Bernadette
Walsh has been writing contemporary and paranormal romance for four years. She
has published four novels to date (The House on Prospect (Echelon Press) and
Gold Coast Wives (Lyrical Press)) and the first two books of her paranormal
series, Devil’s Mountain -- Book One of the Devlin Legacy and Devil’s Shore --
Book Two of the Devlin Legacy.
While Bernadette has hopped around genres, all
of her books to date have a common theme: strong women handling what life
throws at them the best way they can.
Bernadette is working on book three of The Devlin Legacy, Devil's Daughter.
Bernadette
is also the host of NICE GIRLS READING NAUGHTY BOOKS on blogtalkradio where she
discusses romance novels with reader, writers and members of the publishing
industry. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bernadettewalsh
Find Bernadette online,
Website: http://bernadettewalsh.com
Twitter: @BWalshWriter
Bernadette has brought along her book,
Devil's Mountain
You will hate Him for all that he's
taken, but you will love Him. God help you, you will love Him.
Mary Devlin accepted her fate years ago,
to serve Slanaitheoir, the mountain spirit who saved her ancestors from the
Irish Famine. The hauntingly beautiful woman submitted to His every caress, His
every humiliation, but He’s gone too far by threatening her family.
Mary’s daughter-in-law is now an
unwitting pawn in the fickle spirit’s game. Mary must challenge her fate and
that of all future Devlin women, but Slanaitheoir is the most powerful being in
the land. And when part of her still yearns for His touch and love, how can she
fight him and win?
R-RATED EXTENDED EXCERPT:
Marcie, one of the Wanna-Be Manhattan
Moms who had also experienced success, lived a few blocks away on East 85th
Street. A group of successful Wanna-Be Manhattan Moms had formed a little Upper
East Side sorority. We would go to Mommy-and-Me classes, play dates and at
times babysat for each other. I’m not sure exactly what happened to the
not-so-successful Wanna-Be Manhattan Moms. None of us mentioned them.
Marcie agreed to babysit Aidan while I
went to my acupuncture appointment at the Yorktown Natural Fertility Clinic.
Bobby refused to go back to the New York Infertility Institute. In fact, it was
all I could do to convince him not to use condoms. “I’ve got my beautiful wife
and my beautiful son,” he said in a sing-song voice whenever I raised the topic
of another child. “That’s all I want. That’s all I need.”
Why wasn’t that all I needed?
The first few months of Aidan’s life, I
was completely satisfied. I’d never been so happy or imagined I could be so
happy.
But then, the old familiar niggling
started. I’d take Aidan in his stroller through Central Park and see a woman
pushing twins in a stroller. Or a mother holding the hands of a small boy and a
girl. And I would get that sour taste in my mouth, the same one I had tasted
for years whenever I saw a pregnant woman.
And so it began.
I couldn’t very well steal a vial of
Bobby’s sperm and take it with me back to Dr. Feinberg’s office. But we had,
somehow, managed to conceive Aidan on our own. Perhaps with some Chinese herbs
and acupuncture we could conceive again. Marcie swore by acupuncture, and after
she had been thrown out of two Manhattan IVF clinics she tried traditional
Chinese medicine and conceived her own miracle baby. Why couldn’t I too,
conceive a little miracle baby with the help of magic teas and shiny needles?
Just one more, I thought to myself as I
opened the heavy glass doors of the Yorktown Natural Fertility Clinic. “Just
one more miracle. And then. Then I’ll be happy and content.”
I promise, I silently swore to God, the
universe or whoever else might be listening to my thoughts.
***
A row of needles lined my bare stomach.
They were in my ears, on my wrists and even between my toes. The acupuncturist,
a hippy-looking woman in her mid-fifties with frizzy red hair, twisted the
needles between my toes once more before she lowered the lights and left the
room.
The first five minutes were always the
hardest. Inevitably at least one of the needles would burn. Dr. Hippy-Dippy
said that meant it was working. It was all I could do not to rip the offending
thing out.
I breathed in and out slowly, and tried
to focus on my breathing, on anything rather than the needles. As I lay in the
darkened room, with only the sound of a small fan to block out the traffic from
Second Avenue, my shoulders, which had felt like they were jacked up below my
ears, relaxed. I continued my purposeful breathing and closed my eyes.
Someone took my hand. I opened my eyes
and was no longer on the table, but clothed in a long red robe and standing in
a forest. And the most beautiful man held my hand.
“My love,” He said, His voice harsh and
guttural. And somehow familiar.
A lone ray of sunlight made its way
through the heavy woods and shone on His black hair. His pale skin glowed and
His jade eyes glittered in the low light. They drew me in.
Without another word He led me to a
roaring fire outside of a cave. The fire was hot, and a small bead of sweat
formed on my upper lip. The man unbuttoned the red robe and took it from my
shoulders. Underneath I wore only a thin sheath of white silk that hid nothing
from His probing gaze.
I should have been embarrassed, but the
hungry look in His hypnotic eyes stirred a fire within me. With a finger, he
gently followed the lines of my plump, full breast.
“So ripe,” He whispered in a harsh rasp.
“So fertile.”
That word hit me like a hard slap. I
turned away. “No,” I choked out, “I’m not.”
He pulled me to Him, His lips mere
inches from my own. His musky breath filled my nose. “You could be.” His lips covered
mine. At first soft, like the finest silk, but then more forceful, moreurgent.
My passion soon met His and I couldn’t help but run my fingers through His
magical hair as he devoured my lips.
He tore the sheath in two and it fell
away from me, leaving me naked. His green gaze bore through me, and it was
almost as if I could feel the very cells of my body change. My breasts felt
heavier and skin softer, my lips fuller. It was as if He transferred His own
beauty to me. I ran my hands across my face first, and then my breasts, my
nipples, taut and tender. Instead of being embarrassed, I reveled in my
newfound beauty.
My skin was hot but His hands were
hotter and they almost burned my flesh as they explored every inch of me. Every
touch brought both pleasure and pain.
I pulled at His golden shirt, eager to
see all of Him and He seemed surprised by my daring, my need for Him. He
smiled, like a wolf about to catch His prey, and ripped the silk from His body
as well.
This nameless man pushed me onto the
soft grass beside the fire. Starting at my toes, His scalding tongue sucked and
bit me. As He traveled up my calf and along my thighs, I trembled, not with
fear, but with a hunger I’d never felt before. A ravenous, ancient hunger.
He spread my legs and His rough, scalding
tongue explored me, possessed me. Before I could climax, He stopped.
“Don’t,” I begged. “Don’t stop.” His
animal gaze bored into me. “Are you mine?” I threw my head back and arched my
back, inviting Him to enter me. “Yes, yes. Go on!”
“Are you mine? Will you give me what I
want?”
My skin was on fire, dying for His
touch. “Anything,” I moaned.
A terrible smile contorted His beautiful
face. “Don’t you want to know what I want?”
I couldn’t take it anymore. I rubbed
myself against Him. “Anything. You can have
anything.”
“I want you to have my child. I want to
share the blood with you.”
I don’t know where I got the strength,
but I pushed Him off me. He lay on his back, more surprised than hurt. His eyes
darkened, but before He could get up I pounced on him, lowering my swollen sex
onto Him, allowing Him to fill me. I ground into Him and felt Him grow even
larger within me. I rocked back and forth, overcome with ripples of orgasms as
I fucked Him, as hard as I could. Like a woman possessed.
Like an animal.
****
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