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.

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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
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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!

But here is a little roundup of what’s been going on.

Coffee Time Romance has posted a review of the Black Lace anthology “Misbehaviour” which contains my story “Concerning Etiquette”.

“Each story is beautifully written, and every one of the characters will have you begging for more.“

(Looks like we did good, ladies!)

As I mentioned before my novella “With a Touch” sold to Samhain and will be out in January 2010. It’s a near-future SF erotic romance – try saying that quickly three or four times – featuring menage, psychics, an evil corporate empire and a three lovers struggling to stay together. Round one edits are complete, round two are on the way.

Hope to have more news for you soon.

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!