Today, please join me in welcoming the dynamic Felicity Heaton to my blog! Felicity has a wicked imagination to match her ambition and don't be fooled by all the talk about angels... there is plenty of the diabolic lurking in her writing as well... *wink*
It’s wonderful
to be here at Will’s blog to talk about my latest release, Her Wicked Angel, which
is the sixth in my Her Angel romance series.
I’m going to be
sharing an excerpt from the book with you today, but I also wanted to let you
know that I’m celebrating the release by holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at my
website, offering Her Guardian Angel at an incredible discount, and I’m also
giving away the first book in the series, Her Dark Angel, for FREE at selected
Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books and Apple iBookstore sites.
Find out how to enter the Her Wicked Angel international
giveaway (ends September 29th) and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or
$25 gift certificate at her website, where you can also download a 6 chapter
sample of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Wicked%20Angel
SPECIAL OFFER: If you’re a
Kindle, Kobo or Apple iBooks user, don’t forget to download your copy of Her
Guardian Angel for only $0.99. That’s a $4 discount. Offer ends September 27th.
Find all the links at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel
FREE EBOOK: You can find
all the links for the Her Dark Angel free ebook offer (and two other free
paranormal romance ebooks) at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/paranormal-romance-ebook-offers.php
Here’s more
about Her Wicked Angel, including an excerpt from this long angel romance
novel.
Her Wicked Angel
Felicity Heaton
The King of Demons and the Devil’s right hand man, Asmodeus is a dark angel born of evil and created for destruction. When his master orders him to venture into the mortal world and retrieve a female for him, he seizes the chance to leave Hell for the first time, uncaring of what the Devil has planned for her… until he sets eyes on the most beautiful woman he has ever seen—a female who awakens new feelings within his black heart, unleashing passion so intense that it controls him and desire he cannot resist.
He will not let his wretched master have her. She will belong to him.
Liora is a witch with a bad reputation and an obsession with fighting demons. A mission gone wrong sees her sent to Paris to cool off, but when a dark and deadly warrior with a gaze of golden fire lands in her life, she ends up burning hotter than Hell for the wicked angel. Nothing will stand between her and the immense, forbidding male. Not her cousin. Not Asmodeus’s sworn enemy and twin, Apollyon. And certainly not the Devil.
Caught up in a tempest of danger and soul-searing passion, can they survive against the odds and seize their forever after?
Felicity Heaton
The King of Demons and the Devil’s right hand man, Asmodeus is a dark angel born of evil and created for destruction. When his master orders him to venture into the mortal world and retrieve a female for him, he seizes the chance to leave Hell for the first time, uncaring of what the Devil has planned for her… until he sets eyes on the most beautiful woman he has ever seen—a female who awakens new feelings within his black heart, unleashing passion so intense that it controls him and desire he cannot resist.
He will not let his wretched master have her. She will belong to him.
Liora is a witch with a bad reputation and an obsession with fighting demons. A mission gone wrong sees her sent to Paris to cool off, but when a dark and deadly warrior with a gaze of golden fire lands in her life, she ends up burning hotter than Hell for the wicked angel. Nothing will stand between her and the immense, forbidding male. Not her cousin. Not Asmodeus’s sworn enemy and twin, Apollyon. And certainly not the Devil.
Caught up in a tempest of danger and soul-searing passion, can they survive against the odds and seize their forever after?
Her Wicked Angel
is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple
iBooks stores and many other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the
links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Wicked%20Angel
Her Wicked Angel – Excerpt
“What business do you have with me?”
Asmodeus casually preened his feathers, preparing them for the flight home, and
ignored the Devil’s scowl.
The male hated it when he spoke to him
without an ounce of respect. Everyone else under his command simpered and
scraped at his feet. As far as Asmodeus was concerned, the Devil had enough
pathetic creatures kissing his expensive Italian leather shoes. Asmodeus wasn’t
about to join them. He was above them.
The Devil’s right hand man.
A male created for destruction and
bloodshed.
“You are to travel to the mortal realm and
retrieve a female for me.”
Asmodeus’s black eyebrows pinched in a
frown and it took him a moment to absorb exactly what the Devil had said and
the connotations it contained.
One, he was ordering him to lower himself
to the role of minion, retrieving him another female for his harem. Treating
him like a servant. That irked him. He was not just another of the Devil’s
servants.
Two, he was offering him a taste of the
mortal world, granting him leave to step outside the environs of Hell for the
first time in his existence. That intrigued Asmodeus. He had always wanted to
see the mortal realm with his own eyes and experience it.
Asmodeus stared at him, weighing his
options. Swallow his pride and finally fly in the world above, seeing the
buildings and the colours, and all the things he had only ever seen in the pool
on the plateau, or tell the Devil to stick it and spend the next week in the
cells, probably tortured, possibly maimed permanently for his disobedience.
Asmodeus swallowed his pride and it tasted
bitter. “Fine.”
The Devil grinned, revealing short fangs.
“Good. You will find her in Paris, in the middle of the park near the base of
the Eiffel Tower. She will be wearing crimson and black. Bring her to me.”
Asmodeus nodded, took a step backwards and
then turned away from the Devil.
He threw his hand out in front of him and a
black vortex appeared, swirling like smoke. It had been many centuries since he
had bothered practicing glamours and veils, having given up on ever leaving
Hell and having no need for changing his appearance in this realm. He hoped he
hadn’t forgotten how to cast them.
Asmodeus focused on himself, casting a veil
so none would see him when he stepped through the portal into the mortal realm.
“Bring her to me quickly, Asmodeus,” the
Devil said behind him and Asmodeus nodded again.
Perhaps he would dally just a little. Who
knew when the Devil would allow him to leave Hell again?
He stepped through the black portal and
tensed as he appeared in the mortal realm. His eyes watered and he blinked
against the assault of strong light, leaning back into the shade of the tower
that speared the blue sky above him.
Blue.
Asmodeus tipped his head back and stared up
at it, and then looked at his surroundings. Green trees. Dark metal. Pale
stone. Mortals dressed in a multitude of colours. The warm air carried strange
scents. Dust. Something sweet. Smoke. Sounds came from every direction. Blasts
of noise and distant rumbles of what he suspected were vehicles. Constant
chatter. Laughter. Squeals of happiness. All alien to him.
All choking and closing in on him.
He didn’t like it.
He took a step back towards the portal
behind him and glared at everyone as they passed. Ants. Hundreds of them.
Swarming. Shoving. Jostling each other. He wanted to kill them all. They were
noisy. Brutal. Irritating.
Insignificant.
Powerless.
Asmodeus grinned, his golden eyes narrowing
with it, and flexed his fingers. His fangs began to lengthen and his black
claws followed them.
Prey for the hunter.
He would drown out the disgusting scents with
the smell of blood. He would replace joy with fear, with screams and sobs and
pointless pleas for mercy. He would bathe this colourful world in crimson.
Crimson.
A flash of that colour caught his eye and
his gaze zeroed in on it. It was gone, lost in the sea of other hues. It
flickered again, further off to his right, and his eyes shot to it. Wavy
chestnut hair bounced against crimson ruffled material with each light step. He
caught a sliver of black jeans. Crimson and black. The female the Devil wanted.
She turned and he glimpsed her face, and
his desire to bathe his hands in the blood of these puny creatures slipped
away, calm suffusing him, making him forget his irritation and dark desires.
She blinked, black lashes shuttering
luminous hazel eyes, and turned away, continuing onwards towards a strip of
green land to his right beyond the shadow of the tower.
Asmodeus felt a tug behind his breastbone,
pulling him in her direction, but something told him it wasn’t the Devil
commanding him to follow her. It was something else that made him want to track
her through the crowd.
He focused and altered his appearance as he
walked, hiding his pieces of gold-edged black armour with a black dress shirt,
black jeans and leather boots, and shielding his wings. He lifted the veil that
concealed him from mortal eyes and stalked the female as she moved through the
thinning crowd, keeping his distance but remaining close enough that he
wouldn’t lose her.
She stepped out into the bright sunlight on
the vivid green grass and it cast golden highlights in her hair. Asmodeus’s
heart missed a beat and then thumped hard against his ribs. His palms sweated.
Why?
He had hunted thousands before for the
Devil. This female was no different. He would capture her and take her to him.
He wouldn’t.
Asmodeus shook his head and paused at the
edge of the crowd, staring after her.
He wouldn’t?
He had pushed the Devil to the limit of his
patience a thousand times but he had never disobeyed an order. He would not
begin now.
He would take the female to his master.
The female in question turned on the grass
and peered up the height of the tower, using a slender hand to shield her eyes,
and Asmodeus’s heart missed another beat.
He slammed his hand against his bare chest
and coughed. What was wrong with him?
Was the mortal world making him sick? He
had never been sick before, but he had heard that demons could become ill. He
wasn’t a demon though. He had never heard of an angel growing sick. Was it
possible?
All the more reason to grab the female and
return to Hell.
He took a step towards her, and then
another one. She turned her back on him and he closed in until he was only a
few metres away.
He just needed to grab her and then deliver
her to the Devil. It wasn’t difficult, so why was he hesitating? He had never
hesitated before. He had carried out his master’s orders without pause or
regret, spilling blood and carving flesh, destroying lives. This was easy.
Grab. Deliver. End of mission.
The Devil would have a new female for his
growing harem. Asmodeus would return to his castle.
His stomach turned at the thought of that
male laying his filthy claws on this delicate, dainty female.
He stared at the back of her head,
replaying how she had looked when she had paused to glance up the height of the
Eiffel Tower.
Wide hazel eyes.
Soft rosy lips.
Delicate perfect features and porcelain
skin.
Chestnut hair cascading over her shapely
shoulders.
Beautiful.
Pure.
Asmodeus wanted to close the gap between
them, gently lay his hands on her shoulders, and slowly turn her to face him so
he could drink his fill of her beauty and purity all over again.
Instead, he took a step backwards,
distancing himself from her. Foreign feelings and thoughts collided in his
mind, filling it and sending him in circles, tearing him between completing his
mission and doing something that astounded him.
He could leave her here, in peace, and come
up with an excuse. He couldn’t let his despicable master ruin her. He wouldn’t.
He turned away and held his hand out before
him, focusing on the air there to call a portal back to Hell.
“Where do you go, Asmodeus?” The soft
female voice caught him off guard.
His shoulders tensed and his outstretched
hand shook.
She knew his name. She recognised him. And
she spoke in English, even though they were in France.
English was not the native language of this
land.
He had never left Hell before.
How did she know him?
He looked over his right shoulder and found
her standing where he had left her, but facing him, her hands clasped in front
of her, over the point where her crimson short-sleeved gypsy-style top met her
black jeans.
A serene smile curved her rosy lips and it
was then that he felt the incredible power in her.
Her Wicked Angel
is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple
iBooks stores and many other retailers. Also available in paperback.
Find all the
links, a fantastic 6 chapter downloadable sample of the book, and also how to
enter the Her Wicked Angel giveaway and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50
or $25 gift certificate at her website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Wicked%20Angel
Books in the Her
Angel romance series:
Find out more about the Her Angel series at Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/series/54822-her-angel
About Felicity
Heaton:
Felicity Heaton
writes passionate paranormal romance books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton.
In her books she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action,
intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from
dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful
angels and hot demons!
If you're a fan
of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena
Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your
angels a little dark and wicked, Felicity Heaton’s best selling Her Angel
series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the
Vampires Realm series she writes as F E Heaton or any of her stand alone
vampire romance books she writes as Felicity Heaton. Or if you’re looking for
vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try Felicity
Heaton’s new Vampire Erotic Theatre series.
In 2011, five of
her six paranormal romance books received Top Pick awards from Night Owl
Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The
Romance Reviews, and many of her releases received five star reviews from
numerous websites.
If you want to know more about Felicity,
or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places:
Website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/felicityheaton
Twitter: http://twitter.com/felicityheaton
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/felicityheaton
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