Savage Storm/Lightning Strikes by Donya Lynne-Review & Excerpt Tour
SAVAGE STORM
(Savage Storm #1)
by Donya Lynne
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Genre: adult,contemporary, erotic, romance, menage
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 12, 2019
She thought he was the perfect man. Then she met his best friend. One unbelievable weekend will change their lives forever.
It’s been eight months since the one-night stand that changed Rayna’s life, and she still thinks about Cain every day, making it hard to move on.
When her best friend plans a girls’ weekend in Vegas, Rayna is ready to take a leap of faith and get on with her life… until she finds herself stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire. Alone, afraid, and in the middle of nowhere, the last person she expects to stop and lend a hand is the one man she’s never been able to forget. Cain. But that’s exactly who shows up, and he’s even hotter now than he was on New Year’s Eve.
Cain can’t believe his good fortune. Rayna has haunted his memories for eight long months. Now he has a chance to finish what he started, and if Rayna is game, he’s prepared to blow her mind. Because this time his best friend Storm is with him, and the pair has a salaciously unique history with women. Maybe he and Storm are just what the overly sheltered Rayna needs to truly set herself free from her tragic past.
But hearts can be fickle lovers, and none of them can predict how one night of passionate exploration will alter the bonds of friendship, proving that sometimes three really can be a crowd.
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REVIEW:SAVAGE STORM is the first full-length instalment in Donya Lynne’s contemporary, adult SAVAGE STORM erotic, romance series focusing on artist Rayna Bellamy, Cain Savage, and Mike ‘Storm’ . SAVAGE STORM picks up approximately 7 months after the events of the prequel novella LIGHTNING STRIKES. I recommend reading LIGHTNING STRIKES for back story and history between Rayna and Cain. LIGHTNING STRIKES is currently FREE at all ebook retailers
NOTE: SAVAGE STORM contains M/F/M sexual scenarios as well as some light spanking.
Told from three third person perspectives (Rayna, Cain and Mike) SAVAGE STORM follows in the aftermath of a New Year’s Eve one night stand in which Cain Savage woke to an empty bed. Seven months later Cain would come face to face with the woman he could never forget-Rayna Bellamy- a woman who stirred something deep within our story line hero. What ensues is the building relationship and romance between Rayna and best friends Cain and Mike, and the potential fall-out as jealousy and life stand in the way.
Rayna Bellamy doesn’t do long-term commitments and instead decided to focus on a girl’s weekend in Vegas but a flat tire will bring Cain Savage up close and personal, the man with whom she spent a one-night stand. Cain and his best friend Mike aka Storm are currently living and working in Siberia, California, and are ready to add bring Rayna Bellamy into their lives, if only for a short time. Neither Cain nor Mike do romance and love but Mike begins to develop feelings for Rayna, feelings that leave Cain questioning the future, in more ways than one.
The relationship between Rayna, Cain and Mike is highly sexual; a ménage affair that threatens the life-long friendship between Cain and Mike, a friendship that is threatened by something else. Mike and Cain have shared several women in the past but something about Rayna pulls the friends in opposite directions. Rayna is willing to step out of her comfort zone but soon finds herself falling in love. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense.
We are introduced to Cain’s best friend Mike aka Storm, as well as the reintroduction of Rayna’s brother Kai, and her best friend Amy.
The world building continues to follow the events that destroyed Rayna’s life, and left her a shell of her former self but new information will come to light revealing what happened, and what will never be. In this, our heroine has a complete transformation in regards to her emotional stability, a transformation that is questionable in light of the fall-out from the events in her past. SAVAGE STORM reveals a little bit of the background history between Cain and Mike but skirts around the current situation, or how and why Mike and Cain are able to travel the world volunteering for one philanthropic adventure after another. I am hoping Donya reveals more of Cain and Mike’s back story.
SAVAGE STORM is a story of friendship, jealousy, secrets and love. The premise is intriguing, engaging and spicy; the characters are energetic and sassy; the romance is sensitive and spirited but quickly turns into a love triangle that could end tragically for one of our story line characters. SAVAGE STORM ends on a cliff-hanger, you have been warned.
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Reviewed by Sandy
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LIGHTNING STRIKES
(Savage Storm .5)
by Donya Lynne
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romance
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One extraordinary night. Two lives moving in opposite directions. A burning flame neither will forget.
Since her mom’s mysterious disappearance eleven years ago, Rayna has suffered from paralyzing fear, making her a prisoner in her own home. But when her best friend scores tickets to the hottest New Year’s Eve party in Los Angeles, Rayna is determined to overcome her phobia and go.
Cain isn’t looking for a serious relationship. He has too many secrets and is too much of a wanderer to settle down, so he’s not looking for anything more serious than a casual hookup. Then he meets Rayna, and he can’t deny the electrifying way she piques his interest. But is their connection enough to tame his nomadic heart? Or will one unforgettable night be all they share?
The last thing Rayna expects when her path crosses Cain’s is for the sexy stranger to quiet her anxiety, steal her sense of reason, and compel her to take the biggest risk of her life and spend the night with him. Crazy? Yes. Reckless? Absolutely. But she’s never felt more alive and refuses to let the night end without seeing how far her newfound courage will take her, even if it means breaking all the rules.
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REVIEW: LIGHTNING STRIKES is the prequel novella in Donya Lynne’s contemporary, adult SAVAGE STORM erotic, romance series. This is twenty-five year old Rayna and Cain’s story line.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Rayna and Cain) LIGHTNING STRIKES focuses on a New Year’s Eve celebration, one in which Rayna will bury her fears, her struggles with agoraphobia, that see our heroine pushing beyond her issues, and into a night of unbridled passion. A one-night stand wherein Cain wakes alone with only his memories of the night before, and our heroine’s forgotten panties.
LIGHTNING STRIKES is a very quick read that introduces Cain and Rayna, and the potential for so much more.
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Reviewed by Sandy
“He likes you,” Cain said matter-of-factly.
“Oh?” She averted her eyes, not wanting him to see how much she liked Mike too.
“I told you he would.” He took a final drag on his cigar, then stamped it out in the ashtray. “And you like him.”
“No, I—”
“You don’t need to deny it.”
“I’m not denying—” She cut off cold when she looked up to find Cain wearing a mischievous grin, his gaze dark and heated, as if he found this development intensely arousing.
Her voice went into lockdown. Not only did it appear that Cain didn’t mind her interest in Mike, but he was actually turned on by it.
He shifted closer, leaning in. “It’s okay to be attracted to both of us, Rayna. There’s no law that says you have to choose.”
Her heart beat a wild rhythm as she replayed his words inside her head, not sure if she’d heard him right. There’s no law that says you have to choose?
Was Cain suggesting…? Was he insinuating that she could have them both? And even if he was, she had never done anything like that and wasn’t sure she could. A one-night stand was one thing, but what he was suggesting was something else entirely. Going home with two men was wrong.
Wasn’t it?
She looked up at Mike as he sank another shot, then lifted his steady, hopeful gaze to hers.
He knew. He knew what Cain was saying to her. They had planned this. They had come here prepared to take her home with them. With both of them.
Her mouth fell open as heat speared straight through her center. What would it feel like to be with both men at the same time? To have a… a… threesome—she almost couldn’t even think the word without whispering it inside her mind. Just the idea was perverted enough to make her blush from the top of her head to the tips of her toes. Only bad girls did stuff like that. Dirty, slutty, smutty, bad girls.
And Rayna wasn’t a bad girl. Other than last New Year’s Eve, she was the epitome of the girl next door. The best, cleanest, most innocent girl you could ever meet. She had maintained her virginity until she was eighteen. She had never smoked, never experimented with drugs, and never drank to the point of excess. Textbook good girl.
Now here came Cain and Mike, suggesting she do something totally absurd. Something inconceivable, unheard-of, and foolish. Something that should have had her leaping from her seat as she slapped Cain across the cheek, appalled they would even propose such an idea. Instead, she was rethinking her life choices.
Maybe she had played her life a little too safely. And, sure, maybe her agoraphobia had something to do with that, but would it be so bad to get a little wild and crazy? Maybe she would even like it.
Her breathing deepened as Cain closed the space between them.
“Is that so hard to believe, Rayna?” he asked, playing his fingers through her long hair. “That you could have two men instead of one?”
“I…” She looked at him, then glanced back at Mike.
Was this really happening?
Cain’s index finger traced the shell of her ear as he leaned closer. “That two men find you desirable enough to want to share you?”
She drew her bottom lip between her teeth and shyly bowed her head, unable to look at either of them.
Cain brushed back her hair, lightly swept his lips up her cheek, then whispered against her ear, “If you think what I did to you on New Year’s Eve was good, it was nothing compared to what Storm and I can do to you together.”
She drew in her breath. God, he smelled good. Like vanilla, tobacco, and spicy deodorant. She dragged in another luscious inhale of his scent as every nerve ending in her body lit up.
He tipped his forehead to her temple. “In that lovely Dear John note you left me, you said I’d been just what you needed, right when you needed it. Can you imagine how liberated you’ll feel tomorrow morning if you let us show you how much more there is to see?”
“I… uh…” She tried not to tremble as his lips caressed her brow.
His scruffy cheek drifted lower, scraping hers.
Closing her eyes, she let her cheek rub provocatively against his. In her mind, she was already beneath him, her legs and arms already around him, his body already rocking hard against hers.
She was hardly breathing, overwhelmed by his closeness and the heat of his body burning into hers.
A soft, rumbling moan of approval rose in his throat, making her lips part on a sigh.
The chemistry between them was as she remembered. He barely had to touch her to excite her.
Would she be able to say the same of Mike?
Her gaze slid across the room to his. He stood to the side of the pool table, watching her with Cain, his chest rising and falling heavily as his opponent took a shot and missed.
How could a woman choose when faced with two such fine but distinctly different prospects? She didn’t want to choose, and if Cain really was suggesting what she thought he was, she wouldn’t have to.
“Tell me, Rayna…” She held her breath as he brushed his lips over her ear. “Have you ever been fucked by two men at the same time?”
There it was. He’d said it out loud. And the raw, primal way he said fucked made her grateful she was seated, or she would have collapsed from the explosive weakness that shot down her legs.
“N-no.” Her mouth was drier than a bowl of talcum powder.
His fingers inched up the skirt of her dress and teased the inside of her knee.
Mike finished his game, collected his winnings, and stuffed the wad of cash in his pocket without looking at it. Then he started for the table, his gaze locked to hers with enough fire to double down on the inferno Cain had already ignited.
Cain’s fingertips trailed higher, stopping midway up her inner thigh, setting off all kinds of delightful warning bells inside her body as the invisible link between her and Mike intensified.
She held her breath.
Just as Mike reached the table, Cain kissed the patch of skin behind her ear and whispered, “Do you want to?”
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Donya Lynne is the bestselling author of the award-winning All the King’s Men Series and a member of Romance Writers of America. Making her home in a wooded suburb north of Indianapolis with her husband, Donya has lived in Indiana most of her life and knew at a young age that she was destined to be a writer. She started writing poetry in grade school and won her first short story contest in fourth grade. In junior high, she began writing romantic stories for her friends, and by her sophomore year, she’d been dubbed Most Likely to Become a Romance Novelist. In 2012, she made that dream come true by publishing her first two novels and a novella. Her work has earned her two IPPYs (one gold, one silver) and two ELit Awards (one gold, one silver) as well as numerous accolades. When she’s not writing, she can be found cheering on the Indianapolis Colts or doing her cats’ bidding.
