on Mar 30th, 2012 
The third in my WILD series is about to come out on April 1. I know, April Fool’s Day! Hey, good things can happen on that day too. It’s not just practical jokes. Okay, maybe it is. But WICKED, my book, is no prank, just wicked hot, wicked steamy, and a wickedly naughty little threesome book. And did I mention the shape-shifters? Lynx. You guys like the cats, right? I know you do.
Anyway, here are the details!
WICKED
Lynx shifter Farah has never been interested in limiting herself to a single mate, though she’s instinctively drawn to the unrestrained lust of The Wild, her people’s mating time. She’s particularly aroused by the sight of two men pleasuring a female together. But as she gives in to her desire with Ryan and Eric, Farah begins to suspect the impossible: that both men could be her mates…
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EXCERPT:
The Wild time was almost over.
A shame, because Farah loved it. She could feel the heat loosening its grip on her body, and she mourned the loss. It would be another year before she felt the instincts of her feline side slice through her so keenly. Why did it have to end, this time away from time? It always drew to a close long before she was ready.
The chill of a mountain breeze brushed against her, but she’d shifted into her Lynx form, and her thick tawny-and-black spotted fur made her impervious to the cold of gathering dusk. Her claws dug into the soft ground as she wove her way through the trees and down the mountainside. Her car was parked at the base with all the others belonging to the shifters who came to Wild.
Something tugged at her senses, made her pause in her tracks. She glanced around, but saw no one. The birds twittered in the trees, the night animals beginning to stir in the forest. She could smell other Lynx, but nothing seemed out of place. Twitching her shoulders, she took a few more steps down the slope when her instincts stopped her again. They urged her away from the direction of her car, told her something good awaited her if she went left instead of right. She huffed out a breath and gave in to the internal pull. She didn’t want to leave anyway, so what would it hurt to take a few more minutes and see what lay in that direction. She turned and trotted toward the sound of running water. A few nimble leaps and she went from a small boulder to a massive one overlooking a wide river that snaked its way down to a lake. The long rows of parked vehicles were beyond the lake, though she couldn’t see them from where she stood.
The scent of sex, of hundreds of cats in one place, permeated the air. During the first week of spring, every female Lynx went into heat at the same time. Those in North America gathered here, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, to rut with an abandon that never failed to make Farah shiver from the delicious thrill of it.
Wild was an awakening she could feel in the air, it was an awareness of possibilities, of beginnings. It was also when Lynx came to find their mates, but that had never been her aim. Limiting herself to one man wasn’t something she was interested in–her sexuality was the one area her in life where she let go of control. She loved the visceral novelty of a variety of lovers, the endless combinations. For her, Wild was seven days of leaving the trappings of humanity behind, the ambitious drive of the lawyer; seven whole days of embracing the side of herself her straightforward logic usually strangled into submission.
It was divine, that carnal release from all restraint. A game she loved to play with as many willing men as she could. There was no shame in her sexuality, no fear of harsh judgment, just the instinct to fuck burning through her body. She purred with pleasure. There was no better time of year than Wild, and she shoved away the understanding that her time was almost over. It made her ache to even think of it.
CONTEST!
Up for grabs is a $10 Amazon Gift Card. Tell me what your favorite April Fool’s prank was. Or just your favorite prank ever. Come on, be outrageous! Make me laugh.
I’ll draw a winner on Sunday…April Fool’s Day. And also the day WICKED goes wild.
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I know this bad but here it goes. My son has scolosis so we took for the xray and exam. This was around the time of his b’day. We bought him a flat screenTV for him while he was in school. When he got home I told him to come stairs to talk about the results. As were walking up the stairs I tell him that he has to wear a brace on his back . He open his rm and saw the tv,Then I told him he doesn’t need the brace after all. He did a happy dance about the tv.
by Pam R March 30th, 2012 at 7:58 amOh, that is naughty, Pam!
by Crystal Jordan March 30th, 2012 at 7:59 amHmm I tricked my mom into thinking I was pregnant a looong time ago as an April Fool’s joke. She started to freak so I came clean quick.
by Karen Erickson March 30th, 2012 at 8:04 amSticky Bun-I told my mom I was pregnant too! lol I was a teenager so it did NOT go over well hehe
Yay Crystal! This release better not be an April Fools joke-the cover is delicious and I love this series!
by RG Alexander/Rachel Grace March 30th, 2012 at 8:18 amwe wrapped everything individually in news print on our supervisors desk. I mean everything, even pencils were wrapped separately.
by Jason March 30th, 2012 at 8:29 amCrystal, I can’t wait for Wicked! Fantastic cover and great blurb. Yeah!
When I was younger, I once tied a rubber band around the kitchen sink sprayer so that the next person to turn the water on got doused – it was my dad, he wasn’t thrilled but I thought it was hilarious.
And I got it good once myself. My step-son’s friends rang the doorbell with water guns poised and ready – expecting him to answer. Well, it was me! Their faces were priceless and worth it in the end. :-)
by Liz March 30th, 2012 at 8:29 amI sorta did the same thing as, Karen-lol! GMTA! Except I took it a few steps further.
by edenbradley March 30th, 2012 at 9:13 amMy mom had moved to Singapore and I hadn’t seen her for 8 months. I went to the airport dressed like I was hugely pregnant. Almost peed my pants strapping the pillow on. But the joke was on me-her flight was delayed by 5 hours (this was pre-Internet and pre-911 days), so I sat at the airport with that damn pillow on my stomach forever! It was hot as hell. The only good thing was that no one let me stand in line for snacks or the bathroom. And when mom got off the plane she smirked and said “Nice try.” She knew me too well.
The prank I remember most is one that was played out at my expense-and it nearly caused me to beat up a co-worker. Afew years ago, Sam, our ‘counselor’ decided to have a bit of ‘fun’ with me. They had just moved my desk from the first floor where I was working with customers to the second floor, away from everyone. Sam convinced me that they did it so they could, in his words, ‘ease me out the door, because my job was being eliminated’. He told me not to bother to unpack my boxes, since I would be leaving that afternoon. After about three hours of this, I was nearly in tears, when the supervisor came in and asked what was wrong. I told her what Sam had said, and she threw a book at him-a big book! She told me my job was safe and to settle in-but he had me going for a while. I can laugh about it now, but back then, it scared the **** out of me.
by Nancy G March 30th, 2012 at 9:37 amI hate prectical jokes because I am so freaking gullible and cause I have no imagination to think up cool ones. I try to avoid April Fools Day as much as possible. But my son did get me with the rubber band around the sink sprayer. I laughed. Then I tickled him to death. *g*
by Ursula March 30th, 2012 at 12:20 pmLOL at all the fake pregnancies! Never tried that one… maybe this year I’ll spring that on DH and see what he thinks… (because if that was for reals, I’d probably be in tears ;)) One year (not for April Fool’s), we convinced DH (way before he became DH) that it was really the next morning when it was really the middle of the night for a surprise party… :)
by Fedora March 30th, 2012 at 1:11 pmNot my favorite holiday as I am always the one to get pranked!!
I have had the rubberband around the sink sprayer happen to me. The kids fell on the floor laughing. The boys also tied all of my shoes together. So that when I went to get a pair they all came out in one long string. Took me forever to fix that one.
I don’t do pranks on other as I am not crafty enough to think of them in time. Oh well! At least I can provide comic relief for the boys!
Mel
by Mel B March 30th, 2012 at 2:25 pmI’m not sure if this was an April Fool’s prank but a radio station (I think in the States) told there listeners to dump there garbage on the steps of their City Hall. I believe a good number of people actually did….suprising that they would do this.
by Jeanette Jackson March 30th, 2012 at 2:56 pmI didn’t do it, because I thought it was crazy mean, but my friend told everyone that she was pregnant and had eloped a few years ago! It was so complex, she made up a boyfriend with a terrible job and drug problem and acted like he was her dream man! I was shocked! I couldn’t believe she had done this and been dating a guy in secret! Then the next day “April Fools!” Every person she told was so angry with her!
by Juliana March 30th, 2012 at 6:17 pmHehe, well I don’t really have an over the top story. April Fools isn’t really a day for me to go crazy over. lol… But um, lets see…
by Judi P March 30th, 2012 at 8:02 pmoh, heh, we did it to my mom once. She isn’t really afraid of lizards and stuff, but it does freak her out a little. I remember one AF day, my dad had gotten a plastic lizard and wrapped it around one of her plants. I swear that thing looked SO real! When my mom went to water her plants and check them, right in between her roses was the fake lizard.. ahaha!! omg, she screamed like no body’s business and ran into the house. lol… I was cracking up so hard. lol… and then well… my dad told her it was fake and she was so mad after. lol.. she was all like “You nearly gave me a heart attack!”
Haha… that was a good one. We still have the lizard she actually kept it in her plants. It grew on her I think. LOL…
I think my favorite prank is just scaring people haha Their reactions are always hilarious!
by jeanette8042 March 30th, 2012 at 8:31 pmThe only one I can remember is way back, when I was a smoker, I was driving to work one morning and the radio announcers were saying that they were going to ban smoking in vehicles. It caused a huge uproar with everyone and was the talk of the entire town until they announced later that is was an April’s Fools joke. A bunch of people got taken with that one =) I have always wanted to tell my husband that I am pregnant but he would never fall for it, LOL
by Leagh Christensen March 31st, 2012 at 8:30 amive had the dirt in the coffee the salt in the sugar and all them kind done . the beer bottle gluedto the hand ( that one sucked) yea i lived around alot of practical jokers
by jennifer mathis March 31st, 2012 at 9:03 amAs kids, we used to switch the salt and the sugar on my parents. Can’t remember any other ones, though I am sure there have been a few.
by Susan R March 31st, 2012 at 12:53 pmI hate pranks. Pretty much everyone around me knows this so they just don’t pull them on me because I would never pull one on them. I even hate watching them on TV. Except, the prank when someone removes a desk drawer and turns in upside down so that everything pours out when the person opens it. It is one of setups on TV that make me laugh everytime. If it was done to me, I would probably start to cry. I love having an organzied desk drawer. Boy, I am a bummer!
by Jen B. March 31st, 2012 at 2:37 pmI’ve done the prego one to mom when I was 15 and freaked her. my boyfriend (husband now), dad, and uncles, but other than the little things here or there sadly I’d say my April fools have been kinda boring.
by Dawn March 31st, 2012 at 6:40 pmCongrats on the new release Crystal and that’s one gorgeous cover.
Had a manager in the office worked iin who was I guess u can say was chronicly late… So I called her at 6 n told her she was hour late…. Well when she got there (lived 30+ miles away) let’s just say when she came in shirt buttoned wrong, a skirt that looked to be needing an iron n curling iron/shoes in hand and medusa on her head…lmao she was not happy when she walked by and said DO NOT BOTHER mE I WILL BE IN MY OFFICE…. Priceless..( I did buy her a coffee later)
by renee smith April 1st, 2012 at 8:57 amI just got my (adult) kids today. I told them that I had been talking to a man on the internet and we had decided that we were going to live together, but he lived in another state so I would be moving next week.
Talk about panic, I almost couldn’t keep a straight face!!! 
by Sue Sattler April 1st, 2012 at 9:02 amI’m rubbish at practical jokes and I always fall for everyone else’s pranks.
by Vicky April 1st, 2012 at 10:34 amIts now a tradition that my dad will try to tell me its snowed on April fools day, he’s done it ever since me and my sister were little and I think I was well in to my teens before I finally stopped falling for it, lol
I am never good at pulling pranks, I can’t keep a straight face and my eyes always give me away. Last year my niece (who had just turned 16) posted that she was pregnant on FB and that she was scared cause her mom (my sis) was going to kill her. This really freaked me because she kept saying it wasn’t a prank, and she had a few friends that had babies. I wanted to beat her for that one. This year my sil pulled the same thing (I did not fall for it, but others did even though my brother had a vasectomy).
by June April 1st, 2012 at 1:36 pmI am not a prankster but friends of mine when we were in college about two weeks earlier told their parents they had met someone and were getting married. They broke the news to them on April Fools that it was a joke. We all thought it was hilarious, the parents were just relieved.
by Kris M April 1st, 2012 at 2:10 pmThis happened many, many years ago, in the very early years of our marriage. I had an appt to get my hair done after work…and my husband knew this…I had really long hair that he absolutely loved…so, he was always nervous about what I was going to do to it. I told him I was just getting it trimmed…not to worry. Then on the way home…the devil told me to call him and tell him…that I’d decided to do something new…and cut it all off and beached it blonde! (I had med brown hair w/highlights) Of course he freaked! I kept up an excited chatter…telling him how cute it was and that everyone liked it, yadda, yadda. He was sooo mad when we ended the call. Then when I walked into the house…he wouldn’t even look at me…at first…and when he did….and I shouted April Fools! He liked to killed me! He’d forgotten all about it being April Fools day and I guess I was pretty convincing with my phone call. Missed my calling…should have been an actress…LOL!
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by Barbara April 1st, 2012 at 2:45 pmMy favorite prank wasn’t on April Fool’s Day, but on my Brother’s B-Day. Well he is nuts about those darn stratch off lottery tickets, so in his B-Card I always put a few in there, along with his Gift. Well I think many of you have seen this Prank on World’s Funniest Videos….it was a Prank Stratch Off from Spencers Gifts. They have all kinds of amounts you can prank a person with, I didn’t want it to be to unbelievable, so I picked a $5000 Winner. My Sister-In-Law had it Video taped, it was hilarlous, my Brother went nuts, yelling “I Won, I Won, I Won” LOL I thought I was gonna pee myself. ROFL Well when he was making plans to buy a new TV & Home Gym, I couldn’t let it go on….LOL I took it from him & turned it over so he could read the back of the ticket….ROFL needless to say, I was chased through his house & thrown in his pool lol sneakers & all. LOL But Everbody had such a GREAT laugh about it.
I would very much appreciate if I could have the opportunity to enter your Giveaway for a $10 Amazon Gift Card.
Take Care Smutketeers, Happy April Fool’s Day & Stay Naughty ;)
PaParanormalFan (Renee’ S.)
by PaParanormalFan (Renee’ S.) April 1st, 2012 at 4:36 pmparanormalromancefan@yahoo.com
Congrats on Wicked! Yay! Cant wait to read it. :) I dont have any stories to tell. I dont really pull any pranks on people. Ive tried, and failed. lol Thanks!
by Shadow April 1st, 2012 at 4:37 pmCongratulations on the release of Wicked!
I love your books and can’t wait to get this one. I have never been able to pull a prank and get away with it. :{. If it’s not too late, I would like to be entered into the contest please. 
reneebennett35(at)yahoo(dot)com
by Renee B April 2nd, 2012 at 11:50 am