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Welcome Grace Marshall!
Thanks so much for inviting me over to celebrate The Executive Decisions Trilogy,
Destiny. It’s a pleasure to be here on day seven of a blog tour that celebrates
the joy of novel-threesomes.
I’m celebrating the tour by giving away two print copies of
the first book of the trilogy, An Executive Decision. Enter to win
at the end of this post.
An Identity Crisis of
My Very Own
Not long ago I went to the pharmacy to pick up a
prescription, and when the chemist asked who it was for, I said K D Grace. She
looked at me strangely when I had to correct myself. I mean, really! Who
forgets their own name? Their ‘real name?’ I had a PR email the other day
addressed to Grace, and I had to do a
double-take before I realised the email was for Grace Marshall. My Other Half
occasionally gets referred to as Mr. Grace. Oh he’s used to it by now, and he
doesn’t mind. Thanks to me, he has a double life as well, though a much milder
version than mine. I don’t think he ever forgets which name is really his.
I live in a constant state of Identity Crisis. I’m forever
introducing myself as K D Grace, accidentally filling out forms as K D Grace,
and answering the phone as K D. Honestly, some of my writing friends I know only by their pen names, and that’s how
they know me. K D has been so much a part of me for the past four years that
it’s no wonder she often barges into my non-writing life. And now there’s Grace
Marshall. She’s a bit moresubtle, not quite as demanding, a little more polite
about insinuating herself into my life than K D is. But then she hasn’t been
around quite as long. Maybe the ‘honeymoon’s’ not over yet J However,
during the time she has been around, she’s moved right in and made herself at
home. She even has her own coffee cup now.
Living with Grace, K D, and Kathy all crammed into my inner
space, I can so completely understand Garrett Thorne’s identity crisis. Garrett
writes bestselling romance novels under the name of Tess Delaney. But Garrett
is much better at keeping his identity secret than I am. I don’t really care
who knows that Grace and K D and Kathy are all living fairly peaceably in the
same crowded body. But Garrett has his reasons for wanting to keep his secret
life secret, and he’s kept that secret flawlessly until Tess is nominated for
the Golden Kiss Award and has to make her first-ever public appearance.
Now Garrett looks fabulous in a tux and tie … or out of one
;-). But if he wants to keep Tess’s secret, he’ll either have to go to the
award ceremony in drag or hire someone to do it for him, someone who’s the
epitome of discretion. Not keen on wearing a dress nor having his chest waxed;
against his better judgment, he hires the PR queen of intrigue and secrets,
Kendra Davis, to be his Tess while he goes to the ceremony as her date. In
spite of the fact that the two don’t like each other, a writer’s gotta do what
a writer’s gotta do, and to hell with the consequences.
And wow, are there consequences! Kendra has an identity
crisis of her own, and it makes Garrett and Tess’s pale in comparison. Put
together two people with major identity crises who are likely to either kill
each other or shag each other’s brains out, and let the fun begin. Here’s a
blurb and a little teaser.
Identity Crisis Blurb:
PR rep extraordinaire, Kendra Davis, is elated when she gets the chance to
work for her hero, reclusive, romance novelist, Tess Delaney. Her elation is
short-lived when she discovers that Tess is none other than Garrett Thorne, the
bad-boy brother of business tycoon and eco-warrior, Ellison Thorne, who is
engaged to her best friend, Dee Henning. Kendra blames Garrett for the comedy
of errors that nearly destroyed their relationship. Garrett doesn’t like Kendra
either, but he’s desperate. His alter-ego, Tess has been nominated for the
prestigious Golden Kiss Award. No one knows who Tess really is, and he needs
Kendra to play Tess for the awards.When Tess is stalked by a rabid fan, the two unite to protect her identity. With Kendra, the body and Garrett the soul of Tess Delaney, is there room in this strange ménage for romance? Can a woman who doesn’t exist understand their hearts even better than they do?
Identity Crisis Excerpt:
Book 2 of The
Executive Decisions Trilogy
Before Garrett could say anything else, the line went dead
and he and Kendra sat staring at each other. Garrett reached for the remote and
switched off the television. ‘So what do you think?’ He said. ‘I mean you are
K. Ryde.’
She ran a hand through her hair and tightened the sash at
the waist of the robe. In the kitchen they could hear the coffee maker gurgling
out the last of the coffee into the pot. ‘Garrett, I work for Tess Delaney, not
Don Bachman, and I think it’s up to you. You’ve done what was asked of you.
It’s had better than expected results, and now I think you should do what you
want. I mean a huge part of Tess’s appeal is her mystique. The more public she
becomes the more she risks losing that mystique. If you do decide to have Tess
make the odd public appearance, then I’ll happily oblige, but the more I
pretend to be Tess Delaney, the more risk we run of her really being outed.’
He tugged a strand of her red hair. ‘You think I should do
what I want?’ He scooted closer and brushed a kiss against her parted lips.
‘Because I’m pretty sure you have a good idea of what I want right now.’
She made a half-hearted effort to pull away from him.
‘Garrett, this is serious business, you know. I need to know, K. Ryde needs to
know what to do next.’
He gently nipped her lip and felt her breath catch. ‘I know
that, Kendra, believe me, I do.’ He guided her hand to rest against the bulge
barely contained by his straining shorts. ‘But I can’t think very well at the
moment. Perhaps if you could just help me out a little bit here --’ with his
other hand, he slid open the bottom of the robe to reveal her lush thighs and
beyond, ‘-- then maybe I could concentrate on business a little better.’
She forced an irritated sigh that ended in a soft giggle as
he pulled her to him, shoving the robe open still further, exposing her breasts
to the explorations of his lips and the cupping of his hands as he eased her
back onto the sofa, wriggling his way in between her legs. He had just worried
open the sash and slipped a hand down to cup her and stroke the unbelievable
warmth of her when a loud crash on the front porch caused them both to jump.
She jerked the robe back around her, and he shot up from the couch like he was
spring loaded.
‘What the hell?’ He scrambled to the door with her right
behind him, tightening the sash of the robe as she went.
‘Wait, Garrett. Don’t open it.’ She reached for his hand,
but it was already too late. He wasn’t thinking straight. How could he possibly
be thinking straight when he had been just about to make love to Kendra Davis?
He swung the door open wide and found himself, in nothing but his scant and
somewhat bulging work-out shorts, with Kendra barely covered in his over-sized
robe, on center stage to a sea of reporters. Cameras flashed, the press surged
and before Garrett could close the door, the irritating Mike Pittman shoved a
microphone in his face, shouldering his way into the breach of the door.
Garrett remembered Pittman from Dee and Ellis’s meeting with the press a few
weeks ago. The microphone might have been in Garrett’s face, but Pittman’s eyes
and the lens of the cameraman’s camera were focused on Kendra, hair thoroughly
mussed from last night’s romp, still tying the over-sized robe that was clearly
his, and looking more than a little like she’d just been caught in the act.
‘So it’s true, then, Tess Delaney did spend the night with
you after the Golden Kiss debacle?’
The Golden Kiss debacle! That slimy little rat! ‘Get out of
my face.’ Garrett’s voice was a dangerous growl, and he wasn’t sure what would
have happened if Kendra hadn’t pushed her way front and center.
‘Mr. Pittman,’ she said, in a voice way too good-natured for
what Garrett was sure she must have felt. ‘The answer to that question is
obvious. Where did you think I would be on such an occasion?’ As if to
demonstrate, she ran her arm through Garrett’s and smiled up at him.
‘And what about Barker Blessing?’ Pittman pressed on. ‘Have
you heard from him? From his lawyers?’
‘I think you need to talk to Mr. Blessing about that.’ She
stepped forward into the man’s personal space and forced him back with nothing
more than the power of presence. ‘If you’ll excuse us, Mr. Pittman --’ she shot
a quick look around and offered a smile, and a polite nod to the rest of the
rabble ‘-- everyone. Coffee’s getting cold.’ Her smile turned wicked. ‘I’m
starving, and Garrett promised to make me pancakes.’ Then she stepped back and
shut the door in the man’s face -- not slammed it -- just shut it and turned to
face Garrett, her back pressed against the door.
‘Make you pancakes?’ Garrett manages before she hijacked the
conversation.
‘Rule number one,’ she said, before he could even utter the
curse that was on the tip of his tongue ‘Don’t give the press any reason to up
the ante.’ She shrugged. ‘Alright, you already blew that one last night, and
this is the result.’ She nodded to the shuffling and mumbling they could still
hear beyond the closed door. ‘This is why we needed things to go smoothly last
night, and why we need them eating out of our hands now.’ She made her way into
the living room and peeked around the edge of the curtain at the reporters on
the lawn.
‘I blew it?’ He bristled and followed her to the window.
‘You’re the one who dumped your dessert in Blessing’s lap.’
And that was his fatal mistake. Would he never learn to hold
his tongue around Kendra Davis? He could see the tension in her shoulders
before she turned to face him. ‘It was dessert Garrett, just dessert, not your
fist to the man’s face, not a law suit, not jail.’ She stood facing him with
her hands on her hips, her eyes bright and fiery. ‘And would you have hit
Pittman there, if I hadn’t stepped in?’
‘Oh you’re a fine one to talk about not resorting to
violence,’ he said following her around the living room as she scooped together
her clothing. ‘You, who nearly dislocated my jaw.’
She turned on him. ‘Oh pa-lease. You deserved it. You’ve
deserved everything you got so far, and last night, well if you’d have just let
me handle it, then this,’ she stabbed a finger at the door, ‘this wouldn’t be
happening.’ She jerked off the robe and stood naked in front of him tugging her
panties up over her hips and then shoving into the green dress. And fuck it was
hard to stay focused with her doing that. Did she do that on purpose – get his
cock’s full attention so his brain wouldn’t work? She probably did. She was a
bitch, he reminded himself. How the hell could he forget the number one fact
about Kendra Davis? The woman was a bitch. Interact with her at your own risk.
He watched her stuff her stockings and garter belt into her bag like they were
the enemy, and he was sympathetic.
‘Where’s the back door,’ she said.
‘Through the kitchen,’ he replied, his brain still
half-occupied by her angry reverse strip-tease that had left him in a bad way.
‘Wait a minute. Where are you going? What are you doing?’ He followed her into
the kitchen with her stumbling into her killer heels as she went.
‘Fixing it,’ she huffed. Then she fumbled in her bag for her
iPhone. ‘Hi Dee. You home? Can you come get me. I’m at Garrett’s.’ He was
pretty sure Dee got the “don’t ask” warning in her voice. She would have to be
deaf and stupid not to. ‘Come around back. The alley yes. Now.’ Dee lived
close. Garrett hadn’t planned it that way, but it was a nice neighborhood.
Kendra shoved her phone back into her bag and headed for the door. Then she
turned her attention to him. ‘You stay put. Don’t go out until I give you the
all clear. I mean it, or you can find someone else to fix your fuck-ups.’ Then
she shoved her way out the back door, pulling it to carefully to behind her.
Identity Crisis is Available from:http://gracemarshallromance.co.uk/books/identity-crisis/
About K D Grace/Grace Marshall
Grace and KD both believes Freud was right. In the end, it really IS all about sex, well sex and love. And nobody’s happier about that than she is, otherwise, what would she write about?
When she’s not writing, Grace is veg gardening. When she’s not gardening, she’s walking. She walks her stories, and she’s serious about it. She and her husband have walked Coast to Coast across England, along with several other long-distance routes. For her, inspiration is directly proportionate to how quickly she wears out a pair of walking boots. She also enjoys martial arts, reading, watching the birds and anything that gets her outdoors.
Grace and KD have erotica published with SourceBooks, Xcite Books, Harper Collins Mischief Books, Mammoth, Cleis Press, Black Lace, Erotic Review, Ravenous Romance, Sweetmeats Press and others.
K D’s critically acclaimed erotic romance novels include, The Initiation of Ms Holly, Fulfilling the Contract, The Pet Shop. Her paranormal erotic novel, Body Temperature and Rising, the first book of her Lakeland Heatwave trilogy, was listed as honorable mention on Violet Blue’s Top 12 Sex Books for 2011. Books two and three, Riding the Ether, and Elemental Fire, are now also available. She was nominated for ETO’s Best Erotic Author 2013 and 2014.
Grace Marshall’s sizzling hot romance novels, An Executive Decision, Identity Crisis, The Exhibition are published by Xcite Books.
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