EXCERPT
“Still so damn gorgeous,” he said,
and his mouth was on me again, his fingers reaching up and pulling my hair out
of its tie. As it fell and hit my shoulders, his throat rumbled with desire. I
pushed his shirt up and over his neck and gasped at the muscles I saw.
But that was short-lived because he
was kissing me so hard, with such profound need, that all I could do was run my
hands along his shoulders and the smooth ridges of his back. I couldn’t believe
how ripped he’d gotten. He had always been toned, but now, good God, he was
beautiful.
His mouth was on my neck, at my
collarbone, on my breasts and he groaned into my skin murmuring my name as he
went. I was overcome with emotion and longing, wetness pooling between my legs.
It was like a dream that he was here, that he was kissing me again. I never
wanted it to end.
He lifted me and turned, moving
deeper into the room. The back of my knees hit the chaise longue, the same one
he’d sat in countless times over the years. One night we had even secretly made
out in it, the summer we’d hidden our attraction. I could scarcely sit there
without remembering how it felt to have his tongue in my mouth. But the reality
was so much better.
He stood and began unbuttoning his
pants, his gaze roving all over me, his eyes glittering pinpoints of hunger. My
breath faltered just watching him and I couldn’t hold back any longer. I leaned
forward and began touching and kissing every inch of his skin that I could
reach.
He squatted down in front of me and
hooked his hands beneath my knees, hauling me toward him so that the crux of my
thighs was at eye level. His palm glided over the damp center of my underwear
and my legs begin to tremble. “Your smell turns me on.”
I moaned as he corkscrewed two of
his fingers into the soft middle panel, locating my entrance. “Oh God.”
I was a panting, quaking mess and all he’d done was touch me
over my panties.
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Blurb
A gripping
standalone adult contemporary romance about finding yourself while taking a
second chance at your first love...
Dakota Nakos was always the resilient, strong-willed
achiever. But when her father dies and she's entrusted with the family's
casino, she feels vulnerable, scared, and more than a little emotional --not
exactly the best time to see an old lover she's never really gotten over.
Dakota once meant the world to Shane Garrity. Then suddenly
he left town to train as a U.S. Marshal, and their love for each other crashed
into a memory. Now he's come home for her father's funeral, and one look at the
girl he left behind stirs up both memories and regrets, and reignites a fire he
feared he'd lost forever.
Dakota may be the same driven girl she always was, but she's
also changed in ways neither could have anticipated. She's not just a young
woman searching for own identity in the Native American community in which she
was raised, but one questioning her new life outside her father's shadow. Above
all she wonders if Shane can push past her weakened defenses to rekindle what
they once had, or whether the intense blaze between them will ultimately reduce
her heart to ashes.
About the Author
Mother, wife, reader, dreamer.
Christina lives in the Midwest with her husband and son--her two favorite guys.
She's addicted to lip gloss and
salted caramel everything. She believes in true love and kissing, so writing
romance novels has become a dream job.
Author of the Between Breaths
series from Penguin. ALL OF YOU, BEFORE YOU BREAK, WHISPER TO ME and PROMISE ME
THIS available now. Book five in the series, THERE YOU STAND, coming in April,
2015.
Also, her Adult Contemporary
Romance, TWO OF HEARTS is releasing on May 5th, 2015.
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