Heidi Rice: novella

Friday, 5 February 2016

Daring the Bad Boy is OUT!

After sadly neglecting this blog (because I have been busy writing - honest) I'm super excited to announce the release of not one but TWO new books this month...

First off, we have my Bad Boy Short from Tule Publishing just in time for Valentine's Night (which is the night it's set!!):

Daring the Bad Boy

Here's the smokin' hot cover ... I hope you all appreciate the hours and hours of research that went into finding that cover photo:

And here's the blurb!

What happens on Valentine’s Night, stays on Valentine’s Night... That’s the rule.

After a trip home to bury his father, US photographer in London Caleb Landry finds himself stranded in a Soho bar full of boozy women brooding his way through his least favourite night of the year.

But when college art teacher Rosie Smith tries out the cheesiest pick-up line ever on him, Cal becomes captivated by this good girl with a filthy mind – especially when he discovers she has a V-Day allergy of her own. So he dares her to one smokin' hot Valentine’s night hook-up with no questions asked, satisfaction guaranteed...

But when Valentine’s Night turns into the morning after, suddenly Rosie's asking questions she shouldn’t, and putting Cal in danger of breaking his number one rule...

Hope you like the sound of that!

The OTHER new book which is out later this month is my first women's fiction book.

So Now You're Back is coming out with Harlequin MIRA UK on 25th February... And is already available for pre-order...

Will keep you posted with release news, but until then, if you're in the UK or Ireland, you might want to enter my Goodreads Giveaway of the book BEFORE 11th Feb.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

So Now You're Back

by Heidi Rice

Giveaway ends February 10, 2016.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

You might also notice that my blog has had a little bit of a re-design.. That's because I've been hard at work with the lovely guys from The Website Shop in Dublin's Fair City to get my website re-designed... All will be revealed very soon.

All right, back to the grindstone!

Friday, 8 November 2013

Christmas Is Coming... Time to Treat Yourself

Here's my shamless plug for my festive novella Tis the Season to Get Lucky which has been reissued by Entangled Publishing from the Baby It's Cold Outside anthology...

My novella is out NOW as a stand-alone story and it's only 99c.. Come on, you know you deserve it.

Here's the blurb:

Unlucky-in-love PR manager Kate Braithwaite doesn’t think her Christmas could get any suckier. Until a trip into work on Christmas Day leaves her snowbound in the Fifth Avenue department store with her boss’s far-too-tempting playboy son Ryder Sinclair. Ryder’s rugged, reckless and none too pleased to be stuck in a place he hates with an uptight workaholic like Kate—but as the night draws on, the lights go out and the temperature rises, until they’re both wondering is this the season to get lucky?

And here's an awesome male torso... Sorry, I meant to say here's the sexy new cover!

Many thanks are due to my fellow flirtettes - Kate Hardy, Aimee Carson and Amy Andrews - Abby Green for her naughty cover quote and that cover model's personal trainer.

So if you have the urge to splurge on a sexy seasonal fling (with added fantasy shopping) then the buy links can be found on my website or Entangled's. Just sayin'

My Book Recs!

Dirty Secret by Mira Lyn Kelly
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So I know absolutely NADA about ice hockey, I'm a Brit after all. But when I saw my old writing mate Mira Lyn Kelly had written a series of HAWT hockey romances I hit the insta-buy button because I know what a fabulous writer she is – and I had a week-long holiday in Spain with lots of lounging-around-a-pool time to fill. I'm happy to say I was not disappointed. Because this book hit all my sweet spots hot hero, smart savvy heroine, snappy dialogue and deep deep emotion wise.... (Although I still know nada about hockey I feel I can now talk quite knowledgeably about how hot ice hockey players are at least!)

Dirty Secret is the first of the Slayers Hockey team stories (although Greg and Julia feature in Dirty Player, in another series, which I will sooo be checking out after I finish this series). Anyway Dirty Secret features team captain Greg Baxter's arch rival Vaughn Vasser and Greg's little sister Natalie, who is absolutely OFF LIMITS to the rest of the team. But most of all to Vaughn, who recently threw a punch at the cap, is not much liked by the Chicago press, the Slayers fans or nearly all of his teammates either, and has his sights set on a trade back to Oregon ASAP...

But what Vaughn does not know is that the "Allie" he had an uber hot one-night stand with eight months ago in Vancouver, and who ran out on him without leaving a number and who he cannot forget is none other than the guy he hates little sis. Natalie is so busted when Vaughn turns up at her door, after discovering who she is... And that she knew who he was all along, and that's why she was using an assumed name. To say he's pissed is putting it mildly, but the truth is he is also hurt. WTF was she thinking, leaving him in the lurch like that after pretty much the best night of his life? Ofc, it's only a matter of time before pissed gives way to provocative, because these two really cannot keep their hands off each other, or any other crucial parts of their anatomy tbf. But while the secret sex scenes are the perfect blend of explosively intense and toe-curlingly spicy, the real secret in this book is that the hard-nosed (and hard everything else) Vaughn, is actually a really sweet guy. But only Natalie ever gets to see that side of him...

Not all that surprisingly, given their explosive chemistry, it doesn't take long before their under-the-radar romance is impossible to keep under the radar (or anything else for that matter).

Once Greg finds out that his rival is secretly dating his kid sister, all hell breaks loose, leaving Vaughn's career in the crosshairs and Natalie having to deal with her big brother's ego explosion. So how is Vaughn not gonna blow up his career and get over the girl he can't have but still wants all the damn time? How is Natalie gonna get her big bro to back the hell off and give her space to figure out that Vaughn is the guy for her? Which is a big ask for her, because she spent her whole life living in the shadow of Greg's career. And she does not want to risk living in the shadow of another man's career - however right he seems....

I'll leave the answers to those crucial questions for you to find out, but I was rooting for them both throughout the fallout, even when they made mistakes. I loved the underlying theme,too, that love is never easy, that chemistry can be dangerous as well as delicious but that ultimately it's the compromises you make and the secrets you are brave enough to share about who you really are, and what you really want that give you the greatest rewards.

What a terrific start to this series, I'm already three books in and I am TOTALLY ADDICTED which is good because I'm now back in a cold and rainy London, and some Slayers Hockey heat is the perfect antedote. So thank you Mira Lyn for giving me my summer back, I appreciate it.

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