Cherish Hard

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Ocean Light Cover & Excerpt!!!

I ADORE this cover! It just glows with light!!

Artist is the fantastic Tony Mauro. Cover design by the Berkley Art Department.


OCEAN LIGHT
June 2018

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh dives beneath the surface of her Psy-Changeling world into a story of passionate devotion and selfless love...

Security specialist Bowen Knight has come back from the dead. But there’s a ticking time bomb in his head: a chip implanted to block telepathic interference that could fail at any moment—taking his brain along with it. With no time to waste, he should be back on land helping the Human Alliance. Instead, he’s at the bottom of the ocean, consumed with an enigmatic changeling...

Kaia Luna may have traded in science for being a chef, but she won’t hide the facts of Bo’s condition from him or herself. She’s suffered too much loss in her life to fall prey to the dangerous charm of a human who is a dead man walking. And she carries a devastating secret Bo could never imagine…

But when Kaia is taken by those who mean her deadly harm, all bets are off. Bo will do anything to get her back—even if it means striking a devil’s bargain and giving up his mind to the enemy…

Pre-order Links (more to follow as they go live)

North America

Ebook: BAM, iBooks, Kindle, Kindle.ca, Kobo, Nook
Hardcover: Amazon, Amazon.ca, B&N, BookDepo, BAM, Chapters, IndBnd, PRH
Audiobook: To follow

International

Ebook: To follow
Print: Amazon.uk, BookDepo, Waterstones
Audiobook: To follow

(Extremely!) advance excerpt from OCEAN LIGHT by Nalini Singh

(Subject to changes)

Blissful hot liquid poured over Bo, the thin needles stabbing deliciously into his scalp and skin. The last time he’d consciously felt the touch of water had been in that Venetian canal, cool dark closing over his head. He couldn’t actually remember hitting the water, but he remembered Lily’s frantic eyes and searching hands, remembered the starburst in his chest, remembered the water sliding into his mouth and into his lungs.

Gripping the memories in a tight fist, he raised his face deliberately to the droplets raining from the showerhead. As it sluiced away the past, running over his face and down his shoulders to his chest, his mind flashed to that semisecond when Kaia had been in touching distance, the curves of her a siren song.

His body stirred.

He shoved his hands through his hair and shook his head to dislodge the sensory impact of her. But no matter what he did, her scent continued to haunt him. Ever after he used the shampoo and soap from the dispensers on the wall, he was haunted by the warmth of cinnamon and the luscious bite of a tropical flower.

It lingered on his tongue as strongly as the echo of her wild fury.

Frowning, Bo finally shut off the water. He let himself drip dry for several minutes before he leaned forward and dragged a towel from the rail. Rubbing his hair with the towel, he considered everything Kaia had said and done. She was angry with him, this woman he’d never before met, incredibly angry, yet she’d helped bring him back to life.

His instincts stretched awake. Bo had spent his adult life unearthing secrets and unravelling enigmas. It seemed fitting that he spend what might be his final weeks attempting to solve the mystery that was Kaia.

A bunching of his muscles, his hand fisting to bone-white tightness.

And he made a decision—he wouldn’t waste the time he had and he wouldn’t consider death an inevitability. He’d live. Protect his people. Laugh with his sister and his friends. Kiss a cook with angry brown eyes and a scent that frustrated and haunted.

If Bowen Adrian Knight was to cease to exist, he’d go out on his own terms.

Copyright © 2017 by Nalini Singh

We Love Libraries

The Bacon Free Library is currently running some awesome Swag Bag Auctions (bidding is on eBay) to raise funds for their library.

There are lots of writers who have contributed swag. Nalini's swag bag auction (free international shipping) includes signed US paperback editions of Psy-Changeling books 1-6 plus Wild Invitation, a tote bag, and a Psy-Changeling mug.

For more info on the auctions, click here. :)

~Ashwini

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Happy Diwali my friends! Diwali is the Festival of Lights - wishing you lots of light and joy in your lives.

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Cherish Hard - Coming November 14th

Sailor and Ísa's book!! Check out the gorgeous cover - I love that smile. That's definitely Sailor. :)

Releasing November 14th

Amazon, Amazon.ca, AmazonUK, iBooks, Kobo, Nook

(Print preorder to come)

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh kicks off her new Hard Play contemporary romance series with a sizzling story that’ll leave you smiling…

Sailor Bishop has only one goal for his future – to create a successful landscaping business. No distractions allowed. Then he comes face-to-face and lips-to-lips with a woman who blushes like an innocent… and kisses like pure sin.

Ísa Rain craves a man who will cherish her, aches to create a loving family of her own. Trading steamy kisses with a hot gardener in a parking lot? Not the way to true love. Then a deal with the devil (aka her CEO-mother) makes Ísa a corporate VP for the summer. Her main task? Working closely with a certain hot gardener.

And Sailor Bishop has wickedness on his mind.

As Ísa starts to fall for a man who makes her want to throttle and pounce on him at the same time, she knows she has to choose – play it safe and steady, or risk all her dreams and hope Sailor doesn’t destroy her heart.

Excerpt from CHERISH HARD

By Nalini Singh

Fuming, Ísa made sure to set the alarm system and lock up. Everyone else was already well into their summer vacation—the sole reason Ísa was here was because she hadn’t been able to work on her lesson plans at home.

Her upstairs neighbor was having repairs done to her bathroom that required banging and hammering.

Not all of it involved nails and wood.

Hopefully the repairs would be finished by now. There was only so much ecstatic orgasmic screaming that a single woman in online-dating purgatory could stand without being driven to violence.

She spotted the tan-colored gardening truck the instant she came down the front steps of the school’s imposing redbrick main building and turned left to head toward her car. The hot gardener had parked it right next to her zippy blue compact. The front of the truck had four doors with tinted windows while the large bed was piled with shovels and other manly tools as well as a huge sack of clippings.

His light brown T-shirt was hanging over the top of the tailgate.

Which meant he was still walking around topless somewhere around here.

“Get in your car, Ísa,” she muttered to herself, well aware what would happen if she came face-to-face with that delicious hunk of manhood. Because while she might’ve conquered her shyness, she knew her limits.

Confronted by a bare-chested man who made her ovaries explode, she’d turn bright pink, lose her ability to form speech, and end of story. “Oh—”

She would’ve bounced off that sculpted chest if he hadn’t grabbed her by the hips.

“Hey, sorry,” he said with a startled smile that lit up the dazzling blue of his eyes. “I didn’t see you.”

“No, um, my fault.” It looked as if he’d crouched down to check one of his tires or something else but had risen to his feet right when she swung around to get into her car. And God, his skin was so hot and smooth and he was so tall and his shoulders were so broad and her mouth was drying up. The stuttering would begin at any moment.

The same stuttering Suzanne had mocked relentlessly when they were fourteen. Until Ísa had gone silent around everyone except the few friends she trusted. And now that horrible, ugly-hearted girl was getting married, having a baby, getting a happily-ever-after. Added to which, Ísa’s mother was jerking her on a string like she was a marionette, and her last “date” had asked her to call him Woofy and reward him with doggy biscuits.

The blue of the gardener’s eyes flickered with a hot flame.

And she thought… I know him. But before she could follow that faint thread, all the fury and hurt and frustration and sheer aggravation in Ísa ignited into an incandescent inferno.

She went mad.

Grabbing the hot gardener’s beautiful face in her hands, she said, “I want to kiss you.”

A wicked grin. “Go on ahead.”

And Ísa pressed her lips to his.

Copyright © 2017 by Nalini Singh

Sailor & Ísa's book: Review Copies and Cover Reveal Information

Reviewers: If you'd like to participate in the cover reveal and/or review tour for my next contemporary romance, the signup sheet is now open! (Review copies will also soon be available for request on NetGalley.) 

We can't say yes to all requests, but I so appreciate any help in getting the word out about the book!

Holly's Song

I have to share something special. Reader JerrisWheel wrote and sang a song for Holly, inspired by the airport scene between Holly and Mia.

It's such a sweet, sad, hopeful song. Please do listen! She's on Twitter as @jerriswheel if you want to give her a shoutout!

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Good News Plus A Special Interview

Great news! Archangel's Viper was selected as an Amazon Best of the Month pick in romance! Thank you for the wonderful messages, comments, and reviews. You're the best!!

Also, the German translation of Wild Embrace is now available. For those readers who have been waiting for the translation, I hope you fall in love with these stories.

And last but not least: A few years ago, Venom lost a bet to Dmitri and had to give an interview to Immortal Insider magazine. :D Here is that interview, by one Missy Lemon, in all its glory. Enjoy!