The Diamond Theater and it’s Spectacular! Fifth stop on the ROUGH DIAMOND blog tour.

Hi peeps, Cassandra Dean here to tell you all about ROUGH DIAMOND, and its premiere event, The Diamond’s Variety and Burlesque Spectacular!

Every month, The Diamond Saloon and Theater holds it’s spectacular. Have you ever heard of such a thing? No? Well, sit yourself down and let me tell you a tale, a plum good one that will have your toes a-tapping and your hands a-clapping before the night is through.

So up there in Freewill, Wyoming, there’s a widow lady who runs a saloon. Her husband’s been gone these five years past, but she’s made something out of the tragedy, and that’s the Spectacular. She’s got them dancing girls, and a singer straight from Chicago, as well as jugglers and fire breathers and a magician all the way from San Francisco. The way I hear it, they’ve heard of her even in New York City itself!

So the Spectacular, it runs every month and it’s a sight to behold! I’ve made it up there a time or two myself, and I’m telling you, it was worth every penny. That widow, Mrs Reynolds, she knows how to run a show and to keep a man’s interest from one moment to the next. With the songs she pens and the acts she commissions, she knows her way around a stage. I hear tell she wants to go to Paris one day, show her stage skills in the dance halls and burlesques of that fine city. To my own way of thinking, I’m thinking she’ll be a right success.

So, if you’re of a mind, head on up to Freewill, check out Mrs Reynolds’ saloon and, if the Spectacular ain’t yet on, make sure you hang around until it is.

Make sure you stop by on the other blogs in the tour for more information surrounding ROUGH DIAMOND!

~ Excerpt ~
Lifting the glass, Alice studied its contents. “There is nothing quite like the enjoyment you get
from a good whiskey. There’s the look and color of it, and the way it burns in the light.”

“It’s the same color as your eyes,” Llewellyn breathed, his own wide and empty of thought.

A smile tugged at the corner of her mouth. That’s right. Fool me into thinking there’s not an ounce of calculation to your words. “Is it? Mighty kind of you to notice.”

A happy grin was her response.

Well now, she was surely going to enjoy this. Setting her own half-smile, she tilted her glass, watching as the whiskey caught the light of the candle. “Have you ever noticed the feel of glass? It’s smooth against your fingers, and though the whiskey burns you, the glass is cool. It seems strange, doesn’t it? That such fire could come from something so cool.”

Intensely aware of his gaze upon her, she brought the glass to rest on her bottom lip. “You lift the glass to your lips, and all that coolness rests upon your flesh. The scent of the whiskey hits you, sweet and fiery. Your mouth waters, and you can’t wait to have it inside you. Slowly, so slowly, you tip the glass, teasing yourself as long moments in want of its taste stretch unbearably.”

He no longer wore a smile. Dark eyes watched her as strong fingers dug into the glass before him.

A prickle washed over her skin, her heart a steady beat in her chest. With hushed voice, she continued. “Liquid slides down your throat. The flavor explodes inside you, a glorious rush of sensation that overwhelms and consumes. You curl your tongue, enjoying the lingering sensation in every part of your mouth. Then, you look at the bottle.” Finally, she met his gaze direct. No subterfuge. No tease. “And you know you can do it again.”




Owner of the Diamond Saloon and Theater, Alice Reynolds is astounded when a fancy Englishman offers to buy her saloon. She won’t be selling her saloon to anyone, let alone a man with a pretty, empty-headed grin…but then, she reckons that grin just might be a lie, and a man of intelligence and cunning resides beneath.

Rupert Llewellyn has another purpose for offering to buy the pretty widow’s saloon—the coal buried deep in land she owns. However, he never banked on her knowing eyes making him weak at the knees, or how his deception would burn upon his soul.

Each determined to outwit the other, they tantalize and tease until passion explodes. But can their desire bridge the lies told and trust broken?
Part of Decadent Publishing’s Western Escape

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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Satin for having me!
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Cassandra grew up daydreaming, inventing fantastical worlds and marvelous adventures. Once she learned to read (First phrase – To the Beach. True story), she was never without a book, reading of other people’s fantastical worlds and marvelous adventures.

Fairy tales, Famous Fives, fantasies and fancies; horror stories, gumshoe detectives, science fiction; Cassandra read it all. Then she discovered Romance and a true passion was born.

So, once upon a time, after making a slight detour into the world of finance, Cassandra tried her hand at writing. After a brief foray into horror, she couldn’t discount her true passion. She started to write Romance and fell head over heels.

The love affair exists to this very day.

Cassandra lives in Adelaide, South Australia.


AND NOW, A GIVEAWAY#!
Comment below and leave your email address to go in the running to win any Decadent Publishing ebook from my back list, a signed ROUGH DIAMOND postcard and ROUGH DIAMOND magnet!
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE#!
There’ll be a super, you beaut, fabulouso Grand Prize at the end of the book tour. Everyone who comments and leaves their email address on any of the stops in the tour will go in the running to win a
USD$20.00 Amazon.com Gift Card, signed postcards and magnets of ALL my Decadent releases (ENSLAVED, TEACH ME and ROUGH DIAMOND).

Pretty spesh, am I right? So get commenting, peeps!



Stops on the tour: Book Reviews and More by Kathy Adriana Kraft Catriana’s Muse Victoria Blisse Satin’s Bookish Corner

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Also, by commenting and leaving your email address you will be entered to the Grand Prize (consisting of one

 (1) USD$20.00 Amazon.com Gift Card, one (1) signed postcard of ROUGH DIAMOND,, one (1) signed postcard of TEACH ME, one (1) signed postcard of ENSLAVED, one (1) magnet of ROUGH DIAMOND, one (1) magnet of TEACH ME and one (1) magnet of ENSLAVED. Winner will be selected via random.org, with winner’s name posted on this blog and Cassandra’s blog (http://cassandradean.com/blog-2)

by 3/11/2012. Grand Prize winner will be announced on Cassandra’s blog
(http://cassandradean.com/blog-2)

by 03/11/2012. Cassandra will also contact the winner by e-mail; the winner will be required to reply with their postal address so Cassandra can send the prize to them. Only one entry per ISP address. Entrants must be over 18 years of age. By entering, you agree Cassandra can use your name when announcing the winner if you should win. If potential prize winner forfeits or does not claim the prize, prize will be re-awarded, in Sponsor’s sole discretion. All prizes will be awarded.