BOOK PROMO ~ BEAUTY SERIES BY SKYE WARREN WITH SWEEPSTAKES/GIVEAWAY

and 

CS Maxwell ~ Where's My Muse? 

presents 

Title: Beauty Touched the Beast (The Beauty Series)

Author: Skye Warren

Release dates:  Nov. 2011 - July 8, 2013 (serial release)

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age Group:  New Adult/Adult

*The first novella, Beauty Touched the Beast, is currently free on Amazon and B&N*

Beauty Touched the Beast (Beauty #1):

Erin cleans Mr. Morris’s house twice a week, soaking up every moment with the reclusive ex-soldier she secretly loves. Blake Morris knows he’s scarred both inside and out and is no good for the beautiful young woman who cleans his house to pay for college. But when Erin walks in on Blake touching himself and moaning her name, all bets are off.

Beauty Touched The Beast

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Beneath the Beauty (Beauty #2):

In the long anticipated sequel to Amazon Erotica Bestseller Beauty Touched the Beast, Erin and Blake explore their new intimacy and encounter old enemies.

When Blake receives an offer to return to his Alma mater as associate professor, he knows this is his chance to reenter the world—and to be worthy of the woman he loves. Erin wants this chance for him to heal… even if it means leaving her behind.

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Broken Beauty (Beauty #3):

A troubling revelation puts Blake’s new found career in jeopardy and Erin’s impending graduation at risk. The couple forge ahead, determined that love conquers all. They find a new depth to their respect for one another and new heights for their sensual play, but secrets and shadows lay in wait along the path.

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Beauty Becomes You (Beauty #4):

Expected Publication is July 15th. No blurb available at time of posting. 

About the Author

Skye Warren writes unapologetic erotica, where pain and sex and love collide. She has been called “a true mistress of dark and twisted erotica” and her books have reached the bestseller lists at Amazon and been a Night Owl Reviews Top Pick.

Author Links:

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Excerpt from Beauty Touched The Beast 

Erin woke up in slow degrees. Awareness tugged at her like a gentle tide. Arousal lapped gently at her skin. She had been in a deep slumber, both sated and sore, but she came alive again under his touch.

Blake. Sighing, she might have said his name aloud. Or maybe just in her mind. They were attuned now, so soon after sex, after being wrapped up in each other, cocooned in sleep. Past the point of discussions, negotiations, they’d been stripped to the core. Him, her, and the pleasure they could invoke together.

Calloused fingers roamed over her hips and lower, lower, to where her curls were still damp from their earlier sex. She peeked her eye open at the windows. A faint eerie light glowed against the curtains, heralding late twilight, the dead of night. He was insatiable really. Last night, then now. Then they’d probably do it again in the morning most likely. She loved it.

When his fingers slipped inside the wetness pooling between her legs, she moaned.

“Shh,” he murmured. “I didn’t mean to wake you.”

Liar. A lazy smile curled her lips. “Is that right?”

He found her clit and pinched. His breath was hot at the back of her neck, his erection pressing urgently against her back. “But now that you’re up…”

“You have plans for me.” Delicious plans. They always were.

“You don’t have to do a thing,” he murmured, rolling her onto her back. He nuzzled his way between the valley of her breasts, across her belly and settled in between her legs. Her knees splayed wide, her whole body spread open to him, encouraged by anticipation and the laxity of sleep. 

 She’d been given oral sex before, but never by someone as dedicated as Blake. He enjoyed himself there almost as much as he enjoyed regular sex—maybe more. He could make her come endless times, until she was throbbing and restless, until she had to beg him to come inside her.

God, she loved it.

Sweepstakes Rules and Details

• There will be one(1)  eBook set of the Beauty novella series given away at each participating blog.  Open International. Approximate value of eBook set is $4.00 USD. 

• ‘Liking’ the author’s Facebook page will count as an extra entry: https://www.facebook.com/skyewarren

• Leave a comment below with your email address and whether you want the books in mobi or epub format. 

Other Terms and Conditions of Sweepstakes 

• Must be 17 years or older to enter.
• No purchase necessary to enter sweepstakes.
• Must reside in countries able to receive eBooks gifted from Amazon.com. The approximate retail value of the eBook is $4.00 USD. 
• The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. 
• Winners will be selected on July 16th, 2013 randomly by random.org.  Winner will be announced at this blog on July 17th. 
• Winner will have until midnight, July 17th to contact me after notification in order to claim prize. If the item is not claimed withing 24 hours of receiving notification, the item will be forfeited.
• Please allow up to 2 weeks for books to be sent to the winners. 
• CS Maxwell ~ Where's My Muse? and  AToMR Tours are not liable for purchasing, shipping or emailing the items, winner not receiving the items, or lost items shipped/emailed. 
• This sweepstakes is sponsored by the author and eBooks will be provided via email by the author. 
• Any taxes associated will be paid by the author unless otherwise stated. 
• CS Maxwell ~ Where's My Muse? has the right to obtain and publicize the winners name and likeness. 
• Void where prohibited by law. 

BLOG TOUR ~ HEAR ME BY SKYE WARREN

Series: Dark erotica , Book 3
Author: Skye Warren
Publisher: Skyerotica
Release Date: September 15, 2012

Word Count: 32,000

Book Blurb

She doesn’t remember her past, only her training. She can’t talk, not that a good slave should speak out of turn. None of that matters when she wakes up in the warm, rustic room. Her new master is distant, but kind. There’s only one problem: he doesn’t want her.

Longing for the shackles of safety, she pulls from the last dregs of her will to prove her worth as a slave. It seems to be working. He responds first to her body and next to her submission. The secrets of his past haunt the cabin, fraying the tightening bond between Master and slave, but it is her own memories that may finally unravel it.  

WARNING: This book contains explicit scenes of sex, including dubious consent and captivity situations. The BDSM does not conform to literary conventions, making it sometimes more realistic, and other times not. This is a work of fiction not appropriate for anyone uncomfortable with these situations or anyone under the age of eighteen.

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  Amazon / B&N / All Romance   Link for author click here.   Excerpt from Hear Me (Rated R, unedited):

She kissed him. His lips were unexpectedly soft. They parted—in surprise, she thought—and then she slipped her tongue inside. It had been forever since she’d done this, never had she done this, but it came to her like breathing. She needed it, and if he took it away, if he stopped her…

He did stop her, but only to reverse everything, changing it but leaving it the same, with only the flick of his tongue and the tightening of his hand on her hip. Then it was him kissing her; it was her sighing. Please, oh please. And he answered her with his heat, his taste, with the pleasure he found from showing her this place of beauty and magic.

No, she’d been wrong. Any price would be too high if she were to lose this after all. Even precious courtesy wouldn’t be enough, compared to this. The world upended around her, from pain to pleasure, from survival to passion. The pebbled beach smoothed to velvet under her feet, the moisture in the air slicked their skin.

An ache started in her sex, and her hips rocked against him. She would have restrained herself, once she noticed, but he moaned, and she knew without words that it was good. She was good, and he wanted her to keep doing it. So she let her body lead—strange though it felt, foreign and uncertain. She rolled her body along his, she ran her hands over his skin.

It wasn’t her anyway. This was too much, too fast. It had to be some other woman playing the sensual lover, because she would never dare. And when he said, “God, yes, so long,” it was only a dream.

He broke the kiss, and she sighed with regret. But then he pulled her the water, where eddies of warm and cool tickled her feet. She gasped in delight, and it sounded sharply even over the rush of the cave. It had a strange amplifying effect—even the silence was loud, but each small splash or sigh was a roar in her ears.

She looked up to find him watching her with an enigmatic expression. In the shadows, the darkness of his eyes loomed large. She imagined she could see his thoughts, that they swirled like so much smoke: thick bands of lust, wisps of amusement.

Her training wasn’t about how to stand or to suck, not really. She had become an expert at reading expressions, at decoding body language. He was a formidable cipher, but she only needed time.

Meanwhile, she knew well enough what those heavy lids and flattened lips meant. She saw the tinge of red on his cheeks. All of that would have told her, even if she hadn’t seen the bulge in his wet jeans. He wanted to take her, and this time, it wasn’t in his sleep. It wasn’t in some awkward moment, born of pity—no. He had initiated this. He had brought her to this magical place. No dream.

He seemed to like her forwardness. It seemed to release a curious guilt he seemed to have about her status, so she tentatively reached up to sweep a wet lock of hair from his forehead. He remained still for her touch, his expression one of approving forbearance. But when she went to stroke down his neck, he caught her wrist.

“I’m going to ask you something, and I want you to say no, if you don’t want it too. I’m afraid you can’t. If I were better—stronger—I wouldn’t even make you choose, but I…” He sighed. The moisture in the air beaded on his eyelashes. “It’s been so long. I’ve waited so long.”

He pulled her in deeper, until the water climbed her thighs and lapped at her sex. They followed the wall of the cave until it opened up onto a small beach. There was a small beach here, completely enclosed by cool stone and reflective water. Barely enough place for both of them, but she knew that was the point. Here even the white noise of the water was reduced, and all she could hear was my breath and his.

“I never imagined a submissive as perfect as you,” he said lowly, but the words were as commanding as she’d ever heard him. “I keep thinking you’re not real, that I’ll wake up and find myself alone again. But this isn’t real, is it? You aren’t really like this. They made you this way.”

Don’t make me think about it. Just want me.

“Jesus Christ,” he said. “When you look at me, so damn trusting. It’s not right. I know that, but I can’t stop. Will you let me, subby? Can I hurt you?”      

Skye is giving away a $100 gift card to Amazon to one lucky commenter in the tour.  I am also giving away a a copy of Hear Me. And the host with the most comments will receive a $50 gift card to Amazon ~ please feed my addiction, lol!

Rules for Giveaway:

1. Follow my blog

2. Leave email address in comment section and answer this question - Who is your favorite Dom in the fiction world of BDSM?

HOT SUMMER NIGHTS EROTICA BLOG HOP

What do you think of when you imagine the approaching summer nights? A front porch swing for two listening to the orchestra of chirping cicadas and peepfrogs? The glow from 1000 citrinella candles to fight off hungry mosquitos? Leisure walks along the beach? Or hot, sweaty bodies---skin to skin--sliding across each other in the flickering shadows of a full moon?

HOT SUMMER NIGHTS EROTICA BLOGHOP--HOSTED BY SKYE WARREN--is a way to celebrate the beginning of summer and fill those nights with some very steamy reads. Over 90 erotica authors and bloggers with a a need for such steamy reads are coming together to give away some really COOL prizes. Also, every comment in this blog hop will be entered for a chance to win a choice of 2  GRAND PRIZES!

    

 ~ A Digital Erotica Gift Basket with OVER 40 BOOKS! ~ 

OR

~ $100 Gift Card to EDENFANTASYS ~

~ My Giveaway ~

An eBook copy of Cherise Sinclair's Make Me, Sir

Book Five in the Club Shadowlands Series
Winner picked via Random.org


Genre: BDSM contemporary erotic romance
Publisher: Loose Id, LLC
eBook release: February 1, 2011
ISBN 13: 978-1-60737-942-3

Her job is to make his life miserable. His job is to make her submit. Whose heart will surrender first?

Across the country, rebellious BDSM submissives are being systematically kidnapped, one from each club. When her friend falls prey to the slavers, FBI victim specialist Gabrielle volunteers to be bait in a club not yet hit: the Shadowlands.

She finds that being a bratty sub comes naturally, especially when she gets to twit the appallingly conservative Master of the trainees. But she soon discovers he’s not as stuffy as she’d thought. Or as mean. She’d expected punishment, even humiliation, but she sure never expected to fall in love with a damned lawyer.

Courtesy of a prima donna ex-wife, Marcus loathes disobedient submissives. When the club owner insists he admit an incredibly bratty trainee, he’s furious. But as he comes to know Gabrielle and sees the alluring sweetness beneath the sass, he starts to fall for her.

Unfortunately, Marcus isn’t the only one who believes the feisty redhead is a prize worth capturing. And in the world of the slaver, such treasure is worth a hefty fee.

Click here for a sexy excerpt from Make Me, Sir.

Rules for MY Giveaway:

*Follow my Blog

*Leave comment in box along with email address
*Winner announced June 25 for eBook of Make Me, Sir

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GUEST BLOGGER AND AUTHOR SKYE WARREN

I would like to welcome author, Skye Warren, to my blog today as GUEST BLOGGER~ I am so excited to have her here and can't wait to see what she has to talk about!

The Making of a Book Cover

by Skye Warren

Thanks for having me! I’m here to talk about my dark erotica release, Trust in Me, and give you an exclusive, inside peek at how I created the cover for Trust in Me. But first, you should know a little bit about what we’re creating a cover for, so here’s the blurb:

Can love be found between a whore and a knight in tarnished armor?

Mia longs for the daily torture to end, but one last task keeps her holding on. In a betrayal of the crime lord who pulled her from the gutter, she’ll free the shipment of human cargo, and if she’s lucky, die in the process. The alternative is unfathomable, even to a woman well-versed in erotic torture. But luck abandons her yet again when she meets the security expert in charge of the shipment and finds herself face to face with her childhood crush. The man she once begged for help. The man who failed her.

Tyler Martinez is an undercover FBI agent with one chance to right the wrongs of his past. Thrust deep into the seedy world of human trafficking, he must put aside his guilt over abandoning Mia all those years ago in order to save her now.

Someone’s pulling the strings in this sadistic play on trust, but Tyler and Mia may not live long enough to see the curtain fall. Trust in Me is a story of erotic pain and incipient romance, spiraling ever faster toward betrayal or redemption.

WARNING:


This book contains explicit scenes of dubious consent, graphic violence and sex. It also depicts abuse and captivity situations. Not appropriate for anyone uncomfortable with these situations or anyone under the age of eighteen. This is a work of fiction.


Trust in Me was just a concept in my mind, but as soon as I saw this picture, I knew it would be the cover. I love this model, how she’s pretty and delicate, but at the same time, I think she could also appear plain without the make up or lighting. Her hair is beautiful, etc, but the thing that really struck me was her submissive pose.

All we can see of the man is his hand, but it’s clear that he’s controlling her. Her gaze is fixed on him. Her head is tilted up, at a slightly unnatural angle, just enough to make it clear that it’s up to him. She’s also calm about it, accepting, not fearful. I can’t help but think she’s an extension of him. Like even a subtle shift or flick of his fingertips would trigger her obedience.


While that picture is gorgeous on its own, I wanted something else to set the scene. Trust In Me is set in the seedy part of a large city, except for a few scenes which take place out on an island a small ways away.

This picture was perfect, because of the urban landscape and the road leading to it. I also loved the colors of the sky, and that was how I picked the amber/brown tones to use for the whole cover.


My only concern was that neither of these pictures were overtly erotic. I actually find the first picture very erotic, but if you’re not thinking along the lines of domination/submission, it might not be taken that way. So I was sure to put the series name on the cover, Erotic Nonconsent, to make it totally clear to passersby. I used the same script for the subtitle as from my first book in the series to link them.

I tumbled them all together and came up with my cover…
 
 

 
 

So there you go, an exclusive insider’s peek into my cover creation!

GIVEAWAY


Skye Warren is giving away an eBook  copy of Trust in Me to a commenter from each stop in the blog tour. In addition, every comment along the way enters you in the drawing for a $20 Amazon gift certificate. What do you think – does this cover reflect “dark” themes? Do you get an urban romantic suspense feel? Am I the only one who thinks that girl’s pose is erotic as hell?

EXCERPT:

Carlos looked down at me from his seat with a half-smile. The guy next to him was speaking in low, urgent tones, but I had his attention.

Other whores might try coy smiles or a flash of cleavage, but if you really knew El Jefe—and, unfortunately, I did—then you knew all you had to do was drop to his feet. I knew what he wanted and how he liked it, knowledge born of years of training. As long as I behaved, he wouldn’t kill me. I craved the release of death, but I was too well trained to earn it.

I reached his leather shoes and waited. The same Italian leather shoes that had kicked me only recently, but they weren’t a danger to me now. Carlos didn’t like to get too messy when he had guests. Even though I didn’t like performing, I could be glad this new guy was around today. Then again, I’d probably have to service him next.

Carlos unzipped his pants.

The guy sucked in a quiet breath, as if we’d shocked him.

That wouldn’t stop Carlos. He wasn’t an exhibitionist. He was a sadist, and the only thing better than causing someone physical pain was causing him emotional discomfort. Every pinch was designed to humiliate, every blow to subjugate. You’re not worthy, they said, and I lapped up every blow to my shrunken ego like the masochist I’d learned to be.


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REMINDER--GIVEAWAY HOSTED BY AUTHOR SKYE WARREN

JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER----Author Skye Warren will be stopping by my blog this coming Monday, March 5th....she will be doing a guest post and giving away an eBook copy of her book, TRUST IN ME, to one lucky commenter.
Also, she will also select one lucky winner for a $20 gift card from all the comments during her ENTIRE TOUR.

**ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS STOP AND LEAVE A COMMENT-please make sure you include your email in your comments, so that Skye has a way of getting in touch with the winners!

Here is a list of the stops that Skye Warren is making during her Blog Tour:

March

1 – Book Spotlight @ Lia Davis


2 – Interview @ You Gotta Read (interview questions are attached)


3 – Guest Blog @ Reading Between the Wines


5 – Guest Blog @ C. S. Maxwell


7 – Interview & Giveaway @ For the Love of Reading


9 Guest Blog @ Erykah Wyck


12 – Interview @ Close Encounters with the Night Kind