Welcome back to my writing buddy Marie Tuhart, whose erotic romance novels always delight. I aspire to be as prolific as Marie, who juggles several writing projects at once and publishes multiple books each year. She’s here to tell us about the second book in her Wicked Sanctuary series, super-steamy romance set in a BDSM club. But first, a quick update:
I’m gearing up for my NaNoWriMo project, Book 2 in the Bangers Tavern series, featuring Eddie Volkov, Bangers’ barback, and Rosie Chu, one of the servers. Eddie’s a taciturn Eeyore who keeps his eyes on the prize–a bar of his own, featuring the delicious Russian food he grew up with and a huge selection of vodkas. Rosie is my first BBW (big, beautiful woman) heroine. With her electric blue hair, numerous tattoos, and goofy humor, she couldn’t be more unlike the glum barback who secretly pines for her. When she needs a canvas to practice her tattooing skills, needle-phobic Eddie volunteers.
This is my favorite part of the writing process: getting to know my characters, what makes them tick, and plotting the highs and lows of their love story. Anything is possible, and a steamy connection is guaranteed.
Speaking of steam, let’s turn over the blog to Marie Tuhart:
Thank you for hosting me today, Sadira.
I’m so happy today is the release day for my 2nd book in the Wicked Sanctuary world.
Entice: A Wicked Sanctuary novel follows Jordan and Crystal who you were introduced to in Tempt. You don’t have to read Tempt in order to read Entice.
I had a lot of fun writing Entice with a lot of research. It’s a fun, sexy, and intriguing book.
Wicked Sanctuary…surrender your inhibitions
When Crystal Hayden walks into Jordan Frost’s office, sparks fly. The spunky paralegal captured his attention the first time they met in more ways than one. Crystal is perfect for the job he needs to have done. But he wants more. He wants all Crystal can give him. He only hopes she’s up to the challenge.
Crystal’s attraction to Jordan is immediate and powerful. But she’s vowed never to date a co-worker again. Worse yet, he’ll be her boss. She’s already lost one job due to to a personal relationship; she won’t do it it again. When Jordan agrees to an ironclad contract between them that her job is safe, Crystal finds herself free to explore a world that has intrigued her for a long time, but old fears haunt her.
Crystal and Jordan are thrown together while working the case. The stakes increase and threaten to spill over into their private lives and the lives of their friends. While both have secrets, their past and present collide. They must confront old attitudes and beliefs in order to open their hearts to each other and find a lasting future together.
Excerpt:
Jordan leaned forward, his hands splayed out on the table. Her gaze was captured by his. Her heart rate picked up at the smoldering look in his brown eyes.
“I need a paralegal who is open to doing the necessary research, which will likely include talking with others in the kink community.”
“I can do that.” Crystal forced herself to breathe normally. Jordan was too close. Just like the night at the book club meeting and again at the coffee shop, his heat, his masculinity, called out to her. Her fingers tangled together in her lap.
“Can you?” He turned his hands palms up. “It means we’re going to be working closely together. Late nights and weekends.”
Crystal swallowed. How was she going to handle her attraction to him? She blew out a breath. “I can be professional; can you?” She almost clamped her hand over her mouth. She hadn’t meant for those words to slip out.
Jordan’s eyes widened, and then a grin spread over his lips.
“That came out wrong. You’re going to be my boss and nothing more.” She closed her eyes. She was making a mess of this. “What I mean is—”
“I know what you meant. I’m going to lay my cards on the table, so to speak. I’m attracted to you, Crystal. There was a spark from the first night.” He held his hand up when she opened her mouth. “Please, let me finish. I will be professional on the job, totally and completely.”
“Jordan, if you’re going to be my boss, we can’t have a personal relationship.” Oh but she wanted to. Where was her willpower? He was a lawyer, and she’d promised herself—after her last failed relationship with a lawyer—she would never get involved with anyone she worked with.
“This has nothing to do with your job and never will.”
“I want that in the employment contract.” The words came out before she could stop them.
His grin widened. “Done.” He stood. “Be right back.” Crystal blinked. What the hell happened? Before she could analyze it, Jordan returned with Kendra.
Kendra had a stack of papers in her hand. “Here’s the new employment contract,” Kendra said, sliding it across to Crystal.
She flipped through the pages until she got to the end. She read the added wording. Oh my, he’s serious. He’d put in the contract anything personal between them had nothing to do with her job, and she would be paid in full no matter what. Even if she left the job early.
“Change the ‘paid in full no matter what’ to ‘paid in full for all work completed at the time of separation’.” Crystal pushed the contract back to Kendra.
Kendra made the changes, initialed, as did Jordan, then gave it back to Crystal who initialed it. She read the rest and then picked up a pen. This was crazy. She was crazy.
“Hold on,” Kendra said. “Let’s get a notary up here. I want this done properly.”
“Agreed.” Jordan pulled his phone out.
“Hey, Holly, it’s Jordan. Can you come up to the office, conference room one for a minute and notarize a contract? Thanks.” He hung the phone up. “Holly will be here in a few minutes.”
She hadn’t expected the notary, but it would protect her and his firm. She reached down and pulled her wallet out of her bag and then pulled out her driver’s license. When there was a knock on the door, Crystal straightened.
Entice is available at:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08K4STB92
Barnes & Nobel: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/entice-marie-tuhart/1137749203?ean=2940164685874
iTunes/book: https://books.apple.com/us/book/entice/id1533714289
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/entice-a-wicked-sanctuary-novel
Universal buy link: https://books2read.com/Entice Book trailer: https://youtu.be/2HXQsVO-ABk
Marie Tuhart lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with two energetic Chihuahua Terrier mixes. Marie loves to read and write, when she’s not writing, she spends time with her dogs, family, traveling and enjoying life.
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