Warm Up the Night with Laura's Light

Today is a Book Blast for Donna Gallagher's new Contemporary Erotic book that just released yesterday, Laura's Light. Because this is a Book Blast, there is no interview or blog post, but I do have the author's bio, a blurb and excerpt, and a list of all the blogs on the Book Blast today. Donna will be awarding a $50 Amazon GC to one random commenter on the tour, so please be sure to leave your e-mail address when you visit.

Sydney-born Donna Gallagher decided at an early age that life needed be tackled head on.

Leaving home at 15 she supported herself through her teen years.

In her twenties she married a professional sportsman, her love of sport -- especially rugby league -- probably overriding her good sense.

The seven-year marriage was an adventure. There were the emotional ups and downs of having a husband with a public profile in a sometimes glamorous but always high-pressure field. There were always interesting characters to meet and observe and even the opportunity to live for a time in the UK.

Eventually Donna returned home a single woman, but she never lost her passion for watching sport, as well as the people in and around it.

Now happily re-married and with three sons Donna loves coffee mornings with her female friends, sorting through problems from the personal to the international. But she's on even footing with the keenest man when it comes to watching and talking rugby league.

Donna considers herself something of a black sheep in a family of high achievers. Her brother has a doctorate in mathematics and her sister is a well-known sports journalist.

An avid reader, especially of romance, Donna finally found she couldn't stop the characters residing in her imagination from spilling onto paper. Naturally rugby league is the backdrop to her League of Love Series, published through UK publisher Total-E-Bound, spicy tales of hunky heroes and spunky heroines overcoming adversity to eventually find true love.

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Blurb for Laura's Light

Forty-two- year- old single mother Laura Harris devoted more than half her life to raising her son. She remembered the concept of having sex but it had been aeons since she’s actually been a participant - especially with a real flesh-and-blood partner. But it’s time to reclaim her life. Her son is a man now. And the rising star of the Jets rugby league team. Their future is brighter than ever and, for the first time, financially secure. But Laura is starting to think agreeing to have dinner with Trevor Hughes could be biting off more than she can chew. Not that she can’t see herself taking a nice big chunk from the absolutely gorgeous thirty-four-year-old sports commentator’s rump, he’s one prime piece of masculinity! She just isn’t sure how or when the whole sex thing will become an issue. She can’t even get past the what-to-wear step. Let alone the when-to-take-it-off stage…

Trevor Hughes usually avoids the woman with substance - he has enough of his own demons to deal without trying to care for anyone else. But there’s something about the upbeat, sexy, one-woman-dynamo Laura Harris. The woman is pure sunshine and happiness. And that’s surprising when you look at what life has handed her. Nothing seemed to dampen Laura’s spirits and she quickly becomes someone Trevor needs in his life…Until misunderstandings come between them. Can Trevor put things right?

Excerpt from Laura's Light

Trevor thrust hard, pounded into her relentlessly. The muscles she clung to in his back tensed, and even though he was wearing a condom Laura swore she could feel his seed, the warmth of it as it flooded into the protective latex skin that covered his penis, buried deep inside her. She drew her finger nails down his back, knew that the scratch mark would mar his skin, but she didn’t care. She wanted to mark him. Claim him. And it was that thought that brought her crashing back to reality. She had just had sex with a relative stranger on a first date. No promises made.

“My God, I’m acting like a tramp.” Laura didn’t realise she had voiced her thought until Trevor raised his prone body, placed his hands on either side of her face as he took his own weight on his elbows.

“Never. Don’t say that. I refuse to let you think like that. I’ve wanted you from the first time I set eyes on you, Laura. You were at the club after Rookie’s first-grade debut. It was the colour of your hair that caught my eye. You were standing next to Rookie, then you smiled—it shone like a beacon, lighting up the room. At first I thought you were with Rookie. It wasn’t until Brodie mentioned later on that you were his mother that I knew any different. Even then, I couldn’t believe that you were anywhere near old enough to be his mother. I still don’t. You must have been just a babe yourself when you gave birth. You are not a tramp. This is not dirty. What we just experienced, Laura, is something special. You are special, and I will never think of you any other way.”

Laura was so moved by Trevor’s words that her heart nearly burst with joy, but in her mind a niggling voice cautioned her. Trevor had mentioned her age—well, not specifically, but the fact she was no spring chicken was not lost on her. How long could she expect him to desire her when he was so many years younger, still had his life ahead of him? She was certain Trevor would never find himself short of younger female attention, even without the notoriety of his career. The man was sin on two legs. What right-minded female wouldn’t want him between her thighs?

Laura would have to be careful that she didn’t do or say anything that would portray her as a needy, clingy female, that she didn’t do anything to scare Trevor away. She thought that maybe if she remained aloof, in it for the joy of sex with no strings attached, she could keep Trevor interested for a while longer. It was up to her to protect her heart along the way.

Now I really want to read this one-could that be any hotter, I ask you? I just love older woman stories...maybe because I am one, you think???

Below is the list of blogs on the Book Blast...I think I will buy this one as a belated birthday gift...for me, of course.

1. Decadent Delights
2. Sharing Links and Wisdom
3. Regina May Ross's Blog
4. Musings From An Addicted Reader
5. Full Moon Dreaming
6. Bunny's Review
7. Wickedly Wanton Tales
8. Words of Wisdom from The Scarf Princess
9. Black Velvet Seductions Readers Blog
10. Delighted Reader
11. Full Moon Bites
12. Books to Light Your Fire
13. Read Your Writes Book Reviews
14. Crazy Book Slut
15. Pink Fluffy Hearts: Diary of a Coffee Addict
16. Reviews By Molly
17. EvolvedWorld
18. You Gotta Read Reviews
19. Melissa Kendall Author
20. Worlds of Possibilities
21. Books Amour
22. Kate Patrick...unlock your fantasies
23. Beyond Romance
24. Of Kink, Romance, and Writing
25. Wake Up Your Wild Side
26. Author Raine Delight's Blog
27. My Odd Little World
28. Dawn's Reading Nook Blog
29. Of Ink And Quille
30. Books and Other Spells
31. Jersey Girl Sizzling Book Reviews
32. Rachel Leigh
33. Christine Young Romance Writer
34. Janna Shay's Fair Play
35. Racing To Read
36. All I Want and More
37. Simply Ali
38. Where's My Muse?
39. Krystal Shannan - Where Love & Destiny Collide
40. Urban Girl Reader
41. Wicked Readings by Tawania
42. Queen of the Night Reviews
43. United By Books
44. My Reading Obsession
45. Francesca's Mindstream
46. Sugarbeat's Books
47. Let's Get BOOKED!
48. Triad Literary Works
49. Long and Short Reviews
50. It's Raining Books