The Alpha’s Promise – by Renee Rose

Renee Rose is here with her book, The Alpha’s Promise!
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By Renee Rose

I love a bad boy hero. There’s something just so satisfying when a tough, buff and tattooed alpha male falls hard for the heroine.  In my new release The Alpha’s Promise, I have a dirty sex-talking bad boy shifter, who has been charged with protecting an uppity, sassy human. As you might imagine, the sparks fly.

Here’s a little taste,
“You’re the one who offered me pack protection. If you weren’t always such a smug, cocky bastard, I might have shown a little more gratitude.”
The corners of his mouth twitched.
Her heart jumped around in her chest while she watched his gaze turn from scalding to smoldering—with a different kind of heat. “I don’t need your thanks,” he muttered and reached for her nape yanking her in to claim her mouth, just as he’d done in the middle of the mall. She closed her eyes and melted into the kiss, which was no less violent or consuming than the last one.
One of his hands slid down her back and gripped her ass, squeezing and pulling her hips against him. He wedged one leg between her thighs, and her hips rocked down to rub her clit against it.
She moaned.
“That’s it, baby, keep up that sexy moaning.” He bit her ear, teeth grazed her jaw before he returned to fuck her mouth with his tongue.
She rolled her pelvis up and down on his thigh, the stimulation against her clit driving her mad.
He lowered and curled his forearm under her ass, lifting her easily to straddle his waist. She looped her arms around his neck, lips still twisting over his in a desperate dance.
She knew it was a bad idea. She didn’t want to get into a relationship with another bad boy like Cody. But since the moment he’d first grabbed her in her bedroom closet, she’d been fighting the attraction. Maybe if she just let things ride, the tension would ease between them. It didn’t mean she had to be in a relationship with him.
Cody lifted her higher and bit her breast. She shrieked at the pain and violence of it, wondering if he’d left a mark. “Shirt off, Melissa.”
Not a request. A command.

A DOMINANT ALPHA. A TEMPTING HUMAN. AN IMPOSSIBLE ATTRACTION.

After one loser boyfriend too many, Melissa Bell swore she was done with bad boys, but when her ex puts her life in danger it is a buff, tattooed, dirty-talking alpha shifter who shows up to save her. More disturbing still, her rescuer makes it clear that he regards Melissa’s safety as his personal responsibly, and defying his instructions soon earns her an embarrassing spanking. Though she should be furious, her body’s reaction to the tough, handsome wolf’s stern dominance demands more.
It doesn’t take long for Cody to wish he’d never made an alpha’s promise to protect Melissa, yet for some reason he can barely control himself around her. His inner wolf craves the beautiful human in spite of her snobbish attitude and constant sass, and when she is writhing over his knee, it is all he can do not to mark her and mate her right then and there.
Each moment he spends with the alluring, feisty girl only increases his hunger for her, but Cody promised himself long ago that he would never take a human as his mate. Will his pride push Melissa away forever, just when he realizes he can’t live without her?

Publisher’s Note: The Alpha’s Promise is a stand-alone sequel to The Alpha’s Hunger. It includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.

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About Renee Rose

USA Today Bestselling Author Renee Rose is a naughty wordsmith who writes kinky BDSM and spanking romance novels. Named Eroticon USA’s Next Top Erotic Author in 2013, she has also won The Romance Reviews Best Historical, Sci-Fi and BDSM awards, Spanking Romance Reviews‘ Best Historical, Erotic,  Ageplay and favorite author, and was a finalist for The BDSM Writer’s Con Golden Flogger award. She’s hit #1 on Amazon in multiple categories in the U.S. and U.K., is often found on the list of Amazon’s Top 100 Erotic Authors and has been a regular columnist for Write Sex Right. She also pens BDSM stories under the name Darling Adams.  To receive four free books from Renee, sign up for her mailing list here.

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Sylvie Takes Charge

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It’s been a while since I’ve been here, but my new book, Sylvie Takes Charge, is finally live. Here’s a little snippet and the blurb.

Blurb: Sylvie and Bill Morgan have a happy marriage–for the most part. From time-to-time, Sylvie worries that Bill might be taking advantage of her late husband’s hard-earned money by gambling and squandering it away. Sure, Sylvie had some bad habits her first husband had to break her of, but bending her over his knee for her naughty and disobedient ways turned her into a dutiful wife.

But when loan sharks come knocking and Bill’s debt is worse than ever before, Sylvie decides it’s time to take matters into her own hands. Determined to convince Bill that spanking has beneficial results, she does everything she can to show him that it’s not “glorified abuse.” After Bill gets more tuned in than ever, it’s his turn to remind Sylvie that “what’s good for the goose is even better for the gander.”

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Sylvie’s upset after the loan shark came to their door looking to collect what Bill owes him. She’s bailed him out of his loans so many times and she’s tired of it. Bill feels guilty and tries to soothe her, making promises he might not be able to keep.

Sylvie burst out crying and Bill felt smaller than he’d ever felt before. He did this to her. She was the best thing that had ever happened to him and he was ruining everything. He wouldn’t blame her if she walked out on him.
“Honey, come on, please don’t cry. I’m so sorry I did this. I promise it’ll never happen again.”
This time she let him gather her in his arms, but she said, “You’ve made that same promise before. I don’t believe it anymore.”
“This time I mean it. Really. I do mean it. Tell me how I can make it up to you. I’ll do anything you want.”

Next week find out just what she wants!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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I missed Saturday Spankings this week, so here’s a little snippet from my recently released Corbin’s Bend book, Fire in the Rockies.

     Kelly unbuttoned her blouse angrily as she stomped to what RJ had designated as ‘her corner’ in his bedroom. One of the buttons ripped off, fell to the floor, and rolled under the bed.
“Dammit,” she muttered as she debated if she should get on her hands and knees and find that stupid button. She decided against it because the last thing she wanted right now was for RJ to walk in and find her with her ass pointing to the ceiling, giving him a perfect target.
She slipped out of her skirt and panties, threw them on the chair with her blouse, then unhooked her bra and slid the straps down her arms while she violently kicked her shoes off. One of them hit the wall and left a black scuff mark.
     Good, she thought to herself, serves him right for making me get in the corner just because I disagree with him.
     His words came back to her as she faced the corner and found the familiar L-shaped flaw in the plaster. She wasn’t here because she disagreed with him. It was because of what she said. Truthfully, it wasn’t even so much what she said but how she said it. Telling him to take his rule and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine— in other words, stick it up his ass— probably wasn’t the best way to voice her opinion.

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They’re on to something with this spanking stuff!

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I’m back for Saturday Spankings! I knew it had been a while since I posted anything on my blog but was surprised to see that it’s been more than two months! Holy cow, time sure does fly. I meant to post last week but I was still catching up from being at The Passionate Pen conference. It was so much fun! I enjoyed meeting everyone and loved the workshops. If you weren’t able to make it, you really need to do your best to try and make the one coming up in April. It’ll be in Las Vegas and is sure to be just as wonderful.


I’m giving you an excerpt from my Corbin’s Bend book, Safe Under Protection. First, here’s the blurb:

After spotting a mafia hit, Jess and Colleen Bradley find their life turned upside down and on the run. With nowhere else to turn and to protect their family, they accept the assistance of the witness protection program. Their U.S. Marshal, Jack Carmichael, convinces them to move to a small community in Colorado run by his brother.
Jess and Colleen Bradley become Russ and Debi Hunter, the newest residents of Corbin’s Bend. Forty years of a vanilla marriage makes them a little out of place in this spanking community. With new names and new jobs, Debi is a little stressed out with her new surroundings. She keeps messing up and calling Russ by his old name. After a successful erotic spanking just to see what all the fuss is about, Russ decides a real spanking might be just what’s called for to get Debi to remember his new name and relieve her of some of the stress she’s feeling.
Just as they begin to find peace as their new selves in the wilds of Colorado, the protection they feel shatters when Jack calls with the bad news that their security has been compromised and Debi realizes she’s being tailed.  As Brent Carmichael and Russ rush out to find Debi and get the two to safety, it might be too late because at that moment, two hit men are set on making sure Debi and Russ are not safe under protection.

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     Debi has just had her first spanking. It was a fun sort of role-playing spanking and afterwards she and Russ had the hottest sex they’d had for a long time.

     Russ collapsed on her and then rolled to his side, pulling her to him so they were spooning. He briefly wondered if Debi could feel his heart hammering on her back as hard as he felt hers beating rapidly in the hand that was cupping her breast.
     “Holy shit.” Russ was the first to speak. “I hope one of us doesn’t have a stroke. We haven’t had such a hot fuck in a long time.”
     “I know,” Debi panted. “But it was great. Jeez, I think these people are on to something here with this spanking stuff.”

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R is for Russ Hunter – Safe Under Protection

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So who is this guy, Russ Hunter? He’s the totally vanilla husband that ends up in Corbin’s Bend with his equally vanilla wife after they’re put into the Witness Protection Program by US Marshal Jack Carmichael who is brother to none other that Brent Carmichael. I know, I know, as Etta Stark would say…I’m taking another opportunity to pimp my book, Safe Under Protection.

Blurb:  After spotting a mafia hit, Jess and Colleen Bradley find their life turned upside down and on the run. With nowhere else to turn and to protect their family, they accept the assistance of the witness protection program. Their U.S. Marshal, Jack Carmichael, convinces them to move to a small community in Colorado run by his brother.
Jess and Colleen Bradley become Russ and Debi Hunter, the newest residents of Corbin’s Bend. Forty years of a vanilla marriage makes them a little out of place in this spanking community. With new names and new jobs, Debi is a little stressed out with her new surroundings. She keeps messing up and calling Russ by his old name. After a successful erotic spanking just to see what all the fuss is about, Russ decides a real spanking might be just what’s called for to get Debi to remember his new name and relieve her of some of the stress she’s feeling.
Just as they begin to find peace as their new selves in the wilds of Colorado, the protection they feel shatters when Jack calls with the bad news that their security has been compromised and Debi realizes she’s being tailed.  As Brent Carmichael and Russ rush out to find Debi and get the two to safety, it might be too late because at that moment, two hit men are set on making sure Debi and Russ are not safe under protection.

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Today’s excerpt will be about how Russ steps up to deliver Debi’s first punishment spanking. She’s been having a hard time remembering to call him by his new name and keeps starting to call him Jess, his original name. Worried that the people of Corbin’s Bend are going to start wondering why she calls him ‘Je…, Russ,’ he puts their first rule into place. She will be punished with a spanking each time she slips up and starts to call him by his old name. Debi agrees to this since she realizes it’s important not to give anyone reason to wonder about her slipups. When she comes home excited about her purchases for her kindergarten class, she doesn’t just almost call him by his old name. She yells it up the stairs and instantly knows she could be in trouble.

All thoughts of spankings had been wiped from her mind with her excitement over her purchases.
“Jess? Oh shit, I mean Russ? Are you home?” She knew he was, his van was in the garage.
“Yeah, up here, Debi.”
She ran up the stairs hoping he hadn’t heard her slip-up. It wasn’t on purpose, she told herself. Even though she’d been thinking of doing it on purpose, she wasn’t in the mood to try out a punishment spanking right now. She was excited about what she’d bought for her classroom.
“Hi, honey. Wait till you see what I bought for the kids.”
“Debi, come here.”
His voice was a little funny, she thought. Stern and serious and even commanding. The way he said ‘come here,’ like he was so sure she would obey. The funny thing was that she found herself going to him without any hesitation. She obeyed.
“We made a rule, Debi. You just broke it.”
     Oh god, he had heard her slip up.
     “I know, honey. But it was just because I was all excited.”
“You agreed you would be punished if you slipped up again on the name thing.”
“I know, but I don’t feel like it right now. I want to show you the stuff I bought.”
Russ sighed. “I doubt many people feel like getting punished. But we agreed, and you’re going to be punished. Now.”
“No! Russ, come on. I know I agreed, but let’s do it later.” Debi suddenly felt panicky and her belly did a flip-flop. Her thighs pressed tightly together and she felt the dampness of her panties. But she didn’t want to experience a punishment spanking now.
“Let’s go to the bedroom now.”
He used that different voice again and for some strange reason, even though she didn’t want to, she found herself obeying and going to the bedroom with him.
“Get undressed.” He kept his clothes on and sat on the edge of the bed.
“Everything?” she asked in little more than a whisper.
She watched his face as he thought about it and could tell when he made up his mind.        Did that glint in his eye mean he was looking forward to punishing her? Or was he planning to ravish her when he was done with the punishment? She could only hope it was the latter.
     “Yes, everything.”
     Oh, that voice, she thought as she unbuttoned her blouse.
“Are you getting undressed?”
“No, I’m not the one getting spanked.”
She remembered the woman from the block party whose husband believed sex after punishment was a reward. Was that what Russ was thinking? She slipped off her panties and was naked. Swallowing hard, she waited for his next command.
“Come here.”
His legs were slightly parted and she stood between them. He put his hands on her hips and lightly caressed her skin.
“We agreed to this, right?”
She nodded her head, her eyes slightly wider than usual.
“You rushed into the house and called out my old name. Didn’t you?”
She nodded again and whispered, “Yes.”
“What if someone was up here with me?”
“But I knew there wasn’t anyone else here. There were no cars in front of the house.”
“What if Brent or Jason, or anyone for that matter, had walked over and we were up here when you yelled out my old name?”
“It would have been awkward. I’m sorry J…Russ.” She couldn’t believe she just messed up again.
“It would have been more than just awkward. It would start people talking. You have to work harder at this, Debi. It’s our safety that’s the issue here. Do you understand?”
     Jeez, the lecture was making her feel worse than she thought the spanking would.
    “Yes, I do. I understand.”
“Good.” Russ patted his thigh and said, “Now get over my knee.”

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B is for Book Bundles – Spank Her Bundle 1

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Welcome to Day 2 of the Spanking Blog Challenge! Today’s letter is B as in Book Bundles. Who doesn’t love a book bundle? You get anywhere from 3 to as many as 10 books all bundled together for a significant savings. Personally, I love buying bundles and I almost never pass up the opportunity. It’s a great way to build up your to-be-read list at a reduced cost. Currently I have only one book bundle and it includes the first three books of my Spank Her series. These are all stand alone books so you can read them in any order.

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Here are the blurbs for each book in this bundle:

Spank Her Now
Stephen and Eve have been married for fifteen years. Their marriage has become boring, their sex life is boring. Eve wants to spice things up and begins sending Stephen anonymous emails with titles like, ‘Does Your Wife Need a Spanking?’
But Stephen doesn’t open them because he’s concerned about getting a computer virus. The emails keep coming and finally Stephen decides to open one. Eve gets much more than she ever bargained for when Stephen decides Eve’s attitude needs adjusting and he takes her over his knee for a long, hard spanking.

Spank Her Again
Maggie leaves her abusive husband and drives with no destination in mind, all she wants is to get far away from him. She ends up in the small town of Blue Moon, Wyoming and finds herself in the medical clinic after fainting in the grocery store. She’s under Dr. Robert Spencer’s care and he doesn’t think Maggie is taking care of herself. Spence believes in the domestic discipline lifestyle and is ready to see to it that Maggie starts taking better care of herself, even if it means putting her over his knee and reddening her backside. But Maggie just left an abusive relationship and is unsure if she wants to get involved with a man who wants to spank her!

Spank Her Hard
Francine is a young single mom, living with her mother, trying to support her twin daughters and go to nursing school. She takes a job at an escort service hoping to make enough money that she’ll only have to work a few nights a week, giving her time to study and time to spend with her kids. She meets a client who is too good looking and too much of a gentleman to have to use an escort service. She finds out why he uses professional escorts on her first assignment with him. He has a little bit of a kinky side in the bedroom. He’ll pay extra, but is Francine willing to accommodate him?

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Saturday Spankings! – A Little Slap & Tickle

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Welcome to Saturday Spankings! I’m so excited that my Corbin’s Bend book, Safe Under Protection, has been released! Here’s another eight sentence (or thereabouts) snippet for you to enjoy. And don’t forget to check out the rest of the blog hop!

 Safe Under Protection

Blurb: After spotting a mafia hit, Jess and Colleen Bradley find their life turned upside down and on the run. With nowhere else to turn and to protect their family, they accept the assistance of the witness protection program. Their U.S. Marshal, Jack Carmichael, convinces them to move to a small community in Colorado run by his brother.
Jess and Colleen Bradley become Russ and Debi Hunter, the newest residents of Corbin’s Bend. Forty years of a vanilla marriage makes them a little out of place in this spanking community. With new names and new jobs, Debi is a little stressed out with her new surroundings. She keeps messing up and calling Russ by his old name. After a successful erotic spanking just to see what all the fuss is about, Russ decides a real spanking might be just what’s called for to get Debi to remember his new name and relieve her of some of the stress she’s feeling.
Just as they begin to find peace as their new selves in the wilds of Colorado, the protection they feel shatters when Jack calls with the bad news that their security has been compromised and Debi realizes she’s being tailed.  As Brent Carmichael and Russ rush out to find Debi and get the two to safety, it might be too late because at that moment, two hit men are set on making sure Debi and Russ are not safe under protection.

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Debi confesses to Russ that she’s been looking up domestic discipline online and reading about punishments has been turning her on. She’s embarrassed to tell him, but he finally coaxes it out of her.

     “Just spill it, babe. What’s to be embarrassed about? Come on, tell me.”
     Very quickly, speaking faster than she usually did, Debi said, “While I was reading descriptions of things they did, I sort of got a little…um…a little…horny. There, I said it.”
     Russ threw his head back and laughed out loud. Debi smacked his leg and said, “Don’t you laugh at me, Je…Russ!”
     “Aw, babe—I’m not laughing at you—more at how you said it so quick to just get it out there.”
     “It’s not funny! It was weird and it made me feel like…like I don’t know what. Just weird.”
     Russ chuckled, “So my wife of forty years got turned on by reading about a little slap and tickle.”

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Saturday Spankings – His to Tame: OTK

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Welcome to the last Saturday Spankings for March! Can you believe this new year is already one quarter over? Wasn’t New Years like just a few weeks ago? Today I have another snippet from His to Tame. This one continues on from the last excerpt. Enjoy!

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Blurb: Raised by her grandparents after her mother and father are killed in an automobile accident, Julie Fallon returns to the ranch she was born on. Fed up with city life and a job that requires too much travel, she returns to the ranch where her grandfather is now all alone.
When she arrives, she is stunned to discover her grandfather expects her to marry the owner of the neighboring ranch, Seth Berrett, who has been helping Gramps with running his ranch. In fact, marrying Seth is the only way she’ll inherit the ranch. The ranch she feels is her birthright and should be hers without having to marrying anyone.
Thrown together with Seth in back to back blizzards, Julie loses her grandfather when he succumbs to his illness and learns she has only thirty days to marry Seth or the ranch will be put up for sale.
To add insult to injury, Seth isn’t just your ordinary cowboy. No, he’s the kind of cowboy who’s made it his mission to paddle her bottom whenever he thinks she needs it. Her grandfather’s will states they must be married for at least ten years or the ranch will be sold.
Should she just forget living on the ranch and go back to the job she’s grown to hate or can Julie resign herself to enduring a minimum of ten years of marriage to the spanking cowboy?

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Continuing on from the last snippet on this – read it here – Julie and Seth have finished eating their late supper and Seth announces he’s going to go check on Julie’s grandfather. She tells him she’ll do it and when he asks if she knows how to tell if Gramps has taken his evening medication, she gets snippy again.

     She rolled her eyes upward once more and said, “I may not know how to tell if he took his medicine, but I’m not an idiot. I can certainly check and see if he looks comfortable and is sleeping peacefully.”
     As she stood up to rinse her bowl, Seth got up, pulled his straight-backed chair out and sat down. Reaching for her arm, he spun her around in a quick movement that put her squarely over his knee and before she could screech about being manhandled, he grabbed the back of her flannel pajama pants and pulled them down to the middle of her thighs.
     “What the…”
     The shock of his palm raining smacks on her panty covered butt left her speechless before she could even finish what she was going to say.

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Saturday Spankings – Safe Under Protection

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Welcome to another fun Saturday Spankings blog hop! I love the shamrock paddles in the picture above. Very nice touch, Mistress Blake!
Today I’m going to continue where I left off last week with Russ and Debi on their way to Corbin’s Bend, a community they know very little about other than people are into spanking. You can check that snippet out here if you like.

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Blurb:  After spotting a mafia hit, Jess and Colleen Bradley find their life turned upside down and on the run. With nowhere else to turn and to protect their family, they accept the assistance of the witness protection program. Their U.S. Marshal, Jack Carmichael, convinces them to move to a small community in Colorado run by his brother.
Jess and Colleen Bradley become Russ and Debi Hunter, the newest residents of Corbin’s Bend. Forty years of a vanilla marriage makes them a little out of place in this spanking community. With new names and new jobs, Debi is a little stressed out with her new surroundings. She keeps messing up and calling Russ by his old name. After a successful erotic spanking just to see what all the fuss is about, Russ decides a real spanking might be just what’s called for to get Debi to remember his new name and relieve her of some of the stress she’s feeling.
Just as they begin to find peace as their new selves in the wilds of Colorado, the protection they feel shatters when Jack calls with the bad news that their security has been compromised and Debi realizes she’s being tailed.  As Brent Carmichael and Russ rush out to find Debi and get the two to safety, it might be too late because at that moment, two hit men are set on making sure Debi and Russ are not safe under protection.

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In last week’s snippet, Debi has just explained to Russ that when the Corbin’s Bend brochures refer to discipline, they are not talking about disciplining your children and she’s a little concerned if they’ll be able to live in a community where adults are spanked on a regular basis.

      “Is this why you’ve been so quiet during this whole trip?”
      “I guess. I have been thinking a lot about it and wasn’t sure if you understood just what we’re getting ourselves into. So what do you think?”
     “For now, I think we just have to deal with it. Jack didn’t have a lot of time and he probably thought because of this so-called uniqueness, this would be the perfect place for us to relocate. Who would think to look for us in a spanking community? Hell, who would even think there was such a place as a spanking community? Let’s just roll with it and make the best of it.”

Who indeed would think there was such a place?

Safe Under Protection release date is May 7th!

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His to Tame – Excerpt

His to Tame FinalI have an excerpt today for you from His to Tame. Enjoy!

Blurb:
Raised by her grandparents after her mother and father are killed in an automobile accident, Julie Fallon returns to the ranch she was born on. Fed up with city life and a job that requires too much travel, she returns to the ranch where her grandfather is now all alone.

When she arrives, she is stunned to discover her grandfather expects her to marry the owner of the neighboring ranch, Seth Berrett, who has been helping Gramps with running his ranch. In fact, marrying Seth is the only way she’ll inherit the ranch. The ranch she feels is her birthright and should be hers without having to marrying anyone.
Thrown together with Seth in back to back blizzards, Julie loses her grandfather when he succumbs to his illness and learns she has only thirty days to marry Seth or the ranch will be put up for sale.
To add insult to injury, Seth isn’t just your ordinary cowboy. No, he’s the kind of cowboy who’s made it his mission to paddle her bottom whenever he thinks she needs it. Her grandfather’s will states they must be married for at least ten years or the ranch will be sold.
Should she just forget living on the ranch and go back to the job she’s grown to hate or can Julie resign herself to enduring a minimum of ten years of marriage to the spanking cowboy?

    On her first night at her grandfather’s ranch, Julie wakes up from her nap well past supper and goes to the kitchen to find something to eat. She’s quietly pulling containers from the refrigerator when she bumps into an unexpected hard chest and she drops what she has in her hands.

    A hand clamped down over her mouth as she opened it to scream and a familiar voice said, “It’s just me. Calm down, I didn’t mean to startle you.”
    “What the hell are you doing here? I thought you left hours ago,” Julie said once he took his big hand off her mouth.
    “I did leave, but when I got to the end of the ranch road I decided the storm had gotten too bad and I turned around. I called my foreman and told him I’d be staying here until this blizzard lets up.”
    Bending down to pick up the fallen plastic food containers, Julie said, “Keep your voice down, Gramps is sleeping on the sofa.”
    Seth smirked and said, “That was me on the sofa. Didn’t you make sure your grandfather was in his bed before you went to your room?”
    “No, I left him sleeping in his chair. He looked so comfortable and restful I didn’t want to disturb him.”
    “He has medication he’s supposed to take at night, did you give it to him?”
    She rolled her eyes and asked, “How the hell would I know he has medication to take if no one told me?”
    “Keep on with your attitude, swearing, and eye rolling and you’re going to find yourself over my knee getting your bare bottom warmed up.”
    Her eyebrows drew together in a frown. “What are you? Some kind of Neanderthal? What is this thing with you about spanking me?”
    “No, I’m not a Neanderthal, just a man who thinks people should behave civilly and respectfully. That includes curbing your attitude, knocking off the swearing, and no disrespectful eye rolling.
    “Well I’ve got news for you, cowboy. You’re not my father, not my husband, not anyone who has any say in what I do or how I behave. Try to spank me again and I’ll have your ass in jail on charges of assault.”

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