Thursday, August 15, 2013

Driven to Distraction with Rosanna Leo

Hi, my little monkeys! I am very excited to have my dear friend, Rosanna Leo, back on the blog today. Rosanna is celebrating the release of her eighth book, Predator's Serenade, Book 2 in her Gemini Island Shifters series from Liquid Silver Books. Please help me welcome Rosanna!


Driven to Distraction

You know the feeling.
You spot someone, a certain special someone, maybe for the first time. Everything changes. The world tilts on its axis. Stars seem to collide. Your blood pressure skyrockets. You might feel palpitations and are sure you might die.
And yet everything seems to make sense at the same time.
That, my friends, is love at first sight. Or, at least in my books, being driven to distraction.
This happens to my characters a lot, and the hero/heroine in Predator’s Serenade, my new release, are no exception.
My hero Soren Snow is a playboy, a famous rock star shifter who has always gotten what he wants from women. Until the day he spies a petite, curvy mom of a shifter boy. And because she knows his reputation, she wants nothing to do with him.
Gioia Clementine has enough to think about without having to worry about the tall, blond sex god who happens to be her drummer son’s rock idol. And yet meeting Soren in the flesh results in spontaneous sexual combustion.
From that moment on, my characters can’t quite seem to breathe properly unless they’re in the same room. They can’t function, can’t see for wanting each other so much. Soren tries to distract himself with a bottle of cold beer, tries to slake his thirst, and the bottle seems to morph into Gioia’s curvaceous form. Gioia tries desperately to look away from Soren, but her gaze is drawn to him as if by magic.
Fate, you say?
In the shifter world, this sense of being driven to distraction is a palpable emotion that threatens to devastate. Not being with one’s mate can destroy a shifter. We watch these hapless beings, who’d been so sure of themselves, fall from their exalted, almost cocky heights.
And it’s so delicious watching them fall.

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There are three things that make bear shifter Soren Snow’s skin crawl: mothers, their children, and the great outdoors. Soren is a famed musician and playboy, and he would rather spend his days pressing the flesh with the women in his fan club than developing meaningful relationships. When his brother calls in a favor, forcing Soren to revisit the Ursa Fishing Lodge in Northern Ontario, he couldn’t be more displeased. However, he owes his brother big time.

Gioia Clementine would rather not meet Soren, her drummer son’s rock idol. But when tragedy strikes her home, it seems the only one the boy might respond to is Soren. Gioia begrudgingly agrees to let her son meet him, hoping the rock star won’t turn her tween into a musical misogynist.  

When Gioia and Soren meet, the sexual chemistry threatens to set the Ontario woodland ablaze. Can these two opposites find a common ground? And can they manage to resolve their unwanted feelings, even when a mysterious stranger arrives at the lodge, threatening everything?

Excerpt:
Gioia followed Soren's approach with a curious eye. She'd wondered if the miracle kisser would beat a hasty retreat after witnessing her boy fall to pieces, and yet here he was. He wore the same famished look he had right before he'd ruined her for any other man's kiss. And she felt it too. The tingles between her shoulder blade, the gelatin knees, and trembling lips that wanted to gobble him up.
She couldn't. She didn't want to saddle him with such a wreck of a woman or family.
He came right up to her, so close, as if making a mockery of the space that sought to separate them. Weaving his fingers through her hair, he cradled her skull and pulled her close. Tucking her head against his chest, he kissed the top of her head, blazing a trail of hot reaction down her spine. He had new clothes on and smelled fresh and clean. As she breathed him in, he rained soft kisses all over her head.
He knows.
She pulled away, suddenly terrified he'd think she was a travesty of a mother. It's what anyone would think in his case. They'd wonder what Gioia had done wrong to create a monster child. But as she attempted to remove herself from his grasp, Soren fought her by holding her still. Again she tried jerking away from his wall of a chest. He held her firm.
When she tried two more times, each time unsuccessfully, he looked at her and shouted, "Dammit, woman, I am not letting you go, so you can stop pulling away from me!"
Something in Gioia broke. She'd been carrying her sadness around for so long, trying to be strong, and Soren was offering to be strong for her. For just a moment, maybe she could surrender. God only knew how badly she wanted to give herself to the bear man.
He grabbed her tighter, and his hands slid down to mold over her ass cheeks. His warm breath was all over her face, and she took a dizzying dive into the seas of his eyes. He ground her against him, and she was forced to stand on tip toes.
"Gioia," he whispered.
She wound her arms about his tense neck, felt him tense further. Then … a sigh somewhere in his big frame and a relaxation in his muscles. As if he needed to have her wound about him. As if it soothed him as much as her.
"Soren. Please."
As he kissed her, he picked her up, his hands under her bottom. Her miniskirt rode up, and she spared a second to mentally curse her decision to wear it. And then she didn't care.
Kissing her madly, Soren spirited her into the woods.

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Author bio:
Rosanna Leo is a multi-published, erotic romance author with Liquid Silver Books. Her books include For the Love of a God, Up In Flames, and Sweet Hell. When not writing, she can be found haunting dusty library stacks or planning her next star-crossed love affair. She blogs at www.rosannaleo.blogspot.com