Rachell
Nichole, Caitlyn Willows, & Nona Raines
Genre: erotic romance
Publisher: Loose Id, LLC
Date of Publication: December 16,
2014
ISBN: 978-1-62300-823-9
ASIN:
Number of pages: 200
Word Count: 60,000
Cover Artist: Ginny Glass
Book Description:
Gingerbread
Photography – By Rachell Nichole
Walker Savidge is one of FDNY’s
Finest. He’s also the only openly bisexual fireman in the city. But his
boyfriend, Ben Cook, is still very much in the closet, and not comfortable with
his own sexual needs and desires. Every time they get close in public, Ben
pulls away. Frustrated with his partner, Walker devises a plan to help Ben
break out of his shell. The owner of Gingerbread Photography has been
photographing the FDNY Firefighters for their calendar for years. She’s
professional and sweet, and Walker knows she’ll immediately put Ben at ease.
Now all he has to do is convince his lover to do a private x-rated, Xmas photo
shoot.
Ben knows Walker is fed up with
his hang-ups, but he can’t seem to help it. Every time he thinks he might be
okay with announcing to the world that he also likes guys, the horrors of his
high school locker room stop him. Growing up in a small community that wasn’t
always supportive of homosexuality has forced Ben to hide that half of himself.
He’d always dated girls before moving to the Big Apple and finding Walker. Now
he’s trying to reconcile the two halves of himself and give Walker what he
deserves. So when Walker suggests a photo shoot, Ben agrees, though the idea
makes him squirm. He knows the week of Christmas break will be the best time
for the shoot. He’s told his parents he won’t be home this year for Christmas,
so he doesn’t have to answer awkward questions about his love life, or break
Walker’s heart by not inviting him home for the holidays.
Lexie Ginger Rosamond is trying
to survive as a NY photographer. But she’s dreading the upcoming holidays and
her photo schedule. She’s reluctant to take on a last minute meeting with
Walker and his boyfriend, but finally can’t deny the sultry voice of one of the
sexiest firemen she’s ever met. But when Walker shows up at her studio with
Ben, a young man she’s already met, and kissed, she doesn’t know what to do. As
the photo shoot heats up, Walker jumps into the photos with Ben, and it’s
almost more than she can bear. Until the two men ask her to join them in front
of the camera instead of behind it. Tempted by their heat, and deciding maybe
she can give herself a special treat this Christmas, Lexie agrees.
All
The Trimmings – by Caitlyn Willows
When Chrissy agreed to housesit
for her grandparents and prep the place for Christmas, she never imagined the
icing on her cookies would be the twins next door. But they were hard-loving
men who didn’t play for keeps, and she never played at all…until now.
Joe and Jess crave their
neighbors’ cute granddaughter more than they can stand. She’s definitely a game
changer they never imagined, blowing into their lives like the approaching
winter storm, stirring up their wildest fantasies and making them want with an
intensity hot enough to melt the fake icicles draped around her Grandma’s
house.
Christmas with all the trimmings.
Those were Grandma’s instructions. And while Chrissy knows she wasn’t referring
to Chrissy laid out for Joe and Jess’s pleasure¬or they hers¬Grandma’s got some
explaining of her own to do. Like how she knew about those dimples on the
twin’s perfect backsides.
Christmas
Candie by Nona Raines
Aidan Callahan loves Christmas.
His family makes it a big celebration and he does his best to carry on the
tradition. Every ornament on his huge Christmas tree has a story and holds a
special memory.
He’s been hooking up for six
months with Val Stenzler and would like to get closer to her, including sharing
his love of Christmas. But aside from their hot sex sessions, she holds him at
arm’s length. What’s the problem?
Val hates Christmas. The most
devastating, humiliating event of her life happened at Christmastime two years
ago, and she’s still trying to get past it. There’s no room for fruitcake or
mistletoe in her life. As far as she’s concerned, the holiday season can’t pass
quickly enough.
Christmas suddenly becomes a lot
more interesting when Val and Aidan meet Candie Hurley. She’s as sweet as her
name, as sparkly as tinsel and as mysterious as the Northern Lights. Aidan and
Val both fall under her spell, but will the night they spend with her bring
them closer together or tear their relationship apart?
Excerpt
From Gingerbread Photography By Rachell Nichole:
BEN SWALLOWED
HARD, staring into her green eyes. She was beautiful. Breathtakingly beautiful.
Just like her photos. Bright red curls fell in waves around her face and
shoulders, covering the tips of her jacket’s lapels. Her fair skin was pink;
from the flush he could feel within him too, or from the cold, he couldn’t be
sure. But she’d agreed to let him make it up to her. What the h*ll are you
doing?
He blinked,
trying to clear his head. He’d been crying a mere two seconds before they’d
slammed into each other, the burn of tears hot against his cold cheeks
distracting him from the impending collision. Then they’d slammed into each
other and he’d been flattened onto the cold concrete. She was slender, but
tall. She couldn’t possibly outweigh him, but they’d struck with such force
that he’d surely be bruised. Yeah, that’d be fun to explain to Walker. Walker,
who’d let him just run out of the firehouse after Eddie had torn into him.
“How about
coffee?” he said, pushing thoughts of Walker from his mind. “Since I kind of
kyboshed your other one.”
She looked at
the brown snow rapidly melting from the heat of her coffee, and he smiled
sheepishly.
“Um, sure,” she
said.
After a beat,
she said, “I know of this great place around the corner.”
His stomach
lurched into his throat. Please, God, not the same place where he’d first met
Walker. He couldn’t come up with a good reason to suggest somewhere else. So he
silently nodded and then followed her as she led him down the street and around
the corner. Sure enough it was the same place. He barely suppressed a groan as
they crossed the threshold. They moved through the line quickly, though in the
middle of winter the shop was swamped. A small table in the corner vacated, and
she marched across the room and claimed two seats as soon as they were empty.
Well, then.
He followed and
sat across from her. “I’m Ben,” he said, trying to ignore the dark voice in the
back of his head that told him being here with her was like cheating. He
couldn’t shake the feeling, though he knew it wasn’t logical. Having coffee
with a girl didn’t mean he was stepping out on Walker. He’d never do that.
“I’m Lexie,” she
said with a smile.
He tensed. He
hadn’t been this attracted to a female since Reese. Simply because he was attracted to Lexie
didn’t mean he had to act on it.
“It’s nice to
meet you.”
“You too,” she
said, taking a sip of her coffee. Another warm smile crossed her lips as she
swallowed. He tried really hard to ignore the way her throat moved as she
drank. What would that smooth skin feel like beneath his fingers? D*mn it. He
shut down that train of thought.
She helped a
second later when she asked suddenly, with real concern, “Are you okay? You
looked upset when we ran into each other.”
Instantly, guilt
flooded him. Yeah, he’d been upset. Which was probably why he couldn’t keep his
mind from wandering to naughty thoughts. His life would be so much easier if he
could bring Lexie home next month for Christmas. He’d told his parents he
couldn’t get out of work. So he wouldn’t have to go home and lie to their faces
about his love life. God, he hated that he’d lied to them for so long. But he
loved them too much to risk changing their opinions of him when he told them he
was bisexual. He wouldn’t let history repeat itself, wouldn’t end up like Jesse
had.
About the Authors
Rachell
Nichole
Rachell Nichole is a contemporary
erotic romance author, who loves writing sexy romances about memorable
characters who have to fight to hold on to love.
Rachell holds two undergraduate
degrees, one in Professional Writing and the other in French. She also received
a Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. She
is the author of The Marietta Hotels Series, Spicy with a Side of Cranberry
Sauce, Break(Through) the Ice, To Sir, and Queen of Hearts.
Rachell lives in New York with a
mountain of books, a loving family, and an invisible cat who loves to snuggle.
Website: www.RachellNichole.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/RachellNichole
Twitter: @RachellNichole
Author Goodreads Profile page: http://bit.ly/1vZrGId
Author Amazon Profile page: http://amzn.to/1Cy4qE1
Caitlyn
Willows
Erotic romance author Caitlyn
Willows weaves deep emotions and sizzling sensuality into her action-filled
stories. Believing life is to be lived and felt, not merely watched, Willows
delivers real-to-life characters in unforgettable tales of love, adventure, and
always steamy passion. No one is more surprised than she at the direction life
has taken her.
Website: www.caitlynwillows.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/caitlyn.willows
Nona
Raines
Nona Raines is a former librarian
who lives in upstate New York with her many pets. She’s currently working on
her next novel between walking the dog and shooing the cats off the laptop. Her
erotic romances are published with The Wild
Rose Press and Loose Id. Her transgender romance His Kind of Woman was
nominated for the 2014 DABWAHA sponsored by the Dear Author and Smart Bitches,
Trashy Books review blogs. Her most
recent work is the romance novella Don’t Let Go from The Wild Rose Press.
Website: www.nonaraines.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonaraines
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