on May 9th, 2011 Hello, Smut-world! I’m Vivi Andrews and I’d like to thank the rockstar-goddess Smutketeers for having me around today to celebrate my new release – the lion-shifter sexiness of Serengeti Sunrise, share a sneak peek inside the story, and submit to a little friendly interrogation. And now, to the questions!
Beer or Girly drink with an umbrella? Girly drinks all the way. 100-proof pretty pastels.
Cowboy or fireman? Gotta be the cowboys. Saddle up!
Vanilla or chocolate? Both.
Paris or Tahiti? Both – and every other destination I can get.
Hugs or Kisses? Kisses.
Boxers, briefs or commando? Any of the above? What a man wears on his business is his business…
Steak or sushi? Sushi!
Vampire or shape shifter? Shifters! I pass out when I give blood, so the whole suck-me-dry thing has never really appealed, but I do love that animalism. Mmm, baser instincts.
Jeans or stilettos? Both.
Quiet dinner in front of the fire or hot night on the town? Both.
Carried off into the sunset on the back of a galloping stallion or in the luxury of a racy corvette? The corvette… or more likely a Nissan GT-R or on the back of a Ducati.
Tropical beach or mountain cabin? Both. (Provided they both have indoor plumbing. I like nature, but the smell of an outhouse can somewhat dampen the appeal of that mountain seclusion…)
Hot man in blue jeans or an Italian suit? Both… the clothes don’t make the man.
Okay, yes, I cheated with a bunch of the “both” answers, but that’s part of why I write – so I don’t have to pick just one version of happily-ever, but can sample all the possibilities of what turns my crank. So my question to you, dear readers, for the chance to win a shiny new copy of Serengeti Sunrise, what is your favorite brand of creature that goes bump in the night?
And while you’re thinking that over, here’s a taste of Sunrise….
No strings? Try hopelessly tangled.
Zoe King is itching to get out of Three Rocks. Sure, the pride is more progressive with her brother in charge. She’s just got a bad case of wanderlust…and an even worse case of the hots for Tyler Minor.
The pride’s mechanic sets her senses on fire one second, then shuts down and walks away the next. Before she hits the road for good, this lioness decides it’s time to bring their cat-and-mouse game to a satisfying end.
Twenty years ago, Tyler’s father walked out and left him with a mountain of responsibility. Now that his younger siblings are settled, the last thing he wants or needs is another obligation. Which is exactly what he’ll get if he screws around with the Alpha’s sister.
When Zoe offers—more like demands—a no-strings affair, temptation wins and he finds his hands in places they shouldn’t be, and his thoughts straying to words like his. But Zoe’s got her own ideas about possessive, chest-banging males. And they don’t include white picket fences…or letting Tyler keep her out of the danger zone when an outside threat to the pride’s secrecy becomes all too real.
EXCERPT:
He turned to face her, his eyes narrowed and hands loose around his hips like a gunslinger. As they faced one another across the length of the garage, she felt that high-noon feeling herself. Tension snapped in the air, the unavoidable sense that something was coming. Something that had been bearing down on them for a while now.
Love or war. Whichever it was, there wasn’t any middle ground. They’d burned it all away with the friction of the last year.
“Coward?” he asked, his voice a soft, dark rumble.
“You have another word you’d prefer?” She strolled across the concrete floor, adding an extra sway to her hips as she came to stand directly in front of him. “Chicken? Pussy, perhaps?”
“Don’t push me, Zoe.” He rumbled the warning.
“Or what? You gonna show me who’s boss? Or are you just gonna run away like you always do? Like a coward.”
His lips pulled back from his teeth in a snarl and he loomed over her. She could practically feel his lion pushing against his skin, burning with the need to prove to her, once and for all, which one of them would end up on top if it ever came down to a battle for dominance. He might play at being civilized, but Tyler wanted to make her submit. She could see it in the luminous feline gold of his eyes.
“Are you going to kiss me or throttle me?” Zoe tipped her chin back, meeting his eyes with a blatant challenge. “Whichever you’re going to do, do it now. Because I’m sick of waiting for you to make up your mind.”
“What makes you think I didn’t make up my mind months ago and you just can’t take a hint?”
“What hint was that? The way you stare at me when you think I’m not looking? How you take the longest possible path between your bungalow and the garage each evening just so you can go past my house? Or maybe the fact that you can’t tell when I’m in heat because you always want me?”
He turned away, striding toward the door. “That’s quite a healthy ego you have there.”
“It’s all in my head, is that it?” He put his hand on the door and Zoe felt her composure fracture. “Dammit, Tyler! What the fuck is your deal?” He didn’t turn back to her, but he didn’t open the door either. She shouted at his back. “You want me. I’ve made it embarrassingly obvious I want you too. So what is the big problem?”
“Your brother…”
“I’m twenty-seven years old. I don’t have to ask his permission to fuck whoever the hell I want.”
He turned, leaning his shoulders against the door, one hand still resting on the knob. “He’s the Alpha—”
“So what? This has nothing to do with him. He doesn’t even have to know.”
“He’ll know.”
“Who the fuck cares? Because I’m the Alpha’s sister, I’m not allowed to get any?”
“I don’t want any more commitments in my life. I’m sick of being responsible for everyone.”
“Who’s talking about a commitment? I’m talking about sex. Fucking. Screwing. Banging our brains out. No strings attached. I never asked you for a fucking commitment, dumbass.”
“It’s never going to be no strings. Not with the Alpha’s sister.”
“God, I am so sick of being the Alpha’s sister. I’m Zoe. Can we just have one conversation that doesn’t include Landon?”
Tyler thunked his head back against the door. “Look, Zoe, if I wanted to stay here at the pride for the rest of my life and mate with a little lioness who’d give me lots of fat babies, you’d be the first person I’d—”
She cut him off with a solid punch to his shoulder that made him wince. “You asshole. Would you listen to me for five seconds? I don’t want to marry you. I’m not Mara the fucking baby-making machine. If you tried to give me a picket fence, I would rip up the posts and shove them up your ass. So stop trying to put me in that box.” She slapped her palms flat on his chest, baring her teeth up at him. “I want sex. And I want it from you. So do you want me or not? Because I’m done waiting. We’re deciding this, once and for all. Are you a man or what? Because for someone with the teeth of an alpha lion, you’re awfully fucking scared of me.”
Serengeti Sunrise: Releasing May 10th. Available for pre-order at Samhain and Amazon.
And, as part of the release celebration, I’m also giving away several books at my blog ; Swing on by and comment for another chance to win.
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Welcome Vivi to the smutty goodness that is the Smutketeers!
I would have to say some type of shifter.
If you have not read Vivi’s other series Karmic Consultants…it is an awesome series too ;)
Congrats on the new release!
Gigi
by gigi May 9th, 2011 at 4:12 amHi Vivi! Its so nice to meet a new author that I havent had the pleasure to read before. I loved your excerpt regarding Zoe taunting Tyler to get what she wanted.
I am sure she wants to be seen as herself and not by another title. I look forward to watching their battle unfold and finding out how Tyler finally gives in to his desires.
Congrats on your new release and sharing your excerpt!
~Brandi
by Brandi May 9th, 2011 at 5:52 amI like the big cat shifters – especially the panthers!
This excerpt sounds HOT! Can’t wait to read it!
by Susan R May 9th, 2011 at 7:19 amYay-Vivi’s here! Congrats on the new release!
by Eden Bradley-Eve Berlin May 9th, 2011 at 8:26 amGreat interview! I love the both answers because I would have said the same thing lol
As for what do I like that goes bump in the night… Besides hubby and I I would say all the scary ghosts, vamps and shifters LOL
leanne_gag[at]hotmail[dot]com
Congrats on your New Release!!!
by Leanne May 9th, 2011 at 8:36 amWoohoo, Vivi! As for favorite “bump in the night” creature… a shifter–preferably a big cat or a wolf… so sleek and powerful and gorgeous!
by Fedora May 9th, 2011 at 9:03 amCongrats on your release. I agree with Gigi love your Karmic Consultants series.
by Ivelisse May 9th, 2011 at 9:16 amMy fave is the vamps….
Hi Vivi and welcome! I love your cover and the excerpt is great! Congrats on your new release!
by Karen Erickson May 9th, 2011 at 9:17 amShifters all the way! I especially like wolf or big cat shifters. I like how feral and Alpha they are.
Congratulations on the new release!
by StacieDM May 9th, 2011 at 9:40 amCongrats on the new release. Awesome looking cover!
by JeanP May 9th, 2011 at 9:50 amEnjoy reading shifter stories, big fan of the wolf and big cat shifters.
Congrats on the new release Vivi!! I love them shifters. Thanks for stopping by and answering the questions. I have to agree alot of mine would have been both too. I can’t wait to read the new one.
Heading on over to checkout your site.
by Toni May 9th, 2011 at 10:16 amThank you for the warm welcome, Smut Mavens! So fun to see all the shifter-lovin. Visiting the Smutketeers has to be the best way to get amped up for release day. Thanks for celebrating with me! (I’m a little gushy and over-excited today. Can you tell?) :D
by Vivi Andrews May 9th, 2011 at 10:23 amWe *love* gushy and over-excited! :)
by Eden Bradley-Eve Berlin May 9th, 2011 at 11:13 amCongrats on the new release.I enjoyed the excerpt,thanks for sharing.
by elaing8 May 9th, 2011 at 11:24 amIt depends on my mood as to what is my favorite..sometimes I like the vamps more and other times I like the shifter stories more.
My answer changes almost daily. I do love shifters but (cover your eyes, Vivi) I like vamps. I know, the whole blood sucking thing but I still love them. Of course, I also like the gods, demigods, demons, witches etc. I just like the paranormal stuff.
by Jen B. May 9th, 2011 at 11:29 amThanks for the giveaway. This book is on my wish list.
jepebATverizonDOTnet
Oh Vivi and I’m excited your here too! :D
by Dawn May 9th, 2011 at 11:36 amI’m a Vamp girl with what’s becoming a shifter fetish. I have read all your books with the exception of No Angel-but I have it :) I love your stuff and cant wait for this book to release.
I love vamps because of their extra abilities but don’t like the lack of sun thing. I am a huge cat shifter person. There is something about making your man growl one minute then purr the next…;)
by Leagh May 9th, 2011 at 11:38 amI love shifters pretty much any kind of them if I had to choose one it would probably be a wolf. I think that shifters are so sexy.
by Sherry S. May 9th, 2011 at 11:54 amTough choosing just one, but at the heart, I am a shifter girl, love the wolves and big cats.
by Cathy M May 9th, 2011 at 12:44 pmI enjoyed both the interview and the excerpt. I look forward in continuing this series.
by Tracey D May 9th, 2011 at 12:52 pmI have read the entire series, and it is wonderful! Congrats on the release. I can’t wait to read it.
by Jayne Bleau May 9th, 2011 at 12:55 pmOoo that sounds so hot. I would like a white tiger shape shifter. It would be so nice to ‘pet’ him day and night, no need for blankets if your man has fur. Just the sound of his purring would lull me to sleep.
by julie comins May 9th, 2011 at 1:01 pmJulie in New England
Congrats and its so wonderful having you on Smutketeers!
by R.G. Alexander May 9th, 2011 at 1:39 pmJust got one of the Karmic Consultant titles and can’t wait to read it after all the praise. But I do love a good shifter tale.
Contests on the release!
Dana
by Dana May 9th, 2011 at 3:31 pmLoved the excerpt. It sounds like Tyler is pretty much fucked. Hopefully he has the good sense to enjoy it. Congrats, good luck, and happy writing!
by Trac May 9th, 2011 at 5:21 pmok I m going to answer this .. I love all creature that “bump” in the night .. course day works for me as well ! heheheh I think i made a funny
meandi09@yahoo.com
by jennifer mathis May 9th, 2011 at 5:26 pmThis book sounds fantastic!
by Jessie May 9th, 2011 at 5:42 pmMy fav would be the big cats. How can you not love a sexy man that purrs! (or even one who doesn’t lol)
i love shifters, big cats or vampires, the hot variety lol I love the answers to the inteview questions too! Great excerpt.
Lisa B
by Lisa B May 9th, 2011 at 7:10 pmmodokker at yahoo dot com
Ack! My internet went wonky this afternoon and I missed a bunch of the action! Now catching up…
Julie, my best friend has a gorgeous white tiger tattoo. I’d be in her good graces for life if I wrote one of those.
Dana, I hope you love the Karmics!
And THANK YOU to everyone for the shifter excerpt-love today and a ginormous sloppy kiss for the Smutketeers for letting me come play!
by Vivi Andrews May 9th, 2011 at 7:59 pmOoh-we get sloppy kisses-we like it!
by Eden Bradley-Eve Berlin May 9th, 2011 at 8:23 pmI enjoyed the interview and can’t wait to read Sunrise.
by cherie May 9th, 2011 at 9:34 pmI love the big cat shifters, followed closely by wolves.
Although I love both, my favorite would definately be vampires. Less shedding, LOL.
by June M. May 9th, 2011 at 10:55 pmLOL – June, are shifter heroes allowed to shed? Or is that like morning breath and belly fat – two things a romance hero would never dare have!
by Vivi Andrews May 10th, 2011 at 9:38 amI’ve always had a thing for vamps, but these lions sound so hot that I will have to read this one!
Congratulations on the new release, Vivi!
by Katherine May 11th, 2011 at 5:27 amEwww-no shedding! lol!
by Eden Bradley-Eve Berlin May 11th, 2011 at 8:48 amget a lint roller I can deal with a little fur lol
by Dawn May 11th, 2011 at 1:34 pmLove cat shifters!!!
by JoAnna B May 11th, 2011 at 5:34 pmI like the cat shifters, too… something about the rough tongue!
I’ve loved all of the Serengeti stories so far and am looking forward to this one, too.
by Jade May 12th, 2011 at 10:01 pmAnd the Winner of a copy of Serengeti Sunrise is…. Leanne! (commenter #5) Congratulations! I’ll be in touch to get you your winnings!
A huge thank you to the Smutketeers for having me and to everyone who commented for the fabulous welcome. Y’all rock. ;)
by Vivi Andrews May 16th, 2011 at 10:24 amYay, Leanne! Congrats!
by Eden Bradley-Eve Berlin May 16th, 2011 at 10:25 am