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It's going to be a STEAMY summer...
Coming Summer 2007 from Samhain Publishing, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S STEAM, 24 short, steamy stories showing just how hot the summer can get.
Launching June 1, and continuing every Friday through August 31, Samhain Publishing will be releasing these hot summer romance stories, by 24 authors who know how to put the heat and love in summer.
Blackberry Pie by Bonnie Dee
A Scorching Seduction by Marie Harte
Catching a Buzz by Ally Blue
Full Disclosure by Mary Wine
Bad Moon Rising by Leeanne Kenedy
Beyond the Tears by Michelle Cary
La Mirage by Jennifer Colgan
Take Me by Mackenzie McKade
Fijian Fling by Sami Lee
Honeymoon Castaways by Dawn Halliday
Nut Cream by Jade Buchanan
Fantasmagorical by Annmarie McKenna
Hunk of Burning Love by Veronica Wilde
Ladies, Meet Red Hot Alaskan Men by Nancy Lindquist
One Night on a Balcony by Samantha Lucas
Liaisons in Jubilee by Jamie Craig
Second Wind by Dee S. Knight
Custom Ride by K.A. Mitchell
Skin to Skin by Dionne Galace
Spontaneous by Karen Erickson
Knotty Girl by Maggie Casper
Marielle’s Marshall by Beth Williamson
Sealed with a Kiss by Lila Dubois
Taboo Desires by Amanda Young
I’ve invited all the STEAM authors to come and post about their stories in the comments section.
Get ready for a heat wave!
Sasha Knight
Editor, Samhain Publishing
http://www.samhainpublishing.com
Woohoo—Steamy :)
Hey everyone. I’ve written a story called Fantasmagorical for this summer’s Steam bash. It’s a contemporary menage with a bit of m/m. <g> My first attempt, although I hadn’t started out heading in that direction. My guys kinda went that way on their own. Ah, well. Fantasm Island is a resort for letting your sexual fantasies come true and I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it :) Here’s a blurb…
Welcome to Fantasm Island! Leave your inhibitions at the door and let your fantasies soar.
That’s what the brochure said anyway. A week long fling with a stranger. Where’s the harm in that? Take a compatibility quiz and a slew of other health tests, sign a strict privacy agreement and give license to any sexual fantasy you’ve ever had. Evan Knight couldn’t wait.
Gabe and Lance have been searching for their perfect third for what seems like forever. One look at the woman he and his best friend and lover Lance have chosen to claim during her time on the island, and Gabe thinks they may have finally found her.
But what if Evan isn’t interested in more than the fling she signed up for? Or worse, what if she can’t handle two men who are into each other too? Gabe and Lance have one week to convince Evan that the three of them belong together…and they’ll use every bit of seduction in their arsenal to make sure when the fantasy ends, their reality together will only just be beginning.
Warning, this title contains the following: explicit fantasmagorical sex, graphic language, ménage a trois, and hot nekkid man-love.
Howdy…Howdy!!
My little story is Full Disclousure. A sweet romance, but still very steamy. Just waht happens when a man finds out he didn’t have to give up the woman he loved? Well, he has to chase her down! It’s bold and hot ladies, with toys and spanking but most importantly…romance!
Mary Wine.com
Mary Wine
I’m NUMBER ONE! Well, maybe not, after I take all day to write this comment.
I am so excited to be part of this great series. Even if Sasha scares me to death!
My story, “Ladies! Meet Red Hot Alaskan Men.” is a take on something my Alaskan friend always tells me, “The odds are good, but the goods are odd.” I wanted to take a trip to Alaska to help my best single friend find true love, but the airfare is too high. So I wrote her a story, instead.
Chastity Cuthbert wants to help every single woman find love. Her company, The Alaskan Connection is devoted to bringing hunky Alaskan men together with the women who adore them. She’s not thinking of anyone for herself. Is she?
Hot sex, sensual fire-filled clashes and true love, all set in the gorgeous wilderness of Alaska. YUMMY!
I can’t wait to share it with everyone and see what they think.
Hey everybody – so I wanted to write a story about a woman who’s given up on men since they all did her wrong anyway. She’s trying to get her life back together, trying to do the right thing.
Ah, but doing the right thing can sometimes be so boring. :)
Besides, hot summer nights make people do crazy things so she can blame it on the heat wave…
Here’s the blurb for Spontaneous:
Sophie Kincaid doesn’t want to be attracted to her boss but she is. Sick and tired of being used by men, she’s sworn off of them. But her hot and now slightly drunk boss just became too hard to resist.
His girlfriend dumped him and now Ian Grey is drowning his sorrows in alcohol, something he never does. Flirting with Sophie the sexy bartender inspires him to do even more things he’d never consider. Like have hot sex with her in the storage room.
They can’t deny their attraction for each other but Sophie’s afraid she doesn’t measure up. And what does Ian want from her anyway? She’ll have a naked good time figuring it out…
Warning this title contains the following: Hot, steamy, explicit sex and graphic language
comes tearing into the room with her spurs and a smile
Howdy folks! I’m excited to see Sasha post about our steamy summer stories coming atcha. Wooboy, look at that line-up! Can’t wait to build up the heat this summer.
Okay now about my story called Marielle’s Marshal and it’s a very hot western. gasp No way! Really, it is. Who better to do a hot cowboy romp than me? BG
So, anyhoo, here we are in Arizona 1850. The heroine is teacher Marielle Bloom and she’s on a stagecoach on her way to San Francisco when it’s robbed. When she single-handedly tries to stop the robbery, everything goes wrong. She ends up stranded in the desert with no horse, a dead driver, an unconscious woman, and a steely-eyed, uber-pissed marshal.
The marshal, Ramsey Whitfield, had been a passenger who planned on chasing the bandit after the robber. Instead the little vixen stepped in and ruined everything.
Now when he tries to go for help, she follows him… wearing britches and a scowl. You know what happens when you mix heat, temper, and passion? Combustion, baby! Fire and lots of it… Marielle and Ramsey are gonna find themselves tussling in the sand and sliding together in the heat.
I had a lot of fun writing this story – Marielle is my type of heroine – sassy, outspoken and doesn’t take no for an answer. Ramsey, well, he’s a hot alpha cowboy who finds himself spinning out of control because of the little teacher that just mucked up his perfectly unhappy life.
Intrigued? Damn, I sure hope so!
Hey, guys, the snarker’s decided to put her money where her mouth is and submitted a novella to Samhain. And they bought it! SUCKERS. j/k Powers that Be, please don’t strike me down. Mine’s a simple little story about a woman… and her neighbor’s swimming pool. Doesn’t hurt that the owner is totally hot, either. Here’s the blurb:
What Leilani wants, Leilani gets. That is, until she meets the enigmatic Oliver Clayton, her new neighbor. For some reason, Oliver seems to be intent on avoiding her even though he’s obviously interested. Leilani has tried to everything to get his attention, from wearing skimpy little outfits to walking a neighbor’s dog six times in front of his yard. Leilani wants Oliver… and she always gets her man.
In the heat of the summer, the temperature’s not only thing rising. Luckily, Oliver has that pool in his backyard and Leilani knows just how to cool off…
According to Ms. PC Cast, the award-winning author of the Goddess Summoning series: “Skin to Skin does more than sizzle – it’s smart, funny, and sensual. Ms. Galace is a refreshing new voice in erotica who is, thankfully, just beginning to entertain us.”
Awww… yeah…
Mary Wine is right, and I’ve since gone back and amended my original post to make it clear (teach me to post before I’ve had my pot of coffee in the morning), that even though all of these stories are steamy and erotic…at their core they ARE romances. Sex is great…sex with love, even better. :)
Sasha Knight
Editor, Samhain Publishing
Okay, Nancy, why in the world do I scare you to death? What have you heard? Does my reputation precede me?
polishes editing pen
Sasha Knight
Editor, Samhain Publishing
Happy Friday, everyone! I’m Veronica Wilde and my story HUNK OF BURNING LOVE is part of this series. As you Elvis fans may have guessed from the title, it does involve the King. :) When my heroine falls in lust with a sexy Elvis impersonator, her summer gets very hot indeed… until she discovers the real Elvis Presley may have hoaxed his death.
Here’s a blurb:
Summer should mean hot men and toe-curling sex – at least that’s what Vanessa believes, but a bad break-up has left her spending her summer nights alone. Then her sex life erupts into flames when she meets two very different Elvis impersonators on the same night. One is a sexy young musician who gets her all shook up in a steamy midnight swim. The other is a graying older man who looks just a little too much like Elvis Presley for comfort.
Vanessa can’t help falling in love with her new summer hottie. But their burning love gets complicated when the mysterious older impersonator begins dropping disturbing hints about his true identity – hints that suggest Elvis Presley never died at all.
Hi all. (waving). Thanks to Sasha for letting us all have an early day to come and blab about our new books. The Summer Steam stories (tongue twister there) are all going to be fantastic and melt your shorts hot. I know, I’ve had the pleasure of reading several of them. :)
My contribution is Taboo Desires. A male/male contemporary that I had a blast writing.
Here’s the blurb for ya’ll.
Cole Winchester feels like a rat, boxed into a corner. Faced with the prospect of being trapped in a passionless marriage, he makes the hard choice to end his relationship.
A run in with an old friend on the beach, propels Cole’s fantasies out into the open and forces him to confront his taboo desires. Before him, lies the choice of a lifetime: embrace his desire for another man and all the pitfalls that come along with it, or return to his girlfriend and live out the safe half-life he carved for himself.
Hi everyone! I’m so glad to be part of this Steam series, we’re gonna blow your socks off with all the fantastic books in this lineup!
My contribution is a m/m werewolf story about what happens when two men discover their passion for each other with a little help from a big heaping dose of nut cream.
My inspiration? A bottle of nut hand cream in my office and my sister who joked that I should write a story about it! LOL
Here’s the blurb:
Nut [nuht] noun, verb.
1. A dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
2. Slang, Vulgar – a testis.
Cream [kreem] noun.
1. A soft solid or thick liquid containing medicaments or other specific ingredients, applied externally for a therapeutic, or cosmetic purpose.
2. Slang, Vulgar – to have an orgasm.
Toby Madison is coming into his mating phase, and is leaking pheromones all over the place. He is about to find out what happens to bad little wolves, in the best possible way. Cliff Bullen is more than ready to place his mark on the man he has always wanted as his mate – with a little help from a bottle of nut cream.
Woo-hoo!! Every time I read about one of these stories, I get excited to a completely inappropriate degree! Y’all, the Midsummer Night’s Steam series is gonnna melt your heard drives, trust me here :D
My story, Catching A Buzz, is a m/m contemporary (I know, I know, shocker, who’d have seen it coming?? LOL) inspired by a certain, ahem, “toy.” No, I’m not telling you what it is, you have to read the story to find that out! Bwahahahaha!!!!
So anyhow, here’s the blurb for ya:
Can a straight-laced business student and an indie boy with a thing for extremely personal electronics turn one night’s wild ride into a trip to last forever?
Adam Holderman isn’t your typical twenty-something college boy. He prefers jazz to Goth, shuns body piercings and street-waif clothing, and despises the lack of vocabulary among his peers. Some call him uptight, but Adam doesn’t see it that way. Just because he prefers his men articulate and well-groomed doesn’t make him a stick-in-the-mud. He simply has standards, unlike most guys his age.
The new employee at Wild Waters Park, where Adam works, single-handedly throws a monkey wrench into Adam’s orderly world view. Buzz Stiles wears eyeliner and black clothes, listens to emo bands, and talks like a teenage skate punk. He’s the polar opposite of Adam’s avowed “type”. So why can’t Adam get him out of his head?
When Adam finally agrees to go out with Buzz, he finds there’s much more to Buzz than a hot body, a sharp wit, and a Goth fashion sense. Buzz is someone Adam can see himself being with for the long haul. But you need more than mind-melting sex to make a relationship last. Can they keep their hands off each other long enough to find out if they have what it takes?
Warning, this title contains the following: graphic language, explicit male/male sex, inappropriate use of personal electronic devices, and gratuitous disco dancing.
Hello everyone! I’m so excited to have my debut story in this anthology.
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be stranded on a deserted tropical island. Once I got past the logistics of survival, what would happen? Would I go crazy? Would I adapt? Would I actually have fun?
So I took my three characters: Newlyweds Catalina and Dave Robinson and their best man and pilot, Andreas Bailey, and crashed their airplane on an uninhabited Caribbean island. Then I let them run wild…
Honeymoon Castaways is the result. Let me tell you, folks…these people had lots of fun!
Hi all! My name is Michelle and Beyond the Tears is my first published story. I’m so thrilled to be part of this group of exceptional authors. Beyond the Tears is about learning how to move on after suffering a devastating loss.
A year after her husband died while serving in Iraq, Cassidy Yates still nurses a broken heart. Thinking a vacation will help, she agrees to a week in Key West with her best friend, April. Upon arrival, April suggests a way for Cassidy to ease her pain: sleep with the sexiest stud she can find.
Not the type to bed hop, she refuses April’s idea and ends up alone. Abandoned by her friend, Cassidy decides to take a nighttime swim. In the Jacuzzi, she masturbates to the memories of making love to her husband. Mortified by her own behavior, Cassidy retreats to her hotel room, hoping no one witnessed her exhibition.
Chase Dempsey is a man with rugged good looks and a killer smile. He isn’t looking to fall in love and only wants few days of relaxation before returning to his Texas Ranch. Still, he’s curious after watching Cassidy’s erotic display and wonders what makes the gorgeous red head tick. He finds her dropped sarong and realizes she’s just given him the opportunity to find out.
Sasha,
I’m not tellin. However, I can be bribed Chocolate works. LOL!
(Don’t worry, whoever’s you are. Your secrets are safe with me. Safer with chocolate).
With this cold snap hitting NJ I could certainly use some STEAM! I’m so excited about my story LA MIRAGE being part of the anthology series. This will be my second Samhain release and I’m looking forward to having many more in the future.
Here’s the blurb for LA MIRAGE:
On a lonely stretch of I-95 in the middle of the Nevada desert, journalist Savanna Blaine and photographer Ben Lantano find themselves stranded by engine trouble on their way back from an assignment. Their quest for a gas station leads them to La Mirage, a beautiful resort nestled in a secluded canyon where they are the only guests.
Invited to spend the night in lush accommodations, passion flares between Savanna and Ben who have suppressed their hidden desires long enough. A single touch ignites an unforgettable night in each other’s arms, but the next day, when La Mirage mysteriously disappears, they’re left to wonder, is their newfound intimacy real or nothing more than a trick of the summer heat?
Just ignore my stupid comment above. I’ve been told it makes no sense (number 16) and by golly the person that told me that was right. In my defense I have a houseful of screaming kids and a Pomeranian who thinks he’s a guard dog and that we are threatened by anyone who walks by the house!
Jack Daniel’s, take me away.
(Kidding. I’m not drinking during the day. I’m waiting till six).
Hey Jennifer, I’m with you, we definetly need some steam happening here in New Jersey. Love to see it hot enough to melt all this %$@# snow!
I am looking forward to reading these steamy stories. Now, if I could only convince my bosses that the lifeguards really need a wireless connection in our pool office, I know I’d be praying for rain everyday this summer.
When I heard about this anthology, I was thrilled that two characters immediately popped out of my head and said, “We want to play!” I fell in love with them while writing it and was sad to hit the word limit. Jeff and Ryan took me for quite a Custom Ride.
Here’s the blurb:
Ryan Mac Rae doesn’t do random hookups, but a steamy encounter with an apparent stranger at a bar leaves him wanting more. After a stint in the Air Force leaves him with a bitter memory of life in the closet, he meets Jeff Allstein, a mechanic who has too much to lose if his private life becomes public. The heat of their attraction boils over on a stormy summer night, but satisfying that need only makes them both crave more.
Their searing connection makes it hard for Ryan to understand the road blocks Jeff continually puts down. Ryan will have to buckle up if he’s going to find love at the end of his custom ride.
Late… as per usual. Does fashionable late apply to blog posting? Here’s hoping!
My story is about the most important of summer activities, a vacation, and a nice young lady who decided to take a kayaking ‘adventure-vacation’ with a guide who turns out to be more than what he seems.
When a man who isn’t human is accidentally enslaved, by a woman who has no idea what he is, the result is magical.
Blurb:
Signing up for a one-week adventure vacation, Helena expects to be kayaking in the Pacific, not having every sexual fantasy fulfilled in her guide’s bed.
Ocean is more than he seems and his kayaking business a cover for his deepest secret.
When Helena accidentally enacts old magic, enslaving Ocean, he doesn’t know if she is the luckiest girl on earth, or an enemy of his kind, bent on imprisoning him forever. Ocean’s strange behavior worries Helena but she’s distracted by the mind-blowing sex.
After the truth is revealed, will their budding love be Sealed with a Kiss?
Wow! What wonderful stories.
Hi, I’m Mackenzie McKade. For all those cowboy lovin’ women you think one man simply isn’t enough look for TAKE ME releasing June 22nd.
Let me tell you what happens when one tempting heiress meets two sexy cowboys.
Three means fun beyond her wildest dreams — until her Cord starts to unravel.
~ ~ ~
Thoroughbred rancher’s daughter Caitlyn Culver has always wanted playboy Cord Daily, even after her daddy threatened to bankrupt him.
But winning a racehorse in a poker game means Cord is no longer just a cattle rancher. He’s come back wealthier and more wicked than ever.
Snaring this cowboy won’t be easy for Cait, and keeping him will be even harder. Still, his sexual antics and taste for ménages won’t scare her off. She knows the best way to snag a man like Cord is to pretend indifference. So when he comes onto her in the barn, she plays along — only to leave him tied to a ladder, aroused and unfulfilled.
It’s payback time.
Cord seeks out Cait and brings along his playboy cousin, Dolan Crane. The two cowboys are enough to set her body afire. She’s bound and determined to resist their sexual allure, but ends up experiencing a night beyond her wildest fantasies.
Now Dolan wants Cait for himself.
Cait’s father wants Cord’s racehorse.
And Cord wants Caitlyn to choose — her father’s money or her cowboy’s love.
Oh my, what do you think will happen?
Happy Saturday, everyone. Man, these stories rock! I’m such a sucker for romance and that happily ever after.
Hi, I’m Marie Harte. I love futuristic/scifi romance, and lately the steamier they are, the faster I write. :) My contribution is titled, A Scorching Seduction, and is coming to Samhain June 1st.
LtCol Trace N’Tre and Assassin Vaan C’Vail are hiding out in the only place the military can’t touch them—on the pleasure planet in an island resort owned by Vaan’s cousin. Gathering evidence on the outside, they know it’s only a matter of time before they’ll have to face their accuser, a high official in the Racor government. Unbeknownst to them, Myst, Racor’s greatest spy, has had her eyes on them for a while. The puzzle of these two alleged traitors doesn’t fit, and Myst has made it her mission to find out why. But when the tables are turned and she’s caught spying under the planet’s hot summer suns, pleasure and affection confuse the issue, making her wonder who to trust—her heart, or the evidence against her new lovers.
Have a nice weekend, and enjoy the posts. I know I am.
Marie
Lila, of course we’re allowed to be fashionably late—we’re romance authors!
I’m thrilled to be part of the Steam anthology (and I can’t wait to read all these sexy stories everyone is posting about..)
I decided to submit at the last minute, after coming up with a story about a full moon. I was reading an article about full moons and how they’re sometimes credited with unusual behavior, and I wondered, Can they make you act naughty too?!
And then Bad Moon Rising was born…
Hailey Burke has heard that full moons cause people to behave in strange ways, but she never thought it would apply to her until the night she winds up in bed with a man she doesn’t even like! So she’d had a temporary loss of sanity when she slept with Zack Creighton, the womanizing photographer. Big deal. Doesn’t mean she’s going to do it again, right?
Wrong.
Unfortunately, Zack has something else in store for Hailey. He’s liked the sassy redhead from the moment he met her, but he can’t get the stubborn woman to let go of the misconceptions she’s formed about him. Sure, he’s played the field, but Zack is no womanizer, and he has no intention of leaving things at one night. Once he’s had a taste of Hailey, he wants another. And he’s determined to convince her that he’s not the bad boy she’s always thought.
Leeanne
Hello all,
My contribution to A Midsummer Night’s Steam is Knotty Girl… a little rope, a bit of kink and a lot of fun.
Shelby Langley was not sub, slave or Mistress, she was merely kinky. Point her to a BDSM club where she could watch and experience pretty much anything the mind could conjure, without the tangled web of an actual relationship, and she was in orgasmic bliss.
Long into the lifestyle, Craig Jensen was able to spot a submissive in denial from a mile away. Usually he left them be to find their own way, only keeping an eye out for their safety while on his turf, but there was something about the sweet, young blonde who had a love for rope bondage that called for him to claim her as his own.
Roping the naughty girl is all fun and games until someone falls in love.
Thanks for reading!
Maggie Casper
Gratuitous disco dancing? K, that sold me!
LOL they all sound awesome! I can’t wait until summer. I can see I’ll have lots of reading to keep me happy while camping
Wow, I’m bummed! I actually left my blurb and info for “Blackberry Pie” the other day, but I see it never showed up. No one will probably see this now, but here goes, the tagline and blurb for my story, the opening release in the Midsummer Night’s Steam series.
A young minister’s celibacy is challenged by an earthy, Appalachian hottie.
The blurb:
On a blistering summer afternoon, Reverend Nathan Andrews climbs a mountain to meet backwoods members of his congregation. Fresh from seminary, the young man isn’t prepared for the onslaught of lust that hits him when he encounters a sensuous girl picking blackberries.
Determined to implement his outreach plan, he helps her harvest the fruit. But their potent sexual chemistry is too intense to deny and they engage in passionate sex surrounded by the beauty of nature.
Grace is earthy and primal, the opposite of the proper young lady he expects to take as a wife some day. Can there possibly be a future for a college-educated minister and a primitive mountain girl?
If being late is fashionable, just call me Stella McCartney! Have had a bit of a virus this week so didn’t get on to this blogging thing as soon as I should have. My name is Sami Lee, and my short story Fijian Fling is coming out on June 29th. It’s a classic girl meets boy on a pacific island kind of tale with a twist. Here’s a taste:
Dumped by her boyfriend and on thin ice in her law career, Sophie Edison badly needs to re-evaluate her life. She escapes to her favourite hideaway on the tropical island of Fiji, where the attentions of the resort owner – the enigmatic and lethally sexy Dominick ‘Nick’ Dufour – prove a temptation too great to resist. Nick’s obvious desire to take her to bed is just the salve her battered confidence needs, and she embarks on an affair that leads her to unchartered waters. Before long she starts to wonder if she can ever go back to her old life.
Nick has lusted after Sophie for years. When she turns up at his secluded resort alone for the first time he wastes no time in making her his lover. Sophie is his perfect match in bed, and in the ocean and the shower… But although he might long for something more Nick knows theirs is just a holiday fling. For he is keeping the secret of his chequered past from Sophie and it could prove the ultimate deal breaker…
Will Sophie go against everything she believes in to live on a tropical island with Nick?
Here’s looking forward to a great summer!
Like cowboys? If yes!!! I hope you’ll enjoy my contribution to your steamy summertime reading, Second Wind.
After a weekend of scorching sex with a Dallas rodeo bull rider, Cathy Fitzgerald returns to Boston and law school. Though she doesn’t hear from the cowboy whose kisses made her toes curl inside her expensive ostrich skin boots, she can’t get him out of her mind.
Rafe Walker is having the same problem in reverse: he thinks of Cathy all the time but knows there’s no good reason to pursue her. They come from different worlds. Cathy’s Boston Brahmin, and he’s Texas longhorn.
When he can’t stand not knowing if she thinks of him as much as he does her, he takes off for Massachusetts. His reward for being impulsive is Cathy’s acceptance of his proposal. Rafe can’t believe his luck.
Cathy is wealthy and well-bred, two things Rafe thinks he’s not. But love can overcome all, even his insecurities, right? Yeah. Sure. Of course.
When drought plagues the ranch and Cathy’s job in town demands long hours working with a male colleague, Rafe and Cathy begin to wonder if anything can save their marriage. Love alone isn’t enough, they know that. To give this couple their second wind will take nothing less than an act of nature.