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Happy New Year everyone! Today I start the new year with Michal Scott and her book, Better To Marry Than To Burn. First, Michal shares a little experience with her sticky fingers! Everyone borrows a pen then walks away with it inadvertently. At my job I had to return pens and pencils to the church secretary's desk so often I started wondering if I had Velcro fingertips. Worse yet, I was the minister. Having a rep for being the sticky-fingered pastor doesn't inspire trust. One Friday I had helped put together the bulletin for the Sunday service. Finished, I was saying goodbye to the other volunteers when one of them couldn’t find his glasses. We were all puzzled because he hadn’t left the room and hadn’t moved far from his seat. He checked his pockets while we rifled through the batches of bulletins, checked the floor, moved papers off the secretary’s desk, even looked behind the Xerox machine. We were all puzzled. What could have happened to them? All of sudden he pointed to me and started laughing. I looked in a mirror on the wall behind me and burst out laughing too. I had picked up his glasses and was wearing them! Sticky fingers Sweringen strikes again. I’ve never used this incident in a story, but it would make a funny meet-cute one day. Oh my Gosh! Too funny. Tell us a little about your story!  Freed Man seeking woman to partner in marriage for at least two years in the black township of Douglass, Texas. Must be willing and able to help establish a legacy. Marital relations as necessary. Love neither required nor sought. Caesar King's ad for a mail-order bride is an answer to Queen Esther Payne’s prayer. Her family expects her to adhere to society's traditional conventions of submissive wife and mother, but Queen refuses. She is not the weaker sex and will not allow herself to be used, abused or turned into a baby-making machine under the sanctity of matrimony. Grateful that love is neither required nor sought, she accepts the ex-slave's offer and heads West for marriage on her terms. Her education and breeding will see to that. However, once she meets Caesar, his unexpected allure and intriguing wit makes it hard to keep love at bay. How can she hope to remain her own woman when victory may be synonymous with surrender? Excerpt: Caesar looked at Queen. His eyes glistened with unshed tears. She gasped then swallowed hard, unnerved by the sight. Her lips trembled. Reverend Warren smiled at Queen then addressed Caesar. “You may kiss the bride.” Kiss? Queen flinched. There’d be no kissing in this marriage. She’d promised to be his wife for two years with sex provided at agreed upon intervals. At the end of two years that requirement would end and she’d be free to live as she chose. She could go anywhere she pleased, especially with the respectability of missus before her name and Caesar’s promised severance. No. This coupling made them business partners. Business partners did not kiss. She extended her hand to seal their arrangement. He returned the handshake but instead of releasing her, his too rough fingers imprisoned hers and pulled her to him. With his other hand he captured the back of her head and secured her mouth to his. A squeal of surprise parted her lips. His thick tongue swept into the shelter of her mouth. The assault ambushed her with pleasure and vanquished her resistance. Her hands rose, as if of their own volition, and pressed against his chest. The firm muscle beneath his shirt coaxed her hands to linger, to explore—however discretely—the muscle beneath her palms and fingertips. Caesar broke off the kiss. The embrace didn’t last more than a few seconds, but Queen swayed, robbed of reason and resentment. Reverend Warren handed Caesar the marriage certificate and shook his hand. Queen stood, mouth gaping, startled by the confusion roiling through her mind, amazed by the moisture roiling in her sex. With a simple kiss, this bull of a man had exhumed the sexual hunger she’d thought buried. “Thanks for being available, Pastor.” Caesar shook the minister’s hand. “Mother Maybelle.” He hugged and kissed the older woman. Again, their affection stirred an unexpected sympathy in Queen’s chest. She sucked in a breath to dispel it. He gripped Queen by the upper arm and hauled her back to the wagon. “What’s the rush?” she asked. He hoisted her up to the seat by her waist before she could object. She swallowed the gasp elicited by the press of possession in his grasp. “Daylight’s burning,” he stated. “Don’t want to be caught out after dark.” Queen eyed his lips, their fullness still remembered against her mouth. She shifted several times but found no relief from the pressure pulsing along her labia. Good Lord, how was she to make sense of so strong a physical reaction to this stranger? Had celibacy left her defenseless against physical contact from anyone? Or was this physical attraction genuine? Buy links: Amazon - https://amzn.to/2JyLKu1 Wild Rose Press - http://bit.ly/2DHdb0x Wow, this sounds quite intriguing. Looks like it's a great read! Let's find out about Michal! A native New Yorker, Michal Scott is the pen name of Anna Taylor Sweringen, a retired United Church of Christ and Presbyterian Church USA minister. Using the writings of the love mystics of Begijn for inspiration, Michal writes Christian erotica and erotic romance (i.e. erotica and erotic romance with a faith arc), hoping to build a bridge between the sacred and secular, spirituality and sexuality, her readers and a well-written spiritually-stimulating and erotically-arousing story. As an African-American, she writes stories to give insight into the African American experience in the US. She has been writing seriously since joining Romance Writers of America in 2003. She also writes inspirational romance as Anna Taylor and gothic romance as Anna M. Taylor. You can connect with Michal on Twitter at @mscottauthor1 and learn more about her and her writing as her various websites: www.michalscott.webs.com, www.annamtaylor.webs.com and www.annataylor2678.webs.com. Thank you Michal for visiting my blog today. I hope you have great success with your book.
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