Lauren Dane

My LAID BARE WITH FLAIR contest has begun at my blog! I’ll be giving away fun prizes every single day until August 3 to celebrate the August 4 release of Laid Bare!! You can check out contest details and rules at my blog.

Speaking of Laid Bare – RT Booklovers Magazine has given it 4 1/2 stars and a TOP PICK in the August issue!

In a word, this book is amazing. All three characters are magnetic and thoroughly realistic. They’re expertly woven into a roller-coaster story that will have you crying one moment, aroused the next and laughing with glee at each triumphant step along the way. With menage and some mild M/M scenes, this is Dane’s best story yet!

I also received an early review from Romance Junkies – five blue ribbons! You can check out an excerpt, blurb and book video at the Laid Bare page

RELENTLESS has been awarded the Romance Junkies “Blue Ribbon Favorite for 2009! Thank you to Romance Junkies for the wonderful award!

I’m pleased to announce there will indeed be more books in my Federation series with Berkley. Insatiable will be out in July of 2010! This is Daniel Haws’ story (you meet him in Relentless)…

Insatiable – the sequel to the author’s futuristic romances, Undercover and Relentless, in which a soldier in the Federation’s shadowy and ultra-secret Phantom Corps is sent on a mission into Imperial territory to smuggle out a woman who may hold the key to turning the rising tide and winning the war before it starts

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In this erotic universe, passion knows no rank…

Since the first settlers came through the portals from Earth, fifteen Families have held the rule of the Federated Universes in their hands. There’s never been a better time than now to throw out the old and usher in a new order. Give voice to the unranked. Abbie Haws has spent her life battling the system. A fighter, she’s always been too busy and driven to pay much attention to finding love. But when she’s granted audience with Roman Lyons, the head of House Lyons, who stands for everything she hates, her instant attraction catches Abbie off-guard…

It’s common knowledge that the Known Universe revolves around Ravena—and that Ravena revolves around Roman Lyons, bred to lead since birth. Roman dreads his meeting with a defiant—if stunning—rabble-rouser. But, sometimes, headstrong personalities in the conference room make for hot-and-heavy, guilty trysts in private….

Now, Abbie will show Roman the parts of her world he wouldn’t otherwise get to see. And he’ll give her a glimpse of the Families’ age old tradition and unleash a sexuality he’d never given rein to before.

I hope you all enjoy the book. I do so love this world and I hope to do more in it (just waiiiiiting to hear back, LOL).

My story is Sensual Magic and it’s William Emery’s story (you met him in last year’s Stripped)

Two years ago, William Emery believed in love. Deciding to make his permanent home in Boston and start a nightclub there, he was locking down funding and approving the font on wedding invitations.
Until he found out his fiancée was little more than a faithless gold digger.

Emotionally devastated, he moved to Las Vegas where his younger brother lived and began work to create the kind of club he’d always wanted to run. And to drown the memories of his idealism in a sea of female flesh. If you didn’t involve your heart, it never got broken.

Nell Hunter is a witch on the trail of a human who’s stolen from her people. This human is working with a group of mages stealing money and power from the clans and cabals, relying on the need for secrecy to keep their victims quiet and from going to the police. But they hadn’t banked on Nell.
She’s a bonded hunter to the court of the Owen clan.

In Vegas, Nell seeks William out, his ex-fiance is the woman she’s looking for. The sparks between them fly immediately and while Nell knows they’re meant to be, William has a harder time with it. They come together as bullets and magic fly – nothing worth having is ever easy

Because I had so many wonderful books to give as prizes, I’m gong to start on April 15th (tax day to us Americans) instead of the 20th.

Each day will feature a book that will be the prize awarded the following day. A question will be posed at the end of the post, nothing you have to study for or anything. I’ll choose a winner at random from the comments and announce it here at noon pacific the following day. Winners will have seven days to claim their prize or I will re-draw.

Authors who’ve been fabulous enough to donate books are:
Anya Bast
Jaci Burton
Maya Banks (Twice!)
Mandy Roth
Megan Hart
Beth Kery
Michelle Pillow
Cynthia Eden
Vivi Anna
Elisabeth Naughton
Ann Aguirre
Beth Williamson
Just added: Sasha White (Twice!)

And some Lauren Dane books tossed in too. It’s going to be a whole lot of fun so check in at my blog daily.

At the very end, I will put all the comments for the entire contest in the hopper and choose a grand prize winner and two first prize winners from those names. Grand prize: A Lauren Dane tote bag with a copy of RELENTLESS, a copy of WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS…AFTER DARK, a tee shirt, a $50 dollar gift certificate to Barnes and Noble and other assorted swag. Two first prize winners will receive copies of Relentless

Good luck everyone!

ALWAYS is now available in digital format from Samhain Publishing!

Sometimes you have to go more than halfway to meet in the middle.

Caitlin Moore has every reason to celebrate. She’s through with law-school finals, and out for some post-semester fun when she runs smack dab into Eamon Blake, the Irishman with whom she had a summer fling years ago. Time hasn’t dimmed their lingering friendship—or their sexual chemistry.

Eamon isn’t looking for love when he bumps into Cat while he’s in Seattle on a job. Yet over the next year, he finds himself involved in a rekindled long-distance romance that moves from casual to a lot more.

That’s the rub. Cat is determined not to repeat her past mistakes with men and give up the dream job for which she’s worked so hard. Independence is something she’s spent years achieving. Eamon can start over so much easier than she can—why shouldn’t he make the sacrifice this time?

But Eamon doesn’t much relish leaving the life he’s been building in Los Angeles—and he really doesn’t like ultimatums. At an impasse, goodbye seems the only direction to go. Ending it is the right thing to do…or the biggest mistake they ever made.

Taking Care Of Business and Cascadia Wolves: Standoff are both now available in trade paperback!

Megan Hart and I are running a very big TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS contest! Head over to the BRING ME MY HOOKAH blog to see details.

I’ve updated the RELENTLESS and SENSUAL MAGIC pages with excerpts, book videos and new reviews.

Got final pass pages for Laid Bare today! It seems like I just finished the book yesterday. I’m beyond thrilled with the overall book design. As with Undercover and Relentless, Berkley has gone all out to create a package that’s visually arresting. I love that.

I’ve put some new reviews up on the Taking Care of Business page along with others for Standoff and Wolf Unbound. I’ve also put up excerpts for Sensual Magic and Always up at my blog.

I finished up Coming Undone, the follow up to Laid Bare and I hope to hear back from my editor that she liked it! Now I’m finishing up the last ten or so pages in No Reservations, which is due April 1.

After that, it’s all prep for Romantic Times Booklovers Convention next month in Orlando. If you’re in the area or you’re planning to attend, please come to our reader party on Friday at 10 am. It’s going to be fabulous and we’ll have plenty of great swag for all attendees!