When the tattoo artist Finn lined up for his visit to New Orleans turns out to be the mysteriously alluring sub he played on New Year’s Eve at The Bastille, the city’s BDSM club, more than his skin will be marked forever—and Rosie is just the woman to bring this playboy Dom to his knees.

Please help us welcome the lovely Smutketeer Eden Bradley to GraveTells!

DANGEROUSLY INKED, my story in the Midnight Ink Box Set collection, with authors R.G. Alexander, Sidney Bristol, Mari Carr, PG Forte, Robin L Rotham, Carrie Ann Ryan & Jayne Rylan, was an awful lot of fun to write! I’d already written Book One in my Dangerous Romance series, DANGEROUSLY BOUND, out in April from Berkley Heat, and Finn, the hero in my Midnight Ink collection story, made his first appearance in that book. He was the hero Mick’s friend from Atlanta. This is a BDSM-themed series, and both the men—all the men in this series!—are Dominants. And let me tell you, when I write strong Doms they have a wicked tendency to boss me around, and Finn was no different! He is not the kind of Dom you can sass. Or…I should say *I* can’t. Rosie may be a different story…but then, she’s tougher than I am.

But back to Finn Carter. Finn caught my attention as I was first writing him. He’s a giant of a man who usually requires two and three and four women in a night of play at his home BDSM club, 2112. But he’s been through a life-changing experience, and he wants to learn to live his life differently, which worked perfectly with the theme we set for the Midnight Ink collection: new beginnings for the New Year. I can’t say more without giving the story away, but let’s just say there’s ink and kink and sex and romance. And tattoos. And New Orleans. Yeah…all that stuff…; )

Meanwhile, let’s get to know Finn a little better…

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• Character’s name: Finn Carter
• Character’s age: 36
• He’s from: Melbourne, Australia originally, but has been living in Atlanta for a number of years.
• Favorite foods: A good steak, piles of pasta—all of it in plentiful servings! He’s a ‘take life in big bites’ kind of guy!
• Favorite music: Anything dark and head-banging: Motorhead, Godsmack, Nine Inch Nails…
• Most hated fashion accessory: Finn hates to wear a watch. First, it breaks up the Maori tribal tattoos covering his arms. Second, he prefers to live life moment to moment.
• His favorite kink: Really anything that involves a pretty girl under his command. Could be steel cuffs and shackles, a blindfold, a flogger, but his favorite kink involves chains. He loves the primal quality in binding a woman in chains—the cold steel, the weight of it bearing her down, the clinking sound that makes her shiver…
• Quote from Finn—this is SO him!: “I’m going to hurt you, pretty girl. For one last time, do I have your consent?”
• Tattoos: Both arms are fully sleeved with black Maori tribal work, as well as surrounding the scars on his left leg from an accident years earlier. In DANGEROUSLY INKED, Rosie does a black and gray memorial tattoo on his chest of a koi transforming into a dragon—a common theme in Japanese tattoo work that represents a personal transformation.
• His tragic past: A series of losses that have made him want to live every moment to the fullest, but he’s been going about it the wrong way. Don’t worry—Rosie will set him on the right path!

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Read an excerpt

“Finn?” Mick’s tone grew more serious. “She’s not one of your usual subbie girls. She won’t go down without a fight, so don’t expect it of her.

But when she does…well, you’ll see.”

Finn raised an eyebrow. “I must admit I’m intrigued.”

“Come on and I’ll make the introductions.”

Mick led him past the couples and groups already utilizing the play space, and he breathed in the familiar scent of leather, took in the low cries and moans beneath the ambient music. These places really were home to him, where he felt most alive. That familiar tingle was just beginning, a small, electric thrill running just under his skin. Now to see this girl his friend had spoken so highly of. Surely she couldn’t be that good…

“Finn, meet Roison.”

He said it as ‘Rosheen’, a good Irish name if he’d ever heard one.

He paused. Blinked. She was fucking beautiful, alright. Beyond beautiful. Tiny thing, with one of those waif-like bodies, except that her breasts were full and round, almost too large for her delicate tattoo-covered frame.

The ink was spectacular. In a roving glance, he took it in—a mantle of roses and thorns around her shoulders and collarbones, meeting in the center with a darkly, ornate cross. On one arm was a flight of doves crossing over a life-size set of rosary beads—all of it black and gray work with touches of red on the beads. A lot of finely-done script over her ribcage on one side. Amazing ink on an amazing body.

Amazing girl…

His gaze went to her gorgeous, full breasts. Her nipples were covered with two perfect ‘X’s’ done in black electrical tape, indicating a boundary, the only thing she wore other than a black lace thong. Well, he’d see about that. After he looked at her face.

Fuuuuck.

The only other word that came to mind was ‘exquisite’. Not a word he thought to use often, but hell, nothing else would do. Heart-shaped, he thought it was called, with big blue eyes—like sapphires, they were, the lashes long and dark beneath perfectly arched black brows. Her hair was black with streaks of blue running through it, falling in waves around her bare shoulders. But it was her mouth—a lush slash of red—that really got him. Made him want to kiss the lipstick off her, to suck in the soft flesh.

He went hard.

Oh, yeah, that was a good sign. Maybe Mick was right about her, after all. Because he could fucking just look at her all night.

Except that he had every intention of doing more. A lot more.

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About the author

Best-selling and award-winning author Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin has published a number of novels and novellas, both print and e-books, with Bantam/Delta, Berkley Heat, Harlequin Spice & HQN, Black Lace Books and Samhain Publishing, as well as venturing into self-publishing. Eden has appeared regularly on Playboy Radio and conducts workshops on writing craft and writing about sex, with an emphasis on kink.

When not writing you can find her wandering museums, buying shoes and spoiling her beloved Boston Terrier puppy, Voodoo.

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Giveaway (US/Int)

Talk to me about tattoos-do you like them? On men? On women? Have any yourself? Have a favorite type of ink or a design you’d like to get?  One lucky winner will receive a $25.00 Amazon Gift Card plus e-copies of several of my books: ROGUE (BDSM/vampire-part of my Midnight Playground series), BREAKING SKYE (BDSM-part of my San Francisco Dom series), and TEMPT ME TWICE (ménage)

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