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Rachel de Vine is a wonderful writer, creative, romantic, full of life, and a terrific person to know. I’m very happy to have her as a guest today, presenting her latest release Songbird. I hope you’ll read through this post and get a taste of this wonderful story.

Here’s a teaser:

songbirdHarry is a successful 36-year-old Dom who has had many transient relationships with submissive women, and is not looking for a permanent relationship – until he sees and hears a beautiful young woman singing in a club in London. The woman sang with a throaty and angst-filled voice that suggested a dissolute lifestyle, but had the face of an angel and a body made for sin. Harry fell head over heels for Pascale, the beautiful songbird, and was determined that she would be his. Pascale, however, has had a difficult childhood with her mother’s brutal lover, Gaston, and escaped his clutches with the aid of Louis, her old pianist, and when Harry meets her she is traumatised by her experiences. Eventually he begins to break through the barrier that Pascale has erected around herself, but is wary about dominating her, even though she seems to him to have submissive tendencies. He is afraid of digging up disturbing and distressing images from her past.

His friend, Jake, the owner of the nightclub, is locked into a sterile and dead marriage, but cannot escape due to the financial hold of his wife and her father, who could bankrupt him if they so wished. He has a fun-filled, kinky relationship with a young woman who works at the club, but is terrified of his wife finding out about it and depriving him of access to his darling daughter, April, as well as bankrupting him.

Harry and Jake share Dom tendencies, but they also share seemingly insurmountable problems to be with the women they wish to make their own.

Time for an excerpt! This is from the first page.

The voice coming from over by the piano was sultry, throaty and reeked of cigarettes, whisky and dirty sex. I looked up from my glass of single malt and swivelled around on the bar stool to see if the reality matched the image now placed firmly in my brain. I expected to see a train wreck of a woman, whose dissolute appearance matched her voice, but the woman before me was no more than mid twenties, with long, sleek, dark brown hair and the face of an angel. I did a double take, unable to believe that the voice and the woman I saw before me belonged with each other.  Perhaps she was miming? If she was, she was damned good at lip-synching. She was singing the Billie Holiday song, Solitude, with all the angst of the original, accompanied only by a piano; played by an elderly black man.

The woman leaned casually on the piano, with one arm resting on its lid, and the other holding the microphone. She was wearing a simple red shift dress that clung to a lusciously curved body, and which ended mid-thigh to reveal long, elegant legs, and she had her eyes closed as she sang. Her hypnotic singing and with a body that every red blooded male in the club that night would love to touch, meant that, by mid song, all talking in the place had been stopped.

And now, this is your opportunity to one-click your way to romance. Songbird is available here:

Amazon | Blushing Books

A bit about Rachel in her own words:

I like to retain a little bit of mystery about myself, and let my writing speak for me, which is also the reason for the lack of pictures of me on my website and elsewhere.  However I will say that I am British and a woman, and that writing is my passion, and has been for much of my life, and I am an incurable romantic.  In recent years I have concentrated on writing erotic romances, but I am considering writing in other genres too.

I write about sensual, romantic, passionate people, because I like to think that I am a sensual, romantic and passionate person. I try to be kind, and hope that I reap kindness in return. I adore foreign travel to exotic places and I hope I always will. I like vibrant colours, the beautiful British landscape, intelligent people, good food, good music, sunsets and good friends and family. I am so lucky to be born when and where I was, with the freedoms that previous generations yearned for, and I hope I never take it for granted.

You can reach her here:

E-mail  

Twitter:  @racheldevineuk

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/RacheldeVineauthor

Website:   http://racheldevineuk.wix.com/rachel-de-vine

Google +:  https://plus.google.com/u/0/101344194923014514743/post  

book gourmet
First Course — The Amuse Bouche

The Trail Master’s Bride (by Maddie Taylor): “The west is no place for a young, newly single woman, and the job of keeping Mina safe—and keeping her in line—falls to Weston Carr, the rugged trail master.”

Return (by Alexis Alvarez):  “A romance author bases her book’s hero on a sexy dom, and he requests a very specific payback…”

Second Course — The Appetizer

Songbird coverRachel De Vine (author of four popular books) has a new book out on market as of tomorrow, September 4. It’s called Songbird, and tells the story of a dom with a hurdle to leap when he finds the woman of his dreams, but learns that she’s got some hangups that would prevent them ever getting together. In the meantime, all he can do is listen to her lovely voice and admire her. The action often takes place in a nightclub, owned by another man who has some problems of his own. He’s got a wife and a lover and it jeopardizes his relationship with his daughter. Snag a copy of Rachel’s book tomorrow and hear the sweet tones of her songbird as you imagine the music in the book. It will be available at Amazon and Blushing Books.

Third Course — The Entrée

Not an official cover picture.
Not an official cover picture.

I’m pleased to announce my new affiliation with Decadent Publishing. You might recall that I was going to drop publication of the Sonata’s Moon serial set (two books). The project was daunting, and I’m both not good at self-publishing and not convinced it’s worth it for me. As it turned out, the person who edited the books for me when I was looking to self-publish, Kate Richards of Wizards in Publishing, happened to be affiliated with Decadent Publishing as their Executive Editor. She loved Sonata’s Moon and wanted me to submit it to Decadent. She was certain it would be snapped up. It was! So this week, I signed two contracts with Decadent, agreeing to publish Sonata’s Moon, Book One: Surface and Sonata’s Moon, Book Two: Sanctuary with them. They are being processed now, and I have no firm release date yet. I’ll keep you posted.

Fourth Course — The Dessert

Did you follow my recent blog tour? It was an unmitigated disaster, I’m unhappy to report. Forty percent of the bloggers who agreed to feature Striker simply didn’t post. I was so dismayed; why would people agree and then not follow through? Sizzling PR was not responsible; they can’t make people do what they agree to. But I found it disappointing and upsetting. If you tried to follow in order to participate in The Name Game contest, you would have been hard-pressed to do it. I gave out a $5 gift certificate to the winner instead, and will be offering The Name Game again in the near future for my blog/newsletter subscribers. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please consider it now. (Subscription form, upper right.)

Thanks for reading The Book Gourmet this week! I wish you a pleasant weekend ahead. Happy Labor Day.

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