One for the Road - hero material

What is hero material?

The reply to that question is probably as varied as the people being asked. When I began writing ONE FOR THE ROAD, I had a guy in mind. A big guy. You know what I mean, the kind of man who enters a room and takes up a whole lot of space because he's so dang tall! Many years ago, I dated a guy who was six feet four and being a mere five feet four, it was impossible to dance with him. Even on my tippy toes, my chin came somewhere under his shoulder, I felt like he'd swallowed me up and I was smothering in his jacket. Well, the hero in my book, Tyler White, is such a guy. Big!

Tyler White has thrown together another country band. Humbled by his downhill spiral since his one-hit wonder ten years before, he's armed with several new tunes and vows to do whatever it takes to get back into the limelight. Tyler hopes this road tour will re-ignite his non-existent career. But in order to pay the band, he needs cheap transporation.

In case you're wondering how this big hunk of a man looks, here's something close to what I had in mind.

Won't you join me on the Road? One for the Road by Lynne Marshall (www.lynnemarshall.com) available July 13th, 2011 at The Wild Rose Press and at Amazon.com

Building up with Kisses

These are two separate excerpts from Quick Silver Ranch: Roped And Ready. Both involve kissing and the buildup in tension it can cause.

In a few steps he was in front of her. Leaning down, his lips hovered above hers. Before his mouth closed over hers in a soft kiss. He wasn’t going to rush this, he’d was going to do this on his terms. Finding the hem of her T-shirt, he lifted.

Mouths clung to each other until the last second before he whisked the fabric over her head. Folding it quickly, he tossed it on top of his clothes.

His palm covered one bare breast, massaging it gently before finding the other. Her soft moan was music to his ears. She was so responsive to him and he liked that.

“Your skin is silky smooth.” Trailing his fingers down her sides to the waistband of her shorts, he hooked his thumbs inside. “Nice short-shorts.”

She shifted her feet again. “Take them off.”

His thumbs slid around, unhooking the button, and he edged the zipper down. Then peeled the fabric over her hips. Her musky scent tantalized his nose as he stripped her panties away with her shorts. Not caring where they landed.

“You are so beautiful.”

Tremors swept through her veins as his nails skimmed down her left arm, while his tongue ran down her inner right arm, and then the fingers of his left hand entangled with hers.

His tongue paused at her wrist where her pulse pounded, before going lower. “Ohhhh.” It was more of a groan than a word as he drew her index finger between his lips and sucked.

Her core tightened. She was going to come from him sucking her fingers; she knew it. Then, as if Tyler recognized what was happening, he released the digit.

His mouth slid up her arm, between her breasts to her stomach. Becca opened her eyes. When had she closed them? Tyler’s cheek rested against her stomach, and he gazed at her with those incredible

blue eyes.

“Now what?” A bad boy grin played around his lips.

She shifted her legs, parting them.

“Tell me what you want?”

“I don’t remember you being this demanding in college.”

“Then, we didn’t have much time. Now we have all the time in the world.”

So besides the lips, what's your favorite place to be kissed? On the neck? Shoulders? Stomach? Behind the knees?

I have to say I enjoy having my lover kiss my neck and shoulders, then trailing down my arms and kissing my palms. There is something so sensual about his lips on my skin.

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The Second Kiss

Since I started off with the first kiss, I thought I'd continue on with the second kiss in my upcoming release Quick Silver Ranch: Roped And Ready.

Today was more for them to become reacquainted, for him to find out

about her sexual experiences, so he would know just how far he could push her.

“Tease.” Her lips caressed his jaw.

“I’m going to tease you without mercy this week.” He nudged her head back so he could capture her mouth with his.

Becca shifted closer to Tyler. She wanted him, yes, but there was something more. Something known. They were very different people than they had been eight years ago, but inside her sensual side was hidden. Tyler could bring that out; he could uncover it and let her be the woman she needed—no—wanted to be.

His arms had her anchored around the waist, preventing her from turning in his arms to deepen this magnificent kiss. So, she shifted her arm up and curled it around his neck.

A moan escaped her lips when he broke off the kiss. “Talk to me. I want to know what you’re feeling.”

While the first kiss was hot, this one is more sensual, a prelude to things to come.

So tell me, do you mind that the hero broke the kiss off? He want's to know what the heroine is feeling, as a reader do you like that?

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The First Kiss

The first kiss between the hero and heroine can be explosive, with the promise of passion and love. It all depends on the characters and where you're characters are kissing.

For the characters in my book Quick Silver Ranch: Roped And Ready, my heroine, Becca, has just found out that she's at an adult dude ranch and my hero, Tyler, has just agreed to be her partner for all the adult activities for the week she is there. Becca and Tyler have a past together, they were college lovers.

“It will be good between us, Becca.” His lips brushed her cheek. “You know it will be.”

“Tyler, I…”

His mouth touched the corner of hers. Ah, thehell with it. She curved her hand around his neck and drew his mouth to hers. A small groan filled the air when his lips parted, allowing her tongue to explore this familiar and new territory. He still tasted like chocolate; they’d practically lived on it in college.

Yet, his flavor was richer than before, his mouth firmer and his tongue stroked along the roof of her mouth as if he was tasting her, and she wanted more.

Tongues tangled and dueled with each other as the kiss became deeper, more passionate, but there was tenderness in it as well. Her body came alive under his lips. Had it been like this between them before? She didn’t think so. This was hotter, more sensual, more…everything.

Do you have a favorite first kiss? Share with us.

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