My paranormal erotic romance full of angelic and demonic naughtiness is out today and available now from MBaM.

To celebrate I’m giving away an ebook copy of the book (in the format of your choice) to a commentor below.

To enter, just tell me who’s your favourite angel or demon and why? I think you can guess who mine are.

I’ll choose a winner on Friday using random.org.

In the meantime if you feel like an excerpt you can check out the one I posted for Excerpt Monday yesterday or read the opening chapter here.

So, angels or demons, angels and demons, which ones, and why? Discuss.

Once a month, a bunch of authors get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t have to be published to participate just an writer with an excerpt you’d like to share. For more info on how to participate, head over to the Excerpt Monday site! or click on the banner above.

Here’s an excerpt from my new novel Edge of Heaven, which comes out from Samhain Publishing tomorrow.  Please note that this excerpt contains adult content and should be read only by those over 18.

The sound of the water in the bathroom drew his attention back to Lily. And then an image flared in his mind, of what she must look like, naked, water drizzling down her milky skin, beading on her firm, high breasts. Steam wreathed around her while she washed herself, the soap suds trailing between her legs and—

“You’re doing this, aren’t you?” His mental sending was part groan of need and, from near at hand—far too near at hand—he got his response.

“Just giving you a helping hand, Mike.” Sammael’s voice came to him, its mocking tone ringing clearly around his head. “As I remember things, imagination was never your strong point. Thought a few well-placed images might help.”

Arousal surged up through him, from his groin to his brain. A gasp of air escaped him as he saw her again, on the bed, Sammael covering her, filling her. Her body arched and she cried out in wild abandon, clutching the sheets.

“It’s going to be so much fun, Mike. You’ll see. I’ll make sure of that. Every little detail.”

Abruptly the image stopped and Micah was released so suddenly that he staggered forward, gasping for air.

“And if you think that’s good,” Sammael teased, “you wait and see what I do to her next.”

“Micah?” Lily’s voice dragged him back to her reality. She stepped out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel, her long hair dripping glistening trails down her exposed skin. “You okay?”

Was he? Demons were demons, and Sammael’s reputation as one of the most dangerous was well deserved. Micah struggled to bring his body back under control. His cock already stood erect and eager for her. How could he talk to her now, share the intimate contact of mind on mind, when his body, however ethereal, was hell-bent on betraying him?

“‘Hell-bent’.” Sammael laughed, his presence hovering around Micah like a shroud. “That’s funny, Mike. Real funny.”

When he didn’t answer, Lily shrugged and let the towel drop. Micah’s arousal turned to steel and he heard Sammael laugh out loud this time.

Next door. The bastard was right next door.

Lily brushed her hair and tied it into a plait, still wet. Micah drew back, trying to escape from the room yet unable to tear himself away from her. Somehow Sammael was holding him here, close to her. But if he spoke now, she’d know he’d been here, that he’d seen her naked.

His mouth went dry as she turned to face him and he beheld the full length of her.

“You’ve wanted that sweet body for so long, haven’t you?” Sammael said, and it was like breath playing on Micah’s neck and ear. “Tell me, Micah, do angels dream of sex with a woman like her in the way demons do? She’s a light. There’s nothing quite like one. It’s almost as fulfilling as the bliss of Heaven, they say. Do you ache for her, my friend? Is it the innocence that attracts, or is it something else? Let’s see, shall we?”

Lily slipped a silken nightgown on. It tumbled over her curves, clinging to her breasts. It couldn’t hide the erect nipples. Rather it emphasised them. As she climbed onto the bed, she brushed a hand over the swell of her breasts, and a shiver ran through Micah’s body.

Anticipation.

“No,” he told Sammael. “You can’t make me watch this.”

“I don’t have to make you, Micah. You can’t look away, can you?”

True, too horribly true.

Lily rubbed her palm across her breast, the material moving with her, and she sighed. Her other hand slid down to part her thighs, drawing up the bottom of the nightdress. The silk pooled like water around her as she slid a finger inside her depths.

Micah backed up to the wall, but he couldn’t escape, not from Lily, not from Sammael.

“You want her, don’t you?” Sammael said, and something gave Micah a little shove forward. “Go to her, make love to her. You know you want to.”

“It’s a breach of trust.” Micah closed his eyes but it didn’t help. Lily gave a little pleasure-filled moan and lay back on the bed, moving languorously against her own hand.

“Then allow me,” Sammael replied.

Micah’s eyes snapped open as Sammael materialised before him, naked and insubstantial as a ghost, so only Micah could see him. The sculpted muscles of his back flexed as he approached the bed, but Lily didn’t look up. She couldn’t see him, couldn’t hear him. She didn’t even know he was there.

This display was all for Micah. And he couldn’t tear his eyes away.

Sammael’s hand pressed Lily’s chest and slid down. Her eyes opened, blind with need and hunger. Her hand moved more urgently and her breath quickened to a frantic pant.

Sammael’s fingers joined hers and he smiled at the bewildered pleasure that filled her face. Leaning down, he pressed his lips to her mouth and she gasped, a sound so like his name.

“She’s beautiful, Micah, magnificent. How have you managed to keep your hands off her for so long?”

Edge of Heaven releases in ebook format tomorrow. Details are here.
Links to other Excerpt Monday writers

Note: I have not personally screened these excerpts. Please heed the ratings and be aware that the links may contain material that is not typical of my site.

Leslie Dicken, Historical (PG 13)
Danie Ford, Contemporary YA (PG 13)
Babette James, Contemporary Romance (PG 13)
Jeannie Lin, Historical Paranormal (PG 13)
Kaige, Historical Romance (PG 13)
Shawntelle Madison, Paranormal Romance (PG 13)
Debbie  Mumford, Fantasy (PG 13)
Ryan, Mystery (PG13)
Madison Woods, Fantasy (PG 13)
Stephanie Draven, Dark Fantasy (PG 13)

Kendal Corbitt , Contemporary YA (R)
Ali Katz, Historical (R)
Vivien Jackson, Paranormal erotic romance (R)
Alexia Reed, Urban fantasy (R)

Elizabeth Black, gay m/m erotica (NC 17)
Sara Brookes, Urban Fantasy (NC 17)
Angeleque Ford, Contemporary erotic romance (NC17)
Lisa Fox, Paranormal erotic romance (NC 17)
Christa Paige, Regency romance (NC 17)
Gail Roarke, Paranormal erotic romance (NC 17)

“Edge of Heaven” by Rhiannon Leith

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Genre: Paranormal Romance, Red Hots!

ISBN: 978-1-60928-059-8
Length: Novel
Price: 5.50
Publication Date: June 22, 2010
Cover art by Natalie Winters

Her only hope is to reach for heaven—and hang on to hell.

Lily’s psychic “gift” for hearing the dead and helping them pass over into the afterlife has left her friendless and broken, teetering on the edge of sanity. Not much of a challenge for Sammael, a demon who’s been sent to seduce her soul for hell.

But something stands between Sam and his prize. Micah, the guardian angel whose constant support keeps Lily sane. Yet Sam senses that Micah’s feelings for his charge are less than angelic.

Excellent. It’ll be his pleasure to tempt them both into pure sin.

As Lily succumbs to unearthly pleasure, she finds herself caught between the demon who sets her on fire and the angel who lifts her to unimagined heights of ecstasy. It’s a choice she can’t bring herself to make.

Then a serial killer with preternatural abilities makes Lily his next target. Danger mounts as he repeatedly outfoxes even heaven and hell. To protect her, an angel must fall, a demon must be redeemed—and Lily must travel to hell and back for the men she loves.

Warning: Contains steamy sex, bondage, voyeurism, and a ménage a trois between a tormented angel, a devilishly sexy demon and a woman who can’t choose between them. And why should she?

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Some super reviews for With A Touch.

• “good story with a well developed world and interesting characters… Both men were self sacrificing and heroic, and you really liked the heroine.  It was a good book and I would recommend it to readers that like paranormals or just enjoy a well written story.” — Elizabeth Charles, JERR
• “The author does an excellent job of building a futuristic world in a short time frame, one I want to read about again and again. Leith gives us not one but two sexy heroes and a strong physic heroine, who all find a solid, believable happily ever after. I recommend With a Touch to anyone looking for a short, hot, futuristic romance.” — Sophia Parkwood
• “The loving help and circle that Aidan and Rafael provide to Eva proved to me that love really could heal all wounds. The best thing I loved about this threesome is that even when doubts came, two of them always believed in their union. The ending will cause me to smile the next time I see a bunch of colorful butterflies. With a Touch trumped evil while bringing three hearts together in a union not even fear could tear apart.” — Jo, Joyfully Reviewed.

Welcome to the New Release Monday. This month, in addition to our typical excerpt week, we’re showcasing new releases by several fabulous EM writers.  Visit the Excerpt Monday site! or click on the banner above.

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This month I’m delighted to join the girls of Excerpt Monday’s New Release Monday with my Sci-Fi erotic romance With a Touch.

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With a Touch: The Guild Chronicles, Book 1

She wrapped her arms around her chest and felt more exposed than she had when they had stripped her of her clothes and made love to her. A shiver ran over her skin and deep inside a tingling warmth responded. Inner muscles tightened and a delicious warmth flooded her. Her breath escaped in a soft moan.

“Better?” Rafael asked.

Eva narrowed her eyes. “Are you making me feel this?”

“Yes.” He stepped closer. “And no. Not deliberately in any case, though the results are wonderful to behold. I’m not playing with your mind, Eva. But I hope I cause desire in you. I know Aidan does.”

“And look how I rewarded him.” She couldn’t keep the bitterness from her voice. She didn’t bother to try.

Rafael reached for her again. She flinched but when she didn’t actually retreat, he carefully stroked her face with the back of his fingers.

“It was an accident. I warned Aidan to be careful. His play can get a little…rough? But he would never hurt you. To know that he scared you that badly, it’s eating him up inside.”

“He told you that?”

“I know,” Rafael replied solemnly. “We share everything, Aidan and I. Even when he couldn’t speak, his sense of guilt screamed his remorse to me.”

“You love him.”

“We love each other.”

There, it was said. They were a couple. Which made her a third party, an interloper, and at best a means to an end. This wasn’t about them wanting her, but about freeing her. But that was all, clearly.

Rafael bent his head and kissed her. His lips on hers made her cry out in surprise and he smothered that cry. His tongue slid into her mouth, coiling with hers and he seized her shoulders, holding her in place. Helpless before him, Eva brought her hands up to his chest, finding the rich cotton of his shirt a maddening barrier between them.

With a growl of need, Rafael propelled her back to the door, still kissing her, as if he could not bring himself to let her go. The edges of his mind trembled with need, with hunger. His shields began to buckle.

“Eva, oh God, Eva…”

Images filled her mind. Rafael with Aidan, Rafael with his golden-haired wife, Rafael here and now, with her. Naked. She tugged at his shirt, thrilling as the buttons gave way and she could brush against his skin. The wildness took on a beat now, a rhythm that could not or would not be denied. Heartbeats pounded in unison.

“They’re using you,” he murmured against her skin. “They’re still using you, controlling you, with your own thoughts, your own memories.”

Eva shuddered and tried to pull back. But she had nowhere to go. “I know what happened to me, Rafael. I remember—”

His lips trapped hers again. Catching her wrists in his hands, he pinned her against the door, trapping her with his body. With her body intimately pressed against him, her pulse went wild. Panic surged through her, panic and terror, but Rafael bore down on her, his mouth pleasuring, his body driving her beyond control.

“They can change your memories, Eva, alter what you think you know.”

No. It couldn’t be true. Couldn’t be, because if it was…well then, what in her life was her own? Nothing at all. She was nothing at all, just a shell, just a tool of the Guild.

Rafael broke the kiss, and his body pressed against hers, holding her still so he could gaze into her eyes. Her own face reflected in his black and endless eyes—pale with fear, her eyes too wide, her cheeks hollow.

“You must never think that, Eva,” he whispered, his voice harsh. “You…you are everything. So warm, so vital, so…”

Though he pinned her against the door, she forced herself forward and kissed him. For a moment he didn’t respond, but just as the fear that she’d made another terrible mistake swept through her, Rafael growled her name and returned the kiss savagely.

“You need to fight your fear,” he told her wordlessly.

“I can’t. You saw what I did to Aidan. I can’t risk hurting you.”

With his free hand, he reached beneath the gaping blouse and caressed her breast with firm, determined fingers. He wasn’t rough, not really, but nor was he gentle. He was…he was perfect. Her body began to melt inside, burning with hunger for him. And a trembling that was only half fear.

“You won’t hurt me.” He sounded so certain, so sure of himself. If only it were true. Oh God, she needed that to be true.

Rafael pinched her nipple and she cried out. Panic lanced through her and before she could stop herself, she lashed out, just as she had with Aidan.

His consciousness curled around her, a warm, safe place, a gentle caress on her panicked mind. And at the same time he tore her blouse open the rest of the way. His mouth devoured her, teeth, tongue and lips moving in a torturous harmony.

Eva almost fell when he released the grip pinning her hands above her head. But she didn’t have time. Rafael seized her thighs, lifting her, parting her, wrapping her legs around his waist.

“Show me. Show me now. What happened?”

Fear. Pain. Humiliation. She was powerless. Hurting. Doomed.

So she lashed out. Then, with Aidan, and now. Now she hit hardest of all.

Rafael recoiled. His head snapped back as if struck by a fist. His cock slid deep inside her, right up to the hilt, filling her and making her cry out his name.

Every nightmare poured out of her, into him. Rafael groaned and then thrust again. Eva tore at his shirt, baring his chest to her hands.

“Let go of it, Eva. Let go. They use your fears to hold you down. Let go.”

Her body closed around his, holding him close, clenching around his pulsing shaft. He drove into her again and she came, calling out his name and relinquishing all her terrors to him.

Rafael drank them down, his voice ringing off the ceiling and walls, breaking as he crested inside her.

Another image formed, not hers. Her fears were gone. Which left only one source.

Rafael cradled a woman with golden hair. He held her against him, even though her body hung limp from his shaking arms. Even though her blood drenched his clothes, stained his skin.

And slowly, slowly the woman’s face changed.

To become Aidan’s.

Dead eyes stared at the world, still so blue, but without the light in them, without the laughter that made them sparkle. His arms hung limp and lifeless. And Rafael wept and said his name, desperately trying to call him back to life.

With a gasp, Rafael released her. Eva slumped against him, too spent, too wrung out to speak. His body trembled against hers as they disentangled their limbs and slipped to the ground. The study filled with their beating hearts, their ragged breath, the air tense with all they had shared. And slowly it all subsided until there were two of them once more. Two people, marooned, alone.

Rafael moved, like a panther, crossing the narrow space between them until his face hung over hers. Tears dripped onto her cheeks and he bent his head, resting his forehead against hers.

“Don’t let them use your fears, Eva. Otherwise you’ll never be free.”

Links to other New Releases
Note: I have not personally screened these releases. Please heed the ratings and be aware that the links may contain material that is not typical of my site.

Steal Away by Amber Green

Stellar Heart by Scarlett Jameson

Flame Within by Mima

and here it is.

I’m over at Smutketeers today being grilled by the fabulous Crystal Jordan. There’s an indepth interview, and another chance to win a copy of With A Touch.

Please go and make me look popular!

With a Touch is out now. So excited to see this, my first erotic Sci-Fi novella out in the world. I hope you’re all going to check it out, read the blurb, watch the video and even get a sneak peak of the first chapter on the Samhain website.

“With a Touch” by Rhiannon Leith

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Genre: Romantic SciFi-Futuristic, Red Hots!

ISBN: 978-1-60504-967-0
Length: Category
Price: 4.50
Publication Date: March 30, 2010
Cover art by Kanaxa

Kidnapped by rebels…or rescued by love?

The Guild Chronicles, Book 1

As a prized psychic, Eva’s lived her entire life inside the Guild Compound. While sex isn’t exactly forbidden, she’s rarely indulged—such encounters could swamp her sensitive gift.

A chance encounter with Aidan, a sexy Guild Security Officer, rocks her to the core when she sees herself entangled in his arms. She fights the unfamiliar surge of lust and tries to focus on the job at hand, the interrogation of the subversive Rafael. Yet she discovers that he’s no terrorist. In fact, his capture is a ploy, a way for him and Aidan to infiltrate the Guild with one goal in mind: Eva.

At first Eva fights her captors, but once outside the Guild’s sheltered walls, she realizes she is free. Free to live and love as she pleases. And her two rebels please her indeed, introducing her to erotic pleasures she never imagined. They break down the barriers imposed on her mind and body, making her question everything she’s ever known.

Even as Eva dares to dream of a future with her lovers, she fears for their lives. The Guild wants her back. And that’s not all they want…

Warning: Contains two irresistible rebels working “undercover” to win the woman of their dreams, an evil corporation, rough sex, tender sex, sex with mild bondage, sex intensified by psychic connections and an oh-so-passionate ménage à trois.

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I’ve always loved a dash of romance with my Sci-Fi, even since that classic exchange between Leia and Han in Empire.

“I love you.”

“I know.”

Eventually I always knew I’d end up writing something like it. But With A Touch goes to a far steamier place. There are elements of Gattica and Blade Runner and all those other wonders I’ve seen over the years through one of my favourite genres.

So who are your favourite Sci-Fi Lovers.

One answer (chosen at random) will win a copy of With A Touch in the ebook format of their choice.

With A Touch comes out on the 30th of March (that’s this month!!!)

So to celebrate here’s the book trailer.

So excited today. Just found the blurb for with a touch up on Samhain’s Coming Soon pages.

The cover has yet to be confirmed, but wait until you see it. Wow!

And there’s a lovely long excerpt.

Roll on March 23rd!

and there’s more work to come, but I’m delighted to announce that my SF erotic menage novella “With A Touch” has been accepted for publication by Samhain. It should be out early next year.

And now… I have some editing to do!

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