Sep 30, 2012

Sunday Smooch with Anna Campbell .......

Welcome to another LoveCats DownUnder Sunday Smooch!


Today we have a smooch from Seven Nights In The Rogue's Bed by Anna Campbell, but first ...

the winner of last week's Sunday Smooch Giveaway is -- Alyssa Susanna!


Congratulations, Alyssa! Can you please contact Barbara De Leo at barb (at) barbaradeleo (dot) com to claim your prize.

And now for today's Sunday Smooch from Seven Nights In The Rogue's Bed by Anna Campbell .....

Will a week of seduction...

Desperate to save her sister's life, Sidonie Forsythe has agreed to submit herself to a terrible fate: Beyond the foreboding walls of Castle Craven, a notorious, hideously scarred scoundrel will take her virtue over the course of seven sinful nights. Yet instead of a monster, she encounters a man like no other. And during this week, she comes to care for Jonas Merrick in ways that defy all logic-even as a  dark secret she carries threatens them both.

...Spark a lifetime of passionate surrender?

Ruthless loner Jonas knows exactly who he is. Should he forget, even for a moment, the curse he bears, a mere glance in the mirror serves as an agonizing reminder. So when the lovely Sidonie turns up on his doorstep, her seduction is an even more delicious prospect than he originally planned. But the hardened outcast is soon moved by her innocent beauty, sharp wit, and surprising courage. Now as dangerous enemies gather at the gate to destroy them, can their new, fragile love survive?

  


[Set-up: Sidonie and Jonas have gone riding on the beach outside Castle Craven, his crumbling lair on the wild Devon coast. He kisses her and realizes she’s never kissed a man before. He’s about to give her a very nice lesson!]



Devon Coast, November 1826

Heat. Softness. Trembling uncertainty. A hidden longing to respond. Jonas tasted all of that when he dipped his lips to Sidonie’s. He couldn’t say why he was so deeply moved to be the first man to kiss her. Her merest presence aroused him. It had from the first. Whatever power she possessed, he was helpless against it.
Experimentally, he nibbled, licked at the seam. She was bewitching. Even now when she conceded little more than she had when he’d kissed her last night. She quivered under his hands. He still wasn’t sure whether she was excited or frightened. He’d read both curiosity and dread in her pansy eyes. Her thick tortoiseshell hair tickled his fingers. After her wild ride, she looked enchantingly disheveled. It made him contemplate other wild rides he’d like to take with her.
Raising his head, he stared at her. Her eyes were shut and her lashes fluttered against flushed cheeks. His nostrils flared as he drew in the evocative scents of the sea and Sidonie.
“Open your mouth, tesoro.” He angled her face higher. “Open your mouth for me.”
At his raw demand, her eyes flared wide. For a drunken moment, he drowned in glorious brown, rich, autumnal, sensual.
“O-open?”
He took advantage and claimed her, sliding his tongue into the interior. She made a sound of surprise and tried to back off. “No.”
Bella, don’t be afraid.”
She stopped edging away but her lips closed against him again. He returned to demanding nothing more than her stillness. She stood unresponsive, although her choppy breathing indicated she was far from unmoved. She resisted to the point where he thought he’d run mad with wanting her.
Just resistance, resistance, resistance. Endless resistance.
Then in the space between one second and the next, endless resistance dissolved. Her hand curved around his shoulder. On a sigh, she leaned into him. Warmth powerful enough to melt the chill from his obsidian heart enveloped him. The hand on his shoulder flexed into a caress. Her lips parted and at last gave up the honey within. Luxuriously he savored her mouth. She was delicious. His tongue flickered over hers and he heard a smothered protest.
If he had an ounce of charity in his soul, he’d release her. But her flavor was as addictive as gin to a toper. He’d blithely imagined he’d keep his head during this impromptu lesson. Instead she made a mockery of arrogance. She who had never kissed a man.

Seven Nights In The Rogue's Bed is released in the US on 25th September (Grand Central Publishing) and in Australia/New Zealand on 1st October (Harper Collins Aust)

Leave a comment to be in the draw to win a signed copy of Seven Nights In The Rogue's Bed!


Come back next Sunday, when the winner of today's giveaway will be announced -- and a smooch from Wild Encounter by Nikki Logan will be posted!

38 comments:

  1. Anna, that was a spectacularly delicious kiss - I loved it! I do like a heroine who's able to surprise and intrigue the hero with her innocence. He was a goner the moment he decided to kiss her, wasn't he? LOL

    I'm not a huge reader of historical romances (I can count those authors on one hand - and, yes, you're one of them! :-D).

    SEVEN NIGHTS is going on my GBN (go buy now) list after reading the blurb and that kiss. I so want to see Jonas fall for Sidonie!!! And I get to add another Anna Campbell to my HR section on my bookshelves.

    Thanks for a great Sunday morning read!

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  2. This was lovely and has a touch of the beauty and the beast about it. I like him a lot and can't wait to read about those seven nights( Fans Herself)Love the kiss and the hesitance followed by passion.

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  3. You know I love your books and looking forward to this one! As always, you have the best covers.

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  4. Hey, thanks so much, Kylie. I must admit first kiss is always once of favourite bits of a romance novel both as reader and writer. As you say, it's the moment they're both goners even if they don't recognize it. So glad you enjoyed the kiss and that I've gone to the GBN list. I LOVE that list! LOL!

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  5. MM, thank you so much. This is definitely a beauty and the beast story. I love those and I went really overt with the theme this time round. Thanks for saying you enjoyed the kiss!

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  6. Catslady, I'm madly in love with that cover too. LOVE the gold and the characters actually look like the people in the book which is always a plus!

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  7. How sexy is to hear a guy speak in a different language, specially when you are just waiting to be devour by love! ~swooooon~ I love LOVE your books Anna!! Hopefully I can have the chance to win and read this one!! Fingers crossed!

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  8. Oh YES...more please!

    Lol. I'm still waiting for my copy and now all I've done is made myself more impatient to get it. (shaking head muttering all sorts of things on why I have to wait because the mail man didn't deliver.)

    I think Jonas is going to exceed all expectations. *grin*

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  9. Love your books and looking forward to this one too!

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  10. That excerpt...is spectacular. I'm making grabby hands!

    Thanks for sharing with us. :)

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  11. O_O
    This is SO my type of book. Historical-ish setting!!! FANTASTIC excerpt! I'm excited! This is going on my TBR list. Please enter me!Thanks for the smooch and giveaway!

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  12. Hi, Anna and the LoveCats!

    Anna, that was a very hawt lesson in seduction for Sidonie indeed! I'm so excited about your rogue--can't wait to read the whole book.

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  13. Hey, thanks, Effie! Hope you have great fun with Jonas - Sid sure does, EVENTUALLY!!! LOL! So glad the kiss whetted your appetite!

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  14. Thanks so much, May! Nice to have something new on the shelves!

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  15. Thanks so much, Julie. I must say first kisses are a bit of the book I tend to wallow in! ;-)

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  16. Ally, so glad this is right up your alley, LOL! Thanks for swinging by and checking it out. Good luck!

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  17. Thanks so much, V! Excited to have something new to talk about!

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  18. Hey, Gisele, thanks for swinging by. So delighted you love the first kiss. Must say I had fun with the Italian and Jonas. Hmm, that sounds a bit naughty but as you know, I ONLY mean the language! Good luck in the draw!

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  19. Such a delicious smooch.

    If Sidonie doesn't want him, I'll have him.

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  20. Anna, welcome to the LoveCats! What a pleasure to have you sharing from 'Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed'. I loved this smooch! What fun. Having read the whole story (yessss, I'm a lucky girl) I can say the whole book is a treat. Lots of intensity and passion and trademark Anna Campbell tension. What a treat.

    Efthalia, you're going to love it!

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  21. (happy sigh) Smashing smooch, Anna - a very VERY nice lesson indeed! Can't wait to read more of Sidonie and Jonas! And it's on the shelf DownUnder tomorrow! Woohoo!

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  22. Anna, I love the cover! And the excerpt is very intriguing. I'd love to know how did you come up with the names for your characters?

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  23. OMG, Anna, I could feel the heat in that excerpt....
    You said, "Whatever power she possessed, he was helpless against it." Now THAT'S my kind of story! Thank you!

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  24. OMG *fans self* Can't wait to read more. Such a delicious excerpt to tantalize with! Love a Beauty and the Beast story. Such unusual names for a historical....

    thumbelinda03@yahoo.com

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  25. Mary, what a great response! Thanks for saying you enjoyed the smooch!

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  26. Annie, thanks so much for saying how much you like the kiss. As you know, it's a bit of a book I always enjoy!

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  27. Sharon, good point - Aussies and Kiwis, get your SEVEN NIGHTS IN A ROGUE'S BED TOMORROW OF BE SQUARE!!! ;-) Thanks for inviting me on Love Cats. Always have fun here.

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  28. Natalija, thank you for saying you enjoyed the excerpt - and isn't that cover gorgeous? It was odd, both Jonas and Sidonie went through a string of names before I settled on the right ones. And then when I did, it was like "That's absolutely right!" Weird how that can happen. I think poor Sidonie was original Harriet. And I know she went through a stage of being Marianne!

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  29. Laney, so glad the kiss got you sighing. My work is done! ;-) Thank you!!!

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  30. Linda, so glad you enjoyed the excerpt - fanning and all! Thank you! Actually naming my characters is always one of the fun bits of writing a book. I really need them to have the RIGHT names or I can't proceed. It's odd like that.

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  31. Thanks for having me as your guest today, Love Cats. Always love visiting you guys. Thanks to everyone who swung by to read my kiss (oh, I WISH it was my kiss, LOL!). Don't forget to check back next Sunday to see who won the copy of SEVEN NIGHTS IN A ROGUE'S BED!

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  32. Congrats on the book! That was great.

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  33. Thanks so much, BN! I love writing first kisses!

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  34. Thanks again, guys. And keep smoochin'!

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  35. Anna, I'm a bit late to the party, but I LOVED the smooch! I think I'm gonna love the whole book - thank goodness it's already on the shop shelves. :)

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