Good day book fans, today I have fellow Totally Bound author H K Carlton as my guest.
Sooo, remember when I say I would mix things up? Well today is one of those day. But instead of zombies thrown into the mix like the first time, this time H K and I are throwing in MOBSTERS!
I find mobsters scary but fascinating. They're kinda like a train wreck, I just can't seem to look away.
Would I want to be apart of the life? NO WAY! I'm to squeamish and I have this weird aversion to bullets. One might call it an allergy.
But oh, how I enjoy the drama and there is always plenty of drama when mobsters are involved.
So for all you folks that enjoy the life and times of the underworld, here is another series for you, from H K Carlton.
Take it away H K!!
Thanks for hosting me today, Nanc!
The Always Cambridge Series
Family saga, crime,
romantic suspense
Recently, I was asked what makes this series
different from others in the same genre. I think Always Cambridge is
different first off, because it is written in first person, from several
different character's points of view, throughout the series. Book One is told
from the viewpoint of Holly Cambridge and her bodyguard Randy Phillips. As the
saga continues, other voices and characters are incorporated.
This series ultimately follows Holly from age
nine well into her forties. It is violent and angry, but sweet and romantic in
parts too. Book one, because Holly is still so young, is quite tame. The
sexual content as well as the violence escalates as the series goes on and
really hits a climax, so to speak, in books three and four, where the storyline
gets downright explicit and somewhat dark. The saga comes with many twists and
turns that I think readers might not expect. I know some of them even surprised
me while I was writing.
Here’s the blurb and a snippet from the first
book in the series, Always
Cambridge.
The Always Cambridge Series chronicles the
life of Holly Cambridge through her tumultuous childhood and violent teen years and the consequences
that stem from being the daughter of mob boss, Bill Cambridge.
Always Cambridge
Book One of The Always Cambridge Series
by H K Carlton
He is her guardian, but she'll do anything within her
power, to protect him.
His only duty is to keep her safe, but he can’t save her.
Holly
Cambridge is just a typical kid, or so she thinks, until one day, she takes a
good look around and realizes her friends don’t have bodyguards dogging their
every step.
At
the age of sixteen, Holly is assigned a new bodyguard, Randy Phillips. He is a
tall, muscular, God-like force in the young, impressionable and lonely girl’s
life. He is her friend, her confident, her conscience, and the older man she
adores beyond reason.
Randy
Phillips is fully aware of his young charge’s adolescent crush on him. Although
he is flattered by the adulation, he maintains a safe distance and professional
demeanour until Holly is wounded in a rival family blood feud, and the course
of both their lives is changed forever.
Advisory:
This book is the first of a series. It ends with a ‘to be
continued’.
But the good thing about this series is you won’t have to wait years
between instalments. eXtasy Books will release a new book, the first of every
month until the conclusion in September.
Excerpt
I stopped, turning to face him. “None of this is any of your
doing,” I repeated his words quietly back to him.
Randy smirked but his eyes remained
serious. “Smart, aren’t ya, little one. But my job is to keep you safe and I
wasn’t here.” He stuffed his thumbs into his jacket pockets and said so softly
that I had to lean in to hear him. “I was so scared I wouldn’t get here in
time. I could hear your voice. And his.” He shook his head remembering.
My eyes filled. “I was scared too. But I knew you’d come. And
Paddy. I trust you. The two of you are always here for me.”
He stepped closer to me and I had to look up.
“Patrick said the threat isn’t over. He said that man was not it.”
“No, he was just another bad man in a long line of many who walk
the halls here, Holly.”
I shuddered at the thought.
Randy kept his head bowed but looked at me through lowered lashes.
“Are you afraid of me now? After what you saw? Not just last night? But your
friend, Timmy?” He exhaled shakily. He seemed to need my reassurance that I was
still okay with him. I’d never seen him like this. He was never anything but
confident in my eyes.
“We are all bad men here, Holly.” His stormy grey look was
intense. Was he trying to warn me? It was not something I wanted to hear right
now.
“Is the man dead?” I asked.
I heard his teeth grind. “He was alive when the others removed him
from here last night. I didn’t kill him.”
I turned away from him. Angry. “Well, that makes it alright then,
doesn’t it!”
“Yeah, that’s right, Holly. See what’s really going on. Take your
blinders off. You’re a smart girl.”
He grabbed me and spun me back around to face him. His eyes
narrowed. “I’m not a good guy, Holly. No one on this whole goddamn compound is
good except for you and the longer you stay here…” He let me go and stepped
away from me. He ran his hand through his hair in frustration. “Sometimes you
look at me and I can see in your eyes that you think I’m…” His lips thinned as
he searched for the right words. “…like I’m your own personal saviour. I’m here
to keep you safe, Holly, but I can’t save you from what’s going on here. I
can’t stop this from tainting and shaping your life. This is going to be
your life forever. You’ll always need protection. You will never have that
‘normal’ life that I see that you crave.”
“Don’t say that! Don’t say it, Randy!” I rushed at him wanting him
to stop.
He pulled me into his arms, he whispered in my ear, “See
what’s going on. Accept it. The sooner you do the easier it’s going to be for
you.”
Buy Link
Other buy links will be
added HERE as they come available
(estimated Amazon launch
date April 9)
H K Carlton is a multi-published Canadian author of Historical, Erotic & Contemporary Romance.
Expected Always
Cambridge Series Release dates:
April 1
May 1
June 1
July 1
August 1
September
1, 2014
And Coming Soon
from TotallyBound:
Pre-order: 28th March 2014
Early Download: 11th April 2014
General Release: 9th May 2014
Read Advisory: This book is best read in sequence, followed by Hard and Fast.
The sequel Hard
and Fast
Pre-order: 25th April 2014
Early Download: 9th May 2014
General Release: 6th June 2014
Where can you find H K?
Thanks so much for introducing us to your new cast of characters in The Always Cambridge Series, I look forward to reading what happens next. Best of luck.
Cheers,
Nancy
Thanks for having me, Nanc! :)
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure H K.
DeleteThe Always Cambridge Series looks fantastic!