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Today I’m flogging my holiday story, First and Last, which is in Ellora’s Cave’s White Hot Holidays antho. It’s available in both print and digital formats.

Here’s the blurb:

Setting: Luna, 2114.

Lunarian law requires 24-year-old Shayna Goldstein to marry before she’s 25. She’s dated everyone in New Brooklyn, but Gideon Landers, the first man who kissed her, haunts her memories, preventing her from loving anyone else.

Desperate, she consults a matchmaker, who sends a reluctant Shayna to Farside Colony to meet her mate.

The commander of Farside Colony, Gideon Landers has never forgotten Shayna. That he’s been matched with her is a dream come true, but will Shayna be willing to live in the remote colony?

Reviews:

Rating: 4.5 from RomanceJunkies.com… ”FIRST AND LAST is a stimulating look into the look into the future

where you’ll realize that finding love is just as confusing then as it is now.”

Rating: 4.25 from Night Owl Romance: “paced with intensity and eroticism.”

Rating: 4 stars from eCataromance reviews… Sensuality Rating: sensuous… “I loved this book!”

Rating: 4 from Just Erotic Romance Reviews (JERR)… Heat level: H…“a quick read packed with a lot of meaning… The chemistry…kept this story interesting and flowing. Enjoy!”

Rating: 4 from Coffee Time Romance… “This is a fantastic sizzling romance. From the futuristic setting of New Brooklyn to hot and steamy sex scenes, this story will keep you enthused from the beginning. A definitely fast but fun read.”

Rating: 4 from Fallen Angel Reviews… “frank and graphic erotic descriptions of the sex between the lovers…very emotionally satisfying… many futuristic romance readers will enjoy this story as much as I did!”

“Wonderful futuristic romance!”

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And here’s the snog:

When she’d turned thirteen and started at yeshiva, the secondary school she attended after graduating from cheder, she hadn’t a clue about what was going on between the boys and girls. The air was constantly charged with a tension she now understood was born of sexual repression. Flirting and gossip about boys had dominated conversation.

And the prime topic had been Gideon Landers, even though boy had been the wrong word for him.

Gideon. Tall and dark, broad-shouldered and handsome, with a deep voice at age eighteen, he’d already matured. A Terran, Gideon and his parents had moved to New Brooklyn when the pogroms had wiped out the Jewish community on most of the Atlantic rim. Who knew what he’d seen and done? The girls whispered about the bulge in his Slicksuit, his burgeoning beard…he already shaved, and everyone wondered if he was still a virgin.

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Shayna had tried to ignore the gossip. She’d claimed that he was arrogant, although her day didn’t seem complete without seeing Gideon’s smile, bright against his tanned skin, at least once. So she’d bantered with him, telling him jokes and anecdotes, just so she could see his smile. Years later she’d realized that she’d had a schoolgirl crush on him.

He’d graduated and joined the Officers Corps, but had returned to yeshiva to talk with students about joining the Corps. She’d been sixteen, and for the first time she’d seen him as a man, and a very sexy one at that.

He’d asked her out to coffee. They’d stayed late, closing the place down. When it was deserted, he’d pinned her in a chair with his much larger body and kissed her.

She remembered the strange sensation of someone else’s tongue caressing her lips. Her mouth had opened in surprise, and he’d pushed his insistent tongue all the way in. Because he’d been straddling her and holding her close, she’d felt his heart pound through their Slicksuits. As his pulse speeded up, it seemed to echo her racing heart.

Everything in her body, every cell, every vein, seemed to ignite with a fire she’d never before experienced. Electricity zipped along her nerve endings. She’d become hot, her armpits had dampened, and sweat had slid along her skin. Though she knew her Slicksuit would convert the perspiration to usable water, she was still embarrassed. Was she supposed to react this way? She’d kissed boys before and this had never happened. Would he see how she was sweating and be repulsed?

He stroked her neck and the gentleness of his touch disarmed her completely. She’d grabbed onto his shoulders with shaking hands to anchor herself in the tumult of emotion and pushed her tongue back against his.

He’d taken that as some sort of signal and begun to move his tongue inside her mouth in a mesmerizing dance. She didn’t know the tune, but improvisation seemed to be okay with Gideon. Their tongues played together endlessly, it seemed, and she could have kissed him forever. She reveled in his flavor, his unique scent…was it sandalwood? She didn’t know, but she liked it.

Desire flamed through Shayna’s body, bringing her back to the present. She tugged at her Slicksuit’s collar, opening it. The ziptrain’s recirculated air, a little stale, cooled her but still she squirmed in the seat, driving her wet pussy against the cushions. She was glad that the train’s car was empty except for her; she could have an orgasm right here and now, and no one would know. And it would be easy. Just the memory of Gideon Landers’ kiss turned her on.

He’d wanted more, had wanted to go further, and had. He clasped her breast, and she thought she’d go right out of her mind when one of his fingers flicked back and forth across her nipple. Even through her Slicksuit, it was the best thing she’d ever felt.

He’d eased his mouth away from hers to flutter kisses down her neck…oh heavens, was he going to kiss her breast? That would be too much for her. Would the Slicksuit dry out before she went home? How could she explain a big wet spot to her ema?

She’d pulled away, and he’d bitten her neck. With a yelp, she’d convulsed, driving a knee up and into him.

“Shit, Shayna!” Gideon howled.

“You bit my neck!” She’d been outraged.

“It’s called a hickey, little girl.” He massaged his crotch.

Stung, she snapped, “Don’t call me a little girl, and don’t do that in front of me.”

He shot her a resentful look from beneath dark brows. “I’d like to do a lot more.”

“You’ll never get the chance.”

After that awkward interlude, he’d left to continue his career in the Officers Corps. She assumed he’d be stationed very

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far away.

But now, looking back, she realized that she’d compared every subsequent kiss to that one. No man had come close to lighting her up the way Gideon had, damn him.

Like what you read? Find it here:

http://www.jasminejade.com/m-251-suz-demello.aspx

http://www.amazon.com/White-Hot-Holidays-Vol-II/dp/1419956019/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354470788&sr=1-2&keywords=First+and+LAst+by+Suz+deMello

Enjoy!

Your blog hostess:

Award-winning, best-selling erotic romance novelist Sue Swift/Suz deMello has written sixteen novels, plus several short stories and non-fiction articles. She writes in numerous genres including romance, mystery, paranormal, historical, contemporary comedy and erotica. Her novels have appeared on numerous bestseller lists including Amazon, Waldenbooks and ARE, reached the finals of the RITA and been reviewed in publications such as PW, Kirkus and Booklist.

A former trial attorney who resides in northern California, her hobbies are yoga and world travel. She’s currently planning her next trip overseas and working on her next manuscript.