I'm opening my blog today to my first guest of the New Year, Author Crystal Drake! Welcome, Crystal!
Good
day, lovers of the abnormal.
Happy
New Year, everyone! I wish you a joy-filled and prosperous year for you and
your family.
Hello,
my name is Crystal Drake, and I write sexy, high-action Shape-shifter/Sci-Fi
Romantic Adventure. It’s the first of many Service Hero Appreciation Days to
come on Tonya’s blog, and she’s blessed me with the first spot. That kicks the
New Year off right for me.
My
hero is a police officer, and I depend on all that cop-sexiness. Why do cops
turn us on? Is it the uniform? The power? The discipline? The gun? The guts? Oh,
yes, it’s all those for me. They make me fantasize of being a bad girl if a
little misadventure could put me in the attention of a handsome guardian of the
law. :-) Of course, in real life, flirting with a police officer doesn’t get a
girl anywhere. (I’ve heard.)
But,
in the fantasy world… Oh, the places it can get you. Teasing a badge can get
you a pair of steel bracelets that link together. Or you might find yourself in
the arms of an alpha who knows how to thrive on risk. Maybe you’ll live a
harrowing adventure with a super-hot cop capable of taking down the bad guys
and saving your life. Or ready to defend and, if necessary, pay the ultimate
price for another’s safety. That’s the heart of an alpha with a badge, and he
deserves passion and love. Doesn’t he? I think so.
Applause
to our law enforcement communities who keep us safe.
Do
you remember when your eyes met the eyes of a stranger, and you knew you’d be
linked to that person forever? That amazing touch of
fate is universal entanglement. Many of us have been there. Wouldn’t you
love to entangle with someone so special again? How far would you go to keep
the magic? What lie would you tell, what deceit would you employ to force your
way?
High Commander Kade
Quil loathes everything about his former enemy world, Pygras. Ordered to assist
a Pygrian priestess on a rescue mission, he explodes—until he meets the
graceful shape-shifter priestess assigned him. Her enchanting pink eyes halt
his warpath. What creature could she manifest?
Scholar Willa Canatar
must save her kidnapped sister, but tolerating the handsome but
nasty-dispositioned investigator is torture. When tragedy blows their mission
apart, the priestess and the cop become entangled in the turbulent forces of
the universe.
The invincible Master
of Cig wants the shape-shifters dead, their magic stolen, so he’s experimenting
on them, exterminating their prophecy of his fall. Before he accomplishes his
evil plot, he’ll face a sneaky cop with few boundaries, a beautiful priestess,
and a wolf-spirit from the Second Universe ready to prove the Master’s
immortality a myth.
Someone near the
Master holds the secret to trumping the undefeated Kade Quil—take the priestess
the high commander wants, and kill his people.
Watch the book trailer:
Ready
for an excerpt?
In
my novel Magnetic, Entangled’s prequel, Kade is a crass and
shadowy side figure. Not even his best friend is sure what goes on in the high
commander’s head. Kade had begged for more stage time than I could afford him
in Magnetic. His alpha-male bully character
is very fun to explore in Entangled. Kade
is my mother’s favorite of all my heroes for his transformation from a
self-centered butthead into a pretty decent guy. Considering. Oh, the power of
love. :-)
[
This excerpt is rated R. ]
At
the Spring
An unnamable despondency lingering
in his dark eyes cut into her soul.
“What disturbs you, Kade? Do you
believe Valco is still around? I doubt he is. Your appearance gave him great
desire to be away from here.”
“No, I’ve no worries of that traitor. And if he’s hidden in the woods watching, he would see he
can’t take you from me.”
But Kade looked sad and preoccupied.
She’d seen him angry, frustrated, gleeful, sympathetic, quiet, and always sexy,
but never sad.
“Tell me what bothers you.”
“I’m waiting for something, Willa,” Kade confessed to her mysteriously. “I’m prepared to wait a
while. I know I’ll have to be patient, nurture it along until it finally
happens. But I’m concentrated on that goal. I have to know for sure.”
She loathed the distance between
them and whatever stole his mind from her. She wanted to feel his weight
against her, feel him inside her when their moment of finest pleasure happened.
She felt fireworks for him now when she closed her eyes.
The thought occurred to her that he
might not make love to her until he’d received this profound thing he awaited,
and she couldn’t live with that. Did he blame her for some part of Valco’s sin
against them?
“Kade, whatever I’ve done to upset
you, tell me of it and forgive me. You feel distant, and all I want is for you
to come back and make love to me. I want to feel like I’m yours again.”
Kade broke out into the loudest laugh she’d ever heard, stunning
her.
The light in his eyes and the grin
on his face were suddenly outrageous. “I’d thought it would take so much longer
to hear you say that. I’d been sure of it. I’d been prepared to wait weeks to
hear you ask me to make love to you, Willa.”
She smiled, but her expression
couldn’t have reflected her relief to hear he hadn’t grown tired of her, wasn’t
considering dumping her on the side of the road like last week’s entertainment.
Not yet.
He pressed a hot kiss to her wanting
mouth, moving to put himself between her legs. Where he belonged. The feel of
him there made her shiver.
When she parted from his kiss, she
gazed into his sexy eyes filled too easily with victory. Was reassurance of her
true devotion all he wanted? She would have built a pyramid for him.
“Kade, will you make love to me?”
Already, her breath was labored. “I’ve an unrelenting drive to stay in your
touch and beneath you. Locked in your custody, High Commander.”
His smile triumphant, he kissed her
deeply again, a hot kiss full of want that made her body throb. The steamy water
rocked against their bodies, melting them into one.
He parted from her lips with
mischief in his eyes, and his smile grew into his wolf’s grin. His vision
scanning the moonlight-dappled woods around them, he whispered, “Do you think the trickster could be watching us?”
A little anxious at the prospect,
she scanned the forest, leaves spinning to the gentle wind. “There are thick
bushes…wide trees…and shadow. He could be there.”
Kade’s smile turned vengeful. “I’m going to show him he can’t touch my stuff.”
The sexy high commander rose from
the water, his bronze body glittering with moonlit drizzles, and he went to her
clothes folded neatly in the grass. He shook out the silver gown he’d stolen
for her and spread the full skirt onto the grass. Next, he bundled his own
uniform slacks and her night rail and placed it at the neck of the gown, then
he returned for her.
Drawing her to her feet, he scooped
her up into her arms, surprising her and making her giggle. The cool air
slapped her body made hot by the springs, and she shivered.
“I’ll warm you,” Kade whispered
back, his naughty expression filling her with anticipation. Her arms around his
neck, she pressed a giggling kiss to his lips, and the contact sent a rush of
pleasure through her.
He hauled her to the clothes, laid
her upon the spread dress, and made sure the wadded clothes served as her
pillow. He folded his uniform shell and placed it beneath her hips, boosting
them higher for his mischief.
Thrill shot through her. What would
he do?
Their smiles were out of control.
“Do you think Valco’s watching?” Her
sight again combed through the shadow and trees in search of a sign of human
movement. It was so dark deep within the veil of forest around them.
Over her, Kade gently cupped her
chin and brought her sight back to him.
“If that traitor is spying on us, this is what I want him to see. This will
warn
him. If he attempts to take you
again…he’ll draw my blade.”
The high commander opened her legs,
knelt between them in his power position, and he caressed her thighs with his
big, hot hands. Her legs quivered and heated. The wetness he caused was
instant. The sight of his ready erection made her hungry for him. He stretched
over her and applied a hungry kiss to her lips that drove away her fear.
Then he moved down her body, placing
tiny sucking kisses down her neck and shoulders, tickling her. The chilly breeze
titillated her flesh. His hot mouth reached her breasts to
find them rushing for his attention. He suckled one, then the other, and she
couldn’t stop whispering his name. He trailed kisses down her stomach until he
reached the apex of her womanhood. The imagining of his mouth anywhere near
that pleasure center made her mind and body feel as though she spun.
“Oh, Kade…” came out in a rushing
breath, her body shivering again.
“Willa… I want Valco to see me worship you like this.”
She shuddered and moaned and felt
terribly hungry.
“You’re very wet, Willa… Do you want
me?”
Her thighs shook at his stimulation.
“I don’t want anything like I want you, Kade.”
“I don’t want anything like I want you, priestess. Tell
that
deceiver he can’t take you from me, Willa.”
Kade went down on her, surprising her and making her cry out his
name.
Thanks,
everyone. And thank you, Tonya, for lending me your first audience of the new
year.
Happy New Year, everyone!
May 2013 be one of your best.
Peace on Earth,
