Today we have authors Lexxie Couper, Jess Dee, and Sami Lee talking about their experience and favorite parts of writing their Bandicoot Cove continuity, which is available in Tropical Haze!

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TROPICAL HAZE – SUN, SAND AND SEXY TIMES

Sami Lee:

There’s nothing like holidaying with good friends, but the next best thing is writing with friends—especially when you write stories set in such an idyllic place as Bandicoot Cove, where love and passion can sweep characters… or readers… away. Lexxie, Jess and I had such fun with this series, and we’re so excited that it will now be offered as a digital box set! Today we thought we’d share our favorite snippets from each of our stories:

My favorite part of Moonlight Mirage isn’t even one of the (hot!) love scenes. It was this moment at the groom’s buck’s party when Mitch’s iron control finally unraveled completely. A man who’s always prided himself of being the responsible one actually commits physical violence for the first time in his life because he’s jealous of the heroine’s relationship with a character I loved so much I wrote him his own story in Unforgettable Summer.

Here it is:

With a laugh, the man bent his head and slurped the alcohol out of the woman’s bellybutton.

In the murky light, Mitch could just make out the shaggy cut of the man’s light brown hair.

Ty Butler.

Ty. Friggin’. Butler.

Who the hell had invited him? He was the last person Mitch wanted to see. The sight of him alone was enough to make fury course through his veins, a hotter burn than the strong alcohol. Watching him run his tongue all over some strange woman’s stomach when Hayley was off by herself, perhaps wondering at loverboy’s whereabouts…

Mitch’s rage was like fire. Bastard. The man had Hayley, and he was here doing shots out of a stripper’s navel. His anger mounted when the dancer sat up and proceeded to jiggle her breasts in Ty’s face. Clearly enjoying the attention, Ty smiled like the cat that caught the canary and stuffed a bill into the woman’s cleavage.

Unbe-friggin’-lievable.

He could have been sprinting, but it felt like he was walking through mud as Mitch headed over there. By the time he got to Ty, the stripper had moved on to someone else, freeing Mitch to grab the other man by the shoulder and haul him out of his chair. He’d never hit another human being in his life, but the instinct to swing came out of nowhere, unstoppable. His clenched fist and Ty’s jaw connected with a satisfying thwack.

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Jess Dee:

As Sami said, working on this collection was heaps of fun. And it shows in the books. Amid the drama and passion there’s humor that’ll make you laugh out loud. My favorite scene from Afternoon Rhapsody comes slap bang in the middle of an intensely emotional conflict for the hero and heroine. And to cope, my heroine gets utterly smashed…

Somebody wound an arm around her shoulders and left it there, a pleasing and familiar weight she hadn’t expected at a hen’s night. Her nose filled with an intoxicating scent—mellow notes of the outdoors and subtle suggestions of man and musk. Mmm, now if she could just bottle that scent, she could keep it beside her bed to sniff at night. And in the morning. And perhaps once or twice during the day as well.

“Finn,” she called to the bartender, and when he turned to her she asked, “is it my imagination, or is there a man shtanding next to me?”

Finn set a glass in front of her, filled to the brim with an icy, red mix. “It’s not your imagination at all, ma’am. There’s a man right beside you, with his arm around your shoulders.” He stepped back as if to move away.

“No, wait,” Bee stopped him.

Finn looked at her enquiringly.

“Ish…Is,” she corrected, “he cute?”

The bartender raised an eyebrow. “Cute?”

“You know,” she said conspiratorially. “Good-looking. Shexy. With a lower lip that tashtes…tastes like…” She searched for the right word. “Heaven?”

“Er…” Finn rubbed his hand over his chin. “Yes, ma’am. He’s all of those things. Cute, shexy, good-looking. And his lower lip? More a taste of creamy chocolate than heaven, I’d say.”

Bianca gasped, horrified. “You’ve tasted it?”

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Lexxie Couper:

My favorite part of Sunset Heat was the introduction of Luke and Addison. I always enjoy writing the hero of a story, and when I get to write two of them for one story I really have fun. In Luke and Addison, I not only had the joy of writing a hot, hunky Aussie firefighter (Luke) but his rakish, devilishly charming British cousin as well (Addison).

“Head’s up, convict,” a deep voice called, a second before a damp towel whacked into the back of Luke’s head.

Luke pulled a face, unwrapped the length of thick cotton from around his neck and tossed it back to his cousin. “Will you bloody well stop calling me convict? You damn well know my ancestors didn’t come over on the First Fleet.”

The man grinned at him, his brilliantly white teeth flashing in the room’s early morning sunlight. He rounded the sofa and flopped his six-foot-two lanky frame onto it. “Says you. Just ’cause your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather’s cousin doesn’t mean he wasn’t a criminal deported for his crimes.”

Luke shook his head. “You’re an idiot. Tell me again why I brought you to this event when I could have brought any one of a bevy of beautiful women from back home instead?”

“Because I’m blood, Luke. I’m blood. And blood is thicker than a bevy of beautiful women’s water any day.”

“True that may be, but apart from that statement sounding just plain wrong, blood isn’t getting me laid tonight.”

Addison raised eyebrows as dark as his hair—which was black and thick and glossy. “Is that all you Australians ever think about? Sex?”

Luke laughed. “Don’t play the offended gentleman with me, Ado. It’s all you Poms think about as well.”

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Steamy days, sultry nights, sinful fantasies. Welcome to Bandicoot Cove.

Afternoon Rhapsody by Jess Dee

As Bianca puts her pending divorce aside to enjoy her brother’s wedding, she unexpectedly falls in lust with Brody, a gorgeous man who’s also getting a divorce. However, personal revelations change what they thought they knew about their troubled pasts. And suddenly they wonder if it’s possible to move on.

Sunset Heat by Lexxie Couper

Kennedy never thought she’d see Luke again, much less be standing in front of him naked. Not only does he still light her fire, but so does his rake of a cousin.

Luke fell for Kennedy months ago, yet he can’t stop thinking about sharing her with Addison. And Addison is shocked that he wants to know Kennedy on all levels—even the emotional kind. But desire this hot could destroy any hope of real happiness.

Moonlight Mirage by Sami Lee

At her friend’s wedding, Hayley is forced to face the former boss whose rejection sent her packing. Mitch still makes her burn. Trouble is, she already has a date.

Mitch knows pushing his former intern away was a mistake. Hayley’s “plus one” is an unexpected obstacle. Luckily, Mitch has never shied away from a little competition…

Warning: There’s something about the air on this island that makes you do crazy things…like fall in love. Have wild monkey sex. Indulge in a threesome, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and a few other “isms” on the side. Best read with a frozen margarita in hand.