Saturday, November 30, 2013

Angel After Dark, releasing in January, 2014.

The release of my next book, Angel After Dark, is looming on the near horizon!  I'm really excited!  The second in the series is just about done also, so it will follow soon on the heels of the first! Yippee


You 're going to fall in love with Alexander Avery!  He's a brilliant, alpha male, who's used to giving orders and taking no prisoners... always in complete control of his environment; in business and in bed: He's used to getting what he wants, when he wants it... especially with the opposite sex.  Angeline Hemming, is a beautiful, sassy, clinical psychologist who moonlights as a late night radio show host, a gig she took to use as a platform to promote causes she supports.  Her past has conditioned her to be strong and self-sufficient, so she has little time for womanizers, users or women who act like door mats.

Alex is furious when he finds out that his current girlfriend-of-convenience called into Angel's show complaining about him, but he's more livid at the host's advice. All hell breaks loose when these two control freaks "meet" via one very heated and stimulating telephone call.  It's impossible for either to deny the incredible attraction, despite coming to blows and never having laid eyes on each other.

The series is full of fun, snarky banter and hotter-than-hell love-play as the chemistry explodes between them!  But don't worry, in typical Kahlen fashion, there will be tears, heartache and angst as they fight it out for control over each other and more, fight their own conflicted feelings.  

Throw in a little mistrust, betrayal and danger...and it's ON!

Watch for cover reveal, blog tour sign up and more tasty treats, coming soon.....

Thank you to Hetty Whitmore Rassmussen and BestSellersandBestStellars.com for the beautiful banner!!







Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Stories for Amanda Official Release - Oct. 22


 I'm very excited, honored and humbled to be part of this!  Along with 15 other amazing authors, we have created at book to honor and support amandatoddlegacy.org.

The book is chock full of short stories and missing scenes from some of your favorite series!  My contribution is an expanded missing scene from The Remembrance Trilogy... When I Met You.  Here is a little taste.

Excerpt 

Copyright 2013 ~ Kahlen Aymes  * All rights reserved


~Julia
I stopped to scan the snack bar.  It was nice, set up like a restaurant with wooden booths and tables.  Ryan hadn’t said where to meet him and my eyes scanned the room.  I didn’t see him, but the Student Union was large and there were a lot of students walking through and hovering around tables and at the end of a few of the booths.  I felt self-conscious walking around like a moron, looking into booths and glancing around like I was lost.  Many sets of curious eyes met mine while I wandered around seeking the striking blue gaze of the man I met two hours earlier.
I caught sight of him quickly pushing in the front entrance doors, his eyes scanning the room.  He didn’t see me right away, but was rapidly put upon by a group of others, a dark haired man and two women; one with long blonde hair and one with cropped red locks.  I was anxious and my feet wanted to move toward him, but I hesitated as I watched the group engage him.  His gorgeous face split into a grin and he nodded, the blonde’s hand coming out to wrap around his bare forearm.  He was wearing jeans and a long sleeved white T-shirt, the cuffs shoved up to show strong muscle and golden skin, the blue and green plaid shirt he wore over it, hung open.  He looked hot; the layers doing nothing to disguise the hard plains of his chest and stomach underneath the fine cotton material or the broad shoulders.   The two women gazed at him in adoration and I wondered if he knew it.  It was sort of ridiculous and I made a mental note not to allow myself to act like an idiot around him.  I took slow steps toward him to make sure he saw me, but not wanting to interrupt the conversation with his friends.
He bent slightly to listen to something the woman touching him said, but his eyes continued their search for me.  My heart stopped when his eyes landed on mine and his lips lifted in the start of a small smile.  He was so breathtakingly handsome.  This was a chance to just look at him.  He put up his hand and spoke to the group around him.  Excusing himself, he walked toward me with his backpack slung over his right shoulder.  The two girls turned to watch him walk away, disappointment and curiosity in their eyes as they checked me out.
“Hey.” His soft voice washed over me warmly as he flashed a quick smile.
He was several inches taller than me and I had to look up into his face.  I wanted to bite my lip, hardly able to contain the grin that was trying to break out across my mouth.  “Hey.  How was class?”
“Boring as hell.  I can’t wait until all of this basic shit is out of the way.  Want to find a place to sit and then I can get us something to eat?” 
“Yeah.  Did you want to invite your friends?”
Ryan smiled again and shook his head.  “Nah.” 
He motioned toward an empty booth in the corner and I preceded him to it, flung my backpack in and shoved it closer to the wall as I slid in. Ryan did the same across from me.  I watched him run a hand through his hair. 
“Did you get the psych assignment read?” he asked.
“Ugh,” I rolled my eyes and Ryan chuckled.  “It was so bad I couldn’t concentrate.  I think I’ll have to read it out loud to get through it.”
“That’s what I’m afraid of.  Maybe we can take turns and then just fill each other in.”
I smiled, leaning back against the booth, pleased at the prospect of studying together.  “Okay.”
We started talking and time flew.  We talked about my parents’ divorce, his life growing up in Chicago, how his family adopted his best friend when they were ten and my father’s latest criminal case, both of us leaning in toward each other intently.  I ate up his words and he was equally engaged and truly interested in all I was telling him.  We fell into a rhythm that was easy, yet made my heart thud inside my chest.  I’d forgotten I was hungry until my stomach rumbled loudly and Ryan chuckled.
My eyes widened.  “Wow. That’s embarrassing.”
“It’s my fault!  I promised you lunch and I’ve completely failed.”  He looked around at the clock on the wall.  It was ten minutes to three.  “The grill closes soon so we’d better order.  What would you like?”
“I’m not picky.  Grilled chicken sandwich and tea?”
“I’ll be back.”  I watched him walk away, and couldn’t help but admire the easy grace with which he moved or the eyes that followed his every move.  I wondered about the young woman he was speaking to before.  Surely she wasn’t his girlfriend or she would have joined us for lunch.  In no time, I had the sandwich, green tea and a pile of fries in front of me. Ryan had a burger, onion rings and Coke.  He shoved the rings toward me.  “I wasn’t sure if you wanted fries or rings, so…”
I pushed my fries in the middle of the table, too.  “How ‘bout we share?”
Ryan smiled and grabbed an onion ring.  “I hoped you’d say that.”  He dipped it in the ketchup I squirted along side and took a big bite.  “How come I haven’t seen you around before?”



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Trade Paperback: $12.99

Available Oct. 22 *Amazon.com (all international sites) *Smashwords.com*Kobo.com*Sony.com*BarnesaandNoble.com

xoxo
~Kahlen

Monday, August 26, 2013

Contest Winners!

Congratulations to Jessica Goosic (Signed Trilogy) and Camille Santos ($20 Amazon Gift Card)! You are the winners of the giveaway!!

Thank you to all who participated and also all of you who have gotten the books so high on the ratings!!  I love you all so much and I appreciate you.

xox
~Kahlen

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

A Love Like This #4 on Amazon TOP RATED in ROMANCE Giveaway Celebration!

I'm so friggin' happy right now!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  I love you so much!!

Signed set, plus a $20 Amazon Gift Card up for grabs!


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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Naughty Mafia CONTEST TIME!

I don't know about you, but I'm super excited for 

Naughty Mafia ROCKS Las Vegas 

coming up on August 16-19!  



I can't wait to meet as many of you as possible!  It's going to be flippin' amazing!!!  

Kahlen's Vegas Itinerary: 
Friday night: Welcome Party
Saturday Signing - I will be walking around in my Ryan is Mine T-shirt.  The first 10 readers to come up to me and say "Ryan is Mine" will get a little bottle of Julia's perfume. J'Adore by Christian Dior - Paris! (It's the good stuff, folks).
Saturday Evening - I'm judging the HOTTEST ABS in Vegas at VANITY NightClub!
Sunday Morning - Blogger Appreciation Brunch.  (Bloggers, I'll have a little somethin' somthin' for you to say thanks for all you do for me!)
Sunday Signing - I'm signing at this one!  I'll have cools swag and a drawing for a HUGE SWAG basket, including all three books signed, Ryan's Favorite Apron, Ryan Is Mine T-shirt, Coffee Sunday's mugs, and some extra goodies!!!
Sunday Night Pub Crawl - find me at LUX in the HardRock!

AND  I want to get up close and personal with my readers!  You know how much I love you! 


4 of you are invited to JOIN ME at a private dinner on Saturday night before Thunder or Hottest Abs!

AND 2 additional winners - will receive SKIP THE LINE passes that will get you into BOTH signings EARLY!

Let's rock this, bitches!  Can't wait to see you in VEGAS BABY!

Love,
~Kahlen xoxo

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Sneak Peek Sunday!

There are a lot of exciting things happening for The Remembrance Trilogy! 


We are recording the series on AUDIO BOOKS for Audible and iTunes.  I'm so excited!  It sounds fantastic and I can't wait for you to hear it.


HERE IS A SAMPLE!
Copyright - 2012-2013 - Kahlen Aymes




Also, Ryan and Julia are going to FRANCE! The Future of Our Past will publish there in October of 2013!

What's NEXT? ... Alexander Avery and Angeline Hemming are my next super sexy, smokin' hot power couple!  They're headed your way in my  next series:  After Dark!!   These two are HOT, HOT, HOT type A personalities who's battle of wills in and out of bed will melt hearts and panties.  :-)

As always... I love and adore you!  Let me know what you think of Ryan's sexy voice!

xxox

~Kahlen

Thursday, July 4, 2013

$50 Gift Card Giveaway!

We reached 5000 LIKES on Facebook!  As promised, I'm giving away a $50 gift card of your choice from Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Sony or Kobo!

Many ways to enter!
Like my page, follow me on twitter, follow Ryan on Twitter, tweet the giveaway, or sign up for my newsletter on this blog!

NEWS!
BookBash was AWESOME!  Thank you to all of you who came to my table to see me!  I LOVE meeting my readers!

Speaking of, please visit a blog near you to leave a comment about WHY I should visit you in your city!  I will plan a trip with the winner and the blog who generates the winning comment will win a Kindle Fire to giveaway!!



Find it on Bookish Temptations, Love N. Books, Book Crush, Swoonworthybooks, HEA Bookshelf, Fictional Boyfriends, Between The Pages, The SubClub Books, The Romance Cover, Perusing Princesses, Stephanie's Book Shelf, Bookhookers, An Avid Reader's Haven, FlirtyDirty Book Blog, JillPrand.blogspot.com and many others. (I will add them to this post as they join in!)

If a favorite blog doesn't have the giveaway, PLEASE ASK THEM TO GET IT by contacting me at KahlenAymesAuthor@gmail.com! (Contest ends July 15th!)

SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MARYSE'S BOOK BLOG FOR HOSTING BOOKBASH!  It was a stellar event and you definitely should attend next year!  I know I AM! :-)

LOVE YOU TONS! xoxox
~Kahlen







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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

4000 LIKE TEASER from A Love Like This

Due to release on June 24!  


As promised, here is the teaser at 4000 LIKES.  Get to 5000 and I'll do a Rafflecoptor giveaway for a $50 Amazon Gift Card!

Please SUBSCRIBE TO THIS BLOG!  I'll have a monthly newsletter and giveaway that only the blog followers will be eligible for. :-)

So... Here you go:

~Ryan


Everything was perfect.  I’d never been more proud of her as I stood beside her and listened to her words.  Being so close to her over the years had made me take for granted how well read and educated she was, and how well she carried herself.  Maybe taking her for granted was the wrong word, but this certainly reminded me how amazing she was. 
She looked so stunning that I found my eyes locked on her constantly, sometimes forgetting to breathe.  Pride swelled my chest like a peacock’s.  This was her party, this was her world, and she handled it with calm, elegant precision.  Later, with me, she’d alternate between lascivious and loving, tender and taking, but always passionate.  She spoke to me without words, when our eyes would connect and the edges of that gorgeous mouth would lift in a sly smile, flirting and letting the tip of her tender, pink tongue peak out to lick her lip or bite her lower one.   I was rock hard just looking at her, and I needed to adjust myself badly.  I hoped no one noticed.
Julia was holding an almost-empty glass of white wine in her right hand.  She leaned in to excuse herself from the matronly woman she was speaking to and glided toward me.  I couldn’t help it, my arm snaked around her waist and pulled her close enough that she could feel the effect she had on me.  My open lips found the pulse at her temple and lingered on the warm skin and she sighed.  I could feel her breath rush over the skin of my neck, and my arm tightened.
“When can you leave?  I can’t wait to get you alone.”
“Mmmm…” her fingers curled into the front of my shirt and pressed into my abdomen.  I could hear the desire in her purr.  “Just after midnight.  What time is it?”
“11:40.”  The music playing throughout the room was classical but the din of voices was constant.  I longed for when the only sound in my ears was her breathing and soft moans.  “We’re almost there.”
She looked up into my face with lazy, hooded eyes. “Are we?” she teased softly and pressed her hip into my erection. 
“Soon,” I said with a smile and bent to kiss her mouth.  I didn’t care if she spilled her wine, or if I happened to drop the glass in my hand; I didn’t care that there were 400 people around us.  My tongue pushed hungrily into her mouth, and though our surroundings gave her a second’s hesitation, soon she was returning the kiss in full measure.  I pulled her tighter, kissing her deeply.  She reluctantly pulled her mouth away, but mine wanted to cling to hers.
“Ryan.  I’m working.”
“I know.  I can’t help it.  You’re so beautiful tonight.”
I scanned the room over her head as her lips brushed my jaw, and my eyes locked with a pair of blue ones not twelve feet in front of us.  My heart stopped.  

Friday, May 10, 2013

A LOVE LIKE THIS Cover Reveal & Giveaway!

Here you go peeps!  It's finally here!
Ta da!





Settled in New York City, Ryan and Julia Matthews seek to enjoy their idyllic newlywed life together.  Julia’s high-profile job at Vogue and Ryan’s promising career in medicine will surely set them up for everything they could ever want.  Their only obstacle seems to be finding enough time to spend together.

When a scuffle at Ryan’s hospital puts his life in danger, a colleague steps in to save him but is critically injured in the process.  In a heroic and unwavering effort, 
Ryan manages to save her life, but her injuries irrevocably change her future forever.

What happens next will push Ryan beyond human endurance, when he is forced to decide how much he will pay for his new friendship and Julia, what she is willing to sacrifice in order to spare herself the unspeakable pain of watching someone else try to replace her in Ryan’s heart.

Join Ryan and Julia in the heart-wrenching conclusion 
to the unforgettable story of an incredible love…
worth every single sacrifice…

For there is nothing more sacred than… A Love Like This…

(SQUEEING HUGE!) :-)


Thank you to Samantha Paxton of Telemachus Press for her wonderful design talent!

Many of the blogs will have giveaways for ARC's of ALLT and eBook copies of the TFOOP and DFTRM, you just gotta find them.  (There are a lot!)


I'm giving away a $15 Amazon Gift Card!



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The release of the book is June 24th!  I don't know about you, but I'm SUPER EXCITED!

Love to you all and Good Luck!  If you haven't subscribed to this blog, please do so.  I'm going to be sending out a monthly newsletter, very soon!

~Kahlen
XOXO

Saturday, May 4, 2013

RELEASE DATE & COVER REVEAL

A Love Like This                                                          is finally around the corner....


Release Date: June 24, 2013


Cover Reveal: May 10, 2013


Bloggers!  If you'd like an ARC copy and a press kit, please email me your blog link, preferred ARC format and contact information to: KahlenAymesAuthor@gmail.com!

I'm SO EXCITED!!

(The RT Convention was a blast!  Met some great authors and amazing readers!)

Love you!
~Kahlen
XOO

Saturday, April 27, 2013

A Love Like This...

Is with my publisher now!  Yay!


I have a release date now and it will show up when the cover is revealed in a couple of weeks.

Thanks to all of you (bloggers, readers, family, friends, editors, street team... ) I couldn't do it without any one of you!

Love you!

(I'll do a better post when it isn't 1 AM)

xoxo
~Kahlen

Friday, April 12, 2013

TAX WEEKEND ROMANCE AND EROTIC ROMANCE SALE!



Taxes can be a real buzzkill, but they don't have to be. Snag all these authors at great prices (4/12 - 4/15)!  My books will stay on Sale through WED. 4/17 at Midnight!
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Remembrance Trilogy~#1!The Future of Our Past
by Kahlen Aymes
Down from $3.99 to $.99
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Julia Abbot and Ryan Matthews have been in separable best friends since the moment they met. Each of the fight an internal battle, unwilling to risk their incredible friendship, but unable to quell their deep (but secret) longing for the other. On the verge of Ryan's departure to Harvard Medical School and Julia's for her new job on the opposite coast, they are forced to face the undeniable truth of their deeper feelings and find themselves enthralled in a passion like neither has ever known.
The lovers are faced with forced separation, great distance, and others who try to come between them as they work to build the shared future they both dream of. When their lives begin to finally gel, Julia is offered a promotion that will jettison her career to new heights. Ryan is left angry and bereft as it will only postpone their reunion yet again. In light of all she has sacrificed for him, he can hardly deny her, and Julia is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. Will she chose the chance of a lifetime or the love of her life?
An incredibly beautiful and heartbreaking romance, full of passion and intensity that will leave you spellbound and gasping for the next installment of Ryan and Julia's story.
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Remembrance Trilogy~#2~Don't Forget to Remember Me
by Kahlen Aymes
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Julia Abbot and Ryan Matthews have been in separable best friends since the moment they met. Each of the fight an internal battle, unwilling to risk their incredible friendship, but unable to quell their deep (but secret) longing for the other. On the verge of Ryan's departure to Harvard Medical School and Julia's for her new job on the opposite coast, they are forced to face the undeniable truth of their deeper feelings and find themselves enthralled in a passion like neither has ever known.
The lovers are faced with forced separation, great distance, and others who try to come between them as they work to build the shared future they both dream of. When their lives begin to finally gel, Julia is offered a promotion that will jettison her career to new heights. Ryan is left angry and bereft as it will only postpone their reunion yet again. In light of all she has sacrificed for him, he can hardly deny her, and Julia is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. Will she chose the chance of a lifetime or the love of her life?
An incredibly beautiful and heartbreaking romance, full of passion and intensity that will leave you spellbound and gasping for the next installment of Ryan and Julia's story.
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Fifty Shades of Jungle Fever
L. V. Lewis
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FIFTY SHADES OF GREY to the second power meets Keisha and Jada from the Block. 

If you've wondered how an ethnic girl from the hood might've handled an arrangement with an experienced white Dominant, this is your book. If you'd like to see the sexiest TWIN DOMS in a contemporary romance series in interracial relationships, this is most definitely your book. 

Aspiring recording studio owners, Keisha Beale and Jada Jameson, score a rare meeting with venture capitalist Tristan White, and are thrust into a world beyond their wildest imaginations. 

Street-wise Keisha is startled to realize she wants this rich white man, despite the certainty that he is out of her league. Unable to resist Keisha's sassy, irreverent, and fiercely independent spirit, Tristan knew from day one he wanted her, too--as his first African American submissive. 

Upper Class Jada of the Springfield Jamesons has traveled in almost the same circles as the White brothers, and has had a secret crush on Nathan White, the point guard for the Chicago Bulls, for quite some time. 

Both brothers have succumbed to jungle fever, and want a little coffee in their cream. 

Lured by Tristan White and his offer of fronting the capital for her business in exchange for kinky sex, Keisha finds herself with no other option. Keisha is also tortured by a demons from her past, and her inability to come to terms with them threatens to undermine the future of her business and her tumultuous, unconventional relationship with Tristan White. 

Erotic, amusing, and in places hilarious, the Ghetto Girl Erotica Trilogy is a parody with a unique take on a Fifty Shades-type story that will take you even further into the BDSM world, and promises to make the vanilla original Fifty Shades Blacker. 

The first two books focus on Keisha and Tristan's romance, and the final two focus on Jada and Nathan's.
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Taboo
Roxy Queen
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He’s the eighteen-year-old lifeguard at the pool. I’m a twenty-eight-year-old woman babysitting for the summer, before going to grad school. He’s one step away from jailbait (his birthday was eight days ago. Yes, I checked). I’m not necessarily a cougar yet, but closer to cougar than high school girl. He’s hot, and by hot, I mean holy crap. And by holy crap, I mean, when I first saw him, I thought he was twenty-one. Minimum. But he’s not twenty-one. He’s eighteen and off limits. But he has this back and these shoulders and everything about him is yummy and I just want to touch him. Once.
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