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With more than half a dozen ebooks currently to her credit and one book due to be released this year in print, Diana Castilleja has kept busy since she started writing professionally in late 2004. | With more than half a dozen ebooks currently to her credit and one book due to be released this year in print, Diana Castilleja has kept busy since she started writing professionally in late 2004. | ||
| − | Diana currently resides in central Texas with her husband and son. When not focusing her energy on her family and her writing, she loves to travel and haunt bookstores. She's lived in several states across the south and midwest, as well as traveling to Mexico. With moving every year or changing schools since the fourth grade to her sophomore year, she learned reading was a fast escape. The freedom to read about anything and everything has fueled her adult imagination. She also enjoys romance, horses, and yes, still loves to read | + | Diana currently resides in central Texas with her husband and son. When not focusing her energy on her family and her writing, she loves to travel and haunt bookstores. She's lived in several states across the south and midwest, as well as traveling to Mexico. With moving every year or changing schools since the fourth grade to her sophomore year, she learned reading was a fast escape. The freedom to read about anything and everything has fueled her adult imagination. She also enjoys romance, horses, and yes, still loves to read. |
To learn more about her and her writing, visit her website: www.dianacastilleja.com | To learn more about her and her writing, visit her website: www.dianacastilleja.com | ||
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| − | + | * [[After The Fire]] - 2009 ([[Liquid Silver Books]]), as Diana DeRicci | |
| − | + | A Granier Falls Novel (Adult Content), Paranormal Romance, Erotic | |
Shar Brenna is a hard working woman, a respected member of her witch kin clan. At least until she's held under suspicion of arson by the local police for the demise of Mystic, a well known kin hotspot for the witch clans in Granier Falls. | Shar Brenna is a hard working woman, a respected member of her witch kin clan. At least until she's held under suspicion of arson by the local police for the demise of Mystic, a well known kin hotspot for the witch clans in Granier Falls. | ||
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Fantasy Romance | Fantasy Romance | ||
| + | Life has been calm and quiet for Aran for almost seven years since moving into Banter. She is a prosperous business owner, has friends, and helps those in need without question. Yet a delivery of a mysterious jewel encrusted box changes all of that for her in an instant. | ||
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| − | As he follows Titania and her band, his needs reshape into | + | * [[The Eternal Kiss]] - 2008 ([[Tease Publishing]]) Available in Print, |
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| − | has done, he bonds with her and sets into motion the very | + | |
| − | thing he swore he would never do to another person. He has | + | Diego Viteri has lived for centuries with only one real goal, to avenge himself against the one who destroyed the man that he was and created the creature he is now. He is suffering a growing loneliness that is becoming impossible to ignore. His only reason for not ending his life is to see that Brakka is served his justice and then, Diego can rest. |
| − | shared his curse and in the process may have very well | + | |
| − | killed her. And there is only one choice to be made to try | + | The last thing he is expecting is to have an encounter with a human woman who is willing to jump between himself and Brakka during a harsh and bloody battle. Their one meeting changes everything for Diego, bringing to life emotions and wants that he has long believed to be as dead as he is. |
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| + | As he follows Titania and her band, his needs reshape into something that he can't ignore. Before he knows what he has done, he bonds with her and sets into motion the very thing he swore he would never do to another person. He has shared his curse and in the process may have very well killed her. And there is only one choice to be made to try to save her. | ||
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| + | * [[Feel The Fire]] - 2009 ([[Liquid Silver Books]]) As Diana DeRicci | ||
| + | A Granier Falls Novel, (Adult Content), Paranormal Romance, Erotic | ||
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| + | Rob's been working like the proverbial dog for months when he takes a trip to Granier Falls with his sister. Grateful for the break, he can't believe his good fortune when he meets Maddie. She’s playful, fun, unpretentious with a beguiling innocence and unlike any woman he's met in recent memory. | ||
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| + | A long distance friendship soon turns into a torture of its own for Rob who shows up on her doorstep with nothing more on his mind than the hope of a wild weekend with the woman he can't forget. | ||
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| + | Cursed from birth, both he and his sister share a trait that they can't explain, and have feared since their very power forced them out on the run. When there is a faint flicker of hope for a normal life, it crashes around him when his sister is yanked out of her home. Trouble from his past collides with the force of Maddie's over-protective family and Rob is faced with the challenge of a lifetime--save his sister, love Maddie, or lose them both. | ||
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| + | All he wants is a normal life with Maddie in Granier Falls. But the truth about his power could ruin it all before the end of the weekend. | ||
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| − | * [[Seduction In Moonlight]] - 2009 ([[Tease Publishing]]) Available in Print | + | * [[The Librarian's Secret]] - 2009 ([[Tease Publishing]]) As Diana DeRicci |
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| + | Victoria's life is ordered and secure. She has buried the nightmares of her youth in the deepest part of her psyche. Yet no amount of control can keep her life from changing when Cory steamrolls his way into her private world. Her professional and aloof exterior melts with the heat he ignites within her and in spite of her mind telling her no, her heart wants everything he offers, everything she has believed herself unworthy of receiving. | ||
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| + | * [[Seduction In Moonlight]] - 2009 ([[Tease Publishing]]) Available in Print, as Diana DeRicci | ||
| + | (Adult Content), Pantheon Anthology 2009 Paranormal Erotic | ||
When Selene is brought to earth by a mortal man, the passion she finds is one she cannot leave, yet she only has three nights of the Flower Moon to experience this wonder. When confronted by Zeus, she risks everything to stay with the man who has stolen her heart. | When Selene is brought to earth by a mortal man, the passion she finds is one she cannot leave, yet she only has three nights of the Flower Moon to experience this wonder. When confronted by Zeus, she risks everything to stay with the man who has stolen her heart. | ||
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| − | * [[A Trust Earned]] - 2009 ([[Tease Publishing]]) Available in Print | + | * [[A Trust Earned]] - 2009 ([[Tease Publishing]]) Available in Print, |
| − | + | Aiza Clan Shifter Series II, Paranormal Romance/Shifters | |
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| + | Selene Aiza is a very compassionate woman by nature, and fiercely protective of those she cares for. A renowned doctor with gentle patient skills, she prefers the wild country of western Oregon and the secluded hospital where she can help the people who truly need her assistance. And in the depths of those wooded wilds she can keep her secrets well hidden. | ||
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| + | She is safe until the man she encounters by pure chance becomes the hospital's first choice as co-administrator. Her secrets and her very life fall into jeopardy, and only he can save her. He could also destroy her. | ||
| − | * [[Trusting Delilah]] - 2009 ([[Tease Publishing]]) Available in Print | + | * [[Trusting Delilah]] - 2009 ([[Tease Publishing]]) Available in Print, |
| − | + | Aiza Clan Shifter Series I, Paranormal Romance/Shifters | |
Roman Aiza is the second born son of the Aiza clan. He also owns and operates a private security company and has an ongoing contract with one of Florida's most influential residents. He is patrolling at a party when he encounters a woman who will haunt him. A woman who at their first meeting, manages to walk right out of his hands when he follows her for trespassing. She manages to do this without giving Roman a single reason why she is in the depths of the house he is protecting. When he does finally locate her days later, his goal is to prove that his instincts are wrong. She is not the woman that all of his senses are clamoring for. | Roman Aiza is the second born son of the Aiza clan. He also owns and operates a private security company and has an ongoing contract with one of Florida's most influential residents. He is patrolling at a party when he encounters a woman who will haunt him. A woman who at their first meeting, manages to walk right out of his hands when he follows her for trespassing. She manages to do this without giving Roman a single reason why she is in the depths of the house he is protecting. When he does finally locate her days later, his goal is to prove that his instincts are wrong. She is not the woman that all of his senses are clamoring for. | ||
Yet when the daughter of Roman's largest and closest account is kidnapped and held for ransom, will they be able to build a trust between them? Or will their own secrets keep them apart? | Yet when the daughter of Roman's largest and closest account is kidnapped and held for ransom, will they be able to build a trust between them? Or will their own secrets keep them apart? | ||
Latest revision as of 03:27, 15 November 2022
With more than half a dozen ebooks currently to her credit and one book due to be released this year in print, Diana Castilleja has kept busy since she started writing professionally in late 2004.
Diana currently resides in central Texas with her husband and son. When not focusing her energy on her family and her writing, she loves to travel and haunt bookstores. She's lived in several states across the south and midwest, as well as traveling to Mexico. With moving every year or changing schools since the fourth grade to her sophomore year, she learned reading was a fast escape. The freedom to read about anything and everything has fueled her adult imagination. She also enjoys romance, horses, and yes, still loves to read.
To learn more about her and her writing, visit her website: www.dianacastilleja.com
On the Web
- Diana Castilleja - Main website
- Diana DeRicci - Main website (Over 18 only please)
- Romance that thrives in the dark - Main blog
- Sweeter Romantic Notions - For Non-erotic readers and writers of the Romance genre.
- Texas Authors of Romance Fiction
- Myspace
Publishers
Diana DeRicci
Books
In alphabetical order:
- After The Fire - 2009 (Liquid Silver Books), as Diana DeRicci
A Granier Falls Novel (Adult Content), Paranormal Romance, Erotic
Shar Brenna is a hard working woman, a respected member of her witch kin clan. At least until she's held under suspicion of arson by the local police for the demise of Mystic, a well known kin hotspot for the witch clans in Granier Falls.
As clues bring dangers bearing down on her and more of her friends begin to look as though they are in jeopardy too, she must find out who was behind the fire and then face the hunters who are determined to coup a witch.
Fleeing has never been her style when fighting back is so much more satisfying.
- An Angel's Choice - 2007 (Forbidden Publications) OUT OF PRINT
Contemporary Holiday Romance
It's Micah's last assignment, the one that would earn him his wings. He felt prepared for the challenge ahead of him this Christmas season—until he met her. Karen had been a forgotten child, a loner, and refused to open herself to hurt. She'd been down that road more than once, and very recently had been dealt a miserable hand, being stood up at the altar.
Could an angel on a mission have the answer to her frozen heart? Could the heart of a wounded child locked inside a grown woman bring a forever love together? Only the choice of an angel will make this a Christmas to remember, for both of them.
- Crowning A Warrior King - 2009 (Tease Publishing) Available in Print
Fantasy Romance
Life has been calm and quiet for Aran for almost seven years since moving into Banter. She is a prosperous business owner, has friends, and helps those in need without question. Yet a delivery of a mysterious jewel encrusted box changes all of that for her in an instant.
Not only is the mysterious box enchanted, revealing someone knows of her deepest secrets, it imprisons a man unlike any other. Bold, fearsome, strong. A warrior from a place she's never heard of, a land she's never known. And the most glaring fact to his arrival is she is the only one with the knowledge to set him free, with a magic he cannot trust.
Rordan must return to the kingdom of Eglandor to stop the wicked sorceress who has imprisoned him, deliver the throne to King Tah-lel's appointed heir, and fulfill his destiny with the woman from another time, another world. And there's only so much time to do it all with the King's health failing and an uprising from within only waiting for the moment to claim the throne.
- The Eternal Kiss - 2008 (Tease Publishing) Available in Print,
Shadowed Souls Series, Paranormal Romance/Vampire
Diego Viteri has lived for centuries with only one real goal, to avenge himself against the one who destroyed the man that he was and created the creature he is now. He is suffering a growing loneliness that is becoming impossible to ignore. His only reason for not ending his life is to see that Brakka is served his justice and then, Diego can rest.
The last thing he is expecting is to have an encounter with a human woman who is willing to jump between himself and Brakka during a harsh and bloody battle. Their one meeting changes everything for Diego, bringing to life emotions and wants that he has long believed to be as dead as he is.
As he follows Titania and her band, his needs reshape into something that he can't ignore. Before he knows what he has done, he bonds with her and sets into motion the very thing he swore he would never do to another person. He has shared his curse and in the process may have very well killed her. And there is only one choice to be made to try to save her.
- Feel The Fire - 2009 (Liquid Silver Books) As Diana DeRicci
A Granier Falls Novel, (Adult Content), Paranormal Romance, Erotic
Rob's been working like the proverbial dog for months when he takes a trip to Granier Falls with his sister. Grateful for the break, he can't believe his good fortune when he meets Maddie. She’s playful, fun, unpretentious with a beguiling innocence and unlike any woman he's met in recent memory.
A long distance friendship soon turns into a torture of its own for Rob who shows up on her doorstep with nothing more on his mind than the hope of a wild weekend with the woman he can't forget.
Cursed from birth, both he and his sister share a trait that they can't explain, and have feared since their very power forced them out on the run. When there is a faint flicker of hope for a normal life, it crashes around him when his sister is yanked out of her home. Trouble from his past collides with the force of Maddie's over-protective family and Rob is faced with the challenge of a lifetime--save his sister, love Maddie, or lose them both.
All he wants is a normal life with Maddie in Granier Falls. But the truth about his power could ruin it all before the end of the weekend.
- Holiday Magic - 2006 (Forbidden Publications) OUT OF PRINT
Contemporary Holiday Romance
Lola Beckham is a hard working single mother, caring for her deaf son. Her ex-husband left her early in their marriage out of youthful ignorance and an inability to cope with a child with a handicap. She has managed and over time, Bennie has regained a relationship with his father and his current wife and children. Lola is glad for the family Bennie has and is thankful that Rick has matured enough to share his twin daughters and life with his son. She only wonders when she'll be able to stop living as a statistic and find a man who can accept her and the responsibility of her life and son.
- Ice Cream In The Snow - 2006 (Forbidden Publications) OUT OF PRINT
Romantic Suspense
Jessica Harden has lived her adult life raising and protecting her son. Except her surprises have been laying in wait for her. With the inheritance of her own business, her ordered life begins to experience the darker side of her ex-husband’s history, involving secrets and money. And someone in the shadows knows about both.
- The Librarian's Secret - 2009 (Tease Publishing) As Diana DeRicci
(Adult Content) Contemporary Erotic
Victoria's life is ordered and secure. She has buried the nightmares of her youth in the deepest part of her psyche. Yet no amount of control can keep her life from changing when Cory steamrolls his way into her private world. Her professional and aloof exterior melts with the heat he ignites within her and in spite of her mind telling her no, her heart wants everything he offers, everything she has believed herself unworthy of receiving.
- Seduction In Moonlight - 2009 (Tease Publishing) Available in Print, as Diana DeRicci
(Adult Content), Pantheon Anthology 2009 Paranormal Erotic
When Selene is brought to earth by a mortal man, the passion she finds is one she cannot leave, yet she only has three nights of the Flower Moon to experience this wonder. When confronted by Zeus, she risks everything to stay with the man who has stolen her heart.
This is a twisted retelling of the Selene and Endymion story.
- September Heat - 2006 (Forbidden Publications) OUT OF PRINT
Romantic Suspense
Rose St. Johns is being chased out of New York, trying to stay one step ahead of an overzealous fan that the police and her agent aren't above labeling stalker, although the last place she would expect them to send her is Las Vegas. Furious with her situation, fear is something she is slow to admit to. But circumstances don't allow her to be ambivalent for long when she is tracked to her hideaway. Her only hope lies in a man she knew as a boy, whose secrets are his, and his alone.
- A Trust Earned - 2009 (Tease Publishing) Available in Print,
Aiza Clan Shifter Series II, Paranormal Romance/Shifters
Selene Aiza is a very compassionate woman by nature, and fiercely protective of those she cares for. A renowned doctor with gentle patient skills, she prefers the wild country of western Oregon and the secluded hospital where she can help the people who truly need her assistance. And in the depths of those wooded wilds she can keep her secrets well hidden.
She is safe until the man she encounters by pure chance becomes the hospital's first choice as co-administrator. Her secrets and her very life fall into jeopardy, and only he can save her. He could also destroy her.
- Trusting Delilah - 2009 (Tease Publishing) Available in Print,
Aiza Clan Shifter Series I, Paranormal Romance/Shifters
Roman Aiza is the second born son of the Aiza clan. He also owns and operates a private security company and has an ongoing contract with one of Florida's most influential residents. He is patrolling at a party when he encounters a woman who will haunt him. A woman who at their first meeting, manages to walk right out of his hands when he follows her for trespassing. She manages to do this without giving Roman a single reason why she is in the depths of the house he is protecting. When he does finally locate her days later, his goal is to prove that his instincts are wrong. She is not the woman that all of his senses are clamoring for.
Yet when the daughter of Roman's largest and closest account is kidnapped and held for ransom, will they be able to build a trust between them? Or will their own secrets keep them apart?
