It’s been a while since I did a Man Candy Monday so today we’re going to play a little game with some hotties! FBI Agent Miguel Peters from Trapping a Terrorist is a Cuban-American so today we’re going to pick who we might cast in the role if someone decided to make a movie from that book! So let’s choose from two sexy Cubanitos! Will it be William Levy who just starred in South Beach Love or Eddie Cibrian who just starred in Netflix’s Country Comfort? A tough choice! Share who you would pick for the role of sexy FBI Agent Miguel Peters.
Celebrate Caridad’s Good News and More!
Thank you all for the wonderful reviews and comments on Cold Case Reopened! I truly appreciate your support for my very first Harlequin Intrigue. If you enjoyed this book, I think you will really like Trapping a Terrorist, my next Harlequin Intrigue. Here is a little teaser for it!
Trapping a Terrorist
An FBI agent puts everything on the line…
To keep a deadly threat at bay.
When FBI agent Miguel Peters and his father land squarely in the crosshairs of a bomber terrorizing Seattle, the last thing Miguel wants is to also entangle a lovely stranger in a terrorist’s web. Yet while Maisy Oliver might look innocent, her father’s one of the most notorious men in Washington State. Miguel knows Maisy will do anything to help him and his team catch a killer. But does that include confronting a past she’s worked far too long to forget?
You can find out more about Trapping a Terrorist at https://www.caridad.com/books/suspense/trapping-a-terrorist/.
My hubby teases me that I often “bury the lede” which is true in this case. I like to think that I’ve left the best news for last, namely, that I’ve agreed to do another four — yes 4! — for Harlequin Intrigue. If you’ve read Cold Case Reopened and remember Jackson’s Miami cousins Sophie and Robbie Whitaker, you’ll see more of them in my Liberty Agency series! Yeah! So excited to be sharing this news with you.
#ThrowbackThursday – To Catch a Princess
This is one of my fav books of all time. Glamorous Monaco. Hair-raising suspense. A cat burglar and crown jewels waiting to be snatched. A prince in hiding and of course, romance. I just loved writing TO CATCH A PRINCESS and I hope you’ll take a moment to check it out at https://www.caridad.com/books/suspense/to-catch-a-princess/.
#FreebieFriday – A Series of My Heart
The Calling is Reborn Vampire novels is a series of my heart. Part paranormal part suspense, it was so much fun to meet the characters, discover their stories, and share them with you! Today I’m offering up free downloads of DARKNESS CALLS, the first book in the series. DARKNESS CALLS was an RT Top Pick and also a finalist for Best Paranormal by Affaire de Coeur magazine. Diana and Ryder are two of my all time fav characters and I hope you’ll love them also! You can download the free e-book at http://bit.ly/DarknessCalls. Also, please leave a review if you can. Reviews really help authors and we really appreciate them. Have a great weekend!
#TeaserTuesday – DEATH CALLS from The Calling is Reborn Vampire Novels
Good morning! Sorry I’ve been away, but I was still recovering from my daughter’s wedding on Friday! Look for more photos on this week’s Throwback Thursday! Today’s teaser is from DEATH CALLS, #4 in my vampire romantic suspense series. This book was chosen by Cataromance as the Best Silhouette Nocturne of 2006 and also as the Top Fantasy Book by Catalina Magazine. It features FBI Agent Diana Reyes and sexy vampire Ryder Latimer, two of my all-time favorite characters.
Warning this teaser is for MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY!
Teaser
Darkness Calls to humans as well as vampires. . .
When FBI Agent Diana Reyes fell in love with Ryder Latimer, she knew that her life would never be the same. But her vampire lover brings passion into her life and Diana thought that and his love would be enough. Now she has her doubts if she can stay in his world. His darkness connects with something deep inside her, something that scares as much as it restores her life. But at times, she finds herself wishing for a “normal” life.
Ryder understands that his lover has fears about returning to the darkness that had once claimed her life. He has fears of his own, namely losing her after a lifetime of being alone. He doesn’t know what he would do without Diana in his life. When an FBI investigation pulls Diana into a dangerous and dark mission, Ryder is forced to make a choice: Can he let his lover go or will he bring her into his world forever, even if she will hate him for eternity?
Excerpt
“I don’t regret. . .us,†she whispered. Funny, but it was the truth despite her doubts. He was her damnation and her salvation.
“Let’s not talk about this now. The night is short and. . .I don’t want to spend it. . .â€
Burying her head against his chest, she wrapped her arms around him. Her embrace shook loose something inside of him.
He needed to make it impossible for her to deny that this was real, no matter how many doubts both of them now seemed to be having.
It was sweet torture, the feel of her breasts skimming his chest. Her warmth slowly worked its way into the cold of his body. The heat of her passion drove the chill from his skin.
She tugged him toward her bed. “This is what you want, isn’t it?â€
She wore her false bravado face. Funny how he could recognize it so easily. Funny how he wanted to drive the fear from her until she truly welcomed him into her bed. Invited him into her heart.
“Can you deny it’s what you want, as well?†he said.
She couldn’t lie to herself. She needed more of him. She always needed more even if she refused to give a name to that desire. Even as she wondered if it was a result of some vampire head game, much as Foley had suggested.
Ask me to touch you, he said.
Why?
His demanding reply came swiftly. Because I need you to want me as much as I want you.
“Dios, Ryder. I need you.â€
Slowly, way too slowly, he lowered his hand until it rested on top of the nest of curls between her legs. She pressed her hips up, urging him on. He breached the edge of her panties and unerringly found her center.
Beneath his fingers, Ryder experienced the pull of her. The scent of her arousal perfumed the air, so strong that the vampire within begged for a taste. He had lost the battle last time. He wouldn’t allow it to happen tonight. If the animal came. . .she might hate him—or herself—for surrendering to the demon.
He dropped a trail of kisses along her body. She opened her legs, knowing his intent and welcoming it. He slipped between her legs, brought his mouth to her sensitive nub.
Her hips arched in acceptance.
Her wetness—slick against him—and the smell of her. . .the heat. . .He groaned and she held his head to her.
He lost the battle.
The change surged over him. It was almost too much. The smell of their sexual musk. Her racing pulse reverberating in his ears. Her nether lips, wet and flush with blood. The demon imagined feeding there, at her most private of places.
He gasped at the roiling passion making his loins ache and looked up at her with his vampire face. Fangs exposed. Eyes glowing. Skin flushed and warm.
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#TeaserTuesday – Darkness Calls Free Read
Today’s teaser is from the first book in The Calling is Reborn Vampire Novel series. In this book you get to meet sexy Southern vampire Ryder Latimer and badass FBI Agent Diana Reyes. Ryder and Diana appear in all of the books in the series and you’ll get to see more of their story in later books, such as DEATH CALLS.
Excerpt
His was a life filled only with empty dreams, if one could call those fleeting thoughts in a vampire’s sleepless nights dreams. His existence was without end and ruled by a loneliness that made each day harder to bear than the one before.
High above the crowd, Ryder Latimer smelled the sting of the alcohol as the humans drank and spilled it in copious amounts in their search for oblivion or nirvana. Acrid smoke from cigarettes floated high into the air, and in that hazy cloud were the underlying tones of sweat. Sweat laced with lust, he thought, sniffing the air and detecting the pheromone the humans exuded as they played their pitiful mating rituals.
Scents, he had discovered, were important to a vampire. Musks and other aromas literally brought out the beast in him. He normally avoided the smells, but it was tough to do in a crowd as large as this.
This far up, the sounds of the band and the crowd were garbled. Indistinct. A low buzz, like static, and a heavy thumping vibration from the bass of the music. An insistent lub-dub lub-dub, like the beat of a heart.
Ryder closed his eyes, placed his hands on the metal railing of the catwalk and the vibrations traveled up his arms. He took a deep breath, absorbing the smells. Soaking everything up as if by doing so he could restore a small part of the life he had lost when a strange turn of events during the Civil War had condemned him to this solitary life. It was a fleeting moment, the human scents and sounds racing through him, enervating him as he stood near the ceiling of the club.
In no time, however, Ryder was back to normal, watching like a disinterested deity, bored by the repetition of the activity below. Every night the same scene was replayed. Until tonight.
He had discovered in this morning’s paper that there was some killing going on in that mob of humans. The murderer had struck last week and then a few nights ago. Maybe he would hunt another soon, Ryder thought, glancing down and wondering who might be the next one to be taken. Who might become another trophy for the psycho stalking his club. The papers hadn’t mentioned The Lair, but Ryder had no doubt it was here that the hunt was on.
Ryder had sensed something different in the last few weeks, that unique smell of blood lust that had made him wonder if another of his kind had come to feed. A club like this would be an excellent place to select a victim and then cull them from the herd.
He looked down once more and he saw her, standing at the edge of the crowd, searching for someone.
It wasn’t possible, he thought as he hurried along the catwalk, keeping the apparition in sight. For nearly a century she’d been in his dreams. Or maybe it was better to describe them as his restless nocturnal musings.
Regardless, Ryder had stopped questioning why the spirit came to him. Sometimes she arrived at times of unrest, the visions she brought portents of things to come. At other times, when the monotony and uncertainty of his existence made him question why to go on, she’d come to soothe his soul and give him the peace he was unable to find elsewhere.
But tonight, she was no longer just an apparition — or was his loneliness deluding him?
He struggled to get a glimpse of her face, but even with his vampire night sight, he still couldn’t be certain his imagination wasn’t getting the best of him.
After all, for more than a century he had been virtually alone with only a human keeper and his apparition to comfort him. Maybe that was why his mind and eyes were playing games with him tonight. It was just a trick, Ryder told himself, and yet he stood, poised on the edge of the catwalk. Watching. Waiting. Hoping.
Order
DARKNESS CALLS is specially priced at 99 cents and also part of the Volume 1 box set which is specially priced at 2.99 and includes a free novella. You can order it here:
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The Calling is Reborn Volume 1 Box Set:
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#ManCandyMonday – NYPD Detective Peter Daly from TEMPTATION CALLS
One of the things I loved about working with Harlequin on THE CALLING IS REBORN vampire romance series was that they were always willing to let my push boundaries in the stories. This was especially true in TEMPTATION CALLS which included not only issues with domestic abuse, but also featured a mixed race heroine, Samantha Turner, who falls in love with NYPD Detective Peter Daly. Actually it would be hard to not fall in love with Peter. He’s loyal, courageous, and respectful of Samantha. He loves the kids in the shelter she runs and protects Samantha and the women there. And when he observes how much Samantha loves to garden, he brings her a flat of impatiens. He’s almost too good to be true, but he’s also a man whose job is filled with violence, something Samantha wants to avoid at all costs. I hope you’ll check out Peter in TEMPTATION CALLS. You’ll also get to meet sexy santero Ricardo Fernandez in this book. You’ll see more of him in DEVOTION CALLS.
TEMPTATION CALLS is specially priced at 99 cents until March 8.
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