for other e-readers via Books on Board

Apparently some of my EC titles -including Ascension, are now up at the Kindle store too. Love the wider exposure! (but you might want to check with the EC site directly for possible breaks in price). This has led to more questions about whether I’ll be writing more in my Cherchez Pack series and when they’ll be in print.

I always hesitate when I get asked this question. For years I’ve danced around it because I’m trying to stay professional. At this point, I’ll be blunt: I’ve asked over and over since the books came out (and Tri Mates too) when the books would go to print and no one ever wants to give me an answer. I wish I had other news, but in truth, I don’t. I’m not asking anymore, not because I don’t want to see them in print, but because I’ve deemed any further communications on the matter to be a waste of my time.

I love the world and those characters quite a bit, but I don’t know if I’ll have the time to write Skye’s story any time soon given my current schedule and the problematic nature of having later books in print and the first two “I don’t know”

Haven’t been able to read much other than my own work lately – but I’m hoping that’ll change over the break. My TBR pile(s) is huge so I need to get it down a little before even more great books come out in January!

Contests, Shiloh Walker

Widget Me

Are you a widgety-sort of person?

I want a widget.

But the problem is when I start messing with widgets, I spend way too much time on them.  Plus, I’m not particularly good at them.

So…. maybe somebody else can widget me.  I want a widget for my romantic suspense BROKEN, due out in March 2, 2010.

Would you like to make me a widget and get entered into a contest for an ARC of BROKEN?    If so… make me a widget.  If you want to design the widget using something like sprout (or similiar) that’s fine.  I just want something I can post to facebook, myspace… *G*  If you are graphically skilled and make a widget that would post to this wordpress blog, that would be even better.  Because I really want one I can post to the blog and a lot of widgets don’t post at wordpress blogs.

I would like the widget to have the cover, a link to the excerpt ( http://shilohwalker.com/excerpt_broken.htm ) and if possible, the release date (3.2.10) or a countdown.

Post a link on where I can find the widget.  Then you get entered for a chance to win an ARC of BROKEN, due out in March.

Blurb: (In case you might wanna use…)

Shattered
Quinn Rafferty is working as a bounty hunter and bail bondsman in St. Louis when a new neighbor catches his eye. He’s tempted by her beauty—but he knows from experience that anyone desperate enough to live in his building is damaged goods. Besides, he has his own soul to mend before he can worry about anyone else.

Desperate
Sarah McElya is on the run, but not for the usual reasons a woman goes on the lam. She’s not an abused wife, and she’s not a criminal. But she does have a plan for her future. And as much as she finds herself attracted to her gruff, tough neighbor, she can’t risk telling him the secrets she’s hiding. There’s just too much at stake.
Driven to desire…
But Quinn must get closer to Sarah when she turns out to be the target of his new missing persons case, and he discovers that there is something more complex and dangerous to her than he thought. Now, both Quinn and Sarah will have to expose their true feelings—as well as their fragile hearts—if they hope their love will survive…

Here’s a copy of the cover:

Broken


Here’s a link to a larger version of the cover...

As I’m wigdgetally-disadvantaged and this is actually helping me out, there aren’t too many rules with this one…you can make multiple widgets if you like.

I’ll choose the one I like best.  The only rule is that I do ask the winner keep the ARC is his/her possession until the book is released and that you agree to respect author copyright by not scanning/uploading a digitalized copy to a filesharing site, etc.

For those who aren’t widgety-inclined, I’ll try to do a more general contest closer to the release date. 🙂  Thank you!

Shiloh

http://shilohwalker.com