Ella Jade Birthday Blog Hop

Happy Birthday to Ella Jade and welcome to this celebratory blog hop. Keep reading to be in with a chance to win one of my books and a grand prize of $100 Amazon or B&N gift card!

Birthdays are fun for me, a few of my friends bemoan getting older but I always snap them out of it by saying 'what's the alternative?', that soon changes the mood and we have another glass of bubbly and the fun continues.

The last birthday I had was very special, Mr H treated me to a trip to London. I adore London, but living a few hours away, in the countryside, means I don't get to visit my favourite haunts as much as I used to when we lived there.

I guess the man in my life knows me well because he organised a day doing my favourite things in my favourite city. We started off with a walk from St Paul's Cathedral, along the Thames to the London Eye.

The Eye is great fun, and I'd been on it at night before but not during the day, and because it was a stunning blue-skied day we could see for miles. The houses of Parliment always fascinate me, I love the architecture and knowing the history the building holds makes me a little spell bound, especially when I can see it from above.

We then mooched up the mall with ice-cream to Buckingham Palace, took photographs even though we already have a ton, but hey, we were being tourists, and then made our way, on the Tube, to Covent Garden.

Covent Garden is one of those Tube stations where you get the choice of hundreds of steps or the lift. Mr H always groans because he knows how much I hate elevators and has to do the stairs with me, why he complains when he's fit as a fiddle I don't know!

After all of those steps we decided it was time for lunch outside a chic little cafe and were entertained by street performers - fire eater and a contortionist - as we sipped white wine and ate smoked salmon and salad, we shared a bowl of chips (fries) too!

I spent a few pounds in the boutiques of Covent Garden, it was my birthday after all, and then we headed to Leicester Square hoping for cheap West End tickets for that evening. We were in luck and nabbed bargain seats for Wicked, the Wizard of Oz story. Mr H looked dubious when we went in, but he soon brightened up when the show got going. I loved it, the scenery, the talent, the music, it was great! One of the best I have seen.

A train ride from the city found me snoozing on his shoulder and then... well, once home, then it was time for my last birthday present, and I'll leave that to your imagination, though I knew exactly what it was going to be!

Thanks for reading, before you go, check out Sexy as Hell a dark, BDSM trilogy just out and published under the name Harlem Dae (It's written with my co-author Natalie Dae.)

Sexy as Hell: an erotic trilogy that will submerge you into the black heart of a world of bondage and discipline, Dominance and submission, sadism and masochism.

Dare to take this twisting journey with Victor and you’ll learn the ropes with him, experience every carnal sensation and fall into a dark and dangerous love that grips like a fist and binds like a collar.

Get to know Zara, his sultry teacher, and you’ll gasp when she doles out her sinful instructions but then delight in the stunning results she not only demands but achieves. It seems Heaven and Hell are not so far apart when she holds the reins.

Victor has his layers peeled back, but when he does the same to try to get to his Vixen’s core, a revelation appears. Because Zara is a woman whose vast sexual experience is both her strength and her weakness; she can inflict pain and pleasure, make lusty demands and instruct, but she needs so much more, she needs…

Yes, the time has come to for her to admit to her needs and confess to the repairing her soul hungers for. A sea of memories, a lifetime of control requires an acknowledgement that will cut through her barriers, and there’s only one man up for the job—her virgin, her student, her newly trained monster, Victor Partridge.

You can find out more about The Virgin, The Player and The Vixen on the Harlem Dae website.

And if you leave a comment you could be in with a chance to win a pdf or mobi copy of The Virgin, to set you off on a wild journey of dark delights! Don't forget to leave your email addy and I'll pick a winner at the end of the hop.

Lily x

Get Back To The Hop

Get hoppin'... check out all of the amazing authors and bloggers participating in this hop. Be sure to comment at each stop and leave your email address to be entered in the grand prize.

1.	Picked by Poison	34.	Suzzana C Ryan	67.	Ashen White
2.	Emily Wood	35.	Taryn Kincaid	68.	Selene Chardou
3.	Kristabel Reed	36.	Gale Stanley	69.	Bebe Balocca
4.	Ella Jade	37.	Adriana Kraft	70.	RULE BREAKER BOOKS - SUSAN ARDEN
5.	Lacey Wolfe	38.	Bookoholic Anom	71.	Rhonda Laurel
6.	Tamaria Soana	39.	Lila Munro	72.	Janice Seagraves, Author
7.	Viari Rose	40.	Olivia Starke	73.	Zara Stoneley
8.	Ashlynn Monroe	41.	Heather (Not Everyone's Mama)	74.	Cataleya
9.	Gemma K. Murray	42.	Wendy Smith	75.	Miranda
10.	N Kuhn	43.	Samantha Darling	76.	Kate Richards
11.	Crystal's Many Reivews	44.	Inner Goddess	77.	Tara Mills Romance
12.	Addicted to Reading	45.	Victoria's Gossip	78.	Kel Starnes
13.	Tabitha Rayne	46.	Amber Gleisner	79.	Jacqueline's Reads
14.	Margaret Taylor	47.	GirlyGirlBookReviews	80.	Tyeesha Webb
15.	Romance on a Budget	48.	Just Booked	81.	Romantic Reading Escapes
16.	Harlie	49.	Book Liaison	82.	Jessica Carroll
17.	Malia Mallory	50.	elodie parkes erotic romance	83.	J.C. Valentine (INT)
18.	Morticia Knight	51.	S. J. Maylee	84.	Andria Large
19.	Desiree Holt	52.	Rhonda Lee Carver	85.	Tiffany Daune
20.	Stephanie Phillips	53.	Lucy Felthouse	86.	Chrissy Fletcher
21.	Mary Quast	54.	Wild Wordy Women	87.	Reality Bites! Let's Get Lost!!
22.	Sarah C (TwiMom22580	55.	Reading By The Book	88.	Mindy Nabors
23.	Melissa Keir	56.	T D Hassett	89.	Regina May Ross
24.	Illustrious Illusions	57.	M.A. Stacie	90.	#BookNerd
25.	Natasha Blackthorne (US)	58.	Louisa Bacio	91.	Savannah Leigh
26.	Cassandra Carr	59.	Hook Me Up Book Blog	92.	Doris O'Connor
27.	My Daily Romance (Kate Good)	60.	Cindy Jacks	93.	Kerry @ I am a book addict and proud of it (int)
28.	Stephanie Beck	61.	Tiffany Talks Books	94.	Shades of Rose Marketing
29.	For the Love of Bookends	62.	Liv Honeywell	95.	Christine Marquette
30.	Wine Relaxation And MY Kindle	63.	Lea Barrymire	96.	Shelly Lazar
31.	Lily Harlem	64.	Lyncee Shillard	97.	T.M. Lazar
32.	Julie Lynn Hayes	65.	Kiru Taye
33.	Aimee Duffy	66.	Mary Tatar

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