More contesty goodness – because I promised you it was coming! Read on, gentle readers, and try your luck! After all, it is an anthology set in Vegas!
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS…AFTER DARK anthology
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Anya Bast’s story in this anthology is called THE PROMISE. It’s a prequel to THE DEAL, (WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS… the first anthology, released in 2008), and tells Damian’s story and how/why he came to jilt Cassidy at the altar on their wedding day.
Here’s the whole blurb for the book:
Las Vegas… it’s the town that lives up to the promise of its nickname, Sin City. A gamblers’ paradise for innocent tourists, it conceals a darker, sexual world where the ethereal and wraithlike meet to play a different game….
If there’s one thing succubus Deitre understands it’s revenge. That, and enticing men into arousing, exciting and, okay, perilous sex (for him).
Beautiful on the outside, demon on the inside, she’s going to get back at the naughty firefighter in Darkness…unless he plays his cards right…
Bounty hunter Nell is a hell of a tracker. Now she’s in Vegas on the tail of the witch who dared to steal from her clan. She’s going to get to the unsavory harlot through the woman’s ex-fiancé, and nothing about their charged encounters will be shallow, quick or friendly.
When the half-blood fae male comes to club Darkness, Elena can’t resist acting on the mind-blowing heat coursing between them. She might be betrothed to another, but fae culture says sex with other men until marriage is most definitely foretold.
Tattoo artist Devi is the latent vampire the warlocks need to heal all wounds. But taking her power is a sexually exhausting and dangerous task requiring dark deception…and gambling on her life.
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In Anya’s story, The Promise, the heroine, Elena, has known her entire life she would have to marry someone she didn’t love. Family duty binds her and resigns her to her fate, though there’s a part of her that wishes to be free. To enter to win a copy of What Happens in Vegas…After Dark, name a time in your life when you felt duty bound to do something you didn’t want to do.
Three winners will be selected.
Duty bound to do something I didn’t want to do. Hmm. Well, I realized immediately before my wedding ceremony that I was totally doing the wrong thing, but it seemed like the wrong time to stop things, so I went through with it. Stupid, stupid thing to do and we were separated less than a year later.
Only one time? ugh…
*thinking*
Not the worst, but close: inviting my (now ex) m-i-l and two of my (now ex) s-i-ls to stay with us for about a month. We were living in Puerto Rico at the time, and the idea was that they could have a nice vacation there with us.
I’ll spare you the reality of it.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve done something simply because it was a “family obligation” not something I had any interest in doing or participating in. I think the top obligation was throwing a bridal shower for my step-sister who I don’t really like and have zero relationship with. That was a ton of fun…
Oh wow. There are so many. I guess the most important one would be kissing my husband good-bye so he could go to Afghanistan. I wanted to kidnap him and take him to another country. He’s my best friend and I was so scared. But he felt it was something he had to do so I sucked it up and cried a lot. But he’s home safe and sound now:)
I got the “him or us” ultimatum from my parents over my college boyfriend. Of course I felt duty bound to do what my parents wanted—they’re my family, after all. The ones who are supposed to love you forever no matter what. Who gives that up for a college boyfriend? Well… I did. I chose the boyfriend. I was–still am–disowned from my family and have been with college boyfriend for 20 years–married with kids. 🙂
I stayed married to a man I did not love or even like by the time it was over. His family, my family, grandparents, friends, everyone thought we were the bet couple and he was the perfect guy. But they didn’t live with him. He was a self centered, egotistical, slob with a short fuse. I stayed 3 years longer than I should have just to keep everyone happy…man, was I stupid!!
Book sounds great!
This book looks great..and I’m really looking forward to Anya’s story. Cannot wait!
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What Happens in Vegas looks WONDERFUL! My bookstore was out, so I’ll be crossing my fingers.
Think anyone will be married by Elvis?? 🙂
I changed my college major from something I was excited about, to something that I wasn’t interested in but would be lucrative. My father had a long-term illness and I needed to be able to help financially.
congras ont eh book the first was great
i don t have any of that has happen to me knock on wood
but eating my vegatbles i wuld say
I think the worst thing for me was having to smile and tell my son how very proud I was of him (which I was) when whle in the Army he passed his training to be Special Forces, several years ago. I knew what it meant with him having to go to so many dangerous countries and he couldn’t even tell us when or where he was going . This meant so much to him and I truly was and am very proud, but the stress when he’s gone somewhere doesn’t ease up till I hear he’s on US soil again.
Carol L.
Lucky4750@aol.com
Ladies, please take my name out of the drawing, I just got the book elsewhere.
Thank you!
Going to work today lol I took a second job and now I am regretting it. I would rather take these two days a week and stay home and do something productive like start my flower gardens and do other yard work….even sit outside on my new bench and read…but I must go in today. Thankfully it’s only for a few hours then I can come home.
Name one time in your life when you felt duty bound to do something you didnt want to do.
That is a tough question. I guess mine would have to be, when I moved away from home. I moved in with a stranger, he was a janitor at the school I was attending and my mom knew him a bit, so she decided it would be a good experience for me if I boarded with him while I was going to school because he took in boarders. I am a very shy person, and well I hated living with him because I felt so uncomfortable. I just wanted to run away. I stayed living with him for two weeks, until I saw an opportunity to get out of this situation. I then moved in with my boyfriend, and have been living with him ever since.
I love my family dearly, but most of the “duty bounds” fall under ‘family obligations’.
Though one thing that falls under “duty bound” is that we have these snowbird neighbors that we’ve had a 16 year (as of couple years back) relationship with that started out wonderful – they’re an older couple – but, as the years progressed, the lady of the couple became increasingly snobby with the “neighbors” as opposed to “friends” routine. Long and short, and tied into the family, was that had to keep ‘playing nice’ til a few years back something she did was, more or less, straw that broke the camel’s back and we haven’t really talked with those neighbors since. Though the gentleman is the sweetest man you could know, the lady is, well, a witch.
My wedding is coming up next year and “duty bound” is all over the freakin’ place. I’m Chinese so the flowers can’t be white, black or blue (stupid superstitions), I have to have an extra table for friends of my parents whom I’ve never even met…the list goes on, and on, and on…
How about duty bound to be tactful/not speak my mind/keep my mouth shut when the other person (aka m-i-l) obviously did not have the same control and it ends up all cooped up inside me — GRRR! Ahh… m-i-l’s…….
But not any longer! The gloves are off 😉
p.s. Bea: I’m hearing ya – I didn’t know more than half the guests at my chinese wedding!!!
Oh, that is easy. It is right now! I am living in a situation where due to circumstances and economical problems I am a roommate with my “husband”.
We try to remain pleasant for the most part, each doing our thing, but since he has been out of work for a little over 2 1/2 years, I am the only supporting member of the household. Which means I cannot in good conscience make him move out, even though I was informed that he doesn’t think of me “in that way” (even before I made him move out of my bedroom) and really never did. It was more a need not to be alone any longer.
We live over 12 hours from any of his family and with no job or way to support himself, it would mean me literally kicking him into the street. Oh, he says he is trying, but every day when I get home, he is sitting either in front of the TV or the internet playing games. Granted he is in the construction industry which is in the toilet right now, but shouldn’t there be something!?
You know, the more I read this to myself, I feel less dutiful or honorable and just plain stupid.
This book sounds great please enter me in the giveaway!!
The book sounds good.
Frequently “the right thing” needs to be done, even if you don’t want to. Something my mother stressed as I was growing up.
One time that sticks out in my memory is having to invite a girl to my teen birthday slumber party because she was the only girl in my class that I did not plan to invite. We all had a good time in the end.
I’d say it would be marrying my soon to be ex-husband. My father was sick with ALS and he always told me he would feel better going knowing that I was married and well taken care of. Stupid reason to get married but at 21, I can’t say I was a rocket scientist at the time. I found out the hard way what I was REALLY getting myself into.
name a time in your life when you felt duty bound to do something you didn’t want to do.
The only thing that comes to mind is when I had to take in my aunt and her 4 children. She was in between jobs and needed a place to live. Last family member kicked them out and since I had a big house all to myself (how I was voluntered I still don’t know) but we made it work and even became closer friends, now she has her own place and I have my space back.
Trying to take care of my husband’s business’ paperwork because, while he is very good at his trade, he SUCKS at paperwork! I work my own job full-time, have three boys under the age of eight, and now have to do an audit for payroll and taxes for the state!!!! So am not loving life right now! So, I’d be more than happy to have a fun book to read to take my mind off things! Thanks!
I didn’t know that Anya Bast’s story was a prequel to the first anthology.
Besides the duty of having to pay these bills one that I remembered related to work was having to stay for teachers conferences because I worked in a school but was not a teacher. So I’d spend a day learning about vocabulary building, etc and nothing I could do with that info but it was my duty to attend because I worked in that environment. It was awful going through hours of it!
any winners
Yup it should be posted soon.