Hook &
Ladder 69: Eighteen Authors...One Sexy Firehouse.
Release Date of June 16, 2016
Synopsis:
Meet the brave men and women of Station 69, serving the
citizens of St. Louis while igniting hearts along the way. Eighteen authors
have joined forces to bring you their sizzling stories—some sweet, some five
alarm hot—but all for a great cause. Follow the antics and adventures of these
sexy firefighters in what promises to be one of the hottest summers yet! This
delectable book begs the question: Can anyone resist a hero in uniform?
Multiple authors have come together to give you one firehouse where all proceeds from this collaboration go to the Burned Children Recovery Foundation.
The Burned Children Recovery Foundation
is a national recovery agency that has provided Emotional Support and
Financial Aid to Burned Children and
their Families since 1989.
For more information about this foundation: http://www.burnedchildrenrecovery.org
Contributing Authors:
Emme Burton
M.C. Cerny
Sarah M. Cradit
Michelle Dare
Jami Denise
L.B. Dunbar
Lisa Edward
Lia Fairchild
Mary Catherine Gebhard
Z.B. Heller
Glenna Maynard
Kristen Hope Mazzola
Morgan Jane Mitchell
Emerson Shaw
Kacey Shea
M. Stratton
Madison Street
Felicia Tatum
Multiple authors have come together to give you one firehouse where all proceeds from this collaboration go to the Burned Children Recovery Foundation.
The Burned Children Recovery Foundation
is a national recovery agency that has provided Emotional Support and
Financial Aid to Burned Children and
their Families since 1989.
For more information about this foundation: http://www.burnedchildrenrecovery.org
Contributing Authors:
Emme Burton
M.C. Cerny
Sarah M. Cradit
Michelle Dare
Jami Denise
L.B. Dunbar
Lisa Edward
Lia Fairchild
Mary Catherine Gebhard
Z.B. Heller
Glenna Maynard
Kristen Hope Mazzola
Morgan Jane Mitchell
Emerson Shaw
Kacey Shea
M. Stratton
Madison Street
Felicia Tatum
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Excerpt:
We made out like drunken, horny teenagers all the way to his
apartment building, in the elevator, and down the hall.
Mitch slammed me into his door, never parting his lips from
mine as he fumbled for his keys in his pocket.
The door flew open behind me and I went flying into a bare
apartment straight into boxes—falling, crashing, screaming, embarrassed.
“Holy fuck are you ok?” Mitch grabbed me, pulling me into
his strong arms as he laughed a little. “Well, I guess I need new dishes.”
I gripped his shoulders as he kissed my neck, pressing me
against his newly painted wall. “Sorry?”
“Don’t be. I hated those pieces of shit anyway.”
Mitch unclasped my bra, letting me shimmy out of it and
throw it across the room. Then he put his hand in the middle of my chest,
pressing me against the wall before dropping to his knees as he yanked my skirt
up and pulled my pink thong down around my ankles.
His hot breath danced over my soaking clit as my knees
started to quake. With his free hand, Mitch traced circles over my inner thigh
as he gently let his tongue glide over my swelling bud. I cried out from the
simplest caress.
“Just wait, babe. You ain’t felt nothing yet.” Mitch’s words
were barely audible as his flattened tongue spread my folds.
I held on tight, panting and moaning uncontrollably with my
eyes slammed shut.
“God, you taste so good.” He breathed right before
forcefully shoving his fingers into my wetness and in an instant I was done. My
orgasm built up and crashed around me within seconds and I was a puddle on the
floor.
Mitch scooped me until into his arms, kissing me sweetly. “I
told you, love, there’s still more to come.”
Author Info:
Emme Burton
Emme Burton is the author of the Amazon Top 100 Rom-Com/New
Adult novel SNACK and the Better Than Series: BETTER THAN ME (Book 1), FIX IT
FOR US (Book 2), and STILL INTO YOU (Book 3). She lives in St. Louis, Missouri
with her amazing husband and sons, and her “fur boy,” Jasper. Emme has never,
ever been lost in a mall either as a child or an adult. Her mother, and now her
family, have always known where to find her. At the bookstore.
M.C. Cerny
M.C. Cerny fell in love with books after experiencing her
first real ugly cry reading, Where The Red Fern Grows. Her debut romantic
suspense novel, Flashpoint was written in a series of post-it-note ramblings
that would likely make her idol Tom Clancy and her mother blush. She is a post
graduate of NYU, and calls rural NJ home with her menagerie of human and
fur-babies. When M.C. is not writing, you'll find her lurking in Starbucks,
running stupid marathon, singing Disney show tunes, and searching out the
perfect shade of pink nail polish. xoxo
Sarah M. Cradit
Sarah is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the
Paranormal Southern Fiction series, The House of Crimson & Clover. The
series was born of her combined loves of New Orleans, family dramas, and the
mysterious nature of love and desire. Her books combine elements of paranormal,
mystery, suspense, intrigue, and romance. She is always working on the next
book in the series, and absolutely loves connecting with her fans.
Sarah lives in the Pacific Northwest, but has traveled the
world from Asia to Europe to Africa. When she isn’t working (either at her day
career, or hard at work at writing), she is reading a book and discovering new
authors. The great loves of her life (in order) are: her husband James, her
writing, and traveling the world.
Michelle Dare
Michelle Dare is a romance author. Her stories range from
sweet to sinful and from new adult to fantasy. There aren’t enough hours in the
day for her to write all of the story ideas in her head. When not writing or
reading, she’s a wife and mom living in eastern Pennsylvania. One day she hopes
to be writing from a beach where she will never have to see snow or be cold
again.
Jami Denise
Jami Denise is an up and coming writer from Southern
California.
She writes Romance, Romantic Suspense, and Erotic Romance.
Her books are always on the spicy side with a little bit of
sweet to make you swoon. Her feisty kittens always give the bad boys a run for
their money. She likes taking risks, pushing her characters into directions
that challenge the reader and take them out of their element. You'll usually
find the unexpected to happen in her stories. Life isn't always pretty, and she
likes to layer her words with true grit.
She is a self-professed cat lady, addicted to coffee,
Monster, birthday cake lip balm, and loves all things old,grungy,and fast.
She's well versed in sarcasm, and the F-word is her favorite adjective.
When she doesn't have her nose in a book, or fingers on a
keyboard, she's spending time with family and friends, watching old movies, and
waiting for the next felon to come sweep her off her feet.
L.B. Dunbar
I’d like to say I was always a writer. I’d also like to say
that I wrote every day of my life since a child. That I took the teaching
advice I give my former students because writing every day improves your
writing. I’d like to say I have my ten-thousand hours that makes me a
proficient writer. But I can’t say any of those things. I did dream of writing
the “Great American Novel” until one day a friend said: Why does it have to be
great? Why can’t it just be good and tell a story?
As a teenager, I wrote your typical love-angst poetry that
did occasionally win me an award and honor me with addressing my senior high
school class at our Baccalaureate Mass. I didn’t keep a journal because I was
too afraid my mom would find it in the mattress where I kept my copy of Judy
Blume’s Forever that I wasn’t allowed to read as a twelve year old.
I can say that books have been my life. I’m a reader. I
loved to read the day I discovered “The Three Bears” as a first grader, and
ever since then, the written word has been my friend. Books were an escape for
me. An adventure to the unknown. A love affair I’d never know. I could be lost
for hours in a book.
So why writing now? I had a story to tell. It haunted me
from the moment I decided if I just wrote it down it would go away. But it
didn’t. Three years after writing the first draft, a sign (yes, I believe in
them) told me to fix up that draft and work the process to have it published.
That’s what I did. But one story let to another, and another, and another. Then
a new idea came into my head and a new storyline was created.
I was accused (that’s the correct word) of having an
overactive imagination as a child, as if that was a bad thing. I’ve also been
accused of having the personality of a Jack Russell terrier, full of energy,
unable to relax, and always one step ahead. What can I say other than I have
stories to tell and I think you’ll like them. If you don’t, that’s okay. We all
have our book boyfriends. We all have our favorites. Whatever you do, though,
take time for yourself and read a book.
Lisa Edward
Lisa Edward is the author of The Songbird trilogy, and the
novella Duty of Care. While Lisa has called Melbourne Australia home for her
entire life, she has lived and worked in England, and travelled through most
parts of Europe and the United States. She loves nothing more than spending
time with her beautiful daughter, or curling up into the early hours of the
morning with a great novel. By day, Lisa works in the analytical IT field, so
relishes the opportunity to foster her creative side through writing. Her deep
appreciation for literature was nurtured from a young age, being taught to
respect books and get lost in their stories. She enjoys reading honest and
realistic novels that are relatable, thought provoking and leave a lasting
impression. She can’t write without music playing, using the emotions from
different songs to invoke those of her characters. Lisa takes inspiration from
her own life experiences, the people around her and those she has met in her
travels.
Lia Fairchild
Bestselling author, Lia Fairchild, is both a traditionally
published and independent author who writes women’s fiction, romance, and chick
lit. Fans of her books praise her endearing, real characters who come to life
in stories that will touch your heart.
Fairchild is addicted to the warmth of Southern California
and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a multiple-subject teaching
credential. She is a wife and mother of two teenagers.
Mary Catherine
Gebhard
Mary Catherine Gebhard bites off more than she can chew and
sometimes calls herself Eva Natsumi. She's lived in Salt Lake City, Utah her
entire life, but occasionally goes on vacation from reality. Don't worry, she
sends postcards.
Z.B. Heller
As a little girl it was always a dream for Z.B. Heller to
become She-Ra Princess of Power. Since this dream was unobtainable, she spent
what was probably way to long in college trying to “find herself”. Becoming an
artist scratched the creative itch until the stories in her head were getting
to be to loud for her to get anything else accomplished.
She lives in St. Louis with her husband, son and Flemish
Giant rabbit Chloe. In her spare time she likes to read, stalk celebraties on
Twitter and create the type of art people scratch their heads about.
Glenna Maynard
Glenna Maynard was born and raised in
the beautiful hills of Eastern Kentucky, where she still resides with
her husband, son, and daughter. A mother by day and writer by night. When
Glenna isn't spending time with her family you can find her curled up with a
great book. Glenna enjoys scrap booking,photography, crafting, cooking, and
playing video games.
Glenna comes from a line of strong women with an amazing
ability cook just about anything from scratch. She grew up in a family owned
and operated restaurant with her Grandmother, and both of her
parents. She spent her childhood days in the kitchen learning to prepare home
cooked meals. After school she would walk down the street from her families
snack bar as it was called by the locals to the county library to get lost in
her favorite books.
Glenna is an avid reader who loves discovering new authors.
It was her love of reading that recently drove her to try her own hand at
writing.
Kristen Hope Mazzola
You want to know more about me? Well, let's see...
I am just an average twenty-something following my dreams. I
have a full time "day job" and by night I am an author. I guess you
could say that writing is like my super power (I always wanted one of those). I
am the lover of wine, sushi, football and the ocean; that is when I am not
wrapped up in the literary world.
Please feel free to contact me to chat about my writing,
books you think I'd like or just to shoot the, well you know.
A portion of all my royalties are donated to The Marcie
Mazzola Foundation.
Morgan Jane Mitchell
Bestselling erotic romance and paranormal author, Morgan
Jane Mitchell spent years blogging politics and health trends before she
rediscovered her love of writing fiction. Trading politicians for bloodsuckers
of another kind, she's now the author of bestselling post-apocalyptic fantasy
novel, Sanguis City. Her action packed series of vampires, witches, demons and
zombies is paranormal romance, dystopia, urban fantasy and erotica in one bite.
When Morgan Jane is not creating the city of blood or conjuring up other
supernatural tales, she's dreaming up erotic and dark romances. Morgan Jane
lives in the beautiful bluegrass area of central Kentucky with her husband, 3
sons, 3 cats and a greyhound shepherd mix dog named Miss Penni Lane.
Emerson Shaw
Emerson Shaw was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She
graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelors of Business
Administration. She is married and has two beautiful children. Her debut novel,
Acts of Desperation, was based off of a true story. She recently began a new
romantic suspense series called "The Hot Pursuit Series." Straight
Flushed, book one, was released on June 22, 2015.
Kacey Shea
Kacey Shea is a mom of three, wife, and indie
author who resides in sunny Arizona. She enjoys reading and writing
romance novels as much as her son loves unicorns, which is a lot.
When she's not writing you will find her playing taxi cab to
her children while belting out her favorite tunes, meeting friends or family
for food and to share some laughs, or sweating it out in the gym. Kacey finds
that picking up heavy weights repeatedly is good for her mental health as much
as it is for the physical.
She has an unhealthy obsession with firefighters. It could
be the pants. It could be the fire. It's just hot. On occasion she has been
known to include them, without their knowledge, in her selfies outside the
grocery store.
Kacey one day aspires to be a woman hand model in a sexy
photo shoot. You know, the woman's hand raking across the muscular back or six
pack stomach of the male fitness model. Yep, that hand.
Until that day comes she will continue writing sexy, flirty
romance novels in hopes to bring others joy!
Kacey enjoys interacting with her fans so please feel free
to stalk her on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
M. Stratton
M. Stratton is an International Amazon bestselling author in
the romantic suspense and mystery suspense categories for her Storm Series and
Bender. She lives with her husband and son in Arizona, which is a big
difference from where she grew up north of Chicago, Illinois. As an only child
she learned to tell herself stories to make the long winters go by quicker
while dreaming of summer vacations. Now as an adult she still makes up stories
to pass the time, but now she writes them down to share with other people.
Stratton is a self-proclaimed dork who loves to make people
laugh. Her inner rock star is always on stage performing to a sold out crowd,
but she quiet and shy on the outside. She spends her days plotting new ways to
surprise her readers.
Madison Street
Madison Street was born in New York City and was raised in
the Bronx, where she resided until she was 17 years old. After September 11,
Madison joined the United States Navy to serve her country.
During the deployments, Madison constantly wrote short
stories and she discovered her passion for writing. You will find Madison
always on the computer, whether she’s on Facebook, designing websites, messing
with Photoshop, or writing for her blog.
Besides writing, her second passion is music and dance. Even
though she’s a terrible singer, she’ll still belt it out in the shower,
especially if the song is her jam! She currently resides in Virginia with her
husband of 8 years, 2 children, a dog, and a cat. She is so excited to start
this amazing journey and is honored to be part of such a compassionate and
loving community.
Felicia Tatum
Felicia Tatum was born and raised in Tennessee. She always
loved reading, and at the age of twelve began writing. Her passion for creating
stories grew and in May 2012, she finally wrote her first novel, The White
Aura.
She still lives in Tennessee with her daughter and her
kitty. She loves cooking, books, and animals are some of her best friends. She
watches a lot of Disney channel and often dreams up new book ideas. She’s currently
working on various projects, including the rest of the White Aura Series, the
Scarred Hearts Series, and a novella series. Her dream is to write as many
books as possible while entertaining as many people as possible.
