The penultimate book in the Asteria series is OUT NOW for the princely (sorry) sum of $2.99/£1.99 on Amazon. Blurb below, extract on Amazon.

Due to various quirks of publishing the fourth and final book will arrive close behind this one – by the end of February, in fact. Then there’ll be the collected edition comprising all four books on March 4th. So buy the remaining two parts or wait for the all-in-one: it’s up to you. I wanted to ensure you all had all the facts so you could make your own decisions 🙂

Note that while the individual books are only available on Amazon, I’m putting the collected edition out on Kobo, Barnes & Noble, iTunes and on All Romance Erotica. If you’ve been enjoying the series on Kindle but have friends with other e-readers, I’d really appreciate it if you’d tell them about the collected edition.

Now hold on tight for the final book!

Lucy has her prince…but her problems are just beginning!

Jagor has proposed: at last, their relationship is out in the open! But Lucy finds that living in the media spotlight is even harder than sneaking around as a secret lover. Becoming a princess might not be the fairy tale she thought: there’s Calara – Jagor’s ex – to contend with, not to mention the ultimate mother-in-law from hell: the Queen.

Life in Asteria holds its own challenges. Marrying Jagor will mean accepting his collar and Lucy must decide whether life as a submissive Asterian woman is really what she wants. Meanwhile, the same dark forces that tried to assassinate the King have returned…and this time they have Jagor and Lucy in their sights.

Get the Princess of Asteria on Amazon.com

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Today only, I’m slashing the price on The Elf Princess’s Lover like an enraged warrior with a shining blade. Instead of the usual $2.99 or £1.99, you can pick it up for the next 24 hours for just 99c/79p – for a full 30,000 words of romance!

The Elf Princess’s Lover is a full-on fantasy yarn and remains one of my favourites. If you’re a LOTR fan, you’ll feel right at home.  Expect sword fights, bandits, horse riding, inns with roaring fires and copper baths and a hero and heroine madly in love but divided by their cultures! Blurb and extract after the cover pic.

She is an elven princess…
A virgin who’s only seen the kingdom from the safety of a tower window. When her caravan is attacked and her guards slain, her only hope for survival lies in a human.

He is a commoner…
A hired sword who blames the royals for the death of his family and detests everything the princess stands for.

Anger and distrust turn to desire…
Forced to work together to survive, the princess and her rescuer find themselves in love… and lust.

But their love is forbidden…
Will the princess risk the kingdom for them to be together… or will tradition tear them apart?

This erotic romance contains explicit scenes.

Here’s an extract:

‘You asked why I hate the royals,’ he snarled. ‘And I am telling you of your father!’ He took another angry step towards her: they were a foot apart now.

‘I am not my father!’ she shouted, the words hot in her throat. The appalling level of her disrespect seemed to make them echo around the room like thunder, challenging her, ordering her to take them back. But she stood firm, determined, staring up at him with tearful eyes.

And suddenly he lunged forward and was kissing her, and her mouth was open and her tongue was joining his, the anger and lust mixing together into something far more potent than either. All the dark thoughts that had built while she bathed, all the desire that had wound up tight inside her since she met him, it all exploded at that second. They were both panting, half from hate, half from passion, and started laying kisses across each other’s mouths and cheeks. Salranna was out of control and she didn’t care. He, too, seemed lost in the fire, and that was much more frightening.

He pulled back, as if sensing her thoughts, and they stared at one another. His eyes were wild, but he gave her one last chance. ‘Do not start what you cannot finish, princess.’

Two beats of her racing heart, and she lunged for him as he had for her. She knew, she knew, that she was doing something that could never be undone, that would change her life forever, and she no longer cared. Her lips met his, firm and insistent, and it was done.

He pulled her to him, his hands tangling in her long golden hair, twisting the wet locks around them. He was over a head taller than her: her head was bent back to kiss him, and that made her breasts press against him through the thin towel. She could feel the heat of her body soaking through the damp fabric, her flesh hot against his shirt.

He dropped one hand to the side of the towel, and with a low grunt pulled it from her. It fell to the floor, and suddenly she was naked before him, the first time she’d ever been naked in front of a man. He took a step back to look at her, and the feeling of being viewed so intently, of someone drinking in every detail of her, made her whole body seem to throb. Her mind screamed at her to hide herself, to put her arms across her breasts, to cover her groin, yet she stood there, arms by her sides, and let him look.

Her long, golden hair was plastered wetly down her back, emphasizing her high cheekbones and graceful neck. Her light tan skin was soft and unblemished, muscles honed by playful exercise, not labor in the fields. The finest foods, the purest spring water meant she glowed with good health and youthful energy, heightened now by her arousal. Her face was flushed, her full, soft lips parted, showing perfect teeth.

Her body was slender, as was typical for her kind, but the full ripe breasts and flared hips were more akin to a human woman. Already her nipples were hardening as Rafe stared at them, his gaze like a physical touch on her. A softly concave stomach led down to her smoothly toned thighs and the delicate curls of golden hair between them, barely concealing her soft, pink lips.

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The third (and penultimate) book in the Asteria series will be called ‘The Princess of Asteria’.

If you assume that we go back to Asteria in this one and that Lucy’s role takes a dramatic change…you wouldn’t be wrong.  But I guarantee you won’t be ahead of the ending.

 The Princess of Asteria’ will be out in the next week or so: I’ll keep you updated.

The final book in the series (which will tie everything up) will be out on or before 25th Feb.  The reason they’re so close together is that Princess has been finished for a while but was delayed several times in the editing stage.  It’s now finally coasting down the slipway and in the meantime I’ve almost finished the final one.

As usual, subscribers to my mailing list will get the chance to snap up the books at a lower price for a  limited time.  There’s a sign-up link in the sidebar if you’re not already on it.

Wow, I have quite a lot of news for you.  Fire up the Tanya teletype (dit dit dar dit dit dit dar dar).

The Palace of Asteria has amazed me with its success: and that’s all down to you lot, so, in all seriousness, thank you.  You make it possible for me to do what I love.

I had to go away and think about how to continue the series: the plot was already scoped out, but I had to get a handle on the size of the thing.  Now that I’ve done all that, here’s the story.

First bit of news: there will be a third part and a fourth part, and that will be the end of the series (the end of Jagor and Lucy’s story, at least.  There may be more stories set in Asteria, but they’ll be new series).  Planning it with two definite parts (instead of the ‘release a part and then gauge whether to do another) is a big risk, but I owe it to you lot to do this properly, and properly demands doing two more.   Doing two more means I can tell the story I want to tell without compromising, as I’d have to if I squeezed it all into one.  Knowing where the series ends means that I can tie up all the loose ends in the next two books and make sure I don’t leave you hanging.

Second bit of news: I’ve been writing this for quite a while now, from shortly after the release of Palace, but I didn’t want to announce anything until I knew the shape of it and had everything worked out.  Part three is already written and is with my editor.  It’s substantially longer than either of the previous parts.  It’ll be out in early February.  I’m well underway with part four, as well, and it’ll be out at the end of February.

Third bit of news: The Asteria series is going to be released as a novel.  This will be all four parts in one book, with some changes, but I won’t be adding reams of new material.  The title will be Asteria: In Love with the Prince.  There will be a paperback edition.  I tell you this now because, if you want to wait for the ‘all in one’ version then I want you to have that option.  It’ll be out at roughly the same time as part four (the paperback may take a little longer).  I don’t know the price yet, but it’ll be comparable with other full-length romances.

Wow.  It feels good to get all that off my chest.  Should have a part 3 cover to show you soon.

Maybe it was the champers, maybe it was the singing, maybe it was the rather awkward party tryst that I’m not going to blog about.  But I got a bit misty-eyed about MSL – it was my first series and while I’m having a lot of fun writing Asteria and have no firm plans to revisit Erica, Jacques and the rest of the old crew, I also wanted to do something to sort of tip my hat to the books that got me started.  So I’ve done something a bit crazy: all four parts remain at $2.99, but the bundle is temporarily available for $0.99 – yes, for less than a dollar you get all four books in one – about 85,000 words in total.  I’m only keeping it up for 48 hours: 1st of Jan for those without hangovers and 2nd Jan for those with.

Get it at Amazon.com

Or Amazon.co.uk

It’s out!  More Jagor!  More Lucy!  More romance!  More drama!  Get your copy at:

Amazon.com

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The scorching sequel to ‘The Prince of Asteria’ – 28,000+ words

Hi all,

So, with less than 24 hours until the book’s live on Amazon, I wanted to let you know that on launch day (tomorrow, Wednesday 19th December), it’ll be just $0.99 (and the equivalent in all other markets).  On Thursday it’ll go up to its usual $2.99. Less than a dollar for over 28,000 words of Lucy and Jagor, palaces, limos and private jets, illicit encounters and all manner of fun things I don’t want to spoil.  Please tell your friends!