Love Bytes gives a warm welcome to author Aurora Crane who is joining us today to talk about her upcoming release : Mutual Possession, book 1 in her new Nine Tenths of the Law series.
Aurora shares the themes and tropes and the blurb for this new upcoming release, She also shares an exclusive excerpt and brought a wonderful giveaway for our readers!
Welcome Aurora
Coming February 2025
Tropes and themes to fall in love with:
Sex-positive gray-ace
Possessiveness
Adorable toxicity
Jealousy
Bi-awakening
Slow burn (but they kiss in the first chapter)
Blurb:
Kendrick
Work partner. Life partner. Complicated.
Mine.
That’s how I describe Spencer. The most important being that he’s mine. I may not get all of him but I get as much of him as he can give me. That’s all I need. But the want, the desire, it lives under the surface, longing for something, for more, but knowing that more is about as likely as me walking away from him. Never. Gonna. Happen.
Spencer
The only thing that exceeds my obsession with possessing Kendrick is my love for the man—and my ability to do my job. Well, as long as he’s not clouding up my thoughts.
His existence fuels me. His presence energizes me. His touch grounds me. I need him. And I want him to need me the same way. The thought of him getting the one thing I can’t give him from someone else? Death would be more merciful than I would be to whomever had him that way. He’s mine. No one touches what’s mine.
Then a case falls in our laps. One that shouldn’t exist. One that can’t exist. One that needs what we do best. One that changes everything.
Mutual Possession is heart pounding story involving a crime that doesn’t exist but needs to be solved and an established couple whose relationship teeters between everything and nothing. Determined to make each other see what they see in each other, neither are prepared for what happens next. Other themes in this romantic suspense are a sex-positive gray-ace, jealousy, adorable toxicity, possessiveness, slow burn, bi-awakening, and an explosive HEA.
“It bothers me.” Like I want to crawl out of my own skin.
“What does?”
“That other people have touched you.”
“You’ve touched me.”
It’s not the same. I don’t touch him like they did. It’s never bothered me this much before. He’s with me now, and that won’t ever change. The murderous thoughts about past partners have always been brief, tempered by the knowledge that they’re in the past and the only future for Kendrick is me.
Lately, it hasn’t been enough. I want to own him. Come over his chest and rub it into his skin until he smells like me. There’s nothing sexual in it; it’s ownership. A warning to everyone else that he’s off limits. That he’s mine.
“Spence?”
“Do you miss sex?”
Kendrick gets back into the car and crowds me, his forearm braced against my headrest. “What the hell is going on with you?”
“Do you?” I insist. Does he stay awake at night thinking about it, wishing I would loosen the reins so that he can go and find some piece of ass to fuck to relieve the tension? My knuckles go white around the steering wheel. I need to start following him around, so that I can stop that from happening. Put a tracker on his phone. He’s lucky I haven’t already.
“No, Spence, I don’t.”
“Why not?”
“Jesus fucking Christ, are you trying to piss me off right now?”
“Is it working?” Being angry at me means he’s focusing solely on me and I’ll take whatever I can get. “Why won’t you answer my question?”
“I fucking did.”
“With the truth.”
He fists my hair and yanks me toward him, our lips a hair’s breadth from each other. Having him this close brings me to life like I’ve been electrocuted. “It is the truth you psychotic asshole. I don’t miss it, I don’t want it, because it can’t compare to what you make me feel, and what you give me. It never will, and it’s not worth losing you over. Nothing is.”
God, that’s exactly what I need to hear. I wet my lips, my tongue flicking over his at the same time. “I don’t give you anything.”
“You give me everything. More than I deserve.” He kisses me then, the first time he’s ever initiated the contact himself. He doesn’t ask permission, and his tongue demands entrance, slipping into my mouth. We’ve never kissed like this. Not this forcefully, with this kind of intent or this deep.
Aurora Crane is an Australian author who loves to write romance with a healthy serving of banter, snark and ridiculous men falling in love.
Her books are a mix of MM and MM+ written in third person. She loves to write men in suits, sprawling universes with a plethora of side characters, and an abundance of steamy situations.


Thank you for sharing !
Looks like a very good book.