Please welcome Cari Silverwood back to the blog. This time Cari is stopping by to share an excerpt from her latest release Rough Surrender. For those of you who like it hot, this book will probably do the trick. The book comes with the warning: BDSM, anal sex, orgasms galore, and a Dom who likes to claim his property with pen, ink and bondage. Please make Cari feel welcome by leaving your questions and comments for her in the comments section following this post.
Cover Blurb From Rough Surrender
At a time when airplanes are as new-fangled and sensational as the telephone, Faith dares to fly. The one territory she has not explored is her own sexuality. In Leonhardt she discovers the man who can teach her how a woman surrenders her body and her mind. However, Leonhardt has a shadowed past and his own learning to do. He doesn’t have the right to keep Faith from flying, even if he thinks airplanes are flimsy death-traps made of canvas, timber and their inventor’s prayers.
Faith has her limits, Leonhardt has his flaws, and sometimes the nicest people get murdered by unscrupulous bastards. Even if Leonhardt can save the woman he loves, the battle for Faith’s heart will be the hardest one of all.
An Excerpt From Rough Surrender
Faith halted at the door, put her palm to the wood while her other hand brushed her fringe back as well as she could without a mirror–needing that moment to compose herself.
Liar. Damnable liar. She had let him do that. She couldn’t trust herself.
“Leonhardt,” he said.
“What?” Frowning, she turned. At least, this time he’d kept some distance, a few feet, between them. Not enough. Her treacherous tongue curled out to touch her lip. Why did she do that? As if…as if she could taste him on the air. Her nostrils flared. She could smell him, though: tobacco and soap and sweat, but even in winter, Cairo would make anyone sweat.
“Leonhardt. Call me that.”
“I doubt that would be appropriate, Mr. Meisner.”
His mouth curved in a small smile. “You lied before. Of course.” He took an unhurried stride forward, brought up his arms and braced them either side of her head.
Hell.
“If it weren’t for that adorable tongue of yours, I’d have let you go. Now, I’m going to see what you taste like.” He lowered his head.
Faith strained away, the back of her skull smacking lightly into the timber.
“Don’t move.” Those two words were like nails driving her into place. He covered her lips with his and she gave a muffled groan as his tongue slid into her mouth alongside hers.
All resistance vaporized. She fought to stay aware and upright though her legs threatened to collapse and her logical brain had disintegrated into a swirl of lustful thoughts. Nothing mattered except the feel of him inside her. His lips pressed and slid, his teeth caught her flesh here, there…his breath merged with hers. This was a man who knew how to take.
His body moved in, squeezing her between timber and man. If she needed to breathe, she must accept what he gave her. If he didn’t hold her there, she’d fall. The world shifted on its axis.
Sweet Jesus, she loved it.
This time, when he drew away, she kept her fingers hooked into the heavy fabric of his coat. Something hard and long pulsed against her stomach–his manhood. All of their own accord, her hips arched forward. Her panting came a little faster.
“We’d best be leaving.” He stroked the side of her face with his knuckles.
“Mmm.” Someone had put glue on her tongue and throat
“Mmm? You kiss like an angel come down from heaven, sweetheart. Tell me the truth this time, before I let you go. Did you like that?”
Before I let you go That matter-of-fact statement shook her. Her eyes swept up, found his–so striking, so intense. She searched for a word to describe them. Animalistic? When eyes were given out, he’d been given the wrong ones–those of a hawk or wolf.
She considered lying but couldn’t, not while he held her still in place. “Yes,” she whispered. “I did.”
His knuckles feathered over her lips and, on impulse, she licked at them. His eyes darkened.
A hiss escaped from between his teeth. “You tempt me too much.” Then he stood, moved back and gestured at the door.
It took a moment for her to adjust to the loss–of feeling his body on hers.
By the time he slid back the door and guided her toward the motorcar with his hand low on her back, she’d done some thinking. If she’d doubted his effect on her, she now knew for certain. He’d given her an entirely new understanding of kissing. Mr. Meisner…Leonhardt, could own her without doing anything more than saying a single word.
He opened the passenger door. Their eyes met.
Well, two words. She wasn’t that easy.
Don’t move. The memory of her response scalded her. Like a cat on heat, she wanted to lie down at his feet and arch her back. Whatever am I going to do?
Cari’s Links
http://roughsurrender.weebly.com/
http://www.carisilverwood.net/
This book is on my tbr list. Thanks for sharing such a great excerpt.
Glad it hit the spot, Gabrielle.
Thanks for stopping by.
After reading that exerpt, I’d be more than willing to “Don’t move” if Leonhardt was using his body to pin me to the wall.
Fantastic story, wonderfully written.
You have a winner here, Cari!
LOVED this book! it was interesting, the heroine spunky but kind, the hero was to die for! it was fun and exciting and most of all sexy as hell! i highly recommend it!
*sigh* I loved that part. Leonhardt is so good at driving her crazy. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. If you decide to clone Leonhardt could you please send one my way?
If I clone him, he’s mine
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I suppose it helps I’m a HUGE Egypt fan. LOL. I will definitely be reading Cari’s other novels, “Iron Dominance” and “Lust Plague”.
You make me want to write another one in Egypt, Angela. It made for a fantastic backdrop.
Thanks, Mary. I rather shamefacedly admit there should have been an intro with this but due to a Family health crisis ( and that’s a big health crisis as in ICU and life support) I stuffed up and didn’t send it. See the book website up there at weebly for an intro…but this is the best kiss, maybe, I’ve ever written, right here.
The book has hit best seller in historicals at ARE and has oodles of 5 stars on Goodreads. It’s possibly my best book.
Hi Cari,
I’m sorry to hear about the family crisis. When those kinds of things hit they take precedence over everything else, and they should.
Congratulations on best sellerdom and all the 5 star reviews at Goodreads. Your other books weren’t slouches – if this one is the best yet it must be pretty spectacular.
Wasn’t Iron Dominance up for an award of some kind?
So…that you feel like your books are getting better and better, with this being the best kiss you’ve ever written…what do you do as an author to keep improving in your craft? What workshops, books, classes, pieces of knowledge have been most useful to you in your writing career?
I’m up, finally, here in Australia!
Laurie, I haven’t much time anymore for doing classes or reading on improving my writing. I should be doing that though. I think especially if you concentrate on one genre which encourages authors to churn out books fast, it can be so easy to lose track of keeping yourself educated.
I used every method I could find to pull myself up to this level of writing though. Books, online crit groups and even local writing groups. The most important thing is to always be thinking about your writing. If you haven’t reached readers the way you wanted to, ask yourself why.
Of course, you’ll never touch every reader’s heart, because not everyone likes the same sort of story.
To say one method of learning was better, is better, is not possible for me. Some books on writing, I’d read them and have this ‘ting’ epiphany on how to do some aspect better. And crits of your writing can help you so damn much too. Some people don’t know how to crit, and can make you feel like they’ve fed you arsenic, but even the bad critiques often have something worth seeing.
Yes, Iron Dominance won Best Erotic Steampunk at The Romance Reviews 2011. It and Lust Plague were still in the top 10 or 12 Steampunk at All Romance last week. They’ve been there, in the top 10 for about 6 to 7 months. It’s not a big category, but it’s nice to be hanging in there. When Steel Dominance comes out, I hope it’ll be as good as these two.
I know what you mean about finding it difficult to carve out time to take classes and read about writing. I find it difficult too. It seems there are so many things booked for every spare minute of time.
I agree…I don’t think any one type of learning is better for every person…I think there are different ways of explaining things that resonate more with some people than others. I tend to use a lot of analogies when I teach because they work well for me when I’m learning something or trying to organize my thoughts around something. But for some people analogies are distracting. It’s all in what is helpful to each specific learner.
Even with good critiques there is that knee jerk sick in the stomach feeling till you live with the critique a bit and process how to fix the bits that were pointed out as needing fixing. At least that’s how it is for me.
Congratulations on winning Best Erotic Steampunk. It is indeed fabulous to be still hanging out in the top 10 so long after release. You must be delighted!
Oh, and about Rough Surrender being better – I actually wrote it before Lust Plague, but Lyrical has a long lead-up time for releases.
Thank you for the excerpt. That’s a very clever title & memorable.