A warm welcome to author Jenn Burke joining us today to celebrate the release of “Not Dead Yet”.
Jenn shares an exclusive excerpt and there is a giveaway to participate in!
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NOT DEAD YET by Jenn Burke
Series: Not Dead Yet #1
Publisher: Carina Press
Release Date: February 4, 2019 (ebook only)
Length: 91,000 words
Subgenre: Paranormal mystery romance
Warnings: Depression, talk of suicide, murders, paranormal violence
Synopsis:
Dying isn’t what it used to be.
Wes Cooper was dead. Then he wasn’t—though he’s not exactly alive, either. As an immortal not-ghost, he can transition between this world and the otherplane, which makes him the perfect thief for hire. For seventy years he’s made a “living” returning items to their rightful owners, seeing his fair share of the bizarre in the process. But he’s never witnessed murder. Until now.
His latest mission brings him more than he bargained for: a very-dead actor who is definitely going to stay that way. It’s just Wes’s luck that his ex-boyfriend, Detective Hudson Rojas, is assigned to the case. Hudson broke Wes’s heart years ago—and could again, given he’s rocking a hot silver-fox look that shouldn’t be legal.
As they work together to track down the murderer before anyone else gets hurt, it becomes clear Wes and Hudson have unfinished business. And when a secret Hudson’s been keeping threatens more than just their happiness, it might mean the end of their not-life together—permanently.
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I woke with a gasp. Red-orange light glowed around the edges of the blinds, telling me it was almost sunset. With a grunt, I rolled to my side to look at Hudson, and found him awake already, watching me.
“That’s a little creepy,” I said.
“I’m not allowed to admire you?”
“Well…I…”
He smiled at my stuttering, the big, full smile that made his eyes crinkle. It was my favorite smile. “You’re cute.”
“Is that the start of a twink joke? Because—”
He kissed the tip of my nose and I sucked in a breath.
He was here. He was alive—and so was I. I wasn’t going to waste another minute.
“Make love with me?” I asked, my voice soft.
His entire body shuddered, and the breath he took was ragged and uneven. “Yes,” he said, so low I almost couldn’t hear the word over the growly timbre of his voice.
He rolled me onto my back and I parted my legs to cradle his body against mine. Most of his weight was braced on his forearms, resting on either side of my head, as he kissed me. Softly, sweetly, then with more urgency and need. Before long, our morning hardness had been coaxed into full erections and I gasped every time his rubbed against mine.
I needed, like I hadn’t in years.
“Clothes off,” I gasped.
Thankfully all we had to remove was our underwear, since we hadn’t bothered to put on more than that after our shower at dawn. I hissed as his hard-on seared my upper thigh, so hot compared to the rest of his body. I reached down and cupped it as it found a home in the crease between my thigh and groin, and Hudson groaned in appreciation and closed his eyes as he thrust his hips.
“So good,” he said.
“If you think that’s good, you’re gonna love my ass.”
Hudson laughed and opened his eyes. His hips slowed down, but didn’t stop moving entirely. “I forgot, you know?”
“Forgot what?”
“How much fun it was to have sex with you.”
Well, yeah. Sex could be serious and emotional, but that didn’t mean it couldn’t also be light and irreverent. I mean, at its very core, the act was kind of ridiculous. Hudson was going to insert his penis into my butt and thrash around until he spurted baby-making stuff, and hopefully I would too. We’d make silly noises we’d never make at any other time, and say porn-worthy things like harder, faster, give it to me! It was the most ridiculous thing ever.
But somehow, with Hudson, it had always been magical. A celebration. A joyful act filled with love and laughter. Like he said, fun.
Jenn Burke has loved out-of-this-world romance since she first read about heroes and heroines kicking butt and falling in love as a preteen. Now that she’s an author, she couldn’t be happier to bring adventure, romance, and sexy times to her readers.
Jenn is the author of a number of paranormal and science fiction romance titles, including the critically acclaimed Chaos Station science fiction romance series (authored with Kelly Jensen) from Carina Press.
She’s been called a pocket-sized and puntastic Canadian on social media, and she’ll happily own that label. Jenn lives just outside of Ottawa, Ontario, with her husband and two kids, plus two dogs named after video game characters…because her geekiness knows no bounds.
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2 prize packs:
- One signed paperback copy of Not Dead Yet (exclusive; you can’t buy it in print!) with some Canadian swag – will ship internationally
- $10 Amazon gift card