Obsession Q&A, Excerpts and Giveaway!
It's friday, and we've joined the book blitz for the release of Bonnie Vanak's Obsession! The book was released this past Monday, and we're giving away a copy of Seduction (Book 1) to one lucky winner. This newest book is already getting rave reviews, just like the whole series really has. We've got a Q&A and excepts, but if you're only here to win, scroll on down to the bottom for details!
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Book & Author Details:
Obsession by Bonnie Vanak
(Werewolves of Montana Mating Mini #2)
Publication date: February 16th 2015
Genres: Erotica, Paranormal Romance
(Werewolves of Montana Mating Mini #2)
Publication date: February 16th 2015
Genres: Erotica, Paranormal Romance
Synopsis:
He comes to her in a dark dream promising sensual pleasure – sexy, tempting and dangerous. Raphael is an obsessed wolf with one thing on his mind. He wants Jessica naked beneath him, and nothing will stop him until he has her in his bed.
Jessica Tyrell is a Lupine with a mission – find her missing brother, her only living blood relative. Now, with the help of magick crystals, her dream can come true. All she needs is to hack into restricted records at her friend Alexa’s ranch. The only thing standing in her way is Raphael Amador, head of pack security. The wolf wants her with the same ruthless intent he displays in protecting the pack. Jessica knows if she surrenders to his sensual allure, she could lose her soul to Raphael.
Haunted by his tortured past and determined to never love again, Raphael finds his passion awakened by the lovely redhead, who threatens his control. He has vowed to seek revenge against the man who killed his intended mate and scattered his pack. Can he experience a night of pleasure with the lovely redhead and pursue his goal of revenge, or will Jessica capture his broken heart?
(Warning: This book contains explicit sex and scenes of bondage. Not intended for anyone under the age of 18)
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Jessica Tyrell is a Lupine with a mission – find her missing brother, her only living blood relative. Now, with the help of magick crystals, her dream can come true. All she needs is to hack into restricted records at her friend Alexa’s ranch. The only thing standing in her way is Raphael Amador, head of pack security. The wolf wants her with the same ruthless intent he displays in protecting the pack. Jessica knows if she surrenders to his sensual allure, she could lose her soul to Raphael.
Haunted by his tortured past and determined to never love again, Raphael finds his passion awakened by the lovely redhead, who threatens his control. He has vowed to seek revenge against the man who killed his intended mate and scattered his pack. Can he experience a night of pleasure with the lovely redhead and pursue his goal of revenge, or will Jessica capture his broken heart?
(Warning: This book contains explicit sex and scenes of bondage. Not intended for anyone under the age of 18)
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Q&A with Bonnie Vanak, author of Obsession
Are you a plotter
or pantzer when it comes to writing?
I’m a “plantzer.” I do both. In addition to writing my self-published Werewolves of Montana series, I also write for Harlequin, so I have to turn in a synopsis. A synopsis is a terrific writing tool. With my Werewolves of Montana books, I’ll write a basic synopsis when I’m starting a new story. It helps me to gain a good idea of the characters’ motivations and emotional conflict.
Do you prefer an alpha, beta or gamma hero?
Alpha, definitely. Love writing and reading about alpha males. In my new Werewolves of Montana Mating Mini, Obsession, the hero is an alpha werewolf who lost his pack.
Which would you rather read, historical or contemporary romance?
Historical romance. My first books were Egyptian historicals. I had so much fun researching the Victorian time period of Egyptian history when archaeology was extremely popular. I included a real historical character, Flinders Petrie, in The Falcon and the Dove, my first book. There’s a fun scene in Obsession, where I include excerpts from The Falcon and the Dove, as the heroine is reading it. Jessica is a werewolf who adores reading romance novels!
What’s next in your Werewolves of Montana series?Passion, the third Mating Mini, will be released next month. And I’m working on Redemption, the fourth Mating Mini, and The Mating Challenge. The Mating Challenge is Aiden’s book. He’s the leader of the Mitchell pack in Montana, a very sexy alpha wolf who has been pursuing Nikita Blakemore, alpha female of the rival Blakemore pack. I’m planning to release Aiden’s book this summer. I already have the cover and if you “like” my Facebook page, you’ll see it posted there.
I’m a “plantzer.” I do both. In addition to writing my self-published Werewolves of Montana series, I also write for Harlequin, so I have to turn in a synopsis. A synopsis is a terrific writing tool. With my Werewolves of Montana books, I’ll write a basic synopsis when I’m starting a new story. It helps me to gain a good idea of the characters’ motivations and emotional conflict.
Do you prefer an alpha, beta or gamma hero?
Alpha, definitely. Love writing and reading about alpha males. In my new Werewolves of Montana Mating Mini, Obsession, the hero is an alpha werewolf who lost his pack.
Which would you rather read, historical or contemporary romance?
Historical romance. My first books were Egyptian historicals. I had so much fun researching the Victorian time period of Egyptian history when archaeology was extremely popular. I included a real historical character, Flinders Petrie, in The Falcon and the Dove, my first book. There’s a fun scene in Obsession, where I include excerpts from The Falcon and the Dove, as the heroine is reading it. Jessica is a werewolf who adores reading romance novels!
What’s next in your Werewolves of Montana series?Passion, the third Mating Mini, will be released next month. And I’m working on Redemption, the fourth Mating Mini, and The Mating Challenge. The Mating Challenge is Aiden’s book. He’s the leader of the Mitchell pack in Montana, a very sexy alpha wolf who has been pursuing Nikita Blakemore, alpha female of the rival Blakemore pack. I’m planning to release Aiden’s book this summer. I already have the cover and if you “like” my Facebook page, you’ll see it posted there.
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Blurb from "Obsession" and Excerpts
He comes to her in a
dark dream promising sensual pleasure - sexy, tempting and dangerous.
Raphael is an obsessed wolf with one thing on his mind. He wants
Jessica naked beneath him, and nothing will stop him until he has her
in his bed.
Jessica Tyrell is a Lupine with a mission – find her missing brother, her only living blood relative. Now, with the help of magick crystals, her dream can come true. All she needs is to hack into restricted records at her friend Alexa’s ranch. The only thing standing in her way is Raphael Amador, head of pack security. The wolf wants her with the same ruthless intent he displays in protecting the pack. Jessica knows if she surrenders to his sensual allure, she could lose her soul to Raphael.
Haunted by his tortured past and determined to never love again, Raphael finds his passion awakened by the lovely redhead who threatens his control. He has vowed to seek revenge against the man who killed his intended mate and scattered his pack. Can he experience a night of pleasure with the lovely redhead and pursue his goal of revenge, or will Jessica capture his broken heart?
Jessica Tyrell is a Lupine with a mission – find her missing brother, her only living blood relative. Now, with the help of magick crystals, her dream can come true. All she needs is to hack into restricted records at her friend Alexa’s ranch. The only thing standing in her way is Raphael Amador, head of pack security. The wolf wants her with the same ruthless intent he displays in protecting the pack. Jessica knows if she surrenders to his sensual allure, she could lose her soul to Raphael.
Haunted by his tortured past and determined to never love again, Raphael finds his passion awakened by the lovely redhead who threatens his control. He has vowed to seek revenge against the man who killed his intended mate and scattered his pack. Can he experience a night of pleasure with the lovely redhead and pursue his goal of revenge, or will Jessica capture his broken heart?
EXCERPT #1 FROM
OBSESSION(copyright 2015 by Bonnie Vanak)
No one would miss
her. They were too absorbed in the thrill of the run.
But something
scuffled along the forest floor. Jessica tensed. She lacked the
magick to properly clothe herself, and she was too exhausted to shift
back to wolf.
A beam of silver
moonlight spilled upon the forest floor, and hit the wolf standing
there in the quiet glen.
Raphael. He’d
turned around to find her.
Jessica shivered
anew. He shifted back to Skin and stood before her, equally nude.
Moonlight glinted on his dark hair, shadowing his face, silhouetting
his strong, athletic body. Such a prime example of a fierce male
Lupine. Desire flushed her body, chasing away the cold. Then she
remembered what he was.
Pureblood.
Unlike her.
Her arousal faded.
She stared into the forest, her chest hollow.
“Why are you
sitting here?” He joined her, sitting on the ground, lacing his
hands around his knees.
He was still naked,
too. Jessica hugged herself, more from the cold than modesty. “I
felt like a break. Just wanted to absorb the beauty of the night in
Skin form.”
What a lie. He could
easily see through it, she knew he could. But Raphael only leaned his
head back against the tree. Then he waved his hand, conjuring a large
flannel shirt and handed it to her.
“You look
chilled,” he murmured.
Grateful, she
slipped it on and thanked him. He regarded her with his steady gaze.
This Lupine didn’t ask why she failed to conjure clothing, or make
her feel awkward.
Jessica looked at
him. “I’ve always been different from other Lupines. In my pack,
my alpha doesn’t like me socializing much with the single males
because he doesn’t want me choosing a mate from them. He likes
keeping the bloodlines… pure.”
“Your alpha is
narrow-minded. He cannot appreciate your true beauty. Simply because
you can’t run as fast as the pack, or have the same magick as most
Lupines doesn’t make you weak. Just different.”
A wry smile touched
her mouth. “Funny. I just said the same thing to Daniel.”
“I know.”
“You overheard
that?”
Smiling, he picked
up a lock of her hair, and rubbed it. “You have a very kind heart.
It’s one of your many unique qualities, Jessica. Compassion for
others. A naughty sense of humor. And a most exquisite mouth. Small
and ripe, as sweet-looking as a fresh cherry.”
No man in college
ever told her that. They just wanted her to lie down and spread her
legs. Jessica had wanted more. Needed more.
His gaze dropped
lower, to her legs.
“You’re quite
tempting. And very clever. And naughty.”
Her jaw dropped as
he pulled her into his arms, and turned her over on his knee. Raphael
pulled up the shirt and caressed her bottom.
“So plump and
lovely. Such a sweet ass.”
A moan tore from her
throat as his hand moved lower. Raphael traced the curve of her
buttocks, then slid a finger down to her core. “So very sweet.”
Shock pummeled her
as he brought his hand down firmly on her bare ass.
“That’s for
screwing up my phone.”
As she shrieked out
a protest at the stinging slap, he pressed his mouth upon the spot
he’d just spanked. His mouth felt warm caressing her naked flesh
where the sting of his palm still resonated. Raphael’s gentle kiss
soothed away the brief pain. “And that is for being kind to
Daniel.”
Jessica scrambled
off his lap and sat on the ground, staring at him. “What do you
want, Raphael? You’re an enigma, more than me.”
Moonlight revealed
shadows in his dark eyes, tempered with a flicker of haunting
loneliness. “The same thing you desire, little Red, though we both
deny it. We both want a place to call home.”
Confused, she kept
staring at him. “But you have a home here with J.J.’s pack.”
“I live here. But
it is not home, and can never be a home. I’m a stranger here. So
you see, Jessica, like you, I am also outcast and until I unite my
former pack, it will always be so.”
Her heart turned
over at his confession. She drew closer, slid a hand over his bearded
chin. “I know what it’s like to be lonely among many.”
As she reached up to
kiss him, he lowered his head. Jessica closed her eyes and sighed at
the subtle pressure of his mouth. She parted her lips and he
responded with a light touch, nibbling gently at her lower lip, his
tongue slipping inside the moist cavern of her mouth. She slid her
arms around his neck, inviting him closer.
Warmth spread
through her, heating her blood, surging into her veins like fire. His
scent wrapped around her like a blanket, warm male musk, spices and
citrus. Jessica felt the hardness of his arousal against her belly as
she pressed closer. She wanted that hardness inside her, pushing so
deep that they’d become one, his seed filling her, making her
pregnant with his baby…
Realization hit her.
Gasping, she drew back. Raphael panted, his eyes darkening with
desire.
“You’re coming
into your heat,” he said, his voice deep.
EXCERPT #2 FROM
OBSESSION
Copyright 2015 by
Bonnie Vanak
He parked a lean hip
against the tree’s trunk and folded his muscular arms. In his red
flannel shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to display tanned forearms,
and faded jeans with scuffed Western boots, he looked like an
ordinary cowboy. But there was nothing ordinary about this Lupine.
Curls the color of
blackest night spilled down to his collar. His strong jaw was covered
by a close-trimmed beard, and a crisp mustache framed a mouth far too
sensual for a man. But there was nothing sensual about the sharp,
angular features of his face nor the darkness of those brown eyes.
Those eyes seemed
ageless, and ancient pain lurked in their depths as he gazed down at
her.
Jessica studied the
acres of green pasture, the gleaming buildings, and thought about the
expensive motor cars parked in the garage. “It must be nice to be
wealthy,” she mused.
“There are worse
things than having no money,” he said quietly.
“Easy to say when
you have plenty of it.”
“I’d trade all
the money in the world to regain what I’ve lost.”
He looked dark and
dangerous and yet he had an air of vulnerability.
“What did you
lose?”
Raphael shook his
head. “Another time, little one. Perhaps one night I will share
that information.”
“You don’t
believe in sharing during the day?”
His gaze became
hooded. “With you, I would much rather share…things… at night.”
Jessica felt her
entire body flare with heat. Every time he gazed at her with those
bedroom eyes, she felt a jolt of sensual awareness.
Her Lupine nature,
with all its raging hormones and sexual need, howled for release.
But his seductive
gaze wasn’t centered on her face now. He stared at her curls.
“What’s wrong?
Never seen a redhead before?”
“Not of that
color. I have met some red wolf Lupines, but their coloring is
darker.” Raphael left the tree, approached her. Before she could
squeak a protest, he wrapped a strand of her hair around his index
finger.
“It is like living
flame that does not burn. But do you burn, Jessica? Burn with the
desire all our kind possesses?”
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AUTHOR BIO:
Bonnie Vanak fell in love with romance novels during childhood. While cleaning a hall closet, she discovered her mother’s cache of paperbacks and started reading. Thus began a passion for romance and a lifelong dislike for housework.
After years of newspaper reporting, Bonnie became a writer for a major international charity. She travels to destitute countries such as Haiti to write about famine, disease and other issues affecting the poor. When the emotional strains of her job demanded a diversion, she turned to her childhood dream of writing romance novels.
She lives in Florida with her husband Frank and two dogs, where she happily writes books amid an ever-growing collection of dust bunnies.
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After years of newspaper reporting, Bonnie became a writer for a major international charity. She travels to destitute countries such as Haiti to write about famine, disease and other issues affecting the poor. When the emotional strains of her job demanded a diversion, she turned to her childhood dream of writing romance novels.
She lives in Florida with her husband Frank and two dogs, where she happily writes books amid an ever-growing collection of dust bunnies.
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And now it's contest time! Up for grabs is one copy of Obsession. Winner's choice if they would prefer a paperback copy, or an ebook. This contest is open internationally!
Welcome to the sensual world of the Lupine, where the burning drive to mate claims all...
Desperate to free her family from their evil alpha, curvy werewolf Alexa Grant sells her virginity in a private auction. Alexa has heard nothing good about Jeremiah Jackson Taylor, the ruthless and cold Lupine who purchased her innocence. She’d rather experience passion with J.J., the sexy and handsome cowboy who stole her heart when she worked at Aiden Mitchell’s Montana ranch.
Alexa doesn’t know J.J. is Jeremiah Jackson Taylor, the mysterious billionaire ranch owner who bought her for one night to rescue her from her pack. Determined to prevent another man from touching Alexa, J.J. will tutor her in the erotic pleasures of lovemaking. But when it becomes clear someone at the ranch knows his secret and is trying to pull them apart, J.J. knows he must step out in trust and tell Alexa the truth, or risk losing her forever…
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Obsession Contest
And now it's contest time! Up for grabs is one copy of Obsession. Winner's choice if they would prefer a paperback copy, or an ebook. This contest is open internationally!
Welcome to the sensual world of the Lupine, where the burning drive to mate claims all...
Desperate to free her family from their evil alpha, curvy werewolf Alexa Grant sells her virginity in a private auction. Alexa has heard nothing good about Jeremiah Jackson Taylor, the ruthless and cold Lupine who purchased her innocence. She’d rather experience passion with J.J., the sexy and handsome cowboy who stole her heart when she worked at Aiden Mitchell’s Montana ranch.
Alexa doesn’t know J.J. is Jeremiah Jackson Taylor, the mysterious billionaire ranch owner who bought her for one night to rescue her from her pack. Determined to prevent another man from touching Alexa, J.J. will tutor her in the erotic pleasures of lovemaking. But when it becomes clear someone at the ranch knows his secret and is trying to pull them apart, J.J. knows he must step out in trust and tell Alexa the truth, or risk losing her forever…
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