Showing posts with label Cara McKenna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cara McKenna. Show all posts

July 6, 2011

Introducing author.. Cara McKenna

Summer is not hot enough for you? Your fan needs some serious training? Then you are in the right place! Two words - Cara McKenna.

I don´t know who of us first found this amazing author, I think it might have been Jackie, but since we read Cara´s first book, we´ve fallen in love. Yes, Cara´s books are the shit! Our friends on Facebook or Goodreads know how much we are pimping her to everyone :-) If you don´t know this fabulous author yet and love SIZZLING HOT short stories that are so steamy that you´ll need a fridge full of ice-cubes nearby when reading them, then let me introduce some of her books..


Dirty Thirty - A super-hot short story about one very special birthday :-)

Despite his scrappy punk packaging, Evan Hennessey’s got a submissive streak in him that’s just screaming to be indulged. So on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Evan’s wife Margie arranges for them to ring out his twenties by realizing his darkest fantasy - inviting another man into their bedroom.
Margie’s found the perfect candidate for Evan’s birthday treat. Paul works as a bouncer at the Hennesseys' favorite bar, and lucky for Evan and Margie, he’s every bit the sexual Dominant his intimidating body suggests. Evan isn’t a hundred percent sure he’s ready to go all places his kinks seem determined to take him, but one thing’s for sure - by the time he wakes on his thirtieth birthday, his fantasy will have become reality.
Features m/m/f menage, emphasis on the m/m.


Willing Victim - a.k.a. *sigh* Flynn.. *sigh* 
You can find Anna´s AWESOME review here and it just says it all :-)

For the past couple years Laurel's been coasting, hiding in the backseat while her life drifts off course. Then one summer afternoon a tall, built bruiser named Flynn strides in and steers her straight into an infatuation she never saw coming.
Flynn introduces Laurel to things she’s never imagined before-to the violent but exciting realm of the underground boxing circuit, to rough sex and even rougher role-playing, and to an attraction she craves even as it intimidates her. As Flynn invites her deeper into his world and his life, Laurel has to make a choice-let fear keep her holed up where it’s safe, or take a chance and fight for the man who makes her feel more alive than she’d dreamed possible.

 
Skin Game - a hot little book with interesting side characters!
Seven days, seven challenges. Twelve strangers. Eight thousand cameras. Only one winner.
Welcome to The Ant Farm, a social study in the wilds of interior Alaska, documenting the dynamics between a dozen competitors as they take part in a series of physical and psychological face-offs. With five hundred grand up for grabs at the end of the battle royal, the stakes are high and the tension blazing.
Could the seemingly mild-mannered nice guy win it all? The cutthroat alpha female? The strongest or the smartest, the idealist or the cynic? It’s anyone’s guess as teams are undercut by alliances, loyalties tendered and tested, and passions enflamed by both affection and animosity.
In this contest where even knives and guns are fair game, sex may prove the most dangerous weapon of all.
Features m/f only, with a variety of Ms and Fs.

All Cara´s books are stand-alones except this trilogy (in this order):

Book 1 - Backwoods
Shane thinks he’s simply auditioning a new musician for his bar, but when Gabriel saunters in to the Shivaree it becomes clear the man has more to offer than just his talent. Gabriel’s got sexual charisma potent enough to make a straight man like Shane lose his senses, lose sleep, lose himself to dark desires and not want to find his way back to reality.
What follows is not a love story. This is a story about an unforeseen attraction that brings a strong, sane man to his knees, and about lovers tangled up in each other too deep to know who’s in control and who’s helpless.
SUPER HOT m/m that will leave you breathless!!!!

Book 2 - Shivaree
Hot on the heels of a nasty break-up, Natalie’s truck dies and strands her deep in Louisiana’s sweltering backwoods. A glow beyond the trees and a haunting melody lead her to what she hopes is salvation.
The Shivaree is more than a bar. It’s a mysterious oasis where people go to escape into a cold drink and lose themselves against a warm body on the dance floor. Gabriel is its resident musician, gifted with unnerving talent and intoxicating sexual charisma. The only thing standing between Natalie and the perfect rebound is Gabriel’s possessive and domineering lover, and Natalie’s not afraid of a bully. Certainly not one built like Shane Broussard. She’s ready to discover the perfect remedy for heartache—two hot male bodies, one long, sultry, southern night.
Features m/m/f menage, m/m action. 

Book 3 - Getaway
Six months ago Natalie drove away from Louisiana and a three-day, two-man rebound to be reckoned with. Now back in snowy Rochester, she wasn’t expecting to see either of those Southern gentlemen again. She certainly wasn’t expecting to find one standing in her work parking lot one afternoon without a word of warning.
Cold turkey is what Shane’s after. He’s been with his lover Gabriel for a year now—a year of hot sex and obsessive attraction that’s left him with a death grip on the tattered remains of his heterosexuality and too many sleepless nights. Desperate for a clean break, Shane hopes hiding out at Natalie’s for a week or two will do the trick. She sure as hell owes him one fine rebound.
But Shane quickly discovers that banishing Gabriel from his heart and his head is easier said than done. His cold-turkey recovery is headed straight for an epic relapse, and Shane’s going to have to make a choice—the traditional life he thinks he wants, or the man he can’t seem to live without.
Features m/m/f menage, m/m action.


This is of course not a complete list so be sure to go and visit Cara´s webpage or find her on Goodreads. Trust me, once you read any of her books, you won´t be able to stop :-)





April 30, 2011

Willing Victim - Cara McKenna

Title: Willing Victim
Author: Cara McKenna
Genre: Contemporary / Erotica

HP WARNING! HP WARNING! HP WARNING!This story is HOT. Hotter than hell.
Not only did I have to change panties after reading Willing Victim, I even had to change my P A N T S. True story.

For the past couple years Laurel's been coasting, hiding in the backseat while her life drifts off course. Then one summer afternoon a tall, built bruiser named Flynn strides in and steers her straight into an infatuation she never saw coming.
Flynn introduces Laurel to things she’s never imagined before—to the violent but exciting realm of the underground boxing circuit, to rough sex and even rougher role-playing, and to an attraction she craves even as it intimidates her. As Flynn invites her deeper into his world and his life, Laurel has to make a choice—let fear keep her holed up where it’s safe, or take a chance and fight for the man who makes her feel more alive than she’d dreamed possible.


Whoever is out there, unholy or otherwise…
Please hear my prayer.

I am ruined. Completely and utterly ruined.
I am accepting my place in this world as the forever single woman.
I am FOREVER RUINED for all mortal men out there!
*waves buh-bye to white picket fences, future kiddies etc etc*
For I have finally found my McDreamy. My Mr Right. The One.
And he’s a frickin’ fictional character in a book!
FEEL MY DESPAIR!

The brilliant Cara McKenna has penned with even more brilliant words the Ultimate Man. For me.
An arrogant, blunt, cocky caveman. Caring only for those closest to him. Sexy and stacked with blue eyes. A fighter. With a thing for mean and rough sex. That kind of caveman.
<Yes, I find the knuckle-dragging – pull my hair – Neanderthal very attractive>

But I fear that I will never know the bliss of finding my own caveman, so therefor I ask You…nah, I’m begging really...find a real life Flynn for me! Send him my way! I’ll do anything. <Desperate much? Heh>

If you, dear reader, feel that the really intimidating and bossy man is your cup of tea – read-devour-savor this book. McKenna has a simple yet captivating way with her words. A neck-grabbing, never letting go kind of way even though the story was simple, short and to the point. But OH SO GOOD.
A story made of dark, forbidden fantasies and desires.
This HP has never been more pleased.
I felt and wanted everything the story was giving me.

Flynn is not Prince Charming, that's for sure.
He's way too intense for that. Too alpha and in-your-face brutal.
Bad-boy paradise come true. And he has his sweet, oh so sweet, moments.
Like Laurel, our heroine, thinks: "You are some f****d-up kind of magical."
I found the characters believable, the dialog hot, smart and funny, and I couldn't ask for more in such a gritty, dark and sizzling hot romance like this one. I am a Willing Victim.

Wait.
There is one gigantic flaw though – IT’S TOO DAMN SHORT!
I screamed NO! out loud when I turned the last page.
I went to bed horny and pissed off.


My rating: Five. Burning. Hot. Stars.



Reader advisory: Although all of the sexual acts in this story are 100% consensual, it contains role-playing scenarios that may upset some readers who are sensitive about rape, even in a simulated capacity.