Only the bravest suitors dare approach her, for failure to please the High Priestess can only end in tragedy. As land and people suffer from droughts, floods and war, Adita must find the way to lift Zenthe's sorrow, even if it means sacrificing her own desires to serve her beloved goddess, and all Corsinium.
Casmin's destiny had always been to serve Zenthe. Now as Captain of the temple guard, Casmin must balance his forbidden love for Adita, the deadly allure of the First Priestess and the growing threat of the rival god Kahmudj.
When all the forces of deity and love converge, it takes all Adita's will, Casmin's strength, and an erotic rite powerful enough to shake creation itself to spare Corsinium a cataclysmic end…
Reviews for Woman of the Mountain
"Amazing! This book was a wonder to read. The vivid imagery Ms. Caperton describes held me in awe. I felt as though I was right there in the story with the characters." - Liadan, Coffee Time Romance
"Woman of the Mountain is certainly an unusual and engrossing read." Samantha, Two Lips Reviews
"…Angela Caperton has created a vividly sensual world maintained by an intriguing mythos." - Lisabet Surai, Erotica Revealed
Woman of the Mountain has been selected as a finalist in the 2008 EPPIE's
Read an excerpt from Woman of the Mountain
Visit Angela Caperton's web site
About Angela Caperton Born in Virginia and later raised on a sailboat, Angela Caperton has spent extended periods of her life traveling and living abroad. Her travels have given her an appreciation of the world in all its forms and she is always on the lookout for the next adventure. While settled in Florida, she continues to travel as Fate permits.
Angela enjoys watching movies of every kind from foreign films to classic comedies, plays Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games (MMORPGs), reads avidly, and likes most kinds of music. The common element in most of the things that she enjoys -- and that influence her own writing -- is the celebration of imagination and the varieties of human experience.
She is an animal lover and will brake for lizards!
Angela primarily writes erotica and fantasy, because these genres give her the greatest range of possibility for expression, and she uses her writing to keep her wanderlust (and other types of lust!) somewhat in check. She believes that human beings are intensely sexual, that erotic feelings -- whether overt or subtle -- are a fundamental element in all art and literature and in most social interaction, and she loves having a medium where these feelings can be explored. Angela also believes in the magic of dreams, that they are the purest expressions of the passions in each of us. Her writing explores these themes with a sense of adventure, a touch of humor, and a passion for storytelling.
Currently Angela has two works available. Inspiration, is an erotic novella set in Renaissance Florence. Her epic sexual fantasy, Woman of the Mountain - a 2008 EPPIE Finalist - takes the reader to a world where physical love and pleasure are the very essence of life and faith. Her third story, The Passions of Pearl: Tarot - Seven of Cups - an explicit comic romp - is scheduled for release in February 2008. All three works are published by eXtasy Books.
Angela is currently working on several different projects including the first book of an erotic fantasy/paranormal series, and a short story that will be part of a supernatural story cycle.
Look for more about Angela and her exotic writing on her website http://www.angelacaperton.com and keep up to date with Angela and her world on her blog at http://blog.angelacaperton.com.
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Inspiration (Historical Erotica - Renaissance Florence) available from eXtasy Books (purchase url: http://tinyurl.com/28wybg )
A note from Angela...
My new book, The Passions of Pearl: Tarot - Seven of Cups comes out this month! Look for it from eXtasy Books!
The Passions of Pearl: Tarot - Seven of Cups
Seven cups on a shelf.
Seven dreams; seven lovers.
Which ones will come true?
Pearl Frost, a beautiful young woman with appetites she has not explored, is the cook and housekeeper for a boarding house where seven lusty miners live, each of them with his - or her - own desire. See what happens when aphrodisiac magic promises to turn fantasy into sensuous reality, as Pearl indulges in forbidden pleasures and learns the limitless lessons of desire.
Set in the era of the great mining empires of Colorado, and rich with humor, myth, and imagery, The Passions of Pearl is no fairytale, but here, dreams do come true, gloriously and quite explicitly . . .
An Interview with Angela Caperton
By Holly Hewson Marketing Director for The Romance Studio
HH: Angela, welcome to TRS BLUE. Please tell us about your featured book, Woman of the Mountain.AC: Woman of the Mountain is a little different from most erotic romances, I think. It's about the mysteries of erotic love, using a sex-worshipping religion as a way of exploring the theme. The center of this world is the Temple of Zenthe, atop a -- for the moment -- quiet volcano. The current High Priestess of Zenthe is an alluring woman named Adita. Would-be suitors come to her, seeking the immortality that Zenthe grants to those who bring her High Priestess to ecstasy. Of course, those who try and fail die a horrible death, so the men who approach her have to be very confident in their lovemaking!
The novel takes place over a period of about ten years. In the course of that time, a cult rises in the land to challenge the power of the goddess. Its priest, a man named Sul Tarkus, is a masterful lover and dreams of bringing Zenthe under the power of his god Kahmudj.
Our hero, Casmin, who we first see as a young man inexperienced in the ways of love, is the captain of the Temple guard. In some ways, the book is very much about his initiation into the holiest of this world's rites -- how to transcend the boundaries of self with a lover in the heat of orgasmic bliss.
There is a lot of sex in the book, but ultimately it is the story of a love as vast as a world.
HH: First, I'd like to stop and say congratulations on being a 2008 Eppie finalist. How did you feel about that? AC: Utterly thrilled of course! WotM is only my second publication and to be recognized by my peers this way is wonderful. As it would happen, the week of the announcement I was seriously having some concerns that the book is a little too unusual for some readers and the EPPIE nomination has given me huge burst of confidence. I think that confidence is reflected in the book I am working on now.
And if I win, well, you'd better leave a message because it will take me a week to get back from the moon!
HH: What can you tell us about your fabulous story? AC: I think WotM is mythic and touches on many elements of romantic love. The relationship between Adita and Casmin is complex, but the elements are identifiable, even if there is that air of the fantastic to it. I think most people can appreciate forbidden love - of loving someone or wanting something that is out of reach, or is seemingly so. Some of the most romantic stories throughout history touch on that theme. Also, I think the growth of Casmin and the journey of Sul Tarkus resonate with discovery and empathy. Adita's faith and Rivah's betrayals are classic in their dynamics - albeit FAR more sexy then most! WotM is a very much a story of a world and the forces that help shape it.
HH: How did you go about building the world for this wonderful story? AC: The idea for WotM came to me while I was watching a very un-sexy Japanese movie called Aragami. The man who directed it, Ryuhei Kitamura, is probably best-known for a film called Versus that is an over-the-top violent story of Yakuza gangsters battling the undead. His film Aragami is basically a telling of the old story that is recounted across the world in the classic work of mythology The Golden Bough, by Sir James Frazier, among other places.
The myth, in its various forms, is about a god or demon that guards some secret knowledge or an object of supernatural power and heroes that come to the god to try and defeat him, either in combat or by wits or some other means. While I was watching this very pretty, but very violent, film, the idea struck me that the story would be far more interesting if, instead of combat, the emphasis was on erotic love, that instead of defeating the god, the hero had to arouse the emotions and sexual response of a beautiful woman by bringing her to a kind of ultimate orgasm. From that deliciously wicked seed, the rest of the story grew as I imagined the kind of world where such a thing might be possible.
HH: What do you like best about your two lead characters? AC: First and foremost, what I love about Adita is her faith. She bears a huge burden as the High Priestess, and while she might have moments of despair, she never forgets who she is or what her responsibilities are. She is the object of worship, literally, she is an incredibly sexual creature, and yet she must bear the burden of Zenthe's sorrows. We see the contrast between Adita's steadfast belief and Rivah's more caviler (and devious) attitudes relatively early in the story, and inevitably the conflict between these two determined women drives much of the story's action.
I like Casmin because he grows in the course of the book from a young man who is almost afraid of women to become the kind of lover who can please five women at a time and ultimately to dare even the fickle tastes of the goddess. Like all men, he constantly struggles with his own desires and ego. Does he succeed in pleasing Zenthe? Well, you will need to read the book!
HH: What are you working on now? AC: I just submitted a short story for an anthology and contest that I am very pleased with. It's about vampires, but isn't really a vampire story. …How's that for a tease?! I think it will eventually be part of a linked series of stories about the erotic and imaginative power of dreams, probably more horror and suspense than romance, though I don't think I am capable of writing anything that doesn't have a strong romantic element.
The novel I am about halfway through is very ambitious for me. I'm definitely challenged with this story and it's taking more time to write because of its historical settings. It is set in several periods -- the American Revolution, the late 1930s, and 1942. The research has been pretty intense, but my word, I've loved doing it! I can't tell you how many times I've jotted down different story ideas because of something I've read while researching! My working title for this novel is Rose of Portland and the story is a supernatural historic erotic romance. Is that enough categories?
HH: What else do you have in store for readers in 2008?
AC: I'm thrilled that my third book from eXtasy is out this month! It's called The Passions of Pearl and has a much stronger element of humor than anything else I've done, so I'm a little anxious to see how it's received!
Since I haven't finished Rose yet, I have not submitted it to a publisher, but if my fans keep their eyes peeled on my blog and website, they'll see updates on the progress, and the eventual home Rose finds!
If the vampire story proves popular, I will write a few more of those stories. There are a couple of them practically rubbing against my leg demanding to be written.
Also, this year I do have a blog that I've been putting some time into along with my friend and companion Drake, who is a man of lively tastes.
HH: What do you enjoy most about being an author?
AC: That's easy. I love having an outlet for the stories I tell myself. There is nothing more rewarding than having a vision of a scene or a character and then turning that vision into words and being pleased with the outcome. When that vision comes to life for a reader, I am in heaven.
HH: What do you enjoy reading?
AC: I read sporadically, sometime going through a book every few days, sometimes not reading anything for a month or two. And, when I read, I mix it up, a novel then something factual and historic. My mind tends to jump around, I guess.
A book I've read recently that really impressed me was a biography called Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, by George Pendle. Jack Parsons was a rocket scientist at Caltech at the very birth of jet technology, but he was also a practitioner of ritual magick in a group that was part of Aleister Crowley's circle of cultists and sex-magicians. He was active in the new-born world of science fiction fandom, and generally a strange and fascinating person. L. Ron Hubbard ran off with his girlfriend!
I also read graphic novels and would love to collaborate sometime with a good artist to produce an erotic illustrated story. Alan Moore is my hero. I absolutely adored Lost Girls.
In romances, I like a variety of authors including Nora Roberts, Teresa Medeiros, Jennifer Crusie (Agnes and the Hitman was a hoot!) and I'm loving Kim Harrison's The Hollows series!
HH: If you weren't writing, what would you be doing?
AC: Well, for good (eating) and ill (time), I do have a day job, so my writing sometimes has to take second place to a much less entertaining means of making a living. If I did not have writing as an outlet for my inner angels and demons, I suppose I might go mad, or start my own religion to worship the mysteries of erotic love. Hmm…I think that might be fun!
HH: Thank you!
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