Review: Eternity's Embrace by Ursula Istrati

From Amazon: This steamy 20,000+ word vampire book brings together three parts of the Eternity's Embrace series, with the following short stories: Discovered, Stolen, and Reclaimed.

Review: I won’t deny that I read the Twilight series. I won’t deny that I enjoyed the Twilight series, for what it was at least. I also won’t deny that I wanted more out of that series. Something that actually made me believe that Edward and Bella were that in love. I never got why he loved her, or vice versa. As much as I enjoyed it when I read it, it did put my off vampire romance books.

That said, I loved Eternity’s Embrace. It’s my first vampire book in a long time and am I very glad I gave it a chance. Ursula Istrati has crafted a sexy, seductive tale of a vampire and his star-crossed lover. The best part? It’s believable! I can see why these two love each other, why they long for each other. And the sex? H-O-T! Beautifully descriptive, passionate, and damn sexy.

Originally the books in this completed novella, Discovered, Stolen, and Reclaimed, were put out as individuals and each make for an enjoyable read on their own. Eternity’s Embrace makes for a sexy, seductive tale and I couldn’t put it down. Wonderfully written and highly recommended!

 

Rating: *****/*****

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New Release Day

Hey all, sorry for the long, long, long delay between blogs! I don't mean to stay away, but when I'm writing not much else gets done. There is good news in all this though, The Masquerade Affair Volume Three is finally available for sale and not just on Amazon, but on Smashwords too!

 

THE MASQUERADE AFFAIR VOLUME THREE: A DUKE’S LADY

Henrietta has not lived the life she’d dreamed. With coin in hand she looks to flee London and her miserable life, but an invitation to her duke’s palace stays her hand. She has no way of knowing what Lord Osmond’s home may hold, but her desires and her passion force her to say yes. As she steps into his world she will find out what happens when she becomes A Duke’s Lady.

The third instalment in THE MASQUERADE AFFAIR brings Henrietta deeper into the duke’s life with no chance of going back.

A Duke’s Lady is a 6500+ word historical erotic short that features bondage and heavy sexual content. 

You can get A Duke's Lady on:

AMAZON

SMASHWORDS

New Book Announcement

Four days into January and I’m already wishing it was May. I’m not really much of a winter person. At least it’s been so cold that I cannot go outside. That means I’ve been writing a lot! Okay, that’s not entirely true. I’ve been editing a lot is more accurate.

First I’ve started editing Lay Me Bare in hopes of a mid-February release date! I’m halfway done the first pass through, but I expect it will be a few more before it’s time to really hunker down and do the proof reading part.

As a more surprising bit of news, next week will bring the release of Instructed by an Officer! I’ve been working on this short since late November and then shelved it to release the first two parts of The Masquerade Affair. I’ve always loved sexy cops in uniform, so why not write about them? It’s probably going to be about 8000-8500 words long, about 50/50 when it comes to story vs. sexy times. I hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. A cover reveal is planned for this weekend as long as my designer gets to work in good time.

Hope everyone has had an excellent start to their new year!

New Relase: The Masquerade Affair Volume Two: The Sinners' Ball

New release day is here and it's my last release for the year! The sequel to Welcome to the Black Room is on sale on Amazon for only $0.99 cents. Even better? Welcome to the Black Room is free today and tomorrow over on amazon!

The Masquerade Affair Volume Two: The Sinners' Ball

Henrietta has waited in fear and excitement for her duke to return. The night they shared hasn’t left her mind, but as the days turn into weeks she has lost hope that she will ever see the man again. In the heat of summer she finds herself called upon again, but this time her dark duke pushes her further than she could have ever imagined.

This follow up to The Masquerade Affair: Welcome to the Black Room takes Henrietta’s fantasies deeper and opens her to a world she never thought she’d desire.

The Sinners’ Ball is a 7100+ word historical erotic short that features bondage and heavy sexual content.

Kindle Freebie is Almost Over

It's a Friday night and I am absolutely bagged! I've been staring at the computer all day and yet I'm forcing one more blog post for this week. I'm hoping to publish another short next week so I did some editing on that, followed by finishing up a chapter of Lay Me Bare, plus I finished an article I was working on for a freelance gig I have.

My eyes... they BURN. As much as I know I should keep writing over the weekend, I might take a break away from the computer. Heck, even my phone. Not that I don't have other things to do. This weekend marks my first Christmas party of the year and that means I better do some baking. I already made some chocolate biscotti and tomorrow my husband and I are making fresh cheddar bay biscuits!

For next week, as I said I'm hoping to publish another short. This one is a contemporary erotica featuring a hot cop and a damsel in distress, yum yum! I haven't settled on a title, but I might try the kindle exclusive again, or I might put it up on smashwords as well. It's a tough call!

Next week I also plan on doing an update about how the free period on Welcome to the Black Room did and if it affected sales at all.

Have a wonderful weekend!

24 Hours of Kindle Freebie

The Masquerade Affair Volume One: Welcome to the Black Room has been free on Amazon for just over 24 hours now and I can't deny that I'm pretty pleased with the results so far. In the first few hours I gave away around thirty books on Amazon and a few on the foreign sites. Pretty good.

Then I started advertising. I took to reddit, twitter, stumbledupon, and tumblr to advertise that the book was free until December 6th. I tried not to go overboard on twitter because I hate being sold to on twitter, so why would I expect anyone else to like it? Instead I did one sales post and then just posted my thoughts on how excited I was to see people buying my free ebook.

During the day I kept an eye on my sales. When I cracked the top 10,000 of the free ebooks on kindle I got really excited. Then Amazon started showing how far I was in subgenres. Then I saw I cracked the top 100 in erotica. Then the top 75. Before my husband left for work he checked too and texted me a picture that I had cracked the top 50. When I got to the computer (about an hour ago) I was at number 17 on the free erotica chart. That's the FRONT PAGE of erotica.

Not only that, but I've cracked the top 100 of genre fiction and the top 1000 of free ebooks overall. Without advertising over the last 12 hours those numbers are huge.

Now what has it done for sales? Yesterday I sold twice as many copies of Awake My Soul as I had the rest of the month. Not huge numbers, but a nice boost. Does this have anything to do with Welcome to the Black Room being free? I have no way of knowing. I have yet to receive a review on Welcome to the Black Room either, but I doubt most people who've downloaded it have had a chance to read it.

After the free period is over I plan to do a more in depth look at sales numbers and how things have been effected by my trial of KDP Select. Here's hoping it's worth it in the end!

Welcome to the Black Room is FREE until Friday December 6th!

That's right, The Masquerade Affair Volume One: Welcome to the Black Room, is up on Amazon for completely, 100% free right now! It's a 7000 word historic erotica short and I hope it gets your motor running. After Friday it will be only 99 cents, so it's still a great deal.

In non-book news, my new favourite (well, not so new) obsession is tea, especially from DavidsTea. If you aren't familiar with them, you should get acquainted! Yesterday they had a friends and family deal and my husband brought me home SIX bags of my favorite teas. What a sweetheart! Right now I'm sipping on some Lime Gelato. Plus he surprised me with a comic book. I love it all so much I of course had to take a picture.