ANGEL OF DARKNESS is on sale!  ANGEL OF DARKNESS is the first book in my Fallen series, and it introduces all of my wicked angels. 😉  My publisher has lowered the price on this book, and it is currently listed at $2.99 for the Kindle. It is also $2.99 for the Nook.  I’m not sure how long the reduced price will last, so if you haven’t read this book yet (or if you want to recommend it to a friend), now is the perfect time to give it a try.

Also wanted to say…Kensington is sponsoring a GoodReads giveaway for my September anthology with the always awesome Shelly Laurenston. Ten copies of HOWL FOR IT are up for grabs, and you can enter that giveaway here.

In one week, ANGEL BETRAYED will be available!  To celebrate, I’ll host a big, all-day release party here on my blog. There will be lots of giveaways and great guest authors joining me during the day.  I’ll also be having a Twitter Release Party, so make sure that you sign up to attend that event! (Even if you can’t attend the Twitter party, you can pre-register so that you’ll be entered in the giveaway for prizes like a Kindle Touch).

Have a great Tuesday!!!

Would you like to know why Sammael (Sam) lost his wings?  Then head over to my Facebook Fan Page, and you can read the prologue and the first chapter from ANGEL BETRAYED (and the release date of 6/26 will be here so soon!!!).

Speaking of the release date, I am busy making lots of release party plans. The first big plan?  A Twitter Party!  Thanks to the fabulous Lit Connect, I will be having a Twitter Party on 6/26.  You can read the full details here.

There are a ton of great prizes being offered for this event–including a Kindle Touch, HOWL FOR IT ARCs, and gift cards!  So please pre-register.  And if you can’t attend during the 12 PM to 1 PM party slot on Twitter, your pre-registration will still make you eligible to win some very cool prizes (including that Kindle Touch that I just mentioned).  A big THANK YOU to Lit Connect for organizing this event!

And since you know I like parties, I will be holding my usual all-day release party here at the blog. 😉 Each hour, I’ll be featuring a different author or a different book, and there will be lots of giveaways!  I hope you can attend!

Have a great day. I’m heading back in for revisions.  So close to being finished!

Hi, everyone! I hope that you had a fantastic weekend!

This week, I’m going to be paying a visit to the Vancleave Public Library in Mississippi (and a big thanks to the fabulous ladies there–Lisa, Lane and Yvonne–who have organized the event! On Thursday, I will be speaking at the Vancleave Library from 5 PM to 7 PM.  For this fun event, I will also be joined by authors Katie Reus and Manda Collins.  If you are in the Vancleave area and you’d like to learn more about writing and the publishing industry, then come by for this chat! We will be discussing ways to break into the publishing industry and sharing tips on how to strengthen your writing. After the publishing talk, we will be signing books, and we will also have some fabulous giveaways.

What:  Publishing Talk

When: Thursday, June 14th from 5 PM to 7 PM

Where: Vancleave Library–12604 Highway 57, Vancleave, MS 39565

Hope to see you there!

UPDATE:  My blog hop winner is…Kristina Yeager. Congrats, Kristina! And thanks to everyone who participated in the blog hop!

What’s summer without a little blog hopping fun?

Hosted by CataRomance.com, SensualReads.com and SingleTitles.com

Happy Summer!!! The long, lazy days of summer (okay, sometimes, they are not-so-lazy) are here!  And what better way to kick off the summer than with a big party? CataRomance (including Single Titles & Sensual Reads) is doing a site relaunch, and to celebrate that relaunch, they’ve organized a huge blog hop.

I’m happy to be participating in the blog hop, and, for my prize, I am going to give an autographed copy of ANGEL BETRAYED to one commenter. The ANGEL BETRAYED giveaway is open to international entrants.  Because the blog hop event will actually last until June 10th, this giveaway will remain open until that time.

Blurb:

Sammael–call him Sam–was an angel once. An Angel of Death. But the dispassionate, watch-from-above thing just wasn’t working for him when it meant watching evil torture innocent souls day in and day out. It might have cost him his wings, but these days he gets to apply the direct method on the bad guys. Problem is, what’s making his life difficult is a bad girl…

Seline O’Shaw needs protection, and with the hounds of hell on her tail, she’s not going to quibble too hard about where she gets it. Sam’s virtue is questionable, but he’s smoking hot, massively powerful, and owes her a favor. So what if she’s getting a little case of angel lust? There are some damn deadly sins after her hide…

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So let’s get going with the giveaway, shall we?

As you can probably figure out from the blurb, the hero of ANGEL BETRAYED is a bad boy, um, fallen angel. He’s dark.  He’s dangerous. He’s the guy that you want on your side in a fight.   He’s no knight in shining armor. He’s the angel with lost wings. 😉

To enter this giveaway, just tell me…do you enjoy reading about bad boy heroes?  What is it that draws you to them?

For me, I’ve got a top five list of reasons for liking those bad boys:

1. Bad boys tend to have sex appeal to spare.

2. Real life can be boring and mundane. In my books, I want danger. I want excitement. I want those bad boys.

3. Because Spike made me enjoy the bad boys. Oh, Spike, you were such a tease. Why, why did Buffy have to end?

4. I’m not perfect. I don’t think my hero should be, either.I don’t want him to be.

5.  Bad boys have attitude, they have swagger…and they usually have six pack abs.

Now it’s your turn! Tell me the reason you like bad boys (or, if you don’t like them, tell me why you enjoy the white knights), and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. And don’t forget to visit the blogs of the other participating authors:

Update:  The two winners selected are Vicki S. and SupaGurl. Congrats! Will you both please contact me via katiereus@gmail.com so I can get the book to you?

Hi, everyone! I hope that you had a terrific weekend! Today, I’ve got guest author Katie Reus here with a fun post and giveaway. Katie’s got a new romantic suspense story that I can’t wait to read (it will be my reward as soon as I turn in the two books that are due by mid-June!). Katie, I’m glad you came to visit!

Thanks so much to Cynthia for letting me blog here today! I just got to see this fabulous woman on Saturday and she was talking about wanting to see hear some sexy firemen speak at one of our local RWA chapter meetings sometime in the future. Which got me thinking about why the heck have I never written a fireman as a hero?? Okay, that’s not the point of this post, but now I can’t stop thinking about hot guys in fire hats and nothing else… anywho, moving on 😉

Somehow it’s already June and I’m still having a hard time believing half the year has flown by. My son is about to turn one (holy crap!) and is already walking and getting into pretty much everything. I call him my little hurricane (my very adorable hurricane). Right before he was born I started the story No One to Trust. That’s the first story in my Red Stone Security series and now Danger Next Door, the second story, is out and I couldn’t be more thrilled.

I’ve always been a fan of fairytales and the concept for this story has been simmering in the back of my brain for quite a while. Only recently did I have the time to actually work on it and I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally be releasing Danger Next Door. It’s a contemporary beauty and the beast themed romantic suspense with a scarred hero and a very outspoken heroine. Of all the fairytales I read while growing up, Beauty and the Beast was my favorite. I think it’s probably because everyone has scars whether they’re visible or not, so it was a lot of fun to use the theme in a story and put my own twist on it.

I’d love to give away copies of Danger Next Door to two random commenters. Just tell me what your favorite fairytale is. Or if you don’t have one, tell me if you have a favorite theme or trope in romance stories. I’ll leave this open until Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at noon Central.

Also, with the release of Danger Next Door I’ve marked down No One to Trust to 99 cents via Smashwords. Just enter the coupon code CR37V. It will be live until June 8. Feel free to share it with others!

Danger Next Door excerpt:

Grant opened his eyes at the sound of his cell phone buzzing across the nightstand. The insistent hum was going to drive him insane. Grabbing it, he looked at the caller ID then shoved the phone under his pillow.

It was Porter. Again.

He loved his oldest brother—okay, his whole family, but he wished they’d leave him the hell alone. If he decided to take the job at Red Stone Security and work with both his brothers and father he’d do it when he was damn well good and ready.

And not a minute sooner.

He rolled onto his side, ignoring the stiffness in his shoulders. Right now he was just trying to keep it together. After leaving the Miami Police Department he felt lost for the first time in his life. Not something he was used to. Right out of high school he’d joined the Marines just like his big brother had done. Four years later after an honorable discharge he’d joined the Miami PD. His first two years as a rookie he’d gone to night school while working as a patrolman. When he’d made SWAT he’d spent the next two years finishing up with his Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. And for the last two he’d been working as a detective and he loved it.

Well, had loved it.

Now he was on temporary disability and trying to figure out what he was doing with his life. Half a year ago things had been so clear. He’d had his entire life mapped out. Now, not so much.

Forcing himself to get out of bed and to stop the fucking pity party he was about to have, he took a quick shower and didn’t bother looking in the mirror before or after. Seeing his scars only reminded him of what a deformed monster he was. No thanks. He thought about it enough and didn’t need the visual aids.

Making his way to the kitchen he avoided glancing at picture frames dotting his hallway walls or anywhere else. They were all filled with pictures of his happy smiling family. His brother Porter and fiancé Lizzy. Or his brother Harrison and gorgeous wife Mara. Or his brothers, father and Grant, before the accident.

When he’d been a normal guy. Not Hollywood handsome, but good looking enough to get laid on a regular basis. Now…fuck, he hated the bitterness welling up inside him.

He was alive and had a great family. He’d get over it. Just not today. As he started making a pot of coffee he glanced out his kitchen window and into his neighbor’s window and froze.

He had the perfect view of his new neighbor. She was beautiful. Scratch that. The word didn’t even come close to describing her. There’d been moving guys in and out of the two-story house all day yesterday but he’d had no clue who was actually moving in. Holy shit, if that was her he’d probably scare the hell out of her the first time she saw him. Gorgeous women like her did not associate with someone like him. It would only make her self-conscious or worse—pity him.

But she wasn’t even aware of his presence so he could drink in his fill right now. Even if he did feel a little like a peeping Tom.

She didn’t seem very tall, though it was hard to measure. Her dark wavy hair cascaded down over her shoulders, reaching just below her breasts. Very full breasts. Definitely enough to fill his palms. And the tight tank top she was wearing left very little to the imagination. It was obvious she’d just woken up as she rubbed a hand over her face and reached for the coffee pot.

Look away, he ordered himself.

But he was rooted to the spot. There was a lot of natural light shining into her kitchen from the windows at the back of her house. He couldn’t see the other windows from his angle, but he’d been inside the house before his former elderly neighbors moved out, and it was bathing her like she was some sort of goddess.

Yawning, she stretched her arms over her head and showed off a nice expanse of toned, tanned belly and—yep, he was walking away now.

Before he really did turn into some sort of pervert.

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A little about me: I’ve been reading romance since a young age—ever since I discovered my mom’s hidden stash. Luckily the addiction stayed with me into adulthood. I write paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense for Carina Press, Harlequin Nocturne, and NAL/Signet Eclipse. To learn more about me please visit my website, my blog, facebook or find me on twitter @katiereus.