Showing posts with label Adriana Kraft. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

#NewRelease ~ Through the Lens By Adriana Kraft ~ @adrianakraft

Through the Lens
By Adriana Kraft 

About Through the Lens:

Prairie roots can be deceptive. Will Ellen Jeffers cling to the sedate past that’s familiar, or will she embrace a different version of her history—one that includes tragedy, scandal, fortitude, and freedom?

It’s 2002, and South Dakota third grade teacher Ellen Jeffers has signed up for a photography summer course and assistantship at an art academy in Minneapolis. Thirty-three, divorced from her college boyfriend for nearly a decade, she’s not seeking major change. She just hopes the course will enhance her teaching skills and her resume. 

Aaron Brewster comes from privilege, and he has used that status to flaunt his family’s values and carve out a successful career as a photographer specializing in black and white erotic portraiture. Has he ever loved? His love is for beauty, sensuality, eroticism. His new uptight teaching assistant will never fit that vision. Should he send her packing? For reasons he cannot fathom, he takes her on as a challenge.

Aaron’s frontal assault shocks Ellen, but it also triggers something deep inside she’s never been willing to acknowledge. Is her beloved prairie a safe refuge, or will it become a crucible for transformation? The choice is not merely Ellen’s. 

Publisher: eXtasy Books

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Excerpt from Through the Lens:

Ellen has arranged a photo shoot with Aaron on the open prairie, where her ancestors homesteaded. The original sod house still stands.

“Uncle Jim asked that we not try to go in,” Ellen said, walking around the old soddy. “I can understand why. He’s looking into how he can shore it up without damaging the walls more.”

“It’s an amazing structure,” Aaron said. “Baked by wind and sun, I guess. I’ve seen adobe of the southwest, but I’ve never seen anything like this. Looks like caked mud, grasses, and I don’t know what else.”

“Anything that might stick together. I know the roof has undergone repair, probably several times. I don’t know about the walls. They’re very thick.”

“You’ve been in the house?”

“When I was a little girl, and then my mother brought me out here when I was fourteen to explain Clarissa to me.”

“That must’ve been fascinating.”

“It was. I already knew much of the story, but not all of it.”

“And this is her place.”

“The original soddy. The wood house she and Hazel built didn’t last, but this structure did. Ironic, huh?”

“Amazing. And she would’ve used most of these things your mother collected for the shoot.”

“That’s right. These, or others like them.” Ellen ran fingers over the spinning wheel. “This wheel was hers. The flail comes down from her. The hurricane lamps probably don’t. There’s an old butter churn. I don’t know its history. But they’re all authentic pieces. None of them are replicas.”

“Very good.”

“You do have a passion for authenticity.” She stepped across the baked ground to squeeze his arm. “That must go along with trying to be original and wanting to be first.” She studied him thoughtfully.

He held her gaze.

“Neither one of us seems eager to talk about last night.”

He shrugged. “Maybe we’re afraid if we do, it will evaporate like a mirage.”

About the Author: 

Winner of the 2014 Bisexual Book Award for erotic fiction, author Adriana Kraft is a married couple writing Sizzling Romantic Suspense and Erotic Romance for Two, Three, or More. With backgrounds in criminology and counseling, we combine our expertise in the criminal mind, trauma, healing and human nature with a passion for robust sexuality and life-long vitality.

One man, one woman, danger and intrigue – always a happy ending, but oh, what a ride! Readers can count on our Romantic Suspense line for “warmth, blazing hot sex, and well-developed characters” (Romance Junkies Reviews) as our hero and heroine battle outer threats and inner demons to stay alive and fall in love.

A man, a woman (or two), or another man, threesomes, foursomes, what’s your fantasy? We write our Erotic Romance stories to entertain, of course, but most of all we write them because we believe in happy endings for all who fall in love, whatever their gender, sexual orientation or numerical combination. Here you’ll find multiple partners, three-way, four-way and more, swing lifestyle, lesbian, bisexual, ménage and polyamory, in both contemporary and paranormal settings: “scorching hot…refreshing…something to read when you want straight up hotness” (Long and Short Reviews)

Together we have published over forty romance novels and novellas to outstanding reviews. We love hearing from readers at adrianakraft99@yahoo.com

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

The Best Man By Adriana Kraft ~ Giveaway ~ Excerpt

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The Best Man
By Adriana Kraft   

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BLURB:

Bad boy meets bad girl. Is there anything more?

Passionate, hardworking and every inch a businesswoman, Chicago realtor Kitty Paige likes her sex raw and edgy, and sees no reason to limit herself to just one man. Never married and not quite forty, the striking blonde has successfully raised her daughter, Susan, and is already pushing her new-found freedom to the limits.

Wealthy commodities middle-man and race horse owner Jared Jacobs is father of the best man at Susan’s wedding. He is smitten by the vision in yellow who exudes sex as she escorts her daughter down the aisle. Also single, the handsome mustached California ranch owner with mischievous eyes views his sex life as a series of splendid love affairs, and sets out to make Kitty next on the list.

Together and apart, their chemistry is explosive, and their sparkling repartee and steamy sex catch both partners by surprise. Jared is first to recognize he’s fallen in love. When Kitty panics, can Jared finesse his every move and reel her in?

Series & Number:  Stand Alone
Genre: Erotic Romantic Suspense 
Heat Level (sweet to erotic): erotic
Pages or Word Count: 260 Pgs.
Publisher: B&B Publishing
Publish Date:  24 May 2013 

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Handing Jared his hot dog and fries, Kitty grinned at the lusty expression suddenly crossing his face. Rebecca was right—the raised collar was going to make the afternoon very long for Jared. Long for her, too.
“What have you two been up to,” he asked, “besides food gathering?”
“Conspiring.”
“Conspiring how to make me rock hard?” he whispered in her ear as she slid in front of him to take the seat on the other side.
“Of course.” She batted an eyelash. “Isn’t that the point?”
“Do you know you have the sexiest damn feet?”
“Uh huh.” She slapped his hand off her thigh. “You’ve told me before. And we have a much larger crowd today, so be a good boy—for a change—if you can.”
He leaned away from her and chortled, then glanced over at the tote board. “It’d be a lot easier to be a good boy if you weren’t so intent on being a naughty girl.” He gave her a crooked smile and laid half the Daily Racing Form across her lap. 
She scowled at him when she felt his fingers toying with the hem of her skirt, which had ridden half way up her thigh. “If you persist on being bad, I’ll have to spank you when we get back home.”
He withdrew his hand from under the newspaper and leaned over to whisper in her ear. “Is that a promise?”
She burst out laughing. “Trust me. So how did we do on the last race?”
“Your horse came in right behind mine, so we not only won the race but got the exacta.”
She couldn’t help herself. She quickly leaned over and whispered, “So does that mean I was riding your ass?”
He shook his head and checked out the horses across the way at the starting gate with his binoculars. “So now who is taunting?”
“So how much more do I have to do before I’ve earned a spanking?”
“Not a bit more,” he said out of the corner of his mouth. “You earned that when you came back to the box with your collar at such a rakish angle.”
“Do we have to stay for all the races?”
He let the binoculars hang from his neck and gave her a crooked smile. “You getting a little hot?”
She nodded.
“We can leave after the eighth. Will that be soon enough for you?”
She pouted. “It’ll have to be.”

The Best Man Copyright © 2014 by Adriana Kraft used with permission of author 



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Author Bio: 

Award winning author Adriana Kraft is a married pair of baby-boomers who believe that good sex is meant to be enjoyed. We write in two genres: erotic romance for two, three, or more, and sizzling romantic suspense. Our romantic pairings include straight m/f, lesbian, bisexual, ménage and polyamory, in both contemporary and paranormal settings. 

We especially write for couples (married or otherwise, straight or LGBTQ). We craft scenes that appeal to both genders, scenes that invite fantasizing, scenes that can be part of foreplay, scenes that lead to one of our favorite lines from a reviewer of Colors of the Night, our very first published book: “The reader will no doubt want either a partner or a bucket of toys close at hand.”


We blog about erotic fiction and also feature a Stay Sexy column focused on keeping vibrant, healthy, excited and sexy across the life cycle. Whether we're crafting erotic fiction, sharing health tips, reviewing books, movies, and toys, or talking about our personal experiences, we hope to inspire our readers to live life to the fullest, embrace their sexuality, and do what is within their power to maintain healthy bodies and minds. 


We invite you to stop by our Website, browse our Blog, and sample a taste of our world, “filled with warmth, blazing hot sex, well-developed characters…not for the faint of heart.” (Romance Junkies). 



Author Social Links 

Website | Blog | Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | GoodReads 

Author Pages:  Amazon | B&N | AllRomance 


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Giveaway:
Open to everyone 21 and up.

Grand Prize: $10 Gift Card to Amazon or AllRomance with an eBook copy of choice from Adriana Kraft’s backlist.

TWO second prize winners will get an eBook copy of choice from Adriana Kraft’s backlist.

Please visit the other stops on the tour. You may find those locations here



Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Heist by Adriana Kraft ~ Bippity Boppity Book ~ Giveaway

The Heist
by Adriana Kraft


Today I am pleased to present my stop for The Heist a new romantic suspense title from author Adriana Kraft and organized by Bippity Boppity Book.  Please read on to see all about the book, and don't forget to enter the tour-wide giveaway where you could win the Grand prize, a download of Cassie's Hope, a $10 GC, swag, and a cover flat signed by Adriana Kraft and cover model Scott Nova or one of  Ten second prizes: swag & the signed cover flat.  Please be sure to check out the other tour stops - each excerpt stop isunique, and there are a few reviews posted as well.

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About the Book:

 A heist? A murder? It’s villain’s choice.

A special-order art theft?

Tedious, but seamless – until small town museum director Kara Daniels calls in the experts. Furious her favorite trio of priceless impressionist paintings has been stolen from its traveling exhibit on her watch, Kara is determined to save not only the paintings, but her future in the art world. She’ll stop at nothing to entrap the thief.

Ted Springs knows the underbelly of the criminal world a little closer than he might like—but he’s turned it to good advantage, first as a police officer, and now as detective for the Upper Midwest Arts Council. His job? To guarantee the security of the valuable paintings in the Council’s traveling exhibits.

Heat sizzles when Ted and Kara collide—can they work together, before it’s too late?

Publisher: B&B Publishing
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Pages: 240
Heat rating: Three Flames

See the Book at GoodreadsPurchase Now at:  Amazon

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What people are saying:

Five stars at Goodreads
: “The sex is hot and I loved the phone sex scenes. Never did I expect the ending. It was brilliant. The Heist is a winner!” Sheila G.

Five stars at Amazon: “Very hot…engaging, entertaining, funny and serious, well written and extremely enjoyable to read.” Donna H.

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Excerpt: 

Maybe we should talk about that embrace,” Ted added.
“Embrace?” Kara squeaked. “We didn’t embrace.”
“Wrong. Perception is the key to everything. I perceived it as an embrace. You didn’t rush out of my arms.”
“Because,” Kara snapped, “you hung onto me to keep us from falling.” 
“So that was your perception,” he quipped. “Damn, woman, you have the most incredible breasts.”
Ted was delighted to see a blush moving up Kara’s neck. “I can’t tell you how often I’ve picked up the phone to call you.”
She frowned and glanced at him with a flicker of renewed interest. “But you didn’t.”
He exhaled slowly. “And do you think I’ll ever get to know you?”
She giggled softly. “Not in the way you’re thinking.” She thrust out her chin. “At least not while you’re working this case.”
He took his time to chew on that information. “Fair enough,” he said. He wished he knew what he done or said to disarm her. Maybe it had been the memory of their brief encounter. “Not that I need more incentive to wrap this museum situation up quickly.” He paused. “Do you suppose we’ll be able to hug now and then like friends, now that we’ve cleared the air? Shaking hands seems so stodgy.”
Kara laughed quickly and then peeked over at him with a devastating smile. “As long as you don’t paw my boobs.”
Smiling, he didn’t miss a beat. “How about your rear?”
She arched an eyebrow at him. “That is a different matter. Your large hands did leave a pleasant impression on my ass.”
So she didn’t mind a little flirting even while he worked the case. “Good. I believe in first impressions, and I always like to be clear about the rules of the game. Now maybe you should tell me how you think one or more people entered the museum supposedly without a key.”
She scrunched her mouth. “So do you play by the rules?”
“I didn’t say that. I just like to know what they are.”

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About the Author: 



Adriana Kraft is the pen name for a husband/wife team writing sizzling romantic suspense and erotic romance. The award-winning pair has published over thirty romance novels and novellas to outstanding reviews. Romantic pairings include straight m/f, lesbian, bisexual, ménage and polyamory, in both contemporary and paranormal settings.

 Find and Follow at:  Website ♦ Blog ♦ Facebook ♦ Twitter ♦ Goodreads ♦ Shelfari


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Giveaway:


Grand prize is a download of Cassie's Hope by Adriana Kraft, a $10 GC, swag, and a cover flat signed by author and cover model Scott Nova.

Ten second prizes winners will get swag & the signed cover flat

Ends 7/31/2014



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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Cherry TuneUp by Adriana Kraft ~ REVIEW ~

I am a huge fan of NASCAR. There is really nothing quite like the smell of burning rubber and a racing engine that when tuned just right blends right in with the beat of your heart. Yes, I really am a huge fan. So when I seen the word NASCAR mentioned in the blurb for Cherry TuneUp, I knew I had to read this book. So when I was given the chance to read this book I jumped on it.

The very first word that came to mind when I finished this book was HOT! and I do mean HOT!! 

Bobbi Jo is due to get married however she has something very personal that she wants to lose first. She turns to her childhood friend Jack Day for help. Jack is surprised to see Bobbi Jo and even more surprised with what she wants help with. However he is more the willing to assist her. Things heat up pretty quickly. These two really have a flaming attraction to each other and enjoy getting to know each other more in a very intimate sense. When a friend of Jack's shows up unexpectedly things get even HOTTER if that is possible.

I really enjoyed this steaming hot story by Adriana Kraft. This is the first chance I have had to read any work by Adriana Kraft and I would certainly be open to reading more in the future. 

If you enjoy a steamy hot erotic story or are already a fan of Adriana Kraft then I think you will really enjoy this story. It will most certainly get your heart racing just as fast as the racing engine I was talking about. 

I was given the opportunity to read this book so that I may share my thoughts with you. As always it has been my pleasure to share my thoughts with you on Cherry Tuneup