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You Could Never Disappoint Me ~ Excerpt from 'An Inner Fire'
“I know you don’t like to hurt people. Don’t worry about disappointing me tonight, if you’ve changed your mind.”
His breath rushed fast and hot against her cheeks.
“If you want to wait, I’m okay, but once I start kissing you, I’m not sure I can stop.”
Her heart accelerated pulsating to every pressure point. She had never met a man like Davis. He didn’t want her to feel pressured, to feel she couldn’t say no. She could see the dark grains of stubble on his chin, his chest rising and falling with an uneven force.
“I haven’t changed my mind.”
He let out a shaking breath. “Now, I’m worried about disappointing you.”
Her heart expanded, danced. Davis, the tough, invincible male, showing his vulnerability. “Davis, you could never disappoint me.”
His calloused hands held her face and his lips explored her jaw, nibbling playfully. He teased her ear, whispering how sweet she was and how much he wanted her.
She outlined his full lower lip with her tongue, tugging on the sweet fullness. She felt the hitch of his breath against her chest. Wrapping her arms around his neck, she explored his mouth with her tongue, searching.
He pressed her against the refrigerator. The cold metal against her back with the heat of Davis moving against her front sent waves of pleasure. She wanted to feel his skin, to touch all of him.
“Can we move to the bedroom?” His voice strained against her ear, his breath burning.
She took his hand and led him the five steps to her bedroom. He pulled her back and kissed her deeply, his tongue thrusting in and out, showing her what he wanted from her. She sucked on his tongue, pulling it deep into her mouth, pulling them both into passion.
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Recycled Regency Tea
Would you save your tea bag to use over and over again? During the Regency, tea wasn’t as easy to come by as it is today. After using tea leaves for themselves, people would often dry them and use them again or pass them on to someone else to use.
August 7th from Jacki Delecki
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Since we are in the Dog Days of Summer, now is the perfect time to read Men Under Fire, a standalone in the Grayce Walters romantic suspense series.
Hollie Thomas, the feisty, tattooed office assistant to Grayce Walters, has come a long way from living on the streets. Along with finding a job she loves, she’s found friends and safety. When her new life unravels, she faces dangers that dwarf her troubled past. Fighting to survive, she discovers that sometimes what you need the most might be found in the one person you failed to see coming.
Returning home from the war and struggling to find his way, Sergeant Nick Welby, and his bomb-sniffing golden lab, use their skill set in the last place he’d ever imagined—Seattle’s Waterfront. To protect the one woman who matters, Nick and his trusty canine partner will risk everything to rescue her and Seattle from disaster.
Embroiled in Grayce Walters’ most perilous case—a terrorist plot with the threat of deadly explosives—can Nick and Hollie work together to save themselves and each other before it’s too late?
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Coming this autumn ~ the next military romantic suspense hero in the Impossible Mission series.
Mission: Impossible to Protect (Impossible Mission Series, Book 6)
Lars Jenkins and Danni Knorr have been denying an explosive physical attraction, but when danger ignites the fuse, will the fire consume them or kindle something hot enough to burn for a lifetime.
Each steamy, action-packed standalone romance in the Impossible Mission series delivers a hellaciously stubborn, hot as blazes, alpha male military hero brought to his knees by a fierce, strong, independent woman. Only together can their complete their impossible mission.
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Read MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE, Grayce Walters romantic suspense series book 4, for FREE on Amazon. Here’s an excerpt from the book about two Marines who go undercover and fall in love.
Hunter held the door open for Maddy. He tried to keep his focus straight ahead like a well-trained Marine, but with a will of their own, his eyes tracked the sleek dress hugging her sweet, rounded ass.
His well-honed training and unshakeable discipline went to hell whenever his sister’s best friend was nearby. Maddy Jeffers was more of a challenge than any assignment the Marines had thrown at him. Had the gods in heaven laughed at him when he’d been assigned to work with this tiny blond bombshell?
It would be a relief to return to his normal routine of dangerous, clandestine operations, he reminded himself. Who was he kidding? He’d miss Maddy—the way her eyes brightened in mischief, the way she ran her fingers through the bouncy curls, and the way she lifted her chin when challenged, as if to say to the world, “Give me your worst. I can take it.”
A silver-haired woman wearing red-framed glasses low on her nose and a utilitarian suit of navy blue moved around the front desk. “Major Hines? And Second Lieutenant Jeffers?”
Hunter stepped forward and took charge. “Yes, ma’am.”
“Lieutenant Colonel Dawson is waiting for you.”
“The colonel is here?” Maddy squeaked.
Ignoring Maddy’s surprised response, the woman pushed her glasses back up her nose and addressed Hunter. “He and the agents will see you now.”
Maddy raised her eyebrows at him as if he had answers. The colonel must have reviewed the report by now. Surely there was nothing in it to warrant a visit to Seattle.
“Follow me, please.” The secretary wore low-heeled shoes, unlike Maddy, who wobbled along in high heels, probably trying to add to her five-foot stature.
Maddy toyed with her lively curls—a nervous habit he found endearing.
He walked behind the two women, but this time he focused straight ahead. He hated the unexpected. His survival depended on his ability to assess and control a situation. The arrival of his commander was unforeseen and out of his control.
Hunter watched Maddy as she donned her Marine armor—spine straight, chin up, eyes forward. If it weren’t such a turn-on, he’d laugh at the combination of her Marine stance with the hot dress and heels.
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