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~ Writer of hot contemporary romance, paranormal, and steamy romantic suspense.

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The Doctor is IN

09 Saturday May 2020

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Big shout out to all of our doctors and nurses fighting the good fight, as well as all the essential workers out there allowing so many of us to live in lockdown. We literally couldn’t do this without you!

In my world, me and the mine are all safe, but I’ve been more focused on keeping the high-risk members of the household wrapped in bubble wrap than on writing. However, now that we’ve got a system down, I’m hoping to get back to it – I have adventures in Bright’s Ferry and holiday magic to finish, and I’ve been dipping a toe into some seriously hot historicals. Stay tuned – scheduling is a little erratic, but I’ll try to get some excerpts and shorts up soon.

Meanwhile, here’s one of my favorite hot docs to cheer up your morning. Stay safe and take care!

xoxo

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Friday!

07 Friday Jun 2019

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There’s nothing better than a weekend of reading.

I’ve got a stack of books to get through – in no particular order, Gena Showalter’s The Darkest Warrior, Joanna Shupe’s Mogul, Nalini Singh’s Wolf Rain, and Jennifer Ashley’s Death in Kew Gardens.

Here’s to a weekend of reading! And by that I mean doing laundry, taking the furballs for their annual checkup, dealing with a leaky bathroom faucet, and some frantic cleaning for the houseguests arriving on Sunday. So, I will be snatching ten minutes here and there in between errands, in waiting rooms, and in the tub to get through a few pages.

What I really need is a treehouse, a stash of Girl Scout cookies, and no adult responsibilities.

What are you reading this weekend? If you’re looking for some steamy romantic suspense, here’s my suggestion:

Hope your weekend is relaxing and full of uninterrupted reading time!

xoxo

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A polite little Death.

06 Thursday Jun 2019

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ashley gardner, Bright's Ferry, ebooks, joanna bourne, romance, sherry thomas

Like all of you, I’m a voracious reader, and I have a tendency to choose a direction and just go go go until I run out of steam or something new and shiny crosses my path in a way that can’t be ignored. Then I change course – I’m a serial monogamist when it comes to romance genres. For the last few months, I’ve been obsessing over Regency, which has never really been absent from my life, but wasn’t a focus, either. So, I’ve been devouring Sarah MacLean and Joanna Bourne and Sherry Thomas and Ashley Gardner like they’re deep, dark chocolate, and pondering the intricacies of corsets and Polite Society.

I’m finally diving into writing this genre, which is both an exciting challenge and something I’m deathly afraid of – the bar is set pretty high! However, the best part about a new project is the research, and because I tend to lean toward the dark and creepy, I had to start with death customs. One of the things I find so interesting about this period is the strictness of society rules – particularly when applied to women – that were the norm when it came to funerals and mourning.

Here are a couple of links you might enjoy if you’re curious:

https://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/the-regency-way-of-death-ladies-at-funerals/

http://donnahatch.com/mourning-customs-in-regency-england/

Heaven forbid a lady step out of mourning too soon!

More on what I’m writing in a few weeks, when I have a blurb and some excerpts. I’m tempted to write a romantic suspense set at the dawn of BRIGHT’S FERRY, in the colonial era – but that’s a whole new kettle of fish.

Have a lovely Thursday!

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Coffee?

05 Wednesday Jun 2019

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coffee, Hump Day, romance, wednesday

Yes, please!

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All the NEW things.

04 Tuesday Jun 2019

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ebooks, erotic romance, holiday romance, paranormal romance, romance, romantic suspense

Good morning, readers! It’s been a while, I know, but I’m so glad to be back! I’ve been struggling with some family illness – and stress is just the worst when it comes to being creative. However, today seems like a good day to send out an update and get the gears moving – the WIPs may be a little dusty, but there’s some serious sexy underneath.

First things first – I’m starting a monthly newsletter! If you’re reading this, you’ve probably figured that out from the pop-up subscription form – I haven’t decided if that’s the best way to go, but I’m going to give it a try. You can also always sign up using the LOOKING FOR LILY? tab above. Each month, you’ll get excerpts and updates, and some short stories or vignettes from some of my favorite worlds – THE KRINGLES, BRIGHT’S FERRY, and some new places I’ve been cooking up.

What’s up next in terms of reads?

I have a bunch of projects that are 90% ready to go, so I’m hoping to roll those out over the next few months. First up, a summer release for SAFE FROM THE STORM, which I get so many questions about. This October, I’ll have the second BEWITCH ME collection, and for the holidays, Ethan Kringle for your Christmas stocking.

I’ve also been delving into historicals for the first time, and that’s been a lot of fun – no less sexy, but with more petticoats. However, the rest of the year is going to be about launching long-promised titles – I’ll throw a few excerpts of the new worlds into the newsletter, and of course, watch this space for updates and news, and a little more insight into the day-to-day of my writing process.

LESSON OF THE DAY, writers and artists – don’t ever let anyone tell you that you don’t get another chance. We only stop when there are no more stories to tell.

Have a lovely Tuesday!

xoxo,

Lily

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COMING SOON!!! Ethan (The Kringle Boys #2) – Blurb

30 Wednesday Nov 2016

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christmas, ebooks, holiday, holidays, Kringle Boys, magic, naughty, nice, paranormal romance, romance, sexy

This morning I discovered I was out of coffee, then spent half an hour searching for my keys so I could run out to pick up a latte, because who can remember such things before they’ve had their first cup of coffee?

I’m finally caffeinated (yay!) and sitting down to edit, but first, here’s a blurb for ETHAN – I’ll have an excerpt for you on Friday and the release date will be sometime next week – stay tuned!

 

Ethan Main

ETHAN (THE KRINGLE BOYS #2)

When Jack Frost disappears, brilliant, calculating Ethan Kringle is left to handle his father’s yearly attempt to ruin Christmas, even though his newly-awakened conscience has him struggling with a plan that calls for Naughtiness on an epic scale.  However, when a Frost weapons test goes awry, destroying a research lab in the harsh terrain of his Antarctic home, Ethan feels compelled to rescue Emily March, a penguin-obsessed zoologist with enough sizzle to melt an iceberg.  Suddenly, Ethan is less worried about his father’s diabolical plan with its encroaching Christmas deadline and more concerned with the sexy scientist who fries his brain and threatens to melt his icy heart once and for all.

Emily March is ticked off.  He may be the most gorgeous thing she’s ever seen, but not only is Ethan Kringle responsible for the loss of six months’ research, now his Frost weapon is putting her beloved penguins’ habitat at risk.  Stuck in Frost Castle and determined to stop at nothing to save her feathered friends, Emily will do whatever it takes to change Ethan’s mind, be it sabotage or slow, decadent, deliciously naughty seduction.  She’s sure that under that chilly exterior lies something more than Jack Frost’s spiteful legacy.  It may take a Christmas miracle to warm Ethan Kringle up, but then again he’s never tangled with a smart girl on a mission before…

Catch up with the rest of the Kringles, Available Now!!!

Nick - SMALLThe Kringle Girls - SMALL

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EXCERPT!!! Kringles and Kvetching…

27 Sunday Nov 2016

Posted by LilyRede in Excerpts, The Kringle Boys, The Kringle Girls

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christmas, ebooks, erotic romance, holiday, Kringle Boys, Kringles, magic, paranormal romance, romance, santa, sexy

Anybody else so over 2016?  Aside from the Cubs bringing joy to the world, it’s been a slog all around – and the pages have suffered.  What to do?

How about making 2017 all about fun, sexy reads to fill your e-reader?  Let’s start with a new Kringle book – ETHAN (The Kringle Boys #2) is coming up just in time to distract you from your relatives this holiday season.  I’ll have a blurb and a release date up in a couple of days, but let’s just say that Jack Frost’s chilly son is going to get a bit of a warm-up from a sexy scientist in his Antarctic fortress. There will be penguins.  This might be the strangest Kringle book yet, but I’m hoping you’ll find it as funny and hot as I do.

Ethan Main

Meanwhile, you’ve got a few days to catch up on the Kringles!  Here’s the collection of Kringle Girls:

The Kringle Girls - SMALL

And here’s Nick, along with an excerpt to get you going:

Nick - SMALL

Bah, humbug. Nick Kringle is having a rotten Christmas. A huge disappointment to his chilly, holiday-stomping father, Jack Frost, Nick’s punishment for his refusal to take on the family business is exile to the human world, no magic allowed. Luckily, his North Pole relatives take pity on him, letting him run Santa’s big city candy factory and store. But Nick never counted on having to deal with customers, elves, or Santa’s nitpicky Candy Manager, the lovely but tightly wound Phoebe Winters. He’s never had a sweet tooth before, but everything about her has his mouth watering for a taste, despite the fact that they come from different worlds.

Phoebe Winters is determined to be the best Candy Manager that Santa has ever had, even though it means controlling her magical sugar addiction and her impossible attraction to Nick Kringle. Santa’s nephew has no right to be so hot, especially when he seems to be as coldhearted as his chilly father. But when a dangerous saboteur puts Santa’s magical candy supply in jeopardy right before the holiday, Phoebe and Nick must work together to repair the damage and save Christmas. Can Phoebe melt the icy shell around Nick’s heart? Or will the cold sweep away any chance of holiday-ever-after?

EXCERPT:

Nick grudgingly admitted that the candy shop was a great idea.  Customers entered, lured by the smell of sugar and spice, wide-eyed and jittery at the sight of the elves. They quickly relaxed as the chipper little creatures heaped smiles, attention, and free samples on them, and left with boxes and bags of cheerfully wrapped candy and cookies.

When closing time came, Nick was surprised – the hour had flown. Wanting to get the caramel cookies set before he closed up for the night, he’d sent the rest home with a gruff, “Thanks,” feeling unaccountably warm and pleased with himself when Mirabelle hopped up to pinch his cheek.

The soft squeak from the doorway to the factory had him looking up.

Phoebe stood there, staring at him as though he’d grown another head.

“About this morning—” he began, determined to at least get them back to civility.

Phoebe held up a hand.

“It’s okay. Let’s just put it behind us. I thought you didn’t want anything to do with this?”

She fluttered a hand to encompass the candy shop with its rows of sweets in enticing, old-fashioned jars along every shelf.

“I’m coming around,” admitted Nick with a grin.

Phoebe drew in a sharp breath, and her eyes drifted down to his hands. And stayed there.

Intuition tickled the back of Nick’s neck, and he examined the petite half-elf by the door. She seemed reluctant to come all the way inside the shop. And the way she was looking at his hands…

Nick poured the sticky mess onto the marble slab and started kneading it, adding powdered sugar as the caramel goo began to hold its shape.

“Would you like a taste?”

The words popped out of him. If possible, Phoebe grew even stiffer in the doorway.

“I don’t…sample,” said Phoebe coldly, her tone as frigid as the icy fields of home.

“Never?”

“No.”

“Because you don’t like candy,” he prodded.

“Yes. I mean, no. No, I don’t.”

“Suit yourself.”

Shrugging as he dismissed the odd sensation that he was missing something, Nick wrapped the ball of dough in plastic and reached for the sink to wash his caramel-coated hands, absently popping his finger in his mouth to suck the gooey goodness off his thumb. Another soft squeak had him looking up.

He froze.

Phoebe’s eyes were wide and bright, flitting between his fingers and his mouth, her skin flushed, and she was doing a rotten job controlling her breathing as an excited little pant escaped her lips. Nick was shocked to see that the prickly half-elf was nearly bubbling over with repressed arousal. She looked ready to explode at the lightest brush of skin against skin.

Nick knew elves were susceptible to sugar – they craved it, had to have it, and used it to soothe, to comfort, and to fuel their magical ability. Phoebe claimed to dislike it, but Nick had never seen a reaction quite like this – he’d seen elves lust over candy, but she was quivering as though he’d taken a long, fat candy cane and slid it into her throbbing pussy. His inner devil grinned even as blood rushed southward.

She doesn’t hate candy.

Forgetting the sink, he moved around the counter.

“What are you doing?”

Phoebe skittered around the edge of the room, avoiding him, stopping in front of the closed front door. The shades were drawn, the door frosted glass. They were completely alone.

“Sure you don’t want a lick?” asked Nick, holding up his hand, moving ever so carefully closer, like a lion stalking its prey.

Phoebe stepped back until the door prevented her from retreating further, her clipboard clutched in a death grip in front of her as though to ward him off. Bells jangled above as she pressed herself flat.

“It’s good,” he murmured, “Warm, buttery, rich. Perfect for drizzling all over warm skin so that I can lap it off, one delicious lick at a time.”

Phoebe moaned. Nick’s cock tightened painfully.

He wasn’t sure when teasing turned to seduction, but despite her buttoned up demeanor, he had to admit that everything about Phoebe flooded his mind with naughty fantasies he was dying to make reality. Their animosity of earlier suddenly seemed like foreplay, and Nick was beginning to think he might actually lose his mind if he didn’t get his mouth on her within the next thirty seconds. He’d never responded to a woman like this, but didn’t have the brain cells to examine it, because she shocked him, grabbing his wrist in a firm grip and bringing his fingers to her mouth. The clipboard clattered to the ground.

Oh God.

Phoebe was still holding back, breathing in the scent of caramel, watching it drip slowly down his hand, practically shaking. Nick swiped her lower lip with one finger, spreading sticky sugar.

Soft.

“Open your mouth, Phoebe.”

His tongue felt thick in his mouth, and he felt heat surge through him as she obeyed, her tongue darting out to lick it away, eager and hot. The sound she made was so throaty and delicious, he shuddered in reaction, wrapping his free arm around her waist to pull her tight against him, his cock hard enough to pound nails, pressed into the softness of her belly. Nick couldn’t even be insulted that she didn’t seem to notice, because that gorgeous mouth was on him now, savoring the caramel on his skin, slowly sucking his fingers inside, one at a time, rooting for every little trace of sugar. Her eyelids fluttered down as pleasure suffused her face. It didn’t look like she was planning to release him anytime soon.

Nick absorbed each lick and hot little suck with greed. He wanted her mouth on him, everywhere. He wanted to feel her exploring his chest, his abs, with the same hunger. He wanted to watch her take his cock down her throat, stretching her lips with each sumptuous stroke.

Nick groaned.

SWEET, SHE THOUGHT. SO incredibly sweet.

Phoebe lapped up the caramel, hungry for all of it, feeling the magic of sugar zing through her system. And the taste of his skin was delicious – salty and hot and addictive.

There’s a reason I shouldn’t be doing this.

Happy Holidays!

xoxo, Lily

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Sexy and Unfinished

05 Tuesday Jan 2016

Posted by LilyRede in Bright's Ferry, Collections, Cover Art, Hearts of Stone, Rift Guardians, Safe From the Storm, Shadow of the Raven, The Kringle Boys

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It’s 2016!  Thank goodness.  Looking back over my pages, 2015 was not my best effort.  No excuses, just bad scheduling!  But it’s a new year – I have a fair amount of reorganizing to do on this blog, but more importantly, this is the year to finish the unfinished goodies that have been driving me batty for weeks if not months. Take a look:




Fun, right?  All of these are in some state of “somewhat done” to “nearly done” to “polish, polish, polish.” And they don’t include the Regency series I started last year as well!  So, my New Year’s resolutions are as follows:

  1. Update the site!
  2. An excerpt for you all every single week.
  3. Publish, publish, publish!

Hope your year is productive and full of sexy, wonderful reads you just can’t put down! I’m going to stock up on energy bars and coffee and get to it.  Stop by tomorrow for an excerpt!

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I Wish I Had Helper Elves…

08 Tuesday Dec 2015

Posted by LilyRede in The Kringle Boys, The Kringle Girls, Uncategorized

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…with excellent typing skills.  They would make things so much faster!

THE KRINGLE BOYS #2 is coming up fast – I had to put everything else aside to focus on it, and the edits are driving me bonkers!  Excerpt coming up this weekend (and maybe one on Monday, too).  Hoping for a release date of the 15th, so stay tuned!

It’s snowing on my blog!  When did that happen?

Ethan Main

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Coming Next Week – Bewitch Me More!

23 Friday Oct 2015

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anthology, e-book, ebooks, erotic, erotic romance, fiction, Halloween, lily rede, magic, paranormal romance, romance, sexy, short stories, short story, witches

The best laid plans…

I had to push BEWITCH ME MORE a few days – family drama intrudeth!  However, it’s all settled now, and I’m looking forward to bringing you hot and witchy fun next week, just in time for Halloween!  I’ll toss up an excerpt in the next couple of days as well.

Here are the titles of the new stories included in BEWITCH ME MORE to whet your appetite!

BAD CANDY- A single mom takes the neighborhood warlock to task for his poor Halloween spirit, but gets caught up in naughty magical fun with him and the sexy spirit creature he accidentally conjured up.

SUGAR & SPICE – When a feisty reporter tries to seduce her way into a VIP Halloween party, the warlock bouncer she’s been flirting with has finally had enough and decides it’s time to give in to temptation and teach them both a lesson about seduction.

THE MAGIC HOUR – A mortal’s attempt to seduce his sexy, workaholic witch boss is hampered by the re-appearance of her trollish (literally!) ex-boyfriend.

ALL HALLOW’S EVE – Upon realizing that his succubus ex-girlfriend has hidden herself away from the world after a trauma, a sorcerer tracks her down to convince her to give herself and them another chance.

I can’t wait to hear what you all think!  I’ll have an updated release date after the weekend.

xoxo

Bewitch Me More

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