Before I get to the news about my new releases, I wanted to take a moment and thank all of the brave men and women who have fought to protect our country. Veterans have made so many sacrifices for us all–and I am grateful beyond words for all that they do. If you would like to help a hero this Veteran’s Day, please check out Wounded Warriors. I think that the Wounded Warriors program is absolutely fantastic, and it deserves all the support that it can get!

 

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I have two new book releases this week, and to celebrate those releases, I’ll be offering various giveaways throughout the week on my Facebook Fan Page.  I figured…why just have a day of giveaways? Let’s have fun the whole week! So if you get a chance, come by and join the fun.

Here are the two releases that I have this week. First up…A VAMPIRE’S CHRISTMAS CAROL (It’s available now for just .99!)

This holiday season has bite.

Ben Prescott hates Christmas—he’s a vampire, and to him, there’s certainly nothing jolly about the holiday season.  While the humans are running around being merry, he’s hunting in the shadows.  Ben plans to spend the holidays his way…by stalking deadly prey.

But fate has other plans for Ben.

Three visitors are coming Ben’s way…A demon who will force  Ben to face his past, a ghost who will show Ben the present he could have, and a shifter  who will reveal the darkness that waits in Ben’s future. Unless Ben can change his ways, he may just turn into a real monster, one who can’t be saved by anyone or anything.

‘Tis the season…to be undead.

Ben’s redemption rests in the hands of the one woman he loved and lost—Simone Laurent.  If Ben is going to have a chance at being more than just the beast in the darkness, he has to prove himself to the lovely Simone.  A very hard task, considering that, once upon a Christmas Eve, Simone died in Ben’s arms…

 

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And for my romantic suspense fans, FEAR FOR ME releases on 11/12/13.

She’s the obsession two men share: one wants her love, the other wants her life.

A shared passion for justice first brought Baton Rouge district attorney Lauren Chandler and US marshal Anthony Ross together—when each played their part in bringing down the infamous Bayou Butcher. The sparks flying between the two made it clear they weren’t just a legal dream team. Then desire had to make way for duty, and what they had was done. But it would never be over.

Five years later, it’s none other than the Butcher who gets things started again, when his shocking jailbreak reunites the lawyer and the lawman…and reignites their love. But this time, the pair is in danger of being permanently parted—by a killer with revenge on his mind, and Lauren on the top of his list. As a new wave of terror sweeps through the streets and swamps of Baton Rouge, one man will pit his boundless passion against another’s relentless hate, for the life of the woman who obsesses them both.

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Thanks so much for checking out this post! Have a great week!

It’s almost release time!

Over the summer, I asked my readers…would you like for me to write a dark romantic suspense tale for the holidays? Or are you in the mood for a sexy paranormal tale during this time of merriment? The votes came in…and my readers determined that I would be writing a paranormal tale for them. 😉 And so A VAMPIRE’S CHRISTMAS CAROL was born!

On 11/11/11, A VAMPIRE’S CHRISTMAS CAROL will be releasing–and the digital version of the story will be just .99.

I had such an incredible time writing this book–it’s got vampires, demons, shifters…oh, the fun!! And I created a completely new mythology for my paranormal characters in this tale. Everything about them is new! I sure hope that readers enjoy this book–and that everyone is gearing up for a fantastic holiday season.

This holiday season has bite.

Ben Prescott hates Christmas—he’s a vampire, and to him, there’s certainly nothing jolly about the holiday season.  While the humans are running around being merry, he’s hunting in the shadows.  Ben plans to spend the holidays his way…by stalking deadly prey.

But fate has other plans for Ben.

Three visitors are coming Ben’s way…A demon who will force  Ben to face his past, a ghost who will show Ben the present he could have, and a shifter  who will reveal the darkness that waits in Ben’s future. Unless Ben can change his ways, he may just turn into a real monster, one who can’t be saved by anyone or anything.

‘Tis the season…to be undead.

Ben’s redemption rests in the hands of the one woman he loved and lost—Simone Laurent.  If Ben is going to have a chance at being more than just the beast in the darkness, he has to prove himself to the lovely Simone.  A very hard task, considering that, once upon a Christmas Eve, Simone died in Ben’s arms…

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Warning: This book features one very tortured vampire, a sexy ghost from his past, and hot scenes designed to melt the winter snow. Plenty of action, adult situations, and steamy times are ahead. Happy holidays!

To celebrate the release of MINE TO HOLD, a fun book blast event & giveaway is occurring. The big prize for the blast is a $100 Amazon.com gift card.  You can enter the giveaway at any of the blast stops listed below.

 

Cynthia Eden’s MINE TO HOLD Book Blast Schedule – 10/21 – 10/27

 

10/21 Book Pages and Dripping Ink

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10/21 Books Books and More Books

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10/21 FicCentral

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10/21 The Not-So-Literary Heiresses

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10/21 Vampires, Werewolves, and Fairies, Oh My!

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10/22 Miscellaneous Thoughts of a Bookaholic

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10/22 Nina’s Literary Escape

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10/22 Regina May Ross’s

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10/22 Recommended Romance

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10/22 Snarky Mom Reads…

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10/22 So Many Reads

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10/22 Urban Girl Reader

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10/24 Bookin’ It Reviews

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10/24 KT Book Reviews

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10/24 Riverina Romantics

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10/24 Same Book, Different Review

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10/25 Book Lovin’ Mamas

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10/25 Literal Hotties Naughty Book Reviews

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10/25 Musings From An Addicted Reader

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10/25 The Reading Café

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10/26 Darker Passions

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10/26 Inner Goddess

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10/26 Where the Night Kind Roam

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10/27 Book Bliss

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Thanks to Carla of Book Monster Promotions for setting up the tour–and thanks to all of the wonderful bloggers and reviewers for participating!

 

 

 

 

 

My new dark and sexy romantic suspense novel, MINE TO HOLD, is available now! (And it’s just $2.99!)

 

She was one man’s obsession…

Nine years ago, Claire Kramer’s lover brutally killed her family, and he tried to kill her. She escaped, but she’s been haunted ever since that attack. Too afraid to trust another man and too worried that her past will catch up with her, Claire never gets too close to anyone. But then she meets Noah York.

He must have her.

Noah York is a man with secrets. The world sees him as a billionaire hotel tycoon, but Noah has a dark and dangerous side. For years, he worked covert military operations before he built his fortune. When it comes to death, Noah is a master. He knows that he should steer clear of Claire, but the white-hot attraction Noah feels for the delicate beauty is instant—and consuming.

He will never let her go.

Someone else is just as consumed by Claire—someone who will kill to possess her. And if Noah can’t stop the hunter in the darkness, he may just lose the one woman that he can’t live without.

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MINE TO HOLD is available for the Kindle and the Nook. It is also available at All Romance eBooks, at Kobo, at Smashwords, and at the iBookstore. (A print version of MINE TO HOLD will also be released within the next week.)

AND…to celebrate the release, I’m going to be hosting a day of giveaways over at my Facebook Fan Page. I hope you can come by and join the fun!   

It’s the spooky season..that means it is the perfect time to sit back, relax, and…read about vampires & werewolves!

I’ve put my FOREVER BOUND anthology on sale for .99 during this wonderfully spooky time.  The anthology will be just .99 from 10/18 until 10/28.  So if you are in the mood to get your vamp on, now is the time!

 

FOREVER BOUND includes my best-selling BOUND novellas: BOUND BY BLOOD, BOUND IN DARKNESS, BOUND IN SIN, and BOUND BY THE NIGHT.

The anthology contains over 90,000 words.  You can find the anthology on sale for the Kindle, the Nook, and it is also discounted at All Romance Ebooks.

 

Here’s more info about the stories:

 

BOUND BY BLOOD 

Vampires and werewolves have been blood enemies for centuries, but now a new threat is rising…demons are escaping from hell and those demons are intent on wiping out both the vamps and the werewolves.

In order to stop the demons, pureblood vampire princess Morgan LaBeaux agrees to the treaty offered by werewolf alpha Jace Vaughn. She’ll mate with him, share her blood with him…and in return, the wolves will aid the vampires in this battle.

But Morgan doesn’t realize just how dangerous the wolves can truly be. Jace has been waiting years to claim her. He’s set a trap for his princess, and now that he has her, Jace doesn’t plan to let her go.  He’ll send the demons back to hell, and he’ll keep his vampiress—forever.

 

BOUND IN DARKNESS 

When it comes to killing vampires, werewolf Cade Thain is the best slayer in the Northwest. So when a witch hires him to take out a pureblood vamp, the assassin thinks it will be just business as usual. One less vicious vamp on the streets…one more undead parasite gone from the earth. Then he meets her.

Allison Gray isn’t the prey that Cade expects. Beautiful, innocent, she stirs a dark desire within him. Allison hasn’t transformed fully into a vampire, not yet, and it’s Cade’s job to make sure that she never does. Allison thinks that he’s at her side to keep her safe, but Cade is supposed to pick the right moment—and kill her.

Killing Allison is soon the last thing that Cade plans. As she begins the transformation that will turn her into a vampire, her bloodlust and their desire merge in an explosion of need that neither can control. But Allison’s enemies are closing in, and the coming battle will take Cade and Allison beyond life, beyond love…and into a deadly darkness that waits to claim them both.

 

BOUND IN SIN 

Human Paige Sloan once loved werewolf Drake Wyler more than life, but then that life was taken away from her. Attacked by vampires, Paige was bitten, and, on a cold, dark night, the life she’d known ended. She was reborn as a vampire–a werewolf’s deadliest enemy.

Paige ran from the vampires who attacked her, and she ran away from her lover. She didn’t want Drake to know what she’d become, and she didn’t want to face the fury of his pack. But a girl can only run for so long until the past catches up with her.

When Paige learns that Drake is being targeted for death, she knows that she can’t hide in the shadows any longer. She has to return to him, and she will do anything–anything–in order to make sure that he keeps living. The vampires might have destroyed her chance to live and love Drake, but they won’t take him. Not over her undead body. She’ll slay them all…and maybe, just maybe…she’ll even have the chance to sin–one more time–with the werewolf who’d marked her as his mate.

 

BOUND BY THE NIGHT 

For the last fifteen years, vampire queen Iona has been dead to the world.  Trapped under the power of a brutal curse, she has been helpless.  A prisoner, locked within her own still body. Then alpha werewolf Jamie O’Connell fights his way to her side.  After defeating the guards that surround her, Jamie gives Iona his blood…and she rises.

The world has changed a great deal in the last fifteen years, and Iona has changed, too. Once known as the Blood Queen because of her dark reputation, she now finds herself longing for the blood of only one man…only he isn’t just a man. She wants the blood of her werewolf—Jamie’s blood.  But Iona doesn’t realize that Jamie has been keeping secrets from her. Very dark, dangerous secrets.  And Iona may have traded one curse for another.

Now that he has Iona, Jamie vows to never let her go. He needs his Blood Queen in order to defeat his enemy, he needs her to make his own beast stronger, and…he just needs her.  Jamie has risked his life to claim Iona, and he won’t let anything break their bond. Not time. Not spells. Not even a wild and reckless vampire queen…

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Happy haunting, everyone!!