Meet
Gabriel (sexy rugby player turned CEO) & Charlotte in this fantastic
addition to the Rock Kiss Series!
In New York Times Bestselling
author Nalini Singh’s newest contemporary romance, passion ignites between a
gorgeous, sinfully sexy man who built himself up from nothing and a shy woman
who has a terrible secret in her past…
Wealthy businessman Gabriel Bishop
rules the boardroom with the same determination and ruthlessness that made him
a rock star on the rugby field. He knows what he wants, and he’ll go after it
no-holds-barred.
And what he wants is Charlotte
Baird.
Charlotte knows she’s a mouse.
Emotionally scarred and painfully shy, she just wants to do her job and remain
as invisible as possible. But the new CEO—a brilliant, broad-shouldered T-Rex
of a man who growls and storms through the office, leaving carnage in his
wake—clearly has other plans. Plans that may be equal parts business and
bedroom.
If Charlotte intends to survive
this battle of wits and hearts, the mouse will have to learn to wrangle the T-Rex.
Game on.
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The list of things that make this
book fabulous could go on and on. But, here’s a few, suspense, steaminess, wit,
humor, love, romance, serious underlying subject, fun secondary characters…etc.
From the first page I was engrossed.
Charlotte
has been through a harrowing experience, one that has left her deeply scarred,
emotionally and physically. These things have spurred her to protect herself in
every way, dressing to avoid attention, being a doormat, letting fear rule her
life. However, once Gabriel starts to bring out the tigress in her, she quickly
became a favorite heroine for me. Her timid, fearful actions are certainly
justified, but her determination to reach beyond those fears and heal, is
incredible. She is sassy and sarcastic, fun, hardworking, incredibly loving and
over all, someone I would love to be friends with if I met her in real lie.
Gabriel
is beyond swoon-worthy. It took me a moment to get over the blatantly obvious
resemblance to another sexy rugby payer…but in any case, Gabriel is hotter than
hot, scorching! He’s one part rough and tough athlete, another part shark,
billionaire CEO, and adding in the sweet, caring, emotionally open guy, well…be
prepared to fall hard. Gabrielle sees beyond her walls almost immediately and
then he drags you deeper into his web of yummy when he has limitless patience
with Charlotte and never gives up. He’s all alpha male, with the bossy,
possessive traits intact and heating up the room. But, he’s so concerned about
Charlotte and being the one she breaks her barriers for, he reigns it in until
she can handle it. It’s sexy as hell, I’m telling you.
The
backstory that the author has created is also compelling. There is a deeper
storyline and a serious subject that is brought into the light. While there are
some fabulously steamy moments, they are incorporated into the story in an
unusual way, which is that they are integral to healing Charlotte.
I
love Gabriel and Charlotte as a hero and heroine. They were realistic
characters, ones I could believe in meeting in real life. They complimented
each other and gave the book a little spice with their banter.
I
had a hard time putting this book down, and I will definitely be reading the
other books in the series! This book is on my re-read list and that’s a hard
spot to get. 5 Stars! I can’t wait for more from this author!
Charlotte arrived at work at seven
thirty the next morning to find Gabriel Bishop’s office door open, but no
carnivorous predator inside. A fresh suit was hanging on the back of his door,
however, which meant he’d been in already.
Deciding to catch up on e-mails
that had come in overnight from international suppliers as well as stores involved
in a stock take, she was typing a reply when a sweaty Gabriel arrived fifteen
minutes later. He was dressed in black running shorts and a faded University of
Auckland T-shirt that was currently sticking to his body.
She’d known he was in shape, but now
she realized none of it was an illusion created by his well-cut suits. Okay,
she’d already known that, but seeing his muscled body in the flesh was a whole
different ball game. He was built like a tank, hard and powerful.
Each of his thighs was thicker than
both of hers put together, his biceps toned, his shoulders appearing even wider
than usual. Everything about him was big. Civilized clothing didn’t make him
look better, she realized—it toned down his intense masculinity. Out of his
suits, with the ink on the upper part of his left arm exposed, as well as that
on his opposing thigh and…
Her skin hot and lower body
clenching, she just nodded in response to his “Good morning.”
Disappearing into his office, he
returned with his suit pants and a fresh shirt slung over his arm, along with a
sports bag. “Push the meeting with Sales to nine, will you, Ms. Baird? I need
to talk to HR about something before then.”
“Yes, sir,” Charlotte said almost
soundlessly, but he was already gone, heading toward the employee shower one
floor down.
The thigh tattoo went all the way
around, the design intricate.
Heart rate a rapid stutter,
Charlotte got up after he disappeared and decided to go grab him a coffee. He’d
bought her one yesterday after all. She was just being nice. “Oh, shut up,
Charlotte,” she muttered once she was in the elevator, and slumped her face
into an upraised hand.
The truth was she was running away.
Only for a few minutes, but that’s what this was: strategic retreat. Gabriel
Bishop was overwhelming. Once, before she’d ever met him and under the
influence of cocktails, she’d told Molly she wanted to rip off his shirt and
sink her teeth into his pecs.
That desire hadn’t waned even now
that she knew he was a T-Rex. Of course, the desire was all strictly in her
imagination. The idea of actually handling him in real life? So impossible as
to be laughable. Charlie-mouse was not about to play with a predator who could
eat her alive and not even notice the bones. The good news was that she could
admire him in relative safety—there was no chance in hell he’d ever notice her
as a woman.
Getting the coffee from a nearby
café, she took it back upstairs. He was in his office when she entered, the
striped dark gray of his tie hanging around his neck and his damp hair roughly
combed. The scent of clean, fresh soap over warm skin permeated the office.
Shooting her a smile that turned him from gorgeous to flat-out devastating, he
flipped up the collar of his white shirt to get the tie in place. “Thank you,
Ms. Baird.”
Nodding, Charlotte escaped, though
she really wanted to stay. She’d never realized how erotic it was to watch a
man dress until this precise moment. And she shouldn’t be having these thoughts
about her boss—especially since she couldn’t keep from quivering like a rabbit
in his presence. Sometimes she just annoyed herself.
“Get to work,” she muttered and
knuckled down.
Gabriel was fine for the first
hour, but then he began barking orders even a six-armed woman with a split
personality would have had trouble handling.
Finally, pushed to the edge,
Charlotte snapped. “I’m going as fast as I can!” she yelled when he asked her
for something a minute after he’d asked her to complete another task.
He scowled and held out a file.
“This is a priority.”
Grabbing it from his hand, she
said, “Fine,” and slapped it down on her desk.
It was over an hour later that he
disappeared for ten minutes. When he returned, it was to put a small bakery box
on her desk. “I think you need something to sweeten your mood today, Ms. Baird.”
What she needed was for the T-Rex
who was her boss to stop snarling and growling, she thought as he returned to
his office. Not opening the box until her curiosity had almost killed her, she
found it held a slice of decadent chocolate cake with a white-chocolate ganache
topped with curls of both white and milk chocolate. “I cannot be bribed with
cake,” she muttered, eating a bite nonetheless.
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Nalini lives and works in beautiful
New Zealand, and is passionate about writing. If you’d like to explore her
other books, you can find lots of excerpts on her website. Slave to Sensation is the first book in
the Psy-Changeling series, while Angels’ Blood is the first book
in the Guild Hunter series. Also, don't forget to swing by the site to check
out the special behind-the-scenes page for the Rock Kiss series, complete with photos
of many of the locations used in the books.
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