Thank you so much for hosting me today and thank you readers for stopping by and spending a few realmantic moments with me and my latest release, Love Vindicated, Book One in the Steele Image series. It’s a pleasure to be here and if you have any questions please do leave them in the comments. I’ll be by a time or two today to check in and visit with you all.
Lila
Steele
Image
In
1980, Kyle Montgomery’s life was seemingly perfect. Heavily recruited by Force
Recon fresh from the Naval Academy, he’d been working black ops for the Marine
Corps for six years and was on the cusp of being promoted to Major. He was on
the fast track to bigger and better things, had all the right people vetting
him, and he'd married the woman of his dreams and was exploring a lifestyle
which could have ended his career. With the Iranian embassy under siege and the
Middle East in turmoil, Kyle was sent on a mission which would change the
course of his life forever.
Returning
home after three months of being invisible, Kyle finds his wife has been
murdered by the very people he'd been sent to protect. And instead of the
government retaliating, they hand him his walking papers with the agreement
they’ll never speak of the events again. It's like Kyle never existed. His wife
never existed. And the people who maimed and tortured her never existed.
Resigned
to never again walk that path, Kyle opens the first Steele Image club with the
thought of providing a safe haven for others like him, those who were invisible
to the public and most of the government. Those who had eclectic sexual tastes.
Those who would later become his allies. And his enemies. And both will drive
him back to the place he’d thought he’d let go of forever to vindicate his
love…
Please
enjoy an excerpt:
“Are you sure you want to play with me, little one?”
Kyle asked with his brow furrowed. The woman who wasn’t an inch over five feet
tall by his estimation and sported one of the new trendy bi-lateral haircuts
with a pink streak running through the shaved side was visibly shaking as she
stood in front of him naked as the day she was born. “Fear is usually a good
thing, but you’re truly scared of me aren’t you?”
“I’m not afraid, Sir,” Missy insisted, her chin
jutting out and her spine becoming a bit straighter, although the flutter in
her chest was evident as her breasts jiggled with each heave for breath.
“I’m…excited.”
“Bullshit.” Circling her, Kyle ran his fingertips
along her shoulders, down one arm, up the other, across her breast bone, and
landed at the base of her throat where he wrapped his palm around it and
squeezed. “You lie. And what’s the club rule about lying?”
“It won’t be tolerated, Sir. And those caught doing it
will be punished.” Her voice wavered and her bright green pupils blew up just
before her gaze wandered from his. “But I’m not
lying. I’m not afraid of you and I am excited.”
“Tell me this.” He reached down with his free hand to
twist one of her nipples and watched her jaw lock. “What do you expect from
this little liaison between us?”
It wasn’t uncommon for Kyle to be approached by a
half-dozen masochistic subs a week for servicing. Men, women, gay, straight,
bi, confused, it didn’t matter they all seemed to migrate to him at some point
which suited him. Genders, sexuality, and preferences meant nothing to him
since sex wasn’t even an option when playing with them. If he needed serviced,
he had no less than a dozen call girls literally on call to get him off and be
gone before the sun kissed the horizon. They expected nothing but to be paid
and Kyle obliged and well.
Over the course of the last year, he’d earned quite a
reputation as a service sadist. He’d developed an unwavering ability to deliver
and walk away without string one hanging between him and his playmate. No
strings meant no intimate connections. No intimate connections meant none of
them were in danger from association with him. Endangering anyone else due to
his line of work was the last thing he intended to do. He didn’t need intimate
connections to play and made it clear from the start of negotiations his
partner shouldn’t expect them either. If they wanted more than an endorphin
release, they weren’t a good match in his eyes and he either turned them down
or negotiated a third be involved. All Kyle sought was an outlet by which to channel
the pent up emotions he refused to allow anyone to see. He had no room for
exterior feeling and expelling any notion of it by helping someone else achieve
their own release made for an acceptable medium. At least that’s what he kept
telling himself every time he looked in the mirror and a virtual stranger
looked back.
Missy was fairly new to the club and had been
introduced to Kyle and courted for membership by Wesley, the front of house
security guard who’d been with him since the doors opened at Steele Image.
While he’d had a few lengthy conversations with her and believed he knew enough
about her to play with her, he wasn’t thoroughly convinced she was a true
masochist and even thought she might be the latest in the long line of subs who
foolishly believed they could tame him.
“Answer me, little one,” Kyle he said softly. “What do
you expect from this?”
“Lots of pain,” she breathed over a groan and a smile
as Kyle increased the pressure with which he pinched her nipple.
Lila
Munro currently resides on the coast of North Carolina with her husband and
their two four-legged kids. She’s a military wife with an empty nest and takes
much of her inspiration for her heroes from the marines she’s lived around for
the past fifteen years. Coining the term realmantica, she strives to produce
quality romance in a realistic setting. Her genre of choice is contemporary
romance that spans everything from the sensual softer read to BDSM and ménage.
When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading everything she can get her hands on,
trips to the museum and aquarium, taking field research trips, and soaking up
the sun on the nearby beaches. Her works include The Executive Officer’s
Wife, Bound By Trust, Three for Keeps, the Force Recon series, the Slower Lower
series, the Identity series, and the Private Collection. Currently she is working on two new series
set to release summer of 2013, the At Your Service line and the Steele Image
line. She’s a member in good standing of RWA.
Ms. Munro loves to
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