Susan lives out on
the Canadian west coast surrounded by open water, dear family and good friends.
She’s jumped out of perfectly good airplanes on purpose and had lunch next to
royalty by accident. She’s worked for local law enforcement, been a freelance
wordsmith and bakes what she claims are the world’s best double-chocolate &
caramel brownies. She’s passionately in love with the written word (and a few
of her more hunky creations.) Writing is her joy, her escape from reality and
the only way she knows of to quiet the nagging harridan of a muse she claims
the universe assigned to her.
ETERNAL
BONDS
Duncan Masterson
lives apart from his vampire brethren and has vowed to never bring another
mortal into his dark world. Only his fiercely loyal human guardian, Jared
Evans, knows the truth about who and what he is.
For nearly a century Duncan has
held fast to his vow, until the day he finds the beautiful Tabitha Blacke lying
dazed and bleeding after a rogue vampire attack. Duncan realizes he must break
his vows in order to protect her from the evil that is prowling his territory.
When both Duncan and Jared find
themselves falling for their lovely houseguest, they decide to claim her
together, forging bonds that will change all of their lives forever.
As trouble draws near, their bond
will be tested and sacrifices will be demanded of them all. The two men know
they'll do whatever it takes to keep their beloved Tabi safe, but will their
love be enough to see them through?
STORY
EXCERPT
One minute they’d all been
sitting around the table and the next minute Tabi found herself the filling in
a man-sandwich straight out of her wildest fantasies. She dragged a hit of air
into her lungs and caught the scent of both men as they surrounded her. Her
breasts instantly tightened and her pussy tingled as she felt the hard, muscled
bodies of both men press into her. Two hot, handsome bodies that had moved so
fast they’d been a blur. That thought snapped her back to the present with a
crash.
“Let me go!”
“No, lass. Not until you’ve
calmed down.”
“You’re telling me to calm down
again? Didn’t you learn anything from the last time we had this conversation?
You can’t just tell me to be calm every time the weird-shit-meter hits eleven!”
She felt Jared’s chest vibrate
with laughter and she turned her head to glower at him. “And you! Care to
explain how you did that? No one moves that fast unless they’re from the planet
Krypton!’
“Boss? I think we’re going to
have to explain.”
“Indeed,” Duncan sighed. “Did you
have to move like that? You scared her.”
“Me? You were the one who had her
ready to bolt like a scalded cat!”
“Guys? Hello? She is standing
right here and she’d really like some answers!” Tabi was getting tired of being
talked about like she didn’t have ears. In an attempt to get some breathing
room she worked a hand between herself and each of their chests intent on
pushing them away, but the act of rubbing her way up their hard bodies started
another line of thinking altogether. Her thoughts derailed into a pileup of hot
fantasies and lust, and instead of pushing she simply left her fingers splayed
across two solid walls of male muscle.
Both men pushed in closer, until
she was caught between twin pillars of sex and heat that had her blood simmering
and her brain mushy. Jared covered her hand with his so that it was held firmly
just over his heart while Duncan turned her until his mouth could capture hers.
This time his kiss was gentle, tender and intended to comfort, and Tabi was too
overwhelmed by her desires to do anything else but tangle her fingers into
Duncan’s shirt and pull him in closer as she answered his kiss in kind.
Jared lifted his hand from her
shoulder to sweep her hair back from her neck, dropping delicate kisses along
the edge of the bandage.
“Mine,” Duncan growled in warning
and tugged her harder against him, pulling her a half step away from Jared.
“No,” Jared growled back and
moved in behind her, sandwiching her between them.
Duncan lifted his head and Tabi
gasped as she saw his eyes. They were incandescent, glowing so brightly that it
was as if there was a fire burning inside him.
This time Tabi did push away from
him, straight back into Jared’s arms.
“What are you?” She managed to
keep from screaming the question at Duncan, hanging onto her sanity by the
barest of threads. What the hell had she just been kissing?
Jared wrapped his arms around her
and stepped back from Duncan, taking Tabi with him. “Boss, you need to chill.”
Who were these two, the masters
of understatement? “No, he needs to stop growling and glowing and tell me what
the hell is going on! And both of you need to stop kissing me until I get some
answers. My brain doesn’t work well when it’s drowning in hormones.” Oh god,
she just said that out loud.
“Hormones?” Both men echoed her
last word and Tabi nearly screamed with frustration. “Out of everything I said,
you two focused on that word?” she snapped and tried pulling herself out of
Jared’s embrace. She managed to twist slightly, but that was all. He was
impossibly strong.
“This is going well,” Jared
quipped in rueful tones.
“You’re not helping,” Duncan
snarled, revealing a pair of long canines as he ran a hand through his hair,
pulling it out of its customary tie. His eyes were only glowing a little now,
but Tabi was too busy staring at his mouth and fighting Jared’s hold to really
notice.
“You’ve got fangs? When did you
get fangs?”
“Oh yeah, this is going fucking
brilliantly.” Jared tightened his hold on Tabi and dropped his mouth to her
ear. “It’s all right, honey. Neither of us is going to hurt you, but you’re
going to hurt yourself if you keep struggling.”
Tabi stopped trying to get away
and went still, finally accepting there was no point, not when Jared was so
much stronger than she was. “Answers. I want answers right now or I’m going to
start screaming.”
“Sure thing,” Jared drawled and
loosened his hold on her slightly as he nuzzled her hair. “Duncan there is a
three hundred year old vampire and I’ve been his guardian and companion for
more than seventy-five years. You got your throat torn open by another vampire,
and that’s why Duncan had to bring you back here.”
She’d heard enough, these men
were insane.
ADULT
EXCERPT
Jared’s arms snaked around her
and he half walked, half lifted her into shower. Her back was to his chest and
the hot water hit her from all sorts of interesting angles as Jared’s lips
found her ear and he nibbled his way along the curve and down to her lobe.
“You’re ours now, little mouse. That means we’re both going to take care of
you, in every way a man can.”
“I’m going to have to quit my job
just to have enough energy to keep up.”
Duncan leaned in and kissed her,
his mouth warm and wet. “If it doesn’t make you happy, don’t do it anymore. I’d
say life is too short, but the truth is life is too long for people like us.
You have lifetimes to look forward to.”
“Lifetimes with the two of you.”
The idea made Tabi’s head swim with the possibilities and her heart overflow
with happiness. “I think I can handle that.”
“Good. Glad to hear it.” Jared
nipped her earlobe lightly. “Now, shut up and kiss me too. We can talk later.”
“Pushy!” Tabi yelped as his teeth
closed on her ear again and then he was turning her around to kiss her, his
mouth plundering hers as his big body sheltered her from most of the pounding
water. Dizzy from the heat and blood loss, Tabi swayed a little and Duncan’s
arm curved around her waist and drew her up against him. “I have you, lover.”
“Hold onto her will you? I have a
plan,” Jared grinned and began kissing his way down her body. His mouth suckled
and nibbled at her breasts, feasting on them for a while before he moved lower,
finally dropping to his knees so that he could kiss a ring around her navel
before making his way down to her pussy. Her pulse was racing again and need
was bubbling up inside her as she experienced the still new sensation of being
with two men. Two sets of hands touching her, two beings devoted to her
pleasure. The feeling was better than she could have imagined. The stubble on
Jared’s jaw rasped over her inner thighs as he nuzzled between them, his hands
gently but firmly parting her legs until she was completely exposed.
“This is a sight to welcome a man
home,” he proclaimed before swiping his tongue over the length of her pussy,
making her moan as sparks sizzled over her flesh at his touch.
He used his thumbs to part her
labia and groaned with lust. “I may not be able to make you come just with a
love bite, but I bet I can make you scream using just my mouth.”
“No bet.”
Jared’s only answer was a wicked
chuckle as he pressed his face between her thighs and began to devour her
pussy. Duncan’s arms stayed secure around her, holding her up as her knees gave
way.
It only took a few flicks of
Jared’s talented tongue for Tabi to know that the effects of Duncan’s bite
hadn’t completely left her system. Her libido roared back to life with a
vengeance, soaking her cunt and setting fire to her blood yet again.
“Jared!” The wail broke from her
lips before she could stop it and she felt more than heard his satisfied growl
of response. The world spun and Tabi closed her eyes and fought against the
urge to get carried off by the storm he’d ignited. As he drew the delicate
pearl out of its protective hood and captured it between his teeth a bolt of
raw lust shot through her and she screamed again, her entire body shuddering as
she came. She’d never been a screamer before, but with these two, she couldn’t
seem to stop.
Starbursts were still dancing in
her vision when Jared’s hands landed on her hips, both men turning her around
so that she was bent over with her hands braced against cool marble and her
feet splayed far apart.
“Stay just like that.” Jared’s drawl was as
thick as molasses, a sure sign he was not quite in control. She’d already
learned that the stronger her men’s accents got, the hornier they were. Tabi
smiled to herself as she braced herself and then glanced over her shoulder at
Jared. His chest had a mottled bruise rising over one pectoral. “You’re hurt.”
She started to move and Jared shook his head, his big hands clamping around her
waist. “It’s already healing. Let me love you, Tabi. That’s the only thing I
need right now. I need to be inside you.”
“Sexual healing is a song, it
doesn’t work like that in real life,” she muttered as Jared draped himself over
her to drop a path of butterfly kisses along her spine.
“It can work, when it’s the right
people,” Duncan’s hands stroked up the underside of her body to cup her breast
as Jared’s mouth continued to blaze a trail down her back. “When fate takes a
hand, anything can happen.”
Duncan found her nipples, tugging
and rolling them between his fingertips. Desire simmered and then flared and
she leaned backward, pressing her ass against the steel shaft of Jared’s cock.
“Don’t tempt me,” Jared warned
her as he smoothed a hand over the curve of her bottom, working his finger into
the crack to press against her anus for a brief moment. “Tonight’s not the
right time, but soon this pretty ass is going to belong to me.”
“Duncan’s right, you talk too
much.” Tabi deliberately wriggled against him and grinned when she caught the
sound of his breath hissing over his teeth.
“You inspire me.” Jared placed his hands
between her thighs and spread her wide, rocking his hips so that the tip of his
cock brushed over her slick entrance.
BEHIND
THE SCENES
Q: Do you have any unique talents or
hobbies?
A: I’ve been trained in Cranial
Sacral Therapy and several other alternative healing practices. By a quirk of
fate, the few clients I have are almost all of the four-legged variety.
Q: What can we expect from you in the
future?
A: I have two books coming out in
September and a joint project planned with two other very talented authors that
we hope to have organized up by late in 2013.
Q: What can readers who enjoy your book do
to help make it successful?
A: Talk about it! This is my
first year as a published author and the most amazing gift anyone who enjoyed
my stories can give me is to recommend my books to their friends.
Q: How long does it take you to write a
book?
A: When the stars align, the
characters are talking to me and the muse is well caffeinated, I can put out a
book in 6-9 weeks. Book length and reality can alter those numbers, but that’s
my average.
Q: What is your work schedule like when
you're writing?
A: I have an amazing boss who has
given me permission to work on my writing when the office is quiet. (In
exchange she gets a signed copy of every book I write.) So on any given day my
work is a mixture of spreadsheets, invoicing & writing from the time I hit
the office until the time I pack up and head home. After dinner I’m often back
at the keyboard, writing until I hit my word count for the day.
Q: What would you say is your interesting
writing quirk?
A: I can’t write when it’s too
quiet. I have to have background noise.
Q: What was one of the most surprising
things you learned in creating your books?
A: I never realized how strong
the characters’ voices would be. They have their own personalities and opinions
on how their stories will unfold. Some days I feel like I’m just along for the
ride.
