Flights of Fancy

Saddled

A Briarwood Agency Story

Briarwood is a New York agency that provides only the best assistants to select clients up and down the east coast. If one wants a quick roll in the hay, other agencies with their escorts will do. But if one wants to indulge in some truly deliciously perversion, the sort that might ruin your life if it were to get out to the press, then one can only trust the Agency assistants.

John has avoided bottoming for men in the seven years he’s worked for the Agency. He sees it as a mark of distinction between him and the other assistants. However, when Derek Davis, the son of a famous movie director and a man with more money than God makes a request, the Agency does its best to fill it. Davis wants a man who is uncomfortable with bottoming to not only bottom, but to do it wearing the bridle and saddle. John needs money, the Agency needs to maintain their reputation as being able to provide anything, and Davis has an itch that can only be scratched in the saddle.

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Title: The Morning After
Prompt: Taming the Muse "That's life"
Summary: Liam enjoyed his post on the small planet of Prarownt, and he liked trading with the Rownt people, Ondry in particular. However, when a new officer makes him miserable, he finds that there's more to Ondry than he ever suspected, and culture rules are sometimes less clear than one little linguist might think.

Warning: dub-con, but no sex. I have no idea where this bunny came from, but it just sort of flew out of me and onto the page.


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And now Desert World Allegiances is OUT. I actually have a review on this one already, and it only came out yesterday.

Anyway, this one is more science fiction than romance, but with gay protagonists and a world where sexuality is more open and accepted, this is a m/m version of science fiction. This one is the one that I said had a tone somewhere between Beautiful Broken and Kin!Verse. Like in BB, the main character is struggling to recover from abuse and this is about finding strength inside. However, like in Kin!Verse, these two characters refused to jump into bed. They wanted to get to know each other, test each other, understand each other... there's a slowness to the relationship. If you've read this, please consider giving me a review on one of the sites. Even mediocre reviews can help readers understand what is good (or not good) about a story. After all, if you say you didn't like "x" another reader might love that very plot device.

On Amazon

At Dreamspinner

At Goodreads


OH... You can come talk to me about the book over HERE!

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Just to keep you guys in the loop, I have two books coming out in the next month.

Desert World Allegiances is the first book in the Desert World series. (Desert World Rebirth is already written and it's in the long, long process of going from draft to book).

The tone is hard to describe... part Beautiful Broken with an abused man discovering that being hurt doesn't mean giving up and that power comes in all forms. This is slave-fic, and it's not the fun sort of slavery. But more than that, I think this has almost a Kin 'verse vibe. These two spend the entire first book getting to know each other as people. They have to know and trust one another before the sex becomes possible in Desert World Rebirth. And both of them have to do some serious changing to find a way to make room for love in their lives.
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Out on September Fifth

Being condemned to slavery is a common enough occurrence on the desert planet of Livre, but this time, priest Shan Polli is determined to prevent the corrupt, soul-eating system from destroying one more life. Temar Grazer was sentenced for what amounted to a criminal prank—but Shan soon finds that the dangers extend far beyond Temar’s crime.

Caught between guilt and hope, Shan must find his true path in either the priesthood or in a man whose strength and survival defies the odds. Can the two men unravel a plot that threatens the entire world before Temar is broken by a system of slavery that has twisted out of control?


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Insistent Hunger definitely has a darker Buffy vibe.  The mythology is more Eastern European, but the vampires are generally nasty and very disturbing, and even the one vampire we like has an edge to him that makes him feel a little unstable to me... as if you can see Angelus peeking out from behind the much more submissive Angel.  And I think some of the Buffy vibe comes from Paige.  She's a woman in her forties, but she isn't much thrown by having to fight back the forces of darkness... okay, she is but she recovers quickly.  She's a "doer" rather than someone who stands back and lets others do for her, so this has maybe a Trickster vibe.  A little edgy... not quite sure you like the "hero" and someone with no powers definitely determined to get the upper hand.
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Out on August 31


Paige has a small life in a small town, and that's fine with her. She's happy with her chickens, her job as a police officer and her questionable home-improvement skills. However, when her rookie partner shows up on her doorstep one night, everything changes. He's panicked, bloody, dead and still begging for help. And Paige is feeling an unfamiliar desire, a primal need for her partner that leaves her shaken and out of control.

Brady's dark good looks have attracted the attention of a monster, but that doesn't mean he has to become a monster. Instincts might whisper about dark thoughts, but he’s trusted Paige with his life on the streets, and he'll trust her now. If trusting her means fighting this visceral need to be in her bed, he'll even try to ignore a growing hunger for this woman.


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Okay, I'm starting to get nervous now. I usually have some comments by now, but Lines in the Sand has nothing over at Dreamspinner or Amazon, and only five people have rated it at Goodreads. *frets* This is why I'm painfully shy in real life... I have issues. And I fret. And I worry way too much. And I wouldn't want to be around me when I'm in this mood. 

And Dreamspinner took it!!!

Desert World Allegiances

A young man named Temar Gazer is condemned to slavery, a common enough occurrence on the desert planet of Livre. However, this time a priest named Shan Polli is determined to prevent one more life to be lost to a system that destroys human souls. When it turns out that the danger reaches far beyond Temar and his criminal prank, Shan finds himself choosing between his vows and his heart. Caught between guilt and hope, he must find his true path. Can the two men unravel a plot that threatens the entire world, and can they do it before Temar is broken by a system of slavery that has twisted out of control?



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Adjustment Required
Pairing: Lock/Gary
Fandom: Original
Prompt: Taming the Muse, any joke in a storm
Warning: none... this is just a fragment of an idea.


Gary Clayton is good at hiding behind a façade of confident heterosexuality, at least most of the time. At least until now. Now he’s stuck in a job with Lock Roma, a man who seems to have taken an instant dislike to him and worse, he’s everything Gary wants to be—independent, strong, and openly gay. For his part, Lock never expects fair. Life has kicked him in the balls too often for that; however, he’s good at laughing at life and himself. Sometimes people doubt his ability to swing a whip because of his humor and his vertically challenged body, but he can Dom with the best. He’s never wanted to do more than play, though. However, both men are about to learn that appearance can be deceiving, and love is a nasty little bugger with a sense of humor sharp enough to sting.


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I retitled my latest vampire girl/boy book "Hunger" and sent it off to Ellora's Cave today. Fingers crossed.

And it's OUT!

Do you feel a need for a little angst, a little confusion, a little group sex with four hot men?
Casey feels unlucky in love
Amadi is a stranger trying to find his way
Nathan is the lone wolf who is suddenly not so lonely
Vince is the laid-back stoner who can't keep himself out of trouble

And their lives will soon intersect. Oh... did I mention werewolves?

I have to squee... the new book cover is in, and OH MY GOD.

The book comes out August 20, and I'm doing a virtual book signing for Dreamspinner. That means that Friday afternoon/night I'll be at the Dreamspinner Facebook with excerpts and contests, and you'll be able to buy a signed copy of the paperback from the site. I have to say I'm more excited about this one than Urban Shaman, and I don't know if that's because this story is more in my element (BDSM) or if it's all the resources the publisher is putting behind it.

Fair warning, I put the full sized jpeg behind the cut because I am just entirely too fond of this picture.  This is Vinnie to me--young, cocky, searching for love when he hasn't found himself.  He is so sure that the has his head together, and from the outside, he so does NOT.

This is the story that did start NCIS, but half way through I realized that I wasn't writing Tony anymore.  My Vinnie really doesn't have that much in common with Tony... nothing except the arrogance.  It's funny, I have no urge to turn my fanfic to original, but this story went there without me trying.  I really think it was because I was using original names (like Vinnie), and calling someone by another name seems to give that character another life.  They take on traits and lives of their own.  I know people have said that if I replaced every "Xander" in the Kin series, it would still look like Xander.  I wonder... if I had been thinking "Xander" but I called him "Danny," would Danny have taken on a life apart from his fanfic origins.  Hmmmmm... I'm obviously thinky today.  Anyway, back to the SQUEEEEEE




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