Devil Take Me by Anna J. Evans

Yay! I've got another release today. It's a really good one, too. I love Anna's work. Click on the title to buy it now.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or is that wicked seductions?

Annie Theophilus is used to life not going her way, but now the future is looking bright. She’s engaged and finally getting her happily-ever-after—until she catches her fiancé cheating. The garage seems to be the safest place for a well-deserved crying jag. Instead, it proves to be a portal from hell, out of which a sexy denizen of the underworld has just emerged.

Namtar, one-time death-bringer to mortals, has come through an Earth portal for one thing—power. If he can convince a human to willingly sacrifice mortality for eternity in the Underworld, he will gain the power he needs to get the queen off her throne and secure a future for his people.

But Annie’s seduction doesn’t go as smoothly as planned. Somehow she steals a piece of his heart, and he finds himself struggling with a depth of feeling he’s never known. Now, thanks to his own hesitation, they’re on the run from a murderous ex-fiancé and a few enraged demons.
How can he ask her to give him her soul—when all he can offer her is pain?

Warning: This book contains sex in a garage, sex on the run, and shades of BDSM experimentation between willing partners as well as graphic depictions of an insane demon queen punishing her male and female lovers with stuff that put the ick in icky…I mean kinky.

Seven

Seven places I'd rather be right now (that I've actually been to):
Maui
my bed
Disney World
Chicago
Honolulu and the Royal Hawaiian's bar on the beach
Washington state to visit Kevin and Dawn
Cox's Pub

Seven things I'm craving right now:
to get started on my spring cleaning (we've been too busy)
a caramel Moolatte from DQ
a cigarette
a Leinenkugel Berry Weis beer
a vacation
a manicure
to go shopping for some new duds

Seven of my favorite movies:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Little Mermaid
Rosemary's Baby
Smokey and the Bandit
Backdraft
Days of Thunder
Roadhouse

Seven of my all-time favorite songs:
Asshole by Denis Leary
You Spin Me Round by Dead or Alive
Foolish Games by Jewel
I Melt by Rascal Flatts
Pussy Control by Prince
Pussy by Lords of Acid
I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred

Seven Things I Hate (right now)

1. The price of gas. Duh. It's disgusting to me how we are suffering and having to choose between food to eat and gas to put in are cars, two essential things, while Haliburton and all the other oil companies are seeing their biggest profits of all times. How in the hell does that work? And why is NO ONE doing anything about it?

2. Illegal immigrants. They come and suck off our system, don't speak our language...Grrr. I mean, I have NO problem with people coming here. Not at all, but dammit, if you're going to do it, do it legally. And learn the language we speak here. I wouldn't move to China and expect everyone there to learn to speak English to accomodate me.

3. The gravel lot at work I have to walk through to get to the building after I park. It really sucks to walk through gravel in heels, sometimes stilettos. Sure, I could park in the pavement one, if I wanted to pay an extra $150 a year for the privelege of doing so. Actually, I work here, why should I have to PAY from my check to park in the first place?

4. My job. I have to do way too much for way too little. They just keep piling the work on and expecting me to hop right to it. If I was getting paid to do a $50K a year job, I'd do $50K work. If you don't even pay me HALF of that, then don't expect that I'll be all eager for more work. And my raise in July will probably be a whopping 15 cents an hour. Please. You may as well spit on me. That doesn't even cover the cost of the gas I use to get to this shithole.

5. The fact that my brother is risking his life in Iraq and I really don't even know why. Does anyone else know why we're there or have a valid reason for it? Cuz I sure don't.

6. The fact that we got all of our TV shows back (Finally) but only for three or four measly episodes. What's up with that? Then we'll get back the wonderful world of crappy reality TV.

7. And last, but not least, David A. from American Idol. Dude, I mean come on. Do people seriously like him? Someone should just give him a puppy and send him on his way. For real.

Publishers, Crude Oil and more

1. Anyone happen to watch the show Crude that was on last night? I think it was on Discovery. It basically talked about oil, where it comes from, how much of it we use, and how we've probably reached our "peak", which means that we've gone through half of it. We've gone through that much of it it 100 years, when the stuff took hundreds of thousands of years to "form". Wow. But that wasn't even what got me the most...what got me the most was the Saudi Arabian on there talking about the high prices of oil. What!?! HTF can he sit there and complain about the prices of oil when people in Saudi Arabia are rolling in it because of the high prices. I'm sure you've all seen teh news reports and emails with pictures of silver-plated Audis, 100+ room mansions, the crazy hotels and islands they are building in Dubai, and how Dubai is the richest city in the world right now. Meanwhile, half of us back in the US are having to scrape together money to fill our cars up with gas because of the astronomical prices and we're having to cut back on everything. But HE'S complaining about the price of a barrel of oil? I can't wait until those fuckers run out and have to come to us to get their oil. (Is it obvious that I feel strongly about this? =P)

2. I'm am the fattest I've ever been in my life. Yeah, I'll say it. 5'4" and 158 lbs. NO GOOD. I used to weight 118...granted, that was about seven years ago, but still, dammit. I gained about 12 lbs in Hawaii. Now I have to lose that, PLUS more. So, when I get home today, I'm posting one of my fat pictures on here from Hawaii, and in a few months, I'll post an update pic. =) I've GOT to lose it or I won't be able to fit into my wedding dress.

3. I love my Myles. He truly is awesome. Yesterday, I was complaining about how I wanted a Dirt Devil hand vac for cleaning the stairs since I hate using what I have on it. So he decides to go to the grocery store with me (I knew something was up because he HATES grocery shopping) and when I came back from another aisle, he had stuck the Dirt Devil I wanted in the shopping cart. And yes, don't say it, I'm happy I got a sweeper.

4. Publishers, what is up with some of them? I'm not naming any names, but have some class and use your brain. Geez. You've got to pay people and you can't just do whatever you want to with an author's work. Gimme a break. Sometimes the stupity of people just baffles me. This one is like stupidity times 100.

5. I hate my "real" job. Everything has changes since I came back from Hawaii. The atmosphere used to be pretty relaxed, but now, it's tense. The boss now has "an agenda". Yes indeedy. It was overheard that she wants to build her own team, so she's working to weed people out, which means cracking down on all of us. I know I'm not on her list, since she knows I'm quitting in a year anyways, but it still sucks to feel like you're being watched all the time. It's like Big Brother or some shit. I'm not diggin' it at all.

6. I finally get my cell phone today! Well, at least it's supposed to be in the mail today. Instead of going to a store and getting you one, they have to mail you a replacement. Not having one has been KILLING me. Especially since we don't have a house phone anymore, just our cells. I can't wait to just be able to pick up my phone when I'm in my car on the way home from work and call my mom. As it stands right now, I feel so...disconnected.

7. I'm doing well on the whole "getting organized" thing. I finally took all the Christmas stuff down and I spent some time yesterday putting stuff in its proper place to reduce clutter. We...well, I...have a tendency to put all our random cold/cough medicine and everything else like that on top of the microwave so I don't have to go upstairs to the bathroom pantry, where it should be. So, I took it all up there yesterday. I gotta say, it drastically changed the look of that space in the kitchen. Tonight I'm going to hit my junk drawers in my endtable next to my seat on the couch. I'm guessing that's going to be a bit more of a task. :)

As promised, my resolutions

In no particular order...

1. Quit Smoking. (I'm doing pretty good on this one, it's day two and no smokes. I could have been bumming, too, but I haven't. *Sigh* This sucks.)

2. Lessen my swearing. (No, I can't say "stop". That's impossible, I have a mouth like a sailor, it's in my genes.)

3. Eat better.

4. Exercise more.

5. Come up with a list of house chores and days I am going to do them to stop myself from power cleaning every weekend.

6. Be nice! I have a tendency to be mean/sarcastic, but I only do it with friends and family, and most of them know I only do it with people I am comfortable with.

7. Be more appreciative and do more of the little things that matter. Like randome cards and such and sending out birthday and anniversary cards. Stuff like picking up little trinkets that may only cost me a buck but mean the world to the person who receives it because it let's them know I appreciate them and was thinking about them. After the death of one of my best friend's this past year it has made me even more aware of things like this. Things as simple as making time for people. It means so much and I wish I had done it more before Dave died.