Hello
everyone!
Book
Monster Reviews and LITERAL ADDICTION are proud to welcome USA Today
Bestselling Author Nina Bangs back to our sites today and to be a part of her Wicked
Whispers Blog Tour.
Nina has a great bio on her website that we borrowed and posted
below so ya'll can get to know her better:
My one regret in life? I wish I’d
started writing sooner.
Talk about misspent youth. What did I do during those lazy
summer days of childhood when I could’ve been honing my writing skills?
Nothing. Okay, so I spent a lot of time dreaming I was a cowgirl with a trusty
black stallion. Oh, and I read every Walter Farley horse novel. I was an only child
so I relied on my imagination to supply the excitement in my life.
By high school, I’d decided to trade in my lariat for a trench
coat. I was into dark and dangerous. As an intrepid foreign correspondent, I’d
stalk the mean streets of the world. Did I actually write anything? No, but I
did read all of Agatha Christie’s mysteries.
I worked at a department store during college. My short stint in
the accounting department taught me a lot about math. Three hundred-dollar
shortages plus hysterical tears equaled instant move to gift-wrap. A career in
math was not in my future. I didn’t care because I’d discovered “real”
literature. I plowed through James Joyce’s Ulysses and Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
If it didn’t make my eyes cross then it wasn’t worth reading. Yes, I admit it,
I was a literary snob.
But there’s just so much “real” literature one person can take.
I graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in English Literature and a
determination to avoid books that induced eye crossing or had tragic endings.
The only things I managed to write during those years were research papers.
I taught second grade for several years then spent two years in
Dublin, Ireland. A friend and I supported ourselves by singing folk songs in
Irish pubs. We weren’t great, but we were young, enthusiastic, and wore short
skirts. It was obviously my destiny to be the next Judy Collins. I spent a lot
of time poring through music books.
Returning to New Jersey and reality, I taught elementary school
until I grew restless again. My cross-country odyssey included stays in
Arizona, California, and Texas. Along the way, I indulged my love of horses. No
black stallions, but I did have several beautiful Arabian mares. I read tons of
books on breeding and showing.
Somewhere between California and Texas I grew addicted to
romance novels and cats. The cat’s independent attitude was exactly the quality
I admired in my romance heroes. And once I decided to try writing my own
romances, I made sure a cat crept into each story.
Texas is my permanent home. I’ve come full circle. Born in San
Antonio, I spent most of my life in New Jersey. Maybe the Texas in my blood
accounts for my attachment to strong men, fast horses, and wide-open spaces. My
love of cats? Haven’t a clue.
Nina is the creator of the GODS OF THE NIGHT, MACKENZIE VAMPIRES
and CASTLE OF DARK DREAMS series, as well as, a numerous amount of standalone
novels and anthologies.
Today we will be helping Nina promote "Wicked
Whispers", the 6th book in her CASTLE OF DARK DREAMS series. In case you are not familiar with this
series, we've posted the synopses below to catch you up….
Castle
of Dark Dreams Series
WICKED
NIGHTS
"Castle of Dark Dreams" trilogy, Book 1
April 2005
Berkley
Berkley
Welcome
to the Castle of Dark Dreams. It’s the yummiest attraction in Live the Fantasy,
an adult theme park where women who dare can take sexy role-playing to new
erotic heights. Just by looking at the castle you know that only dangerously
tempting men would play here.
Three brothers—Eric, Brynn, and Conall McNair—run
the castle. Okay, so they’re not quite human, but that’s a secret. This night
Eric, the castle’s resident vampire, will prove that he’s everything bad should
be.
Talk-show
host Donna Nolan is on the trail of the weird and wacky in the Castle of Dark
Dreams. But thoughts of a juicy interview to enthrall her listeners disappear
when she meets Eric. With the coldest blue eyes and the hottest mouth she’s
ever seen, he’s a primitive call to the wild in every woman.
Love
between a talk-show host and a vampire shouldn’t be possible, but then, strange
things happen in the Castle of Dark Dreams.
WICKED
PLEASURE
"Castle of Dark Dreams" trilogy, Book 2
February 2007
Berkley
Berkley
A MAN WHO
CAN'T SAY NO
Brynn
McNair has spent the last five hundred years of his existence offering his body
to any woman who desires him. The evil entity that created him has made sure
that if he tries to resist the compulsion to play love slave, he suffers. So
it’s no wonder that he thinks of women as his enemy. Until he meets Kimberly
Vaughn.
A WOMAN
WHO WON'T SAY YES
Kim
Vaughn is a demon hunter. It’s a family business and her destiny. But Kim is
all about avoiding her destiny. She wants to marry an ordinary guy, have
ordinary kids, live in an ordinary house, and work as an architect. No way does
she want anything to do with a man who has paranormal connections. Until she
meets Brynn McNair.
Kim comes
to the Castle of Dark Dreams, the main attraction in a sexy theme park, to plan
a few upgrades. She stays to join forces with Brynn and save Galveston from a
supernatural takeover. Can a woman who wants to marry Mr. Ordinary and a man
who thinks of love as sleeping with the enemy find happiness together? You’d be
surprised.
WICKED
FANTASY
"Castle of Dark Dreams" trilogy, Book 3
May 2007
Berkley
Berkley
Welcome
to the Castle of Dark Dreams, the yummiest attraction in an adult theme park
where only dangerously tempting men play.Wicked Fantasy is the
final book in a series that stars three extraordinary brothers—each promising
ultimate fulfillment for any woman bold enough to accept his sensual challenge.
Conall
O’Rourke learned the hard way that goddesses kick butt when you tick them off.
After killing an Irish deity’s favorite in battle, he’s cursed to protect his
enemy’s descendants down to the last arrogant jerk. Now there’s only one left,
and Conall can almost taste freedom after endless centuries. But who knew the
remaining descendant would be so beautiful, so sexy, and such a . . .
Vampire?
Gerry Kavanagh hunts nonhuman entities that break Texas laws. But she finds
more than the sneaky shape-shifting snake she’s after at the Castle of Dark
Dreams. The most hated member of the O’Rourkes expects to follow her around so
he can “protect” her. Protect? She’s a fanged creature of the night, for crying
out loud. Nope. Never going to happen. Too bad he’s a major wow on her personal
sizzle meter.
MY WICKED VAMPIRE
The Castle of Dark Dreams series, Book 4
Not available in print anymore
Will be re-released in
eBook format soon with a new cover as well
The Castle of Dark Dreams is just part of an adult theme park,
right? The most decadent attraction in a place where people go to play out
their wildest erotic fantasies. Holgarth isn’t really a wacky wizard, and
Sparkle Stardust doesn’t actually create cosmic chaos by hooking up completely
mismatched couples. And that naked guy chained up in the dungeon? No way he’s
a vampire.
Wrong...dead wrong, as botanist Cinn Airmid is about to find out.
It’s up to her to save the night feeder’s sanity, but to do that she’ll have to
get close to the most dangerously sexy male she’s ever encountered. And one
look in Dacian’s haunted black eyes tells her close will take on a whole new
meaning with someone who’s had 600 years to practice his technique. Even a girl
with a name that conjures up images of forbidden pleasure has a few tricks to
learn from…
WICKED EDGE
The Castle of Dark Dreams series, Book 5
March 2012
Berkley
Berkley
USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs once again tempts readers to
enter the wickedly sensual Castle of Dark Dreams—a playground where
private pleasures and devilish fantasies come true, where the men who breathe
life into women’s ultimate desires burn with their own supernatural fire…
As an angel, Passion prides herself on
perfection. But some mischievous part of her always goes against the godly
grain. After one too many attempts to enliven the heavenly halls, she’s sent to
earth to tame her naughty nature. While human, she has to bring goodness and
light to the most sinful of places, the Castle of Dark Dreams. Once there, she
finds herself in the role of a virgin used as bait to trap a marauding demon.
Passion thinks the game is harmless—until she sees the man playing the demon.
His name is Edge, and Passion senses darkness in him beyond any she’s ever
dreamed.
Edge may play a demon, but he is something much worse. His past is
littered with pain and destruction—and that’s the way he likes it. Now he must
prove to himself and others that he is what he’s always been—cold and
emotionless. But as danger threatens and his need for Passion heats up, he
finds himself balanced on love’s Wicked Edge.
WICKED
WHISPERS
The Castle of Dark Dreams series, Book 6
October 2012
Berkley
Berkley
USA Today bestselling
author Nina Bangs welcomes you back to the Castle of Dark Dreams, a place of
otherworldly secrets and sensual men with the power to fulfill your most
private fantasies…
All Ivy
had ever wanted was a safe, secure life with no drama. Now she was working in
an adult theme park where visitors came to role-play their wildest imaginings.
She reminded herself to stay focused on her job and to ignore everything else.
The reminders didn’t work. One man drew her. Murmur was every erotic dream
she’d tried to repress, every deliciously dangerous temptation she said she didn’t
need. Her instinct suggested that this was a man who walked in darkness.
She ignored the warning.
But
Murmur was more than what he seemed. A powerful demon, he used his evil gift to
destroy as well as seduce. In desiring him, Ivy had opened herself to a menace
born centuries ago—one that would risk both their lives and betray the promises
made with every one of his…
Connect
with Nina:
Be sure to enter at the other blogs participating in the tour:
Wicked
Whispers Mini Blog Tour
10/01/12
- Books-n-Kisses
10/02/12 - The Reading
Café
10/03/12 - United
by Books
10/04/12 - Riverina
Romantics
10/05/12 - Grave Tells
10/08/12 - Book
Monster & Literal Addiction
4 comments:
i never read any nina's books,,but iam interest for read,,the cover make me speechless...
thanks for the chance
Thank you for giving everyone a chance to win. Looking forward to reading your books.
Love Nina's books! Thanks for the giveaway!!!!
looking forward to read nina's books thanks for the chance to win :)
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