Well, it's back again for another year!
Blank Canvas by Mari Carr is the 1st in her Big Easy series of New Orleans-set contemporary erotic romances following the Lewis family, this one an f/m BDSM installment starring a divorcée and a tattoo artist who will soon be making kinky body art together, free courtesy of publisher Carried Away and All Romance eBooks as their Christmas Countdown Giveaway selection for December 13th.
This has 4 out of 5 flames on the heat index over at ARE, which generally but not always tends to indicate a reasonable amount of plot to go with the expected sexyfuntimes, and no particular warnings listed in the tags.
Currently free, just until shortly before midnight CST on the 14th @
All Romance eBooks (DRM-free choice of formats available worldwide; if you want more than one format, you'll have to go through the checkout again).
In addition to today's Xmas Countdown freebie, Carr also offers two more freebie 4-flame f/m contemporary romance titles over @ ARE:
Come Monday, 1st in her Wild Irish series, and
Scoring in her Lowell High series.
Carr is also a Samhain-published author and her books from them are eligible for ARE's usual Buy 10 Get 1 Free offer, as well as their occasional rebate sales, so if it turns out you like her writing, you might want to have a look through
her author page to see if there's anything you might want to sample and wishlist. The 8-author
Midnight Ink anthology from which this story is excerpted is currently bargain-priced @
$2.99 on ARE, if you are interested in reading more hot and kinky New Orleans romances involving tattoos.
And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.
Because even though I'm a no-romo, I've always liked ARE's periodic countdown giveaways, which I'm pleased to see they've started up again.
It's just amazing the variety of stories they pick to offer which exist within a genre which kind of showcase some of the sheer creativity which can go into creating subsubsubgenres* for authors to distinguish themselves with in a picky niche-seeking market where they hope to match themselves up with Gentle Readers with a taste for Exactly What It Says In The Sub-Category.
Enjoy!
Description
Disillusioned by divorce, Jennifer's about to discover her wild side, starting with a tattoo from Caliph. And continuing with submission, spankings, wax play...all under the skilled hands of her wickedly sexy tattoo master.
In this story, readers are introduced to Caliph Lewis and his family. Future books in the Big Easy series will feature stories about other siblings from the close-knit, fun-loving, rather unconventional Lewis family.
Blank Canvas was previously part of the Midnight Ink anthology.
* This is not intended as a BDSM joke. Well, mostly not. But someone over at ARE must really love their BDSM shapeshifter ménages every year when they pick these things.
