CONTEMPORARY
A LITTLE HARMLESS SEX
Is it love - or just a little harmless sex?
Max has always been Anna’s knight in shining armor. But Max has always seen her as a charming, and very sexy, little sister…
Until Max’s cold fiancé dumps him, Anna unloads another of her many conquests and she invites him over for margaritas and Mexican food. Too much tequila, too much flirting, and too many years of fighting the attraction — Max loses control and has mind blowing sex with Anna on her couch. And in her shower. And in her bed.
Anna can’t believe she has finally slipped beneath Max’s steely self-control. He is every woman’s dark, wet fantasy come true. But what happens when the Max pushes Anna for more than just A Little Harmless Sex?
A LITTLE HARMLESS PLEASURE
Is it love or a little harmless pleasure?
Cynthia Myers meets Chris Dupree at her former fiancé’s wedding. After a little dancing, and champagne, she ends up back in Chris’s hotel room. For one night of down and dirty sex. That’s it, that’s all. He lives far away, and she has other things to do…like get a life.
Chris is a switch. He likes to dominate but he also likes to play the role of a submissive from time to time. His last relationship with a sub turned nasty and since then, he has shied away from anything but straight vanilla sex. When he meets Cynthia, he finds a woman who could change his mind. His mate. The only problem is he has to convince her.In a carefully orchestrated seduction, Chris teaches Cynthia about submission and dominance, allowing her take the reins. As he leads her through pleasures she thought she’d never experience, Cynthia’s self confidence soars and she finds herself falling in love with him.
But, when he asks for submission in the bedroom, can she surrender to prove her love or was it all about a little harmless pleasure?
A LITTLE HARMLESS OBSESSION
Is it love, or a little harmless obsession?
May Aiona has had a crush on Evan Chambers since she met him. But, she realizes that he will never see her as anything but a friend. Besides, she isn’t really sure what she wants in bed. At least, until her friend brings her to a popular bondage club and she gets a free membership–as long as she agrees to a public submission.
Evan has always thought of May as too good for him. The strong Dom comes from nothing–a crack whore mother and a jailbird father. So, he has kept his hands off the luscious Hawaiian. It isn’t until he sees her standing in his club ready to submit to his best friend that Evan gives in to the thing he wants most–May as his sub. One session and he knows it will never be enough.But loving May isn’t easy for a man always ready to take charge. She may like to submit in the bedroom, but she doesn’t like anyone telling her want to do outside of it. When a series of seemingly unconnected incidents turn violent, Evan refuses to let her out of his sight. Until an argument leaves them at odds, and May in the sights of a deranged killer.
Is it love or a little harmlesss addiction?
Jocelyn Dupree is used to being in charge of her life. Valedictorian of her high school, top of her class at her prestigious cooking school, and a job that most would envy. That was, until her boss steps up from sexual harrassment to sexual assault. With her world blown apart, Jocelyn becomes dependant on medication and ends up losing the job she loves and having a breakdown. When her older brother Chris insists he needs her to help with his restuarant in Hawaii, Jocelyn accepts, thinking a change of scenery will do her good now that is clean.
Danny Aoina knows an injured woman when he sees her. That is why he tries to keep his distance. He’s sick of being the rebound guy. But, they are constantly thrown together by friends and family and one night she’s a little too much to resist. The one taste has him ready for more. Even as he knows he is falling in love, he wonders if she is using him.
Does she really love him, or is it a little harmless addiction?
THE HIRED HAND
Stranded in a Dallas hotel room with nothing but a red spandex dress, stiletto heels and thigh highs, with directions on where to meet a gigolo, was not how Marlow Smith planned on spending her thirtieth birthday. But when her best friend leaves her knowing Marlow is so anal she’ll dress up and go fire the man, she does exactly that. Except the firing. She finds him sitting at the end of the bar and somehow ends up back in her hotel room with him. After a night filled with the best sex of her life, she leaves, thinking never to see the man again, and returns to her boring, stable life.
Business consultant, Liam Campbell, can’t believe that little Jane Smith actually thinks he’s a gigolo. She’s curvy and cute, and he can’t resist talking her into bed. And once he gets her there, and on the couch, and in the shower, he doesn’t want to leave. The only problem is he never quite gets around to telling her the truth. He wakes up the next morning with a hundred dollar tip and no way of finding his “client.”
Three months later, Liam shows up at her family business as their hired business consultant. Marlow hopes that he doesn’t remember her and when he does, she wants to pretend that nothing happened. But little does she know the moment he sees her again, Liam has plans for not only her body but also her heart.
Joey and Heath from The Hired Hand return…
Joey and Heath are stuck working together for a week in Florida. Not only will they be in each others presence more time than either of them would like, they find themselves sharing a room…a honeymoon suite to be exact.
Too close for comfort, they can’t seem to resist temptation but agree that the affair will only be for the week. Neither of them wants entanglements, especially Joey who learned first hand how to survive without help.
For Heath, it’s a matter of control, and being insanely in love with a woman makes a man out of control. But, with each kiss…each touch…they both find themselves falling deeper in love. When they get back to Dallas, will they listen to their minds, and keep to the promise, or will they listen to their hearts, and take a chance on love?
A CALCULATED SEDUCTION
Dulcy Menendez has enough problems dealing with her stepmother and two stepsisters. She doesn’t need her sexy new boss, Ethan MacMillan, watching her every move. Especially since every time she catches his gray eyes studying her, her pulse races and her mind conjures up images of the two of them naked.
Security expert Ethan has taken over his uncle’s company to ferret out an embezzler, and he’s sure Dulcy has something to do with it. He decides, against his better judgment, to seduce the secrets out of her, planning on stopping short of taking her to bed.One limo ride later and a very determined Dulcy, causes Ethan to decide between work and love. When the sun rises, the truth is revealed, leaving them with one question: What do both of them do when they find themselves in love with a person they can’t trust?
A TORRID CELEBRATION
Going for Eight featuring Gerry Dillon from A Calculated Seduction
After coming up close and personal with a bull, rider Gerry Dillon has decided life is too short to waste any more time. From the time he was in high school, he’d always loved one woman, but she always been off limits to him. Now, he’s decided he won’t take no for an answer. Problem is, the sassy girl turned into a After almost dying, Gerry Dillon has decided to go after the one woman he’s always loved.Charlie Freemont has always fought to be taken seriously. When you are the daughter of the biggest landowner in three counties, it is kind of hard. Men never seem to want to marry her for herself, but for her father’s land. And, Gerry had been the worse. He’d been raised by her father and refused to have anything to do with her because of it. At a school reunion Gerry sets his plan in motion, but he soon figures out convincing her will require more than just his average riding skills.
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
Excitement, danger, and falling for the man of her dreams all have Grace Under Pressure.
College professor Grace Michaels has enough on her plate with her research, her ex-fiancé showing up in town, her parents parking their RV in front of her house, and her attempt to entice her sexy neighbor, new sheriff, Ren Morello, into having an affair, when someone breaks into her house and office.Ren wants nothing to do with Grace. So what if she looks like a pinup girl from the 50’s or that every time she’s in his vicinity, he sports a hard-on? She is a woman who would demand commitment and after his nasty divorce from his cheating ex-wife, Ren wants nothing to do with marriage. All he wants is hard fast sex. The problem is, the only woman he can picture it with is Grace. Then, when the threats to Grace turn almost deadly, Ren finds himself in her company more often than not, and keeping his hands off her becomes impossible. But as the danger grows closer, the attraction grows deeper, and Grace must chose between protecting her heart or her life.
OPERATION LOVE
Mau Lao ‘u Aloha (Forever My Love)
Three women vow never to marry military and three men determined to change their minds… Daisy, Dee to all her friends, has always had a crush on Mano. Sinfully delicious, he tempts her in the worst way.
Mano, whose call sign is The Shark, is dedicated to his Air Force career. And, he has his own hang-ups about marriage and the military. After a night of drinking, they fall into bed together and after a night of mind blowing love making, they can’t keep their hands off each other.
But there is trouble in paradise when they both have to decide which is more important: their convictions or their love.
COMING 2009
HER MOTHER’S KILLER
coming 2009 from WCP Torrid
Althea Warren would like to leave the past behind. The memories of her mother’s murder lurk in her dreams. She was happy to try to ignore it until someone drives her off the road and then begins sending her sick letters. Deciding to return to the small Texas town where it took place, Althea plans on using the skills she developed at Atlanta PD to solve the case. Her main problem is avoiding the sheriff, her old crush, Duncan Perry.
Duncan can’t believe his best friend’s little sister has grown into such a wonderful bundle of curves. He is at first stunned by his reaction to her, but never one to be slow, he starts putting the moves on her. It isn’t until he is completely seduced by her that he realizes that she is putting herself in danger to solve the old crime.
As both of them fall in love with each other, the stalking and danger escalates. Women close to Althea’s description are being found raped and murdered. The new lovers work overtime to figure out just what went wrong 20 years earlier, not realizing the mysteries they will reveal could jeopardize everything they are fighting for.
Appearances
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Miss Make a Movie
Melissa will be signings copies of A Little Harmless Pleasure!
Feb 7th from 2-5 pm
Borders Annapolis, MD
Awards
Melissa has been nominated for Historical author of the year by Rites of Romance Review site of the year and her historical western, The Seduction of Widow McEwan, was nominated as best historical by Love Romances Cafe.
At' a Girl
So it isn’t any wonder that Melissa Schroeder’s SEDUCING THE SAINT scored big points with me. Take a futuristic setting and infuse the story with some very sexy scenes spanning multiple planets, and I am so there.
~Jennifer Ray, Wild On Books
