Cheryl Brooks Guest Post and Giveway

Peaches (Cheryl's 11 week old dog in this photo)

I am so excited to have Cheryl Brooks here at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews with a Guest Post and a Giveaway.

Cheryl will be visiting and answering any questions you might have so please participate, thanks!

About Cheryl:

A native of Louisville, KY, I graduated from the Kentucky Baptist Hospital School of Nursing and then went on to earn a BSN from Indiana University. Horse crazy from the time I knew what a horse was, my family moved to rural Indiana in 1989. Since then, I've managed to accumulate four horses and five cats. I've been working full-time as a critical care nurse for more than thirty years which can be exciting, but I'm itching for a different kind of excitement!

As a writer, I find that any fantasy you have can come true if you just write it down! I've been keeping my friends entertained with my books for a number of years, and self-published a book in 2006, but Slave is the first of my books to be published with Sourcebooks Casablanca.

What makes it even more exciting is that they have asked me for five more novels in this series!

My other interests include cooking, gardening, singing and guitar playing. I'm really hurt that The Eagles got back together without me!

You can find Cheryl on her Website, her Blog, Casablanca Authors Blog, Wickedly Romantic Blog and Sourcebooks Yahoo Group:

http://www.blogger.com/goog_269753844
https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL=http%3A%2F%2Fcherylbrookserotic.blogspot.com
http://casablancaauthors.blogspot.com/
http://wickedlyromantic.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Discovering_Romance_with_Sourcebooks

Please take it away Cheryl!

Alien Romances — Why Are They So Hot?

My name is Cheryl Brooks, and as the author of The Cat Star Chronicles series of sexy sci-fi romance, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring this topic, and I still don’t have all the answers. Perhaps it’s the allure of the unknown—the chance that an alien lover will be all the things you’ve ever wished for in a man, and more. Or it could just be the novelty of it—the opportunity to join the “I’ve had sex with an alien” club. Then there are those women who’ve had nothing but trouble with human males and are looking outside their own species for something better.

Unfortunately, when most of us think of aliens, we think of creepy-crawly, weird, horrific beings who try to take over the world and destroy Earth’s civilization. No one wants to have a romance of any kind with that sort of alien, so when I created the men of Zetith, I made them the hottest, sexiest men I could imagine. I made them tall, handsome, likeable guys with long, curly hair, cat-like eyes and fangs, pointed ears and slanted eyebrows like Mr. Spock, and then I gave them the sexual equipment of a horse and the ability to purr like a kitten. These characteristics alone made them drool-worthy, but the fact that their body fluids can chemically trigger orgasms and euphoria in females makes them, well, irresistible.

And that’s the problem. They’re too good. So good, in fact, that someone decided to exterminate them—and not because they were bent on invasion, but because his wife had taken a Zetithian lover. Observing how irresistible these men were to human women, he killed the lover and then set out to eliminate them all, seeing them as a threat to the survival of humankind.

All villains justify their dastardly deeds in some way, and while removing a perceived threat to one’s own species is certainly laudable, this fellow was also a drug dealer. Zetithian semen has an effect on women that is as powerful as any drug, but has no side effects (other than conception), isn’t physically addicting, costs nothing to produce—and they were giving it away. Seeing the Zetithian race as competition not only for his wife’s affections, but for his income, naturally our villain felt that they had to be eliminated. He financed a war against Zetith, and when that didn’t work, he hired the evil Nedwuts to redirect an asteroid and disintegrate the planet. Then, to ensure that none existed anywhere else, he put a bounty on the survivors.

But he wasn’t the only greedy person in the galaxy, and when six soldiers were captured near the end of the war, instead of executing them, an entrepreneurial officer decided to sell them as slaves. This action took an already hot commodity and made it extremely rare. Imagine, then, how fiercely protective the women who discover them would be and the lengths to which they would go to remove the threat to the ones they love.

In the current release, Hero, which is book six of the series, we find out more about this genocidal maniac and the efforts of the last known Zetithian female to bring him down. Alas, for our poor villain, hell hath no fury like a woman whose Zetithian mate is in danger!

What about you? What do you think makes alien romance so hot?

About the Author

Cheryl Brooks is an Intensive Care Unit nurse by night and a romance writer by day. Previous books in The Cat Star Chronicles series include Slave, Warrior, Rogue, Outcast and Fugitive. She is a member of the RWA and lives with her husband and sons in Indiana. For more information, please visit http://cherylbrooksonline.com/.

Thanks for Guest Posting on my Blog, Cheryl I greatly appreciate it!

Hero: The Cat Star Chronicles #6 [Mass Market Paperback]

HERO BY CHERYL BROOKS – IN STORES AUGUST 2010

He is the sexiest, most irksome man she’s ever encountered...

Micayla is the last Zetithian female left in the universe. She doesn’t know what’s normal for her species, but she knows when she sees Trag that all she wants to do is bite him…

He has searched all over the galaxy for a woman like her…

Trag has sworn he’ll never marry unless he can find a Zetithian female. But now that he’s finally found Micayla, she may be more of a challenge than even he’s able to take on...

Contest Rules

Thanks to the Cheryl who generously offered two signed copies of Hero to two lucky commenters.

This giveaway is open only to US and Canadian addresses (so sorry to my international followers).

If you’d like to enter this giveaway please leave a comment answering Cheryl's questions!

Must be a follower or please check back to see if you are the winner, thanks!

The contest runs till Aug 31st and closes at 11:59 PM PST!