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For an insight into the story behind this exciting boxed set, please read the guest post below:
What was the most difficult thing to overcome on your path
to publishing this set?
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Keeping everything consistent in the world has
been by FAR the most difficult thing to overcome. When writing a book every
author works differently to keep everything and everyone straight in a story.
Spreadsheets / flow charts / piles of sticky notes – each of us is very
different. Now…multiply that by 8 stories and 7 different authors. That’s 16
characters to keep straight along with side characters and baddies. Not to mention
all of the places we have to keep straight for architecture. The Elite
Compound. Operation Phoenix. Bone Daddy’s. We actually drew these things out on
paper and kept master spreadsheets with multiple tabs to make sure everything
stayed consistent. That’s 270,000 words to keep within the parameters of the
series. YOWZA!
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This boxed set isn’t 8 random stories thrown
together with a pretty cover and a snazzy tag line. Elite Metal is one cohesive
set with one story feeding the next, feeding the next. Can each story be read
and enjoyed individually? Of course! Each story has its own ARC and character goals
and issues to work through. But each story also has other characters from the
world in it. And they’re all working toward taking down Enemy #1. Red Wolf.
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This set’s taken us 8 months to put together.
That’s an incredibly long time to work on a project. Especially when so many of
us have written many many other stories during the same time frame. I told
someone once that I think I have a filing system in my brain with the name of
each of my books on the top of a different folder. I can put up project A and
pull out project B. Never have trouble keeping them all straight. Not until
this set. Even my memory got taxed on this one.
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I sure hope all the hard work pays off and
people find this set and devour it. It’s a work of love and heart and soul and
each one of us believes in it.
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And at the end, when you flip that last page
over…we hope you’re eager for more!
Elite Metal
by Jennifer Kacey, Anna
Alexander, Heather Long, Rebecca Royce, Sabrina York, Saranna
DeWylde, Roxie Rivera,
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BLURB:
For decades the
US Marines funded a top-secret unit known as Elite Recon. A deadly group of men
and women sent to infiltrate dozens of countries completely undetected. Mission
objectives so extreme casualties were not only probable, but expected.
The current
batch of operatives had returned from hundreds of assignments unscathed…until
one mission went horribly wrong. Several men lost their lives and the group
disbanded. The remaining leathernecks were scattered in the wind with new
identities. They were told to blend in. Be normal. Or face being forever
silenced just like their fallen brothers.
Now, two years
later, each living member of the group is kidnapped and given a chance to make
things right. But this time they’re no longer under the thumb of Uncle Sam. A
mysterious private backer who knows about their past has brought them back
together. No longer are they forced to turn a blind eye to the lost and
forsaken.
A new life. A
new future…Elite Metal.
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Bound By Steele
By Anna Alexander and Jennifer Kacey
To save his Marine brothers and sister he must accept the past isn’t dead and buried. Reuniting survivors means he is forced to first forgive…the enemy.
Steele, the man he was, died. A civilian with a new name stands in his place in the wake of death. Everything he had, lost when his undercover contact, Venus, disappeared when it counted most. In the shadow of regret, Steele is reborn from the flames of a Phoenix. To right the wrongs that destroyed his military family, he must put his trust in the hands of a mysterious backer, and the woman who led his team to the slaughter.
Not knowing who sold her out at the final hour, Alayna Devlin, spent the last two years on the run. Then the mastermind behind Elite Metal tracked her down, and offered her the chance to atone for past mistakes. To cleanse her conscience requires a baptism by fire and submission to the man who will either put the final nail in her coffin or set her heart free.
The past. The future. Truth. Lies. Nothing is as it seems when two shattered hearts are finally given the chance to heal.
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Chrome’s Salvation
By Jennifer Kacey
A former leader of Elite Recon, reduced to nothing more than an apathetic existence.
Until his girl’s life hangs in the balance…now nothing will stand in the way of him coming back to life.
Chrome had it all. Exactly what he wanted. A career in the Marines he loved, fighting alongside his brothers and sisters to protect the US from everything set out to destroy it. Then on their last mission as Elite Recon they were double-crossed…and everything went horribly wrong.
Cammie needs help rescuing her siblings from the clutches of a man determined to crush everything she holds dear. But she has no one to turn to. No one to lean on when she’s trapped in a world she never knew existed. Lost in a world of pseudo-normalcy Chrome’s reduced to nothing more than existing. Day in. Day out. Nothing to live for.
Until his girl’s life hangs in the balance. Now nothing will stand in his way of coming back to life.
Love at first sight is a myth. Or so Chrome thought. Everything he thinks is true disappears in the presence…of his salvation.
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Adamantium’s Roar
By Anna Alexander
Adamantium left Beth to what he thought was a better life, only to find she had been living in hell. Now he’ll do anything, break any vow, to claim her as his for all time.
Adamantium feels right at home being back to what he does best with his Elite Metal buddies, especially if it keeps his mind off her. Beth Bradshaw. His best friend’s girl. But when their paths cross again, he discovers Beth is in the hands of a dangerous man. Vow or now vow to his Elite Metal family, Ant will do anything to claim the woman he loves.
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Pure Copper
By Heather Long
Copper will do whatever it takes to get the job done, even if it means seducing and betraying the one man who really sees her.
Former Marine special forces, Sachi “Copper” James is a chameleon. She thrives on being someone else. Her mission? Identify the rat who sold her team bad intel. Gabriel Danvers, ex-CIA analyst, is a master of disseminating the details. He wants to enjoy a normal life, retired from the game. His mission? Teach classes.
When Gabriel becomes the target of Copper’s investigation, he re-enters a world of danger and deception--all to claim the passion of the one woman who’s haunted him for years.
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Sterling’s Seduction
By Sabrina York
When a snoopy reporter threatens the Elite Metal, Sterling will do whatever it takes to kill her story about the team. Even if it means he has to tie her to his bed.
When Sterling spots a reporter masquerading as a waitress in a dingy bar in Deep Ellum, he suspects she’s investigating the team. And that’s something he just cannot allow to happen. Too many lives are at stake. He will do everything in his power to learn the truth—even seduce her. And to stop her story from coming out? He might even tie her to the bed.
Nothing is off the table when it comes to keeping his brothers safe. Nothing. It’s a damn shame she’s everything he’s ever wanted. It’s a damn shame her touch warms his cold, dead heart.
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Platinum’s Choice
By Rebecca Royce
Platinum left the life he had with Rose in New York to rejoin his team and silence the nightmares from Operation Phoenix. But when Rose is forced to go on the run with Platinum’s hidden son, he will have no choice but to return to his old life and reclaim what he has ached for every day since. Red Wolf’s sniper wants to nudge Plat’s underbelly and they’re going to find out quickly how deadly he can be.
Platinum was a man of few words before he changed his name and had his sniper rifle taken away. But as Elijah, he could start over, maybe even fall in love with his hidden son's Kindergarten teacher, Rose. But Platinum is reborn when Elijah is kidnapped, so he's left with no choice but to vanish, leaving Rose to wonder about his fate, broken-hearted.
Rose has spent the last year getting over the disappearance of the man she knew as Eli. Now, alone and terrified, she finds herself on the run from a sniper while trying to hide a scared little boy from certain death.
Red Wolf's crew isn't done with Plat, and his soft underbelly is just the place to nudge. Sniper vs. sniper, Platinum will reclaim what is his. That is, if she'll even have him back...
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Mercury’s Poison
By Saranna DeWylde
A scarred, mad genius more monster than man must protect the beauty he's become obsessed with from a beast more terrible than himself.
Serum 17 took his face, took his kindness and took his empathy. It took, in essence, all of John Thrace leaving only the Elite Metal operative "Mercury" in his place. A man marked with a biohazard tattoo because he knows he's incompatible with other living things. Until he becomes obsessed with the seemingly innocent doctor Hazel Brewer and a chance encounter changes everything.
Hazel knows the giant scarred man won't hurt her, even though she's in the business of saving lives and he'd rather take them. In fact, she's never felt safer or more alive than when she's with him. Even when a terrible biological weapon forces her into his arms for a night of hot passion she won't soon forget.
Their love could be the redemption he never thought he wanted, or something even more toxic: Mercury's poison.
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Forged in Silver
By Roxie Rivera
Rebel. Nomad. Troublemaker.
After surviving the double-cross during Operation Phoenix, Former Elite Recon Marine Silver embraces the underworld and builds a new life as one of the world's most renowned thieves. Jewels, paintings, corporate espionage--there's no job he won't take for the right price.
Until Poppy Jones orders her ghosts to snatch him up in Budapest and haul him back to Texas to face her brand of justice...
Forced to decide between a prison cell and signing on to Elite Metal, Silver chooses the latter. Quietly operating in the background of a team that no longer trusts or wants him, he completes all the dirty little jobs that keep the team alive and flush with new intel.
But when he learns Poppy plans to infiltrate a terrorist gathering, he refuses to hide in the shadows a moment longer. In a world of secrets and lies, Poppy Jones is his bright light of truth and trust.
And he'll brave the fires of hell--and the disdain of Steele and Chrome--to protect her.
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EXCERPT
Mercury’s
Poison
Fucking
fuck.
He
shouldn’t have fucking touched her. Spoken to her. Gotten close enough to
breathe the same air.
Goddamn
it.
He
wasn’t going to follow her home, but he had to make sure she got there okay. Or
that’s what he told himself to reconcile the fact that he couldn’t turn away
from her. That he was still starved for the sight of her.
And
what a sight it was.
He
knew he should’ve stopped watching when she began peeling her clothes off, but
he couldn’t. She was too damn beautiful. He watched her touch herself, a
violation to be sure. John had never been so hard, until he’d heard her whisper
his name.
It
sent a jolt of pleasure and pain through him.
He
wanted it to end, he wanted it to last forever.
John
didn’t feel these things, to have her ignite them both, well more was the pity.
She’d never be free of him now. He knew he was obsessed. Knew his behaviors
were unhealthy for him and for her.
But
he couldn’t stop.
Didn’t
want to stop.
He
thought it would be okay as long as he didn’t touch her, didn’t affect her. But
he did. He’d violated those rules and in doing so had violated her. This, now,
even though she fantasized about him—and no mistake, he would hear his name on
her lips from now until he stood at the gates of hell every time he came—but
that didn’t mean it was invitation to watch her. He’d take a man’s head off for
doing the same to her.
His
cock strained against his fatigues, demanding to be taken in hand. He had to
stop this, he couldn’t do this anymore because he knew now that there were no
lines he wouldn’t cross when it came to her. He was going to smear his hands
all over her pretty wings and he’d break her. Ruin her.
Hurt
her.
The
sound of another presence distracted him.
He
held his position on her balcony, silent and still as he considered his
options.
The
man above was mostly silent, moved with some skill. He wore combat boots that
had been shined so that they glinted in the moonlight. The sign of a
professional. What had the pretty little doctor gotten herself into that
warranted the attention of whomever jerked this guy’s chain?
He
had a choice. Kill this guy now or watch him and see what he would do? He could
take the chance that this was just a burglar, but if it wasn’t, they’d soon
send someone else. Maybe when Merc wasn’t there.
He
edged around to where the balcony opened into her living room and pressed
himself against the wall. If he was discovered, he’d just have to kill him.
The
man moved quickly, installing surveillance equipment—
Kill
him.
No,
find out why. Or they’ll just send another.
Kill
him, too. Kill them all.
Mercury
forced himself to stay still, to wait. This was why he was Mercury—this was why
he was poison. His solution was kill first, talk later.
“I see you there, you ugly bastard,” a voice
whispered.
Mercury
froze.
“I’m
not afraid of you. I know who you are, John Thrace. Get your bitch on a leash
if you want to keep her safe. We’ll be watching.”
He
reached around the corner and grabbed nothing but air. The man leapt from level
to level, adept at parkour. Merc would’ve pursued him, if not for the soft
voice begging him to stay.
He
turned to see her there, the light from inside a nimbus. “Please.” She reached
out to him.
“You
should fear me.”
“I
don’t.”
He
closed his eyes and breathed deep to steady himself. “You should let me find
out what they want from you.”
“I
know what they want from me. Come inside.”
Said
the fly to the spider.
He
opened his eyes and centered his hard stare on the tiny camera. He yanked it
from its perch and crushed it beneath his boot. If they knew who he was, that
was a problem that would have to be addressed.
Her
small hand on his arm was all it took to fell him. Like a giant redwood, he
toppled to her will and stepped inside her apartment. “Why didn’t you ask how I
know where you live?”
She’d
wrapped a pink silk robe around her delectable body and he couldn’t stop
wondering what that silk would feel like. If he’d even be able to feel it.
“I
know you watch me always.”
“That’s
fucked up, Hazel.”
She
looked up at him, her eyes guileless. “I know. But probably no more fucked up
that you’re always watching.”
“I
don’t just watch you. I stalk you. I’m dangerous.” He couldn’t seem to make her
understand.
“I
know that, too.” Her hand was still on his arm.
“You
should stop touching me.”
“I
like touching you.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Jennifer Kacey
Jennifer Kacey is a writer,
mother, and business owner living with her family in Texas. She sings in the
shower, plays piano in her dreams, and has to have a different color of nail
polish every week. She’s the Amazon top seller and award winning author of the
Members Only Series and the Surrender Series along with several standalone
novels and novellas. The best advice she’s ever been given? Find the real you
and never settle for anything less.
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Anna Alexander
Anna Alexander's literary
world changed at age thirteen when a friend gave her a copy of Kathleen
Woodiwiss's "A Rose in Winter." With her mind thoroughly blown, she
decided that one day she too would be a romance writer. With Hugh Jackman's abs
and Christopher Reeve's blue eyes as inspiration, she loves spinning tales
about superheroes finding love.
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Heather Long
National bestselling author,
Heather Long, likes long walks in the park, science fiction, superheroes,
Marines, and men who aren’t douche bags. Her books are filled with heroes and
heroines tangled in romance as hot as Texas summertime. From paranormal
historical westerns to contemporary military romance, Heather might switch
genres, but one thing is true in all of her stories—her characters drive the
books. When she’s not wrangling her menagerie of animals, she devotes her time
to family and friends she considers family. She believes if you like your
heroes so real you could lick the grit off their chest, and your heroines so
likable, you’re sure you’ve been friends with women just like them; you’ll
enjoy her worlds as much as she does.
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Rebecca Royce
As a teenager, Rebecca would
hide in her room to read her favorite romance novels when she was supposed to
be doing her homework.
She is the mother of three
adorable boys and is fortunate to be married to her best friend. They are
transplants from the northeastern part of the United States to the great state
of Texas, specifically Austin.
She is in love with science
fiction, fantasy and the paranormal and tries to use all these elements in her
writing. In her world anything is possible, anything can happen, and you should
suspect that it will.
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Sabrina York
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Saranna De Wylde
Saranna De Wylde has always
been fascinated by things better left in the dark. She wrote her first story
after watching The Exorcist at a slumber party. Since then, she's published
horror, romance and narrative nonfiction. Like all writers, Saranna has held a
variety of jobs, from operations supervisor for an airline, to an assistant for
a call girl, to a corrections officer. But like Hemingway said, "Once
writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop
it." So she traded in her cuffs for a full-time keyboard. She loves to
hear from her readers.
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Roxie Rivera
A New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author, I like to write super sexy romances and scorching hot
erotica. I live in Texas with my red-bearded Viking husband and a sweet but
rowdy preschool-aged daughter with autism and heart defects. We also have two
wildly rambunctious Great Danes named Hannibal and Murdock.
My other book writing alter
ego--Lolita Lopez--was named one of Latina Magazine's Eight Erotic Latina
Authors To Check Out. Lo writes deliciously steamy tales for Forever
Yours/Grand Central, Mischief/Harper Collins UK, Siren Publishing and Cleis
Press.
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Review
Elite Metal:
Eight Novel Cohesive Military Romance Boxed Set" is the
introductory collection to the 'Elite Warriors' series. These eight tales are unified by the
backstory which involves a group of highly trained operatives who are the
survivors of an op that went horribly wrong and decimated their numbers. Relocated, renamed, and disbanded, the
survivors have been eking out an existence, only to be thrust back into action
by a mysterious figure who has dangled the carrot of revenge in front of
them. These stories detail the beginning
of their respective recoveries as each spotlighted soldier finds a person who helps them deal with
the ever-present darkness that prevents them from beginning to heal from the
wounds to their spirits and psyches.
This group of stories will provide hours of entertainment as
exciting action and mystery is combined with intensely erotic and sensual
interludes. The fascinating melding of
various authors' styles with a unifying theme and characters who carry over
from one story to the next makes this a delightful concept that I can only hope
engenders many more volumes in this series.
There is a fun super-hero quality to many of the individuals featured
in these stories while the poignancy of the horrific experiences that have
shaped them makes one ache for what they have gone through.
I particularly enjoyed Heather Long's "Pure
Copper" because I like my heroines to be just as capable as their partners
and the back and forth between the very efficient and lethal Copper/Sachi James
and the sexy and equally capable Gabriel Danvers reminded me of the movie,
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith".
One of
my favorite erotic romance authors, Sabrina York, has a delightful story in
"Sterling's Seduction" that pits a nosy reporter against a honed
killing-machine who unwillingly succumbs to the pigtail-wearing woman. Ms. York provides her trademark quirky
visuals with statements such as:
"His cock understood it immediately; it perked up like a meerkat on
the Serengeti."
Jennifer Kasey's
"Bound by Steele" (co-written with Anna Alexander) and "Chrome's
Salvation" provide a drool-worthy but gut-wrenching introduction to the
men who serve as the leaders to the resurrected group and the rest of the
stories do a great job of enhancing the mystique behind this unique group. I look forward to reading even more of their
adventures!
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