Single: Volume Two
Lyra Parish
Erotic Romance Serial
March 9, 2015
Blurb
Sometimes love can be cruel. Not that Roxane has fallen in love but the one man she found interesting has crossed from her personal life into her professional one which makes life complicated.
Parker Williams doesn’t take no for an answer, not that Roxane would deny him anyway.
He has his own set of rules that must be followed while hers are being crossed through like a to-do list.
When a person falls in love, it’s supposed to be easy but it’s much more complex than either realized it could be.
Roxane’s control is slipping along with every opinion she had about love. This time, it feels different. This time, it finally feels right.
Slowly she realizes how much is at stake, but she is only concerned about losing one thing—her heart.
Review 4.5 Stars
I was pleasantly surprised while
reading Single. I think when I read the description I pictured something
completely different in my head. I thought that maybe it would have the same
kind of story line, you know the type, the alpha male who doesn’t do
relationships and the woman who changes that. But in fact it was the complete
opposite and it was refreshing to read. I love books that switch up the norm,
and this one was done well. I have to say that I went into this book with my
mind set on how I thought it was going to be. There were plenty of times where
I was surprised at how the book was playing out. I kept thinking to myself, I
know what’s going to happen next, or I know exactly how this relationship is
going to turn out and would find myself shocked that I was wrong. I loved that.
I loved that this book was challenging me to stop thinking three steps ahead
and just be in the moment of the book. Normally in my reviews I spent most of
the time raving over the characters and the way they interacted and why I love
it, but this time it’s a little different. I guess it’s because I was so
impressed with the out of the box ideas. Don’t get me wrong the characters were
great. I love a strong female lead and Rox is definitely one of them. And
Parker, just wow, he was the strong dominate male with his mind set on his
future. I adored it, but more than anything I just loved the whole set up. It
was sexy and racy but still romantic and sweet. It had suspense and angst with
enough goodness to it to counteract. Novellas for me are always a hit or miss,
I’m a quick reader so sometimes it can be a miss for me. But not this time. 4.5
stars for Single. A book that completely blew me away in the small amount of
time I got to spend with it.
*Review by Danielle Middleton
Excerpt
"Are you fucking kidding me, Rox?" Stacey screamed into the phone. There was music blaring in the background, and I heard the clicking of a camera lens and loud flashes. I could only imagine how many umbrellas were set up for the shoot. She was at her next spread for Cover Girl, but decided to stop the presses just for me.
"I wish I were," I said, remembering his lips on my thighs and the taste of him in my mouth. "He’s intoxicating." My words seemed to drift away into the open space of the car as I accelerated onto the 610 Loop.
"Oh my god," she said. "The airiness in your tone, the pauses between your sentences—you fucking liiiiiiiiike him, don’t you?"
I couldn’t admit that, not right now. It was too soon, way too soon. Actually, only hours after the incident, as I now termed it. I couldn’t even tell Stacey what exactly had happened, just that something had happened. Her imagination was dirty, so I’m sure she could figure it out with just a few hints. Honestly, if I even said a peep about it, or about how Parker Williams made me feel, she would be declaring her victory. I might as well just hand her the crown.
The incident had shifted everything I once thought I believed, and everything I had tried to avoid. I couldn’t deny that when I closed my eyes, his face was the one I saw. Those piercing blue eyes were burned into my retinas. I knew the smile permanently attached to my lips existed for one reason. Or if one wanted to get technical, it was the messy brown hair, blue eyes, and that sexy voice that almost made my knees go weak.
Oh my god.
Was I having a revelation?
Yes, I was having a revelation. Maybe I wasn’t in control of how I felt anymore? But that couldn't be. Not after being with someone only once. The chase was over, wasn't it? Fuuuuucccckkkkkk me! The heart was trying to control me, but I couldn’t let it. Even the heart had weaknesses. Love was the equivalent of stabbing a dagger into a heart and twisting. Okay, maybe it wasn't that dramatic, but it felt like it to me.
"No. Of course not," I said after a long pause. I was lost in my thoughts, and Stacey, being the way she was, noticed.
"I wish I could see your face right now, because I know you’re lying. I know you are trying to feed me lies, Roxane VanBuren, and I’m not having it. I want every single dirty little detail of what happened, and not just, ‘we moved to second base,’ got it?"
A man’s voice yelled in the background about how models should get off their damn phones and actually work today.
"I’ve got to go. Darrell is being such a douche. I swear his glitter panties are in a knot right now … but this isn’t over."
More yells followed, and she said her goodbyes after cursing loudly that it was an emergency and people needed to shut the hell up.
My heart raced at the thought of what was happening to me. I had to deny this at all costs. I couldn’t be in like. I had never fallen for someone so soon. No way. And if I started admitting it, even to myself, it would be trouble.
I knew it sounded so silly to be in like, but it was the first step to love. All I could think of was that stupid childhood chant that we all sang to agitate people who were in like. Roxy and Parker sitting in a tree … next thing there would k-i-s-s-i-n-g, love, then a baby in a baby carriage. Hell no. No. There were no babies in my future.
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