Alyssa Day – The Cursed – Guest Post & Giveaway

Bordertown PI Luke Oliver’s beat is the dimensional fold in Manhattan between the human, Fae, and demon realms.  It doesn’t hurt to be a powerful wizard when you’ve got a job like that—and when everybody is trying to force you to be Sheriff.  But an old enemy has come back to town, and the League of the Black Swan is trying to force Luke to do its bidding.

It’s never a good idea to try to force a wizard to do anything.

Rio—last name unknown, although she likes to try on new ones on a daily basis—got trapped by circumstances and an overblown sense of responsibility into trying to save the life of a kidnapped child.  But suddenly the Fae and demons are paying way too much attention to a plain vanilla human, and one seriously hot alpha male wizard is breathing down her neck.  Literally.

My new book, THE CURSED, is the first in my new series, The League of the Black Swan.  Luke has been trying to isolate himself from people as much as possible—and quit blowing up their cars—but then the League drops Rio into his life, and she’s the one woman he cannot resist. 

Soon, supernatural creatures are creating danger, mayhem, and a little bit of hilarity, as Rio and Luke fight to save one small girl, all of Bordertown, and possibly themselves, while fighting a passion so sizzling hot that it might set the whole place on fire.

And did I mention the fire demons?

So if you were running for your life from the kind of creep who keeps Grendels on staff (what? You thought there was only one??), and you could only access ONE magical potion, what would it do?

My ideas:

1. Magically make the hot wizard’s clothes disappear! Whee! (Danger? What danger?)

2. Invisibility potion! (Hot invisible sexiness! What? Didn’t you read Atlantis Betrayed? <g>)

3. A little magical nip and tuck (What? Too shallow?)

Hmm.  Maybe I’m no good at this! Why don’t YOU let me know what potion we need?

Hugs,
Alyssa

Alyssa Day is the pen name (and dark and tortured alter ego) of RITA award-winning and RWA honor roll member author Alesia Holliday. As Alyssa, she writes the New York Times best-selling Warriors of Poseidon & the League of the Black Swan paranormal romance series.   Her novel HEART OF ATLANTIS won RT BookClub’s Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Paranormal Novel of 2012. 

As Alesia, she writes comedies that make readers snort things out of their noses, and is the author of the award-winning memoir about military families during war-time deployments: EMAIL TO THE FRONT.  She’s a diehard Buckeye who graduated summa cum laude from Capital University Law School and practiced as a trial lawyer in multi-million dollar litigation for several years before coming to her senses and letting the voices in her head loose on paper. She lives somewhere near an ocean with her Navy Guy husband, two kids, and any number of rescue dogs.  Please visit Alyssa at www.AlyssaDay.com, Twitter.com/Alyssa_Day, or Facebook.com/AuthorAlyssaDay.

  Excerpt from The Cursed
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Links to order The Cursed: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / The Book Depository / Kobo

Luke’s mouth came down on hers, silencing whatever she’d been about to say, and the world went up in flames around her.  Blue flames, the color of his eyes and his magic fire, seared through Rio’s nerve endings until she trembled from pure, crystallized sensation.  She forgot how to talk, or think, or breathe, and simply surrendered to the feeling, kissing him back until she grew lightheaded from lack of oxygen and pulled back, gasping.

“What was that?”  She managed to get the words out between deep breaths, but he didn’t answer.

Instead, he touched her hair, and then pushed a strand behind her ear and traced the edge of her ear with his finger, and she inhaled brokenly at the jagged edge of desire that dug into her.  Heat pooled between her legs, and her body tightened and ached for his touch.

“I have to slow down now,” he finally said, his voice rough, just when she was about to throw caution—and her clothes—to the wind.  “I have to back away from you right now, or I’ll lift your sexy little ass up onto my kitchen counter and take you right here.”

Part of her thought that was a really wonderful idea.  The other part of her, drummed into her brain for years, was horrified by her wanton behavior.

Rio liked the first part better.

“Alyssa is offering a GIVEAWAY of a signed copy of THE CURSED to each of 3 lucky members of The Reading Cafe, because she loves Barb at The Reading Café with huge love for her patience and perseverance!”    (TRC:  we love Alyssa too :))

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