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A Variety of Chains - Erotic paranormal novel
by Christine Blackthorn
(@CBlackthorn @sinfulpress)
Sinful Press is
proud to announce the pre-release of A Variety of Chains by Christine
Blackthorn, the first in the Bloodhavens series.
Blurb:
Kathryn McClusky is an ErGer – a rare and highly prized
individual in the supernatural world.
She has spent her life running and hiding, but
circumstances have changed and the only way to protect her family is to hand
herself over to the Vampire Lord of London to face slavery or death.
Lucian Neben runs his London court with a stern but fair
hand, but political pressures are building from both the human and fey worlds,
and taking possession of an ErGer would cement his position of power.
Kathryn is vulnerable and broken almost beyond repair, but
she holds in her hands the one treasure Lucian desperately wants – the
possibility of home and family.
Can he teach her to open herself up; to choose to life, and
him, before reality forces him to take her freedom?
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Excerpt:
He calmly straddled
her, and as he leant forward to take her mouth in a deep kiss, his long hair
curtained them in a world of their own. His kisses were deep and addictive, a
leisurely play on her senses, an instant aphrodisiac. He took his time to taste
and feel every last corner of her mouth and only let up when both their lips
were swollen and sensitive.
"That's it. I want
you to be only aware of me." There was a wicked light in his eyes – wicked, aroused and
full of gentle laughter, a combination more desirable than anything.
"First, I will
narrow your world so that your busy little brain cannot take you away, and then
I will play with you. The rules will be simple. I get to do whatever I want and
you have to take it. If you tell me something I do not know and cannot find out
any other way, something secret and intimate, then and only then will I give
you relief."
She did not understand
what he meant but her confusion was quickly overtaken by alarm when he covered
her eyes with a soft cloth. She did not like the limitation to her sight even
though he had blindfolded her repeatedly over the last two weeks. It made her
tense, and increased her awareness of both his touch and his taste. She felt
his lips stroking over the cloth, gentling her into the darkness. She was
surprised when his hands slipped under her shoulders and he made her upper body
more comfortable – she had not noticed the discomfort from her muscles,
but he had. He had noticed the increased tenseness and adjusted her body to
avoid it. That realisation was terrifying and reassuring in equal measures.
She felt him get off
the bed, though his hand remained a calming pressure on her skin at all times.
A gentle pressure was laid over her torso, just under her breasts, and as it
tightened her body was further immobilised by what she realised was a strap. A
second strap followed the first just over her breasts. Both straps were tight
but not painful, smooth lines of warming leather on her overheated skin.
"I am just making
sure that you cannot move suddenly and risk hurting yourself." His voice
was an anchor in her world, a deep note of calm in her rising nervousness. It
almost failed to stave off the waves of panic when he gently lifted her right
leg and bent it to attach a thigh cuff to the side of the bed, leaving her
exposed. She tried to struggle but he had ensured that her range of movement
was already so limited that any resistance was ineffective at best. Quickly he
attached a second cuff on her other thigh and tightened the ankle restraints,
leaving her laid out on the bed, restrained and open, her legs parted and bent,
entirely helpless and accessible to his touch.
"You have no idea
how beautiful you are like this – splayed for my desire,
unable to resist the pleasure I can give you."
Author Bio:
In "real" life, I am an academic with degrees in
Political Science, Economics, Philosophy and Law and an insatiable desire to
confound, baffle and disconcert my students. Someone once suggested to me the
reason for my stories lay in the desire to offset the tedium and rationality of
academic life. He wasn't an academic or he would have known better. It is best
to use research against tedium, students to offset the rationality and an
unlimited supply of stressballs for the faculty meetings. The stories? Well,
they are just for me - like a mental manicure.
I also write a blog on Feminism and Erotica - come talk to
me:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBlackthorn
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