21st Feb 2012

Toni Sands Orchid Pink

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Welcome the lovely Toni Sands today!

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I know that as well as being a respected author, Victoria cooks like an angel. I too love to produce tasty food and especially enjoy baking. I’m also a big fan of food references in fiction. Food’s a great leveller, an important feature when it comes to celebrations. Not everyone appreciates the bubbly but most of us enjoy tucking in to chips, chocolate and cake now and then. Maybe not all at once!

Finger licking scenes in my story ‘Off the Menu’ (Black Lace collection ‘Sex in the Kitchen’) lead to … shall we call it a heady dessert? Here, the restaurant owner, her assistant, Millie and two very special guests are sitting down to dinner together. The restaurant, in case you’re wondering, stays closed to other diners on this occasion. And Millie is a very naughty girl.

That pulse is beating again. I start working my second sausage, speared on my fork so I can rub the tip against my mouth and lick it before my lips open just wide enough for me to push the savoury meat inside. My aim is to remain demure, as if totally incapable of any depraved thoughts. Both guys look at me as if they can’t wait to see what I’ll do next and I’m wondering if the dining table will rise a few inches when I think of what those two must be hiding down there beneath the pink cloth.

Hardly the stuff of button boots and chintz curtained tearooms but just as in Orchard Pink, food provides something for the characters to focus upon while the subtext whets the reader’s appetite. So, when writing erotic romance, I need no excuse to include a meal, whether it’s a Christmas banquet, a cool dinner date or a teashop stop for cakes and a pot of tea. A little café near Kew Gardens features in Orchid Pink. Adelaide’s friend Ruth takes her there after they meet by chance in the Orchid House. This extract is my heroine’s version of an initial date that I hope shows how she falls under Ruth’s spell

She’d turned my life around at our first meeting. Being courted was such a new experience for me. I’d been flattered. Excited. Trembling with wonderment and misgiving. We’d walked to a nearby tearoom. One straight out of a Dickensian etching. Seated beside the net-curtained mullioned window, we drank Earl Grey and ate currant buns, their tops sugar-shiny. We discussed everything except the one thing that most concerned each of us. Covert glances flickering beneath hat brims, lacy necklines fingered … the start of a liaison I’d never expected. Never for one moment imagined. But it sweetened my life. She wrote down her address in copperplate script so I could call upon her next day. How I reached home again I cannot recall. The following afternoon, after arriving at her lodgings I was directed to her room. She locked her door behind me. We’d talked enough the day before. We’d talk plenty afterwards. At that moment, there seemed no need for conversation. Our first kiss heralded something that terrified and excited me.

My poor heroine is tortured by our own passions and emotions. She’s vulnerable despite her sheltered, well-to-do existence. Or maybe because of it? As the novel progresses, meals are the backdrop to conversations Adelaide can sometimes do without. Sometimes food is interrupted by the hand-delivery of a letter or an unexpected visitor. Or, the lure of something other than a rich Victorian soup …

I’ve enjoyed chatting to you. Please drop by my website some time. I’d love to hear from you. And I’d love you to befriend Adelaide.

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Demure Adelaide hides a passionate nature beneath her elegant gowns. After hiring a delicious new maid, Daisy, she can’t wait to initiate her into the delights of the orchid house. Though resenting paternal pressure to marry businessman Thomas, Adelaide finds excitement in his touch and his erotic whisperings. Yet, when he reveals his sinister side, she seeks solace elsewhere. Christmas brings snowflakes, also a vivid reminder of a heart-wrenching past. Intrigue and obsession rock this Victorian household as Adelaide’s poignant search for love leads her into storms. Will she ever bask in the sunshine?

Orchid Pink is available from Amazon UK, Amazon US and All Romance eBooks, as well as other good eBook retailers.
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Toni Sands lives near the Black Mountains in Wales. Many of her ideas arrive while she’s walking by the river or travelling by train and she also finds inspiration when visiting London. This is where she enjoys roaming galleries and gazing at colourful window displays. She drinks too much coffee and often talks to strangers. Her erotic romances feature in collections by Virgin Black Lace and Accent Xcite, both paperbacks and e-books. She writes to entertain, sometimes finding, as in the case of her new heroine, a character will pop into her head, demanding to have her story told. Toni enjoys networking and belongs to the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She’d like to keep on writing as long as her readers keep on reading.

Website: http://www.tonisands.co.uk

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My short review of Orchid Pink:

This is an intriguing read filled with mystery and personal turmoil that keeps you turning the pages. It’s erotic, sexy and emotional. It’s not my usual fair but I really enjoyed it. I do love a good historical romance and this IS a good historical romance.

I love how well rounded the characters are in this book, I was intrigued by Adelaide from the very beginning of the novel and I always wanted to keep reading to find out more. Pick it up and give it a go yourself. It’s a great portrayal of a young woman struggling to work out who she is and what her sexuality is. As deep and hard hitting as Orchid Pink is it is also full of genuinely funny and touching moments too. It’s a thrilling roller coaster of a read!

19th Feb 2012

Sunday Snog -Dirty Deeds!

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Hello all, another Sunday and another snog. Today I’m taking a hot kiss (and much more) from my story Dirty Deeds which features in Uniform Behaviour, edited by Lucy Felthouse and contributer to Help For Heroes!

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The Blurb:

Do you get all weak-kneed at the sight of a grubby fireman or a hunky soldier? Perhaps immaculately-dressed waiting-on staff get you feeling frisky? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Uniform Behaviour contains sixteen smutty stories about firemen, soldiers, sailors, police, security guards and even waiters, priests and cleaners! Delve into this anthology and enjoy steamy stories from established erotica authors including Justine Elyot, Craig J Sorensen, Victoria Blisse, Shermaine Williams, Elizabeth Coldwell and Lucy Felthouse. Uniform Behaviour also proudly introduces some exciting debut authors. So remember, you saw them here first! As well as being written and compiled for your titillation, this anthology is also designed to do good. A portion of the proceeds from Uniform Behaviour will be donated to UK charity Help for Heroes, which helps those wounded in current conflict. The stories in this anthology have been hand-picked by a uniform aficionado, so you can rest assured that only the sexiest erotic fiction lies in this eBook.

The Snog!

“Well, now there’s a sight I wasn’t expecting to see.”

My eyes flew open with a start and there in the doorway was Mr Holloway.

“Oh, my, I’m sorry Mr Holloway, I am so, so sorry.”

“Hush, Emma dear, it’s okay.”

“It’s just I was cleaning up and I spilt your red wine all over my dress, none went on your carpet though and I had to take it off and wash it and…”

With every “and” I uttered he stepped closer and closer. I moved to stand but he forcefully shook his head.

“Stay there, don’t move.” His coat was thrown on the other end of the long, stylish sofa. “I have dreamed of this so many times, Emma, don’t spoil my fantasy.”

He stood in front of me and I couldn’t pull my gaze away from his. His cold, cool eyes burned with something dangerous and exciting. He lowered himself to the seat beside me then reached out and ran a hand down my naked arm. I shivered. “You’re beautiful,” he murmured then leant in to kiss me. The moment his lips impacted on mine I exploded inside. My mind was a whir of questions but my body ignored them and responded singularly to the heat in his kiss and then as abruptly as it started his lips were snatched from mine.

“Emma,” he snapped, “as beautiful as you are you should not be masturbating on my time. I do not pay you to sit around my living room wanking.”

“No, Sir, I know, Sir,” I babbled, “I don’t know what came over me and I’ll just go and see if my dress is okay to go in the dryer and I’ll keep out of your way…”

“Emma, shut up,” he snapped and I obeyed, “you’re not going anywhere until you accept your punishment for being so naughty.”

“Okay,” I replied, so confused. This man had just kissed me, now he was angry. “You should dock my wages.”

“I might just do that too, but first, I want you lying over my lap. I’m going to spank you.” “Spank me?”

“Yes and the longer it takes for you to shut up and bend over my knee the longer I will spank you for.” A glimmer of understanding broke through the tumult of fear and confusion. I moved towards him then lowered myself over his lap.

“That’s better.” He stroked a hand down over my tabard, “I’ve wanted to do this for so long.” He flipped the thick material up and revealed my arse and the black lace of my underwear. “I have to say though, you’ve never worn such pretty underwear in my fantasies.”

He slipped the lace over my bottom and pushed the knickers down to my knees. I was bare and exposed and my cheeks were hot with embarrassment but arousal coursed through my veins.

He touched me gently at first, his big, soft hand with the thin, purposeful fingers stroked over my flesh and I relaxed beneath them, but then he struck. I yelped as hand cracked down on butt and shook with every impact. It hurt but the stinging tunnelled through me and turned into a slow burn of pleasure. I was getting off on his punishment and I could feel the evidence that he was enjoying it too pressed into my ribs to the side of me.

“Don’t do that again,” he said, emphasising each word with a spank, “you will not masturbate without my permission in future, do you hear me?”

“Yes, Sir,” I yelped, desperate for something more than slaps.

“Good girl,” he purred and rubbed his hand over my naked arse, “now get back in that seat and show me what you were doing.”

“Yes, Sir,” I replied again, eager to please him and equally as eager to release the built up tension inside me. I lifted myself off his lap and sat back down, gingerly, on the soft sofa. The stinging warmth of his smacks burnt still as I settled myself down and opened my thighs. My knickers fell to the floor in a heap as I moved. I lifted the front flap of my tabard and slid my fingers into my slit. I heard him hiss as I opened myself further to slip a finger inside myself and when I pulled it out it was covered in my juices. As I rubbed my own, personal lube over my clit Jake scrambled to the floor and pushed the coffee table back out of the way. He knelt there between my thighs as I wanked.

Suddenly I felt like the one in control. He was mesmerised by my every movement and I played up to that. I revelled in the heat of his stare. I was lost in my desire and no longer did I feel the embarrassment and guilt of being caught in the act. All I wanted was satisfaction.

For more Uniform high jinks and the rest of my story check out Uniform Behaviour!

Now authors, it’s your turn to join in. Write up a sexy snog on your site, link back to me here at snogging central and add your details into the form below:

Oh No! The site that normally hosts the link list is down at the moment while they move to new servers, for now please post your Sunday Snog Link as a comment below and I’ll add them manually to the post. Sorry for the inconvience, hopefully this will be fixed next week.

Readers enjoy more snogs from authors linked above. Ah, I do love Sundays.

18th Feb 2012

FREE!

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It’s a lovely word right? It’s at it’s best when used before the word ‘reads.’ A free read is great fun and I have several on this site here.

You can also read lovely and free flash fiction at blissekiss.co.uk

And there’s a whole host of freebies at Total-e-Bound.

So there, a small but perfectly formed post containing lots of free goodness for you!