Welcome To the Holiday Gifts of Love Hop!!

 

Ho, ho, ho and welcome to the Holiday Gifts of Love Christmas blog hop! Carrie Ann Ryan has gathered together authors ready to share some Christmas joy and offer a few gifts too!  There are three grand prizes and each author is also giving away a prize!  More details in the post about all that but first, I thought I’d share a little bit about Christmas in my corner of the world.

Our tree is always an important part of our celebration.  My parents continued a tradition from their childhoods in having special ornaments.  They each had a few and when I was born, they decided to buy me an ornament for each year.  So I now have a lot of ornaments and I’ve continued the custom with my kids.  So my tree becomes a huge, almost Victorian beauty with all kinds of specialty ornaments collected over the years and we’re still adding to the mix.  Here’s a picture of this year’s effort:

 

 

Now onto the blog details -

Each participating blog and author is giving away a prize. There will be over 200 giveaways on each blog hosted by that Author or Blogger.

But that's not all....

There are three grand prizes. You as a reader can go to EACH blog and comment with your email address and be entered to win. Yep, you can enter over 200 times!

 

Now what are those prizes?

 

1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

2nd Grand Prize: A $200 Amazon or B&N Gift Card

3rd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack that contains paperbacks, ebooks, 50+ bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!

 

Here’s where to link to other stops on the hop:

Website: http://carrieannbloghops.blogspot.com/

To win my prize – two copies to two winners of Home Fires of Christmas (eBook) leave your email address in a comment here on the blog!

 

Home Fires of Christmas

Christmas/romance short

Rebel Ink Press

$1.99

Lela may be the wife of a famous singer but on Christmas Eve, she finds herself home alone.  As she waits for Shane to come home for the holidays, Lela wonders if fame has changed their lives too much.  Shane's out on the road almost all the time while she keeps the home fires burning.  Shane's failure to arrive sends her into a bout of self-pity but when he finally makes it home, she learns things are much different than they seem.

http://www.amazon.com/Home-Fires-of-Christmas-ebook/dp/B00AFN3JBE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1354366444&sr=1-1&keywords=lee+ann+sontheimer+murphy+home+fires+of+christmas

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http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/home-fires-of-christmas?keyword=home+fires+of+christmas&store=ebook

http://www.bookstrand.com/home-fires-of-christmas

Excerpt:

He tasted of peppermints and a fainter hint of good bourbon, pleasant and familiar.  Heat kindled between their lips and fire ignited between them as his mouth teased hers into desire.  His kiss pleasured her mouth but evoked waves of want in her body, sweet thrills of delight rippling with need. As her body eased into the familiar tension, the yearning just one thing could relieve, Lela curled herself closer against Shane until she felt his hard cock move against her.

                He pulled away her robe and stripped her flannel nightgown away.  Shane’s large hands roamed over her body, caressing and fondling.  He knew just where to touch to evoke her reaction, how to stroke her to increase her desire to a fever pitch.  Lela’s hands jerked at his shirt, fumbled the buttons until she could take it off.  When she did, Shane unzipped his jeans and stepped out of them, bare as the day he came into the world beneath the denim.  She admired his shaft and reached out to take it into her hand.  As she began to caress him, Shane pulled his mouth away from hers to latch onto her left nipple where he suckled.  Extreme pleasure flowed through her body as she arched her back to get maximum reaction.  He switched to her right breast, hand cupping it as he tongued around her sensitive nipple until she whimpered with need.

                Shane’s fingers moved to her mound where he stroked until her inner pulsing increased so much Lela thought she’d die if she didn’t get satisfaction soon.  Her own fingers tangled in his hair, longer than he’d once worn it then moved to rake his back with her fingernails like a she-animal.  He groaned with pleasure and maneuvered her toward the antique couch.   Lela sprawled on it, legs spread open and he entered her fast and harsh with the power of a river flowing into her body.  From the first connection she spasmed with glad satisfaction as each ripple grew until waves of erotic enchantment bewitched her.

                He worked her and she gave back, moving beneath him to offer the release they both sought.  At last they shuddered together in a climax powerful enough they slid from the couch onto the hard wood floors with a crash.  Still connected, the final spirals of bliss spinning them through a rush of delight they burst into laughter, a happy sound carrying them the rest of the way.  After he caught his breath, he scooped her into his arms and returned her to the couch where they lay intertwined, firelight playing a game of light and shadow over their nude flesh.

 

My links:

Twitter: leeannwriter

From Sweet to Heat: The Romance of Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

https://www.facebook.com/pages/From-Sweet-To-Heat-The-Romance-of-Lee-Ann-Sontheimer-Murphy/287540748010934?ref=hl

Website/blog: http://leeannsontheimermurphywriterauthor.blogpspot.com

Blog: Rebel Writer: Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

http://leeannsontheimermurphy.blogspot.com

Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Lee-Ann-Sontheimer-Murphy/e/B004JPBM6I