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You are invited to take a good gander at my site, read my blog, test out my recipes, check out the photos, peruse my titles and learn about cool places and things I’ve found on two different continents.
So sit back, relax and enter the Kristen Ashley world. Thanks for stopping by!
Celebration Station Competition
Congratulations to the winners of my recent Celebration Station Competition on my Facebook page. To celebrate going over 400 likes, we held a quote competition. Eight quotes from my books, first person to correctly guess the book and who said it won a personalized signed print book a la ME! My Rock Chicks on Facebook were all over it and the winners are listed below.
Melissa Clark (US)
Kirstyn Watson (US)
Kate Dobson (Australia)
Laycie Friday (UK)
Rebecca Kimmerling (US)
Kamile Povilaitiene (Finland)
Lori Frances (US)
Gitte Doherty (UK)
This was so fun, we’ll be doing competitions again… likely at my whim since I can be whimsical. Rock the Celebration Station! Rock the winners! Rock on!
New Releases and Coming Attractions
Try before you buy! All of my released titles and (most of) my coming attractions have sample chapters downloadable from this website. Simply click on the Titles icon on the menu and explore!
New Releases
I have recently released three new novels, Heaven and Hell, Play It Safe and Law Man.
Heaven and Hell is the story of ex-pro football star/ex-commando (not impossible in fantasy!) Sampson Cooper and Kia Clementine, one of his fans who never expected she'd meet him and especially not catch his eye! H&H takes us on a journey of just what you'd expect, living in hell then suddenly finding yourself on a path that leads straight to heaven.
Play It Safe introduces you to Mustang, Colorado, Grayson Cody, a macho man, rancher cowboy and his girl Ivey. For reasons of survival, Ivey is disconnected from the world, she has to play it safe. But Gray is intent on connecting her to Mustang, to his land and to him.
Law Man (Dream Man Series) Mitch Lawson, as introduced in Mystery Man, knows what he wants... to be a good cop and find a good woman with whom to build a family. But be careful what you want. You can innocently be walking up the steps to your apartment and all you want will run right into you, literally. Mitch and his woman Mara have the usual roller coaster ride but never fear, hot guy Mitch is determined to guide his Mara through it... and he does it gently.
To read more, both a synopsis and sample chapters, not to mention to find quick links to purchase these in eBook, go to my Title section.
Coming Attractions
What's next, you ask?
Well, you know me, I'm far from lazy. Coming very soon will be Until the Sun Falls from the Sky (scroll below and see Titles section, Vampires/Werewolves). This will be released 24 February 2012!
I'm also working on Games of the Heart, the story of the sweet, wonderful, gorgeous Mike Haines fromThe 'Burg Series and his woman Dusty Holliday. I hope to have working chapters from Mike and Dusty available to download on this site the week of 27 February 2012.
Then I shall focus on Lucky Stars (see Titles section, Paranormal series).
After that, I might take a vacation. Or I hope.
This should take us into April 2012... but never fear... Chace and Faye, Kane "Tack" Allen, Apollo, Garrett "Merry" Merrick and my werewolf Callum will not be far behind.
Thank you for reading, thank you for caring what's next and I'll keep this section updated so you'll know what's coming and when (ish). But to be more in the know - check out the Coming Soon page in my Titles section. Rock on!
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I have also finally entered the Twitterisphere... an uncertain universe that everyone is talking about and unusually slowly (okay, maybe not unusually, I can be slow), I've finally thrown in my lot. Follow me on Twitter KristenAshley68 - but a caution, I usually tweet about whatever is happening not only in books but in life. I have connected with several of my readers there, though, and I'm lovin' it!
Check Out What I'm Working On
Newsflash! This title will be released Friday, 24 February 2012!
Vampires are pale, thin, cold and… dead.
Nope! Not in Kristen Ashley world.
Okay, this is a genre that I really worried about messing with. People really dig their vamps, as in dig them. So who was I to change all that?
But, well… why not?
So I did.
Until the Sun Falls from the Sky is the first in my Vampire/Werewolf trilogy. Yes, vampires and werewolves exist. They are immortal. They have superhuman strength. And three of them, with their mates, are prophesied to save humans from being enslaved by immortals who are getting testy.
Now, I’ve mostly written the first two books in this series so, as it is work in progress, I don’t know how this is going to go. But first up you’ll be introduced to Lucien (I know, I know, Lucien is a stereotypical vamp name but it’s also a freaking cool name so roll with me, people) and his Leah.
They cannot be together. The Vampire Dominion forbids it. But Lucien is not the type of guy who doesn’t have what he wants exactly how he wants it. And he wants Leah.
And he’ll do anything to have her.
Except put her life in danger by falling in love with her.
And Leah? Well, Leah knows her time is limited with the Mighty Lucien. So she guards her heart. But Lucien wants all of her and he may be a vampire but he’s also a man so pretty clueless when it comes to breaking hearts.
Check out the working chapters of this book (below). It’s mostly completed and I hope to have it out sometime in late February 2012.
Let me know what you think!
Download Leah and Lucien Working Chapters.pdf 570KDownload the first chapters of Until the Sun Falls from the Sky.
Motorcylce Man Working Chapters Are Here!
Big note: These are the working chapters. There may be major changes to these, so just keep that in mind while you're reading.
Stuck in a colorless world, Tyra Masters decides to chuck her old life and starts searching for something. She doesn’t know what it is until she meets her dream man. The goateed, tattooed, muscled, gravelly voiced motorcycle man who plies her with tequila and gives her the best sex of her life. But she knows it isn’t the tequila and sex talking. He’s it. He’s who she’s been daydreaming about since she could remember.
Until he makes it clear she isn’t who he’s looking for.
Tyra slinks away from his bed, humiliated. The problem is, he’s her new boss. She just may or may not have forgotten to tell him that part.
Kane “Tack” Allen has a rule. He doesn’t employ someone he’s slept with. And he lets Tyra know that in his motorcycle man way. Tyra fights for her job and wins it using sass and a technicality. Tack challenges her that if she hits his bed one more time, she loses her job.
Tyra is determined to keep her job and keep away from Tack. But she makes a big mistake. During their head-to-heads, she lets it all hang out and shows Tack she is who he’s looking for. And Tack has had a good woman slip through his fingers, he’s not about to let that happen again.
Although Tack colors Tyra’s world with a vibrancy that’s blinding, being with him means she has to live in his Motorcycle Club world. Full on, no holds barred. And since Tack’s world, not to mention Tack, is a little scary, Tyra isn’t so sure.
It's Tack's job to convince her.
I hope to have this book released in late May 2012.