Spotlight & Giveaway: Unchained Desire by R.C. Alvarez

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author R.C. Alvarez to HJ!

Hi R.C. Alvarez and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Unchained Desire!

 
Hello! Storm Navarro and Jolie de la Cruz here, writing together as R.C. Alvarez.
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

Unchained Desire is a book about a fallen angel named Ramiel meeting a lost woman named Kyria who has no idea she’s part of his special world. He’s bitter. She’s sweet. Together they try to cook up ways to save her father from a demon queen who’s been using Ramiel as a blood slave for a hundred years! They find trouble and love along the way, unable to deny their attraction to one another even as encroaching disaster seems inevitable.
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

Oh boy. One of our favorite lines is when the reader first meets Ramiel. (Pardon his french haha):

He sat in the dimly lit bar, a scarred gargoyle amid the beautifully ignorant, a weed among roses. A fallen angel.
Why don’t you just write a fucking haiku?

Another one of our favorite lines later on when Ramiel is finally opening up to his true feelings for Kyria:

“You’re breaking my heart.” He cupped her cheek. “Nothing you could ever do would disappoint me.”

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

Amazingly enough, the working title has always been Unchained Desire. I think we picked that title when we were still working on the first draft! Some of our favorite songs on the playlist for this book is All of Me by John Legend, You Found Me by The Fray, and Underneath by Adam Lambert. Another fun fact, Ramiel is an actual name from a list of fallen angels in the Book of Enoch from the dead sea scrolls! We’ve always planned to use his name and 19 other Watchers that are listed in our Rapture series.

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

The first thing that attracts Ramiel to Kyria is her purity. Her sweetness and cinnamon scent. It’s also the thing he wants to get away from. Deep down he believes he doesn’t deserve to be near someone as pure as her. As for Kyria, the first thing that attracts her to him are his scars, tattoos, and the chains shackled to him. She should be afraid of them, but she finds them so intriguing. She wants to know his story.

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

We always have a bit of a laugh when one or more of the characters is dealing with our prophet character named Bishop. He’s very unstable, but always has a certain method to his madness. It’s just hard to see. In this scene, Kyria knows that Bishop knows something about a mark on her neck that might be the key to figuring out why her father is so sick recently, but she is having a very difficult time getting it out of him:

“In a book. Pages of words. Pictures. Lots of Pictures. It’s a game changer. Just the way life is sometimes. Sacrifice is our motif, little girl.”
“Does the mark mean anything?”
“Super-size me.” He laughed.
“Bishop.”
“Knight to E5.”
Kyria frowned and dropped to pick up the hose again, tempted to spray him with it. “What do you know about the mark?”
“What mark?”
“My birthmark.”
“What about it?”
She sighed.

Readers should read this book….

It’s sexy. It’s sweet. It’s magic. It’s danger and romance. You can’t tell the bad guys from the good. And even for the angels, temptation becomes a whole new kind of hell…

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

Haha! Good question. While we don’t have any up-coming releases at the moment, we are very busy on other projects.
Jolie is currently thinking of dabbling in some other genres while we cook up some juicy plot for our next book in the Rapture series which might or might not be about Ramiel’s friend Eli meeting a woman who might or might not be in league with Eli’s evil dad.
Storm is also working on another paranormal romance with shape-shifting biker chicks while she’s getting her master’s degree in writing popular fiction.
 

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Giveaway: eBook of Unchained Desire by R.C. Alvarez.

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Excerpt from Unchained Desire:

Her familiar scent wrapped around him like a cashmere scarf. Warm, unforgettable. “You called?”
Oh, thank God. She’s safe… Why is my heart beating so hard?
He pretended to find great interest in a bag of rainbow-colored Twizzlers. “Yes. You shouldn’t leave my sight.”
“Well, I got a surprise for you.”
Fine. He’d humor her. “What is it?”
“Look,” She held up a palm-sized crystal ornament shaped like an angel. Light filtered through it and fractured in different directions, illuminating her soft face. “It’s one of their leftovers from a Christmas sale. But its wings broke off so one of the cashiers said I could have it for just five cents. Isn’t it cool?”
“The coolest.” A wingless angel. How ironic. Now she had two of them.
“You know, since I was a kid, I’ve loved looking at these kinds of trinkets. Broken ones made of glass or crystal. Unwanted. They’re so imperfect that they’re beautiful.”
You’re beautiful. No point in denying the sweet allure she had, though he’d never admit it out loud.
“You collect them?”
“No, actually. This will be my first.”
He frowned. “Why?” She just said they were her favorite, didn’t she? So, why wouldn’t she hoard them? Like his old friend Sariel and her obsession with paintings. It used to amuse him; now his memory of her just tasted bitter.
“Dad never allowed toys or anything impractical. Only necessary items for survival and light travel.” She rocked back on her heels.
“You really like them that much?”
Charming and warm, she dangled the broken ornament in front of her own face. “I do. The first time my dad mentioned we were moving to a town called Crystal Ridge known for its caves, I got so excited.”
“Really?” Now he wasn’t just humoring her. The passion and enthusiasm in her explanations intrigued him. She found genuine joy in something so simple.
“I remember thinking they might be filled with big fat magic crystals. I even dreamed they were a million crazy colors. When you’re young, you make up all kinds of things. The salt caves aren’t exactly what I imagined, of course, but they’re still cool.”
Damn.
“Hell, grab all of them.”
“What? Oh, no. This is my only splurge. My cash is for emergencies only.”
“I’m paying. No arguments.”
Disbelief tinged her laughter. “No way. I won’t let you spend your money on something so silly.”
“It’s nothing. Literally pocket change.” He said as he reached into his leather jacket.
“Really? How much money do you have?”
“In cash? I got a few hundred on me.” In the private accounts he had set up with different banks across the country, and even internationally, he had hundreds of thousands. Each.
Her eyes widened when he dug through his old wallet, flashing twenties, fifties, even a couple of hundreds. Flexing his wealth and showing off wasn’t his style, but something about providing such a small pleasure for her gave him a sense of ridiculous pride.
“What’s your secret?”
“Lots of gambling. And saving.” Before the chains were put on him.
She smiled as she took the twenty-dollar bill he offered. “Isn’t gambling a sin, Mister Angel?”
“Fallen angel.” Was this flirting? He had no idea…
“All right,” she said with a gentle laugh. “I’ll pick up these, and all the snacks we can handle. You go fill up the tank.”

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Book Info:

Chained to a demon queen for hundreds of years, fallen angel Ramiel has given up on his brothers and sisters—and humanity. He has seven days away from hell to replenish his power and that’s all he cares about—right up until his meeting with the much too innocent Kyria. He fell for that act before and it landed him in hell, he won’t be making that mistake again.

To save her sick father, Kyria knows she must find Ramiel. He’s dark, brooding and everything Kyria should be scared of, but the haunted look in his eyes makes her think there’s more to him. The tattoos and chains don’t frighten her either, but the connection she has with him does. When strange creatures attack her, Ramiel steps in to protect her.

Ramiel believes he’s reluctantly helping Kyria, but what neither of them knows is that she may be the one to save them all…
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Meet the Author:

The Paranormal Romance writing team of Storm Navarro and Jolie de la Cruz spend their days delving into myth and madness and coating it with romance. Texas born and raised, both authors have a penchant for strong men and wild rides.
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