So I've allowed (ha that's a laugh, no one allows Doris to do anything she is the boss) Doris to hijack my blog today...
Release Central
Ever  had a week so exciting you felt you might literally explode with it  all. Well, I just had one of those weeks. Last Wednesday saw the release  of my Debut novel Lure of the Blood. 
  
Blurb:  Marnie’s decision to finance her law degree by pole dancing awakens her  latent sexuality and the mysterious stranger lurking in the shadows  sends her libido into overdrive. Attacked on her way home, she wakes up  the next morning covered in bruises and with no recollection of what  happened. The newspapers are full of a suspected animal attack and  Marnie finds herself in her very own twilight zone.
Realising  her sexy lurker is a vampire is bad enough, but her boss is the alpha  wolf of a pack of shifters? Torn between her attraction to both men and  surrounded by danger, she has a decision to make, that will change her  life forever.
   
The  excitement levels reached fever pitch when I made it into the Top 100  bestselling Kindle Erotica books on Amazon UK and stayed there for a  dizzying 48 hours.  Let me once again thank everyone who bought it and  the great feedback I received so far.
However, it also started a new obsession —constant checking of amazon sales rank. 
*rolls eyes at herself*
I think this writing lark may just turn me completely neurotic!
*grin*
No sooner had I recovered from that very exciting couple of days, Saturday saw me signing a contract for my story Saving Hope, part of the anthology Blood Bar Chronicles with my lovely Critique group.   
So yet more hopping around in excitement for yours truly. 
*grin*
And then Monday say the release of my sexy Swede Sven in Scandinavian Scandal.
   
Blurb:  Sven Larsson, international movie star, is out to repair his scandalous  reputation. The last thing he needs is an enticing bundle of curves  falling into his arms. However, the instant sexual chemistry he has with  Sylvia is hard to ignore . . . .
Sylvia,  a young widow and mother of three, knows Sven is everything she doesn’t  need in a man. Can she risk giving in to temptation? With the paparazzi  breathing down their necks and both of them scarred emotionally by  their past demons, will Sven and Sylvia manage to heal each other?
   
  
I am slowly coming back down from the ceiling, mainly due to the cold, I caught off the baby.
Streaming  eyes and nose is such an attractive look, not to mention the thumping  headache, and sore throat, which apparently means that all the kids have  to play up even more than usual.
 So,  if you’re thinking that I’m basking in glory, then think again, lol.  Nothing quite like having children to keep you firmly grounded in  reality! And with that I will sign off, the baby’s nappy needs changing,  but before I go, have a little hot excerpt from Scandinavian Scandal,  because I know Raven is rather fond of him…
Half  an hour later, she was searching for the man in her garden, squinting  in the sun, wondering why on earth Mrs. Robinson was hanging over the  fence with a big grin on her face.
"Pssst Sylvia, there you are."
She  rolled her eyes at her neighbour's hushed whispers. What now? And where  in the world was Sven? She got her answer when she stepped off her  decking and rounded the corner, following Jo's excited gesticulations.   Her stomach dropped to her boots, all the air leaving her lungs in one  big whoosh.
Now, wasn't that a sight for sore eyes?
A  sentiment clearly echoed by Mrs. Robinson, whose theatrical whispers  Sylvia could barely hear over the pounding of her own heart. Pure need  consumed into her, and she had to remind herself to breathe.
"I  am definitely making him the hero in my next book, look at those abs  and those itty bitty shorts. Doesn't leave much to the imagination, you  lucky thing you. Oh, be still my beating heart. This was so worth  climbing up this ladder."
Sylvia  could only agree.  Stripped to the waist, bare feet digging into the  grass, Sven's face was a study in concentration as his big body moved in  the graceful martial art of Kata. The fine sheen of perspiration only  served to emphasize the play of muscles on his torso as he worked his  body in the strict discipline, his breath whooshing in and out in  controlled grunts.
She bit her lip to  stop herself from moaning. Jo's excited chatter did not register at  all, as she watched him move in slow circles, straightening in and out  of tight squats, his arms moving in the intricate dance the martial art  required. With one last slow exhale, he straightened his long frame and  opening his eyes looked straight at her with a toe curling lazy smile  that had her biting down harder on her lip, as her whole body went up in  flames.
* * * * *
Damn,  she looked hot. Grabbing his T-shirt off the floor, he used it to wipe  the sweat off his brow and tucked it into the waistband of his shorts to  hide his body's immediate reaction to seeing Sylvia watching him.
He  had known the minute she had entered the garden, the slight breeze  sending her scent towards him, his body recognising and reacting to his  mate on a purely subliminal basis. Walking slowly towards her, he was  glad for the cover of the tee as the hot ache of desire shot through  him. The sun was behind her, making her little sun dress transparent,  and he let his gaze travel over the curve of her hips, down her long,  slender legs to the bare toes curled into the grass. Back up over the  slight indent of her waist, he let his eyes rest on the swell of her  rapidly moving breasts, her nipples puckering under his gaze before he  skimmed her face, finally settling on the plump bottom lip she was  biting down on hard enough to draw blood.
"Hej."
"Hi."
The  need in that breathy voice zoomed straight to his cock and not caring  about her now sighing neighbour, he pulled her flush against him. Her  desire soaked eyes widened further. He noticed with a smile of pure male  satisfaction, as he lifted her slightly to grind his raging erection  into her core. Taking her lip between his teeth, he caught her moan of  surrender in his mouth and deepened the kiss. Damn, he'd missed her  responsiveness, the way her body moulded into his as though they were  made for each other and the way she made him forget everything but this  immediate need to possess, to brand, to make her his. Lifting his head  slightly, he scanned her flushed face, his gut clenching at the trust he  saw in her eyes, as they fluttered open, before her eyes darted  sideways and he groaned at her immediate withdrawal.
Forcing himself to let her go, he turned towards the fence where her neighbour was still dangling at a precarious angle.
"Show is over Mrs. R, haven't you got a book to write?"
"Ohh,  yes, Sven dear, and boy have I got a plot line and scenes in my mind.  Your buns are to die for, might even encourage me to take up, er, baking  . . . ."
Sylvia's embarrassed laugh  into his shoulder had him rolling his own eyes at the woman, who gave  his body one last bold appraisal before she had the good grace to make  herself scarce.
"I dread to think what she'll put in that book."
"Hmm, I'll have to make sure to read it, vackra. Now where were we?"
He  sucked his breath in when her hands ran over his chest, her eyes  connecting with his. He had been so goddamned worried about her when she  had collapsed at the school, her breathing too shallow and laboured and  her whole body on fire. She had been too pale and listless, and hearing  from that useless doc that it was just a touch of flu had almost sent  him over the edge. It had been Timmy's worried little voice asking what  was wrong with Mummy that had gotten through the red mist of his anger,  and he had done his best to reassure Hard Head that mummy would be just  fine. She had to be, she was too damned important to the little man.  Sitting up with her, watching her thrash about, coaxing her to eat sips  of his mother's recipe chicken brew, his relief had been immeasurable  when her fever had finally broken, and he hadn't dared to examine his  own feelings too closely. 
He still  didn't, what he felt for the woman trembling with need in his arms was  too complicated and too scary to think about. Grabbing her cute arse  with a growl, he simply picked her up and carried her inside. Her legs  going round his waist had his own knees trembling, and they crashed  through the kitchen and into the hallway before he dropped her on the  stairs with a muffled curse.
"Jeez baby, I need to taste you now. I can't wait."
She  smiled in answer and shifted herself higher up the stairs. She pulled  her dress up, so that her pussy was right in front of his face and  opened her thighs wide. The sweet smell of her arousal in the air was  his complete undoing. Yanking the elastic of her knickers down, she  helped him by lifting her bum and kicking the scrap of material away.  Her soft moans urged him on as he clamped his hands on her thighs to  spread her wide and he buried his face in her drenched folds.
She  grabbed his hair holding him there her hips arching into his face, as  he tasted her sweet essence. He lapped her up, making her whimper as her  pussy clenched around him. The ache in his own cock became unbearable  as he suckled her engorged clit into submission.
"Sven, please . . . I"
Her  words barely recognisable, she pulled on his hair and he lifted his  head to see her passion filled eyes look down on him. Her hips bucked  again, when he pushed two fingers into her drenched core.
"So wet, baby, so ready, come for me."
"No, please, Sven I need you inside me . . . please . . . oh god, I'm so close . . . Sven."
He  watched her as she came apart noisily, her breath coming in short  gasps, her whole body shaking, her pussy clenching round his fingers, a  rosy flush spreading all across her body. 
"You're  so beautiful, I can't get enough of you. Mine all mine," and bunching  her dress up further he let his lips trail over her tummy. His teeth  grazed the stud in her bellybutton, pulling slightly and he smiled at  her gasp of surprise. His hands travelled further up bunching that dress  higher until he could bare her breasts. He took one pert nipple  in-between his teeth and suckled the tip until she was writhing under  him again.
"Sven, please I want your cock inside me now."
Releasing  that nipple with a pop, he groaned his frustration into her soft flesh  as his shorts went sticky with the release of precum. Fuck it, he was  not going to shoot his load in his shorts at her whispered words. The  rip of foil brought his head up in surprise. She pushed him off her  until their roles were reversed and it was his arse resting on the  stairs. She rolled the condom onto his cock with trembling hands.
His  hands went in her hair, and affection welled up at the impish smile she  gave him, throwing the empty wrapper over her shoulder. 
"The dress has pockets; you're not the only one who comes prepared  Mister."
His answering laugh made her smile deepen.
"I do love a practical woman." The sensation of her sliding her wet folds over him made any conscious thought leave his body.
"Hell, baby, you'll be the death of me."
Sensation  overwhelmed him as she began to move. Her internal muscles gripped and  stroked him. Her soft moans mingled with his harsh groans, their  movements growing ever more urgent. With one final thrust he spilled  himself deep inside her, before flipping her over. Catching her gasp of  surprise in his mouth, his thumb found her clit. With a few quick flips  he sent her too over that sweet edge. Her startled eyes connected with  his and his heart soared at what he saw in their depths.