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Decadence was so much fun to write. When Marteeka Karland came up with the Sex and Chocolate series I asked myself…what would be the worst thing that would happen to a chocoholic? The answer? Make her deathly allergic to it. Since I couldn’t have my heroine really dying in the first couple of chapters, I decided to make her (mostly) immortal. So Vampire Rachel was given life…er…unlife? The Kitchen Witch Society was created shortly thereafter.

All content is © Dawn Montgomery. This is an adult excerpt, rated NC-17.

DECADENCE is available now at Changeling Press.

“You don’t want our assistance?”

“Not if it means being stuck with you.” A lie. From my heart to my lips, a complete lie. This close I could taste the rush of blood under his skin and the flavor of his sweat. The pounding of his heart tugged at the beast enough to make my pussy slicken with desire. Yes, I was lying through my pearly white fangs about not wanting to be stuck with Ryan.

“You don’t like me?”

I laughed at the outraged expression on his face. This one’s ego was too much. “Don’t take it so hard, baby.” I lowered my lashes and touched my tongue to my teeth.

His gaze followed my movement. I heard his heart kick up a notch or two. Was it fear? I was never very good at reading adrenal responses, so I had no idea.

“I never play with my food.” I had the satisfaction of watching Ryan turn that thought over in his mind. The insistent throbbing of my feet took all the fun out of my play so I sighed and waved toward the couch. “Make yourself at home. I need to change since I just got off work.”

“Work?”

I tugged at the clip holding my hair up. My hair tumbled free and I groaned in relief at the pleasure/pain on my scalp. “Yeah. Work. You know, what most people do in their lives.”

“You’re a vampire.” He was following me. Why did that kick my heartbeat up a notch or two?

“Yes. Vampire, not zombie. We covered that already.” I turned in the doorway to my bedroom and held up my arm up to block him following. “I work third shift. Please, for the love of all that is holy, let me change clothes before you kill me. I need my work clothes.”

Ryan’s gaze shifted to something darker. “I won’t kill you, Rachel.”

My lip lifted in a slight smile. “If you’re here to help me eat chocolate, you will.”

“What do you mean by that?” He looked genuinely perplexed.

“Didn’t they tell you? My allergy is fatal. My heart stops beating, my body stops working, and it’s as though I were a corpse.”

He tilted his head and a spark of that earlier arrogance chased itself across his face. “I can help you.”

“No offense, baby, but I think this job may just be out of your league.”

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Shadowlight by Lynn Viehl

With a single touch, Jessa Bellamy can see anyone’s darkest secrets. She’s tried to hide her psychic ability from everyone, but a biotech company called GenHance has discovered her talent, and intends to take her, kill her and harvest her priceless DNA to sell it to the highest bidder.

A mysterious photographer named Gaven Matthias is also interested in Jessa; he’s been trying to find her for months. When GenHance makes their move, Gaven has no choice but to kidnap Jessa himself so he can protect her and convince her to join him in helping protect others like her.

Jessa discovers that she can’t see any of Gaven’s secrets, so she doesn’t know if he’s telling the truth, but as a monstrous assassin created by GenHance’s experiments closes in on them, she must decide if the strong attraction they share is proof enough that Gaven is her greatest ally — or is a smokescreen hiding a terrible secret.

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Wow, am I late in posting the winner!!! My son pulled the name out of the hate and…Congratulations to Hailey! She won the Kim Knox Rox my Sox contest! Hailey, send me an email at dawn @ dawnmontgomery dot com with your Kim Knox backlist request and I’ll shoot it to your inbox ASAP.

Save the button and upload it, leave a link in comments here or at Kim’s blog and you’ll be entered to win a copy of a Kim Knox backlist of your choice, purchased by me. She thinks I’m crazy for doing this, btw. Check out her free read if you’ve never read any of her stuff before. Contest ends 20 July. Good luck!

If this is your first stop in the Stocking Stuffer trail, Jeanne Barrack was before me. Leave a comment at each place on the trail and you’ll be entered to win a stocking full of ebooks!

This is the character Noah from my upcoming Liquid Silver book, the Worth Every Risk anthology. Isn’t he just yummy?

I’d like to introduce you to my current inspiration:

And of course we can’t forget our military people over the holiday season:

And last, but not  least, meet Jayden. I’ll tell you more about him later…

If you’re continuing on this journey, stop by Tina Holland’s blog! Merry Christmas from me to you, and if Christmas isn’t your thing, Happy Holidays.

The trail begins with Nina Pierce tomorrow, but if you’d like to stop by today, she’s got a thursday 13 full of hot stuff.

See you tomorrow!

Every weekend, the Changeling Bar and Grill has a party. Part of this week’s theme is shapeshifters! Come out and chat it up. It’s all about having fun!

The link is HERE. 18 or over only, please!

Also, my contest is up on the contest page! The code is only valid until the 1st of June!

Another amazing good time is coming out of Aspen Mountain Press!

The first annual January Raffle is underway TODAY!!!!!

How to play/participate…

Sign up for AMP community at AMP_Community-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Post a message to the loop with a brief description of yourself and how you heard about AMP or be honest and say you heard about them through this email!  LOL!  When the post goes through I will email you privately with a raffle number (ticket).  Then if you buy anything from The Aspen Mountain Store email me privately at Ravistar28@yahoo.com with your Receipt number, and I will issue one raffle number (ticket) more per purchase.

There will be a drawing twice a week on Tuesday‘s and Thursday’s for prizes from the AMP authors, ranging from book thongs, to book marks, to key chains, and maybe even a free download, depending on what I can weazle out of them!  (naw! They are great, I get stuff in the mail from them constantly!)

If you are already a member of AMP_community…buy, buy, buy.  Email me with your proof of purchase and I will issue a raffle number (ticket).

The raffle will end on February 3rd ( I got a late start this month due to my move) and on February 4th the BIG winner will be drawn and announced for the BIG prize, which will be announced later this month!

Good luck to all, and let’s all get AMPed!!!!!

Phoenix Forrester