{Buy the Book} Wolf Within Series by Amy Lee Burgess #seriestour #giveaway #blogtour

Today I'm not only sharing an author who was here before, but Amy Lee Burgess has six books available in her hot paranormal romance series. You can take your pick. I'm going to feature her latest release book #6- Across the Line. But be sure to check them all out!! Amy Lee is sharing her thoughts about the dance to the bedroom.... let's show Amy Lee some love.
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In a romance novel, the dance to the bedroom can be immediate or drawn out, but no matter where it happens in the book, sparks have to fly and the reader must be transported.  Without some crafting, a sex scene could fall flat or be unintentionally cheesy. Overworked, it can become mechanical and labored.

Where is the right balance?

For me, it’s with the characters. I want to know what they sense – what color are the sheets? Is that incense? His cologne? What does it smell like?  Is his beard stubble rough on her cheeks? What does her hair feel like when he’s got a fistful as he’s kissing her? What does his skin taste like when she licks him? Is there music playing in the background? How does his voice sound he tells her he loves her?

I try not to overdo it.  I like to cover all five senses, but I don’t catalog every last thing they are sensing.

If I am writing from a man’s perspective, I focus a lot on the visual since men are visually stimulated.  What does her body look like as he strips off her shirt? With women I focus more on sensation – how does his body feel against hers as he moves over her on the bed?

Is there a bed? Location is also important and fun to play with. Some of my favorite sex scenes have taken place in unconventional places – against a stone wall in an ancient castle or on a staircase (Logistics for that one took quite a bit of plotting out!)

The Pack members in the Wolf Within series cannot shift into their wolves without having sex first.

So sex plays an integral role aside from romance. When they are between eighteen and twenty, they are paired with a mentor who will initiate them into how to shift and work with their wolves. This involves sex, but without romance. It is very uncommon for someone to bond with their mentor. That person is usually older and experienced. Handling those types of sex scenes need special finesse because they are sensual, yet they are not romantic. It is an intimate exchange based on mutual trust and Pack desires not (usually) focused on the romantic.

In the fourth novel in the series, Inside Out, Stanzie initiates Alan, a young man from the Mayflower pack.  Here’s how it went:

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“Oh, God.” Alan clutched at my hair as I ran my tongue across his belly and unzipped his jeans.

We were on my bed, empty water bottles on the nightstand, shades drawn and a stick of patchouli incense burning on top of the radiator. Enough sunlight filtered beneath the shades to fill the room with a dim light. I wanted Alan to see everything, but not be blinded by artificial light.

“Stanzie.” His voice was full of dark excitement coupled with anxiety as I pushed his jeans down to his knees and he struggled to help me. He wouldn’t let go of my hair and it made it hard to move, but I didn’t try to get him to release me. He wore no underwear and he’d shaved for me. He was a sweetheart, this guy. I licked the tip of his erection and he gasped. His fingers tightened with an almost unbearable pressure on my hair.

I took him in my mouth and he groaned--a sound of raw longing that sent a thrill of desire through me. Virgins were hard work. I wasn’t used to taking the lead or at least doing most of the heavy lifting. Experienced partners knew how to toss control back and forth between them, but Alan knew nothing.

I was down to my bra and panties, and I reached one hand around to unhook my bra. When it was off, I moved on top of Alan and let my nipples brush his chest. He let go of my hair when I kissed him and his arms went around me as we twined our tongues together. My fat lip was still a little swollen and tender, so kissing hurt, but it was a good pain and the more I did it, the better it felt. 

Alan liked to kiss and, with just a little practice he would be great at it. Already he made my breath come shorter and shorter as I got into it and, when he reached a tentative hand between my legs, I spread them wider to encourage him. His fingers were warm as he worked against the silk barrier of my panties which prevented his full exploration. His erection poked at my belly, the tip slick and wet.

As I kissed him, I shimmied out of my panties and moved his hand back between my legs. His touch was feather light and tentative so I took one of his fingers and guided it inside me so he could feel how hot I was for him.

“Stanzie,” he said again, and moved his hands to my hips. I shifted my weight to my knees and eased him into me inch by inch. He cried out and gritted his teeth as he strained to hold himself back. I moved up and down slowly, but it was still too fast.

“I...can’t. Stanzie,” he cried.

“Shh, hold still,” I whispered. I froze in place, my mouth against his hot neck and he held onto me and shuddered. “Think about something else, baby. Anything.”

“I...oh, God, this feels so good. I...” His hands moved to my hair again and we rested together, perfectly still, for several heartbeats. I kissed his neck then the smooth line of his jaw and began to move again. This time he moved too. He followed my lead and we established a rhythm. I kissed him, the kisses deeper and deeper until we both were breathless. I sat up and let him watch me move on top of him, his hands on my hips. His eyes burned with unearthly silver and I felt his wolf awaken. Feral energy rippled across his body and cast out a heat that snared us within it.

He felt it too and shock spread across his face. “What the hell is that?” he whispered and his eyes turned to ice white with just a tint of blue silver. He came hard then and a wild shout of triumph and lust ripped from his throat. His fingers dug into my flesh. I moved on top of him as my knees sank into the mattress and I made him scream again before he gave a convulsive shudder and went limp beneath me.

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How’d I do? 

By Amy Lee Burgess

Across the Line – Book #6 
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Publication Date: August 26, 2013

When Councilor Allerton sends Stanzie to investigate a territory dispute between tiny pack Stony Fell and the British branch of much larger Mac Tire, it seems routine until someone sets a bear trap. A young Stony Fell man pays with the loss of his leg and now it’s up to Stanzie and Murphy to figure out who set the trap–and why–before more members of the packs are maimed.

Add a pair of star-crossed lovers, one love triangle, a grief-stricken bond mate with jealousy issues, and bad blood all around and the resultant twisted hell brew reveals the darker side of inter-pack politics that could prove too difficult–and dangerous–for even Stanzie to untangle.

CONTENT WARNING: Vulgar language, some sexual situations
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Across the Line by Amy Lee Burgess {Excerpt}

We didn’t get three feet through the apartment door before he had me on the floor, tearing at my clothes. I ripped at his too. He kicked the door shut with his foot while simultaneously tearing at my clothes.

I sank my teeth into his shoulder and he yanked my hair hard.

“Are we playing rough?” he asked me.

For an answer, I head butted him. “That’s for being a giant asshole.”

We rolled over and over, smashed into the coffee table and knocked the lamp in the corner over. The crash of the bulb shattering was loud as hell.

“We’re not rolling around in glass.” Murphy lifted me up and I locked my legs around his waist. He staggered us over to one of the sofas.

We crashed down and the springs gave a protesting wail.

I scratched his back with my nails and he bit my lip until we both tasted my blood. It smeared across our faces as we kissed and he shifted so I straddled him on my knees as he sat upright.

“I love you,” he said as he tongued my earlobe. He sucked on it, sending a shooting burst of pleasure through my body.

“I love you,” I told him. When he lifted his head, his eyes gleamed with tears he blinked away.

“Say it again,” he begged. “Tell me again.”

“I love you.” I cupped his face with my hands. Beneath my fingers, his cheeks were smooth and warm. When his wolf colored his eyes amber, my wolf reached for his through me.

He pulled me down so he could kiss me and our lovemaking turned slow and gentle. His touch was reverent and lingering, his kisses a drug that pulled me into him, so my heart beat in time with his.

He brushed his lips, feather light, across my bruised jaw and bleeding lip, whispered to me in Irish as we moved together in a slowly building rhythm.

A rush of energy, my soul to his, and I buried my face in his sticky warm throat. God, I loved this infuriating man.

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Amy Lee Burgess is a transplanted New Englander living in Houston, Texas with two dogs and lots of DVDs. In an attempt to bond with the city after being forced out of New Orleans post-Katrina, she turned to her writing. Determined to finally finish that novel she’d been hacking away at since high school, Amy managed to come up with a wolf shifter character named Stanzie Newcastle. She and Stanzie have been BFFs ever since.

In addition to Stanzie, Amy has also forged a relationship with several vampires, a witch or two, and other assorted supernatural creatures she hopes will entertain her readers. But she will always have room for coffee and butterscotch squares with Stanzie.

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{Excerpt} About Face – Book #5

Publication Date: March 27, 2013

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 Being herself is more dangerous than ever.

Stanzie’s job as Advisor to the Great Council is discovering other people’s secrets. When those secrets are being kept by the ones she loves most, can she find the courage to expose them?

Under orders from a Councilor, Stanzie journeys to Dublin and the MacTire pack. Her mission: warn her estranged bond mate, Liam Murphy, to abandon his overzealous search for the man responsible for the death of his first bond mate. Not only is he endangering himself, but also disrupting the delicate balance between opposing factions in the conspiracy threatening to tear the Great Pack apart.

Liam needs Stanzie’s help to protect their Alpha, who has entangled himself in the conspiracy’s deadly web. But he also desperately needs her back. In a race against time, Stanzie and Liam discover enemies often wear the faces of friends.

CONTENT WARNING: Vulgar language, some sexual situations

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Inside Out – Book #4 {Excerpt}


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For Stanzie, being herself is more dangerous than ever.

There’s no place like home…or is there? When Stanzie is asked to investigate her birth pack- Mayflower–she isn’t prepared for what she finds. No one respects the Alphas and the newest adult member of the pack is being encouraged to leave. Why?

To make matters worse, the men are dangerously intent on mating and shifting with her. How far will the pack she thought she knew go to get what they want? Without her bond-mate, Liam, Stanzie must face this alone and, barely ahead of threat of violence, must solve the mysteries, and fast.

CONTENT WARNING: Vulgar language, some sexual situations

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{Excerpt} Hidden in Plain Sight – Book #3

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As Stanzie discovers her wolf, she learns being herself is more dangerous than ever.

Where is Bethany Dillon? The seventeen-year-old girl is missing from the Maplefair pack and Constance Newcastle–Stanzie–and Liam Murphy must find her. Fast. A serial killer still has not been caught. Bethany could have run away, or killed herself. But no one in her pack seems to know the truth. Or, they’re just not telling.

Constance’s knack for uncovering secrets leads her into peril, and to save Bethany, she must break every rule. She risks losing everything, including Liam…and her life.

CONTENT WARNING: Vulgar language, some sexual situations

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Scratch the Surface – Book #2 {Excerpt}


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Something’s rotten in the Riverglow pack.

Still learning more about each other as bond mates and adjusting to their new roles as Advisors to a Councilor, Constance Newcastle and Liam Murphy must deal with the ghosts of their past.

A quiet weekend in Boston is anything but that, when Constance comes face to face with the betrayal of those she considered the closest to her. Everyone has secrets, and wherever Constance goes, she has a knack for uncovering them. The only problem is that some secrets are deadly.

WARNING: Strong language, sexual situations, and a lot of graphic shoe description.

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 {Excerpt} Beneath the Skin – Book #1

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If you could shift into a wolf, what would you discover about yourself?

Two years after the deaths of her bond mates, Constance Newcastle is ready to start over. The problem? The rest of the Great Pack, gathered in Paris to shift into wolves together, is not so sure she deserves the chance. Although the Great Council ruled the car crash an accident, even Constance blames herself. She was driving, after all.

Treated like a pariah by those she longs to rejoin, Constance reunites with an old lover. Everything looks promising until he mysteriously dies. Accused of his murder and desperate to clear her name, Constance joins forces with handsome, confident Liam Murphy, a former Alpha pack leader with a past as tragic and troubled as her own. Guided by the mysterious Councilor Jason Allerton, Constance and Liam discover they are not alone– throughout the Great Pack, people are dying. Can all the deaths be accidents, or is something more sinister going on?

CONTENT WARNING: Vulgar language, some sexual situations

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