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Unconditional(Beachwood Bay #3)
by
Melody Grace
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| Release Date: March 18, 2014 Note: Unconditional can be read as a stand-alone story, but you'll enjoy reading the other Beachwood Bay books, too. |
~ Synopsis ~
Fall in love with Beachwood Bay in Melody Grace’s USA Today and internationally bestselling series!
"I’ve spent my whole life chasing perfection: perfect looks, perfect man, perfect home. But in one brutal moment, I realized it was all just a beautiful lie…"
Carina MacKenzie is fleeing from her past. Picking up the wreckage of her shattered dreams, she seeks comfort in the only place she’s ever felt safe: Beachwood Bay.
Garrett Sawyer isn’t looking to be anyone’s savior. Scarred by old betrayals, he’s sworn never to put his heart on the line again -- especially not for a damaged, high-maintenance girl like Carina. But passion knows no logic, and soon, their reckless chemistry is making him forget his bitter vows.
Two damaged hearts. The hope of true love. As their passion blazes out of control, Carina and Garrett struggle to escape their legacies of hurt. But can you ever outrun the past? And when everything is on the line, can they trust enough to build a love that's unconditional?
*This book contains adult situations and explicit content. 17+*
"I’ve spent my whole life chasing perfection: perfect looks, perfect man, perfect home. But in one brutal moment, I realized it was all just a beautiful lie…"
Carina MacKenzie is fleeing from her past. Picking up the wreckage of her shattered dreams, she seeks comfort in the only place she’s ever felt safe: Beachwood Bay.
Garrett Sawyer isn’t looking to be anyone’s savior. Scarred by old betrayals, he’s sworn never to put his heart on the line again -- especially not for a damaged, high-maintenance girl like Carina. But passion knows no logic, and soon, their reckless chemistry is making him forget his bitter vows.
Two damaged hearts. The hope of true love. As their passion blazes out of control, Carina and Garrett struggle to escape their legacies of hurt. But can you ever outrun the past? And when everything is on the line, can they trust enough to build a love that's unconditional?
*This book contains adult situations and explicit content. 17+*
~ Excerpt~
~ The Rest of the Beachwood Bay Series ~
A noise comes. A shadow rears up in the dark. I scream.
“What the hell?”
Panic claws my chest and I scream again, reaching blindly for something to
fight him off. Squatters and junkies and all kinds of dangerous men fill my
mind as my hand closes around something solid on the hall table and I swing
with everything I’ve got.
“Goddamn!” The figure reels back, stumbling against the wall.
“Get away from me!” I cry, shaking. My heart is racing so fast I think it might
beat right out of my chest. I grip the object in my hand tighter. “Don’t touch
me!”
“I’m not trying to touch you!” the man roars, angry. “I just want to know what
you’re doing breaking into my goddamn house!”
The light flips on. I reel back, blinded by the sudden glare, but as the daze
clears and my eyes flick back into focus, I see the man in front of me for the
first time.
I stop breathing.
He’s half-naked, that’s the first thing I notice. Jesus, his body is like
nothing I’ve ever seen before: tanned bronze and chiseled like a Greek god, but
not like the guys I’ve dated, all waxed and pumped from hours at a fancy gym.
This guy is real, raw, all muscle and power, with a web of dark tattoos snaking
over the bicep of his right arm. I feel a flush roll through me, hot with
prickling awareness, but I can’t look away as I take in his tight, sculpted
six-pack abs, and the trail of dark hair leading down to the waistband of his
navy briefs…
“Don’t mind me, darlin’,” his voice comes. “Any time you’re done looking…”
I snap my eyes up to his face, blushing. Then I look at him for real and it all
clicks into place.
“Oh.” My heart clenches in my chest as I recognize him for the first time.
“It’s you.”
Unshaven face. Messy bronzed bed-head hair. And a pair of stormy ocean-blue
eyes scowling at me like I’m the last person on earth he wants to see.
And, I can say, the feeling is entirely mutual.
“It’s me,” Garrett Sawyer agrees in a low, Southern drawl. He strides over and
snatches the vase from my hand, setting it down on the table with a thud. “Now,
you want to tell me what the hell you’re doing creeping around my house at
three in the goddamn morning?”
I catch my breath, the flush of desire mingling with irritation. I nearly had a
heart attack trying to get in here, and he’s the one with an attitude?
“It’s not your house,” I snap, my heart still racing. “It’s mine.”
“Well, if you wanna get technical, it belongs to Emerson,” Garrett corrects me,
glaring. “But I’m the only one here with permission to stay.”
“Why do you need a place?” I try to pull myself together, smoothing back my
hair and yanking down my dress. “Don’t you live above that dirty old bar?”
“Nah.” Garrett paces closer, his full lips stretching into a lazy grin.
“Usually I just go straight out back and roll around in the filth like a pig.”
His smile is heart-stopping, a whiskey smile, honeyed and dangerous and just
inches away from me now. Despite my irritation, I feel another wave of heat
roll through me, automatically rising to his nearness like a magnet spinning
off its axis to find true north.
Damn.
I ignore the kick of my pulse and fold my arms across my chest. “You’re disgusting,”
I retort, ignoring the shiver in my bloodstream.
“And you’re trespassing.” His gaze hungrily drifts over my body. I glance down,
and see the rip has torn the skirt to the top of my thigh. I blush, yanking it
shut.
“Look, I’m tired, OK?” I exclaim, self-conscious. “I’ve been driving all night,
I didn’t know anyone would be here. I just need a place to sleep. Can we save
all your territorial bullshit for the morning?”
Garrett raises an eyebrow at me, like he’s amused. I brace myself for more
arguing, but instead, he gives a casual shrug. “Why not?”
I exhale with relief. “I’ve got a suitcase out front,” I tell him.
He smirks. “Then you better go get it. Spare bedroom upstairs, I’m sure you
know the way.”
My mouth drops open, but before I can complain, there’s a noise from above us.
“Garrett?” a female voice sounds, and then a woman appears at the top of the
stairs. She’s wearing an oversized T-shirt that barely skims her tanned thighs,
her dark hair mussed up, makeup smudged around her eyes. “What’s going on?”
“Nothing, honey,” Garrett calls up to her. “Go back to sleep.”
“But it’s cold.” The woman pouts suggestively. “I need you to come keep me
warm.”
Real classy.
I roll my eyes, watching as Garrett flashes her one of his easy grins. “I’ll be
right up, sugar. And then I want my T-shirt back.”
“Come and get it.” The woman giggles, then disappears back to the bedroom,
leaving us alone in the foyer again.
“Honey?” I challenge him. “Sugar? Why not just admit you don’t even know her
name?”
Garrett smirks at me. “Sure I do. It’s Lauren, or Laurie. Or maybe it was
Lorna…” He frowns, pretending to think, and even though I know he’s just doing
it to get a rise out of me, I can’t help but make a dismissive snort.
“Must be true love.”
Garrett narrows his eyes. “What I do with my life is none of your goddamn
business. So why don’t you quit bitching and let me get back to sleep.”
I blink, thrown by the sudden change in his tone. “I’m not the one standing
around giving me a hard time,” I retort. “I’d be asleep by now if you hadn’t
come prowling around, trying to play hero.”
“Whatever you say, darlin’.” Garrett turns away and starts climbing the stairs.
Then he pauses, turning back to me with a wicked grin, and says, “But you might
want to wear earplugs. Lorna likes it loud.
Untouched (Beachwood Bay #.5)
(Emerson & Juliet’s story begins - free novella)
Unbroken (Beachwood Bay #1)
(Emerson & Juliet’s story continues)
(Emerson & Juliet’s story continues)
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Untamed Hearts (Beachwood Bay #1.5)
(Brit & Hunter’s story begins - free novella)
Unafraid (Beachwood Bay #2)
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Unwrapped (Beachwood Bay #2.5)
(Lacey & Daniel’s holiday novella)
~ About the Author ~
Melody Grace is the USA Today bestselling author of UNBROKEN and UNTOUCHED. A small-town girl turned SoCal beach-lover, she spent years with her nose in a book before deciding it was time to write them for herself. She loves bad boys, good books, and pistachio-flavored ice-cream.
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