Release Day: Six Degrees of Mystic Valley

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Reed can have any girl he wants–except the one who seems determined to make his professional life as difficult as possible. Sara’s been the number one paranormal researcher in their department for years, and she’s not one to let a lack of magical aptitude keep her from the top.

With Halloween drawing near Sara has one goal: to win the Montera Award and with it the chance to explore the town’s most haunted mansion. The one thing she didn’t count on was having to share the honor with her chief rival. Reed’s not just the strongest medium in town, but the star of some of her guiltiest fantasies–fantasies where she doesn’t always stay on top.

Giving in might be the best sex of their lives, but sexual magic is potent enough to wake the true inhabitants of Villa Montera. Caught in the middle of a centuries long rivalry, Sara and Reed’s only hope for surviving the night is to make love, not war.

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Yay! Today sees the rerelease of Some Like It Haunted, our light-hearted ghost story novella and the second release in the  Carnal Powers series.  Unlike most of our series, these books are only loosely connected.  They take place in the same universe, often in the same town, and follow a chronological progression, but major events from the books don’t build on each other.  Rather, at most they make for an entertaining game of Six Degrees of Separation.

Today, in honor of the book’s release, I will try to connect all the various characters and cameos for those who might be wondering just how it all ties together.    Below is the first book, Last Hope, along with THREE FREEBIES! (The freebies are short, dirty and totally free, did I mention free? I think they’re free guys!)

Sara Patel is the heroine of Some Like It Haunted. Her mother is a formidable practitioner of magic of the sexual nature as well as owner of a popular Mystic Valley restaurant where Adrian & Kiara eat breakfast–and get into a bit of a fight–in Last Hope. Both Sara Patel and her hero Reed Mercier are graduate students and lecturers in Mystic Ridge University’s School of Paranormal Studies, where the dean is Adam Kendrick, who also happens to make an appearance in Last Hope as one of Adrian‘s best friends.

Speaking of Adam Kendrick, his brother, Blake, is a shapeshifting bounty hunter with a weakness for a vampire who isn’t any good for him.  Though Blake and Ella will both go on to find their own love and romance, you can read their lovers-to-friends story in The 13th Step.

But Adam wasn’t the only person helping out Adrian & Kiara in Last Hope! They never would have made it to the end without their mismatched sidekicks Lars & Claire, whose unlikely meeting can be found in Moonshine.  They also get help from a witch, Magdalena, who is partly responsible for sending Max on the job that gets him into so much trouble with Polly in That Old Black Magic.

Whew!  That was more complicated than I thought, and I bet I still missed some! Rest assured everyone in that town has a story, and man, we could tell them all.  Who’s next?  Right now we’re finishing up our next novella, featuring Ella and a mysterious shapeshifter.  Who isn’t Blake.  (Sorry guys, but I feel I should warn everyone up front about that.  Blake has a special lady waiting for him too.)

So, now that you’re thoroughly confused… get yourself some free books!  And then maybe consider buying a copy of Some Like It Haunted, available now at Loose Id.