Blogging about vacations

I’m visiting Tilly Green today and her “The Perfect Gift is a Book” blog. We’re talking about places we’d like to visit.
http://tillygreene.blogspot.com/2011/11/berengaria-brown-and-perfect-gift-is.html


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"The Vicar's Virgin" is an ARe bestseller!!!!!!

I'm so excited that "The Vicar's Virgin", my one man one woman Regency romance is an ARe bestseller!!

"The Vicar’s Virgin" Blurb:
The Reverend Mr. Ridley needs a wife so he focuses his attentions on Georgina Arnott, a sensible, intelligent, yet attractive woman.
On their wedding night he’s relieved to discover she enjoys the pleasures of the bed, and, after a slow start, their evenings are full of passion and joy for both of them.
Unfortunately, when she takes an interest in his parish, it seems to involve filling his house with noisy people tramping muddy boots through the hallways, and filling his kitchen with dirty children.
He loves his wife. But can this marriage work?

Buy link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/the-vicars-virgin-by-berengaria-brown/


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The final story in the Raw Claiming series is out now!

"Raw Want" blurb:


Yuri, Jed, and Lucas claim Ruth as their woman after rescuing her. The men demonstrate their love for her by helping her to prepare herself for the dangers and stress of their journey. Can the foursome learn to become a unit, while searching for more survivors? Weeks of searching reveal no survivors and no clean water either. How can people live under such conditions? Mind-blowing orgasms form a contrast to days of fear and tension. Will their travels cement their relationship or drive them farther apart than ever? Is shared danger and awesome sex enough of a foundation on which to build a long-term relationship?

Buy Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/raw-want

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Regency Romance out today!

Another author suggested I write a one man/one woman story, "for variety", since most of my books are menages, MM, or FF.
It seemed like an awesome idea. I love the Regency era, and Georgette Heyer's novels in particular, and I've already published several Regency-set stories, so I started thinking.
The Arnott family all started talking to me at once, and the Regency-set, one man/one woman series, "Virgins No More' was born.
The first book in the series, "The Vicar's Virgin" is out today!

The Vicar’s Virgin Blurb:
The Reverend Mr. Ridley needs a wife so he focuses his attentions on Georgina Arnott, a sensible, intelligent, yet attractive woman.
On their wedding night he’s relieved to discover she enjoys the pleasures of the bed, and, after a slow start, their evenings are full of passion and joy for both of them.
Unfortunately, when she takes an interest in his parish, it seems to involve filling his house with noisy people tramping muddy boots through the hallways, and filling his kitchen with dirty children.
He loves his wife. But can this marriage work?

Buy link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/the-vicars-virgin-by-berengaria-brown/

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I'm telling secrets

I'm telling secrets over at Hazel Nuts.

http://hazel-nuts.co.uk/?p=234


If you want to know some naughty things about me, drop by!

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Genre jumping

I write menages, MM, and FF. I like to read all different kinds of books so that's the way I write.

Several of my menages are series like the "Raw Claiming" books ("Raw Craving", "Raw Need" and "Raw Want") or the "Possessive Passions" series ("Shared Possession", "Possess Me" and "Ultimate Possession".)
For each of these series I began by building a world where there was a specific reason why several men would marry and share a woman. One menage story is eminently believable, but when a whole society is living in that way, I needed there to be a reason why they'd chosen to do this. Hence the traditional beliefs in the "Possessive Passions" series, and the end-of-the-world scenario in the "Raw Claiming" series.

How do you feel about menage stories? Do you need there to be a reason for people to act this way, or is lust a good enough reason for you?

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Raw Claiming: The world has changed and there's a shortage of women

"Raw Claiming" book one: "Raw Craving":

Ayla thought it’d be just like Y2K all over again. But this time the world really did change. Now, she’s living in a community with far more men than women and has to choose some to live with. Ethan and Gideon helped rescue her, and she’s drawn to them. The sex is great, but she has to learn to live in a community that must become self-sufficient.
Also, what’s going on outside? Has the world changed forever? Will the men be torn from her and sent outside again? Should she go, too? And into what?

Buy Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/raw-craving

"Raw Claiming" book 2: "Raw Need":

Hazel must choose who she’ll live with. On the one hand, she likes Peyton, the leader of the group she was with. On the other, Kenan and Reuben, two of the men who rescued her, want her to join them. The Captain has a simple solution—live with all three. There follows a night of the most intense four-way claiming ever.
Soon, Reuben and Kenan leave on a trip to search for survivors. They don’t find any people but find evidence a community may be hiding in desert caves. Hazel understands that two of her men need the adrenaline rush of using their skills in a dangerous situation, while one stays behind to protect her and her son. They’re all different people with different interests and skills, but can they ever become a real family?

Buy Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/raw-need


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Hazel gets her three men today!

Blurb: Raw Need

Hazel must choose who she’ll live with. On the one hand, she likes Peyton, the leader of the group she was with. On the other, Kenan and Reuben, two of the men who rescued her, want her to join them. The Captain has a simple solution—live with all three. There follows a night of the most intense four-way claiming ever.
Soon, Reuben and Kenan leave on a trip to search for survivors. They don’t find any people but find evidence a community may be hiding in desert caves. Hazel understands that two of her men need the adrenaline rush of using their skills in a dangerous situation, while one stays behind to protect her and her son. They’re all different people with different interests and skills, but can they ever become a real family?

STORY Excerpt

“Hazel Young, you will recall at your original interview you were told that you needed to make a decision about which man or men you would live with here at Lilyward One. Three months was suggested as an appropriate time for you to look around and make your first choice. If, after three months of cohabitation, you are not compatible, you may part and take a different man. Your first three months is up, yet you haven’t formed a relationship with anyone. May I know why?”
Hazel was scared stiff. There was no way on earth she could care for and support eight-year-old Tyler out in the world with radioactive dust still around, soil and water most likely poisoned, and no social structure or functional government. Being sent away from Lilyward One would be signing the death warrant for herself and her child.
She drew herself to her full five-foot-three-inch height, shook her blonde curls back onto her shoulders, then stared the all-powerful Captain Henry Blackmore in the eye. She may be scared enough to almost wet her pants, but she had a child to protect and her own life to fight for, so she would do her damndest to win her way through.
“Yes, Sir. I’m perfectly prepared to obey the rules here. I’m well aware that Tyler and I wouldn’t have survived the past three months had you not permitted us to stay at Lilyward One. My team supervisor has often said he’s happy with my work on the QB team. But moving in with a man or men is—difficult. It’s just been Tyler and me all his life. His dad took off before he was born, and I never applied for a divorce. I never wanted to remarry. The only good thing that came out of my year of marriage was Tyler.”
She stopped to tighten her wobbly knees, drag in a big breath, and flick her eyes to the Captain’s 2IC, George Samine. His face was as blank as the Captain’s. Feeling even more desperate to convince them to let her stay, she continued.
“Kenan and Reuben, part of Team K who brought the Broadford people here, have said many times they want me to partner with them. I’m not the kind of person who can just jump into bed with anyone, but I feel as though I know them now, and I like them, so I’m willing to try. But…”
“But?” The Captain’s deep blue eyes behind his metal-rimmed glasses seemed to peer right into her soul.
“There’s also Peyton. I really like Peyton. If the world hadn’t changed, he’s the kind of man I may eventually have invited into my life. Besides, what will happen to Tyler? If I move in with Reuben and Kenan, or with Peyton, will Tyler come, too? We’ve never been apart, and he’s still only a little boy.”
“Peyton was the leader of the Broadford District group you arrived with? The one who guided the dozen of you when the world changed?” asked the 2IC.
“Yes, Sir.”
“He seems to be a fine man. He’s provided some excellent input to the mechanics team. Had some very innovative ideas,” said the Captain. “In a nutshell, the problem is, you can’t decide between Kenan and Reuben on the one hand and Peyton on the other. The boy will stay with you whoever you choose. He’s not a problem. The men will accept him. I don’t see what you’ve said as an insurmountable difficulty. Why not move in with all three of them? See if you can all make it work.”
“Three men?” Hazel’s mind was whirring, and her heart beating way too fast for her to breathe properly.
“Why not? That’s a good solution. The world has changed, Hazel. It will never be as it once was, even if the various governments pull their heads out of their asses long enough to clean the earth up and show some serious leadership skills again,” added the 2IC.
Hazel dropped into a hard, wooden chair a little to the side of where she’d been standing. No amount of will-power could keep her upright any longer. Could she? Could she live with three men? The thought of living with two men had been hard enough to get her head around, but three? Holy Hannah!

Buy Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/raw-need


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Two Lesbian short romances out now

Fist Me

Maeve nearly fell off her barstool when Taryn, the sexiest woman she’d ever known, asked her to fist her. Could she? Should she? She’d always fancied Taryn and after the relationship from hell with Mr. Perfect, Maeve craves more. Hotter, Wilder. Naughtier. And she did ask her…

Stubborn Attraction

Jaelle is over work and men. She heads to the mountains in search of peace and the freedom to be who she is. A shapeshifter. There she meets Ursula. Wildfire lust and hot, intense sex consumes them. Are they bound by just sex or is there more to who they are?

http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-lustywenches-625953-145.html


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I'm talking about the seasons

I'm visiting Tabby's Nocturnal Nights today, talking about the seasons.
http://tabithablake.blogspot.com/2011/11/writing-about-seasons.html


Winter, Summer, Halloween, the beach, and other times of year. With a few of my yummy book covers, so please drop by.

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