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Monday, November 23, 2015

Christmas with Angel available for Preorder!

Christmas with Angel 

by Lexi Post



Cowboy firefighter, Cole Hatcher, is determined to do what’s right and take his fiancĂ© with him to his mother’s annual holiday dinner party. After all, the two most important ladies in his life need to learn to get along and the sooner the better. Besides, the rest of the family will be there.

Lacey Winters can’t forgive her future mother-in-law for keeping them apart for eight years. While she loves Cole’s family, including the five they are living with, “Racy Lacey” wants to spend Christmas alone with Cole, preferably in her erotic Christmas present for him.

But there are worse things brewing than family drama. This Christmas day, nothing goes as planned…for anyone.

Only $1.99. This novella is the sequel to Cowboy's Match and the prequel to Trace's Trouble.

 
And more sites to come!

Always, Lexi
www.lexipostbooks.com 

Friday, November 20, 2015

We’re talking hot biscuits!


Well, it’s no surprise to those of you who know me that I constantly live through blog moments. Yeah, Duh!  Anyway, this blog moment made this week’s Butterscotch Martini Girls Blab, and I thought maybe you would like to see the blog on it, in addition to the BMG’s talking about Hilarious Cooking Disasters.  So after you read this story, pour yourself a cup o’ Joe and hit this link to go to the BMG blab on cooking disasters.  There are some damn funny stories in there. 
I can’t wait to get my invite to Dani Petrone’s next dinner party…now, that girl knows how to liven things up!

Anyway, I have a very sweet friend back in Tennessee (Hi, Jake!) who once sent me a wonderful and sweet gift—just for absolutely no reason at all. (Best kind of friend to have, huh?) Well, this very thoughtful gift was a jar of pickled beets and a package of sweet cream butter. Can you say YUUUUUM? I have a tremendous love for both of those items and the fact that they came from an Amish market makes them fabulous!!! (Please hear this last word with the Joanne Worley warble, will ya?)  Because they are.  Just sayin…
As many of you already know, I’m not exactly your basic domestic goddess.  Goddess? YES.  Domestic?  HELL NO!  LMAO  (Hey, it’s my story…I get to tell it any way I want.)
So, as I was saying, I get a delivery with this fabulous sweet cream butter and pickled beets in the mail, and I’m dying to taste it.  No problem.  Crack the jar open an plop a pickled beet in your mouth…then...mmmmm and aaaahhhh.  YUMMY!!!
Now for the butter.  Uh-oh…I’m dying to taste it, but I don’t have any bread. I’m certainly not above sitting down with the hunk of butter and a spoon, but everyone knows butter is best on hot bread.  That’s a no-brainer.  So I make a mental note to stop at the store on my way home from the drugstore the next evening. Then I promptly forget. So I get home the next night empty handed and get up the next morning all set to try out my new butter…and no bread. Dammit!  Okay, I got this…time to get creative.  I can do out of the box thinking.   A little brain power and I’ll be rolling that yummy, warm, melted butter on my tongue along with some hot bread. Mmmmmmmmm!
So I start slamming through every cupboard in the kitchen and finally fix on a small (old) box of Bisquick in the back of the refrigerator. Bisquick doesn’t go bad, right? Nah…my mouth is watering like a Bullmastiff on crack. So I whip out a mixing bowl and a gallon of milk, and I mix up just enough batter for 2 biscuits.  Seriously, I only needed one, but I wanted five…so I settled on two. Anyway, I mix up some batter and it’s just slightly odd looking.  But what the hell, no bugs. That’s a bonus, right?  I’m not a ‘fraidy cat, so it’s all systems “Go”.  I’m going to cook up a couple of fried eggs…one of my very few specialties…make some biscuits, and slather on a pound of sweet cream butter made by the Amish.  The Bullmastiff routine continues.
…and this is where things started to go horribly wrong…
I had pre-heated the oven to 450 degrees (well, close enough). But I have this little problem that I don’t cook enough to warrant fixing…at least, not right away.  The handle to my oven door fell off a couple of years before and I stashed it away to replace it later.  Then the brackets fell off and I stashed them someplace else…because I couldn’t remember where I’d stashed the handle.  Now I’ve found the handle and can’t remember where the brackets are.  Crap!

Anyway, I have no handle on the oven door.  So I use a potholder (for protection and traction) and a big ‘ol screwdriver to pry the door open. I know…I know…two screws and a little elbow grease, and the handle goes back in place—and I will whenever I find the damn brackets. Anyway, in the meantime, the potholder and screwdriver work just fine for the small amount of cooking I do (none, actually), especially when I have a slab of Amish butter calling my name.  Besides, I’m not going to use my hands and store-bought nails to pry that damn oven door open.  I tried that once and actually set my nails on fire…not risking that again!
So, after all the energy I expend prying the door open, I’m not gonna keep doing that every few minutes.  Why not stick something in the opening to keep the oven door from slamming all the way shut…makes it much easier to open the next time. So I dig through the drawer for something long and sturdy enough to stick in the opening and keep the oven door propped open just a bit without snapping in two.  Won’t take much, just an inch or two at the most. After all, it’s not rocket science, just common sense. Voile…I come up with a nice, sturdy wooden spoon. Purrrrrfect!
Now the door’s propped open, the biscuits are baking, and I’ve cooked up two absolutely perfect over medium eggs—runny yolks, no lacy brown edges, no snotty whites—sheer perfection! So I flip ‘em onto a plate and put a bowl over ‘em so they stay hot until the biscuits are ready in about two minutes. Well, ten minutes later, the biscuits are done in the middle, but they haven’t risen and they’re still white, and starting to form a crust. Oops! Time for more creative thinking.
So I crank the dial all the way up to BROIL and leave the door propped open with the wooden spoon…because that’s what you’re supposed to do.  Right?  Then I walk away and…yep…I forget all about the biscuits. (Forget everything you ever heard about growing old gracefully, and plan to cut your birthday cake with a chainsaw. Old age is not for sissies!)
Soon I smell that sickly burnt smell coming from my oven.  Yikes!  I rush to the oven, grab the handle of the wooden spoon and flip the door open. Holy crap, Batman! The spoon is on fire! How did that happen? I’ve got two inches of flame leaping off the end of the damn spoon.  I’m so mesmerized by the flame that all I can do is stare at it stupidly. I can’t get wood on a campfire to light without gas, to save my stinkin’ life. But prop open the oven door with a wooden spoon and poof…FIRE!  How the hell is that fair?
So I come to my senses and try to extinguish the blaze by shaking the spoon.  Nope, now I’ve just fanned it into a four-inch flame. Never fear…I know what to do.  I turn around and pitch the spoon across the length of my kitchen, hoping to hit the sink.  Seriously?  Now, mind you, I have hit what I was aiming at with a thrown object maybe twice in my entire life.  However, they say God takes care of kids and fools.  So he must have been standing in my kitchen laughing his ass off at this fool because he kept me from burning my house to the ground by guiding that damn spoon straight into the soapy dish water in the sink.  Score!
Flame extinguished, I grab the pan with the oven mitt and remove two perfectly acceptable looking biscuits. (Smiley face)  Obviously the smoke filling the kitchen was from the flaming spoon.  Right? Woo hoo!
So I pry the biscuits from the pan, dropping them onto the plate with a bit more “thunk” than I like. I saw them in half with a knife made for gutting fish, and I slather on a good portion of sweet cream butter. I am determined!  I add the eggs to the plate, I sit, I cut the eggs, I take a bite of the eggs and follow it up with a much anticipated bite of biscuit/butter. Yum?  No—YUCK!!
Guess Bisquick can go bad.  Who knew?  Apparently, a year or two in the fridge is too long.
In the end, I ate the eggs cold and scraped the melted butter off the top of the biscuits with a spoon and tried to eat it.  Unfortunately, the butter tasted much like the burnt spoon smelled. Shocker! Anyway, let’s just say without that gift of butter, I might be living on a steady diet of fried eggs…because I damn sure can’t make biscuits.  So what I really need is for someone to come to my house and cook for me—working on my next gift. I’ll let ya know how it turns out.
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it. Hang on tight now, ‘cuz we’re gonna go real, real fast!
Love ya,
Kayce

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Elite Ghosts - Spotlight on Sabrina York's Lithium's Rescue with Tiara Giveaway



ELITE GHOSTS

For more than two years they’ve been ghosts. Nothing but names on empty tombstones. Men and women forced to fade into the background after being pulled from the rubble. Dead Marines saved from a fate worse than death, but ordered to stand down while their lives disappeared all around them.


Some knew it could happen if a mission exploded. Double crossed by more than just Red Wolf. But now is their time to be reborn from the flames of a Phoenix. No longer imprisoned in the shadows. A half-life between them and their future. To make things right coming back to life is their only option.
Loyalty is their salvation but damage is always more than skin deep.
A new hope. A new family. Elite Ghosts.

Target: Tungsten by Heather Long
Bradley “Tungsten” Peck. Marine. Lover. Friend. He’s the man who can get anything, find anyone, and accomplish every goal. At least he was, before he lost the only woman who mattered…he won’t stop until he gets her back or she puts a bullet in him.

Zinc's Heart by Rebecca Royce
Zinc has nothing to prove--and everything to lose.

Lithium’s Rescue by Sabrina York
He will save her…unless she saves him first.

Thallium's Submission by Anna Alexander
From now on the only orders he will follow are hers.

Nickel’s Wounds by Saranna DeWylde
Hell hath no fury like a Marine who’s lost her way. Beauty was once her currency, but for a woman who can’t feel anything but agony, she has nothing left. Except the vengeance that could destroy the one man whose love could teach her how to save herself.

Titanium’s Sacrifice by Jennifer Kacey
Titanium. Warbucks. Commander. Brother. He is all of those things. And none of them. Giving up everything to save the men and women under his command was easy until it comes to one…last…sacrifice.

Lithium’s Rescue by Sabrina York
He will save her…unless she saves him first.
Michelle Parsons is on the run. She has evidence of a plot that could destroy the country, but in order to stop her boss and his extremist cohorts from taking over the US Senate, she needs to get the information into the right hands. Trouble is, her contact, the only man she trusts, has been neutralized. She’s all alone. No one can help her.
No one, but the Elite Ghosts.
It’s a shame then, that when Benedict Butler—Codename: Lithium—shows up to bring her in from the cold, she doesn’t know if she can trust him or not. And when their relationship evolves into something more…he’s not sure he can trust himself either.
She does something to him, changes him. Heals him, somehow. And in the end, it’s difficult to say who rescued whom.

Read an Excerpt of Lithium’s Rescue!
     Michelle stared at her phone as the realization that Ralley was watching her every move—had been watching her every move—whipped through her in a howl of horror. She should have known. She should have guessed.
     She was well aware of ASTCORP’s capabilities—of the sensitive information they collected and processed…and how they got it. She should have assumed Ralley would keep the same leash on his employees.
     The thought of being watched, listened to, spied on infuriated her.
     “Fuck you, Ralley,” she snapped, though he had long ago ended the call. Still, she was certain he heard. He had ears everywhere.
     The hell she would wait here for someone to come and collect her.
     If Ralley knew everything—and she had to assume he did—she’d never walk away from such an encounter.
She went inside and yanked the curtains closed, even though she knew, if Ralley had eyes on her, he’d be using a thermal scan as well. Shutting him out made her feel better. Then she quickly collected her purse, cash stash and a change of underwear—as well as a knife from the kitchen—and headed for the door.
     She had no idea where she was going, other than away, but that would make it harder for Ralley to find her. She didn’t have family or friends outside work. No predictable patterns. She’d slip away in the night to the bus station or the train station and hop on the first transport out of town. Wherever it was going, she would—
     She froze as the horrifying sound of a lock snicking shot through the silent room.
     Her eyes widened. She lifted the knife.
     Hell! Why hadn’t she turned off the lights?
     The door eased open with an eerie creak. No one stood in the opening, but Michelle knew better. Someone was there. The barrel of a Sig appeared, capped with a long silencer. Michelle sucked in a breath and ducked back against the wall. When a hand emerged, she slashed it with the knife and, when it clattered to the ground, she executed a roundhouse kick into the doorway in the spot she assumed a face might be.
     She got it right. Her assailant flew back with a bellow, slamming into the wall in the hallway. She bolted forward through the door, but he rallied quickly and caught her around the waist. With a howl, she kneed him in the crotch and gave him a healthy punch to the kidneys. She knew all the spots where a man was weak. She’d been trained for hand-to-hand combat since birth.
     But he was trained too, and he was bigger. Stronger. A stocky, burly sort with a squashed in face and piggy eyes. And speaking of piggy eyes, when he slammed into her, launching them both back into her apartment onto the floor, she gouged at his.
     His response was a clout to her cheek.
     It stunned her, but only for a moment.
     A moment too long.
     He captured both her wrists in one hand and pulled a long KA-BAR from its sheath.
     The bastard smiled then, revealing a hatred for dentistry. “He wanted you alive, bitch,” he growled in a thickly accented voice. Russian, if she wasn’t mistaken. Funny what little details filtered in when one was about to die. “It wouldn’t be hard to convince him this couldn’t be helped.”
     It was disturbing, the way his eyes glinted as he set the blade to her neck, as though slicing it would bring him a great deal of pleasure.
     A flicker of movement behind him caught her attention and her gaze shot to the doorway. She didn’t even bother to wince when his compatriot appeared. It was hardly a surprise. These sorts rarely worked alone.
     She didn’t know why her focus locked onto the newcomer’s face, why something rose within her, a wail of denial, a wash of regret. Because he was, this second villain, drop dead gorgeous.
In that second, that fleeting moment of time before she died, a great wave of sadness swamped her. In another world, another universe, another dimension, if such things existed, she would want a man like him. He was tall. Broad. Beautiful.
     Their gazes clashed and his eyes narrowed. A muscle bunched in his cheek. Something that might have been cold fury rippled over his features.
     And then he moved.
     To her shock, he grabbed her assailant around the neck with a muscled arm and levered him to his feet. The knife clattered to the floor. The first man howled and flailed, kicking and scratching at the second in a frenzy to be free. He whipped down, throwing the second man over his shoulders and onto the ground—but the beautiful warrior bounded to his feet and faced his foe with a snarl.
     They circled each other, there in the foyer of her apartment, each taking the others’ measure. Michelle would have run, but they were blocking the door, damn it all anyway.
     She grabbed the knife though, as it was in range, and scuttled back. She needed to be ready to face the victor when this was over. She had no idea why they were fighting over her, no idea who the second man was, but it hardly mattered. She wasn’t leaving with either of them. She didn’t trust anyone.
     It was probably completely idiotic that deep down, in the well of her soul, she hoped the handsome man won. Being handsome didn’t make him a good man. In fact, it often meant the opposite.
     The two men came together in a bone-crunching rush. The fight was furious. Fists and grunts and pummeling. The dull thuds of flesh on flesh. The crack of bones. The wet retort of splattering flesh.
     It quickly became clear, the pig-eyed man didn’t stand a chance.
     The warrior, the beast, demolished him with clout after ruthless, savage clout. With one crushing punch, he sent the smaller man teetering back onto the carpet. He didn’t move.
Michelle paid him little mind. She kept her eyes on the victor, the large and looming man with a sinfully beautiful face.   Though she held the knife before her, it trembled.
     He stared down at the broken man and his lips quirked in what might have been a smile. Or not. He cracked his knuckles and turned his attention to her. His eyes were cold, emotionless.  His expression harsh.
     “Strip,” he said.
     Just that one word.
     Strip.
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