I\u2019ll be away from camp for a bit today, but I\u2019ll check in from time to time. Meanwhile, Cookie will be here keeping the coffee hot and the beans burned (and sidlin\u2019 up to Gem the wily ol\u2019 coot). <\/span><\/p>\n Enough from me, here\u2019s Gem and her HAWT new release! \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Good morning, Kirsten. Pour a cup of brew and help me celebrate the release of the fifth title in my Eclipse Heat series\u2014Trouble In Disguise<\/i>! As soon as my coffee mugs arrive, I\u2019m sending one your way. <\/span>J<\/span><\/span> And\u2014since I mentioned mugs\u2014the winner of my <\/span>Wild and Wicked Cowboys<\/span><\/b><\/a> \u00a0<\/span>Eclipse Heat mug give away is *drum roll\u2026* Cindy H. Congrats Cindy!!<\/span><\/p>\n If guests dropping by the campfire today leave comments, I\u2019ll give away another mug.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 Trouble In Disguise<\/span><\/i> is a steamy historical western with a former minister as the hero. It took me a while to figure out where and with whom Robert \u201cthe Deacon\u201d McCallister would find love. But after revisions, edits, more revisions and painful cuts (picture doing surgery on your own child) my third McCallister bounty hunter is here. <\/span>J<\/span><\/span> Since we\u2019re already at the campfire, I\u2019d like to share a scene.<\/span><\/p>\n Excerpt:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Even before Ketchum trotted to Possum\u2019s side and sat down, Miri knew they were being followed. Since she preferred knowing who was on her trail, she figured it was time to find out. She camped for the night, built a small fire and made a show of grooming Possum before fading into the surrounding shadows with Ketchum leading the way in their investigation. Any predators lurking in her path scurried away at the approach of the big wolf guiding her.<\/p>\n She and Ketchum were squirming on their bellies on the ground using the twilight and half darkness for cover when her quarry struck a lucifer and lit his cigar.<\/p>\n \u201cLose something?\u201d Deacon drawled.<\/p>\n Miri felt like a fool. Ketchum growled at the same time his tail thumped. Evidently her wolf couldn\u2019t decide whether to bite Deacon McCallister or lick him. Miri had the same problem. She stood and brushed the dirt off her buckskins before she answered in Beau\u2019s voice, \u201cYou followin\u2019 me fer a reason, McCallister?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI decided to hold back from coming into your camp for the night until you\u2019d made a fire and put the coffee on. Catch.\u201d<\/p>\n Miri caught the jack he tossed.<\/p>\n \u201cI brought supper. You cook.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe I don\u2019t want company.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGet used to it. Until we find the counterfeiter\u2019s plates, we\u2019re partnering.\u201d Deacon delivered his astonishing opinion before he grunted and rode past her toward her camp, leaving her standing in the dark holding a dead rabbit.<\/p>\n \u201cKetchum,\u201d she muttered in her best Beau voice, \u201cI think we\u2019re looking at trouble. What say you?\u201d The big wolf whined, nudging the rabbit in her hand and reminding her to get moving. Now this was a quandary for certain. She\u2019d ridden away to put distance between her and Deacon McCallister and he\u2019d followed her.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think I can sleep across from him and not crawl into his bedroll.<\/i> She groaned. Darn it, she\u2019d been planning on stretching out by the fire and reliving her Pleasure Dome experiences. Now here was the real-life version of Deacon stomping all over those plans as he bullied his way into her camp, dogging Beauregard\u2019s heels and impeding Miri\u2019s happy dreams.<\/p>\n Her theory that one taste of Deacon would be enough was not proving true. She swallowed, trying to tamp down her lust. Reminding herself to focus on reclaiming her prisoner, she returned to camp where Deacon had made himself at home. He\u2019d already removed his saddle and commenced brushing down his horse when she and Ketchum entered the camp.<\/p>\n \u201cMcCallister, you\u2019ve got a lot of nerve showing up here.\u201d She threw the rabbit back at him. \u201cI\u2019ve got my own food.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo be it,\u201d he agreed amiably enough. He didn\u2019t say another word.<\/p>\n Miri pulled her hardtack and jerky from her saddle bags and sat by her fire, daring him to pour himself a cup of her coffee. She was mesmerized by her proximity to the man who simultaneously enraged and aroused her.<\/p>\n She chewed her tough jerky watching as Deacon deftly skinned, cleaned and spit the carcass of the rabbit. Then he set the meat aside to build his own fire. He finished grooming his horse as the flames burned low enough for cooking.<\/p>\n Using a metal rod he pulled from his saddle bag, Deacon propped the meat over the coals, rotating the spit and browning the meat on all sides. Juice sizzled as it dropped on the fire. Miri\u2019s stomach growled as she watched. It was almost less torture to look at Deacon.<\/p>\n Whiskers had grown back, covering the lower half of his face. The new growth looked more black than red in the half light of camp. She shivered and hunched closer to her fire, remembering how she\u2019d watched him shave his beard off. Desperately she snarled in Beauregard\u2019s meanest tone, \u201cMcCallister, I don\u2019t know what yer up to, but I\u2019m guessing it ain\u2019t to my benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSure it is. You think too small, Beauregard. I\u2019m going to help you find the plates, catch a gang of counterfeiters and collect the bounty on all of them. In return for my help, you\u2019re going to introduce me to the young woman I met at the Pleasure Dome.\u201d<\/p>\n Miri choked so hard on her biscuit she spilled her coffee. Deacon crossed the space between them and thumped her back until she wheezed and quit coughing. Then he filled his cup with her coffee, handed her a plate with a piece of rabbit meat on it and retreated to his side of the camp.<\/p>\n Well don\u2019t that beat all? I guess he was partial to how it felt too. But I can\u2019t very well say hello, Deacon. Nice seeing you again. By the way, I\u2019m a female\u2026<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Blurb:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Eclipse Heat\u00a0<\/span><\/i>series<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Since both his partners have married and retired from the hunt, Deacon McCallister is alone when he visits the Pleasure Dome, an infamous brothel in Fort Worth\u2019s Hell\u2019s Half Acre. He\u2019s tracking a counterfeiter but what he finds is TROUBLE\u2014dressed in a man\u2019s ruffled shirt and nothing more.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Bounty hunter Miracle Beauregard pretends to be male, calls herself Beau and for years has fooled the general public concerning her gender. But underneath Miri\u2019s disguise, beats a feminine heart in lust for Deacon McCallister. Though she spends a lot of time dreaming about her rival, she never expects to act upon her longings.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When Miri follows an outlaw to the fanciest whorehouse in Texas and crosses paths with her heart\u2019s desire, she trades her buckskins for bare skin to play the part of Deacon\u2019s paid companion.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Inside Scoop:<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Miri figures wrong when she thinks one taste of Deacon will be enough and quickly discovers her undercover lover has forever on his mind.<\/span><\/p>\n A Romantica\u00ae\/Lawless\u00a0<\/span>erotic romance<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>from Ellora\u2019s Cave<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n ~~~<\/span><\/p>\n If you enjoyed the excerpt from Trouble In Disguise<\/i>, it releases this morning from <\/span>Ellora\u2019s Cave.<\/span><\/b><\/a> Later today it should be available at Amazon so I\u2019m also posting the link for my <\/span>Gem Sivad Amazon page<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Thanks so much for sharing your campfire today, Kirsten. <\/span><\/p>\n ___________Gem Sivad<\/b>___________<\/span><\/p>\n Web\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/a>\/\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Twitter<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span><\/b>FB<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Amazon<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YEEEEE-HAAAW!! 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