Excerpt of the romance adventure novel, Duplicity...
He
laid on his back, head tucked in his hands, and laughed up at the sky.
"You've got an arrogance about you that screams Texan."
"Oh,
really? Well, then let me ana-um-ana-analyze you." She tossed the now
empty bottle aside and twisted to look at him. "You've got Californian
written all over you. Am I right?"
He
held up his tattooed arms and pretended to study his ink in the moonlight.
She
laughed and punched him in his side. "You're a smartass."
"Better
than a dumbass I always say."
She
hesitated, torn between emotion and logic. Whiskey warmed her from the inside
out. "I've made a lot of questionable decisions today."
She
crawled over him and kissed him, never one to shy away from what she wanted
even in the face of a life-threatening situation. She wanted—no, needed—to forget it all for awhile.
She
wanted to feel, not think.
"Careful,
Lex," he muttered against her mouth, not making a move to touch her.
"You can't undo this."
"I
bet you're wild." She sucked on his bottom lip, looking him in the eye
through the shadows.
"Slumming
are you?" He quirked an eyebrow, his breath hot on her skin.
"Make
me forget." She licked her tongue over his lips and pressed her hips
against his.
"That's
the whiskey talking."
"Who
the hell cares?"
"I
do." He grabbed the back of her head, fisting his hands in her hair and
held her face a whisper away from his. "Do you really want to know how
wild I can be? I'm not the kind of guy who holds back."
"Show
me."
He
ground his mouth against hers in a kiss designed to scare her with its force.
It
didn't.
Rather,
it intensified the desire burning in her gut.
Tongues
slipped over one another. Breath meshed. Lips smashed. Hips ground together
through their clothing.
He
rolled her over onto her back. Her skull ached from where he pulled her hair.
His eyes glittered in the moonlight.
"I'm
not one of the nice guys who play fair," he warned.
"Who
said I liked nice guys?" She reached for the snap of his jeans and pulled
it open. "And why in the hell do you think I play fair?"
He
smiled, reached for the neckline of her shirt, ripped it down the center, and
tossed the pieces of fabric aside. Without hesitating, he dipped his head and
nibbled her neck while his hands claimed her bare breasts.
She
arched upward, craving skin-on-skin, needing the feel of his hard body pressing
into hers. The sea breeze kissed her nude torso, the coolness contrasting
sharply with the heat of his mouth on her flesh.
She
mimicked him by reaching up to the neckline of his already torn t-shirt and
ripping it off of him. Shreds of material blew away in the wind. Sinking her
teeth into his shoulder, she moved her hands frantically over his wide back.
The more she felt, the more she hungered for more of him, all of him.
In
a daze of whiskey and desire, she dropped the back of her head onto the cool
surface of the boat as his mouth claimed her breast. Eyes open, she stared at
the stars and sighed when he dipped a hand inside her shorts.
"We
should go to the bedroom," he muttered against her mouth. "We might
fall overboard."
"I
can swim." She smiled against his mouth.
From the back cover...
Nothing bad happens in paradise...or does it?
Lexi Dubois is in trouble. On Grand Cayman for
business, she discovers the company she's been working for is funding a human
trafficking ring—and the money trail leads back to her. Scared for her life,
she charters a boat for a week to hide from the men on the small island who
want her dead and to buy time to find enough evidence to take them down. The
last thing she expects—or wants—is a torrid affair with the hot captain and
dive master.
Larry Gibbon has been running a charter dive
boat operation in Grand Cayman for years. He's seen it all—and done his share
of creating havoc. But when a mysterious woman charters his boat for a
week—alone—he has no idea what trouble she's bringing aboard.
The ocean is vast and unforgiving, but will Larry's knowledge of the Cayman
Islands and Lexi's relentless determination to survive be enough to save them?
**The Wanderlust Series
consists of stand-alone adventure romance novels. Occasionally, characters from
previous novels may make a cameo, but each story truly does stand on its own
merits.
2 comments:
Oh love this blurb!
Houston
The name of your site says it all, Amber!
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