Good Morning to Coffee Time’s Coffee Thoughts blog.

I’m pleased to be here today to talk about four new ebook releases.

First is my December 10 release from The Wilder Roses (the Scarlet Rose line of erotic romance at The Wild Rose Press), DESIGNED ENCOUNTER by Samantha Gentry.  www.thewilderroses.com

Second, third, and fourth are reissues of some of my Silhouette Desire backlist, written under my other pseudonym of Shawna Delacorte, in ebook format:  IN FORBIDDEN TERRITORY, HAVING THE BEST MAN’S BABY, and AT THE TYCOON’S COMMAND.  These are available at http://ebooks.eharlequin.com (do “search” for either book title or Shawna Delacorte), Barnes and Noble for NookBooks www.bn.com, and Amazon for Kindle www.amazon.com

You can find out more about me and my books at my website:  www.samanthagentry.com

DESIGNED ENCOUNTER is the fourth of my Encounter novellas, all available at The Wilder Roses.  The idea for this one probably came from having watched a lot of HGTV design and staging programs. 🙂

Trent Reynolds is an architect and contractor who has achieved critical acclaim for his designs and the type of success usually associated with someone older than his thirty-eight years of age.  His latest creation is a three building office complex.

Maddie Sloan is hired by the leasing agent to design and stage two office suites, one a ground floor area and the other the penthouse suite of the tallest of the three buildings.  It’s a different type of project than the interior design assignments she usually handles.

Trent and Maddie experience the immediate pull of an intense physical attraction, an attraction that each keeps tightly under control.  They work together for several weeks, a mutually beneficial arrangement.  And for several weeks it’s a strictly hands off situation, each adhering to a professional work ethic.

Trent has an iron clad rule that says he never becomes personally involved with women who work for him or, as in Maddie’s case, women he works with even if they weren’t his direct employee.  Maddie knows this assignment is a big step in moving her career into a new direction and she intends to handle it in her best professional manner.  But once Maddie’s portion of the project is completed, they are no longer working together and the rules change.  A relationship quickly develops.  But what kind of relationship do they have?

Excerpt #1 Adult (Trent wants):

He suspected if they filled out one of those computer dating profiles, it would show them as a compatible match. And that’s the part that left him uneasy. He wasn’t looking for a relationship, at least not the type that came with emotional ties. A short term relationship of fun and games was certainly in the cards, but nothing serious and definitely nothing long term. He’d been down that bumpy road before with an ill-fated engagement and had no intention of treading the same ground again. He was happy with his life just the way it was. He had a successful career doing work he enjoyed and various other pursuits that afforded him the availability of social contact. He didn’t need to hang around bars or do the singles scene in order to find the short term sexual relationships that suited him. He didn’t want to make any changes to his lifestyle.

So why did he have a strange and uncomfortable sensation poking at his consciousness whenever he thought about Maddie? She looked hot, the attraction immediate. His cock stood at attention the first time they shook hands. But she also had an elegance about her, something special and unique that said she was worth knowing. He shook his head in an attempt to drive away the thoughts. The only relationship he was interested in was one based on no-strings-attached hot sex.

Excerpt #2 Adult (Maddie wants):

One night stands with someone she had just met were not her style. With a failed marriage behind her and a more mature outlook on life than the days following her divorce, she had moved beyond meeting men in singles bars and engaging in casual meaningless affairs. She was at a point where she wanted more substance in her life. Not necessarily another attempt at marriage, but something more settled and substantial than what she’d had the last few years. Someone she could trust, someone dependable. Trust and dependability””two very important things missing from her marriage. She had learned the hard lesson of trusting only herself in personal and emotional matters.

But something about Trent Reynolds stirred her desires to the point where she wanted to impale herself on his cock and stay there. Hot, passionate sex. Yep, something about Trent Reynolds spoke directly to her on the most primal level. In spite of the positive direction she had steered her life since her divorce, Trent seemed to be the exception to her self-imposed rules of no one night stands. Regardless of how healthy someone’s daily meals were, every now and then the overwhelming desire to indulge a totally decadent dessert could not be ignored. And Trent was that decadent dessert.

Taking a calming breath, she entered the restaurant and immediately spotted him.

“I’m sorry to keep you waiting. As soon as I got home my phone started ringing and I couldn’t get away from it.”

“No problem.”

Her nipples tightened into taut buds and her breath quickened as he swept something more than merely an admiring gaze across her body. Something that felt very personal. A hunger for more than dinner welled inside her. She wanted that decadent dessert.

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And now I’d like to tell you about an added bonus that came as a surprise to me.  I received an email in November from Harlequin saying they were releasing three of my Silhouette Desire titles in ebook format.  All 21 of my Harlequin and Silhouette titles were written as Shawna Delacorte and are listed on my Samantha Gentry website with cover and blurb www.samanthagentry.com

I have set up a blog for my Shawna Delacorte Harlequin and Silhouette ebook reissues  http://shawnadelacorte.blogspot.com

IN FORBIDDEN TERRITORY by Shawna Delacorte

Silhouette Desire original release: January 2005

Available in ebook format now

The Danger Zone:

Filling in as a guide and companion for his best friend’s kid sister was cramping Tyler Farrell’s bachelor lifestyle. At least, until a drop-dead-gorgeous, very-grown-up Angie melted his bones with one searing kiss. She was supposed to be off-limits”¦but Tyler liked playing with fire.

Angie wanted to prove she wasn’t a child anymore. And what better way to do so than a no-strings affair with Tyler-the perfect love ’em and leave ’em guy? Except that the closer she got to Tyler, the hotter the attraction burned and the harder she fell in love. Somehow she had to convince commitment-phobic Tyler that she was his to claim-permanently!

HAVING THE BEST MAN’S BABY by Shawna Delacorte

Silhouette Desire original release: October 2003

Available in ebook format now

Suddenly With Child:

Fifteen years had passed since Ry Collier broke her teenage heart. Fifteen years during which the golden boy had amassed a fortune, making a name for the man. Fifteen years during which she’d blossomed into a woman bearing little resemblance to an awkward schoolgirl, if Ry’s searing, searching appraisal in meeting her again was any indication. But quickly, best man Ry knew why the maid of honor looked familiar. And despite the past, they shared a bed.

And Jean Summerfield became pregnant. Now she had to tell Ry that one reckless, remarkable night of passion had made a baby. And risk history repeating itself”¦

AT THE TYCOON’S COMMAND by Shawna Delacorte

Silhouette Desire original release: February 2003

Available in ebook format after January 1, 2011

Employed By The Enemy:

Working for Jared Stevens was not how teacher Kim Donaldson wanted to spend her vacation, but doing so would pay off her father’s debt and end the long-standing feud begun by their grandfathers. If only Jared hadn’t matured into a handsome man with a magnetic appeal and a smooth, sexy voice that made concentrating extremely difficult!

Reformed playboy Jared was nothing like his unethical father-he was hardworking and responsible”¦and his attraction to his newest employee was immediate and powerful. Jared found their passionate battles in the office led to steamy lovemaking in the bedroom. But could a woman who no longer trusted find love with a man afraid of commitment?

THANK YOU Coffee Time Romance for having me here at the Coffee Thoughts blog today.