It’s time to pitch your sexy pitch for The Season’s Ellora’s Cave Pitch Contest.
If this is your first time hearing about ELLORA’S CAVE PITCH CONTEST, please read the rules here first.
Judging editor: Grace Bradley ~ Ellora’s Cave
Top 10 pitches must submit the first 3 pages of manuscript.
Winner receives a 25 page critique.
If your entry is not selected, please feel free to query Ellora’s Cave on your own.
Top 10 pitches will be announced no later than the week of May 10th.
Please remember to include title, word length and genre on your entries.
Contest closes today at 9:00 pm EST.
Good Luck!
Stealing Fate
Paranormal Historical Romance (Time Travel/Erotic)
40K+
When Bailey Ducaine attempts to steal a priceless piece of sculpture named Fate…she discovers that fate can be a bitch!
As the enchanted piece of art sends her hurling through time, this twenty-first century con-artist finds herself transported back to regency era England where all bets are off.
Now, Bailey must find her way back to her own time before sexy Scotland Yard Inspector Brooks solves the mystery of her sudden appearance. If only she wasn’t so attracted to her frustratingly hot captor, she could focus on her mission.
But when fate intervenes…will the thief be the one to have her heart stolen this time around?
LORD AND MASTER, a 35,500 word historical novella, is set in 52 B.C. as Rome conquers Gaul…
Leonidas, the commander of Rome’s prestigious Sixth legion, is ordered to establish a strategic outpost in Gaul after its surrender to Julius Caesar. But on the way to his new post, Leonidas is wounded in an ambush. Only one person can save his life, and she’s his sworn enemy.
Solange is a healer. She values every life, even if it belongs to one of the hated Romans who’ve just conquered her land. Bound by her duty — and now by her position as a slave of Rome — Solange is forced to tend Leonidas.
But the relationship between master and slave — with everything that entails — evolves into something more. The forced intimacy causes two enemies to look beyond the reason for their hatred, and find an emotion just as strong ….love.
YESTERDAY’S INDESCRETION
Contemporary Erotica
Older Heroine/Younger Hero
75,000
Thirty-something kindgergarten teacher, Lindy Whittaker has decided it’s time to marry and start a family. Steven Hamilton, a successful businessman, seems to be “Mr. Right”. But when former boytoy Michael “Mac” MacIntyre comes to town, will he ruin all of Lindy’s well-laid plans? Will she find love in stability or in passion? And will the choice she makes lead her into blissful happiness or terrifying danger?
EDUCATING APHRODITE
Victorian Erotic Romance
14,000
Eighteen months is too bloody long to be abstinent, especially when one is married to the insatiable Sebastian Falkner, Earl of Warwick.
Countess Alexandra Falkner is desperate to get her husband back in her bed, including performing in the risqué production of Educating Aphrodite. She knows Sebastian will choose the masked woman who performs in the finale with him and his best friend, sexy theatre manager and hypnotist, Vincent Delacroix, and she intends to be the temptress who catches his eye. Unfortunately, she lacks the confidence and experience she needs to have sex with two men in front of an audience. She solicits Delacroix’s skills as a hypnotist to empower her. What she gets is an education in seduction that leads her heart astray.
Will a ménage a trois rekindle the passion in her marriage? Will she lose sight of her goal in Delacroix’s arms? Or dare she risk everything to keep them both…?
FOR THE LOVE OF MOLLY
Contemporary Erotic Romance
26,600 words
Mollie McGree is on a mission to seduce her best friend, the sexy masseuse Juan-Carlos. But she wants to loose a few extra pounds first. She joins a gym run by self-made millionaire and personal trainer, Conner Bean. Conner thinks Mollie doesn’t need to lose any weight, and is perfect just the way she is. He plans to seduce the curvy Mollie by giving her his own special training sessions in passion and desire.
Soon Mollie is enjoying a no hold’s bar love affair with the vibrant and skilled Conner. But self-esteem issues on her part, as well as her unresolved feelings for Juan-Carlos, cause her to second guess Conner’s motives. Conner will stop at nothing until he claims Mollie’s heart for his own.
Santana’s Heat – Paranormal, erotic, romantic suspence – 70K words
Santana Jones barely escaped from the man-turned-wolf that attacked her during a camping trip that she’d won from a local radio station. But the radio station didn’t have a contest and she didn’t win. Someone went to a lot of trouble to put her in the woods that night.
Luc Delemere, the powerful leader of the North American werewolves, didn’t want a mate because her life would constantly be in danger. But when a bedraggled human crawls out of the icy river, stumbles into his barn and snuggles up to his prize thoroughbred, Luc finds it impossible to resist his sensual mate.
The claw marks on her body confirm that she was attacked by a werewolf, but Luc wants to know who lured her to his land and why. Can Luc keep Santana safe when she refuses to acknowledge that there’s a threat to her life? Will the diamond pendant that Santana’s mother left her be the key to her past and her future?
Title: Surrender
Genre: Contemporary, Menage
Word Count: 23,000K
Dumped by her boyfriend during her birthday ski weekend, Kayla runs to the two men she can count on, Jesse and Chris, her best friends. Reckless and hurt, she throws caution to the wind and confesses her deepest fantasy. Being with two men.
Jesse and Chris have shared women before, but Kayla is not like other women. She knows them better than they know themselves. When Kayla encourages Jesse to go after what he wants with Chris in the bedroom, it opens them up to a whole new world.
In love with Kayla for as long as he can remember, Chris is excited to finally be with her, but he never expected to desire both of his friends. He’s straight. How the hell can he want Jesse as well?
With everything changing, can these friends save their friendship and find a way to build on the love between them.