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Deep in the heart of New York City’s underworld, a horrible disease is ravaging the vampire community. The Vampire Council is on a crusade to obliterate those infected, and Harrow Gates is target Number One. The unwitting source of the plague, he suffers from the same nightmarish symptoms as his victims. The world he'd been thrust into was cold, cruel, and intent on eradicating him, and the legions of afflicted vampires he created with his bite.
A bounty hanging over his head, satisfying his hunger has become an enormous challenge for Harrow. The less he feeds, the more hideous and painful his lesions become. Constantly running for his life and learning new tricks to survive, Harrow is in no position to refuse when Pritchard Tack offers him a unique opportunity. Pritchard not only gives Harrow a new beginning, but also a purpose and a chance to rectify the chaos he created in the vampire world. However, the multi-billionaire has an agenda of his own.
Jordan is a reluctant new vampire and a woman on a mission. After the demise of her family and her own transformation at the hands of Goran, the ruthless leader of the Vampire Council, her only focus is revenge. Constantly faced with one frustrating dead-end after another, a stroke of luck leads her to an underground facility that she suspects is the lair of the monster for whom she is looking.
Upon learning more about the truth behind the secret bunker, Jordan must fight against her growing feelings of friendship and concern for the facility’s inhabitants. One man in particular threatens to pull her heart away from her sworn mission. There is something behind Harrow’s dark lenses that unsettles the hardened female. Once again, she trembles and hungers for something other than red-stained revenge. Is love strong enough to override her hate-fueled thirst for vengeance?

Author Bio:

Lorenz Font discovered her love of writing after reading a celebrated novel that inspired one idea after another. Hunted, the first book of The Gates Legacy trilogy, is her debut novel. Written in forty-five days, the grueling writing schedule was a personal challenge, even though she thought it was madness at first.
She enjoys dabbling in different genres with an intense focus on angst and the redemption of flawed characters. Her fascination with romantic twists is a mainstay in all her stories.
She currently lives in California with her husband, children, and two demanding dogs. Lorenz spends most of her free time writing while also working as a Business Office Manager for a skilled-rehabilitation hospital.

What was your first experience publishing like?

It’s not as easy as I thought it would be. I was under the impression, and this is solely my fault, that after writing a novel, my work is done. There is more to the whole process than just coming up with a story. Writing the summaries is possibly one of the harder tasks for me. How can you summarize a long story in just a few hundred words and keep it interesting?

I must say that I’m lucky to have found a good home at Renaissance Romance Publishing. From the moment I signed up with them, the good ladies of the house answered all my questions promptly. They promised to hold my hand during the process and so far, they’ve come through for me.

The editing process had been seamless and quite enjoyable. Contrary to the belief that the first go-round of edits would be nerve wracking, mine bordered on- ‘wow, that’s how bad I suck? And gee, thanks for schooling me’.

I’ve learned so much from the editing aspect that enabled me to finish the second installment armed with a little more knowledge of what needed to be done. Thanks to Elizabeth Lawrence (shout out!) for her guidance and thorough explanation on every area of edits.

So far, I only have good things to say about my first publication journey. As we close in on the book launch, I’m crossing anything capable of crossing and can only hope for the best. I’m very excited too!

We have two excerpts for you to pick from, or you can put them both up!

Excerpt from Hunted:

“There really isn’t a second scenario, we’re dead set and conceptually right about the first one.” Pritchard chuckled. Harrow hissed under his breath, unable to control his hunger any longer. “You need to feed. I know Tor rudely interrupted your dinner. Intel confirms that needle in your pocket, meant you’re not advocating the spread of the disease, am I right?”
Harrow shuddered before nodding. His could feel his strength fading and there wasn’t a damn thing he could do about it. This human, in all of his infinite wisdom, should give him his neck and be done with.
“I know what you’re thinking Harrow,” Pritchard laughed without humor. “I’m not the enemy here, or your dinner. I will take you to a cell for now, where you will be fed donated blood until we find a cure for that ailment. Neither of you are prisoners here, but until we are certain that you’re not a threat to us humans, you will not be allowed to move around freely.”
Pritchard rose to his feet. “Follow me,” he told Harrow.
“What about these damn cuffs on our leg, we’re not animals you know.” Tor said and his voice thundered through the room. He was already up on his feet and facing off with Lambert, who was sporting a push dagger, notably of Dangeran material.
“They are trackers, in case you are out there,” Lambert motioned with his hand. “We will know how to find you.”
“Just like we’re dogs, right?” Tor said distastefully.
“Yes, but very special dogs,” Lambert said, taunting as he grabbed Tor’s elbow and shoved him forward to follow Pritchard and Harrow. They were already walking down the long corridor that eventually led them to a windowless suite. The furnishings were top-rated, lavish to be exact. There were two king-sized beds, a state of the art sound system sitting next to a giant television, expensive looking art adorned the wall, and plush carpeting to boot.


Another Excerpt:

The loneliness gnawed at him hard. He had gone to visit his family several times over the course of the following years and had witnessed firsthand the sorrow in their faces when they thought they’d lost him. He watched his parents from the shadows and saw their hearts were broken, not knowing what had become of their son. Eventually, they passed away, and Harrow felt loneliness like a knife speared permanently in his heart. He was indeed a freak, as he’d been branded by Tor, but not for the reason Tor had concluded. Harrow was a vampire with a conscience, a disease, and a shaky future ahead of him. He was fucked — as fucked as he could get.

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To Be Released on April 9th!! 

The Journey of Champions

Travis McCoy thought the journey home would be the hardest choice he ever had to make. It isn’t until he finds himself walking out the door and leaving his family behind that he realizes his journey is only just beginning. Now, with only a handful of weeks until Christmas, Travis tries to find his way back home. This time, he plans on staying forever.

Hunted cover reveal!

Hunted, Book One of The Gates Legacy

Deep in the heart of New York City’s underworld, a horrible disease is ravaging the vampire community. The Vampire Council is on a crusade to obliterate those infected, and Harrow Gates is target Number One. The unwitting source of the plague, he suffers from the same nightmarish symptoms as his victims. The world he'd been thrust into was cold, cruel, and intent on eradicating him, and the legions of afflicted vampires he created with his bite. 

A bounty hanging over his head, satisfying his hunger has become an enormous challenge for Harrow. The less he feeds, the more hideous and painful his lesions become. Constantly running for his life and learning new tricks to survive, Harrow is in no position to refuse when Pritchard Tack offers him a unique opportunity. Pritchard not only gives Harrow a new beginning, but also a purpose and a chance to rectify the chaos he created in the vampire world. However, the multi-billionaire has an agenda of his own.

Jordan is a reluctant new vampire and a woman on a mission. After the demise of her family and her own transformation at the hands of Goran, the ruthless leader of the Vampire Council, her only focus is revenge. Constantly faced with one frustrating dead-end after another, a stroke of luck leads her to an underground facility that she suspects is the lair of the monster for whom she is looking.   

Upon learning more about the truth behind the secret bunker, Jordan must fight against her growing feelings of friendship and concern for the facility’s inhabitants. One man in particular threatens to pull her heart away from her sworn mission. There is something behind Harrow’s dark lenses that unsettles the hardened female. Once again, she trembles and hungers for something other than red-stained revenge. Is love strong enough to override her hate-fueled thirst for vengeance?

 

Author Bio:

Lorenz Font discovered her love of writing after reading a celebrated novel that inspired one idea after another. Hunted, the first book of The Gates Legacy trilogy, is her debut novel. Written in forty-five days, the grueling writing schedule was a personal challenge, even though she thought it was madness at first.

She enjoys dabbling in different genres with an intense focus on angst and the redemption of flawed characters. Her fascination with romantic twists is a mainstay in all her stories.

She currently lives in California with her husband, children, and two demanding dogs. Lorenz spends most of her free time writing while also working as a Business Office Manager for a skilled-rehabilitation hospital.

R.E. Hargrave gives us a sneak peek into To Serve is Divine!

Sorry I'm late with my To Serve is Divine tour stop! Been a rough week!

Backtracking & Bridging

Writing is not easy. To create a written work that can hold the interest, or better yet, transport readers to another time and place, takes time – and tears, sleepless nights, coffee overdoses, forgotten mealtimes; in other words, a writer’s soul. Whether we mean to or not, when we write, a piece of ourselves ends up on those pages. The same goes for when I quilt; I haven’t made one yet that I’ve not drawn blood with a pin prick or even a sewing machine needle through my fingertip (eek!). I chalk it up to really putting my all into my creations.

Taking on the task of converting my fan fiction story into an original three book series has been daunting, but thrilling. If there’s one thing I like to do, its challenge myself. The easiest route for my writing style has always been point A to point B, yet this project has me starting at B, backtracking to A which then needs to be bridged to B before I can move forward to C*. A little more complicated isn’t it?

After assessing what I had to work with in B, I was thankful that I’d started Catherine and Jayden’s story far enough in to give me room to backtrack. So that’s what I’ve done. Going off the primary plan of building their first year together gave me the opportunity to take the reader from the first moment the characters lay eyes on each other forward. As the story unravels, the reader gets to experience the sweet and awkward “get to know you” phase, the moments of raw passion that ebb and flow between Master and his jewel, but beyond that there are the small details: where they live and work, some of their history including family connections, and just the everyday stuff life hands them.

In short, the reader gets to witness these two stubborn people fall for each other though they refuse to admit it to anyone, least of all themselves. The pivotal bridging point came in concocting the impetus for Catherine and Jayden to push their limit: acceptance, and then deciding what to do about it. Which is where I end To Serve is Divine; on the cusp of their one year collaring anniversary, and filled with foreign emotions heavily weighed down with an undeniable need for the other.

Have no fear, however. A Divine Life is well under way and will be released late summer 2013, and will throw the reader into a scene heavy, emotion filled rollercoaster ride of a weekend. The question is whether or not Catherine and Jayden will come out on the other side unscathed. An exclusive advance excerpt from A Divine Life**:

“So, how does that work? I mean, how does one draw the line between Master and husband?” Was such a complicated relationship possible? Could Jayden see her that way? Just thinking his name caused a funny feeling in Catherine’s chest. Her thoughts continued, now on overdrive . . .

No. Master didn’t do personal relationships – he’d said as much when they’d first signed their contract together. They’d both agreed to the understanding that this was nothing but a sexual relationship. Hell, he was fucking two other people besides her – that she knew of. If there was a chance that he wanted something more with her he wouldn’t have handed her over to complete strangers today. Would he? Oh, God. Sir Jonathan’s offer to take Catherine on flashed through her mind, along with the knowledge that she had more sessions today with an unknown amount of Doms. Was that what today was? Had the “inspection” Sir performed not just been a part of the scene? Was Sir Jonathan looking her over as a potential acquisition? What about Miss K offering to take her on all those months ago? Catherine’s stomach soured again.

“No. No, please, no. I- I can’t,” Catherine mumbled, and began to shake.

“Erin?”

Her world was crumbling around her and panic took root. Catherine gasped for air while she wrapped her arms around her mid-section.

“Erin! What’s wrong?” Paige’s shriek snapped Catherine to attention and she raised her watery eyes to meet Paige’s.

“Paige –” Catherine started to cry. “He figured it out. I tried to be so good, so careful. He knows and he’s going to get rid of me!” She thought she’d done so well at hiding her secret over the months; that she’d protected her heart.

Paige had wrapped her arm around Catherine and was rubbing slow circles on her back. With a wince Catherine became quite aware of every lash mark from Sir Jonathan’s whip – they burned to her core as Paige’s soft hands brushed over them. Catherine flinched away from her.

“Shh, Erin,” she said in a calming voice. “Who knows what, sweetie? What are you talking about?”

Turning wide eyes on her, Catherine choked out, “Jay . . . Master. He knows I’ve fallen in . . . in love with him. I wasn’t supposed to, and he found out and now he’s interviewing me with strange Doms to get rid of me. I broke the rules and he –” she swallowed a sob, “he doesn’t want me anymore!”

Warm arms embraced her. “Oh, Erin, sweetie, you’ve got it all wrong. He doesn’t want to get rid of you. I’ve never seen a Master so enamored of his submissive as Sir Jayden is with you.”

“But –” Catherine started to argue. Her gut was telling her that she was right, not Paige. Master had taken her pearl collar this morning and labeled her a slut – she now assumed to be auctioned off like cattle.

“No ‘buts’, Erin, you have to believe me. I know this is all going to work out for you,” Paige said with affirmation.

Oh how Catherine wanted to believe Paige, but in her mind she scoffed. Of course Paige thought it was all going to be fine. She had her fairytale: a Master and a life partner in one, so arguing with her would be pointless. Sad resolution became Catherine’s bedfellow as she came to what she felt was the right decision in her mind. No matter what, Catherine knew she’d always love Master, and because of that she’d see the day out so that he wouldn’t be embarrassed by her behavior in front of his peers. However, when Master made the move to take her collar she would just beat him to it. She would claim they needed to end their contract for personal reasons, and then try to walk out with her head held proud. It would hurt less if Catherine was the one to leave.

*A: To Serve is Divine B: A Divine Life C:Surreal

** This excerpt is from the rough draft, and as such has not been edited at this time.

Summary:

Catherine O’Chancey is a reserved, demure, and graceful submissive. All traits she trained hard to enhance when she discovered the world of Dominance and submission in college. In an attempt to start fresh after the unexpected death of her last Dom, Catherine moves to Dallas, TX to escape the shroud of darkness he left behind in her life. She has tried to fight the need that resides deep within her to submit, but finally has to admit she can’t for it is not a choice, but part of who she truly is. After months of mental preparation, she ventures back into the lifestyle by attending a coveted open-night event at Dungeons and Dreams, an exclusive BDSM club.

Is it fate or coincidence that Catherine garners the attention of one of the club’s board members who happens to be on the hunt for the perfect sub – a partner who enjoys receiving pain and pleasure as much as he enjoys doling it out?

Jayden Masterson is many things: a firm Dom, a shrewd businessman, and a gentleman. What he isn’t, is someone who partakes in relationships outside of contractual ones with his multiple, uncollared, regular submissives. While he likes rough sex, he is not an animal, and can find pleasure only if it is consensual. What his harem is missing is a pain slut, could there be one in his future?

Upon meeting Catherine, Jayden feels an instantaneous spark inside him that has him wanting to know not just her body, but her mind. He wants to unravel her mysteries and discover her secrets. Through pain can they find the pleasure they seek? Can part-time pain lovers find full-time fulfillment when it’s not in their contract?

R.E. Hargrave is a fledgling author who has always been a lover of books and now looks forward to the chance to give something back to the literary community. She lives on the outskirts of Dallas, TX with her husband and three children.

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