EXCERPT #1
“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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Dakota Nakos was always the resilient, strong-willed
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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.
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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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