Our Authors After Dark 2012 Authors Spotlight continues with the delectable and erotic writer Cat Grant. This EPIC award-winning author lives by the sea in beautiful Monterey, California, with one persnickety feline and entirely too many books and DVDs. When she’s not writing, she sings along (badly!) to whatever’s on her iPod shuffle, watches lots of movies, and fantasizes about kinky sex with Michael Fassbender. Currently publishing with Ellora’s Cave, and Riptide Publishing, Ms Grant currently has nine published books with two to be released soon. Ms. Grant writes on the wild side with her steamy hot M/M, F/M, and M/F/M romances. Her MM erotic, Once a Marine, won the EPIC 2012 Award in the Erotic Category.

Some of Ms. Grant’s favorite things are:

James McAvoy. Michael Fassbender. If you haven’t seen X-Men: First Class, get yourself over to Netflix, pronto! The chemistry between these two leaps right off the screen. It’s like watching a m/m novel acted out on screen!

Opera. Yes, it’s true – I’m an opera nerd. I love the music, the beautiful singing, the staging, the costumes – the romance. In fact, I modeled my characters Colette and David in EntangledTrio after two of my favorite singers – mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca and tenor Jonas Kaufmann. I went all the way to New York to see soprano Anna Netrebko perform live.

But don’t call me a snob – I like all kinds of music. My iTunes library has about 71 gigs of music in it, everything from Adele and Kate Bush to Puccini and Wagner. And Glee! I’m a huge fan of Chris Colfer and Darren Criss. In fact, I’m going back to New York this January to see Darren in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Ms. Grant has two back to back releases that continue to prove that when it comes to eroticia, she’s an author to be watched.

Pricelessby Cat Grant.
Releases May 14, 2012

When love’s for sale, who really pays?

Connor Morrison is a 3D optics pioneer, the star of the UC Berkeley physics department, and a socially-inept workaholic. And with his dear friend and business partner, Steve Campbell, handling their investors, he’s content to remain in the shadows. That is, until he meets the gorgeous and starry-eyed physics student Wes Martin.

Wes is brilliant but broke. Ever since his scholarship fell victim to the financial crisis, he’s had no choice but to sell his body to stay in school. Already half in love with Connor, Wes initially resists Steve’s offer to be Connor’s thirty-fifth birthday present. But in the end, Wes is too broke—and too smitten—to say no.

Connor has no idea Steve bought Wes’s attentions, and he quickly falls under the young man’s spell. Yet after one night together, Wes disappears. He can’t bear to hook with a man he could so easily grow to love, but he also can’t bear to tell him the truth. Besides, if he sleeps with Connor again, there’d be no way to hide the bruises one of his regular johns loves to inflict. Only one thing to do: let Connor go. Walking away is painful, but not nearly as much as building a relationship on lies.

Power Play: Awakening By Cat Grant and Rachel Haimonwitz
Releases June 11, 2012

Sequel to Power Play: Resistance

Brandon McKinney is a man reborn. Newly awakened to the notion of consensual power exchange and the submissive urges inside him, he begs for a second chance from the man who opened his eyes to this world: Silicon Valley superstar Jonathan Watkins. But no birth is absent pain, and Brandon’s is no exception. He fears he’s not strong enough to see it through.

Jonathan knows better. He’s seen the iron core inside his new submissive, and the wounded heart inside him too. He means to teach Brandon to heal the one with the other. They have five months left on their contract, after all, and Jonathan has done more with less before.

It’s tough to stay objective, though, when you’re falling in love. Shame Brandon doesn’t feel the same. He’s only there for the three-million-dollar payout at contract’s end—a fact that Jonathan, nursing his own wounded heart, reminds himself of each day. For even as Brandon’s barriers break and his mind expands, even as he grows to love his place at Jonathan’s feet, he’ll never love life with a sadist—especially one who cannot escape the public eye.