Lee and Mike have a big, beautiful daughter!

Oooops...this little one took two extra weeks to be born. But on February 4th, 2015, little Rebecca Lee Running Elk was finally persuaded to make her appearance, and her big bro is delighted! She weighed in at eight pounds nine ounces and 22 inches. Mike says she will certainly be an astonishing woman when she is grown. He is so spooky!

Fran Lee

http//www.franleeromance.com

You know that old saying?

The one that goes "be careful what you wish for?"

Well, damn if I didn't get my wish. Girls, Lee is ... expecting!

Whoot! Keep us informed. girl!

It's me, girls...

Never thought I'd have another baby...

Is my man potent, or what? He woke me up last night and whispered in my ear that he was going to be the father of a beautiful little girl, and that her name was Rebecca Lee Running Elk. And today he brought home one of those home prego tests? You know what I'm talking about? Sure enough...

How the hell he knows things like this is beyond me. He even guessed the name I would have given her if I'd dared to hope. My man is utterly hot, sexy, and so beautiful it hurts to look at him. 

Our son is outside playing with a wolf pup that wandered in a few weeks back. They struck up this weird friendship the moment they laid eyes on each other. I was afraid the pup would bite him, but they are as thick as thieves. So we made a trip to the vet last week and got him all his shots.  The pup...not the kid. LOL!

I'll be heading for the clinic to do the usual prenatal stuff...and listen to my doctor give me hell for daring to have another baby at my advanced age. But Mike says this baby will be healthy and beautiful, and I believe him.

Just wanted to tell everyone before I start getting big as a house again. I called Fran Lee and told her, even though Mike warned me that she would be trying to steal this one, too.  She's thrilled for us.

I'll try to post more than every year or two, to keep you up to date on the baby!

Love, 

Lee B. Running Elk

The Cougar Challenge is alive and well...

The Cougar Challenge Series is alive and well...

One of the most enjoyed and successful multi-author series that Ellora's Cave had produced...please check out the books on the right side bar, starting at the bottom with the first book, and upward to the most recent books in the beloved series.

Hugs,

Fran Lee

Just wanted to share with my friends here...

Mike and I are happily expecting...

And I couldn't be more thrilled! Finding a younger man who wants kids? I can't believe it is really happening! And it's all thanks to all of you. If not for my wonderful online friends here at Tempt the Cougar, I would never have taken the leap into my beautiful man's arms. Howard never wanted kids. I did. I was shocked when Mike told me he wanted them as much as I do, and I was worried that I was too old to have them.


I am thrilled to announce that our baby will be born in a little less than two months...and my dear friend Fran Lee will be his godmother. (Yep...the ultrasounds say he is a bouncing baby boy!) I would have preferred a daughter, but Mike is so excited about a boy he can barely walk straight. I just hope the kid doesn't get spoiled rotten in the first year of life.


Mike already has a colt picked out for him, has bought a kid's saddle, and is planning which college the poor kid is going to. Sigh. And here I was hoping that I could buy our daughter her first prom dress and high heels when the time came. Guess we'll have to try again. LOL. Maybe I'll get my girl!


Love to all of you!


Lee Running Elk (Blackhorse)

An afterthought

Hey girls, you really think I should try the younger man thing? On most of these sites, I can specify their ages, but I don’t want to appear like a rampaging cougar.

Lacey's First Post

Hey girls, remember me? Lacey Rezanov Simmons, single and still unattached. Well today that nearly changed. I’ve had a consultant, Verill Harper, working on management organization in my company, and he did his presentation today. After he signed off the project he presented a bit more to me, in my office. We’d have done it there, on my office desk, if my son hadn’t walked in. Yeah, he’s twenty-five, but he’s still my boy. I changed his diaper, you know? And Verill is ten years younger than I am, ten years older than my son, Vance.

Vance totally doesn’t understand and I’m pretty sure when Verill left, he didn’t mean to come back. So, okay, I let one get away. I’m not pining for him, honest, but it made me realize that I really need to do something. I’m taking the challenge, but I want to start easy. Any ideas? Do these dating services really work? I don’t want to get involved with anybody I work with, but that’s the only kind of man I see these days.

I'm Lovin' It!

I don't know how I can thank you all enough. Having Con at my side (and in my bed *grin*) has given a new joy to my life, and I'd have never had that gleam in my eye on meeting him if you haven't invited me to join your Tempt the Cougar Blog.

As a special thank-you, I'm posting a photo of another guy who makes underwear look good. (The pix I took of Con are mine alone. Sorry, ladies!)

ADDING HEAT is released today!

I'm so excited to say that Cris Anson has written Con's and my story and I'm blushing to remember how we got together. The cover gives you a little glimpse of how how we are *big grin*. ADDING HEAT is awesome!

Encouraged by friends she met at RomantiCon, widowed landscape contractor Giselle Sheridan decides she’s finally ready to take the cougar challenge and explore sex with a younger man. Except she’s too busy during planting season to go on the prowl.

CPA Conlan Trowbridge is battling the IRS deadline for his clients, but when Giselle saunters into his office with a tax question, all he can think of is sex. She’s all luscious curves and smoldering brown eyes, and he doesn’t care if she’s a dozen years older, she’s a wet dream come true.

Oh yeah, they’re both ready for some hot and heavy sex—in the tub, parking lots, their offices—anywhere and everywhere. But Giselle is afraid her age will eventually bother Con, and her longtime foreman also has designs on her, in more ways than one. When Giselle faces some hard decisions, will she ultimately be able to keep the heat?

I did it! I did it!

I'm a cougar! At last! And all I can say is, WOW, did he rock my world! Several times. And did he look adorable with his face covered with, well, juices. But gawd, I only met him on Thursday. How can he not think I’m a slut? I need my morning coffee. Plus I’ve got to focus on work until I get my crews out on the job, but will check in later, ‘cuz I definitely need your further directions and support.

And hey, this photo kinda shows you how Conlan is built, but with shorter hair. And yeah, he wears boxer-briefs and he really fills them out. Hoo-yah! (Yep, this photo came from Nicole's stash as well.)

Thanks For Inviting Me To Be A Cougar

Hi, all you cougars!

Sure, I’d like to challenge myself to be a cougar. But damn, I’m torn. I have a dozen young men on payroll. It would feel like raiding a high-school basketball game when my boys were playing. I try to stay away from the jobs because I don’t want my foreman to think I’m second-guessing him, but I do so love to watch them wrestling balled and burlaped trees into holes they’ve been digging. Especially in mid-summer, when they take off their T-shirts because they’re so hot and sweaty, watching those muscles bunch and strain, well, it’s enough to make me want to go for it.

I can just see the next ad I place in the paper: “Landscaper with twenty years’ experience looking for hard-bodied men not afraid to sweat or expend energy. Must be between 25 and 35.”
But suppose I do find someone way younger? What would my employees think? That I’m robbing the cradle? That I’m fair game? Eeek! They’ll send the State Police after me.

Giselle

P.S. Thanks to Rissa, I found this photo of the type of hunk I’d like to meet. She told me about Nicole Austin’s inspirational pix. Whew!

HAT TRICK, how I landed two younger men as my lovers

My dear Cougar friends, I have so much to thank you for and I hardly know where to begin.

But let me tell you where I begin from!

Paris!

With my two lovers whom I might never had have had the courage to claim if it weren’t for you, I look out across the Seine to Sacre Coeur and smile in gratitude.

I do also wonder when we will have another new recruit?

Soon, I hope!

Come read my story, HAT TRICK, at www.jasminejade.com/ps-8700-50-hat-trick.aspx

No longer Crazy in Texas, but Loving Life, Everywhere!

Cougar Couples Who Should Be! Post your couple...

COUGAR GROWL at ROMANTICON was a fun-filled blast!

To give you a flavor, here now is The List created by the audience of those older women-younger men couples who should be together.

Choose your fave, BUT SEND US your own duos.

Here we go:

Betty White and Justin Timberlake
Faye Dunaway and Ashton Kutcher
Hillary Clinton and Rob Pattison
Rosemary Clooney and Michael Buble
Sophia Loren and Maxim Sharkovsky (sp.?)
Racquel Welch and Vin Diesel
Michelle Pheiffer and Taylor Lautner
Audrey Hepburn and Harry Potter
Vera Allen and Derek Huff
Julia Roberts and Chris Pike

The winner by applause?

Racquel Welch and Vin Diesel

Send us your own submissions.

Why?

Readers and Writers never get enough...of anything!

Then stayed tuned for 3 more Cougar Challenge stories coming soon, beginning with my HAT TRICK October 20.

One man or two, if he's younger I've got a wee problem, don't I?

This hot affair of mine with Trey and Gage is nothing like I have ever known, it is so thrilling.

But this afternoon, an acquaintance in town (whom I KNOW is just pea green with envy) saw me with both men and called me "a lucky old thing."

Suddenly, I'm not as concerned about the folks I've known for years, as I am the reaction of my only child, my son who soon comes home for the weekend.

Rissa, you have children. Tell me what you said to them. How you broke the news that you loved a younger man. I am in such a mess here, upset at myself, shocked and heart-broken, too, that I might just be a coward after all!

Autumn, you live near a small town. How do you deal with what others’ think of your relationship with a man who is younger than you are?

Lori, why do I have this feeling that I need to be just like everyone else?

Just only one good man, but two???

Be careful what you wish for, right? No sooner did I say I wanted to find a man and accept the Challenge and I've got TWO men walking in my door. Turns out they are friends of my best friend's fiance and here to stand up for him at the wedding.

But my problem now is not finding a younger man I could be attracted to, but choosing only ONE! Both men are absolutely to-die-for scrumptious and heaven knows if either one is even available, let alone open to a short romp with an older lady. Both of them are now upstairs sleeping. (I did tell you that I run a Bed and Breakfast here in town, didn’t I? I use it whenoften, especially with folks who are coming into town for the weddings I plan need a place to hang their hatsing in and out of town for the weddings I plan.)

But ALL suggestions for what to do are so welcome!

One Man of My Own? Please!

Dear Cougars, HELP! I've told you how I live in a small ranching town of two thousand--and trust me, I have looked for a man to warm my bed. Old or young, no man lives within shouting distance who thrills me! A young man in my bed sounds like a swell idea. Someone who has the stamina and the energy to give me one heart-pounding night of non-stop love.

But how can I take the Cougar Challenge if I can't find one?

I'm a widow. For five years running. And lonely.

I had a marvelous marriage and I miss my husband. But life goes on...and I feel it's going on without me.

I've read these books. I LOVE this COUGAR CHALLENGE. The women are gutsy, taking their lives into their own hands.

But a younger man?

Come on.

Really?

What can a younger man know what an experienced woman wants?

I like men. I love men. But damn, if I can find one in my one-horse town who appeals to me. Young. Old. Somewhere in between. Nada here in southwest Texas, honey.

And like the song goes, I'm not talking about forever, baby. That would be too demanding. I'm just talking about hooking up and hanging out. I'm just talking about tonight. And heart-pounding, inventive, scrumptious sex.

Are you a lady of a certain age with similar aspirations?

If so, tell me what I do, where I go to find a man with great moves and a love of women who adore sex. Hmm?

Crazy in Texas

Summer of the Cougar

Now available from Ellora's Cave Publishing

With the big four-oh looming, Larissa Cross is more than ready to shed the roles that have defined her and make drastic changes. Gone are the widowed Army wife, soccer mom and empty nester. She's even setting aside the schoolteacher until fall.

A naughty challenge issued by fellow erotic romance booklovers on their blog, Tempt the Cougar, has come at the perfect time and ignited Rissa's competitive drive. It's going to be a glorious summer full of hot younger man lovin' for a new cougar on the prowl. Rawr!

Tattooed and pierced fireman JD Harmon is tempting prey but there's much more to the hunk than his bad boy good looks. A one-night stand isn't in his plans, and sex--no matter how mind-blowing--won't distract him from his goals. JD intends to tame the wicked cougar and stake a claim on her heart.

Help!

Help! I need serious cougar reinforcement and advice.

After my husband died I didn't date and the few affairs I had were conducted away from my kids. Well, my daughter called this morning while JD and I were making breakfast and he answered the phone.

To say Mariah freaked out would be putting it lightly. The darn kid is too smart for her own good. She could tell from his voice that he's younger than me and she connected the dots with relative ease. You have no idea how embarrassing it is to be confronted by your child about your sex life. She threatened to come home or send her brother home to "kick some ass."

I took the cordless phone into the bedroom, JD followed and proceeded to...um, distract me. Mariah knew something was going on. I told her that I'm single and in my prime, and that her father would have wanted me to enjoy life. JD wanted me to tell her about him and proceeded to do wicked things to me with his tongue. I had to end the call before I was moaning into the phone.

It's my own fault for putting this part of my life on hold and never letting the kids see me around men other than family. They just aren't prepared for the reality of mom being human and having sex. Oh Lord, what a mess! The last thing I need is my kids racing home to confront my much younger lover. Yikes! What the heck do I do now? How do I handle this?

Rissa

Do I Kill Rachel Bridges or Hug Her?

Hello. My name is Darci and I’m a cougar. Well, a cougar wannabe. Actually, that’s not right either. Let me start again.

G’day. I’m Darci, I’m Australian and my friend Rachel Bridges just laid down a challenge I can’t possibly refuse. Before I even knew I had a thing for younger men, Rach did (she’s quite intelligent, isn’t she?).

After only a few telephone conversations, Rachel realized what I needed and sent me the best kick up the butt I could ask for (although I’m still in shock that she did *grin*)—an invitation to join this blog and the amazing women on it.

Why the hell can’t a woman in her forties have the best sex of her life with a man in his twenties? Who decided we have to settle for the saggy-bottomed, remote-hogging men of our own age? Why the hell do I feel guilty when I flirt with a younger man?

Enough, I say! I want what society has long said I can’t have, dammit!

Rachel, I accept your challenge. This Cougar Down Under is ready to be tempted.

Darci-Rae

(BTW—I hope you like the pictures of some very delicious Aussie “cubs” I’ve included.)

(BTW, again. Is it PC to use the term “cub” or am I just bowing to the media’s latest manipulation of the English language?)

(BTW, one last time. I babble. A lot. Sorry.)

On The Prowl!

Today is the first official day of summer break and the start of my new life. No more rambunctious fifth graders, classrooms or papers to grade. Robby is off to college for a special summer program and I'm living alone for the first time in my life. Talk about scary!

Sold the house, bought and decorated my new condo, packed up my "teacher" clothes and shopped for a sexy new wardrobe, traded in the minivan for a cherry red convertible and got tattooed. I now have a colorful butterfly on my right hip--just above my bikini line--to symbolize my metamorphosis from Army widow and soccer mom to cougar on the prowl. Rawr!

There is just one thing left on my list--the cougar challenge. Hopefully this will be a summer full of hot lovin' with younger men! I've got eight glorious weeks to play, although I'm not sure how to get started or where to find and stalk my prey. Maybe I'll head to the beach, sip a couple of margaritas and check out the scenery.

Wish me luck ladies!

Rissa