Top Ten Iconic Shark/Ocean Movies with Romance
Hello, Roxanne D. Howard here. I write erotic romance with Loose Id and Boroughs Publishing. Thank you for having me on your blog today!
So, make no mistake. My new release, Costa Mesa 3: Overboard is hot. As in, open your collar, turn on the fan, and try to hang onto something hot. Piper and Jack light up New Year’s Eve with fireworks of their own. But the story revolves heavily around the ocean and dangerous adventures they encounter with a massive, trapped blue whale they try to rescue. The three-part Costa Mesa holiday series is nautical, as Jack runs his own whale watching company, and marine biology plays a big part in the plotlines. Just for fun, here are my top ten shark/oceanic movies (sadly Sharknado is not on the list, though I always find it entertaining):
1. Jaws: “A whaaa?” This movie is where it all began! You’ve got giant great whites and colorful characters in spades. A really well told story with fantastic actors.
2. The Blue Lagoon and Return to the Blue Lagoon: Okay, slight cousin incest aside in the first one, these movies always struck a romantic chord in me, both for their beautiful cinematography of the crystal blue ocean and the scorching passion.
3. Deep Blue Sea: Alright, this one’s cheating a little since the Mako Sharks are genetically modified and more like Teenage Mutant Ninja Sharks than actual sharks, but hey, it does have Samuel L. Jackson and LL Cool J with a parrot sidekick in it, plus gripping action for days, so how can you not like this movie? I mean, c’mon!
4. Water World: This movie never did as well as it should have, but as a writer I found it incredibly imaginative and really well fleshed out. And Kevin Costner was hot. Need I say more?
5. The Abyss: You’d wonder how you could have a sexual tension-induced, plot-driven alien story that takes place miles beneath the surface, but here it is. A brilliant, amazing film.
6. Moana: I went into this movie a month ago thinking, ‘Oh dear. Here we go. Another Frozen. We’ll be singing these songs for months.’ But it won’t be months. It’ll be years! This movie was everything I wanted Brave to be but wasn’t; a very well done take on ancient South Sea Island culture with everything from Samoan-esque ancestry to the Legend of Maui. Gorgeous music, a brave and perfect heroine, and never-ending sea with attitude. Loved it!
7. The Shallows: My hubbie and I saw this while on a date a few months ago, sans kids. It’s gritty and not for the faint hearted, but the main heroine was awesome, and it’s a perfect surfer-in-peril-vs.-a-great-white story. And the heroine was smart. Very original and intense!
8. Fifty First Dates: I’m a sucker for a good Adam Sandler film, and I loved this one, especially because it put him together with Drew Barrymore again. Add to it the whole marine biology and nautical factor, and it was great.
9. Point Break: This one is cheating a little, but Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, extreme sports, and the ocean? You can’t go wrong. And who can forget The Chip Dance Scene?
10. Titanic: Billy Zane had gorgeous, Lustrous Hair in this movie (RIP Hair), but beyond that it was a great bird’s eye view into a historical tragedy that gripped my heart from the second it started.
What are your favorite shark/ocean movies with romance?
Overboard
Costa Mesa Series
Book Three
Roxanne D. Howard
Genre: Contemporary erotic romance,
action/adventure, suspense
Publisher: Loose Id, LLC.
Date of Publication: December 27, 2016
Cover Art by Bianca Duarte
Design by April Martinez
Design by April Martinez
ISBN: 978-1-68252-255-4
Book Description:
At the end of their romantic holiday getaway, Piper is one loved-up woman, and she can’t get enough of the sizzling passion she’s found with Jack after all they’ve been through. The two lovers board Jack’s yacht and leave the idyllic hamlet of Catalina Island, California to head home for New Year’s Eve, and it seems nothing could be more perfect… until the day turns on a dime, and the waters rise. When Jack receives a radio distress call from an old friend out on the open ocean, their initial efforts to free a trapped, massive blue whale soon becomes a dangerous struggle for life or death when Jack risks everything to save it.
It’s a New Year’s Eve fraught with harrowing danger, narrow escapes, daring rescue missions, and heart-pounding passion. During their countless obstacles, Piper secretly discovers something shocking slipped into Jack’s coat pocket one time after they make love, and it threatens to change everything and rock the foundation of all they’ve built together. With the weight of the knowledge pressing down upon her, can their love survive? This New Year’s Eve, get ready for some fireworks, because it’s all going Overboard.
Excerpt:
Piper released
the docking line from its cleat on the back of the cruiser yacht. “Last line’s
cast off, Jack,” she called over her shoulder. He hollered back in response,
and she took one last look at the pretty shoreline of Catalina Island. In
stressful times, there were certain places one could visit in one’s
imagination, special memories that brought peace or a wistful smile to one’s
face when the sights, smells, and tastes were recalled. Catalina would forever
be such a place for her, wherever her road in life with Jack took her.
She turned
around and walked through the semishade of the deck lounge to the helm where
Jack stood and checked their bearings. A pleasant warmth spread inside her at
the sight of his impressive muscular frame beneath the outline of his loose
white shirt. She rubbed a little hand sanitizer into her palms as he reversed
out of the dock. He glanced at her, and she kissed his cheek. “Greatest holiday
ever. Thank you for kidnapping me. Now, back to reality.”
Jack’s thick
brown hair lifted with the light breeze as he turned the boat. “Bah. Reality’s
overrated. I did a sweep of the entire yacht, every nook and cranny. I’m
pleased to report no runaway convicts or stowaways aboard.”
“Thank God.
Though I have to admit, Diego did give the trip a lot more excitement than it
would have had without him.”
“Oh, come on. Is
sex with me really that bad?”
She shook her
head and grinned. “Yes. Anyway, we’ll have to send him a cupcake in prison when
we get back.”
“As long as it
doesn’t have a nail file in it.” He winked. “I love it when you wear your curls
loose, by the way. It looks nice.”
She rewarded him
with a radiant smile. He’d made it his mission to please her in every possible
way since they’d come to Catalina, and it left her feeling pampered and
relaxed. “Thank you. I like the open-throated pirate look on you.”
“I wonder why.”
“No idea.” She
slid her palm over the warm flesh of his broad chest.
He kept his gaze
on the ocean but rubbed the tops of her fingers with his free hand.
“The waves are
calm today. I didn’t expect that. Ready for your New Year’s broadcast tonight?”
“As ready as
I’ll ever be, I guess. I’ve watched the ball drop on TV, but I’ve never taken
part in a countdown before. We’ll broadcast intermittently, but it’s still
pretty exciting. You’ll come to the company get-together before my segment,
right?”
“Of course.
Wouldn’t miss it. You’ll do great, Piper.”
She made a face.
“We’ll see. I’ll do better with you there, even if it’s off to the side. After
how blissful it’s been the last couple days, I don’t want to separate and go
back to the real world just yet.”
He met her eyes.
“Who says we have to?”
She kissed him
and cupped his jaw with her palm. It was remarkable how a love you didn’t know
was absent from your life could enter and take it over so completely and in the
best of ways. She drew back. “You gonna let me steer again? I promise not to
crash.”
The corner of
his mouth tilted up, and he reached over to a peg near the helm and took down
his white captain’s hat. He fitted it onto her head and gave her a little
salute.
“Ship’s all
yours, Cap’n.”
He stepped
aside, and she took the wheel.
“Very good, Mr.
Spencer. How does the hat look?”
“It looks yare.”
She laughed.
“Now there’s a word I haven’t heard in a long time. Isn’t it from that old
Katherine Hepburn movie? I didn’t think people still said it.”
His finger
stroked down the length of her arm as she steered, and a sweet tingle spread
through her body at the featherlight touch.
“My dad was
old-school, and he liked to turn a good phrase or two. I’m serious. I like the
cap on you. I’d love to see what you look like in it and nothing else.”
Her pussy
tightened at the raw need in his gaze, and she grew wet. “Be careful what you
wish for, Captain Spencer. You just might get it. Take over the wheel for a
second. I need some water. Are you thirsty? Can I get you a glass?”
He took the
wheel from her, and his eyes gleamed with lust. “Yeah.”
She skimmed her
fingers along his and rounded the corner to the kitchenette area. She poured a
glass of water from a gallon container and toyed with a wicked idea. Over the
past few days, she’d learned she could be as playful as she wanted with Jack,
and he responded precisely how she needed him to. She looked down and tugged at
her nipples, the mental image he’d painted just a moment ago fresh in her mind.
She bit her lip
and set the water down as her pussy throbbed. She ran her hand between her legs
to soothe the ache. She shed her shirt and the rest of her clothes and left
them in a pile on the wooden floor. Her body had grown attuned to his, and she
needed his touch.
They’d made love
once this morning when they awoke, but they were alone out here on the open
sea. Her time in Catalina with Jack had taught her that if she asserted herself
and showed him what she wanted, he gave it back to her tenfold. And right now,
she was ready for it.
She fixed the
brim of Jack’s captain’s hat over her brow, picked up the glass of water, and
sashayed toward the helm. She cleared her throat. “Would you like your water
now?”
Roxanne D. Howard is a romance novelist who resides in the mid-western United States. She is a U.S. Army veteran, and has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and English. She loves to read poetry, classical literature, and Stephen King. She is also an avid Star Wars fan, musical theater nut, and loves everything related to marine biology. She enjoys spending quality time with her husband and children when she’s not writing. Roxanne loves to hear from her readers, and she can be contacted at author@roxannedhoward.com.
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