tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88666626841637311092024-03-13T08:50:36.098-07:00Fantasy&EducationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05869806259941383199noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866662684163731109.post-10473223730320627102015-01-26T16:15:00.001-08:002015-01-26T16:15:10.517-08:00Review&Giveaway: Second Debt (Indebted#3) by Pepper Winters<strong>Second Debt by Pepper Winter is LIVE!</strong><br />
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Second Debt (Book Three) Indebted Series<br />
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<em>“I tried to play a game. I tried to wield deceit as perfectly as the Hawks. But when I thought I was winning, I wasn’t. Jethro isn’t what he seems—he’s the master of duplicity. However, I refuse to let him annihilate me further.”<br /><br />Nila Weaver has grown from naïve seamstress to full-blown fighter. Every humdrum object is her arsenal, and sex…sex is her greatest weapon of all.<br /><br />She’s paid the First Debt. She’ll probably pay more.<br /><br /> But she has no intention of letting the Hawks win.<br /><br />Jethro Hawk has found more than a worthy adversary in Nila—he’s found the woman who could destroy him. There’s a fine line between hatred and love, and an even finer path between fear and respect.<br /><br /> The fate of his house rests on his shoulders, but no matter how much ice lives inside his heart, Nila flames too bright to be extinguished.</em></blockquote>
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As you almost all of you know by now, I've been blogging with my amazing friends for a year by now and while I love this blog, I didn't really understand the consequences behind the blog name.... Shattering Words....for all of you... what does it mean?<br />
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For me... to be introduced to a new world full of wonders that maybe I'll never really see (well not all of it!), but after I've read this book....you have to believe me that I'm a completely different person. Seriously guys, this book was mind-blowing, fulll of angst, sorrow, lust, love, fear, hate.... EVERYTHING! I mean everything that I've read in this book has blown me though every word filled me more than I could bear in just one day. To say that this has been a crazy roller coaster ride is the understatment of this year. To say that Jethro Hawk will be forever embed as a tattoo on my heart is the Goddamn true fact, because in this moment, right here with you guys, he has made want to beg and worship him like the book slut that I am!<br />
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But first and foremost I have to warn you guys about the spoilers from the first books in this series. So please if you haven't read them, stop here and do it as soon as possible.<br />
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Still with me? Okay... when I first started reading this book I was still on the nine cloud from my 'fix' with First Debt (Indebted#2) and how everything changed for Nila when she has find out who is really Kite. Since that moment, I have been searching through every word and discussion that has happen between she and Kite. He really was a deep mistery wanted to be discovered and I couldn't help and not ask myself what was his game... his intentions about Nila... and more importantly... was he a friend or a foe?<br />
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I loved the first chapter of Second Debt because it had the exactly amount of the combination betwwen danger, lust and mistery and obviously more amazing love-hate times between Jethro and Nila, but then something changes (I'm not going to tell you what because... spoilers!) and poor Nila has to face her horrible destiny! We all know that she should die when the debts are paid and Jethro should deliver the final blow just like his father has done with her mother, but do we really thought that her mother has paid that final debt? What about her grandmother? Anyway... now we find out the truth and it's more than heart-wrenching because for a moment I just wanted that Jethro and his whole family of crazy killers should die in the most horrible way possible (I still think that Cut and Bonnie should die!).<br />
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I was destroyed and all I wanted was just to take my (precious) print first books and build a fire with them (Thank God I wasn't home in that moment!) because I positively HATED with all my being Jethro and his family for existing and I hated myself even more for being trapped in his voodoo spell.<br />
I was almost mad on Pepper for writing this series (I stilll love you and adore you to pieces, woman!!) so when I finally fiind the courage to continue this angst-filled journey, Pepper is able to achieve what I thought it was irremediably destroyed... my love and devotement for one of the best book boyfriends out there!<br />
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But she does in a spectacular way while revealing some of the trauma and despair Jethro has lived his whole freaking life with the ...monsters (I would use another word, but let's stick with this one) who were supposed to be there for him because he was a member of their family, but no! His only saving grace was his father deluded mind who just wanted to cure him of his disease (Jethro still thinks that he's ill and there is a story to be told). Simply put I just wanted to kill that man, Cut not Jethro (obviously) for being such a delusional, mad man, horrible monster-father and all other adjectives that aren't really apropiate but they are more than true about him.<br />
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Nila... poor Nila... I'm going to confess that I'm crushing hard on that woman almost as much as on Jethro, because... not everybody will be able to forgive what happens when the second debt is extracted, but then again... how couldn't she when Jethro defies his whole family, his history, everything to be with her?<br />
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I always admired Jethro for how strong and even cold he is.... somewhere back in my mind I wanted to be just a little as strong as he was in the previous books, but I didn't asked myself WHY he had to be this way? <br />
Well... in Second Debt we see a vulnerability quality about him that was really surprising but in the same time we see how Nila changes and becames so much stronger than she was and both of them seems to reflect themselves in a strange mirrow, but also they complete each other in this mad, mad world!<br />
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While their ending appears to be already written by years of debts and payment extracted before they were born, we see how they met and it was sweet, even now while writing this review I'm smiling so hard that it almost hurts when I remember about their unicorn discussion.<br />
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Not to mention those steamy-out-of-this world scenes when I really needed a cold shower because Good God that man could TALK like no body bussiness and when those two where together I could almost swear that I could feel their delirious-full-of-awesomesauce kisses and....ahem... touch. Such a pair whom we, readers, rarely encounter in books. Their banter, their make-up scenes, their fighting, their feeelings and their situation is an addictive coktail you'll just BEG for it!<br />
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And while I don't want to break my police and reveal some spoilers from the book I do want to mention that we finally met the reclusive and mysterious Jasmine, Jethro's sister and it certainly wasn't as I was expecting her to be and I do want to say thank you for a certain scene that made me want to worship and be even more (if possible) esnared by Jethro (and Pepper for writing it)....is the hidden pool scene after the second debt is extracted, but of course after all is said and the truth should come to light for our couple, chaos begins ....<br />
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Just one thought Ms. Winters... I want Third Debt as soon as possible, please!<br />
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<strong>Final Decision</strong>: I could tell you many praises about this book and all the reasons you should read it, BUT I'm just going to say: READ IT! For all the readers in this big world this book has shattered me and put back the pieces of me like I was a big puzzle!<br />
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<strong>My Rating : 5 Shattering Words Stars!</strong><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">I’D TAKEN HER, but ultimately, she’d taken me.<br /><br /> I’d tried to destroy her, but serendipitously, she’d destroyed me.<br /><br /> This was the beginning of the end.<br /><br /> Not the end of my feelings for her but the way of my life, my world.<br /><br /> Something would have to change.<br /><br /> Something would have to give…<br /><br /> …<br /><br />Someone would have to die.</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>I EXISTED WITH a brain full of betrayal, schemes, and plotting.<br /><br /> Living with the Hawks was utterly exhausting. Every day was a challenge to figure out the truths from the lies. But no matter how hard I worked, I could never seem to unravel reality from fiction.<br /><br /> He’d won.<br /><br /> And with a winner came a loser. One triumphant and one depressed. A trophy over misery.<br /><br /> Two days had passed since Kestrel had granted the truth to one huge mystery. Two days in which I hadn’t been able to think of anything else.<br /><br /> I wanted to hate Jethro for duping me—for stringing me along like an idiot.<br /><br /> But whenever my anger boiled over, needing desperately to confront him, I remembered one thing.<br /><br /> One important, vital thing.<br /><br /> He’d initiated contact before he was told.<br /><br /> He’d communicated with me almost as if it were a cry for help, rather than a plot to deceive.<br /><br /> If this were another trick, then so help him, I’d find a way to castrate him.<br /><br /> But, somehow, I didn’t think it was.<br /><br /> I had a horrible feeling this was the one way that he would let me in. An avenue of truths that he felt comfortable enough to continue, because a silent written word didn’t have as much weight as a loudly spoken one.<br /><br /> Which brought me back to my vitally important conclusion:<br /><br /> Jethro wants to be honest.<br /><br /> He wanted to stop playing charades and show me everything he kept hidden.<br /><br /> He wanted to talk to someone. Perhaps, for the first time in his life, he wasn’t satisfied with the hand life dealt him and…<br /><br />Stop fabricating excuses.<br /><br /> All day, I’d been coming up with theories on why he was how he was and reading too far into things that he’d done.<br /><br /> It could be as simple as: he’d been told to get in touch. Told to initiate contact in a way that could potentially mould me into a more submissive captive, especially if I were to believe he was on my side.<br /><br /> I wanted to believe he’d acted against his father. But no matter how much I wished it, it didn’t make it was true.<br /><br /> How do you explain the knowing then?<br /><br /> I slouched against my pillows in bed. That was true. A part of me just seemed to know. Call it either sheer idiocy or feminine intuition. I believed he’d texted me because I was the first outsider permitted into his world—the only one not a Hawk.<br /><br /> My brain hurt.<br /><br /> When we were alone, when we weren’t arguing or fighting, there was an enchanting calmness. A connection.<br /><br /> Closing my eyes, I let my mind skip back to Kes’s unwilling promise. The way his eyes had darkened with secrets as I’d collapsed into his arms from the vertigo spell two days ago.<br /><br />“Nila?”<br /><br />A crushing headache appeared from nowhere. It was the most I could do to stay present and not permit my mind to relive every text Jethro had sent to see the hidden agendas now that I knew it was him.<br /><br />“I’m—I’m okay. You can let me go.” I struggled out of Kes’s embrace, my skin humming from his touch. I needed some space. I needed a world full of space to get over the treachery and lies.<br /><br />“You didn’t know? You hadn’t guessed?” Kes crossed his arms, never taking his golden eyes from mine.<br /><br /> I glowered. “How could I know? I thought the messages were from you!”<br /><br />He flinched. “Yes, that was the plan. To make you believe it was me, so he could continue on with whatever little mind games he was playing.” Leaning closer, he added, “I haven’t been privy to any of the messages he sent you or you sent him—so don’t feel like I’ve intruded on details that I shouldn’t.”<br /><br />Anger infused my blood. “If you were both in on it—why didn’t he show you the messages? Why were you so nice to me? What does all of this mean?”<br /><br />Kes moved away, reclining against a sapling. “I was nice because that’s just who I am. Yes, I come from a family with twisted up morals and I’m loyal to those twisted up morals, but I also did it out of loyalty to my brother. If you’re pissed, direct it all on him. Not me.”<br /><br /> “Oh, believe me. I’m pissed. Beyond pissed.” My hands balled as my mind filled with crazy ideas of retribution and revenge. I would make him pay.<br /><br />“I’d cool down before you spring it on him. Best to keep it quiet. Cut doesn’t know. It was just me who knew Jet had been in touch with you before he was given the go-ahead to collect you in Milan.”<br /><br />I froze. “Why did he initiate conversation with me almost five weeks before he could claim me?”<br /><br />Kes shook his head. “The day I understand my brother is the day I’ll gamble my entire inheritance on the stock market. I can’t work him out. The only thing I can do is be there for him. And I only found out ‘cause he changed pretty much around the same time he started messaging you. Something was different—we’re close. So, I saw it before the others.”<br /><br />My brain throbbed trying to figure out just what had changed in Jethro. He’d seemed the perfect Hawk when he’d come to collect me. Cold as ice and deadly as a sword.<br /><br /> Now that I knew his secret, I had power. And I had no intention of giving that power back. Jethro had been playing me for far too long. He’d successfully screwed with my head. It was time for payback. “Don’t tell him that I know.”<br /><br />Kes’s eyes popped wide. “Pardon?”<br /><br /> “You heard me. Don’t tell Jethro about today. Let him continue to think I’m clueless.” My heart frothed with rage and unhappiness. I was so stupid to believe I’d gotten through to him on some level. The sex between us left both of us stripped bare. Something more than family feuds and hatred existed when he slid inside me and sent both of us shattering into dust.<br /><br /> I’d let him inside me. In so many ways. It was my turn to do the same.<br /><br />“You know I can’t do that, Nila. As welcome as you are in our household, and as much as I like hanging out with you, I can’t betray Jet. Not after everything he’s been through.”<br /><br />I pounced on the small thread of truth about my tormentor. “What has he been through, Kes? Tell me and I’ll march back to the Hall right now and tell him myself.”<br /><br />Kes shifted uncomfortably, refusing to meet my eyes. “Slip of the tongue. Forget it.”<br /><br />Crossing my arms, I hissed, “Fine. Seeing as you’re so capable of keeping secrets, keep this one for me.”<br /><br />Kes scowled. “Keeping my own flesh and blood’s issues hidden isn’t the same thing as helping out a Weaver.”<br /><br />My heart raced. If Jethro hadn’t taught me how to stand up for myself, I would’ve cowered at the thought of being so pushy with a full-grown man all alone in a forest. Now, I was raging and fully intended to get my own way. “Give me two weeks. Two weeks before you tell him that I know. Do that and I’ll be forever grateful.”<br /><br />His shoulders slumped in defeat. “How can you be forever grateful when forever isn’t something anyone has.”<br /><br />Especially me, seeing as my lifespan was destined to be significantly shorter than his.<br /><br />“Just…please, Kestrel. One favour.”<br /><br />It took him a while to give in. His allegiance to his brother was strong.<br /><br /> Finally, he huffed. “Fine. But it won’t save you from his temper when he finds out.”<br /><br />However, I had no intention of suffering Jethro’s wrath. I had every right to deceive him after he did it to me. My revelations were safe—for now. I trusted that Kes wouldn’t say anything. I didn’t know why, but on some level I did trust Kes—just enough to use him in my plans. And I was fully committed to tripping Jethro up.<br /><br /> It was his turn to divulge things he might not have if he’d known the truth. Hiding behind the pretence that Kite was Kes had made him softer the past few weeks. I would use that chink to make the crevice I’d been trying to form since I gave him a blowjob after hunting me down.<br /><br /> I couldn’t think about anything else. I couldn’t focus on sketching, sewing, reading.<br /><br /> Nothing.<br /><br /> My brain was a whirly-gig of Jethro. Kite. Jethro. Kite.<br /><br /> And I’d had enough.<br /><br /> Throwing myself out of bed after another sleepless night, I wrenched back the curtains and glowered at the dismal weather.<br /><br />The watery dawn did nothing to inspire either anger or contentment. The sky was grey. Fog looked like haunting ghosts, threading its ghoulish tentacles over the lower woodland of the estate. No birds chirped or sun shone.<br /><br /> Summer had truly abandoned us. The bite in the air shouted ‘go back to bed where it’s warm’ but my brain had no such intention.<br /><br /> I hadn’t relaxed for two days. I’d stared at my phone, determined to text Jethro and trip him into revealing everything he kept secret, only to stare blankly at an empty message.<br /><br /> Now that I knew it was him, my willingness to show so much had gone. Knowledge was power and he had too much of mine already. How could I dig deeper into his mystery while maintaining all of mine?<br /><br /> The answer—I couldn’t. And that made me incredibly nervous. To find out who he truly was, I had to show everything that made me real. And despite the emotional growth spurt I’d endured at the hands of the Hawks, I wasn’t ready to evolve again. I’d lost so much of myself already—how much was I prepared to leave behind before I became a perfect stranger?<br /><br />“Ah!” I dug my fingers into my hair. I needed a reprieve from my racing thoughts, and I knew exactly how to do it.<br /><br /> Mother Nature’s sudden urge to switch seasons from summer to winter couldn’t stop my itch.<br /><br /> I needed fresh air, and I needed it now.<br /><br /> Racing around my room in the new Weaver quarters where Jethro had made me beg and come apart with his cock deep inside me, I found my black spandex shorts and highlighter pink sports bra. Pulling the clothing on, followed by my sneakers, I quickly smoothed my hair into a bun, and shot from the room.<br /><br /> I hadn’t worn my exercise gear since the morning of the Milan runway show. I’d sprinted until I’d collapsed off the treadmill at the hotel, hoping I could dispel my anxiety enough to hide my stupid nerves and prevent a vertigo spell in front of the press.<br /><br /> It had worked—mainly. Until Jethro arrived, of course.<br /><br /> The moment when I’d set eyes upon him, I’d been done for. He’d been so dashing with his suit, tie, and diamond pin. So perfectly refined with his elegant haircut, chiselled physique, and sculptured lips. Even though his soul was dark, his body had summoned me.<br /><br /> He’d called to me, and like the stupid Weaver I was, I’d followed him blindly.<br /><br /> Now, it’s his turn to follow my whims, my rules.<br /><br /> Jogging down the corridor, my racing mind and temper eased, already reacting to the stress relief I’d sought all my life.<br /><br /> I need him out.<br /><br /> It wasn’t fair. I was supposed to seduce him and make him care for me—not the other way around. I wasn’t supposed to fall for my own games.<br /><br />Lust was as dangerous as love. Only it was worse because it had the power to make even the worst ideas seem plausible—and even recommended—when a sexual reward was given.<br /><br /> The moment Jethro gave in and kissed me, I’d betrayed more than just myself. I’d betrayed my entire family line and all the Weaver women who’d died before me.<br /><br /> I had feelings for him.<br /><br /> A dangerous softness toward my would-be-killer.<br /><br /> It has to end.<br /><br /> I had to find a way to seduce him…to make him love me, all while I kept my heart frigid and locked away in an ice fortress.<br /><br /> I laughed under my breath. You sound just like him. I wanted to turn into the female equivalent of his glacial shell.<br /><br /> Only, ice wasn’t impervious. Ice melted and succumbed to fire.<br /><br /> I’d proven that over the past month.<br /><br />The house breathed around me with gentle heartbeats only ancient dwellings could have. Spirits of past generations lived in its walls, revenants danced in the drapery, and figments of long forgotten lovers floated through the tapestries.<br /><br /> A grandfather clock tick-tocked as I jogged past, showing the time at six thirty a.m.<br /><br /> After being privy to the business meetings with Kes and the Black Diamonds, I knew the men never got up this early. They worked late, dealing with shipments and the transportation of stones worth more than any dress I could sew. Darkness was their asset, the sun their foe.<br /><br /> At least I could run and be back before anyone tried to stop me.<br /><br /> I didn’t want them to draw the wrong conclusion that I was trying to escape again. I blinked as I ran head first into a horrendous conclusion.<br /><br /> Even if you found the boundary this morning, you wouldn’t leave.<br /><br /> My heart thumped harder at the tangled web I lived.<br /><br /> Freedom was something I wanted more than anything. But even if I escaped the Hawks, I would only run back into the trap of pity and vertigo. I wanted more than that. I deserved more than that.<br /><br /> If I found the estate edge, I wouldn’t disappear. I couldn’t.<br /><br /> My captivity wasn’t just about me anymore. It was about the future. It was about Jethro.<br /><br /> Admit it…<br /><br />It was about living.<br /><br /> The passion, the intensity, the blazing ferocity of existing with enemies and plotting beneath their noses was a much worthier cause than sitting at home sewing for the masses.<br /><br /> This was about me. Me standing up for myself, and for a future I wanted, not a future already planned for me.<br /><br /> This was about so many twisted things.<br /><br /> I wrenched open the French doors at the end of the corridor and stumbled into the foggy dawn. Fresh air welcomed me and I found a reprieve from my scrambled thoughts.<br /><br /> I can’t forget my ultimate plan.<br /><br /> No matter how Jethro endeared himself to me—giving me glimpses of someone barely coping inside his wintry armor—I wasn’t going to forget my goal.<br /><br /> Freedom.<br /><br /> Not just for myself, but for the rest of my legacy. My children and their children and their children’s children would never have to go through this. I intended to be the last Weaver stolen.<br /><br /> It’s time for a new debt—one that owes us life, not death.<br /><br /> Sucking in lungfuls of crisp air, I steeled myself in what I had to do. In order to win, I had to guard my soul. I had to play along with Jethro’s mind games and hope to God I won first.<br /><br /> A cool breeze whistled through the trees, sounding like haunted laments. I shivered, wishing I’d brought a jacket.<br /><br /> You’ll be sweating in ten minutes. Ignore it.<br /><br /> Gritting my teeth against the cold, I bent over and stretched my quads. The tug and slow release of muscles was heaven after the stress of the past few days.<br /><br /> My body hummed with the knowledge it was about to run.<br /><br />And run.<br /><br /> And run.<br /><br /> For fun this time, not for survival.<br /><br /> Bouncing on the spot, I rolled my shoulders, eyeing up the sweeping lawn before me. If I went right, I’d loop around the stables. If I went left, I’d cut through the sprawling rose garden and orchards.<br /><br /> Go straight.<br /><br /> Down the meandering path that disappeared over the horizon.<br /><br /> I switched from bouncing to jogging.<br /><br />“And just where do you think you’re going?” a cool voice whispered through the silver fog.<br /><br /> I wrenched to a stop, peering behind me.<br /><br /> No one.<br /><br />“I thought you’d realised running wasn’t a viable option, Ms. Weaver.”<br /><br />His icy voice sent a strange mixture of hot and cold desire down my spine. Jethro morphed into being, seeming to solidify from the mist like a terrible poltergeist. He leaned against one of the pillars holding up the portico, crossing his arms.<br /><br /> My heart collapsed, unable to untangle the maze of hypocrisy between us. My skin begged for his touch. My lips tingled for his. Every inch of me craved what he could deliver.<br /><br /> Heat. Passion. An eruption that I felt in every cell.<br /><br /> But none of that was real.<br /><br /> And I refused to believe in trickery any longer.<br /><br /> Mirroring his body language, I crossed my arms. “I realise escaping isn’t a viable option. But I’m not escaping. I’m running. Running is my only option to escape the mess you’ve made.”<br /><br />His jaw clenched. “The mess I’ve made?”<br /><br /> “Yes.” I took a step backward as he advanced. “You’re messing me up, and I’m done playing whatever it is that you’re doing.” I sucked in courage and embraced honesty. It seemed to work around him, and I needed him to see how serious I was. How hurt I was with his deception.<br /><br /> He’s Kite.<br /><br /> Bastard.<br /><br /> Baring my teeth, I said, “It seems I have a weakness for you, but I changed my mind. I don’t—”<br /><br />A low growl escaped him. “A weakness? You call what happened between us a fucking weakness?”<br /><br />My breathing ratcheted as if I’d already run two miles. “The worst kind of weakness.”<br /><br />He smiled, but no mirth entered his gaze. If anything, his golden eyes were luminous with anger. “You’re the one who started it…Nila.”<br /><br />I gasped at the delicious decadence of my name on his lips. The sound echoed in his mouth, shooting straight to my core.<br /><br /> Shit.<br /><br /> Jethro advanced again, his body trembling with barely veiled lust. “You’re the one who created this problem.” His hand came up, fingers slinking through my tied-up hair, tightening around the back of my skull. “I can’t hear the name Weaver without getting fucking hard. I can’t even think of you without boiling with need.”<br /><br />His nose brushed against mine, his lips so damn close to stealing all my scrambled plans and sending me headfirst into a life of debauchery.<br /><br />“You should never have said those two words, Ms. Weaver. I told you. We’re both fucked now.”<br /><br />My mind was blank, every synapse focusing on his fingers in my hair and his mouth only millimetres from mine. “What two words?”<br /><br />He chuckled. The sound was self-deprecating and almost morbid with dark intensity. “Kiss me.”<br /><br />I shivered in his hold. “You’re reminding me of what started this mess, or you’re asking me to kiss you?”<br /><br />Ask me. And I will. God, how I will.<br /><br /> I’d kiss him until I’d stripped him of his arctic armor and destroyed it, I’d lick him until I tasted his truth, and I’d bite him until I’d eaten every morsel of his soul.<br /><br /> I’d do all that so he had nowhere left to hide.<br /><br /> We stood wrapped in foggy silence. The drawn out anticipation of a kiss turned my legs to jelly. If he pressed his mouth to mine, I wouldn’t be going for my run. I would climb his body and impale myself on his cock.<br /><br /> Fakery be damned.<br /><br /> Kite’s messages and deceit be damned.<br /><br /> I just wanted a raw connection—with this man, who made my soul whimper for wrongness.<br /><br /> Jethro’s tongue slipped between his lips, hypnotising me. Then…he let me go. “No, I’m not asking you to kiss me. I won’t ever ask anything from you.”<br /><br />I flinched as if he’d slapped me. “Why not?”<br /><br /> “Because I own you. Everything I want will be given, not requested.”<br /><br />Double shit.<br /><br /> I should hate him. I should smite him. So, why did his every word seduce me, even while I knew his morals were chauvinistic and heartless?<br /><br /> Forcing my body to obey, I shoved the weakness I had for him as far away as possible. My eyes trailed down his front. He wore tan jodhpurs, black riding boots, and a tweed jacket. The bulge between his legs looked heavy and far too dangerous to be legal.<br /><br />“You’ve been riding.”<br /><br />A gentle gust of early morning air blew his scent directly into my nose. I inhaled, soaking my lungs in hay, horse, and all things Jethro.<br /><br /> He nodded, crossing his arms once again. “You run. I ride. Seems we have something else in common.”<br /><br />Something other than being forced into this debt and finding each other irresistible, you mean?<br /><br />“Oh, what’s that?”<br /><br />Jethro stepped closer, seeming to bring shadows into the smoky light of dawn. “We both need time alone to hide from the things that chase us.” He stiffened, his eyes churning with things he refused to voice. A five o’ clock shadow decorated his strong jaw, his lips parted while his gaze was pure brimstone.<br /><br /> Swiftly, he cupped my cheek.<br /><br /> Oh, God.<br /><br /> Electricity instantly sparked beneath his fingertips.<br /><br /> Would I always suffer the rhapsody of his touch?<br /><br /> My skin smouldered; pinpricks of light, of fire, of hell, all burnished beneath his hold. I swayed, pressing my face harder into his palm.<br /><br /> He sucked in a breath, his fingers digging harder against my cheekbone.<br /><br /> The chemistry and need to devour each other thickened with every heartbeat.<br /><br /> One beat.<br /><br /> Two beat.<br /><br /> Three.<br /><br /> We stood there, frozen on the stoop of Hawksridge Hall just waiting for the other to move. The moment we did, our clothes would disintegrate and I would willingly let him drag me into a bush and fuck me.<br /><br /> Lust and tension swirled.<br /><br /> I had so many questions and doubts; so many reasons to hate and fear him. But when he touched me…poof.<br /><br /> I no longer remembered, nor cared.<br /><br /> We swayed closer, drawn against our will to close the aching distance.<br /><br /> I couldn’t breathe.<br /><br /> Kiss me. Please, kiss me.<br /><br /> The moment stretched until it hummed with overwhelming possibilities.<br /><br /> Then, it snapped.<br /><br /> Loudly.<br /><br /> Painfully.<br /><br /> Shattering around our feet.<br /><br />“You’re too fucking dangerous,” Jethro muttered, removing his touch and stepping away. Dragging his hand through his hair, he commanded, “Wait here. Don’t go anywhere.” His hands went to his jacket buttons, undoing them with nimble fingers.<br /><br /> I blinked, struggling to shed myself of heavy need and focus on the true reason why I stood barely dressed in the freezing morning. “I’m not escaping. I’ll be back in forty minutes or so.”<br /><br />He shook his head, slipping out of his tweed and revealing a black long-sleeved jumper.<br /><br /> My mouth went dry. Even in clothing, I could make out every ridge of muscle in his stomach, every ripple of energy as he breathed in and out. He was designed straight from my fantasies, and I hated him for being so splendid.<br /><br /> My core clenched, sending flutters of wetness between my legs.<br /><br /> I hadn’t seen him in two days, yet I’d panted after him as if he’d been missing my entire life.<br /><br /> If he suspected I knew that he was Kite, he hadn’t let on. After Kes had told me the truth, I’d waited for Jethro to barge into my room and swear me to secrecy.<br /><br /> But he hadn’t.<br /><br /> He didn’t look at me any differently; he gave no outward sign that his lies had begun to unravel. As much as he confounded and frustrated me, I couldn’t help admiring his perfection at hiding.<br /><br /> I wanted to be like him. I wanted to protect my secrets so damn well that whatever I did next would come as a surprise.<br /><br /> I wanted to rule him.<br /><br />“I’m coming with you. Don’t leave.” He disappeared into the house, leaving me abandoned and covered in chills from both the morning air and his departure.<br /><br /> Jogging on the spot, I deliberated ignoring him and leaving.<br /><br /> Just go.<br /><br /> What was the worst that could happen? He’d have to chase me again. My tummy coiled at the thought. I liked that idea way too much. I liked the thought of what would happen after he found me.<br /><br /> The power I’d felt giving him that blowjob. The awe and attraction that’d glowed in his eyes.<br /><br />I want that again.<br /><br /> Screw waiting like a good little captive.<br /><br /> Make him hunt.<br /><br /> And then I would make him explode.<br /><br /> I bolted.</em></span><br />
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Excerpt from Second Debt by Pepper Winters.<br />
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I’D TAKEN HER, but ultimately, she’d taken me.<br />
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I’d tried to destroy her, but serendipitously, she’d destroyed me.<br />
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This was the beginning of the end.<br />
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Not the end of my feelings for her but the way of my life, my world.<br />
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Something would have to change.<br />
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Something would have to give…<br />
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Someone would have to die.<br />
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EXCERPT TWO:<br />
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Just thinking of Jethro sent a spasm of desire through my core.<br />
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Dammit, what’s happening to me?<br />
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A daydream of Jethro slamming to his knees before me and wrenching my legs wide stole my mind. It was so vivid, so real—a trickle of need ran down my inner thigh. I gasped as I imagined his tongue lapping at my clit, his long fingers disappearing inside me—the same finger that I’d tattooed with my name.<br />
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Would I come harder knowing he touched me with a finger branded by me? Or would I hold on as tight as I could and make him work for it?<br />
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Oh, God.<br />
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I needed to get rid of this satanic desire. I needed to be free.<br />
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My eyes opened, latching onto the detachable showerhead.<br />
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I could do it myself…<br />
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My heartbeat whizzed with need. I couldn’t fight the churning demand any longer.<br />
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Reaching upward, I unhooked the showerhead and turned the water temperature down so as not to burn myself.<br />
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Feeling awkward and ridiculous and a hundred times guilty for what I was about to do, I braced my back on the tiled wall and spread my legs a little. <br />
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My teeth clamped on my bottom lip as the water pressure tickled my clit.<br />
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Oh. My. God.<br />
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My eyes rolled back as I grew bolder and pressed the stream of heavenly water harder against my pussy.<br />
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Water cascaded down my legs while my torso shivered from sudden cold. My nipples stiffened as I wickedly angled the jet down and down until water shot inside me. Every jet and bubble aroused sensitive flesh, sending my muscles clenching in joy.<br />
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I moaned.<br />
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Loudly.<br />
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My legs trembled as my neck flopped forward and I gave myself over to the exquisite pleasure conjured by an innocuous showerhead.<br />
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Starbursts flashed behind my eyelids; Jethro loomed into my mind. I pictured him shrugging out of his black shirt, prowling toward me while unbuckling his belt and unzipping his trousers. I moaned again as my daydream shed his clothing and stood proud and naked before me. He grabbed his cock, pumping himself hard and firm, while his eyes feasted on what I was doing. He didn’t say a word, only watched, then crooked his finger and beckoned me closer.<br />
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My heartbeat exceeded recommended limits as I forced myself higher and higher, locking my knees against buckling as an orgasm brewed into being. I rocked the showerhead, biting my lip as the pressure spurted over my clit and then inside me. The rhythm I set was exactly like fucking and I daren’t overthink how I looked or how depraved I felt getting off this way.<br />
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My daydream forced its way past my misgivings. My forehead furrowed as I trembled, both welcoming and fighting an orgasm.<br />
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Daydream Jethro crept closer, working his cock, a dangerous glint in his eyes. The moment I was within grabbing distance, he captured my waist. “I need to be inside you, Nila.” I put words into Jethro’s mouth, but it was his voice I heard in my heart.<br />
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I moaned again, angling the showerhead harder against my clit.<br />
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“How do you want it?” my fantasy whispered in my ear as he spun me around and pressed me hard against the wall.<br />
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I swallowed hard, answering in my mind. “Fast and…”<br />
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“Filthy?” Daydream Jethro’s nose nuzzled the back of my ear, sending shockwaves down my spine. “I can fuck you filthy.”<br />
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I couldn’t speak. But I didn’t have to. My fantasy knew exactly how I needed it. Jethro bit the back of my shoulder, spreading my legs wider with his.<br />
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“Fuck me, Jethro Hawk,” I whispered.<br />
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“Oh, I will. Believe me, I will.” Without further warning, he dug his fingers into my hips and slammed inside me.<br />
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My fingers went numb as I slid the showerhead from clit to entrance. I cried out as water shot inside at the same time as Jethro thrust into me from behind, sliding deep and fast, stretching me deliciously painfully.<br />
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My heart exploded with bliss. An orgasm squeezed every atom, getting ready to hurl me into the stratosphere.<br />
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Jethro thrust again and I rode my new friend the showerhead.<br />
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“Oh, God. Yes,” I hissed, rocking harder. “Yes, yes…”<br />
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A masculine cough sounded. “You continue to surprise me, Ms. Weaver; at least this time, I rather enjoy it.”<br />
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Everything crashed into awareness. My daydream shattered, fracturing by my feet like broken glass. I squealed and dropped the showerhead. It turned into a water snake, spewing water left and right, wriggling like some terrible demon.<br />
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Jethro snickered. “You’re using up the entire Hall’s supply of hot water. Are you planning on saving some for the rest of the inhabitants of my home?”<br />
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Excerpt from Second Debt by Pepper Winters.<br />
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I’D TAKEN HER, but ultimately, she’d taken me.<br />
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I’d tried to destroy her, but serendipitously, she’d destroyed me.<br />
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This was the beginning of the end.<br />
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Not the end of my feelings for her but the way of my life, my world.<br />
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Something would have to change.<br />
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Something would have to give…<br />
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Someone would have to die.<br />
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I EXISTED WITH a brain full of betrayal, schemes, and plotting.<br />
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Living with the Hawks was utterly exhausting. Every day was a challenge to figure out the truths from the lies. But no matter how hard I worked, I could never seem to unravel reality from fiction.<br />
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He’d won.<br />
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And with a winner came a loser. One triumphant and one depressed. A trophy over misery.<br />
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Two days had passed since Kestrel had granted the truth to one huge mystery. Two days in which I hadn’t been able to think of anything else.<br />
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I wanted to hate Jethro for duping me—for stringing me along like an idiot.<br />
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But whenever my anger boiled over, needing desperately to confront him, I remembered one thing.<br />
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One important, vital thing.<br />
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He’d initiated contact before he was told.<br />
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He’d communicated with me almost as if it were a cry for help, rather than a plot to deceive.<br />
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If this were another trick, then so help him, I’d find a way to castrate him.<br />
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But, somehow, I didn’t think it was.<br />
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I had a horrible feeling this was the one way that he would let me in. An avenue of truths that he felt comfortable enough to continue, because a silent written word didn’t have as much weight as a loudly spoken one.<br />
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Which brought me back to my vitally important conclusion:<br />
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Jethro wants to be honest.<br />
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He wanted to stop playing charades and show me everything he kept hidden.<br />
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He wanted to talk to someone. Perhaps, for the first time in his life, he wasn’t satisfied with the hand life dealt him and…<br />
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Stop fabricating excuses.<br />
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All day, I’d been coming up with theories on why he was how he was and reading too far into things that he’d done.<br />
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It could be as simple as: he’d been told to get in touch. Told to initiate contact in a way that could potentially mould me into a more submissive captive, especially if I were to believe he was on my side.<br />
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I wanted to believe he’d acted against his father. But no matter how much I wished it, it didn’t make it was true.<br />
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How do you explain the knowing then?<br />
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I slouched against my pillows in bed. That was true. A part of me just seemed to know. Call it either sheer idiocy or feminine intuition. I believed he’d texted me because I was the first outsider permitted into his world—the only one not a Hawk.<br />
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My brain hurt.<br />
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When we were alone, when we weren’t arguing or fighting, there was an enchanting calmness. A connection.<br />
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Closing my eyes, I let my mind skip back to Kes’s unwilling promise. The way his eyes had darkened with secrets as I’d collapsed into his arms from the vertigo spell two days ago.<br />
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“Nila?”<br />
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A crushing headache appeared from nowhere. It was the most I could do to stay present and not permit my mind to relive every text Jethro had sent to see the hidden agendas now that I knew it was him.<br />
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“I’m—I’m okay. You can let me go.” I struggled out of Kes’s embrace, my skin humming from his touch. I needed some space. I needed a world full of space to get over the treachery and lies.<br />
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“You didn’t know? You hadn’t guessed?” Kes crossed his arms, never taking his golden eyes from mine.<br />
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I glowered. “How could I know? I thought the messages were from you!”<br />
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He flinched. “Yes, that was the plan. To make you believe it was me, so he could continue on with whatever little mind games he was playing.” Leaning closer, he added, “I haven’t been privy to any of the messages he sent you or you sent him—so don’t feel like I’ve intruded on details that I shouldn’t.”<br />
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Anger infused my blood. “If you were both in on it—why didn’t he show you the messages? Why were you so nice to me? What does all of this mean?”<br />
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Kes moved away, reclining against a sapling. “I was nice because that’s just who I am. Yes, I come from a family with twisted up morals and I’m loyal to those twisted up morals, but I also did it out of loyalty to my brother. If you’re pissed, direct it all on him. Not me.”<br />
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“Oh, believe me. I’m pissed. Beyond pissed.” My hands balled as my mind filled with crazy ideas of retribution and revenge. I would make him pay.<br />
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“I’d cool down before you spring it on him. Best to keep it quiet. Cut doesn’t know. It was just me who knew Jet had been in touch with you before he was given the go-ahead to collect you in Milan.”<br />
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I froze. “Why did he initiate conversation with me almost five weeks before he could claim me?”<br />
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Kes shook his head. “The day I understand my brother is the day I’ll gamble my entire inheritance on the stock market. I can’t work him out. The only thing I can do is be there for him. And I only found out ‘cause he changed pretty much around the same time he started messaging you. Something was different—we’re close. So, I saw it before the others.”<br />
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My brain throbbed trying to figure out just what had changed in Jethro. He’d seemed the perfect Hawk when he’d come to collect me. Cold as ice and deadly as a sword.<br />
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Now that I knew his secret, I had power. And I had no intention of giving that power back. Jethro had been playing me for far too long. He’d successfully screwed with my head. It was time for payback. “Don’t tell him that I know.”<br />
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Kes’s eyes popped wide. “Pardon?”<br />
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“You heard me. Don’t tell Jethro about today. Let him continue to think I’m clueless.” My heart frothed with rage and unhappiness. I was so stupid to believe I’d gotten through to him on some level. The sex between us left both of us stripped bare. Something more than family feuds and hatred existed when he slid inside me and sent both of us shattering into dust.<br />
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I’d let him inside me. In so many ways. It was my turn to do the same.<br />
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“You know I can’t do that, Nila. As welcome as you are in our household, and as much as I like hanging out with you, I can’t betray Jet. Not after everything he’s been through.”<br />
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I pounced on the small thread of truth about my tormentor. “What has he been through, Kes? Tell me and I’ll march back to the Hall right now and tell him myself.”<br />
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Kes shifted uncomfortably, refusing to meet my eyes. “Slip of the tongue. Forget it.”<br />
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Crossing my arms, I hissed, “Fine. Seeing as you’re so capable of keeping secrets, keep this one for me.”<br />
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Kes scowled. “Keeping my own flesh and blood’s issues hidden isn’t the same thing as helping out a Weaver.”<br />
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My heart raced. If Jethro hadn’t taught me how to stand up for myself, I would’ve cowered at the thought of being so pushy with a full-grown man all alone in a forest. Now, I was raging and fully intended to get my own way. “Give me two weeks. Two weeks before you tell him that I know. Do that and I’ll be forever grateful.”<br />
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His shoulders slumped in defeat. “How can you be forever grateful when forever isn’t something anyone has.”<br />
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Especially me, seeing as my lifespan was destined to be significantly shorter than his.<br />
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“Just…please, Kestrel. One favour.”<br />
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It took him a while to give in. His allegiance to his brother was strong.<br />
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Finally, he huffed. “Fine. But it won’t save you from his temper when he finds out.”<br />
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However, I had no intention of suffering Jethro’s wrath. I had every right to deceive him after he did it to me. My revelations were safe—for now. I trusted that Kes wouldn’t say anything. I didn’t know why, but on some level I did trust Kes—just enough to use him in my plans. And I was fully committed to tripping Jethro up.<br />
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It was his turn to divulge things he might not have if he’d known the truth. Hiding behind the pretence that Kite was Kes had made him softer the past few weeks. I would use that chink to make the crevice I’d been trying to form since I gave him a blowjob after hunting me down.<br />
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I couldn’t think about anything else. I couldn’t focus on sketching, sewing, reading.<br />
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Nothing.<br />
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My brain was a whirly-gig of Jethro. Kite. Jethro. Kite.<br />
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And I’d had enough.<br />
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Throwing myself out of bed after another sleepless night, I wrenched back the curtains and glowered at the dismal weather.<br />
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The watery dawn did nothing to inspire either anger or contentment. The sky was grey. Fog looked like haunting ghosts, threading its ghoulish tentacles over the lower woodland of the estate. No birds chirped or sun shone.<br />
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Summer had truly abandoned us. The bite in the air shouted ‘go back to bed where it’s warm’ but my brain had no such intention.<br />
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I hadn’t relaxed for two days. I’d stared at my phone, determined to text Jethro and trip him into revealing everything he kept secret, only to stare blankly at an empty message.<br />
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Now that I knew it was him, my willingness to show so much had gone. Knowledge was power and he had too much of mine already. How could I dig deeper into his mystery while maintaining all of mine?<br />
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The answer—I couldn’t. And that made me incredibly nervous. To find out who he truly was, I had to show everything that made me real. And despite the emotional growth spurt I’d endured at the hands of the Hawks, I wasn’t ready to evolve again. I’d lost so much of myself already—how much was I prepared to leave behind before I became a perfect stranger?<br />
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“Ah!” I dug my fingers into my hair. I needed a reprieve from my racing thoughts, and I knew exactly how to do it.<br />
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Mother Nature’s sudden urge to switch seasons from summer to winter couldn’t stop my itch.<br />
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I needed fresh air, and I needed it now.<br />
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Racing around my room in the new Weaver quarters where Jethro had made me beg and come apart with his cock deep inside me, I found my black spandex shorts and highlighter pink sports bra. Pulling the clothing on, followed by my sneakers, I quickly smoothed my hair into a bun, and shot from the room.<br />
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I hadn’t worn my exercise gear since the morning of the Milan runway show. I’d sprinted until I’d collapsed off the treadmill at the hotel, hoping I could dispel my anxiety enough to hide my stupid nerves and prevent a vertigo spell in front of the press.<br />
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It had worked—mainly. Until Jethro arrived, of course.<br />
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The moment when I’d set eyes upon him, I’d been done for. He’d been so dashing with his suit, tie, and diamond pin. So perfectly refined with his elegant haircut, chiselled physique, and sculptured lips. Even though his soul was dark, his body had summoned me.<br />
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He’d called to me, and like the stupid Weaver I was, I’d followed him blindly.<br />
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Now, it’s his turn to follow my whims, my rules.<br />
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Jogging down the corridor, my racing mind and temper eased, already reacting to the stress relief I’d sought all my life.<br />
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I need him out.<br />
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It wasn’t fair. I was supposed to seduce him and make him care for me—not the other way around. I wasn’t supposed to fall for my own games.<br />
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Lust was as dangerous as love. Only it was worse because it had the power to make even the worst ideas seem plausible—and even recommended—when a sexual reward was given.<br />
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The moment Jethro gave in and kissed me, I’d betrayed more than just myself. I’d betrayed my entire family line and all the Weaver women who’d died before me.<br />
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I had feelings for him.<br />
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A dangerous softness toward my would-be-killer.<br />
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It has to end.<br />
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I had to find a way to seduce him…to make him love me, all while I kept my heart frigid and locked away in an ice fortress.<br />
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I laughed under my breath. You sound just like him. I wanted to turn into the female equivalent of his glacial shell.<br />
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Only, ice wasn’t impervious. Ice melted and succumbed to fire.<br />
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I’d proven that over the past month.<br />
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The house breathed around me with gentle heartbeats only ancient dwellings could have. Spirits of past generations lived in its walls, revenants danced in the drapery, and figments of long forgotten lovers floated through the tapestries.<br />
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A grandfather clock tick-tocked as I jogged past, showing the time at six thirty a.m.<br />
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After being privy to the business meetings with Kes and the Black Diamonds, I knew the men never got up this early. They worked late, dealing with shipments and the transportation of stones worth more than any dress I could sew. Darkness was their asset, the sun their foe.<br />
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At least I could run and be back before anyone tried to stop me.<br />
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I didn’t want them to draw the wrong conclusion that I was trying to escape again. I blinked as I ran head first into a horrendous conclusion.<br />
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Even if you found the boundary this morning, you wouldn’t leave.<br />
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My heart thumped harder at the tangled web I lived.<br />
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Freedom was something I wanted more than anything. But even if I escaped the Hawks, I would only run back into the trap of pity and vertigo. I wanted more than that. I deserved more than that.<br />
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If I found the estate edge, I wouldn’t disappear. I couldn’t.<br />
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My captivity wasn’t just about me anymore. It was about the future. It was about Jethro.<br />
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Admit it…<br />
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It was about living.<br />
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The passion, the intensity, the blazing ferocity of existing with enemies and plotting beneath their noses was a much worthier cause than sitting at home sewing for the masses.<br />
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This was about me. Me standing up for myself, and for a future I wanted, not a future already planned for me.<br />
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This was about so many twisted things.<br />
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I wrenched open the French doors at the end of the corridor and stumbled into the foggy dawn. Fresh air welcomed me and I found a reprieve from my scrambled thoughts.<br />
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I can’t forget my ultimate plan.<br />
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No matter how Jethro endeared himself to me—giving me glimpses of someone barely coping inside his wintry armor—I wasn’t going to forget my goal.<br />
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Freedom.<br />
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Not just for myself, but for the rest of my legacy. My children and their children and their children’s children would never have to go through this. I intended to be the last Weaver stolen.<br />
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It’s time for a new debt—one that owes us life, not death.<br />
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Sucking in lungfuls of crisp air, I steeled myself in what I had to do. In order to win, I had to guard my soul. I had to play along with Jethro’s mind games and hope to God I won first.<br />
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A cool breeze whistled through the trees, sounding like haunted laments. I shivered, wishing I’d brought a jacket.<br />
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You’ll be sweating in ten minutes. Ignore it.<br />
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Gritting my teeth against the cold, I bent over and stretched my quads. The tug and slow release of muscles was heaven after the stress of the past few days.<br />
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My body hummed with the knowledge it was about to run.<br />
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And run.<br />
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And run.<br />
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For fun this time, not for survival.<br />
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Bouncing on the spot, I rolled my shoulders, eyeing up the sweeping lawn before me. If I went right, I’d loop around the stables. If I went left, I’d cut through the sprawling rose garden and orchards.<br />
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Go straight.<br />
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Down the meandering path that disappeared over the horizon.<br />
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I switched from bouncing to jogging.<br />
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“And just where do you think you’re going?” a cool voice whispered through the silver fog.<br />
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I wrenched to a stop, peering behind me.<br />
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No one.<br />
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“I thought you’d realised running wasn’t a viable option, Ms. Weaver.”<br />
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His icy voice sent a strange mixture of hot and cold desire down my spine. Jethro morphed into being, seeming to solidify from the mist like a terrible poltergeist. He leaned against one of the pillars holding up the portico, crossing his arms.<br />
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My heart collapsed, unable to untangle the maze of hypocrisy between us. My skin begged for his touch. My lips tingled for his. Every inch of me craved what he could deliver.<br />
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Heat. Passion. An eruption that I felt in every cell.<br />
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But none of that was real.<br />
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And I refused to believe in trickery any longer.<br />
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Mirroring his body language, I crossed my arms. “I realise escaping isn’t a viable option. But I’m not escaping. I’m running. Running is my only option to escape the mess you’ve made.”<br />
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His jaw clenched. “The mess I’ve made?”<br />
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“Yes.” I took a step backward as he advanced. “You’re messing me up, and I’m done playing whatever it is that you’re doing.” I sucked in courage and embraced honesty. It seemed to work around him, and I needed him to see how serious I was. How hurt I was with his deception.<br />
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He’s Kite.<br />
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Bastard.<br />
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Baring my teeth, I said, “It seems I have a weakness for you, but I changed my mind. I don’t—”<br />
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A low growl escaped him. “A weakness? You call what happened between us a fucking weakness?”<br />
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My breathing ratcheted as if I’d already run two miles. “The worst kind of weakness.”<br />
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He smiled, but no mirth entered his gaze. If anything, his golden eyes were luminous with anger. “You’re the one who started it…Nila.”<br />
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I gasped at the delicious decadence of my name on his lips. The sound echoed in his mouth, shooting straight to my core.<br />
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Shit.<br />
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Jethro advanced again, his body trembling with barely veiled lust. “You’re the one who created this problem.” His hand came up, fingers slinking through my tied-up hair, tightening around the back of my skull. “I can’t hear the name Weaver without getting fucking hard. I can’t even think of you without boiling with need.”<br />
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His nose brushed against mine, his lips so damn close to stealing all my scrambled plans and sending me headfirst into a life of debauchery.<br />
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“You should never have said those two words, Ms. Weaver. I told you. We’re both fucked now.”<br />
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My mind was blank, every synapse focusing on his fingers in my hair and his mouth only millimetres from mine. “What two words?”<br />
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He chuckled. The sound was self-deprecating and almost morbid with dark intensity. “Kiss me.”<br />
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I shivered in his hold. “You’re reminding me of what started this mess, or you’re asking me to kiss you?”<br />
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Ask me. And I will. God, how I will.<br />
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I’d kiss him until I’d stripped him of his arctic armor and destroyed it, I’d lick him until I tasted his truth, and I’d bite him until I’d eaten every morsel of his soul.<br />
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I’d do all that so he had nowhere left to hide.<br />
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We stood wrapped in foggy silence. The drawn out anticipation of a kiss turned my legs to jelly. If he pressed his mouth to mine, I wouldn’t be going for my run. I would climb his body and impale myself on his cock.<br />
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Fakery be damned.<br />
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Kite’s messages and deceit be damned.<br />
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I just wanted a raw connection—with this man, who made my soul whimper for wrongness.<br />
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Jethro’s tongue slipped between his lips, hypnotising me. Then…he let me go. “No, I’m not asking you to kiss me. I won’t ever ask anything from you.”<br />
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I flinched as if he’d slapped me. “Why not?”<br />
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“Because I own you. Everything I want will be given, not requested.”<br />
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Double shit.<br />
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I should hate him. I should smite him. So, why did his every word seduce me, even while I knew his morals were chauvinistic and heartless?<br />
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Forcing my body to obey, I shoved the weakness I had for him as far away as possible. My eyes trailed down his front. He wore tan jodhpurs, black riding boots, and a tweed jacket. The bulge between his legs looked heavy and far too dangerous to be legal.<br />
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“You’ve been riding.”<br />
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A gentle gust of early morning air blew his scent directly into my nose. I inhaled, soaking my lungs in hay, horse, and all things Jethro.<br />
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He nodded, crossing his arms once again. “You run. I ride. Seems we have something else in common.”<br />
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Something other than being forced into this debt and finding each other irresistible, you mean?<br />
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“Oh, what’s that?”<br />
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Jethro stepped closer, seeming to bring shadows into the smoky light of dawn. “We both need time alone to hide from the things that chase us.” He stiffened, his eyes churning with things he refused to voice. A five o’ clock shadow decorated his strong jaw, his lips parted while his gaze was pure brimstone.<br />
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Swiftly, he cupped my cheek.<br />
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Oh, God.<br />
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Electricity instantly sparked beneath his fingertips.<br />
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Would I always suffer the rhapsody of his touch?<br />
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My skin smouldered; pinpricks of light, of fire, of hell, all burnished beneath his hold. I swayed, pressing my face harder into his palm.<br />
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He sucked in a breath, his fingers digging harder against my cheekbone.<br />
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The chemistry and need to devour each other thickened with every heartbeat.<br />
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One beat.<br />
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Two beat.<br />
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Three.<br />
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We stood there, frozen on the stoop of Hawksridge Hall just waiting for the other to move. The moment we did, our clothes would disintegrate and I would willingly let him drag me into a bush and fuck me.<br />
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Lust and tension swirled.<br />
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I had so many questions and doubts; so many reasons to hate and fear him. But when he touched me…poof.<br />
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I no longer remembered, nor cared.<br />
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We swayed closer, drawn against our will to close the aching distance.<br />
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I couldn’t breathe.<br />
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Kiss me. Please, kiss me.<br />
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The moment stretched until it hummed with overwhelming possibilities.<br />
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Then, it snapped.<br />
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Loudly.<br />
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Painfully.<br />
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Shattering around our feet.<br />
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“You’re too fucking dangerous,” Jethro muttered, removing his touch and stepping away. Dragging his hand through his hair, he commanded, “Wait here. Don’t go anywhere.” His hands went to his jacket buttons, undoing them with nimble fingers.<br />
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I blinked, struggling to shed myself of heavy need and focus on the true reason why I stood barely dressed in the freezing morning. “I’m not escaping. I’ll be back in forty minutes or so.”<br />
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He shook his head, slipping out of his tweed and revealing a black long-sleeved jumper.<br />
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My mouth went dry. Even in clothing, I could make out every ridge of muscle in his stomach, every ripple of energy as he breathed in and out. He was designed straight from my fantasies, and I hated him for being so splendid.<br />
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My core clenched, sending flutters of wetness between my legs.<br />
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I hadn’t seen him in two days, yet I’d panted after him as if he’d been missing my entire life.<br />
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If he suspected I knew that he was Kite, he hadn’t let on. After Kes had told me the truth, I’d waited for Jethro to barge into my room and swear me to secrecy.<br />
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But he hadn’t.<br />
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He didn’t look at me any differently; he gave no outward sign that his lies had begun to unravel. As much as he confounded and frustrated me, I couldn’t help admiring his perfection at hiding.<br />
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I wanted to be like him. I wanted to protect my secrets so damn well that whatever I did next would come as a surprise.<br />
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I wanted to rule him.<br />
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“I’m coming with you. Don’t leave.” He disappeared into the house, leaving me abandoned and covered in chills from both the morning air and his departure.<br />
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Jogging on the spot, I deliberated ignoring him and leaving.<br />
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Just go.<br />
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What was the worst that could happen? He’d have to chase me again. My tummy coiled at the thought. I liked that idea way too much. I liked the thought of what would happen after he found me.<br />
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The power I’d felt giving him that blowjob. The awe and attraction that’d glowed in his eyes.<br />
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I want that again.<br />
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Screw waiting like a good little captive.<br />
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Make him hunt.<br />
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And then I would make him explode.<br />
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I bolted.<br />
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“I tried to play a game. I tried to wield deceit as perfectly as the Hawks. But when I thought I was winning, I wasn’t. Jethro isn’t what he seems—he’s the master of duplicity. However, I refuse to let him annihilate me further.”<br />
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Nila Weaver has grown from naïve seamstress to full-blown fighter. Every humdrum object is her arsenal, and sex…sex is her greatest weapon of all.<br />
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<em>New Hot Standalone from New York Times Bestselling Author Helen Cooper <br /><br /> It was only supposed to be one night <br /><br />We met at a wedding. He was hot. And I’d been in a year’s drought. <br /><br /> He smiled. We got drunk. We flirted. We hooked up. I left without early the next morning without saying goodbye. It was only meant to be a one night stand. I didn’t want the awkward morning after moment. Not at all. <br /><br />Then I went home for the weekend. And he was there. Sitting on the couch chatting to my dad. Turns out he was more than just a stranger. Turns out that my one night stand was about to cause a whole heap of trouble. Turns out that it never just stops with one night.</em></blockquote>
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What do you do when your one night stand comes to bite you in the a**?<br />
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We all make mistakes during our life , because we're human and we're supposed to make them and then learn from them... to became a better person. Yeah... this story it's not really about that... it's even better, because sometimes life is messy and what's upposed to be an innocent mistake for a night or more, it will show us that in life, this said mistake could become so much more and it will give you the chance to have the future you never thought you could have....<br />
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If you already read That Night, then it's not a surprise the info will discuss her. If NOT, then you should stop right now before you'll read spoilers from that novella!<br />
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One last chance!<br />
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Okay... so Liv had a very hot night with Mr. Tongue and I can't condemn that poor girl... she didn't really have a chance against that man. I mean the guy could make you swoon and drop your panties at his feet and worship him and his...ahem...talents.<br />
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Well, after that torrid, but also touching, thoughtful and real night where Liv had experienced so much more than just sex, she goes home the next weekend to visit her familly who will turn her world upside down . More exactly, she discovers the man who has unveiled her so thoughtfully is also the fiance of her somewhat crazy, definitely spoiled sister named Gabby who is under the impression thagt her sisiter is jealous on her because she's soooo prewwtty....<br />
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While this news places Liv in a very delicate situation and sincerely I didn't know how Ms. Cooper will change the chaos this familly is in and give us our HEA wanted....<br />
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But I shouldn't doubt her after all those wonderful stories she's writen, she's a master of these kind of stories and can bring any bad book boyfriend to come aut of the cold situations. And he does, because Xander brings out everything from Live... the worst and the best. He constantly seeks Liv and together they share even more passionate moments, full of intense strifes and make out sessions, but this is exactly what I expected and wanted from this roller coaster ride.<br />
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Liv tries to resist in the face of Xander's charms and his persuasion to get her back in his arms and bed. But her sister is engaged with the man after she lust for, so Liv tries to stay as far away from him, but like always you can't away from love and even though their relationship is so dangerous because it could wreck her familly, it is also one of the best moments in her life. <br />
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In the same time, Alice, Liv's friend is crushing hard on Aiden, Liv's brother, so more fun times for a an avid reader after drama and funny moments like me. Guys... you can't miss for anything in the world the next installment in this amazing series, where we will find out Alice and Aiden's story.<br />
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The story is told from Liv's view, at first person, so you'll be the first one to see and feel every angsty, full of umor, touching moment and you'll be so engrossed in this story that I don't recommend reading it while being with your friends or anyone else in public...<br />
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While his story will seem full of angs at first sight... it really isn't! It's an emotional, full of umor and sexy times that it will make you want to take a cold shower, but also have a good laugh, especially on Liv's familly.<br />
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<strong>Final Decision</strong>: People will always make mistakes, and while we'll always have regrets... we also can't deny that we are who we are because of them. And like I already said... sometimes our future awaits for us to make those mistakes....<br />
This story is about this hypothesis: To live your life at the fullest and be happy.<br />
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<strong>My Rating: 5/5</strong><br />
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<strong>J. S. Cooper</strong> is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She is a true romantic that is in love with love. The J. S. stands for Jaimie Suzi. She just thought J. S. sounded cooler! J. S. was born in London, England and moved to the States at age 17. She studied history in college and then went to law school and then decided to follow her writing dreams. J. S. writes 'New Adult' contemporary romance books because that is what she also loves to read.<br />
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<strong>Helen Cooper</strong> is a true romantic. She believes in true love, soul mates and lots of fun. She enjoys reading, playing tennis and writing romance and erotic romance books. She also enjoys trashy TV and is never happier than when watching 'The Bachelor,' 'Big Brother,' 'Drop Dead Diva,' or a number of other shows.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>It was only supposed to be one night.</em> </span><br />
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<em>When Liv Taylor met a handsome stranger at a friend's wedding, she decided to give in to temptation. It was lust at first site and when she followed the man she nicknamed Mr. Tongue into a room before the wedding ceremony, she experienced pleasure like she'd never experienced before. That was why she agreed to one night in his hotel room. One night of unbridled passion. That was all it was supposed to be. But then, her mystery man turned up after that night and his identity was no longer a mystery. It turns out that Liv's one night stand is about to get a whole lot more comp <br />licated and she has no idea what she's going to do. Because sometimes one night stands never end at one night.</em></blockquote>
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<strong>NOTE: This novella is a free steamy prequel to the full-length standalone novel One Night Stand, that will be released on January 5th. It will also be included in One Night Stand when it is released, so you can read it first as a free download or you can read it as part of the novel on release day. </strong><br />
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<strong>My thoughts (Roxana):</strong> <br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">"If you hook up with Luke, I'll give you five hundred."</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">"I'm not hooking up with your ex." </span></em><br />
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One little fact that you should know... when I first started to read it, I already knew that it was a novella and it will be very short, so while I would've love it to know more about Liv and her Mr. Tongue, I was more than happy about the ending, because it made me want to read the first novel in this series so much more.<br />
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Our story starts with Liv and her good friend, Alice in the Church while they were bored (and a little furious) and kind of made a pact, from Alice view and a joke from Liv's side: for Liv to make out in said Church for fun with a stranger...<br />
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Obviously, Liv doesn't give a second thought to this crazy idea at least until HIM...<br />
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Mr. Tongue is one of the hottest man Liv has ever seen in her life, besides he's charming, amusing and gorgeous. And the best part? He can make her forget her name in a second, by just a whispering a Word. He seems perfect, right ladies? <br />
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Well... for one night stand... he really is! He makes her live the best (and adventurous ) passional night of her life. Damn... all the things that man made ME feel! I was convinced for a second that Liv will give up and ask him to date her (I would've done so in her place!)...<br />
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But Liv knows that it will more easy to get over him since he's not really her type of boyfriend, so she just wants to remember it as a good memory until the reunion with her familly when she finds out the most shocking news of her life....<br />
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I love Liv... she's such a different character by letting herself be free of the social views and she just owns every action she made without being sorry for it. And it was refreshing to see a woman who's not afraid to say what she wants with the guy she's attracted to. Besides, for a novella, there are many things that happen and we'll make you want to read the next installement right away...<br />
The story is told from Liv's view at the first person, so you'll connect with her and live everything like you are in her place, and for those whom re not convinced yet, all I'm going to say is just this: MR. TONGUE....<br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">"You want to know me, but you don't want me to know your name?"</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">"No names, no questions."He looked at me intently. "Is that okay with you? "</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">"It's okay with me, if it's okay with you."I wispered, my heart thudding. I didn't even know what I was saying. I just knew that I wanted him to be touching me again.</span></em><br />
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<strong>Final Decision:</strong> We all make mistakes in our life that we'll regret them afterward. Mistakes that have dangerous consequences, but sometimes those are best actions that we've made in our life because it changes us, transform us in the adults we are. And even more precious are those that helps us find our future...maybe even our soulmate....<br />
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<strong>My Rating: 5/5</strong><br />
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<strong>About the Authors</strong><br />
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<strong>J. S. Cooper</strong> is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She is a true romantic that is in love with love. The J. S. stands for Jaimie Suzi. She just thought J. S. sounded cooler! J. S. was born in London, England and moved to the States at age 17. She studied history in college and then went to law school and then decided to follow her writing dreams. J. S. writes 'New Adult' contemporary romance books because that is what she also loves to read.<br /><br />Upcoming books: Rhett in Love, Keeping My Prince Charming, Illusion, If Only Once (The Martelli Brothers), and Carry My Heart.<br /><br />Join my mailing list to be notified when new books are released: <a href="http://jscooperauthor.com/mailing-list/" target="_blank">http://jscooperauthor.com/mailing-list/</a><br />Please join J. S. Cooper on her facebook page if you enjoy her books here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/J.S.Cooperauthor">https://www.facebook.com/J.S.Cooperauthor</a>. <br />
<br /><strong>Helen Cooper</strong> is a true romantic. She believes in true love, soul mates and lots of fun. She enjoys reading, playing tennis and writing romance and erotic romance books. She also enjoys trashy TV and is never happier than when watching 'The Bachelor,' 'Big Brother,' 'Drop Dead Diva,' or a number of other shows.<br /><br />Helen's upcoming books include: Alpha Billionaire 3, One Night Stand, and Four Week Fiance.<br /><br />Join my mailing list to be notified about new releases here: <a href="http://helencooperauthor.com/email-list/">http://helencooperauthor.com/email-list/</a><br /><br />I love to hear from my readers so feel free to contact me.<br /><br />Email me at Helencooperauthor@gmail.com.<br />Like my FB here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Helencooperauthor">http://www.facebook.com/Helencooperauthor</a>.<br />Add me on Twitter: @MsHelenCooper<br />Check out my blog here: <a href="http://helencooperauthor.wordpress.com/">http://helencooperauthor.wordpress.com/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521752017904585075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866662684163731109.post-58163632790595711592015-01-20T08:07:00.000-08:002015-01-20T08:07:23.158-08:00Recenzie: Playlist pentru Nick si Norah de David Levithan, Rachel Cohn<b>Recenzie: Playlist pentru Nick si Norah de </b> <b>David Levithan, Rachel Cohn </b><br />
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<i>New York?</i><i><br /></i><i>Pe locuri, fiţi gata, start:</i><i>Norah şi Nick sunt pregătiţi să-şi asume riscurile unui salt în necunoscut.</i><i><br /></i><i>O poveste lungă cât o noapte newyorkeză despre un băiat şi o fată care ajung, prin forţa destinului şi a muzicii, parteneri într-o sumedenie de aventuri amuzante. Cei doi se descoperă unul pe altul după ce Nick o roagă pe Norah, la finalul unui concert dintr-un club, să fie prietena lui... pentru doar cinci minute.</i><i><br /></i><i>O întâlnire între două lumi aparent diferite, cu excepţia pasiunii pentru muzică: Norah e fiica rebelă a unui mare producător muzical, Nick e basist şi compozitor într-o trupă underground de queercore. întâmplarea face ca amândoi să aibă inima frântă după eşecuri în dragoste.</i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;">Un volum proaspăt, inteligent, amuzant şi, în ciuda limbajului licenţios pe alocuri, deloc lipsit de duioşie. O carte pentru tinerii şi neliniştiţii de toate vârstele.<br /><br />„Nu-i destul să stai singur pe trotuar şi să compui un cântec pentru o fată, dacă n-ai tupeul să încerci măcar să vorbeşti cu ea." -- R. Cohn & D. Levithan<br /><br />„Ştiu că o să-ţi sune ciudat, dar te-ar deranja să fii prietena mea în următoarele cinci minute?" -- R. Cohn & D. Levithan</span></i><br />
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<strong>Gândurile mele (Roxana):</strong><br />
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Câți dintre voi încearcă să trăiască o viață perfectă, dar au acele momente în care și-ar dori să arunce totul la gunoi și să trăiești o noapte (sau chiar mai mult) fără reguli, fără restricții... pur și simplu să fii liberă și să te lași în voia ritmului vieții.</div>
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Sunt conștientă că regulile sunt făcute cu un motiv anume, acela de a menține ordinea și disciplina, dar uneori avem nevoie de haos, de aceea nebunie prin care ne eliberam emoțiile și ne lăsăm în voia simțurilor, a muzicii neauzite decât de noi....<br />
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<em><span style="color: #e06666;">“I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.”</span></em><br />
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În Playlist pentru Nick și Norah vedem o nouă perspectivă asupra vieții- adevărat una pe care o cunoaștem deja din cele mai vechi timpuri, anume: Carpe Diem, de a trăi fiecare clipă ca și cum ar fi ultima. Dar trebuie să recunoaștem că uneori nu este atât de simplu să nu mai acorzi atenție problemelor zilnice, a rutinei care inevitabil se instaurează în viața noastră fără să realizăm acest lucru. Totuși oare nu suntem fericiți cu această noțiune de rutină? Oare ea nu ne oferă siguranța de care avem nevoie cu atâta disperare? Oare chiar am găsi în noi forța necesară de ne arunca toate planurile pe apa sâmbetei și să mergem mai departe cu un zâmbet pe buze, știind că viața noastră nu va mai fi niciodată la fel? Recunosc că nu aș putea să trăiesc neavând un plan, de aceea o admir pe Norah, sau mai precis îi admir voința...<br />
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Totul începe cu Nick care încearcă să-și revină după o despărțire amară- voi admite că în timp ce o ador pe Tris din Divergent, această Tris m-a lăsat cu un gust destul de amar și pe mine- și cu toate că el este sfâșiat din pricina sentimentelor sale... a faptului că Tris i-a frânt inima fără să stea de două ori pe gânduri, Noah încă speră că ar mai putea exista o altă șansă, altfel nu-și explică motivul pentru care aceasta îl bântuie în continuare, amintindu-i de timpurile mai bune...<br />
<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdrajeg3O01raobbqo1_500.gif#affectionate%20hug%20gif%20500x250" />Adevărul este că Tris este complexă, poate fi o ticăloasă fără inimă, dar în același timp și o prietenă-dușmană ciudată. Adevărul este că nu vă pot povesti foarte mult despre relația ei cu celelalte două personaje principale, fără a vă dezvălui o parte din secretele acestora...<br />
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<em><span style="color: #e06666;">“I mean, I don’t know how the world broke. And I don’t know if there’s a God who can help us fix it. But the fact that the world is broken - I absolutely believe that. Just look around us. Every minute - every single second - there are a million things you could be thinking about. A million things you could be worrying about. Our world - don’t you just feel we’re becoming more fragmented? I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces - they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it would mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe that.” </span></em></div>
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Ceea ce vă pot spune... este faptul că acest roman este o călătorie a două suflete rănite, ce ascund propriile lor probleme, dar care se găsesc unul pe celălalt exact la momentul nepotrivit (în ochii lor), potrivit pentru noi.<br />
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În seara concertului trupei lui Nick, singurul lui moment de pace, nefiind nevoit să se concentreze asupra eșecului său în dragoste... își face apariția nedorită Tris, care se hotărăște să-și etaleze noul iubit în fața fostului. Acesta este momentul în care Nick simte se prăbușește și trebuie să-i dovedească lui Tris că nu este singura ce poate merge mai departe. Cum? Simplu! Rugându-se de o fată necunoscută să-i fie iubită pentru o seară și o sărută....<br />
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Acesta este momentul în care amândoi descoperă că se cunosc prin intermediul lui Tris și tot acum Nick se hotărăște să o ajute pe această fată atât de diferită de cea ce fusese iubirea lui! Ceea ce nu știe este faptul că ea aflase deja totul despre el și chiar mai mult decât atât....<br />
Dar încetul cu încetul, cei doi se apropie, descoperind că muzica îi unește mai mult decât au fost unite vreodată două persoane...<br />
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Povestea o aflăm din perspectiva ambelor personaje și sunt conștientă că nu toți vor fi de acord cu opinia mea... în sensul că mi-a plăcut la nebunie să aflu perspectiva lui Nick (pentru mulți pare destul de emo, dar aș vrea să luați în considerare că tocmai a fost părăsit de fata pe care o adora). Chiar mai mult decât atât... a fost o adevărată experiență să văd cum Nick este consumat de sentimentele pentru Tris și emoțiile ce apar pentru Norah.<br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">“I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.”</span></em><br />
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<strong>Decizie Finală</strong>: Acest roman este o poveste sensibilă a două suflete rănite profund de oamenii dragi acestora, dar în același timp este o poveste a descoperirii sinelui prin intermediul unor necunoscuți...</div>
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Un roman despre acceptare a imperfecțiunii lumii, a greșelilor ce te conduc spre viitorul tău....</div>
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Rachel Cohn s-a născut în 1968 la Washinghton, a absolvit Barnard College şi este autoare de romane pentru tineri. Trăieşte la New York. A scris Gingerbread (2002), The Steps (2003), Pop Princess (2004), Shrimp (2005), Two Steps Forward (2006), Cupcake(2007), You Know Where to Find Me (2008), Very LeFreak (2010), Beta (2012).<br />
David Levithan trăieşte la New York şi este câştigătorul Lambda Literary Award pentru romanul Boy Meets Boy. Este însă foarte cunoscut şi pentru romanele pe care le-a scris împreună cu John Green – Will Grayson, Will Grayson (în curs de publicare la Editura TREI) – şi cu Rachel Cohn: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2007), Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List (2007), Dash & Lily's Book of Dares(2010).</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521752017904585075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866662684163731109.post-20071515478598288302015-01-18T22:52:00.000-08:002015-01-20T08:10:59.480-08:00Review: The Pact by Karina Halle<br />
<b>The Pact by Karina Halle</b><br />
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<strong>Blurb:</strong><br />
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*The Pact is a FULL-LENGTH <br />
*STANDALONE (not part of a series, no cliffhanger, fully wrapped-up novel) <br />
*"FRIENDS-TO-LOVERS" CONTEMPORARY ADULT ROMANCE <br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lTR2cKsAbout%20this%20author%20edit%20dataKarina%20Halle%20is%20a%20former%20travel%20writer%20and%20rock%20music%20journalist%20and%20the%20USA%20TODAY%20bestselling%20author%20of%20Love,%20in%20English,%20The%20Artists%20Trilogy,%20Experiment%20in%20Terror%20and%20other%20wild%20and%20romantic%20reads.%20She%20lives%20in%20a%201920's%20farmhouse%20on%20a%20bucolic%20island%20off%20the%20coast%20of%20British%20Columbia%20with%20her%20husband%20and%20her%20rescue%20pup,%20where%20she%20drinks%20a%20lot%20of%20wine,%20hikes%20a%20lot%20of%20trails,%20and%20devours%20a%20lot%20of%20books.pz4/VLyl52CChvI/AAAAAAAABFs/55Ew4_rylr0/s1600/23844390.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh4m8cR0DAxcvyqtAeVxoa2Woa9SAUxQHgz-Dg_BCnKjk0akMovxCW42y3Bv4ma3PnzWR9J2nPDc49A99ZNW92kSoU4m5Aee99eaP8fp4bDfr_zlbM4F2VRnInKI4hih9iV4Le1FtVw5ul/s1600/23844390.jpg" height="400" width="266" /></a><em>It all started with a pinky swear… <br /><br />Linden McGregor is tall, rugged, and gunslinger handsome; a helicopter pilot with a Scottish brogue and charm to spare. He’s also one of Stephanie Robson’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as she’s known him. <br /><br />Beautiful, funny and an ambitious businesswoman (with one hell of an ass), Stephanie Robson is one of Linden McGregor’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as he’s known her. <br /><br />But some relationships can’t be boxed, can’t be classified, can’t be tamed. <br /><br />Back in their mid-twenties and tired of the competitive hit-or-miss dating scene of San Francisco, Steph and Linden made a pact to marry each other if neither one of them were in a serious relationship by the time they hit thirty. <br /><br />It sounded like fun and games at the time but as the years to thirty tick past and lovers come and go out of their lives, the pact becomes larger than life. <br /><br />Sex is inevitable. Friendships are tested. Hearts are on the line. </em></blockquote>
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The pact is about to change everything. <br />
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Note: due to the dirty talk and sexy times, The Pact is not meant for anyone under the age of 18. All characters in THE PACT are in their thirties, therefore this is NOT a new adult book...even though love can mess you up at any age. <br />
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So here is 1:00 AM and I'm awake for the third night in a row. You may ask yourself...why? Well...last night, I was awake because I HAD (yes....I simply had to know the end) to read a book. And now...because I HAVE to review it, so you'll know more about it....<br />
But first thing first....<br />
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You know how every reader, author, blogger starts to make a top ten best books of this year? Yep...I was totally prepared to.make one too...until two days ago, Then, my whole world has been destroyed, my emotions have been toyed and. feelings have been changed in every FREAKIN' way in just 48 hours (yes, that's all it took).<br />
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After two days, I'm a new woman with a new (and hawt... because Linden deserves to be described with a wrong word) book boyfriend.<br />
This is a friends-turns-lovers kind of romance, so I didn't really expect that (sure, I've read Ms. Halle other works and I know that I would love it), because I'm more an enemies-turns-lovers kind of a girl, so... to have my whole world (and everything I knew about myself) ripped apart in just two days, it's mind-blowing! But Ms.Halle has won me over through Linden McGregor.<br />
Who is Linden?<br />
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He's a sweet, kind, thoughtfull (sometimes thoughtless), rich (but not a snob by any means), hawt guy.<br />
He has personal issues (that he has overcome them ...mostly) because of his parents who are awfull people...more exactly a father domineering who wanted to make from his children just some little minions like him, but when his favorite son turned to be too wild for his tastes, then he tries to manipulate Linden into submission...<br />
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Seriously, guys...that creature made me want to find the nearest knife and tell him that he doesn't have the minimal right to abuse and discard like his own children! Because you have to love them inconditionally and forever, despite...no, scratch that.... FOR who they are! Mistakes and past be damned...but, then again, his mother who really pulled the rug under me when I first 'met' her. That...creature *shakes head* was pathetic, and to see her that way with a son who needed her...did something to me, because while I didn't have my mother around me enough time to know me at adulthood, at least life did give me her love for all the time we've been with each other...<br />
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I miss her sometimes, but I know that whatever mistakes I would have done...whoever I would've become, she would have been proud of me. So, that been said...I can't understand parents who don't give a damn about their children.<br />
Despite those reckless and indifferent people, Linden has survived and made a career for himself...while Steph had to do it alone and trying to survive the role her parents wanted fill up. Both or our main characters had to fulfill their dreams, while giving up to their hope that one day their parents will be there for them...<br />
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Safe to say that when your growing process from a scared and abandoned child to a grown-up with responsabilities and debts, mortgage to be paid, without really enjoying your teenage years. <br />
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You became a scarred human being that will fight to death and protect with everything you have, even if your own heart is crushed, and for Steph and Linden their friendship is all they really have! That's way they run from their feelings, because it will put everything they know to danger...<br />
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But one night...when they had too much to drink Linden makes a proposal that will change their situation and will alter their friendship: to get married when both are thirties and single....sure there should be an 'if'...right? Well...as they aproach that damned number, they discover that there shouldn't have been an if...<br />
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I'm not going to say too much for not spoiling your fun, but all you have to know is that both Steph and Linden will have a long journey until they will make that pact come true.<br />
The story is being told from both Steph and Linden's point of view, so you won't miss anything, being the first to know, before any other character, the reason of every stupid or smart decision they make...also to every dirty thought that hot Scotsman has!<br />
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<b>My rating: 5/5</b><br />
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<i>Final Decision</i>: If you want a story that will make you swon, cry and fall for a beautiful story, then there shouldn't be an if! Just read it, because you won't regret it!<br />
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<b>About the author</b><br />
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Karina Halle is a former travel writer and rock music journalist and the USA TODAY bestselling author of Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, Experiment in Terror and other wild and romantic reads. She lives in a 1920's farmhouse on a bucolic island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails, and devours a lot of books.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521752017904585075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866662684163731109.post-81820047658729130962014-12-30T19:45:00.000-08:002014-12-30T19:45:18.537-08:00The Lilith Scroll by B.L. Marsh<br />
<b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />The Lilith Scroll by B.L. Marsh</b><br />
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<b><br /></b><b>Synopsis</b>:<br />
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<i>What if you discovered there was “time” before time began? What if everything you thought was true, was not? What if there was a beginning before “In the beginning”; another story unfolding within our time, steeped in loss, love, betrayal, and secrets. </i><br />
<i>Welcome to Eden where magic was born, trees are gateways to other realms and angels aren’t what you think they are. Meet Lilith. A young girl with an incredible story. One she isn’t supposed to know much less tell. Meet Sagan. A man without past and powers who rival Lilith’s. Will he be able to help her find out her past and discover his own in the process? </i><br />
<i>Go back in time. Back to the garden. Experience the magic of the creation, the wonder of nature and the betrayal that destroyed it all.</i><br />
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<b>My thoughts (Roxana):</b><br />
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You know that feeling when everything it's exactly where it's supposed to be until something happens and your whole life...your beliefs changes in an instant....<br />
Well... that's the feeling you get while reading this story.<br />
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Lilith St.Claire is just a graduent student who tries to find answers about her past. So she goes to Rosslyn Chapel to work on her dissertation with Dr. Asher Daniel, a world-renowned expert in the field of Early World Religions.<br />
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What you don't know is the fact that she knows about Illuminati. Yes, they are real in story, because they are the keepers of the world's greatest secrets, more exactly about how our world and humanity started to find their place on Earth. And scratch everything you know about God, Adam or Eve, because all will be tested in this story and nothing is as it seems...<br />
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Everything stated with Abbaddon (no...I'm not going to reveal his identity or this secrets), and everything we know was just a lie told by the greatest liar of all times....<br />
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Lilith has to now the secrets about herself, secrets that are haunting her in her dreams...and she knows that ro find them she has to get at the bottom of history (that's way she chose to do her dissertation in Early History).<br />
But that's the moment when everything changes ... when she meets Samael/Sagan, another student who has powers that rivals Lilith's and may or may not hold the<br />
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key to Lilith's answers....<br />
That's when the adventure really begins and we are told little by little every lie we were told, every secret that was kept since the begining of the world, and we are left wanting for more...<br />
I'm not going to lie you...it isn't an easy story to accept, but it's one of the most beautiful that I had the pleasure to read...to find more about this exclusive and somewhat secret society called Illuminati, and I was even more enchanted to find more about the tribes and the Archangels...<br />
And the love story between our heroine, Lilith and Samael was something out of this world...I fall in love with everything that they discovered, and even if it was somewhat confusing with the jump between the past and the present...I still wouldn't have it any other way...<br />
The naration is more impersonal, but you'll still connect with our heroine and feel her emotions, her desire to know who she is this great, unknown battle between good and evil, where the roles teams aren't know and everything is a secret or a lie greater than you, greater than even life!<br />
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Another aspect of this story that made me fall in love with it was the fact that it explore every aspect human creation, as much as on biblical aspect, but also on the fantasy and mythological aspect. Sure, we have a love story to make the journey more sweet and emotional...but we also have a dark part to explore with secret that people have died for and it reminds in some measure about Da Vinci Code...and I loved it with all my heart....<br />
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<b>Final Decision</b>: There are people who would risk everything to have to keep the silence about secrets that shouldn't be know by normal mortals....but what do you do when an unknown war about said secrets is about to begin? And wich side would you chose?<br />
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Astept datele castigatorilor pe adresa olgaangel20@gmail.com .Aveti o saptamana timp la dispozitie. Momentul mult-asteptat a sosit...castigatorii sunt:<br />
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Premiul de Onoare: Giorgiana Turcu si Simona M. Stavarache (M-am decis sa aleg doi castigatori).<br />
Premiul I: Andrei Cioata<br />
Premiul II: Elly M.<br />
Premiul III: Geanina Mazilu<br />
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Premiile sunt:<br />
Premiul De Onoare:<br />
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Premiul I<br />
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Premiul II<br />
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Premiul III<br />
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Premiul auxiliar premiului de Onoare<br />
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Si...pentru ca nu voiam sa va dezamagesc, va voi oferi ocazia de a alege...castigatorii premiilor I , II, III au posibilitatea sa primeasca unul dintre medalionele de mai jos DACA sunt de acord sa mai astepte cateva saptamani. TOTUSI- NU POT garanta ca medalioanelor vor fi identice cu cele din inagine pentru ca abia le-am comandat si este prima mea comanda de pe site-ul respectiv...deci, nu pot garanta in privinta ceasului sau a medaloanelor. Pot garanta in privinta cartilor, dar nu si a accesoriilor...Imi cer scuze....<br />
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Tycoon is book one in a two part book series by New York Times Bestselling Author JS J. S. Cooper. The cover for Tycoon was designed by Louisa Maggio of LM Creations. The cover model is model Stuart Reardon.<br />
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TYCOON BLURB<br />
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Scott Colton. Wolf of Wall Street. King of the Boardroom. My Boss.<br />
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I hated him the moment I met him. And he didn’t even give me a second glance.<br />
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Yet, he still hired me.<br />
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He thought I was there to submit to his every whim.<br />
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I knew better.<br />
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I knew his secrets, his skeletons in the closet. And I was going to expose every single one of them.<br />
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Then the rules changed. And everything was in disarray. Suddenly I realized that the Scott Colton I thought I knew was just a myth. The real Scott Colton was someone, even I, had underestimated.<br />
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Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23878136-tycoon">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23878136-tycoon</a><br />
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Luna decembrie este una dintre cele mai frumoase perioade din timpul anului si... cum ar putea sa fie altfel?<br />
Cu mai multi ani in urma, adoram sa primesc cadouri si sa am mai mult timp liber- si da... inca mai imi plac aceste avantaje, DAR in acest timp am descoperit ca imi place si sa daruiesc...<br />
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Sincer, Craciunul este o sarbatoare magica si daca ii poti ajuta si pe ceilalti sa simta, intr-o mica masura, aceasta magie, atunci fa-o!<br />
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De aceea, in colaborare cu mai multe bloguri, va oferim Hop Cadouri de Craciun!
Deci vor fi 4 castigatori, ce vor primi cate un premiu constand intr-unul dintre titlurile mentionate mai jos (aveti si descrierea lor), DAR unul dintre castigatori va primi un premiu surpriza (legat de carti, bineinteles).<br />
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Ei bine veti afla in dimineata zilei de 26 decembrie.<br />
Ce trebuie sa faceti? Completati formularul. Si nu uitati sa aruncati o privire si la celelalte bloguri, incepand cu blogul organizator- Bibliophile Mystery.... <a href="http://bibliophilemystery.blogspot.ro/2014/11/inscrieri-pentru-hop-cadouri-de-craciun.html">http://bibliophilemystery.blogspot.ro/2014/11/inscrieri-pentru-hop-cadouri-de-craciun.html</a>, pentru ca v-au pregatit multe surprize!<br />
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Fulgi de iubire - John Green, Maureen Johnson si Lauren Myracle <br />
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<i>Trei povesti romantice de Craciun Ce au in comun o furtuna de zapada iscata in Ajunul Craciunului, 14 majorete vesele, un restaurant Waffle House si un tip invelit in folie de aluminiu?
Raspuns: aceste trei povesti romantice de Craciun. O furtuna puternica de zapada aduce dragostea in vietile a trei adolescenti: o fata al carei tren s-a inzapezit, un baiat ce infrunta viscolul pentru a se intalni cu prietenii sai, o alta fata cu inima franta ce-si vopseste parul in roz si viseaza sa fie ingerul cuiva. </i><br />
Trei dintre cei mai cunoscuti autori americani de literatura pentru adolescenti – John Green, Maureen Johnson si Lauren Myracle – si-au unit fortele pentru a scrie povesti pline de aventura, umor, romantism si duiosie, ale caror fire se impletesc inteligent la final, intr-o carte numai buna de citit la gura sobei. In aceste povesti tandre, ingenios intretesute, iubirea pluteste printre fulgi de nea, beteala si cadouri de Craciun!<br />
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-- School Library Journal Umor, romantism si personaje puternice – toate dau forta acestui efort narativ.<br />
-- Kirkus Reviews „Si, desigur, mai era si Stuart. Stuart, care tocmai ma vazuse trecand printr-un intreg curcubeu de sentimente si experiente. Existau numerele parintii-mei-au-fost-bagati-la-inchisoare, sunt-blocata-intr-un-orasel-necunoscut, sunt-nebuna-si-nu-mi-pot-tine-fleanca, sunt-cam-afurisita-cu-tipul-ciudat-care-incearca-sa-ma-ajute, despartirea si extrem de populara sar-pe-tine-neasteptat.O dadusem in bara nasol de tot. Regretul si umilinta dureau mai tare decat gerul. A fost nevoie sa strabat cateva strazi pana sa-mi dau seama ca nu pe Noah il regretam... ci pe Stuart. Stuart care ma salvase. Stuart care chiar parea sa doreasca sa-si petreaca timpul cu mine. Stuart care mi-a vorbit pe sleau si care mi-a spus sa nu ma las calcata in picioare.“<br />
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Cartile lui John Green au fost publicate in peste douazeci de limbi si figureaza constant in topul celor mai bine vandute titluri al publicatiei New York Times. Dintre cartile sale, la Editura Trei au aparut: Sub aceeasi stea, Cautand-o pe Alaska, De 19 ori Katherine, Orase de hartie.<br />
Lauren Myracle este autoarea a numeroase carti pentru copii si adolescenti, printre care Shine, Kissing Kate, seria The Winne Years si The Internet Girls (sttyl si ttfn) – romane scrise in stilul mesajelor instantanee – bestselleruri New York Times.<br />
Maureen Johnson a fost aleasa in 2012 Queen of Teen in Marea Britanie.
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An aparitie: 2014
› Autor: John Green
Maureen Johnson
Lauren Myracle
› Editura: TREI
› Gen: Beletristica
› Limba: Romana
› Nr. pagini: 328
› Subgen: Literatura Universala
› ISBN: 978-606-719-188-2<br />
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<i> Captivant încă de la primele pagini prin calităţile sale stilistice – care i-au asigurat deja un loc pe rafturile de literatură clasică –, romanul lui Neil Gaiman ne poartă într-o călătorie iniţiatică de-a lungul şi de-a latul Americii, acolo unde zeii tuturor mitologiilor se regăsesc sub aparenţa oamenilor obişnuiţi şi se amestecă în existenţa acestora.
La fel ca într-o epopee greacă, Neil Gaiman evocă dragostea şi sacrificiul de sine, prietenia statornică şi războiul – un război între vechii zei şi noii zei, cei ai cărţilor de credit şi ai autostrăzilor, ai internetului şi ai telefonului, ai radioului şi ai televiziunii. </i><br />
Autor: Neil Gaiman<br />
Traducător: Liviu Radu<br />
Coperta de: Kamil Vojnar<br />
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<i> Când iubirea te eliberează de secretele trecutului...
Aproape întreaga copilărie, Carlotta Anne Fairleigh a fost fascinată de poveştile captivante din romanele gotice. Visul ei este să scrie ea însăși propria poveste de groază, plină de crime teribile. De aceea, chiar în seara debutului său în înalta societate londoneză, curiozitatea o îmboldeşte să spioneze conacul învecinat, despre care se spune că aparţine lui Hayden St. Clair, bărbatul cunoscut în lumea bună drept Marchizul Ucigaș. Şi astfel, fără să vrea, Carlotta declanşează un imens scandal şi se trezește în postura protagonistei într-o dramă adevărată. </i><br />
<i> Cu reputația distrusă, ajunge soția lui Hayden St. Clair şi stăpâna unui conac lugubru ce se înalță pe coastele abrupte din Cornwall. Curajoasa Carlotta refuză să se lase intimidată de stafia primei soții a marchizului, despre care se zvonește că rătăcește pe coridoarele conacului în miez de noapte, cerând prin vaiete sfâșietoare să fie răzbunată. Însă cel care se dovedeşte adevăratul pericol este însuşi Hayden. Căci există ceva tulburător – şi surprinzător de tandru – la bărbatul frumos şi misterios care îi este soţ, şi înainte să cedeze dorinţelor inimii, Carlotta trebuie să dezlege misterele trecutului lui, indiferent cât de scandaloase – şi periculoase – s-ar putea dovedi acestea. </i><br />
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Teresa Medeiros este una dintre cele mai bune scriitoare de historical romance, cu apariţii constante pe listele de bestselleruri ale New York Times, Publishers Weekly şi USA Today. Cărţile ei, traduse în 17 limbi, au fost vândute în peste 10 milioane de exemplare şi au fost nominalizate pentru premiul RITA al Asociaţiei Scriitorilor de Romane de Dragoste din America.<br />
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An aparitie: 2014
› Autor: Teresa Medeiros
› Editie: necartonata
› Editura: LITERA
› Format: 210x140
› Gen: Beletristica
› Limba: Romana
› Nr. pagini: 288
› Subgen: Literatura Universala
› ISBN: 978-606-686-735-1
› Categoria: Literatura Universala
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Deci.... stiu ca am lipsit foarte mult timp, dar am hotarat sa iau o vacanta mai indelungata. Motivul?<br />
Am pierdut o persoana foarte draga mie ceea ce m-a determinat sa realizez inca o data cat de scurta este viata. A fost una dintre perioadele cele mai negre din viata mea, dar asa cum am mentionat deja m-a invatat o lectie importanta...<br />
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Stiu...ca eram datoare cu afisarea castigatorilor unor concursuri si fara a va mai tine in suspans, acestia sunt:<br />
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<i>When Lola met Xavier, Prince of Romerius, she was immediately attracted to his dark, handsome good looks and sparkling green eyes. She spent a whirlwind weekend with him and almost fell for his charm, until he humiliated her and she fled.<br /><br />Lola wasn't prepared to find out that Xavier was her new professor and her new boss. She also wasn't prepared for the sparks that flew every time they were together. When Xavier takes her on a work trip, she is shocked when they are mobbed by the paparazzi and agrees to go to Romerius with Xavier to pretend she is his fiancé.<br /><br />Only Lola had no idea that Xavier had a master plan from the moment he met her. He wanted a week to make her his, so that he could get her out of his system. Only Xavier had no idea that fate had another plan for him.</i></blockquote>
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You already know how much I love J.S.Cooper's books by now, but I was a little dissapointed with this new installment in the Finding My Prince Charming. Don't get me wrong, I'll still read the next one and after the cliffhanger ending of this book, I can't wait for it!<br />
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But one of the reason was that I wished to find out more about the Prince Kingdoom.. I mean, think about it... if you were wisked away in a contry of your boyfriend, wouldn't you want to find out more about it, about her traditions, about his relation with his citizens, or about the politics? I'm not a person who loves political debates, seriously I'm not, guys!<br />
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But... yes, I would love it even if we find out more about his family relation with their citizens, or about his family...but, the good part is the fact that we focus more on his relationship with Lola...<br />
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Even if it's not really a relationship because our favorite Prince is very stuborn and still insist that he can have his way with her for a while to get her out of his system. Ha! If that's even possible with their attraction... but he's trying...<br />
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Lola doesn't know about his agenda so she's really excited to be with him in his country, in his home...<br />
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It's still all about sex and denial, still hot and cold, because Xavier wants to protect her from himself and his dark needs while Lola just wants him!<br />
We find out out how dark are his needs when he takes her to this club, where a world of passion and hot sex are revealed to Lola, but we also see Xavier approach about his feeling and his needs, because he sure wouldn't put them both words in the same sentence!<br />
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Another reason for my dissapointment was Lola... I expected her several times during this book to make her baggage and go back to Londra... I mean... I love Xavier though tick and thin, but he's still such a jerk, so some of his antics would not have been valued by old Lola, even more she would have so kicked him in the shins while letting him have a piece of her mind...<br />
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But... she';s falling for him and her feelings have changed her somewhat, so I kind of understand why she had this submissive vibe with him. He also changed a little, but like a I said it's hard to face everything when your world is turned upside down by your student...<br />
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<b>Final Decision:</b> Sometimes you're faced with decisions hard to make. Some of us take the easy way and give everything they have, consequences be damned. Others run from them and hide behind mask of indifference. But how do you know that you've made the good choice?<br />
You don't. You'll just have to face them sooner or later, even if you don't like it.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521752017904585075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866662684163731109.post-44353067583433456162014-09-21T21:04:00.000-07:002014-09-21T21:04:15.476-07:00Finding My Prince Charming (Finding My Prince Charming #1) by J.S. Cooper <b>Finding My Prince Charming (Finding My Prince Charming #1) by J.S. Cooper</b><br />
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<i>Can a Playboy Prince ever be tamed?<br />When Lola Franklin decided to study abroad she never anticipated embarking on a whirlwind weekend romance with a hot guy before classes started.<br />And she certainly never counted on the hot guy being her new professor. Or a Prince. Or the biggest asshole she had ever met.<br />Xavier Van Romerius is the playboy Prince of Europe and he loves his life. He doesn’t do relationships, and never wants to get married. But when he see’s Lola Franklin flirting with his little brother Casper, he realizes that maybe he needs to rethink his ideas about love before the wrong Prince gets the girl.</i></blockquote>
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Like in Rhett's case the prince charming is anything but... charming, but here comes the good side his a royal one, and I'm not speaking figuratively. Let's start with the beginning, shall we?<br />
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Lola Franklin is student from abroad who just wants to study and lead a normal life with friends and maybe even find her Prince Charming, even though she doesn't believe in true love. Yes, she's a walking contradiction. But she's also one sassy, tough cookie who doesn't let people walk over her that's way she's crossing swords with Xavier Van Romerius, a guy she can't stand, but she can't help to find herself drawn to him. So this is the moment when a tango between those two begin...<br />
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But not all is milk and honey, because like I already said Xavier is a jerk used getting what he wants ad to treat women even worse than Rhett if that's possible. Neither Lola is an inocent flower. Oh no, she gives him Hell every time they met and it's often, because Xavier is not only a Crown Prince, he's also her professor. Yep... you heard me right... he's her professor so that's bound to bring them problems if their affairs come to light. But fortunately for Lola it was just a one-night stand, right?</div>
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She finds against their atraction, but it's hard to do it, no pun intended, when Xavier is so decided to get in her pants! And his one a hot, amazing, funny jerk- seriously it was so funny watching him how he thought that he's the master of this world. </div>
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But underneath of all his bad layers, there is a soul who would love to protect, care, possess with every fiber of his being for Lola, but he can't let that side come out because he's the Prince of Romerius, and a prince doesn't submit to any woman. Yes, he has to get a lection about how to treat a woman...</div>
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I'll admit I wasn't been his number one fan but I also loved him because he's that kind of character to inspire a love-hate emotion in readers. I know that some people really hated him, but I was charmed with this arrogant, conceited and funny jerk, so I think you should give him a chance to prove himself.</div>
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<b>Final Decision</b>: Even though this is short, almost like a novella, it's full of feelings and romance. Some romantic stories starts with a simply look. Others start during a friendsip. But some starts with in inapropiate one-night stand that evolves in so much more, even if the couple is not ready to be swept of their feet, that's when troubles begin and sometimes you just got to let it go.</div>
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<i>I’m Rhett.<br />I’m cocky because I can be. I’ve got it all: the looks, the money, the endurance. I’m the guy that every girl wants to be with, yet none of them have ever been able to tie me down.<br />I don’t do love. I don’t do relationships. And I sure as hell will never do marriage.<br />I’m all about the fast life and everything that entails. There’s a different woman in my bed every week. My friends are jealous of me. My enemies envy me. Everyone wants my life. And everything in my life is absolutely perfect.<br /><br />Until the day she told me she was moving away. She’s my best friend. She was my first kiss in grade school. We share everything with each other. We never dated because I don’t love her. I don’t care that she’s moving. I don’t care that she’s moving for a guy. I don’t care because I don’t love her. I don’t do love.<br /><br />I’m Rhett and I don’t let anything get me down. Then one night changed everything and everything I thought I knew was called into question.<br />All of a sudden, being Rhett didn’t mean so much anymore.</i></blockquote>
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Rhett is jerk. Plain and simple, but fortunately for him I love jerks, and Clemmie loves them too, or more exactly... she loves Rhett, but their story is not a fairytale and it's not simple. Rhett and Clemmie have been best friends since childhood, and even though she has been there for him, even though he was not the gentleman tipe. Oh, he has his moments when you'll fall in love with him, but in the start of this story he's conceited, infuriating and really imature. You just want to shake him, maibe even throw something at him or at least tell him some special words that my mother should not find out ever. Seriously, he thinks he's God's gift to woman kind and he treats them poorly in his misogynistics ways, and even more disturbing is the fact women loves him the way he is, without knowing his real person...<br />
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But still it's disturbing to know that some women like this exists out there. I'm not a feminist or anything like that but I would'n let him treat me that way. Neither would Clemmie, that's way she's made up her mind to see the world, to find out how are other guys aka dating because she doesn't want to die as a virgin. That's the moment when everything changes. When Rhett starts to realize that he's losing his best friend, he starts to see her in a new light. But thats not surprising since those two have deeper connection than most people have...<br />
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Even though Rhett is determined to make Clemmie his, that's not easy to obtain despite their connection, because Rhett hasn't been what you would call the boy next door, he hasn't been even your regular Joe... more so he doesn't know how to be a normal person and in his journey towards maturity, he makes mistakes and keeps secrets, more like just a big secret but one that could ruinate his chances wich Clemmie forever...</div>
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What could I say about Clemmie, besides that she's our hero's love interest, well she's a sweet girl, that accepts Rhett the way he is, even her family makes him a part of them. But Clemmie can't let Rhett be the center of her life, besides she wants to discover the world, to make a difference with her life and the first step is dating. But then she's swept away by Rhett and his charm. </div>
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What I really liked about her is the fact that she remains a tough girl and will give him hell before accepting as a lover...<br />
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<b>Final Decision:</b> It's a story about learning to change. Some people just want to change their world and explore it throughly. Other people want to change their friends status. And there are other people who want to change themselves in order to become someone worthy of loving. That's the most difficile change because to become a good person we will make mistakes along the way.</div>
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<strong> Somewhere Between Water and Sky Synopsis:</strong>
I heard it said once that every human is a story with skin.
If this is true, paragraphs would be etched in the scars on my wrists.
Whole chapters could be written about the way my heart pounds when I startle awake.
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And every single one of my tears could fill a book.
But stories, with all their promise, only leave room for disappointment. I don’t have room for that anymore. I left it all—the hope, the love, the promise—back in my old life with the ghosts I’d rather forget: Jude. Emma. Pacey.
This is how I dare to move forward and to believe in a new beginning. I let go of the old. I just grab the new and run. I don’t wait around anymore. I can’t.
Waiting leaves room for the voices.
Somewhere between water and sky, I'll find a way to burn these voices to the ground.
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<span style="color: black;">Alexandria 'Andie' Hawkins, is in control. She knows what she wants and never lets anyone make decisions for her. With no family and no friends, Andie doesn’t really have anyone she can count on for support. But that’s fine. She is used to the silence now. Working as a high-class pole dancer was never one of her dreams but now, it is the only thing she cares about. Alexandria has learned one very important thing—never let anyone see who you truly are. That is why her alter ego Kandi, is the one that steps on stage every night leaving the men craving more.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> Kandi becomes their dream—their fantasy. And at the end of the night when Kandi leaves the club, Andie isn’t left with a broken heart.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> Until one dance changes everything. That’s when she sees him. From that moment desire, lust, and insatiable passion take over. Despite all of Andie’s warnings to stay away—she can’t. There are just a few problems.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> She doesn’t trust a single soul.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> He doesn’t believe in love.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> And he’s twice her age.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> Onyx is a mystery to her—a mystery she has to solve. Andie has spent the last few years believing the only person who knew the real her—was herself. Now she is realizing that the only time she feels like herself is when she is with a man that should be off limits.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> Losing control is something Andie promised would never happen again. After years building up the walls she hides behind, she realizes she can’t resist peeking over the top.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> Truths will always be revealed, leaving pain and confusion in their wake. Alexandria will be left wondering if the one person that can save her is the one person she can’t have.</span>
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<span style="color: black;">I am Megan Noelle! I have been writing for many years and currently have two books out that are part of a series. My <em>For </em>You series were the first novels I published but I had to stop everything to write Stefan and Grey’s story in, <em>A Broken Forever</em>. I have been writing since I was old enough to hold a pen and finally pursued my dream of becoming a novelist. Writing is my passion and I am all for following one’s passions! One of my other passions is being a mom of my adorable daughter Peyton. When I’m not writing I’m a stay at home mom and a full time student. I’m getting close to finishing my 2-year degree and I am more than ready for a break. There are many things I want to do in life, but if I can write, be with my daughter and my family—I will be happy!</span>
<span style="color: black;"><strong>5 *NEW* Random Things You Don’t Know About Me!</strong></span>
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<li><span style="color: black;">I have recently retired my love for Diet Coke and focused solely on Diet Pepsi. And yes, I know all about aspartame, and all that bad stuff. But, it’s delicious.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">I would someday love to write a book that Tim Burton wants to make into a movie!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">I have an unfailing love for many movies I watched growing up (not just Disney) and it is very difficult for me to like anything new. Some of my favorites set the bar too high apparently! (When Harry Met Sally, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Father of the Bride Part I & II, & many more!)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black;">I have a horrible wonderful addiction to book covers!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">I have more story ideas in my head than I will ever be able to write.</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521752017904585075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866662684163731109.post-83890286658056378522014-09-12T08:49:00.001-07:002014-09-12T08:52:58.300-07:00Cover Reveal: Hart Attack by Cristin Harber<h2 style="text-align: center;">
We are so thrilled to share the cover of HART ATTACK with everyone today! HART ATTACK releases this November and Roman's story is one you won't want to miss!</h2>
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<strong>About HART ATTACK</strong>
Outside of Titan Group, there are few people that Roman Hart would die for. He’s a soldier, a protector, and he’s haunted that one of the people he should’ve been able to protect didn’t let him. That was years ago, and now a hardened heart and a cocky attitude are his impenetrable shields, until one woman—one <em>challenge</em>—drives him to distraction.
On the outside, Beth Tourne has it all. Luxury car, gorgeous condo, and a job partying with the rich and famous. It’s a plush CIA cover, but she wants more. Anything for an adrenaline rush that can override her guilty numbness and let her forget the tragedy she never saw coming.
Their scars make them perfect operatives. Their mirrored pasts give them deep, wounded reasons to stay alone. But the more they ignore the tension, the more vulnerable they become. Survival means trust. In one another, behind closed doors, and on the job. The only way they’re making it out alive is if they find peace while waging a war.
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She closed her eyes and still saw his chiseled face. “Don’t be sweet to me, Roman.”
“I’m not.”
With a deep breath, she opened her eyes and focused on his lips, his eyes, wishing that he would act like a belligerent ass, not this seductive guy whose words held such gravity. “Then don’t do whatever that was.”
“What? Touch you?” His fingers found a curl of hair and he rubbed the strands. “Why not when it’s so much fun?”
Ah, fun. That was the problem. She could barely breathe. Holding herself up much longer would require significant and obvious assistance. Everything he did turned her into a puddle of goo. And here he was having a great time. La dee flippin’ da.
“I think I should go.” She jumped off the couch without looking at him. Her legs decided to work at the last second, saving her from a moronic tumble, tripping over herself on her get away. “I don’t want to be here.”
“Liar.”
<strong>ABOUT CRISTIN HARBER</strong>
Cristin Harber is a USA Today bestselling romantic suspense and military romance author. Fans voted her onto Amazon’s Top Picks for Debut Romance Authors in 2013, and her debut Titan series was #1 romantic suspense, #1 military romance, and a USA Today Top 100 bestseller.
She lives outside Washington, DC with her family and English Bulldog.
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521752017904585075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866662684163731109.post-77031927836232606052014-09-10T09:04:00.000-07:002014-09-12T09:05:41.785-07:00Cover Reveal: Forbidden Flaws by Pepper Winters<a href="http://www.readlovelust.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Forbidden-Flaws-Facebook-Cover-Art.png"><img alt="Forbidden Flaws Facebook Cover Art" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14624" src="http://www.readlovelust.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Forbidden-Flaws-Facebook-Cover-Art.png" height="236" width="640" /></a>
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<span style="color: black;">Title: FORBIDDEN FLAWS</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Author: Pepper Winters</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Release Date: November 10, 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><em>She’s forbidden.</em></span>
<span style="color: black;">Saffron Carlton is the darling of the big screen, starlet on the red carpet, and wife of mega producer Felix Carlton. Her life seems perfect with her overflowing bank balance, adoring fans, and luxury homes around the world. Everyone thinks they know her. But no one truly does.</span>
<span style="color: black;">The silver limelight is tainted the day the couple announce their divorce.</span>
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<span style="color: black;"><em>He’s flawed.</em></span>
<span style="color: black;">Raised in squalor, fed on violence and poverty, Cas Smith knows the underbelly of the world. He’s not looking for fame or fortune. He’s looking for a job to get him the hell away from the danger of illegal fighting, and comes face to face with the woman who ran all those years ago.</span>
<span style="color: black;">Unable to turn down her job offer, he agrees to be her bodyguard and personal trainer, all while she hides her secrets.</span>
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<span style="color: black;">He had no intention of letting her back into his heart.</span>
<span style="color: black;">But neither of them were prepared for what happens when forbidden and flawed collide —fracturing the world they know, changing the rules forever.</span>
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<span style="color: black;">Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex... her books have sex.</span>
<span style="color: black;"> She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends.</span>
<span style="color: black;">Her Dark Erotica books include:</span>
<span style="color: black;">Tears of Tess</span> (<a href="http://amzn.to/1lROLYN" target="_blank">Monsters in the Dark #1</a>)
<span style="color: black;">Quintessentially Q</span> (<a href="http://amzn.to/1qB27Zh" target="_blank">Monsters in the Dark #2</a>)
<span style="color: black;">Twisted Together</span> (<a href="http://amzn.to/1olkxsD" target="_blank">Monsters in the Dark #3</a>)
<span style="color: black;">Debt Inheritance</span> (<a href="http://amzn.to/1As8P4X" target="_blank">Indebted Series</a>)
<span style="color: black;">Her Grey Romance books include:</span>
<a href="http://amzn.to/1w9f6Vr" target="_blank"> Destroyed</a>
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<span style="color: black;">If you would like to be the first to know of upcoming releases please fill in her newsletter (Pepper promises to never spam or chat aimlessly: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/YrpOsO">http://bit.ly/YrpOsO</a>
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<span style="color: black;">Title: UNBALANCED (No Rival, #3)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Release Date: July 30, 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Genre: Romantica® contemporary romance from Ellora’s Cave</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Using unmatched skill and intelligence, Kurt captures the attention of every partner he desires. His ability to confuse his prey keeps them captivated. This trick has never failed him. That is, until he meets McKenna. As an author, McKenna has gone to great lengths to ensure the details of her erotic books are airtight. When Kurt challenges one of her scenes, she doesn’t hesitate to take up his offer to prove his theory. The bad boy MMA fighter appeals to her on every level. Kurt’s intelligence stimulates her mind even as his touch sets her body on fire. In spite of those things, McKenna has no intention of adding her name to his list of ex-lovers.</span>
<span style="color: black;">McKenna’s odd behavior exasperates Kurt. She is an addiction he cannot shake. But somehow the two of them make the combination of his OCD logic and her unbalanced nature work.</span>
<span style="color: black;">Inside Scoop: There are a couple hot but brief male/male encounters as well as a handcuff scene that may have you reaching for the fan. </span><strong>
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<span style="color: black;">She wasn’t wearing shoes. Funnily enough, it was the first detail about her that caught his eye. At a table, in public, Kurt found her shoeless state odd. There were a thousand tiny things about her he should have noticed first. Without a doubt, her plain black t-shirt, yoga pants and the overall lack of effort toward her appearance allowed her to blend into the background. It shouldn’t have mattered. Kurt wasn’t usually so blind. None of those points stole an ounce of power from her beauty. There wasn’t a hint of makeup marring her face. Blonde curls piled on her head held in place by some sort of clip. Something about her eyes held him captivated. They were unfocused as they moved across the pages of the book she held between her hands. In spite of that, he felt sure she absorbed every word, only on a different plane than others would.</span>
<span style="color: black;">He moved closer. The lack of footwear became an obsession. Curiosity ate at him. He needed to know why. The coffee shop located inside a G. Richards’ Bookstore had a sign posted clearly on the front door. “No shoes. No service.” Once Kurt managed to snag the chair directly across from her, he bent at the waist. Under the guise of dropping a napkin, he peered under the edge of her table. Suspicions confirmed. His brows drew together in a frown as he sat up.</span>
<span style="color: black;">After a moment of staring at the corner, he couldn’t stand it any longer.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“Your feet are bare.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">Lifting her gaze from the book between her hands, she blinked several times. He could practically see her dragging her mind away from whatever cloud it was on.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“What?”</span>
<span style="color: black;">“Your feet,” he repeated. “They have no shoes on them.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">“Oh. I’d forgotten.” She immediately dismissed him by returning to her reading.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“You’re inside a business. They serve food.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">She didn’t bother glancing his way as she responded.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“If that bothers you, I won’t mention the state of my underwear.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">He had to know. “Did you forget those, as well?”</span>
<span style="color: black;">That got her attention. A line formed between her eyes as if his question was too stupid for her to fathom.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“How does someone forget their underwear?”</span>
<span style="color: black;">“How does a person forget their shoes?” He shot back.</span>
<span style="color: black;">Tilting her head to one side, she seemed to think it over for a moment before responding. “Is this a trick question?”</span>
<span style="color: black;">Kurt scoffed as he reminded her of the obvious. “You’re not wearing them.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">Her mouth turned up in one corner in such a way his gaze immediately shot to her lips. “I’m aware.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">Unable to keep the exasperation from his voice, Kurt sighed. “You said you’d forgotten your shoes. It stands to reason then, you would know how one goes about it.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">Setting her book aside, she nodded slowly as if giving his theory due consideration. “Your logic is sound,” she admitted after a moment. Finally, they were getting somewhere. She immediately ruined it by adding, “Except, I said no such thing. Therefore, I cannot help you.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">There was a moment where he had nothing. He couldn’t recall a single incident where anyone had caused his mind to go blank. His brain was always on the move, slightly dissatisfied with his lot. She’d wiped him clean. Her blue eyes focused on him fully as if awaiting his next move. When he wasn’t quick enough, she released a heavy sigh.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“If you must know, when I got here I realized I had on two different colored shoes so I took them off.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">Without waiting to see his reaction, she flipped her book up between them, shutting him out. A part of him wanted to laugh at her confession. He was too fascinated. Not to mention, with his curiosity assuaged he really wanted to hear more about the rest.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“What about your underwear?”</span>
<span style="color: black;">She ignored him. He bit back a smile. His mind whirled back to life and he searched for a new way to insert himself into her company. Tilting his head, he read the title blocking her eyes from his gaze. <em>The Ins and Outs of BDSM</em>. Catchy title. Switching his gaze to the other items scattered across her table, he took note of another book on bondage as well as some handwritten notes. As far as he could tell by what she’d scratched out, she was either intent on rocking some dude’s world or plotting one hell of a murder.</span>
<span style="color: black;">He braced his elbows on the table, lowering his voice where only she could hear. “I have handcuffs back at my place.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">She set the book aside. Mimicking his pose, her eyes shone with mirth as she pitched her voice low, as well. “I have a Taser in my handbag.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">Holding back his laughter, Kurt didn’t miss a beat. “Kinky,” he said, adding a wink. “I like it.”</span>
<span style="color: black;">Snorting, she slapped her hand over her mouth and nose as if she couldn’t believe what she’d done.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“I’m Kurt,” he offered before she could escape into her mind again.</span>
<span style="color: black;">“McKenna.”</span>
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<span style="color: black;">Charity Parkerson is an award winning and multi-published author with Ellora's Cave Publishing, Midnight Books, and Punk & Sissy Publications. Born with no filter from her brain to her mouth, she decided to take this odd quirk and insert it in her characters.</span>
<span style="color: black;">*2014 Readers' Favorite finalist</span>
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“Why didn’t you tell me you were from here?” he asked, holding his hands out in question.
She furrowed her brow. “What?"
“I had no idea you were Travis’s sister,” he said, and he sounded pissed.
“And I had no idea you were a fireman,” she said, parking her hands on her hips.
He shoved a hand roughly through his hair, shook his head. “And I had no idea you were the photographer. You said you were an artist.”
“I am!” she said, her voice rising. What the hell? “I can draw, and I do tattoos. I also happen to be good at shooting pictures. Besides, you said you were a bar owner,” she pointed out, as if they could both redo this colossal mistake by rehashing the moments they both could have been more honest. “Why didn’t you tell me more about yourself?” she countered.
He didn’t answer. He moved closer, maybe a foot away now. The anger felt like a pulsating life force, but there was something else between them, too. Heat. And want. The nearness was intoxicating. She could reach out and touch his chest. That broad, sturdy chest that she’d loved having her hands all over.
She was edgy now, nervous, as they stood like two sparring partners, tucked away in the back hallway of the coffee shop near the restrooms. She wanted him to touch her again, and she hated that she was still thinking of last night, and how they’d connected so deeply in bed. But also in their conversations all through the night and up to a few minutes ago when they were texting. She was torn between needing to leave and wanting him to pin her against the wall and bury her in kisses that made her weak in the knees.
Too bad she could never do any of those things with him again.
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<strong>Message from Lauren:</strong>
I want to let you all in on a little secret about me. I love hotfiremen. I stare at hot fireman. I slow down when driving past thefire station to try to get a better look at the men inside. Whichmight explain why I wrote a sexy firefighter series! But all oglingand firemen lust aside, not only are firefighters sexy, they are alsobrave, courageous and active in their communities. As I wrote MELT FORHIM, I learned more about the work that volunteer fire departmentsaround the country do -- both in responding to emergencies and inhelping their communities. And because firefighters have given me somuch inspiration, I wanted to be able to give back with this book.
That's why I will be donating half of all my proceeds from thepreorders and release week sales for MELT FOR HIM to the NVFCFirefighter Support Fund that supports the nation's volunteer fire andEMS departments. Together, I believe we can all make a difference andhelp support the men and women who serve our local communities andcome through for us when we need them most!
xoxo
Lauren
<strong>About </strong><strong>MELT FOR HIM:</strong>
<em>He knows exactly how to make her burn…</em>
Fire captain and bar owner Becker Thomas usually spends his nights alone, trying to escape painful memories from his past. When he meets a sexy, free-spirited brunette outside his bar, he knows he’s found the perfect way to forget for one night. But when he later discovers the woman he’s itching for another night with is his best friend’s sister, everything comes to a halt.
Just out of a toxic relationship, Megan Jansen is only in Hidden Oaks to visit her brother, photograph the firemen’s calendar, and then slip off to another adventure. The brooding man who gave her the best sex ever is an unexpected surprise. The problem is, he’s her brother’s friend and a fellow fireman, and Megan’s rule is no firemen. She knows she’s going to get burned …but keeping their hands off each other is easier said than done.
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<strong>50% of all preorders and release week sales will be donated by the author to the National Volunteer Firefighter Support Fund.</strong></h2>
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Lauren Blakely writes sexy contemporary romance novels with heat, heart, and humor, and her books have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iBooks bestseller lists. Like the heroine in FAR TOO TEMPTING, she thinks life should be filled with family, laughter, and the kind of love that love songs promise. Lauren lives in California with her husband, children, and dogs. Her novels include <em>Caught Up In Us</em>, <em>Pretending He’s Mine</em>, <em>Playing With Her Heart</em>, and <em>Trophy Husband</em>. She also writes for young adults under the name Daisy Whitney.
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