Today I'm soooo excited, because I get to unveil the cover to my now erotic-suspense novel, HELPLESS, Book Two of the Lethal Obsession Trilogy. Actually, the cover was officially unveiled on three other sites this weekend (Secret Narrative, the website belonging to author Gemma James, and at Deliza's Dirty Dramas). If you haven't seen those, please pay them a visit -- those are some great blogs and websites certainly worth checking out.
If you haven't read LETHAL OBSESSION, please pick that one up. As the title
of HELPLESS, Book Two of the Lethal Obsession Trilogy implies, it's a sequel to my debut novel, LETHAL OBSESSION, and while HELPLESS
stands fairly well on its own, you most definitely need to read LETHAL OBSESSION to get the full effect. You can get a bit of a discount on it if
you're a member of the Goodreads Erotic Enchants group. It's a read of the
month staring Aug. 19 there (details at Erotic Enchants reads LETHAL OBSESSION).
You can also get an audio version of LETHAL OBSESSION at Amazon and
Audio. com. Right now, Amazon is running a special – you can buy the audio version for just $1.99 after you buy the e-book! At Audio. com, if you join the group, you can get LETHAL OBSESSION for free! That's an Amazon special, so I don't know if they'll honor that price if you bought LETHAL OBSESSION a couple of months ago, but it's certainly worth asking.
But, enough about LETHAL OBSESSION. Let's turn our attention to the
sequel, HELPLESS.
Here's the cover:
And now for an excerpt:
Excerpt one
I’m going to die.
The thought flashed
through Angela’s mind. No panic. No fear. No emotion. Just a simple, resigned
understanding.
I’m going to die.
Not that she could do
much, with the man’s face buried between her legs, biting, tongue slipping
inside her, probing, sending waves of arousal through her body.
Angela’s legs were bound
in what is known as a frog-tie – each leg folded at the knee, right ankle tied
to her right thigh, left ankle bound to her left thigh – her arms tied behind
her. She was on her back, legs in the air, while he assaulted her.
A rope looped her neck,
slip-knotted so that as tension increased the rope tightened, similar to a noose.
The other end of the rope was fastened to the headboard. He had protested, said
the neck bondage was too dangerous, but she had made her position plain – tying
the neck was part of the deal, or there was no deal and he could walk right out
without so much as a taste.
So he acquiesced, and
once she was bound, helpless, there had been no foreplay. He slapped the
exposed inside of her thighs, first one and then the other, over and over until
the skin glowed red.
With each blow Angela gasped, felt her face and body
flush.
“You like that?” he
whispered, and without waiting for an answer he pulled his belt from this
pants.
Using it as a whip, he struck her across her cunt, hard. The sting of
leather sent a shock rolling through her body, and when Angela moaned he struck
a second and third time, then he plunged in, kissing, licking, forcing her legs
wider. Hands cupping her ass, he pulled her toward him, and unknowingly moved
her down the bed, stretching the neck rope taut.
Angela couldn’t breathe.
The desperate, involuntary struggle for air, while his tongue lapped inside
her, hands squeezing her ass, brought shudders through Angela’s body and tears
to her eyes. She tried calling out, a raspy scream escaping her mouth as the
pleasure and agony blended into a sensation that rumbled through her body like
a summer storm.
Her vision grayed, and
that’s when the one, final thought crystallized in her mind.
I’m going to die.
The idea of trying to
cry out, of somehow signaling him, briefly crossed her mind, but she didn’t
bother.
I’m going to die,
because I deserve to.
Then her world went
black.
*****
HELPLESS will be available at Amazon.com Aug. 15, as well as
Barnes and Noble and at Smashwords (for any format e-reader) within a day or two
of the release on Amazon.
I hope you enjoy.
Thanks for stopping by.
