Enjoy the peek inside the new release, One True Thing, a
romantic thriller that will have you squirming in your seat from the
heat between the characters and the danger pressing down on them from
all sides.
An excerpt....
"Don't
you want to...talk or something?" he asked.
"About
my feelings?" Her lips twisted. "It sucks. It hurts like hell. It
pisses me off. There. I talked about my feelings. We good now?"
He'd
never met anyone like her. Vanessa Warren was definitely a one-of-a kind. She
sauntered to him, almost like a predator about to go in for the kill, stood on
her tiptoes until her breath caressed his chin, and whispered, "Make me
believe in something good, something better than a lie."
He
grabbed her ass and lifted her up until they were eye-to-eye. Hair licked with
fire slipped across his face when she leaned over him, all color and warmth. He
wanted this, wanted her. This is why he had come, to feel this again, this
agony of desire that he had suppressed for years.
Fingers
twisted in the strands of hair that teased him. He crushed her to him, ravaging
her mouth like a dying man grasping at life. Tongues clashed. Teeth
nipped. And he fell past a point he had
never thought to cross, not that he cared, not that it mattered. In his mind,
he could see the lights of the city, blurring with speed and spinning beneath
them.
God,
she felt good. Intoxicating. Her lips
nibbled across his neck.
“I
shouldn’t want you so much, but I do. I can’t stop myself,” she whispered.
“Why
do you want me?” He curled his fingers into her hair and pulled her up to his
face. “Tell me.”
“You
wanted me when you didn’t know who I was. We were just two people, strangers,
without a past or a future. I knew you wanted to fuck me against that mural,
beneath that tarp, I saw it in your eyes, thought about it all damn day. Then
tonight there you were. You walked up those stairs like a predator, seeking me
out, sweeping me away.”
“You
want to be swept away?”
“Desperately.”
Silky
strands slipped from his fingers as her head moved across his chest and he surrendered
as he had known he would. He carried her from the balcony to the bedroom and
fell backward on the mattress with her velvet-encased body draped across him.
“Damn
dress.” She propped herself above him and grimaced. “Help me out of it?”
“With
pleasure,” he whispered against her neck.
His
fingers moved to the discreet zipper at her side and — with his gaze never
leaving hers — he slid it down. She shrugged
it off her left shoulder. As if unwrapping a Christmas gift, he wasted no time
in sliding the rest from her lean, toned body. Velvet hissed down her torso and
slipped from her legs. Clad only in strapless bra and panties with her hair
falling in wild layers past her shoulders, she kicked the tangled material off
her feet and flashed him a devilish smile.
“You’re
deadly.” But what a way to
die.
Off
came the bra. She grinned like the seductress she was and tossed it away. “I’ll be gentle.”
“Don’t
lie to me anymore.” His hands covered her breasts, claiming them. “Game’s over.”
“Wrong,
Nic. It’s just getting started.” She pushed his shirt from his shoulders and
breathed against his neck.
From the back cover...
One little lie leads to a whole lot of trouble.
Reclusive international resort developer, Dominic Piazza,
needs a date to ward off his matchmaking parents. When he persuades the
notorious Vanessa Warren to play his girlfriend for the night, he has no idea
he's stepped into the crosshairs of kidnappers who will do anything—destroy
everything—to get to her.
Power...it's a heady drug.
Vanessa Warren is America's favorite rebel. Daughter and
granddaughter of US Presidents and sister to a future one, her family
connections and notoriety are seen as leverage for manipulating the White
House—if she's captured.
One true thing...
Trapped in a rapidly escalating international terror plot,
Dominic and Vanessa's lie becomes the only real thing in the midst of betrayals,
conspiracies, and murder. As their world falls apart, they suddenly only have
each other to rely on against ruthless people who will stop at nothing to
achieve their goal. Who can they trust? Who is behind the plot—her own family,
a political rival of her family's, or a terrorist organization? How far will the
kidnappers go—what will they be willing to sacrifice—to control the power of
the White House? Is there anywhere in the world where they can find safety?
2 comments:
Love this! Great excerpt and I still LOVE LOVE LOVE that cover!
LOVE the cover and excellent graphics too. Very hot!
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