Two Of Hearts
by
Christina Lee
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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.
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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.
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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.
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