Please welcome a guest post from Daryl Devore !!!
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Five interesting tidbits about Daryl
Devoré's erotic rock star romance – What
Happens in Bangkok
First off a quick thank you to Krista for
allowing me to visit today.
What
Happens in Bangkok is my latest erotic romance.
This story features a drag queen club owner and a rock star.
1. Why did I pick Bangkok as the setting?
Good question. It had to be used as a setting. Come on. I'm an erotic romance
writer and we – North Americans – say it as
Bang cock. It's just a setting
waiting to be used.
But I would like to point out – it is
pronounced more like Ban Gok. My Thai is not that good.
2. How did this book get started? I was
driving own to visit my daughter and idea smacked me in the forehead. I got out
my laptop and wrote 3 chapters in a matter of 30 minutes. Mind you there were
some gaps – like the Hero was called "X" and the Heroine
"Y" and I think the city was "C".
3. Why did I choose a drag queen club? It
was the song on the radio that nudged the idea of the story. Gloria Gaynor's –
I Will Survive. I was thinking how it was – at one time – the gay anthem and
the whole story just evolved from there.
4. Why did I choose rock star for the
hero's occupation? I didn't. He did. I'm a pantser and I pretty much have no
idea where my characters are taking me..
5. Is this a standalone book? No. This is
the first time I've written a series like this. It is a trilogy. All 3 books
wanted to be written at once, but I put my foot down and made books 2 and 3
wait their turn. They are now written and book 2 is at the publishers.
Blurb
To Save Darien's life his brother asks, "Can you walk in high heels?"
Erika Bailey, owner/manager of a drag queen club in Bangkok, Thailand has
happily settled into all aspects of her new life, except for her lack of a love
life. When a new diva auditions, Erika is bewildered over her instant
attraction to the blond God, Apollo.
Darien Scott is on vacation after a world tour and mistakenly
figures the safest place to be is at The Black Dragon with the head of a Triad.
When the club is hit, Darien is the only person to get out alive. Now he's
running from the police and a Triad. Mistake number 1.
Disguised as a drag queen, he's hired by Erika, but falls hard for his new
boss, then struggles with not coming clean with her. Mistake number 2.
Can he fix his mistakes and find a life filled with love or is he headed
straight for mistake number 3?
Excerpt
Droplets of blood seeped from Darien’s wolf tattoo,
mesmerizing him. They trickled over the inside of his bicep, splattering
against the bar floor.
Darien ran his hand back through his hair and frowned. Why was the wolf
bleeding? It was supposed to look sexy. Turn chicks on. Not bleed. He blinked
as a thought formed. Maybe it wasn’t the tattoo. Could he be bleeding? He
didn’t remember getting hurt. But that might be because he’d had too many vodka
shots.
Expensive gold infused vodka.
An order, snapped out in Thai, ripped his focus away from the cost of the
booze.
Stumbling with the translation, his gut clenched. “Check everyone. Anybody
alive. Kill them.”
A shrill female scream. A gun shot. Silence.
That’d be one of the hookers. Damn. Hope it wasn’t the one with the butterfly tattoo
above her clit. She had a mouth on her that performed miracles. Dude! What the
fuck! Must be the vodka talking. Stay focused. There are guys with guns out
there.
Darien stretched his neck out and peered around the edge of the bar. In his
line of vision, a male leg stuck out from under a table. Expensive looking
shoe. Presumably Italian leather. Probably belonged to Nai Jâhng.
Darien raised his eyebrows. Wow. Somebody had the balls to kill a Triad boss.
He shifted his glance. A few feet to the left lay a female arm with brilliant
orange fingernails. He shivered at the memory of those nails grazing his balls.
He focused on a tiny object a foot in front of him. Shards of glass were
scattered about. He frowned, trying to remember what happened. He’d walked
behind the private club’s bar to get another bottle of vodka when, one by one,
bottles started exploding. Next he was on the floor, looking at the blood
dripping from his tattoo. He glanced at his arm. The bleeding had stopped.
Okay, so he wasn’t gonna bleed to death. Good. Now he just had to get his
dumbass outta there. Past them. The guys with the guns. How the fuck could he
do that?
Voices interrupted his thoughts. The tones were panicked or angry, and the
words too fast for him to translate, although he did understand the meaning of
the three rapid gunshots, followed by a short groan. The door at the opposite
end of the bar, leading to the kitchen, swooshed as someone pushed it open.
Gunfire and loud screams sounded from the kitchen. The door swung open again.
Darien translated the shooter’s words, “Nobody alive in there. I’ll check the
offices upstairs.”
Darien slid back, trying not to disturb the glass. He did his best not to yelp
when a sharp edge sliced through the skin on his knee. With deliberate
movements, he backtracked the length of the Black Dragon’s bar. Squatting, he
peeked around the end.
Three men stood with their backs to him, dressed in black pants and muscle
shirts. Each one held an assault rifle. A bleeding sun tattoo visible on one
attacker’s shoulder. Daeng Arthit Triad. Not good. So not good.
He looked forward. The kitchen door was six feet away. Six feet of wide-open,
easily visible space. It might as well be six inches or a mile. He couldn’t
risk it. Wouldn’t. He didn’t want to get shot.
He shifted his weight off the knee pressing on a piece of shattered bottle.
What the fuck, dude? You’re gonna die if they find you. Better to be running
for your life than just lay here and let ’em kill you. That was the logical
side of his head’s opinion.
The chicken shit side said, Stay here. Stay down. You’re safe.
A yell and several more gunshots drifted down from the floor above. The men
pounded up the stairs.
Without taking a moment to think, Darien bolted through the kitchen doors, then
skidded to a stop. The rancid smell of burning food and fresh blood hit him
deep in the pit of his stomach. Four bodies lay facing him, eyes wide,
obviously unseeing. One of the dead chefs held a massive meat cleaver clenched
in his right hand.
Never bring a knife to a gun fight. He shook his head. Quoting movies at a time
like this? Focus, dude.
Heart pounding, Darien cast his gaze about the room, looking for an escape,
while his ears listened for the sound of running footsteps coming up behind. He
fought the nausea of rising fear as he moved forward, searching for an exit,
while trying to keep his gaze from the corpses.
Please let this be some shitty nightmare, and I’m gonna wake up now. Fuck!
In the back right corner, he spotted a door. With renewed hope, he raced to
freedom. He bolted through the doorway, skidded in the pool of blood, lost his
balance and crashed onto the dead hooker. He tried not to be judgmental, but in
the brief glance he’d had, a girl on her knees in front of a man with no pants
on was obviously on the clock. Or cock, as the case might be.
He braced his hands on the blood soaked floor and pushed himself to his knees.
The back of her head was missing, and her dead john had no face. Just a bloody,
pulpy mess. He laid sprawled back on the desk. Big enough guy to be one of the
ones who was supposed to be guarding the front entrance. Well, he went out with
a bang.
The room spun. A cold sweat dampened Darien’s brow. His stomach flipped, then
heaved its contents on the hooker’s cherry red dress. Gagging and coughing, he
wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. The smell of tossed alcohol hit him
in the face. He heaved again. Shit. Coupla hundred bucks worth. What a waste.
He dropped back onto his haunches, waiting until the spasms in his stomach
calmed. Footsteps from above reminded him of his mission. Get out. Alive. Now!
Bio:
Daryl Devore
lives in an in old farmhouse in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, a large salt
water aquarium full of fish, a black cat named Licorice and some house ghosts.
Her daughter is grown and has flown the nest. Daryl loves to take long walks up
her quiet country road, or snow shoe across the back acres and in the summer,
kayak along the St. Lawrence River. She has touched a moon rock, a mammoth and
a meteorite. She's been deep in the ocean in a submarine, flew high over
Niagara Falls in a helicopter and used the ladies room in a royal palace.
Life's an adventure and Daryl's having fun living it.
Where to find Daryl Devoré
Other books by Daryl Devoré
Brace
For Impact – erotic crash romance
Billionaires
vol 1 – erotic billionaire romance
FL.E.S.H. – erotic contemporary billionaire romance
Capri's
Fate – erotic contemporary fantasy
Black
Dorn – erotic medieval romance
Sexy
Red Hood – twisted fairy tale
A
Kept Woman – erotic contemporary billionaire romance
