CAUGHT
Sea Temptress, #1
by Kimberley Cale
Cover Artist: Sharko Studios cover model Taylor Walker
Genre: Fantasy Romance
ISBN: 978-1-7772821-0-3
ASIN: B08D7T8YSK
Number of pages: 155
Word Count: 58127
Tagline: She was just supposed to be a myth. He was just supposed to be a stupid pirate. Who knew?
Book Description:
A vengeful pirate…
Ruthless pirate captain Quinn O’Connor is bent on getting revenge on the creatures who wrecked his ship and killed his crew. When he claims their leader as his captive, he doesn’t expect the scorching consequences that come with being stranded with her on a mysterious island.
A beautiful sea temptress…
Lorelei, a daughter of Poseidon, is willing to bargain with the dangerous pirate who captured her in order to save the ones she loves. He believes the worst of her and her kind, and when he drags her onto dry land, turning her beautiful tail into a pair of unsteady legs, she’s not sure if she’ll be able to return home—and soon she starts to wonder if she really wants to.
Magic and mayhem bring them together…
With each smoldering kiss, each heated touch, their desire blazes higher. Can they overcome misunderstandings and monstrous enemies seeking to tear them apart? Will a mermaid challenge her fate for the love of a pirate? Will the vengeful pirate give up his revenge and take on a god to save his mermaid?
Excerpt
He’d make her pay. He vowed it. Quinn sat with his unconscious prey in
the only remaining rowboat. With red-rimmed eyes, he watched as his ship, his
pride and joy, The Mayhem, was
consumed by fire. Yellow and orange flames blazed, creating a distorted tale of
fiery devastation on the dark waters, while billowing black smoke overshadowed
the star-studded sky above.
He would not look away, not from the sweltering heat of the flames,
nor from the acrid stench of burning oiled wood and sail. Not even the vile smell
of human flesh set afire could make him avert his gaze. He wanted to imprint
this sight into his brain, so when he was ready to punish the murderous little
creature he had captured and plucked from the sea, he would not falter. He
would remember and take measure for measure.
He stared at her now, and hatred raged in his heart. Her face, so
deceptively innocent, did not fool him. Relentlessly, he rowed towards the
little island not far off while his thoughts churned on the treachery of women.
Having once been played the fool by a pretty face in his checkered
past, he’d learnt a thing or two about women and their self-serving ways. He’d
almost paid the price by getting leg shackled to one until he’d discovered the
true extent of her devious nature.
Fortunately, he’d found her out before she’d been able to cause too
much damage.
The one taking up space in his rowboat had scuttled his ship and
succeeded in sending his crew on a one-way journey to Davy Jones’s Locker.
It gutted him to think of their lifeless bodies drifting down into a
watery grave while their murderer sat across from him, alive and well.
Quinn collapsed back into the bow of the rowboat. His weary mind
drifted back to before the mermaid had invaded his life. Memories took on a
dreamlike quality, taking him back to just before this nightmare started, as if
the events were occurring for the first time.
BLURB
Kimberley Cale writes fantasy romance and is the author of the Sea Temptress Series and the epic Tales of Terraron. She has been a reading addict for as long as she can remember. While she enjoys reading anything and everything from historical, paranormal to contemporary novels, she has found her passion bringing her feisty heroines together with their bad boy heroes and adding a spark of magic to create fantastic page turning romance.
After visiting over half of the United States, Mexico, The Dominican, Europe and parts of Canada, she can honestly say the experience has broadened her perspective on other cultures and enlivened her already overactive imagination.
Her family will tell you that from the time she was a child she has rarely been without a journal in hand building worlds for her characters to live in and exciting obsoletes for them to overcome.
With a few college and online writing courses under her belt, Kimberley is constantly learning how to improve her writing craft online, While she worked for an insurance company, part of her job involved writing letters to claimants. These were sad tales that should have started with sorry for your loss. Later she worked in the safety industry and wrote many a safety manual for different companies. Unfortunately not one manual included an ounce of romance in it. Finally after years of research, which involved reading a great variety of romance novels well into the night, she decided to pursue her writing passion.
Kimberley’s other loves besides her awesome family include, trying unsuccessfully to keep the weeds out of her garden. So far verbal threats and hand gestures haven’t worked; still it’s a war she intends to win. She’s also obsessed with a streaming cup of hot chocolate; well chocolate of any kind really, there’s been talk amongst family and friends about an intervention. When she’s not writing you will find her snuggled next to her hubby searching Netflix for the latest epic movies.
More than anything else she loves hearing from her readers and makes it a priority to respond to any and all who are willing to take the time to send her a line.
What mindset or routine do you feel the need to set when preparing to write (in general whether you are working on a project or just free writing)? For me getting up at 6 am when the house is quiet is the perfect time to write. I’m also very visual so there have been many times when just a picture will inspire a whole scene. Other times a frustrating scene or character will drive me to drink (hot chocolate lol)
Do you take your character prep to heart? Do you nurture the growth of each character all the way through to the page? Do you people watch to help with development? Or do you build upon your character during story creation? I would say both, most times a character comes to me and hangs out for a while and I take my time to get to know them. With covid out there, my people watching has been restricted more to watching the subtle nuances on the faces of actors on T.V. as they express their emotions
Do you have a character that you have been working on for a long time that still isn't quite ready, but fills you with excitement to work on the story? Yes I have a couple of those actually (spoiler alert one of them is in the next book of this series Claimed)
Have you found yourself bonding with any particular character(s)? If so which one(s)? I found myself bonding with Quinn, his flaws and how he’s his own worst enemy when it comes to his romantic relationships. He’ll say one thing and do another. Quinn will act the villain but come through in a heroic way. I get a kick out of him, especially his trash talking swagger when he’d out gunned and outnumbered.
Lorelei is all heart. She’ll do anything for those she loves but she never plays the victim and knows how to cut to the chase with Quinn.
Do you have a character that you have been working on that you can't wait to put to paper? I have a few actually. There is one for sure I’m itching to work on and although she’s just a side character, I’m really looking forward to outlining her on paper. I can’t spill on her just yet because I plan on giving her a story of her own.
Can you share your next creative project(s)? If yes, can you give a few details? My next project is currently in the middle of the editing process and is book two of the temptress series. It’s called Claimed and it follows Lorelei’s sister Storm. She’s got a bone to pick with some fairies but gets more than she bargained for with Lyr their King I’m also writing the third book of the series Captivated, that’s Jewel’s story
What are some of your writing/publishing goals for this year? The plan is to get all three books out this year and then I want to put out two fae novels also related to the series. The working titles for these novels are “The Beast Within” and “The Hero Within” I’m very excited about this series.
Where would you spend one full year, if you could go ANYWhere, money is not a concern? What would you do with this time? With Co-vid rearing it’s ugly head this really is a fantasy so I think I’d like to go big and really where wouldn’t I go? I mention in my newsletter about doing a worldwide fantasy book tour.
To start who wants to join me at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris? It’s only one of the most famous bookstores in the world. I’d be there (in my dreams) signing books for my many fans and talking about my book “Caught”. Then there’s shopping and the French bakeries to explore. After that we’d go to Italy for a book signing at the Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice after that it’s off to this restaurant located in a cave called the Ristorante Grotta Palazzese near Bari, where the view is as spectacular as the food. What can I say I’m a fantasy romance writer so when I dream I dream big.
Thank you so much for inviting here today. It’s been a blast!
The Book Junkie Reads . . . Interview with Kimberley Cale . . .
Do you feel that writing is an ingrained process or just something that flows naturally for you? As much as I love it, writing is a tricky beast, at least for me. Sometimes it flows and I can’t get the ideas down fast enough. Even then it’s rare that I write something without needing to go back and polish again and again. Other times I know where I want to go with a story but need to knock those ideas around to come up with the best one to use. What mindset or routine do you feel the need to set when preparing to write (in general whether you are working on a project or just free writing)? For me getting up at 6 am when the house is quiet is the perfect time to write. I’m also very visual so there have been many times when just a picture will inspire a whole scene. Other times a frustrating scene or character will drive me to drink (hot chocolate lol)
Do you take your character prep to heart? Do you nurture the growth of each character all the way through to the page? Do you people watch to help with development? Or do you build upon your character during story creation? I would say both, most times a character comes to me and hangs out for a while and I take my time to get to know them. With covid out there, my people watching has been restricted more to watching the subtle nuances on the faces of actors on T.V. as they express their emotions
Do you have a character that you have been working on for a long time that still isn't quite ready, but fills you with excitement to work on the story? Yes I have a couple of those actually (spoiler alert one of them is in the next book of this series Claimed)
Have you found yourself bonding with any particular character(s)? If so which one(s)? I found myself bonding with Quinn, his flaws and how he’s his own worst enemy when it comes to his romantic relationships. He’ll say one thing and do another. Quinn will act the villain but come through in a heroic way. I get a kick out of him, especially his trash talking swagger when he’d out gunned and outnumbered.
Lorelei is all heart. She’ll do anything for those she loves but she never plays the victim and knows how to cut to the chase with Quinn.
Do you have a character that you have been working on that you can't wait to put to paper? I have a few actually. There is one for sure I’m itching to work on and although she’s just a side character, I’m really looking forward to outlining her on paper. I can’t spill on her just yet because I plan on giving her a story of her own.
Can you share your next creative project(s)? If yes, can you give a few details? My next project is currently in the middle of the editing process and is book two of the temptress series. It’s called Claimed and it follows Lorelei’s sister Storm. She’s got a bone to pick with some fairies but gets more than she bargained for with Lyr their King I’m also writing the third book of the series Captivated, that’s Jewel’s story
What are some of your writing/publishing goals for this year? The plan is to get all three books out this year and then I want to put out two fae novels also related to the series. The working titles for these novels are “The Beast Within” and “The Hero Within” I’m very excited about this series.
Where would you spend one full year, if you could go ANYWhere, money is not a concern? What would you do with this time? With Co-vid rearing it’s ugly head this really is a fantasy so I think I’d like to go big and really where wouldn’t I go? I mention in my newsletter about doing a worldwide fantasy book tour.
To start who wants to join me at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris? It’s only one of the most famous bookstores in the world. I’d be there (in my dreams) signing books for my many fans and talking about my book “Caught”. Then there’s shopping and the French bakeries to explore. After that we’d go to Italy for a book signing at the Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice after that it’s off to this restaurant located in a cave called the Ristorante Grotta Palazzese near Bari, where the view is as spectacular as the food. What can I say I’m a fantasy romance writer so when I dream I dream big.
Thank you so much for inviting here today. It’s been a blast!
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the cover looks gorgeous!
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