His Untameable Wickedness
by A P von K'Ory
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GENRE: Dark Erotic
Romance Suspense
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BOOK BLURB:
LEO
A
three-letter word made me a murderess at the age of eight years. But having
experienced the curses of that word, I was done with men as I grew up. All men.
Except to outplay them in the New York financial arena. Then Crowned Sex
enthroned in gorgeous velvet charm and lustful gallantry storms into my life.
Spewing volcanic lava on my monumental arctic ice block. With the unapologetic
fierceness of a savage god. Wearing crackling thunderbolts straight from the
god Zeus. Explosive has nothing on it.
Adrian
isn't hot, he's fucking hellish. He embarks on melting my ice block at the
speed of lightning. But I was done with men. I was done with sex. For ever. I.
Was.
ADRIAN
I
scented her darkness from the moment I was told about her. The sight of her
sealed my decision. She was the woman created for my own darkness. I set off to
protect her even from herself. Protect her to claim.
Fuse
her darkness with my own. For. Myself. I'd fended women off me with bazookas
when I was done but they weren't. I wasn't prepared for the battle I soon
fought. Not only with her but also with her family. And New York's billionaire
gangsters who own entourages of corrupt cops and politicians. With every battle
I won, she started new darker wars around me. You ate or you were eaten. Not
even starving was an option.
NOTE:
Although the blurb is in the first person, the story of Leo and Adrian is
written in the third person. This story contains adult material including
explicit sex and violence. You've been warned.
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EXCERPT ONE:
He
caught both her flying arms, used her momentum to spin her around onto her back
on the couch and landed over her.
Smack
bang between her legs.
Pinned
her hands above her head and every f****** struggle she tried only forced her
to rub against his hard body.
Furious,
her thighs tensed but with nowhere to go except around his hips. He planned
this. She f****** bet he planned this to the last minute detail.
“You
double-faced bastard, get off me!”
“No.
You put yourself here. Right here under me, Leo.”
“Get
the f*** off m—”
He
slammed his crotch right against hers and ground in.
She screamed as some unknown force kindled her
center and the sensation rushed simultaneously south to her soles and north to
her scalp.
She
stiffened, trembling. Then whimpered. Then—
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GUEST POST:
Hello!
Thanks
so much for working with me, Fabulous and Brunette. The tone you set here feels
so friendly and enthusiastic it has already made me happy for us to know each
other. Your joy is very infectious!
So
now let’s talk about that Fierce Female Character.
I
love them and create them in all my heroines. Of course they’re not all
fire-breathing females. But they aren’t
“struggling” (a word I hate to use to describe a heroine because for me it
conjures up a misplaced weed trying to exist from a crack in a derelict mediaeval
fortress, you know what I mean?) Whenever the word struggling crops up as a
description of whatever the heroine is going through, I sure as heck find
another word instead. Like striving or fighting or determined. Words that are positive and depict a fighter
who knows what she wants and goes for it. Not someone bogged down with half the
world’s problems and downtrodden by the other half.
My
female protagonists are like my all-time favourite heroine, Scarlett O’Hara of
Gone With the Wind. If they don’t have
the gown for the ball, they don’t wait around for the fairy godmother. They rip
that lovely velvet drape off the window and make a gown for themselves. I’d
always abhorred the conditioning of girls to be the ones to kiss the frog to
make him a prince, or put up with the Beast.
I rebelled against it and stomped off to play with the boys. This earned me being shipped off to a
boarding school in England at age nine. That only turned the tomboy in me into
a perfect ladette. I learnt to be quite the lady when the company required it
and run riot when I was the ruler of the world around me.
As an
economist, I’d been writing nonfiction books for over a decade under my
continents-long real name. Then erotic
romance hit mainstream. I read the books. A lot of them. Until I didn’t.
Because
girls and women are still made to grow up believing they are less worthy than
boys. In books or films, girls and women are trimmed to identify with “someone
just like you” while the boys and men are encouraged to identify with James
Bond and Superman – never someone just like them but someone higher, way higher
than them.
I
soon became the old rebel again and shortened my impossibly long name to a pen
name: A P von K’Ory. My heroines aren’t some delicate mimosa waiting to be
rescued or preyed upon. If they wait at tables to pay rent, they’ll soon take
over the restaurant or open their own that their former boss can’t beat. Bad
boy? Try worse girl for size.
The
UNTAMEABLE series is my second erotic thriller story. When I started writing
the story of Leo and Adrian in the series, I went for a story that was darker
and sexually a little edgier than the GOLDEN SHANA series. But I still aimed
for the discerning and gender-positive story. As always I paired off diverse
people: the uber-rich ultra-strong American Leo and the professional British
Royal Marines Commando assassin Adrian. The hardest part is crafting that
complex character of Leo convincingly. She’s a dragoness in the boardroom and
on Wall Street but ultra-feminine in the bedroom. Like all strong and
successful women, the world judges Leo differently from men. An Alpha man
ruling the financial world on Wall Street wouldn’t be referred to as Gorgeous
Ice Block in that negative sense. He would be the revered Lord of the Realm.
Likewise Leo has to constantly watch her behavior. If she slept around, took a
younger person to dinner, or avoided men altogether, she would be labelled
something even worse than an ice block. To put it in Adrian’s words:
It’s
a bloody man’s world, twenty-first century and all. A powerful male billionaire
could jolly well behave like a triple Nero coked to the hilt. Monogamy is
anti-male. Blame nature. Men fuck when they’re frisky, eat when they’re hungry,
bellow when they’re angry, sleep when they’re tired, marry women thirty or
forty years younger. No such liberties for a powerful female billionaire. She’d
be reduced to her cunt in a tic. Leontine Nigella Boswell knew that and threw
the tables on the male world’s bloody balls. You crept to her on all fours, and
worshipped her if she let you kiss the soles of her pumps.
I
love stories involving the Alpha woman, financially and socially independent.
The brand of woman who gets invited to the Met Gala on her own rights, not on a
man’s arm. I feel that young female readers should get to know and love the
headstrong woman who kneels before her man only when she herself wants to
kneel, not because the man orders her to do so as part of a contract she signed
when he bought her at that men’s club auction. My heroines still go for the
Alpha male. That’s a given. It’s wired in every woman since time immemorial.
That’s nature, not nurture. Women, Alpha or Beta, sprint away from wimps. But writing the Alpha woman is, twenty-first
century notwithstanding, still a challenge. One I revel in.
PS:
Because you asked for pix and my office, here’s Speedy, my assistant, hard at
work. When he’s not claiming my office washbasin for his afternoon nap, that
is.
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AUTHOR BIO & LINKS:
AP von K’Ory writes the kind of books she herself would like to read and is
passionate about, whether romance, psychological thriller or nonfiction. She is
the winner of six awards from four continents, the last one being the Achievers
Award for Writer of the Year 2013 in the Netherlands. The Selmere Integration
Prize was awarded her in 2014 for her engagement in helping African Women in
the Diaspora cope with a variety of domestic and social problems. The Proposal,
a short story, won the Cook Communications first prize in 2010 and is published
in an American anthology Africa 2012. In 2012, she won the Karl Ziegler Prize
for her commitment to bring African culture to Western society in various
papers, theses, and lectures. Again in 2012, her book Bound to Tradition: The
Dream was nominated for the 2012 Caine Prize by the Author-me Group, Sanford,
and in 2013 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Von
K'Ory is married to an aristocrat and politician of Franco-German descent, has
a large extended family. She lectures Economics and Sociology in Austria,
Germany and Switzerland. She’s migratory and – weather willing – lives in
Germany, France, Cyprus, and Greece.
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