Excerpt of the romance thriller, One True Thing...
He'd
never met anyone like her. Vanessa Warren was definitely 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 slipped against his face. He crushed her to
him, ravaging her mouth like a dying man grasping at life. Tongues teased. 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 held her firm with his fists wrapped in her hair. “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.”
From the back cover...
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 little lie leads to a whole lot of trouble.
Reclusive international
resort developer, Dominic Varga, 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.
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?