To celebrate the liquefaction of the earth and the discovery of a new, active faultline in the Canterbury plains, I’ve decided to put the Rogue series on sale.

For a limited time, you can now purchase Rogue the Serpent, Blood of the Rogue and Rebellion of the Rogue for $1.99 each. Hurray!

Rogue the Serpent

In a world where good girls grow up to be lovely ladies, Rogue is an anomaly. Born under the powerful Totem of the Serpent, she is feared by her family and grows up wild and undisciplined. As a thoroughly spoiled young lady she is given over to Lord Drexler as an addition to his hold, where she meets Lady Mari Drexler, a warrior woman of the bear totem who takes willful Rogue in hand and teaches her that obedience isn’t just necessary, it can be very pleasurable indeed.

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Blood of the Rogue

Celeste winced as Mari’s palm cracked firmly down across Rogue’s backside, and the crowd roared with amusement. “You show ‘er lady Mari!” a rotund woman selling pears encouraged. “I told you to stay in your rooms,” Mari said sternly, raising her hand to strike Rogue’s backside again. But mud makes an excellent lubricant, and wriggling like a little snake, Rogue squirmed free and was lost amongst the legs of the crowd before Mari could lay hands on her once more. This time Mari did not make chase. “Ten gold pieces for the person who brings her back to me,” Mari said calmly.

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Rebellion of the Rogue

The third book in the Rogue the Serpent series finds Rogue trapped in the snowy northern lands under the watchful eye of the beautiful and strict Oksana, infamous tigress of Icebane. The icy northern climes do not suit Rogue’s temperament, nor do the frequent discipline sessions she finds her self subjected to. But when an escape attempt lands Rogue with sweet maid Suki in her arms, she realizes that she can no longer run. Rogue must make a stand for freedom and for love. But will either be tolerated in a land where one woman rules all?

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This has gone too far. You’ve only just met Kai and already you’re tired of her bully tactics. Who does she think she is, barging in and threatening you? She doesn’t know who you are. You could be anybody. Anybody at all. It’s time to put an end to this before she makes your life a living hell, so you step out from behind Constance and glower at her.

“Don’t mess with me, you’ll regret it,” you promise direly, hoping your fierce expression and tone make up for the fact that you’re still doing your best to hold your pants up in one hand.

“Cade…” Constance begins to say something, but Kai cuts in.

“You better keep your eyes open, because I’m comi…”

She never gets to finish her sentence. Instead of listening to another threat, you drop your stranglehold on the waistband of your pants and swing at her as hard as you can. Moments before your fist connects with her jaw, you see the look of surprise in her eyes. She darts back quickly, but not quickly enough and you catch her on the tip of her jaw and send her spinning over onto the floor.

Your moment of triumph is short-lived however. Without your clinging hand to keep them in place, your pants have fallen to your knees, hobbling you as Constance grabs you from behind and swings you over her lap.

“We do not hit people,” she lectures you without any hint of being aware of her hypocrisy as her palm comes down hard across your panty clad cheeks.

The slap hurts, but you can’t help but feel triumphant as Kai lies on the floor with Rael attending to her. She keeps trying to get up to get at you, but Rael insists that she stay lying down, and when Rael insists something, Kai apparently obeys.

“She was threatening me,” you growl, not taking your eyes off your fallen foe.

Constance slaps your ass again, hard enough to make you yelp. “You don’t take matters into your own hands,” she lectures you.

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Well it’s 24 + hours after ‘the big one’ (which I discovered was actually slightly more powerful and more shallow than the one that hit Haiti, but fortunately we are lucky enough to have a lower population and significantly better infrastructure, so the devastation has not been as intense.)

Aftershocks are still rolling in this morning, they’re fairly big ones too, 5 + on the Richter scale, which for those of you not familiar with the Richter scale means that the whole house shifts and shakes and rolls and things threaten to fall off other things. We both slept well through the night in spite of the threat of ongoing quakes. We’d learned in the first one that if it’s big enough to worry about, you’re probably going to wake up in time to notice it. It’s really odd to feel pretty much calm and going about your business as the earth wobbles around beneath you, but I guess that’s just natural human desensitization kicking in.

Reports say that 20% of the houses affected are uninhabitable now. Major concerns are with the water supply, which may or may not be contaminated due to broken pipes as nobody can tell if the pipes are broken or not as yet.

The central city is still a ghost town with no power, but internet, phone and cell communications have all remained admirably available.

Closer to home, the neighbor has suffered a chimney to the front of his car, and a few houses lost tiles, but ours appears to be holding up okay at the moment. The dogs are joyfully oblivious to the emergency and I envy them their innocence. They’re like kids in a way, as long as we owners are calm and acting as if the fact that the house is vigorously vibrating is no real cause for alarm, they continue playing happily.

Thank you to everyone who emailed with thoughts and condolences, it’s really nice to know that there are people in the world who are glad one is not buried under rubble

Largest earthquake in 80 years struck 30 k out of the city this morning, fucking our shit right up. (That’s science talk.)

It’s now 12.00 pm, almost six hours after the quake and strong-ish aftershocks are still rolling in. (As I type this, the monitor is waving about a bit.) Everything is a pretty big mess right now. It may be some time before there are new updates on the blog. Fuck earthquakes.

EDIT: For those who are interested, it is now 8.45 pm and the aftershocks are still continuing. The geobunnies say that they’re between 5 and 4.3 on the Richter scale, so they’re decent little earthquakes in themselves.

EDIT EDIT: Geobunnies are predicting an aftershock earthquake around 6.0, it hasn’t happened yet. A New Zealand seismologist had this had to say on the subject (emphasis mine):

Duty GNS seismologist John Ristau said the large aftershock was “the typical rule of thumb”.

“It’s typical, but there’s nothing to say it will definitely happen. If you don’t get one, of course, then that’s better.”

(Just a short one today, it’s almost 1 am and I should be in bed. For those of you who are interested, Page Three of Fixxer is now up. On a side note, I love the way the voting on this tale always surprises me. Lady Constance is more popular than ever, I see.)

You squeal in fear and dart behind Lady Constance as Kai thunders towards you, looking ready to tear you limb from limb.

“Kai, that’s quite enough.” Unlike Constance, Rael does not so much as raise her voice, yet Kai stops on a dime at the words from her queen.

“She’s got something to do with it, I know she has. She looks shifty,” Kai says suspiciously, continuing to glare at you as if you are the most disgusting, depraved sight she’s ever seen.

You glance up at Lady Constance and see that there is an amused twist to her lips as she catches your eye. Once again, you’re plunged into a warm sea of embarrassment as you clutch at your ragged waistband and blush at the look she’s giving you. You feel so very helpless, lost in a strange land, with strange customs and with hardly any pants to speak of.

“I don’t have anything to do with anything,” you protest, stepping out from behind Constance in what is quite a show of bravery. A snarl from Kai sends you skittering back behind the guard however, and brings those terrible looks of amusement back to Rael and Constance’s faces.

“Kai, treat our guest with respect,” Rael chides the feral wretch patiently.

“Sorry,” Kai mutters, casting you another filthy look under her eyelashes. She’s not sorry, you can tell. Your initial assessment was right, Kai seems thoroughly remorseless and the way she’s looking at you out of the corner of her eye sends chills down your spine. She’ll obey Rael for now, but you know that she’ll be coming after you when you’re alone as sure as you know there’s a nose on your face.

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