Title: Hook & Ladder 69: Eighteen Authors...One Sexy Firehouse.
Authors: Listed Below
Genre: Romantic Short Stories/Anthology
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Synopsis:
Meet the brave men and women of Station 69, serving the citizens of St. Louis while
igniting hearts along the way. Eighteen authors have joined forces to bring you their
sizzling stories—some sweet, some five alarm hot—but all for a great cause. Follow
the antics and adventures of these sexy firefighters in what promises to be one of
the hottest summers yet! This delectable book begs the question: Can anyone resist
a hero in uniform?
Multiple authors have come together to give you one firehouse where all proceeds
from this collaboration go to the Burned Children Recovery Foundation.
The Burned Children Recovery Foundation
is a national recovery agency that has provided Emotional Support and
Financial Aid to Burned Children and
their Families since 1989.
For more information about this foundation:
http://www.burnedchildrenrecovery.org
Contributing Authors:
Emme Burton
M.C. Cerny
Sarah M. Cradit
Michelle Dare
Jami Denise
L.B. Dunbar
Lisa Edward
Lia Fairchild
Mary Catherine Gebhard
Z.B. Heller
Glenna Maynard
Kristen Hope Mazzola
Morgan Jane Mitchell
Emerson Shaw
Kacey Shea
M. Stratton
Madison Street
Felicia Tatum
Buy Links:
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Excerpt:
We made out like drunken, horny teenagers all the way to his apartment building, in
the elevator, and down the hall.
Mitch slammed me into his door, never parting his lips from mine as he fumbled for
his keys in his pocket.
The door flew open behind me and I went flying into a bare apartment straight into
boxes—falling, crashing, screaming, embarrassed.
“Holy fuck are you ok?” Mitch grabbed me, pulling me into his strong arms as he
laughed a little. “Well, I guess I need new dishes.”
I gripped his shoulders as he kissed my neck, pressing me against his newly painted
wall. “Sorry?”
“Don’t be. I hated those pieces of shit anyway.”
Mitch unclasped my bra, letting me shimmy out of it and throw it across the room.
Then he put his hand in the middle of my chest, pressing me against the wall before
dropping to his knees as he yanked my skirt up and pulled my pink thong down
around my ankles.
His hot breath danced over my soaking clit as my knees started to quake. With his
free hand, Mitch traced circles over my inner thigh as he gently let his tongue glide
over my swelling bud. I cried out from the simplest caress.
“Just wait, babe. You ain’t felt nothing yet.” Mitch’s words were barely audible as his
flattened tongue spread my folds.
I held on tight, panting and moaning uncontrollably with my eyes slammed shut.
“God, you taste so good.” He breathed right before forcefully shoving his fingers into
my wetness and in an instant I was done. My orgasm built up and crashed around
me within seconds and I was a puddle on the floor.
Mitch scooped me until into his arms, kissing me sweetly. “I told you, love, there’s
still more to come.”
Author Info:
Emme Burton
Emme Burton is the author of the Amazon Top 100 Rom-Com/New Adult novel
SNACK and the Better Than Series: BETTER THAN ME (Book 1), FIX IT FOR US
(Book 2), and STILL INTO YOU (Book 3). She lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her
amazing husband and sons, and her “fur boy,” Jasper. Emme has never, ever been
lost in a mall either as a child or an adult. Her mother, and now her family, have
always known where to find her. At the bookstore.
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M.C. Cerny
M.C. Cerny fell in love with books after experiencing her first real ugly cry reading,
Where The Red Fern Grows. Her debut romantic suspense novel, Flashpoint was
written in a series of post-it- note ramblings that would likely make her idol Tom
Clancy and her mother blush. She is a post graduate of NYU, and calls rural NJ home
with her menagerie of human and fur-babies. When M.C. is not writing, you'll find
her lurking in Starbucks, running stupid marathon, singing Disney show tunes, and
searching out the perfect shade of pink nail polish. xoxo
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Sarah M. Cradit
Sarah is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Paranormal Southern Fiction
series, The House of Crimson & Clover. The series was born of her combined loves of
New Orleans, family dramas, and the mysterious nature of love and desire. Her
books combine elements of paranormal, mystery, suspense, intrigue, and romance.
She is always working on the next book in the series, and absolutely loves
connecting with her fans.
Sarah lives in the Pacific Northwest, but has traveled the world from Asia to Europe
to Africa. When she isn’t working (either at her day career, or hard at work at
writing), she is reading a book and discovering new authors. The great loves of her
life (in order) are: her husband James, her writing, and traveling the world.
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Michelle Dare
Michelle Dare is a romance author. Her stories range from sweet to sinful and from
new adult to fantasy. There aren’t enough hours in the day for her to write all of the
story ideas in her head. When not writing or reading, she’s a wife and mom living in
eastern Pennsylvania. One day she hopes to be writing from a beach where she will
never have to see snow or be cold again.
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Jami Denise
Jami Denise is an up and coming writer from Southern California.
She writes Romance, Romantic Suspense, and Erotic Romance.
Her books are always on the spicy side with a little bit of sweet to make you swoon.
Her feisty kittens always give the bad boys a run for their money. She likes taking
risks, pushing her characters into directions that challenge the reader and take them
out of their element. You'll usually find the unexpected to happen in her stories. Life
isn't always pretty, and she likes to layer her words with true grit.
She is a self-professed cat lady, addicted to coffee, Monster, birthday cake lip balm,
and loves all things old,grungy,and fast. She's well versed in sarcasm, and the F-
word is her favorite adjective.
When she doesn't have her nose in a book, or fingers on a keyboard, she's spending
time with family and friends, watching old movies, and waiting for the next felon to
come sweep her off her feet.
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L.B. Dunbar
I’d like to say I was always a writer. I’d also like to say that I wrote every day of my
life since a child. That I took the teaching advice I give my former students because
writing every day improves your writing. I’d like to say I have my ten-thousand
hours that makes me a proficient writer. But I can’t say any of those things. I did
dream of writing the “Great American Novel” until one day a friend said: Why does it
have to be great? Why can’t it just be good and tell a story?
As a teenager, I wrote your typical love-angst poetry that did occasionally win me an
award and honor me with addressing my senior high school class at our
Baccalaureate Mass. I didn’t keep a journal because I was too afraid my mom would
find it in the mattress where I kept my copy of Judy Blume’s Forever that I wasn’t
allowed to read as a twelve year old.
I can say that books have been my life. I’m a reader. I loved to read the day I
discovered “The Three Bears” as a first grader, and ever since then, the written
word has been my friend. Books were an escape for me. An adventure to the
unknown. A love affair I’d never know. I could be lost for hours in a book.
So why writing now? I had a story to tell. It haunted me from the moment I decided
if I just wrote it down it would go away. But it didn’t. Three years after writing the
first draft, a sign (yes, I believe in them) told me to fix up that draft and work the
process to have it published. That’s what I did. But one story let to another, and
another, and another. Then a new idea came into my head and a new storyline was
created.
I was accused (that’s the correct word) of having an overactive imagination as a
child, as if that was a bad thing. I’ve also been accused of having the personality of a
Jack Russell terrier, full of energy, unable to relax, and always one step ahead. What
can I say other than I have stories to tell and I think you’ll like them. If you don’t,
that’s okay. We all have our book boyfriends. We all have our favorites. Whatever
you do, though, take time for yourself and read a book.
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Lisa Edward
Lisa Edward is the author of The Songbird trilogy, and the novella Duty of Care.
While Lisa has called Melbourne Australia home for her entire life, she has lived and
worked in England, and travelled through most parts of Europe and the United
States. She loves nothing more than spending time with her beautiful daughter, or
curling up into the early hours of the morning with a great novel. By day, Lisa works
in the analytical IT field, so relishes the opportunity to foster her creative side
through writing. Her deep appreciation for literature was nurtured from a young
age, being taught to respect books and get lost in their stories. She enjoys reading
honest and realistic novels that are relatable, thought provoking and leave a lasting
impression. She can’t write without music playing, using the emotions from
different songs to invoke those of her characters. Lisa takes inspiration from her
own life experiences, the people around her and those she has met in her travels.
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Lia Fairchild
Bestselling author, Lia Fairchild, is both a traditionally published and independent
author who writes women’s fiction, romance, and chick lit. Fans of her books praise
her endearing, real characters who come to life in stories that will touch your heart.
Fairchild is addicted to the warmth of Southern California and holds a bachelor’s
degree in journalism and a multiple-subject teaching credential. She is a wife and
mother of two teenagers.
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Mary Catherine Gebhard
Mary Catherine Gebhard bites off more than she can chew and sometimes calls
herself Eva Natsumi. She's lived in Salt Lake City, Utah her entire life, but
occasionally goes on vacation from reality. Don't worry, she sends postcards.
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Z.B. Heller
As a little girl it was always a dream for Z.B. Heller to become She-Ra Princess of
Power. Since this dream was unobtainable, she spent what was probably way to
long in college trying to “find herself”. Becoming an artist scratched the creative itch
until the stories in her head were getting to be to loud for her to get anything else
accomplished.
She lives in St. Louis with her husband, son and Flemish Giant rabbit Chloe. In her
spare time she likes to read, stalk celebraties on Twitter and create the type of art
people scratch their heads about.
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Glenna Maynard
Glenna Maynard was born and raised in the beautiful hills of Eastern Kentucky,
where she still resides with her husband, son, and daughter. A mother by day and
writer by night. When Glenna isn't spending time with her family you can find her
curled up with a great book. Glenna enjoys scrap booking,photography, crafting,
cooking, and playing video games.
Glenna comes from a line of strong women with an amazing ability cook just about
anything from scratch. She grew up in a family owned and operated restaurant with
her Grandmother, and both of her parents. She spent her childhood days in the
kitchen learning to prepare home cooked meals. After school she would walk down
the street from her families snack bar as it was called by the locals to the county
library to get lost in her favorite books.
Glenna is an avid reader who loves discovering new authors. It was her love of
reading that recently drove her to try her own hand at writing.
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Kristen Hope Mazzola
You want to know more about me? Well, let's see...
I am just an average twenty-something following my dreams. I have a full time "day
job" and by night I am an author. I guess you could say that writing is like my super
power (I always wanted one of those). I am the lover of wine, sushi, football and the
ocean; that is when I am not wrapped up in the literary world.
Please feel free to contact me to chat about my writing, books you think I'd like or
just to shoot the, well you know.
A portion of all my royalties are donated to The Marcie Mazzola Foundation.
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Morgan Jane Mitchell
Bestselling erotic romance and paranormal author, Morgan Jane Mitchell spent
years blogging politics and health trends before she rediscovered her love of writing
fiction. Trading politicians for bloodsuckers of another kind, she's now the author of
bestselling post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, Sanguis City. Her action packed series of
vampires, witches, demons and zombies is paranormal romance, dystopia, urban
fantasy and erotica in one bite. When Morgan Jane is not creating the city of blood or
conjuring up other supernatural tales, she's dreaming up erotic and dark romances.
Morgan Jane lives in the beautiful bluegrass area of central Kentucky with her
husband, 3 sons, 3 cats and a greyhound shepherd mix dog named Miss Penni Lane.
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Emerson Shaw
Emerson Shaw was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from the
University of Cincinnati with a Bachelors of Business Administration. She is married
and has two beautiful children. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was based off
of a true story. She recently began a new romantic suspense series called "The Hot
Pursuit Series." Straight Flushed, book one, was released on June 22, 2015.
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Kacey Shea
Kacey Shea is a mom of three, wife, and indie author who resides in sunny Arizona.
She enjoys reading and writing romance novels as much as her son loves unicorns,
which is a lot.
When she's not writing you will find her playing taxi cab to her children while
belting out her favorite tunes, meeting friends or family for food and to share some
laughs, or sweating it out in the gym. Kacey finds that picking up heavy weights
repeatedly is good for her mental health as much as it is for the physical.
She has an unhealthy obsession with firefighters. It could be the pants. It could be
the fire. It's just hot. On occasion she has been known to include them, without their
knowledge, in her selfies outside the grocery store.
Kacey one day aspires to be a woman hand model in a sexy photo shoot. You know,
the woman's hand raking across the muscular back or six pack stomach of the male
fitness model. Yep, that hand.
Until that day comes she will continue writing sexy, flirty romance novels in hopes
to bring others joy!
Kacey enjoys interacting with her fans so please feel free to stalk her on Facebook,
Instagram or Twitter.
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M. Stratton
M. Stratton is an International Amazon bestselling author in the romantic suspense
and mystery suspense categories for her Storm Series and Bender. She lives with
her husband and son in Arizona, which is a big difference from where she grew up
north of Chicago, Illinois. As an only child she learned to tell herself stories to make
the long winters go by quicker while dreaming of summer vacations. Now as an
adult she still makes up stories to pass the time, but now she writes them down to
share with other people.
Stratton is a self-proclaimed dork who loves to make people laugh. Her inner rock
star is always on stage performing to a sold out crowd, but she quiet and shy on the
outside. She spends her days plotting new ways to surprise her readers.
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Madison Street
Madison Street was born in New York City and was raised in the Bronx, where she
resided until she was 17 years old. After September 11, Madison joined the United
States Navy to serve her country.
During the deployments, Madison constantly wrote short stories and she discovered
her passion for writing. You will find Madison always on the computer, whether
she’s on Facebook, designing websites, messing with Photoshop, or writing for her
blog.
Besides writing, her second passion is music and dance. Even though she’s a terrible
singer, she’ll still belt it out in the shower, especially if the song is her jam! She
currently resides in Virginia with her husband of 8 years, 2 children, a dog, and a cat.
She is so excited to start this amazing journey and is honored to be part of such a
compassionate and loving community.
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Felicia Tatum
Felicia Tatum was born and raised in Tennessee. She always loved reading, and at
the age of twelve began writing. Her passion for creating stories grew and in May
2012, she finally wrote her first novel, The White Aura.
She still lives in Tennessee with her daughter and her kitty. She loves cooking,
books, and animals are some of her best friends. She watches a lot of Disney channel
and often dreams up new book ideas. She’s currently working on various projects,
including the rest of the White Aura Series, the Scarred Hearts Series, and a novella
series. Her dream is to write as many books as possible while entertaining as many
people as possible.
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My Book Review:
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.
I haven't always been a fan of books, that have multiple stories, maybe because they were all on one similar generic theme, like vampires. But this book is set up so differently. Even though we have 18 different authors they all base their stories around on Firehouse, Ladder 69. It happens in the same town, and several names are carried over into other authors stories. The way this collaboration was done, was perfect! I loved each chapter and each new author I came across to read. I have now added many new authors to my 'must read' pile because of the writing in this book. This book gives you every possible scenario, in neat little chapters. I could take this with me and read a chapter or two when I only had a short time frame, with no issues with worrying about where to stop, to put it down. I loved everything about this book, and the best part, is that proceeds from the sale of this book go to charity! I love that!!!
Amazing stories, in a great book, a must read!
4 1/2 Stars!!!!
