Blind Love, by Nina Pierce

The wonderful Nina Pierce

has taken a step into the world of self-publishing. Here’s what she has to say about her new work…

Suspense + Sex = Romance

By Nina Pierce

I’m going to admit I didn’t start out penning erotic suspense stories. Suspense stories, yes. But erotica? Yeah, I didn’t see that one coming. I had no idea my muse was going to take me in that direction. But I gotta tell you – I’m loving the challenge!

Though it meant adding another thread to the story, it wasn’t really a big stretch to take my romantic suspense stories in a sexy direction.

In a typical romance you have the story of a guy and a girl who are thrown together in some situation that makes it impossible for them not to fall in love. Of course in the process of that the world around them conspires to keep them apart until it looks like it’s impossible for them to find their way to each other’s arms. In the end, they overcome all obstacles, love prevails and they make it to their happy-ever-after ride into the sunset.

In a romantic suspense story a villain is thrown into the mix. This character often times is the reason the couple can’t be together. Fighting this villain also throws the hero and heroine into intimate situations where emotions run high, but life and death decisions inhibit the couple from consummating their relationship. In the end usually one is in mortal danger and bringing down the villain and/or solving the crime puts the icing on the cake of their romance as they are saved by the other.

When you add erotica to the mix, the author weaves the romance thread and the suspense thread with a journey of sexual discovery for both the hero and heroine to create the tapestry of an intricate plot. When it works, the sex scenes are passionate and raw and an integral part of the story. Leaving out the sex scenes makes the story incomplete. The scenes aren’t gratuitous, but develop naturally from the characters’ inability to ignore the sexual need developing between them.

Juggling the three aspects is a challenge I thoroughly enjoy. My most recent release, Blind Love, begins an erotic suspense series about three sisters and their family. Each book stands on its own, but there is an overarching story of an ill parent that weaves its way through the whole series. It was a wonderful challenge to write it and I hope you’ll check it out.

BLURB:

He’s a shock jock looking to reform. She’s an accountant hoping to cut loose. Can love open their eyes to forever?

Uptight CPA and oldest sister, JULIE TILLING, is the glue that binds her family. Everyone depends on her to do the right thing. When her friend from high school dies and Julie is the only one who believes he didn’t commit suicide, she takes it upon herself to investigate his death.

DAMON COREY didn’t come to Maine to become a shock jock. But when his dream career of becoming a concert pianist seems unobtainable, the radio station’s offer is too good to pass up. When mysterious brunette Jewel, hooks up with him at the night club run by a college frat brother, their one night fling wraps around his heart and makes him believe in love at first sight.

But can Damon expose his inner soul without pushing Julie away or will his enigmatic shock jock persona become Julie’s sexual undoing and reveal him as the missing piece that solves the puzzling questions surrounding her friend’s death?

EXCERPT:

Half-naked bodies were everywhere, both men and women. It shouldn’t surprise Damon. That’s what Starry Knights offered its patrons—unfettered public exposure. The local cops knew what happened in the bar, but as long as no one got hurt, they left Elvis and his clientele alone. They probably would have shut down the club immediately if they knew what went on in the lower floors of the building. But they didn’t. He was one of the few people did.

Only one more set. A mere twenty minutes separated him from his freedom. Then Damon would find a nameless beauty, leave with her draped over his arm and end the night looking like the Romeo of radio everyone believed him to be.

He’d thought it a great perk when he first took the job at WKOR in Bangor. Female groupies were always looking to sleep with the bad boys of the airwaves. But the whole thing was becoming tiresome. He wasn’t cut out to be a love ’em and leave ’em kind of guy. Problem was it had become part of who he was. People expected him to be a playboy, especially his boss. It kept people listening and sponsors buying airtime. And when it came right down to it, the bottom line—not his self-respect—was all that mattered.

Damon turned down the music. He hollered epithets into his mic, insulting and demeaning the crowd below. They went wild with enthusiasm. The more scathing his comments, the louder they chanted and clapped. Damon couldn’t help but laugh at the juxtaposition of his remarks to their actions. As long as he lived, he’d never understand the human psyche.

“You’re animals,” he laughed out the words. Their howling calls wafted on the hot air currents drifting up from below. “Okay, time for a dance contest. You know the drill, if the spotlight shines on you, you’re on. What you do after that is up to you.”

Damon raised the volume another couple of notches and the music pounded out, whipping the crowd into a frenzy of flailing arms and exposed skin. Spotlights crossed and flitted over the assembly. The guys in the lighting booth had been through the routine before. They’d been down on the dance floor throughout the night scoping out the crush of bodies, determining the right ratio of men and women. Starry Knights catered to all sexual orientations. Elvis prided himself on keeping his patrons happy. If that meant naked men, he’d give it to them. If tonight was more the heterosexual, lesbian crowd, he’d be sure his people offered them a bevy of beauties.

Whichever the case, Damon was out of there after this contest was finished.

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Award-winning erotic romance author, Nina Pierce, grew up in a house full of readers. So becoming enamored with books was only natural. She discovered romance stories in her early teens, falling hopelessly in love with knights in shining armor and the damsels who saved them.

Eventually, reading about alpha males and the journey to find their happy-ever-after endings wasn’t enough. She needed to pen her own stories of fated loves and soul mates. Nina’s discovered the passionate side of romance with her sexy stories. For her, it’s all about the sweet scent of seduction mixed with the heartwarming aroma of romance.

Nina resides in the northeast with her high school sweetheart and soul mate of twenty-seven years, their three grown children and several very spoiled cats who consider her “staff”.

You can keep up with her releases at her website (http://www.NinaPierce.com) or follow her on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/NinaPierce) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nina-Pierce-Erotic-Romance-Author/148783705168578)

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