Flora and Charlie's CATWALK Winner!

Well, Charlie usually does the picks for winners but, after careful deliberation of all your wonderful captions and comments, Flora insisted that she should be allowed to pick a winner too!  So those gorgeous felines have conspired to give away TWO of Kate's books! 

Sooooo ...
:: Drumroll Please ::

Charlie's winner is

Kylie!

and Flora's winner is

Na!

Congratulations,  Kylie and Na!  You've each won a copy of Kate Walker's latest release, The Devil and Miss Jones!

Please contact Kate on  kate (at) kate-walker (dot) com  and she and the gorgeous felines will get that book into the post to you!

Thank you, everyone, for dropping in with your fun captions!

CATWALK - Caption Contest!

Kate Walker's Flora and Charlie

... cats on the mat for a chat with Sharon Archer

CAPTION ME!

Or CAPTION ME!

Today on the LoveCats CATWALK, I'm featuring Harlequin Mills and Boon Presents author Kate Walker with her gorgeous Maine Coons, Flora and Charlie!  Take it away, you handsome felines...

Names
Flora (Princess Flora Flooziebelle) – the glorious grey and
Charlie  (Charlie Rumpuss) the ginger ninja

Abode 
‘The Cat House’   c/o Kate Walker Lincolnshire UK

Human Slave 
You will know her as Kate Walker but to us she’s just Our Mum. There’s Our Dad too – known as the Babe Magnet

Likes :

Flora – Peace from ‘that boy’ Charlie.  Lying in front of the fire. Not being pounced on.  Salmon and trout ‘sticks’ treats. Being told I’m beautiful – I know I am but it doesn’t hurt to have it emphasised 
Charlie : Teatime’ (which can mean breakfast time or lunch time  - or teatime – but ‘Teatime’ means the bowl is being filled.)Taking up all the room on the sofa/bed/rug/firespot. Pouncing on Flora. Running wild in the garden and dashing up tree. Biting my Dad’s toes

Dislikes:

Flora – being pounced on by Charlie. The White Stuff – you call it  Snow (I once went out into the garden, jumped on to the lawn and disappeared in a snowdrift. I disappeared and as a Maine Coon I am a big cat. All My Mum could see was the tip of my tail.) 
Charlie – Not being let pounce on Flora. Not being first to the food bowls. Rain.  (You’ve seen my long coat – it absorbs a lot of water. ) My Mum always says I look like a drowned rat when I come in out of the rain. Oh and when My Dad starts playing his guitar – then I give him a real mouthful of complaints and  walk out of the room.

Ambition:

Flora – I don’t need an ambition – I am purrfection as you can see







Charlie – To catch one of those fluttery things Mum calls birds.  She puts stuff out on the bird table so I get up there to try to catch open (see my caption photo above)  but somehow they seem to know I’m there – I’m not sure why. Oh, and to eat lots


 Sociable or Aloof

Flora – It depends who has the treats.  I like visitors but they do need to treat me with respect – and have treats ready to hand 
Charlie – I’ll be pals with anyone  -- specially if they’ve got treats

 

Night Owl or Early Bird?

Flora –  I don’t mind really – I rarely need to trouble about waking the slaves to let me put – I leave that to Charlie. Then I can go out or not as I please. But if Blackie from down the road comes into the garden then  I try to get out to be with him 
Charlie-  Both – I’d be out in the garden all day if I could and spend all night on the razz out there too. But Mum insists I come in when it’s dark – spoilsport. So I’m also an early bird – at about 5.30, I go in and scratch on the wardrobe like a loony, letting them know I want to go out NOW 

Favourite Pastime

Flora :  Trying to steal treats when Dad’s not looking 
Charlie : Eating. Pouncing on Flora’s tail. Being in the garden and climbing trees. Bringing in a collection of stuff from the garden – leaves, twigs, mud, flower petals, all attached to my fur









Favourite Toy:

Flora:  Chasing treats  and pouncing on leaves – I also like to get high on catnip 
Charlie: Flora’s tail – and my ball in table game – and those fluttery things

Best Friend:

Flora  - It depends who has the treats but really it’s My Mum. ( I do like to go and sit on her knee when she’s on the loo but she says I haven’t to tell you that!) Definitely not that boy Charlie. 
Charlie:  My Mum – specially when she has the food tin and the can opener in her hand.

What do you like to sharpen your claws on

Flora: Tree trunks if  outside  but my scratching post will do 
Charlie: Flora’s tail, tree trunks, the side of the cat kennel, the side of the shed  . . .anywhere I can find really. The scratching post? Oh is that what that’s for



















Most embarrassing moment

Flora: I don’t do embarrassing – but the snowdrift moment was a  little – disconcerting 
Charlie: The ‘drowned rat’  wasn’t fun – but I don’t embarrass easily


So get busy with those captions to be in the running to win Kate's latest book!   Charlie and Flora are in charge of picking their winner!

The Devil and Miss Jones 

by Kate Walker

Backcover:

Martha Jones has never taken a risk in her whole life. Until the day she runs out on her wedding and succumbs to the magnetism of a man she has only just met! A man she knows only as Diablo.

Lone wolf Carlos Ortega won't promise Miss Jones more than one searing-hot night. Yet Carlos is shocked by Martha's sweet innocence. This runaway bride is a virgin, and it seems the repercussions of their sizzling encounter could last forever . . .

Thank you for visiting the LoveCats, Kate and Flora and Charlie!  It's been fun!

Congratulations!

WINNERS

Congratulations to Imelda and Natalie! You lucky things! You have both won a signed copy of one of Kate Walker's back list books. :-)

You can contact Kate at: kate (AT) kate - walker . com (without the spaces)

Kate Walker Sunday Smooch!

Welcome to another LoveCats DownUnder Sunday Smooch!


Today we have a smooch from The Return of the Stranger by Kate Walker, but first ...

The winner of last week's Sunday Smooch Giveaway is --
Kylie!


Congratulations, Kylie! Please contact Rachel at

Rachel (at) RachelBailey (dot) com, and she'll send you a copy of Return of the Secret Heir.

And now for today's Sunday Smooch from The Return of the Stranger by Kate Walker ...


Standing high on the windswept moors, the lone figure of Heath Montanha vows vengeance on the woman who destroyed the last fragments of his heart...
 
Lady Katherine Charlton has never forgotten the stablehand with dangerous fists and a troubled heart from her childhood. Now the rebel is back, his powerful anger concealed under a polished and commanding veneer.

When ten years of scandal and secrets are unleashed, with a passionate, furious kiss, Heath's deepest, darkest wish crystallises...

Revenge -- and Kat -- will be his!






[The set up...] Return of the Stranger was written as part of a special mini-series using classics of romantic fiction for inspiration and as a springboard to create a new, modern story. So it is the story of Heath Montanha and Katherine (Kat) Charlton.

When they were young, Katherine was the daughter of a local land owner and Heath, the orphaned foundling that her father found in Liverpool and gave home to where they both grew up. But when Kat’s father died, her brother Joe treated Heath appallingly and when Katherine became more involved with Arthur, the son of Lord Charlton, Heath walked out and left to make his fortune.

Now, ten years later he is back, looking for revenge on the man who treated him so cruelly and to see again the woman who had taken his heart and broken it into tiny pieces. He plans to take one look and the walk away, but finds he just can’t do that. As this extract reveals, he kisses her three times in the early part of the story – once in hungry demand, once deliberately seductive. . . . and now this kiss which changes everything.

And he was moving, she realised hazily. She hadn’t noticed him take action but he was coming closer, slowly, steadily, almost imperceptibly. He was taking one step and then another, and another . . .

She should back away, get out of his reach. She told herself that she wanted to back away, but her body refused to obey her, Instead she stayed exactly where she was, feet firmly rooted to the ground, her breathing fast and shallow, her heart thudding heavily inside her chest.

‘Now how shall we do this, namorada.’

‘We . . ? '

We won’t be doing it at all, she meant to say, but the single syllable was all she could manage. It seemed that as she spoke she took in the scent of him on the air, her mouth remembered the taste of him and wanted more.

‘We . . .’ she said again and it was just a sigh.

‘We . . .’ Heath agreed, nodding his dark head. ‘Because it is ‘we’, isn’t it, my lovely? It is the two of us. Not just you or me – but the two of us together , making more than ever apart. We.’

The last word was spoken as his head lowered to hers, his mouth taking hers so that she swayed against him, hunger weakening every limb so that she needed his strength to hold and support her as she melted into him.

Three kisses. They had shared only three kisses in all the time she had known him, and yet each kiss had been so very different, so unique, so totally unlike each other that Kat felt as if she had experienced a lifetime of caresses from this man.

The first, here in this hallway one the day he had come back into her life, his kiss had been like being in the eye of a burning storm. The flaring passion had taken her and dropped her right into the heart of an inferno where she had thought that she would be burned up to ashes before her heart could even take another beat. Then the slow, seduction of that second had melted her senses, leaving her half out of her mind with the sort of sensual awakening that had filled her whole body with hunger and yearning.

But this kiss was another new experience. And even as his mouth touched hers she knew that this was the kiss that had the potential to break her heart. It was the kiss she had dreamed of, longed for. The kiss she had been waiting for all her life.

Kissing Arthur - and being kissed by him – had been like kissing an enthusiastic boy, clumsy, endearing, excited, but somehow lacking in finesse. She had thought it was just the start of things. That it was bound to get better, but instead it had come to lack even more - but lacking what she had never known until now. She had taken the blame for it because she hadn’t known any better. Until that first kiss from Heath had shown her how it could be between a man and a woman.

How a man should kiss a woman.

This was a man’s kiss. And she received it as a woman, knowing that the feelings it stirred in her were the richest, deepest, most feminine emotions possible. It was a kiss that opened her mind and her senses to new sensations to heat of skin, the scent of his body, the strength of taut muscle, and the taste of his mouth on her, hard and soft in the same moment, moist and warm and totally personal.

The Return of the Stranger is available now in Australia and New Zealand as a Sexy and NA as a Presents Extra. To be in the draw to win a signed copy as well as two books from Kate Walker's backlist, just tell us which are your favourite classic romances?

Come back next Sunday, when the winner of today's giveaway will be announced -- and a smooch from Tempting the Negotiator by Zana Bell will be posted!