The SEP Read-Along continues this week with our second re-read title, NATURAL BORN CHARMER! Last week’s BREATHING ROOM was a hit with our readers, and Loretta Chase shared with us her top ten reasons why BREATHING ROOM is one of her favorite SEP titles. Top reader comment from week one’s BREATHING ROOM re-read: “I LOVED this book–the setting and characters were great. SEP always creates characters you immediately fall for and root for a happy ending. This may have been the book I officially made SEP one of my favorite authors.”~Sara Edmonds, Texas SEP Fan This week, we will be re-reading NATURAL BORN CHARMER, and the fabulous Tessa Dare will be stopping by tomorrow to share her thoughts on NATURAL BORN CHARMER‘s protagonist (and she has an awesome story to share about her, SEP, Eloisa James, and some pajamas…) So check in tomorrow to find out the details! And remember, this all leads up to the release of HEROES ARE MY WEAKNESS on August 26! About NATURAL BORN CHARMER Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for…

On a regular basis I commit one of the worst sins that a reader can perpetrate… I skim through a book before buying it. And not just to discover how it ends—I mean, I do that, too.  But I freely admit, I search through the pages to find out if the lovemaking between the hero and the heroine is, well…hot. It’s what I write, it’s what I love to read. For me, sex is important to the relationship between the hero and heroine. No closed door for me. It’s a form of communication, of bonding, sometimes healing. The characters don’t have to engage in acrobatics for it to be scorching—chandeliers or shower rods not necessary—but the sex does need to have at least 5 of the following 6 criteria: Emotion Sexy dialogue aka Dirty talk Graphic description At least 3 pages in length A purpose No euphemisms In SECRETS AND SINS: CHAYOT, my newest release from Entangled Publishing’s Ignite line, my hero and heroine, Chayot Grey and Aslyn Jericho, burn up the sheets. And the floor. And the shower tiles. It’s through their lovemaking, though, that both find freedom, acceptance, redemption, and healing. Below are some of my fave love…