Excerpt Reveal
Two of Hearts
By
Christina Lee
~ Synopsis ~
A gripping standalone adult contemporary romance about finding yourself while taking a second chance at your first love...
Dakota Nakos was always the resilient, strong-willed achiever. But when her father dies and she's entrusted with the family's casino, she feels vulnerable, scared, and more than a little emotional --not exactly the best time to see an old lover she's never really gotten over.
Dakota once meant the world to Shane Garrity. Then suddenly he left town to train as a U.S. Marshal, and their love for each other crashed into a memory. Now he's come home for her father's funeral, and one look at the girl he left behind stirs up both memories and regrets, and reignites a fire he feared he'd lost forever.
Dakota may be the same driven girl she always was, but she's also changed in ways neither could have anticipated. She's not just a young woman searching for own identity in the Native American community in which she was raised, but one questioning her new life outside her father's shadow. Above all she wonders if Shane can push past her weakened defenses to rekindle what they once had, or whether the intense blaze between them will ultimately reduce her heart to ashes.
~ Excerpt ~
“Still so damn gorgeous,” he said, and his
mouth was on me again, his fingers reaching up and pulling my hair out of its
tie. As it fell and hit my shoulders, his throat rumbled with desire. I pushed
his shirt up and over his neck and gasped at the muscles I saw.
But that
was short-lived because he was kissing me so hard, with such profound need,
that all I could do was run my hands along his shoulders and the smooth ridges
of his back. I couldn’t believe how ripped he’d gotten. He had always been
toned, but now, good God, he was beautiful.
His mouth
was on my neck, at my collarbone, on my breasts and he groaned into my skin
murmuring my name as he went. I was overcome with emotion and longing, wetness
pooling between my legs. It was like a dream that he was here, that he was
kissing me again. I never wanted it to end.
He lifted
me and turned, moving deeper into the room. The back of my knees hit the chaise
longue, the same one he’d sat in countless times over the years. One night we
had even secretly made out in it, the summer we’d hidden our attraction. I
could scarcely sit there without remembering how it felt to have his tongue in
my mouth. But the reality was so much better.
He stood
and began unbuttoning his pants, his gaze roving all over me, his eyes glittering
pinpoints of hunger. My breath faltered just watching him and I couldn’t hold
back any longer. I leaned forward and began touching and kissing every inch of
his skin that I could reach.
He
squatted down in front of me and hooked his hands beneath my knees, hauling me
toward him so that the crux of my thighs was at eye level. His palm glided over
the damp center of my underwear and my legs begin to tremble. “Your smell turns
me on.”
I moaned
as he corkscrewed two of his fingers into the soft middle panel, locating my
entrance. “Oh God.”
I was a
panting, quaking mess and all he’d done was touch me over my panties.
Meet Dakota & Shane in this standalone second romance!
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~ About the Author
~
Mother, wife, reader, dreamer. Christina lives in the
Midwest with her husband and son--her two favorite guys.
She's addicted to lip gloss and salted caramel everything.
She believes in true love and kissing, so writing romance novels has become a
dream job.
Author of the Between Breaths series from Penguin. ALL OF
YOU, BEFORE YOU BREAK, WHISPER TO ME and PROMISE ME THIS available now. Book
five in the series, THERE YOU STAND, coming in April, 2015.
Also, her Adult Contemporary Romance, TWO OF HEARTS is
releasing on May 5th, 2015.
~ Connect with Christina ~
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