Emotional, intense and so very, very sexy; Dirty Sexy Inked is exactly what I want in a romance and is a book you do not want to miss! ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
Breaking hearts is what wild and rebellious Mason Kincaid does best. Hit it and quit it is his motto, and with his bad boy reputation and tattoos, he doesn’t lack for female companionship. Until one hot night with the one woman he swore he’d never touch becomes an all consuming addiction he can’t kick. Katrina Sands has been his best friend for years, but now that he knows what she feels like, and tastes like, there is no going back to being just friends. Hot, dirty sex has never felt so good…or so right.
Review copy provided for an honest review
I always love when authors give me exactly what I want in a romance and Carly Phillips and Erika 
Wilde have done just that in Dirty Sexy Inked. I loved the first book in this series which was fun and sexy, but this book had a more serious tone but that didn’t make me love it any less. Emotional, intense and so very, very sexy Dirty Sexy Inked is a book you do not want to miss.Katrina Sands has been Mason Kincaid’s best friend since high school and she’s loved him since the day he saved her from three boys who were threatening her. These characters are scarred; physically and mentally, they know each other’s secrets for the most part, they accept everything about each other but the sexual tension has taken over and their friendship is on edge and figuring out what to do is making them both pretty miserable. Katrina feels she can no longer stand by and watch Mason go from one empty sexual encounter to the next and knows that soon she’ll have to leave her job as his office manager in order to move on with her life. Mason has no idea why Katrina has been so unhappy lately, but he intends to figure it out. In Las Vegas for Mason’s brothers wedding these two drive each other to the breaking point and their relationship is forever changed.
Moving from friends to lovers wasn’t easy; while Katrina wants nothing more than that, Mason is convinced that isn’t something he wants for needs in his life. I hurt for Katrina as she tried to put on a brave front and move on and I’ll admit I laughed a bit as Mason got schooled by his younger brother on relationships and love. Their childhood and teenage years were wrought with horrible memories and events so each time they seemed to move forward they’d hit a landmine that would send them spinning, but for the most part these two had learned to communicate and how to address the problems between them head on and ultimately that is what kept them from blowing up their relationship.
I’m not kidding when I say these two burn up the sheets…having known each other for so many years there aren’t any boundaries between them and once they give in to their attraction they take things to a whole other level and enjoy each other fully and completely. But sex isn’t the only thing that makes this relationship work, it’s the trust, the mutual admiration, the respect and yes the love they both share.
A love match years in the making, I loved Dirty Sexy Inked and I can’t wait to read what these authors have in store for the last single Kincaid man!
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What inspired this collaboration and how is it writing with a partner?
To answer that question, let’s start from the beginning of our relationship. Erika Wilde and Carly Phillips have been writing buddies, conference buddies, critique partners, partners in crime, and best friends since 1998. In fact, their friendship dates back to when they were both getting started in a writing career with Harlequin, and they’ve been BFF’s ever since. Their friendship started out with heavy emailing and turned into phone calls. They room together at all conferences for the past ten years.
Writing together was a natural fit. We’d always wanted to write a book together, and during one of our conferences we started talking about an idea, and from that the Dirty Sexy Series was born. How is it writing with a partner? All we can say is that we absolutely love doing it!
So, you might be wondering how we write a book together that reflects both of our styles. We both knew we wanted to do something different for our Dirty Sexy Series. We’ve always written sexy, family oriented, emotional books, but we wanted these stories to be grittier in tone without losing the emotion were known for. And we wanted our heroes (who are brothers) to have had a dark and difficult past that they have to work through over the course of their individual books. So, yes, we made sure the heroes were tortured a bit, LOL!
Authors who co-author have different ways of writing a book together. We immediately figured out what would work best for us. Erika writes long and the story flowed for her. Carly loves to go in and revise and make things flow the way she likes, change up words and add character’s feelings and emotion. So Erika wrote the first draft of a scene/chapter, then sent it off to Carly for her to read through, edit, revise, etc. Once she’s done with her changes, Erika gave it another read through (Carly has a way of dropping and adding weird words, LOL!), and then we go on to the next scene/chapter until the book is done.
As we were reading through the final product, we were both surprised to see and read how seamless the story was, and how smooth the writing was, considering there was two of us writing the book. We honestly couldn’t tell who wrote what and we hope that readers feel the same way!
In the end, we wrote a story that we’re both incredibly proud of. And we didn’t kill each other doing it, LOL. There was a lot of compromising on both of our parts throughout the book (things I wanted but she didn’t, and vice-versa – but very little in the scheme of things), and it was all worth it in the end.
Writing a book together was such a fun adventure. For years, we’ve been writing buddies, conference buddies, critique partners, partners in crime, and best friends. In fact, our friendship dates back to 1998, when we were both getting started in our writing career with Harlequin, and we’ve been BFF’s ever since. And now we can say we are true writing partners, as well!
About Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde
***About Carly Phillips***
Carly Phillips is the N.Y. Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of over 50 sexy contemporary romance novels featuring hot men, strong women and the emotionally compelling stories her readers have come to expect and love. Carly is happily married to her college sweetheart, the mother of two nearly adult daughters and three crazy dogs (two wheaten terriers and one mutant Havanese) who star on her Facebook Fan Page and website. Carly loves social media and is always around to interact with her readers. You can find out more about Carly at www.carlyphillips.com.
***About Erika Wilde***
Erika Wilde is the author of the sexy Marriage Diaries series and The Players Club series. She lives in Oregon with her husband and two daughters, and when she’s not writing you can find her exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest. For more information on her upcoming releases, please visit website at www.erikawilde.com.
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Teaser
“WE’RE OFF TO Las Vegas, Kitty-Kat,” Mason Kincaid said as he rubbed his hands together in anticipation. “Sin City is the perfect place to get down and dirty and have some fun. What kind of trouble do you think we can get into while we’re there?”
Katrina Sands buckled her seat belt and settled more comfortably in the first-class leather seat next to Mason—her best friend since they were fourteen and freshmen in high school. She wasn’t at all surprised that he was already making a mental list of all the wild and reckless adventures that awaited him in a no-holds-barred place like Las Vegas. Mason Kincaid was a rule breaker, a thrill seeker, and a self-indulgent bad boy who was all about pleasure and instant gratification. From everything she’d heard about the city that never slept, he’d be right in his element.
Oh, joy, she thought with a resigned sigh. It wasn’t as though she was a prude. Far from it. She just wasn’t thrilled about watching her best friend’s man-whoring ways in action in Vegas. She spent enough time seeing it up close and personal on a day-to-day basis.
She turned her head and met Mason’s bright blue gaze. “You do realize that this trip isn’t all about you and your dick, right? That we’re heading to Vegas because your brother Clay is marrying Samantha?” she asked, reminding him of that one important detail.
The corners of his mouth curved with an indulgent grin. “Of course I realize my brother is strapping on the old ball and chain tomorrow afternoon. But that doesn’t mean the entire weekend is going to be all wedding, all the time. In fact, tonight Levi and I plan to take Clay out to make sure he spends his last evening as a bachelor in style.”
Which gave Mason the perfect opportunity to carouse for a willing female to take back to his hotel room for the night. It’s what Mason did. For as long as she’d known him, he’d had a hit-it-and-quit-it motto when it came to women, and he always made sure they knew the score up front. He didn’t make promises or do commitment or anything longer than a one-time fling.
And each time Katrina watched it happen, a little bit of hope died inside of her. The hope that one day Mason would see her as more than just a best friend and the woman who managed to keep his personal and professional shit together. But the man was oblivious to her deeper feelings for him, and she wasn’t willing to tell him and risk certain painful rejection. It was much easier, and safer, keeping them both squarely in the friend zone.
She’d known him for twelve years, and had truly come to believe that Mason Kincaid didn’t have the ability to commit to any single woman. And it really wasn’t hard for her to figure out why considering the kind of childhood he’d had—no father figure to speak of and a mother who cared more about her next fix than her own kids. Mason might be a master at giving off a carefree, I-don’t-give-a-crap attitude, but Katrina was one of the few people who knew just how much pain and resentment that laid-back demeanor really masked.
The commercial plane they were taking to Las Vegas finished the boarding process, and one of the cabin crew started closing the overhead luggage bins, while another made an announcement to set all electronic devices to airplane mode. A pretty brunette flight attendant stopped next to Mason’s aisle seat and set her hand on his shoulder.
He glanced up at her, and the woman smiled, her complexion flushing a bit as he turned all that potent male sex appeal her way. Yeah, Mason had that kind of breathtaking effect on women. Between his gorgeous features, that sexy, panty-dropping smile, and his sleeves of bad boy tattoos that wrapped around both muscled arms, he was an irresistible force to the female gender.
And the jerk knew it, too, and didn’t hesitate to use that charm to his advantage.
Sounds good…thanks for the review Slick