Taryn Kincaid stirs up Sleepy Hollow

Cate: Yay, Taryn Kincaid's here to my special Halloween celebration. Taryn, please tell us a little bit about yourself.

Taryn: BOR-ING.

Cate: Aren't most writers? lol What do you love most about Halloween?

Taryn: I write erotic paranormal romances. So let’s just say…some of my favorite books come out just before Halloween!

Ooops. There goes one now

Cate: Whew, is it getting hot in here? :) Do you have a favorite memory of a Halloween past?

Taryn: Well, okay. If you insist. Scary, isn’t it?

Cate: Love the hobo outfit! Have you ever had an unusual experience you couldn’t explain?

Taryn: Pretty much all my experiences are unusual. And inexplicable.

Cate: What frightens you the most?

Taryn: People with fewer working brain cells than soap sludge who are elected to the U.S.  Congress.

Cate: lol Ever gone on a ghost tour? Or ghost hunting on your own?

Taryn: Once, back in my newspaper days, I went to interview a professor at a local Catholic college. He claimed that he lived in a Haunted House (which, coincidentally, was not far from Sleepy Hollow). The entire house creaked, from the rickety stairs to the squishy lawn. He would enhance the effects for his students and other neighborhood kids for Halloween. Which, when you think about it, might be kind of weird for a priest.

Cate: Any favorite Halloween recipes you’d care to share?

Taryn: Tons, now that I have discovered Pinterest! You can check out my “Happy Halloween” page here: http://www.pinterest.com/tarynkincaid/happy-halloween/. There’s everything from the “Bloody Dexter Broken Glass Cupcake” to the “Dark and Stormy Death Punch” and “Halloween Eyeballs Jello Shots.”

Here are some little Halloween Oreo Pumpkin Cheesecakes to melt in your mouth:

Ingredients:

1 8-oz package of softened cream cheese

½ c. sugar

½ tsp vanilla extract

½ c. pureed pumpkin

1 egg

¼ tsp cinnamon

1/8 tsp nutmeg

2 tbs all purpose flour

Pinch of salt

12 Halloween Oreos (the ones with the orange icing in the middle)

Chocolate chips, optional

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners.
3.  Place 1 oreo in the bottom of each.
4.  Whip cream cheese and sugar together until smooth.
5. Stir in vanilla, pumpkin, egg, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour and salt until smooth.
6. Spoon mixture over oreos.
7. Bake 20-25 minutes, until cheesecakes have set.
8. Remove from oven to cool.
9. When cool, remove from muffin tin and discard paper wrappers.
10. Microwave chocolate chips until melted.
11. Drizzle chocolates in circles on top of each cake, then drag tip of toothpick or fork through the chocolate circles to create a spider web effect.
12. Refrigerate and serve!

Cate: Sounds dangerously good. Tell us about your latest release, and where readers can find it online.

Taryn: Sleepy Hollow – it’s the anthology of all four of my erotic paranormal Sleepy Hollow series 1Night Stand stories for Decadent Publishing (Lightning, Thunder, Frost and Heat Wave), plus Blizzard, my erotic contemporary for Decadent’s The Edge line.

It’s available in paperback and digital. Here’s the back cover copy:

Welcome to steamy Sleepy Hollow, where lightning strikes, the temperatures are HOT, and the erotic sparks fly!

 

You wouldn't think three sultry succubi sisters, two sexy fire-demons, a reluctant witch and a couple of mega hunky mortals would need hook-ups courtesy of Madame Eve's ultra-exclusive 1Night Stand agency…but hey, the dating scene can be rough, even if you've got extraordinary paranormal powers and live in a mystical village populated by supernaturals… where things tend to go bump in the night.

Taryn Kincaid's erotic 1Night Stand stories, LIGHTNING, THUNDER, FROST and HEAT WAVE are a little snarky, a lot smokin' and will melt your heart! And then BLIZZARD will set you aflame!

Available from Decadent Publishing | Amazon Amazon  US | UK | DE | Canada | ARe |

Cate: Love. This. Series.

Woot! You lucky readers - Taryn has a giveaway!

Taryn: Will give away an ebook copy LIGHTNING, the first book in my Sleepy Hollow series to one random commenter. Tell me YOUR favorite Halloween recipe or a leave a link to it!

Cate: Thanks so much for the spooktacular fun, Taryn! Happy Halloween!

New release spotlight: Heat Wave by Taryn Kincaid

Yay, I've been waiting for this one. Taryn Kincaid never disappoints! 

Heat Wave
by Taryn Kincaid
Available from Decadent Publishing
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EESYAXW/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb

Sent into the human realm to retrieve prodigal princess, Zena Night, Bhyrne Raines is shocked and unprepared for his carnal reaction to the sexy succubus. In service to the succubus queen, the rugged enforcer must stifle the instant passion exploding within him. Fulfilling his royal duty doesn’t allow for quickie dalliances. His biological clock is ticking, and he begins to enter breedspawn, an intense and unstoppable frenzy of mating all fire-demon males must endure. But the more he wants to avoid Zena, the more he’s drawn to her.

Reluctant to give up her carefree life of partying among the mortals when the hot-as-sin Bhyrne comes to fetch her for the queen, Zena uses her succubus wiles to entice him, or at least delay the inevitable trip to the royal court. Once in the demon stronghold, hidden deep within the Catskill mountains, she learns the reason for the summons: she must choose a consort within two days.

Zena needs a mate. Bhyrne needs to mate. With time running out for both of them, they each turn to 1Night Stand. With time running out, can Madame Eve come to the rescue?

EXCERPT

Holy freeze gun, Batman. The words died before she managed to expose them to air. Her mouth snapped shut.

One of the Queen’s guards stood before her, huge and tall, nearly twice the size of most of the other males in the joint, a hella hunka supernatural male. Clearly not human, although Hugo Boss’d to his Adam’s apple in an apparent bid to fit in among the humans trolling for hot sex, illicit drugs, watered-down booze and loud music. Beneath the fabric of the unstructured designer suit, the toned muscles of a demonic warrior rolled like tidal waves. Even without the small lapel pin the uninformed might mistake for the The Rolling Stones’ logo, she’d recognize him for a captain of the guard. Maybe the Queen’s own Captain.

Hellfire and cotton candy. Trouble. T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

But, by the goddess, whattahottie! Despite her certainty that his presence in the club corridor boded ill for her, the force of her sudden hunger shook her.

Like lightning.

Thunder.

A desperate bolt out of the blue.

Instant connection to him on the paranormal plane, as if he’d wrapped her aura in gold chains and tugged her to him. But did that fast lane to heaven run one way or two?

A grim expression straightened the lines of what otherwise might have been a generous, sensuous mouth. A military buzz cut had weed-whacked hair the color of iron. And it didn’t stop there. Without doubt, metal fortified every single cell in the massive male’s body, pure titanium flowing in his veins. The stern planes and angles of a hard-edged, swoon-worthy face set grimly as cement. Though he lounged in the hallway like any Archie or Jughead waiting in line to discharge his rented beer in a urinal, he exuded authority, his carriage and bearing such that he made the others look like a pack of Twizzlers. Oh. Yeah. More than a mere guardsman, she guessed. An enforcer.

Ruh-roh.

About Taryn Kincaid

Taryn is an Olympic caliber athlete egg roller and spends a great deal of her time petitioning the U.S.O.C. to introduce a fantail shrimp competition. When she's not bungee jumping off the Palisades or parasailing up and down the Hudson River, she devotes her time to caring for her aging pet walrus, arranging her voodoo doll-pin collection and practicing rhythmic chants. At this moment, she is busy sweeping up the loose masala chai tea leaves she spilled all over the kitchen floor. (Probably because she needs COFFEE.) Wait. Is that something…sparkly?

Taryn hangs around a lot on Facebook and Twitter with her trillions of fans and pops in at Goodreads from time to time. You can catch her on her website, http://tarynkincaid.com, and her blog, http://dreamvoyagers.blogspot.com where she lives for comments!

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