Maren Smith

It’s a brand new week with awesome news: I have finally finished Owning O, the next in the Masters of the Castle series. I have big news coming up on that. As soon as I’ve been given the green light to share it, be prepared to read about it here. 🙂

How’s that for a tease? Yeah, I know. Fifty smacks to me with a wet noodle.

Woo hoo!

In this week’s episode of life and death high in the Colorado mountains, Ettie and Vance are faced with an uncomfortable decision: To eat or not to eat, that is the question. McSquirrel enters, stage right.

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Rather than thrilled at his hunting prowess, she looked aghast. “Oh, poor thing!”

“Poor thing?” Vance said, putting a hand on his wounded chest. “Ettie, this is not some poor thing; he came at me!” When she gave him a look, he had to salvage the situation with the smallest exaggeration and added, “With a knife.” That look became anything but impressed. “And about fifty of his dearest friends. Fortunately for me, I know a little something about mountain squirrels: If you can kill the leader, the rest get demoralized and run away.”

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When a freak snow storm threatens to cut off the already remote community of Corbin’s Bend from the rest of the world, the residents scramble to get enough emergency supplies from neighboring towns before the mountain roads are closed. It’s sheer luck of the draw that force Ettie and Vance into the same car together. The only problem is, they can’t stand one another. She’s a submissive who hasn’t been spanked in four very long years (four years, seven months, thirteen days…not that she was counting). He’s the resident paddle and strap maker, a man known to answer the call of needy submissives everywhere. In his workshop at home, Vance has every implement he’d ever need to win a war like this. In a car in the middle of nowhere with the storm of the century bearing down upon them…who will win this particular battle was anybody’s guess.

Available now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Blushing Books. Simply click on the link for whichever format you prefer. 🙂