{"id":11212,"date":"2025-01-16T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:41:53","slug":"illicit-desire-by-tina-donahue-eroticromance-urbanfantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=11212","title":{"rendered":"Illicit Desire by Tina Donahue #eroticromance #urbanfantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11214\" src=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IllicitDesire-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IllicitDesire-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IllicitDesire-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IllicitDesire-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IllicitDesire-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IllicitDesire-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IllicitDesire-850x1275.jpg 850w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IllicitDesire.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>ILLICIT DESIRE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOK TWO \u2013 OUTLAWED REALM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erotic Urban Fantasy SciFi Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMAZON: <u>https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yamzv7k9<\/u> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Pleasure that destroys all thought. Love that shatters all barriers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marked for extermination, Lukan has miraculously escaped E4\u2019s Pleasure Palace. There, sex slaves satisfy the cravings of E2\u2019s rulers for voyeurism, bondage, dominance, submission, punishment, and more. However, his freedom is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>He left behind Arez, who once saved his life and captured his heart. Within her fragrant, heated caress, he knew everything denied him\u2026rapture born from yearning, contentment fueled by tenderness and love. Determined to deliver Arez from certain death and have her for his own, Lukan embarks on a rescue he may not survive.<\/p>\n<p>Arez has known only carnal submission and loneliness before Lukan. She aches for his strong arms, his fevered kisses. Upon his return, he offers danger and hope for a future. How can she resist? Never fully tamed, she wants Lukan more than life. But to flee from this twilight dimension to another, to find freedom and their destiny, they must first outwit this plane\u2019s human predators and its monsters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11215 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-2-ILLICIT-DESIRE-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-2-ILLICIT-DESIRE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-2-ILLICIT-DESIRE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-2-ILLICIT-DESIRE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-2-ILLICIT-DESIRE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-2-ILLICIT-DESIRE-850x850.jpg 850w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-2-ILLICIT-DESIRE.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>EXCERPT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gentle illumination revealed the stubble on Lukan\u2019s chin, cheeks, and upper lip, making him exceedingly male. Virile. Dangerous. Behind the shutters, night finally pressed in, the sun withdrawing.<\/p>\n<p>With the windows darkened, Lukan pulled back his hood and removed his sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>Regina gaped, unable to help herself. His shoulder-length hair was thick and wavy, a light golden blond, the color warmer than Damir\u2019s and simply beautiful, while his eyes\u2026 Given his sunglasses, she\u2019d expected his irises to be filmy from cataracts or damaged in some way.<\/p>\n<p>In the candlelight, they were a clear blue-green, similar to waters off Bermuda and other exotic locales.<\/p>\n<p>Never had she seen such an exquisite and perfect man. \u201cWho is he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meelo stepped closer. \u201cI created him, along with the others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t human? He was an android or whatever they called those things?<\/p>\n<p>His skin looked unbelievably real, surely soft and warm to the touch. His chest rose and fell with his quiet breathing, like someone alive rather than a machine. If that was what he was.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t seem possible, but scientifically, Nikoli\u2019s people were far more advanced than anyone on this side. \u201cOthers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPleasure slaves.\u201d Shame colored Mello\u2019s explanation, surprising from someone raised to show no emotion. \u201cDesigned and born to service our government\u2019s rulers on E4.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So many questions swirled through Regina she couldn\u2019t decide what to ask first. As far as she knew, robots couldn\u2019t be born. She had no idea why Meelo would call machines slaves. Unless they weren\u2019t machines, which led to a more disturbing conclusion. Nikoli\u2019s rulers were even more corrupt than the various government officials on this plane. Those in power over there went beyond extramarital affairs or keeping their people in ignorance and poverty while conducting wholesale genocide. They actually created their victims and indulged in their basest desires, allowing themselves whatever they wanted while demanding order and obedience from their populace.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Nikoli wasn\u2019t bothered at his leaders believing he\u2019d died heroically in service to their realm. He hadn\u2019t known about this any more than his father probably had. His tightened jaw and the disgust on his face proved as much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re saying Lukan\u2019s real? That is, human?\u201d For his sake, she hoped he wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course.\u201d Damir scrunched her nose then lifted her chin. \u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s quick defense, the kind a mother would show, convinced Regina there was an emotional bond, at least from Damir\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their discussion about him, Lukan hadn\u2019t commented or shown any emotion. Maybe he didn\u2019t understand English. She spoke to Meelo. \u201cYou said designed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn E2, I was a genetic engineer, the same as Damir.\u201d He tightened his fingers on his injured arm, the only indication he had difficulty controlling his feelings. Unlike Damir, who frowned with her mounting agitation, he spoke with stoic composure, the same as others on E2. \u201cWe manipulated the genetic code to produce a variety of specimens different from our people. Individuals with a wide spectrum of hair and eye color, features closer to the many races on this dimension, rather than ours. They grew in artificial wombs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Good God<\/em>. This got worse by the second. \u201cSo they could be born and used as pleasure slaves?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d Damir narrowed her eyes. \u201cYou don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She matched the woman\u2019s glare. \u201cActually, I do. Ever hear of Josef Mengele? He tortured countless innocents, murdering them or ruining their lives to create what he considered the perfect race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Color rose in Damir\u2019s cheeks. Meelo took her hand. She pulled it away and spoke. \u201cIt was our duty to explore the infinite varieties possible within the human genome. We believed our experiments had a biological basis, so we could study and prevent any future disease. We never meant to harm anyone. In the beginning, our rulers said the babies would go to those in high office who were childless and unable to breed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regina didn\u2019t want to ask but couldn\u2019t help herself. \u201cWhere did they go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damir hung her head.<\/p>\n<p>Meelo\u2019s hard stance cracked, humiliation seeping through. \u201cAs Lukan was our first, he remained with us until he reached what you call majority on this side. We wanted to make certain he was healthy. That he would thrive. We learned later the others were taken after birth to an area within E4\u2019s Pleasure Palace, where they were seen to by a scientific team, given the shelter and nutrition they needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not love or freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Damir clutched her throat. \u201cToo late we realized what our leaders really wanted. An endless supply of pleasure slaves, delivered to the rulers when they reached maturity. Our people didn\u2019t know about this. Meelo and I found out by accident. By then, we weren\u2019t able to halt the experiments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Begin Outlawed Realm with book one <em>Unending Desire<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11213 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-10-UNENDING-DESIRE-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-10-UNENDING-DESIRE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-10-UNENDING-DESIRE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-10-UNENDING-DESIRE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-10-UNENDING-DESIRE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-10-UNENDING-DESIRE-850x850.jpg 850w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Teaser-10-UNENDING-DESIRE.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>UNENDING DESIRE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOK ONE \u2013 OUTLAWED REALM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erotic Urban Fantasy SciFi Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMAZON: <u>https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2p8t73s<\/u> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blurb:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>His hunger for one woman will make him a traitor to his world\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From a portal in his lab on E2, one of the five dimensions of Earth, quantum physicist Nikoli Zorr gazes on everything forbidden to him. Passion. Desire. The exquisite pleasure of running his hands over the lush curves of a young woman he should have stopped watching weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>His duty is to close the portals that keep the monsters out of E2\u2014and never interfere with the inevitable fate of those on the other side. Yet he can\u2019t bring himself to abandon the woman who has captured his soul.<\/p>\n<p>Psychologist Regina Page is trying to focus on her client, and off the mysterious, unbearable sexual cravings that consume her when she\u2019s alone in her bedroom. The next moment she\u2019s attacked by vampires, then swept into another realm by Nikoli, a stranger whose touch awakens that same raw desire. Whose eyes are already filled with farewell.<\/p>\n<p>Yet beneath their undeniable carnal lust, something else stirs. The beginnings of illicit love. The unexpected need to protect him. Even if it means risking body, blood, and soul to defeat the merciless horde\u2026for a future that was never meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Tina<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Tina\u2019s an Amazon and international bestselling novelist who writes passionate romance for every taste \u2013 \u2018heat with heart\u2019 \u2013 for traditional publishers and indie<em>. Booklist, Publisher\u2019s Weekly,<\/em> <em>Romantic Times<\/em> and numerous online sites have praised her work. She\u2019s won Readers\u2019 Choice Awards, was named a finalist in the EPIC competition, received a Book of the Year award, The Golden Nib Award, awards of merit in the RWA Holt Medallion competitions, and second place in the NEC RWA contests. She\u2019s featured in the Novel &amp; Short Story Writer\u2019s Market. Before penning romances, she worked at a major Hollywood production company in Story Direction.<\/p>\n<p>On a less serious note: she\u2019s an admitted and unrepentant chocoholic, brakes for Mexican restaurants, and has been known to moan like Meg Ryan in <em>When Harry Met Sally <\/em>while wolfing down tostadas. She\u2019s flown a single-engine airplane (freaking scary), rewired an old house using an \u2018electricity for dummies\u2019 book, and is horribly shy despite the hot romances she writes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MeWe:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>https:\/\/mewe.com\/i\/tinadonahue<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bluesky: <\/strong><u>@tinadonauthor.bsky.social<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website\/Blog:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>https:\/\/tinadonahuebooks.blogspot.com\/<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Newsletter:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>https:\/\/tinadonahuebooks.blogspot.com\/p\/newsletter.html<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>BookBub:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>https:\/\/www.bookbub.com\/authors\/tina-donahue<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goodreads:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/146988.Tina_Donahue<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tumblr:<\/strong> <u>https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tinadonahue<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon author page:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>https:\/\/amzn.to\/1ChWFkO<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweet \u2018n Sexy Divas:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>https:\/\/sweetnsexydivas.blogspot.com\/<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wattpad:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/user\/AuthorTinaDonahue<\/u><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11163 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tinabanner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tinabanner.png 768w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tinabanner-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILLICIT DESIRE BOOK TWO &ndash; OUTLAWED REALM Erotic Urban Fantasy SciFi Romance AMAZON: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yamzv7k9 Pleasure that destroys all thought. Love that shatters all barriers. Marked for extermination, Lukan has miraculously escaped E4&rsquo;s Pleasure Palace. There, sex slaves satisfy the cravings of E2&rsquo;s rulers for voyeurism, bondage, dominance, submission, punishment, and more. 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