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Quotes from just a few of the 65 five star reviews: 
"I loved this book. I couldn't put it down my attention was caught from page one. This book has it all strong characters, humor, hot sex and some surprises thrown in for fun. I recommend this book to anyone that loves to get lost in a great story. This author just became a must buy author for me."

"Lock the doors…turn off the TV…take the kids to grandma’s because you are not going to want to miss a minute of this book. Jackson “Jax” Malone is a MMA World Champion and one sexy hunk of a man."
  
"The plot was just complex enough, and not half as predictable as romances can be....I couldn't figure out how the HEA would happen, but it did, and in a nice unpredictable fashion."

"WARNING… you WILL need a cold shower or 2 during this book, and I mean that in the absolute best way possible!!!!!!"

 
In case you haven't heard, I've got a new paranormal romance, Let Him Reign, that will be released for the first time ever in Wicked After Dark, an incredible 20 author anthology!
Preorders for Wicked After Dark are now available for $0.99, with 100% of all proceeds going to the Epilepsy Foundation
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Let Him Reign
Here's a look at the cover by the extremely talented Mina Carter who also did the Wicked After Dark box set cover above!

 Born a prince of the underworld, Frederick Coughlin, III is forced to stop running from his legacy after his father is murdered. With all hell breaking loose around him, Eric realizes that an irresistible woman from his past holds the keys to his future.
There will be werelions, vampires, suspense and lots of sexy scenes in Let Him Reign, which is just one of twenty hot paranormal romances you'll get in this set, so preorder Wicked After Dark now! 

I'm so excited about how well Jax has been doing just a little more than a week after its release! I've reached all sorts of new milestones, and getting down into the 500 bestseller rankings is at the top of the list! Hopefully I'm also gaining some new readers, and from the response I've received, there's a lot of excitement about Jude's book.



I know an author's supposed to love all of their characters equally, and please don't tell Jax, but Jude is by far my favorite! The entire time I was writing Jax I was doing so with the intention of giving Jude his own book. I had no idea that his character would grow and take on this enormous presence, but that's exactly what happened. While all of my characters write their own stories in my crazy head, Jude is larger than life and more...real than any of the others that have come before or after him.

(If Jude did exist, he'd look just like Nick Bateman but with shorter hair!)


I hope Jude's book does him justice, and that he's still just as loveable at the end. He has some growing up to do in his story, and like all of my characters, he's not going to be perfect. Jude will make mistakes, and even make an ass of himself when it comes to his relationship with Sadie.

Jude may have a rocky road before him, but don't worry, he'll get his HEA in September!

PREORDER NOW!

There's more Cocky Cage Fighter novels to come after Jude, likely Link, Senn, Alex, Nate and even Page's brother Logan might get his own book. Linc will hopefully become a reader favorite when he appears in Jude's book! Check back soon for his cover reveal!
  

A big thank you to those who pre-ordered All In: Playing to Win just released yesterday on Amazon!

Without a release party or running any promotions, it just hit #96 on Amazon's Sports Romance Bestseller list!



The main heroine of the story, Natalie, is a young breast cancer survivor. I lost my grandmother to breast cancer over 20 years ago, and my aunt is a survivor now battling cancer that's spread to her liver and lung, with a prognosis of less than a year to live.

I've dedicated this book to all the fighters, survivors and breast cancer angels, and have donated a portion of the royalties from the pre-orders to Susan G. Komen Charlotte, and will continue to do so with all the sales of this title.

Originally All In: Playing to Win was scheduled for a June 16th release, but since it was finished a few weeks ahead of schedule the release has now been bumped up to this Thursday, May 28th!

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered a copy! A percentage of those sales have already been donated to Susan G. Komen Charlotte. There's still time to pre-order here on Amazon!

  Blurb
 Zack Bradford's ego is so big that it can barely be contained in the stadium where he plays professional football. The quarterback previously named Rookie of the Year and deemed the Sexiest Man Alive is on top of the world. Or at least he was, until he gets hit by a scandal that could end his career. To keep his multi-million dollar contract with the family oriented Wildcats, Zack has to improve his playboy image, starting with settling down with one woman…and he must do so in less than a week's time!

Natalie Adair's life changed dramatically when she found out she had breast cancer at the young age of twenty-one. Deciding to dedicate her second chance at life helping others, Natalie accepts a job at one of the nation’s largest breast cancer foundations, devoting her time to helping other women find and treat cancer early on. The organization's most lucrative fundraiser every year is the auction of autographed team merchandise by pro football players, and this year Natalie's in charge of the event. Not only is it a great cause, but the event provides Natalie with the opportunity to get up close and personal with incredibly hot players, including the quarterback from college who swept her off her feet with a kiss of epic proportions. After her and Zack Bradford's kiss in their sophomore year, Natalie went right back to being invisible…that is, until their two paths cross again.

Zack can't believe his luck when a beautiful saint, one that actually works for a cancer charity for Christ’s sake, practically falls into his lap. She is just the woman he needs to save his job. The only problem? The tiny, feisty, and somewhat familiar blonde flat out turns him down. Zack welcomes the challenge of having to actually work to woo a woman for once, but he warns Natalie that once he decides he wants to play, he only plays to win.

Will Natalie be able to resist Zack's persistence and charisma, or will she overcome her insecurities and end up falling for the player?

This 60K word book with a HEA can be read as a stand-alone, but includes the appearance of characters from the other books in the series. Therefore the preferred reading order is:

All In: Double or Nothing
All In: Betting on a Full House
All In: Calling His Bluff
All In: Playing the Fool
All In: Playing to Win
All In: Raising the Stakes (Coming soon) 
Never Before Released Excerpts
Natalie Adair 


"You didn't answer my question," Zack replies. Quickly moving his large body, he stands against my driver side car door, blocking my chance at a getaway. Good Lord the man is huge this close up. He's so damn buff it should be illegal to brandish such massive guns in public. Not to mention he has the perfect, gorgeous face of a male model and smells like a warm day at the beach. I try to focus on the Wildcats' logo on the center of his t-shirt instead of his distracting face...or...entire body. He's too damn incredible to take in and it's making my head hurt just trying.    "What question?" I ask. My mouth is so dry from practically panting with my tongue hanging out that it's hard to speak those two words. "Have dinner with me." A sudden burst of laughter escapes me, sounding embarrassingly similar to a girly giggle. I take a deep breath and close my eyes to try and get over the shock of those four words. It's also easier to think when I'm not looking at him. "That wasn't a question. It was a statement.""Fine. Will you have dinner with me?" he amends. I gasp and my eyes fly open when one of his thick knuckles suddenly begins stroking its way up my neck until it's underneath my chin. Tipping it up I'm forced to look into his warm, brown eyes. His deep voice lowers when he says, "Or we could just go to my place and you could be dinner."Oh God. My knees feel wobbly like they're going to pull a fast one and embarrass me in front of Zack freaking Bradford, sending me down on my ass. Use your brain, woman! He only wants to screw you, and basically just says as much!   I blink to break contact with his hypnotic gaze and take a step backwards so that his hand will fall away. "No, thanks. Hope you have a great season," I squeak out as I try to figure out a way to maneuver around his humongous body. "No?" He jerks back against my car like I tasered him, using a word he's never heard before. Probably hasn't, which makes me even more confident in my response. And great, now there's probably a giant quarterback size dent in the side of my car. "No. I decline. The opposite of yes. Could you please move now?" I ask with my hands on my hips while my cheeks begin to feel sunburnt. "I'm unfamiliar with such a foreign concept. What exactly is this 'no' you speak of?" he deadpans.   That stupid girly giggle slips out again before I can respond. "Google it." When the man still doesn't move I grumble and walk around to the passenger side. I'm sliding in and over the console to the driver seat before he realizes what I'm up to and yanks the driver's side door open. Shoot, I should've locked them after I got in. "Are you seriously running away from me?" Zack asks with a deep chuckle, lowering to his haunches to get eye level. Oh and that just isn't fair. Don't look at his face! Don't look at his face!    I put the key in the ignition, crank my car in response, and then reach for my seat belt.          "Fine, go ahead and drive your very sexy ass out of here, Polly Pocket, but I'm not giving up on you."
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I can't help but feel a little giddy that he's showed an interest in me, even if he does have less than honorable intentions, and doesn't remember me from college. It's nice to feel wanted by a gorgeous man like him. But regardless, I'm not going to become a notch on his mile long belt. "Honestly, Zack, I really appreciate that you've gone to all this trouble for me, but I don't date, and I definitely don't sleep with men. Neither of those things are going to change just because you're…well, you," I tell him, gesturing at his obvious hotness."Well, that's too bad," he says with a sigh. "But if you want the calendar that could help raise a ton of money for a cause that's important to you, then you're going to have to take one for the team." "W-what? What do you mean?" I ask.He leans forward, his strong, muscular forearms resting on the edge of my desk. "I mean, the other players and I will do the calendar, but only if you agree to go out with me." "You can't be serious.""Oh, I am very serious.""Why?" I ask."Why am I serious?" "No, why me?" I ask, helpless to stop the heat from spreading over my cheeks. "You want the list?" he asks. "There's a list?" "Yep," he nods, his intense chocolate eyes never leaving mine. "You're beautiful, smart, sweet, sassy, and sexy as hell. Is that enough?"I want to crawl under my desk after hearing his flattering words. "But you don’t know me, and even if all that were true, you...you date women who are a helluva lot more…well, everything than me." "I have dated a lot of beautiful women." He nods in agreement. "And those women, with the exception of one, were all shallow, selfish, spoiled, clingy, and my personal favorite, gold-diggers.""Oh." He said all but one. Does that mean he cared about her? I remember seeing something in the tabloids a few months ago about his breakup with a girlfriend."Even though we just met yesterday, I'm willing to bet that you're none of the above. You're also the only woman that's ever turned me down.""So you just like a challenge?" I ask, deflating as I think of the old saying that you always want what you can't have.  "It's nice to have a challenge," he says with a shrug of his wide shoulders, his eyes holding mine. "But, Natalie, when I decide I want to play, I go all in and play to win. And I can promise you this - I want to win you over for more than just one night."

Stop whatever you're doing right now! If you're reading, put your Kindle or the book down (even if it's mine). Now go to Amazon and buy these books because otherwise you are seriously missing out.

 
Since Drew was recently released by J. Nathan, a writer I'd never heard of, but the synopsis made it sound like a great book and the cover is hot! After reading the sample I was hooked and had to buy it. I finished it in one day. 

Since Drew is an incredible love story with plot twists I never saw coming. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, and I even shed a few tears at the end. J. Nathan's writing is phenomenal and you'll lose yourself in this book and fall in love with the characters.

Of course as soon as I finished reading it I needed more from this author. I sought out and found Until Alex. At that point my hopes were high, and I'm thinking to myself, "There's no way this book will be even half as awesome as Since Drew."

Wrong! I've never been so happy to be wrong.

 
Until Alex is a fantastic book, one I fell into and nothing could pull me away from until I finished it. J. Nathan's characters are believable and likable, even loveable. I just wanted to give poor broken Hayden and Alex a group hug.

This author has a way of leading her characters to the light when they are in the darkest places in their lives. I can't wait to read more in the future!

5 stars for both Until Alex and Since Drew!

COVER REVEAL  I've only planned for six full length books in the All In series, with three possible novellas for secondary characters. The fifth book, Playing to Win will be released June 16, 2015, and the final book, Raising the Stakes doesn't yet have a release date. My guess right now would be sometime this September.

I'm sad to see this series wind down, but I'm also excited about the new Cocky Cage Fighter books, and two other independent ideas for stories I've been brainstorming over.

The sixth book, Raising the Stakes will be Attorney Joe Montgomery's book, aka Superman. This love story will be much darker, and more serious than all the previous lighthearted ones, but there will still be some smoking hot sex scenes before the drama unfolds.

Once I have the full manuscript finished I'll update with the pre-order info, excerpt and blurb. Until then, here's the cover reveal: 

These three are free today 5/2 on Amazon:
1. Erotic Paranormal Romance - Blood Drive http://amzn.com/B00LE51ZFO

2. Erotic Romance - All In: Double or Nothing http://amzn.com/B00PQV6H78

3. Paranormal Comedy (with a PG rating) - The Complete Wild Series http://amzn.com/B00L76RRUW

HERE IT IS: 

Summary
MMA Middleweight World Champion, Jackson "Jax" Malone has just entered the fight of his life. Known for his viciousness in the cage, and his playboy ways out of it, Jax is arrested and charged with a brutal rape. The thought of spending decades in prison is one of the few things that actually scares the shit out of this cocky fighter.  
Newly admitted attorney Page Davenport is willing to do anything it takes to get out from under her father's thumb and finally prove herself in his law firm. Anything except represent the infamous miscreant, Jackson "The Mauler" Malone. Despite her protests, Page is powerless to avoid becoming the sacrificial lamb, the token female, who will be the face of the violent, angry Neanderthal's defense team.  
Jax is a bad boy with a temper, doing whatever the hell he wants in life while flipping the bird at all his haters. Page is the prim and proper rich debutante her parents want her to be. They've been pulling her strings, telling her what to do, where to go to school, what to wear, and even who she should marry.  
Page and Jax struggle to work together, engaging in a knockdown drag-out fight for dominance. When they finally stop taking swings at each other, they're both surprised to realize that sometimes first impressions are completely wrong. In fact, opposites really do seem to attract. However, there are lines that attorneys and their clients can never cross, if Page wants to keep her license to practice law.   
Will Page risk it all and submit to the cocky fighter? Or will Jax's temper and jealousy prove too much for her to take on outside of the courtroom?  
Either way, one thing is for sure - neither Page nor Jax are going down without a fight. In the end, the secret for them to find heaven may be to battle their way through hell first.
Excerpt
"Mr. Malone, I'd like you to meet my daughter, Page Davenport. Page, this is Martin Malone and his son. I'm sure you'll recognize Jackson Malone from his outstanding MMA career," my dad says when he makes the introductions."Nice to meet you," I lie as I hold out my hand to the older man. Shaking it he gives me a polite nod of his head while assessing me. He's not looking at me in a creepy, sexual way, but it's more of a look that says, Is she really old enough and experienced enough to represent my son? Of course not, and everyone in the building knows that.My curious eyes finally dance around the older man to the one standing behind him. The spacious conference room that can easily accommodate ten ego-inflated attorneys suddenly feels too small. Intimidating doesn't even begin to describe the vibe this man is putting off. He practically comes with his own flashing neon sign over his coal colored pompadour cut, shaved close on the sides, that says in big, bright letters, "Danger! Stay back at least 100 feet!" It isn't necessarily the guy's size that makes him scary, even though he’s built like a tank at more than six feet tall with a wide, muscular build. But when you add in his black bottomless-pit eyes and tight unshaven jaw...he looked like Mount Vesuvius about to erupt. Violence and tension radiate off of him in waves that are almost visible. In nothing special faded jeans and a plain white tee contrasting with his tan golden skin, he's absolutely, without a doubt, the most…scrumptious looking man I've ever laid eyes on. His mug shot plastered all over the television and internet don’t do him justice. How the heck is it physically possible for someone who lets other people punch him in the face for a living still look like...like...a gorgeous Abercrombie & Fitch model? And how can someone so bad ass and angry still come across as...well, I'd never actually say this to his face, but pretty? The man is nothing like the type of guy I'm usually attracted to. He's missing the requisite white collar and tie. I have a feeling that the brute before me never wears either. Instead of clean cut, he's ruggedly and dangerously handsome, singularly able to make women stop, drop their panties, and roll over...and cause men to run away like cowards with their penises tucked between their legs. Speaking of penises... "Page?" my father's commanding voice interrupts my perusal, that has gone on far too long and much further south than is professional. He is a monster, not a sexy man you should be wanting a life size poster of for your bedroom! My inner sanity finally surfaces and reminds me of the rape and strangling he's charged with. Yes, that's exactly what I need! A reminder of why he's here and the horrible thing he did. "Nice to meet you," I lie again, intentionally not offering him my hand to shake. It would've been a serious stretch to reach him across the table anyways, I tell myself. The dangerous man's dark, seemingly soulless eyes assess every single inch of my body. And, unlike his father, his gaze is definitely sensual. He's looking at me like I'm a brand new flavor of Ben & Jerry's. One that he can't wait to dip his…spoon into, gorge himself on until he scrapes the very bottom of the carton, and then lick the container completely clean with his tongue. Even if I had looked at him the same way, his perverted stare helps cool my overheating hormones, seeing him for the pig that he is.
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Author Bio

Lane Hart lives in the south with her husband, children and pets named after Star Wars characters. After thirty years she's finally figured out what she wants to be when she grows up. When Lane's not writing she spends her free time reading everything she can get her hands on, watching football, and conducting research for scenes in her next steamy book.
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I've been so busy that I just haven't been able to keep up with the challenge. Sure, I could've posted something about each letter, but I felt like that wasn't enough.

The whole point of the challenge is to visit five other people's blogs each day and engage with them. Since I've been unable to adequately do so, I've asked to be removed from the challenge list.

Maybe I'll have better luck keeping up next year!