The Saucy Wenches Book Club

I’d never stood in the sun, never felt the sunshine on my bare skin. But the scent of him made me think of those things.

~ Chloe Neill, Wild Hunger

Portia faltered; Tav's verbal jab had hit a soft spot, one that had been hidden under a sea of distractions for years and had only just begun to harden. She had no witty comeback for someone telling her they didn't want her around. It reinforced what that ugly voice in the back of her head whispered at the most inopportune moments: no one would care if you left and never came back.

A Duke By Default
~~Alyssa Cole

Erections and guilt can’t exist in the same plane. One makes way for the other.

~ Victoria Helen Stone, Jane Doe

“You are your mother’s daughter,” my father said, with not a little pride in it.

“As if the thirty-eight hours of labor didn’t prove it,” my mother said with a smile.

“I recall them well,” my father said flatly. “You were ... very angry.”

“Was it the cursing that tipped you off?”

“And the throwing of many objects,” he said, counting them off on his hands. “And challenging an Apex shifter to a knife fight. And accusing your sister of being a Russian spy. And promising to stake the doctor if you didn’t get drugs.”

“Nonsense. I was a paragon of patience and gentility.”

~ Chloe Neill, Wild Hunger

The kiss...he couldn't regret that. Wouldn't. There would never be another moment in life worth more of a risk. The quiver of her mouth, like her heart was beating so hard it would jump out of her chest. The tentative press of her tongue against his. The hungry way she had clawed at his chest, wanting more. The taste, the connection, the energy. Men has been killed over kisses like that. Careers had been lost. Hearts had been stolen.

Moonshot
~~Alessandra Torres

“I love you. I am in love with you. I have been for a while. And I know there are limits to what you can give me, and I know you might need time—”

His lips crushed into hers, and he said onto her mouth, dropping words more precious than rubies and emeralds and sapphires into her heart, her soul, “I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.”

~ Sarah J Maas, Empire of Storms

Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
   (Corfu Trilogy #1)

And that was how Tav had come to know that Portia had a mole on her left shoulder. He also knew the satiny softness of her skin against his fingertips, that she ran rather warm, and how it felt to brush an errant curl away from her neck and see her shiver from his touch. He didn't need to know any of that. Fucking corsets. The devil's garment.

A Duke By Default
~~Alyssa Cole

We are all atwitter about Chloe Neill's latest release! SinceChicagoland Vampires wrapped up last year the first installment in her new series, a spin-off of our beloved CLV, is hitting your e-readers and bookshelves today! Wench Shau told you all about it in her review yesterday, which you can find here, and today is the day everyone else gets to meet Elisa, Connor, and our new cast of characters. 

Today, we are a stop on Chloe Neill's blog tour, which always features terrific swag and an amazing grand prize! So enter our giveaway and then be sure to hop over to CN's page and enter.


As the only vampire child ever born, some believed Elisa Sullivan had all the luck. But the magic that helped bring her into the world left her with a dark secret. Shifter Connor Keene, the only son of North American Central Pack Apex Gabriel Keene, is the only one she trusts with it. But she’s a vampire and the daughter of a Master and a Sentinel, and he’s prince of the Pack and its future king…