I do believe I warned y’all earlier that I’d soon be reviewing and featuring some spicier stuff. That day has arrived.

I’m pleased as punch to discuss one of Evernight’s Romance on the Go titles, A LEAP OF FAITH, by my kinky friend R. Brennan. She writes a couple of genres under a few different names, but I can assure you, all her stuff is top-notch.

A LEAP OF FAITH, the second in her “Faith” series (the first installment appears in Evernight’s VANILLA-FREE CHRISTMAS), follows our heroine of the same name, a typical girl-next-door living in the big city and getting by with a little help from her friends. One of those friends introduced her to Richard Halstead, a business tycoon with money, money, and a dominant streak as wide as the panoramic windows in his penthouse.

She soon gets her first taste of a Dominant/submissive dynamic, and she’s craving more. Here’s where A LEAP OF FAITH picks up — Faith practically dripping with anticipation of her next encounter with His Royal Domliness, Mr. Halstead.

With his steady nature and strong guiding hand, Faith eases into her role as a submissive, but lest she become a doormat, Brennan gives her enough quirks and funny flaws to make her completely loveable. (Picture Kristen Wiig in Bridesmaids with a bit more finesse.)

This quick read is seamless, steamy and will especially appeal to those into pet play. (Meow!) Brennan is obviously knowledgeable about the lifestyle so it’ll ring true for seasoned veterans, but Faith’s story is completely enjoyable for those who just like to dabble a bit in fantasyland.

Here’s the official synopsis:

New submissive, Faith Daniels, is completely infatuated with her amazing Dominant, Richard Halstead. So when he sends her a summons via text message a full day before they had plans to meet, she can barely contain her excitement.

But, Richard didn’t just invite her over for a play date. Not this time. He has a proposition for Faith. One that could change the rest of her life.

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Get this on-the-go goodie at:

• Amazon
• Evernight

Want to know more about the sexy siren behind the books? Here’s where you can stalk her:

• Author website
• Blog
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Goodreads

Last year at this time, we were getting ready to launch WANT into the world, and writing a follow-up hadn’t even entered my mind.

[Enter irate/enthusiastic readers who wanted to know what on earth happened after the last page.]

Today, you can find out. Once again published by Inkspell Publishing and told from Isaac’s POV, NEED picks up about 2-3 months after the end of WANT. It’s veeeery adult, but still contains the crazy, whacked-out yumminess of the first book.

Here’s what a few early readers are saying:

• “I have been waiting for Isaac’s side of the story since he broke my heart into pieces in Want. He is a complex character with all these different layers, that the more I tried figuring him out, the more I found myself lost in his madness …. Need is dramatic, sexy, beautifully written, and just an insane journey from the beginning to end.” – Kayla, My Book Muse

• “I only gots four words for ya: Oh. Em. Effin’. Gee. If you enjoyed WANT, you are gonna curl your toes over NEED, trust that …. A whirlwind bundle of love, passion, anger and sex, all rolled into a pretty pink basket of perfect prose that will slip right inside your mind and take up root, NEED gives hot a whole new name …. The struggle Isaac has with himself and what society has made him feel he’s done is perhaps the strongest element of this book, and the main reason I just know it’s gonna be a massive hit.” — Jamie Manning, author
  

• “It felt sooo good being back in Ms. Lawton’s completely crazy-pants South …. no way could there be anything crazier than some of the stuff that happened in Want. Oh, wow, was I ever wrong …. If Ms. Lawton excels at anything, it is to take the fragile construct of a situation and Hiroshima it into the next universe …. even with all of the X-rated yumminess, there was distinct humor running alongside the schexy and the crazy. Can’t lie, upon the term ‘manscaping’ I burst into a fit of the giggles that lasted about 20 minutes …. I do hope [Stephanie] writes more Southern gothics. She writes them so well and so deviously delicious.” –Jennifer Dee, Mundie Moms Guilty Pleasures
  

• “Stephanie Lawton writes another addictive story in Need. She has strong prose, and excellent storytelling skills ….  You’ll be hooked from the very first page.” — Emily, Book Jems

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Here’s where it’s available:

• Inkspell Publishing (paperback and digital)
• Barnes and Noble (paperback and Nook)
• Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
• All Romance eBooks (digital)
• The Book Depository (paperback)
• Kobo (digital)

If you do read it, please, I’d be ever-so-grateful if you left a review somewhere — the site where you bought it or Goodreads … both if you love me.

Hope you enjoy getting to know Isaac and Heather! And if you want to know even more about them, DIRTY LAUNDRY, a free short story, will be available from Inkspell May 22.

Sure, a title is such a small thing, but when you’re neck deep in the writing cave, small victories need to be celebrated! After much thought and consultation with the “inner circle,” we’ve come up with a very appropriate title for my next book.

It will be New Adult and released the first week of December at the New Adult Sleepover Weekend in Savannah, GA. I’m not yet ready to reveal the synopsis, but the title should give you some clues. The metaphors are endless and it’s very fitting on a number of levels.

I will say that unlike my other three books, it won’t be set in the Deep South, but it’s from a guy’s POV.

PLEASE feel free to share, tweet, like and add on Goodreads!

SO. Here it is:

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