Capture Me
by
Anna Zaires
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Genre: Dark
Romance
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Photo by: Lindee Robinson Photography
Models: Sarah Stroven and Adam Stroven
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Synopsis ~
A new dark romance series from the New
York Times bestselling author of Twist Me
She fears him from the first moment
she sees him.
Yulia Tzakova is no stranger to
dangerous men. She grew up with them. She survived them. But when she meets
Lucas Kent, she knows the hard ex-soldier may be the most dangerous of them
all.
One night—that’s all it should be. A
chance to make up for a failed assignment and get information on Kent’s arms
dealer boss. When his plane goes down, it should be the end.
Instead, it's just the beginning.
He wants her from the first moment he
sees her.
Lucas Kent has always liked leggy
blondes, and Yulia Tzakova is as beautiful as they come. The Russian interpreter
might’ve tried to seduce his boss, but she ends up in Lucas’s bed—and he has
every intention of seeing her there again.
Then his plane goes down, and he
learns the truth.
She betrayed him.
Now she will pay.
NOTE: Capture Me is the first book about Lucas & Yulia and has a
cliffhanger-ish ending. It’s a long novella/short novel of approximately 45,000
words (about 200 pages) and is a spin-off from the Twist Me trilogy.
It’s not necessary to have read that trilogy to enjoy Capture Me, but
the book does contain major spoilers for books 2 and 3 of Twist Me.
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Author’s
Note: This
is from Yulia’s POV. For those of you familiar with the Twist Me series, this
scene takes place in Moscow, when Lucas & Julian were there to meet with
the Russian officials.
He
steps into my apartment as soon as the door swings open. No hesitation, no
greeting—he just comes in.
Startled, I step back, the short, narrow
hallway suddenly stiflingly small. I’d somehow forgotten how big he is, how
broad his shoulders are. I’m tall for a woman—tall enough to fake being a model
if an assignment calls for it—but he towers a full head above me. With the
heavy down jacket he’s wearing, he takes up almost the entire hallway.
Still not saying a word, he closes the
door behind him and advances toward me. Instinctively, I back away, feeling
like cornered prey.
“Hello, Yulia,” he murmurs, stopping when
we’re out of the hallway. His pale gaze is locked on my face. “I wasn’t
expecting to see you like this.”
I swallow, my pulse racing. “I just took
a bath.” I want to seem calm and confident, but he’s got me completely
off-balance. “I wasn’t expecting visitors.”
“No, I can see that.” A faint smile
appears on his lips, softening the hard line of his mouth. “Yet you let me in.
Why?”
“Because I didn’t want to continue
talking through the door.” I take a steadying breath. “Can I offer you some
tea?” It’s a stupid thing to say, given what he’s here for, but I need a few
moments to compose myself.
He raises his eyebrows. “Tea? No,
thanks.”
“Then can I take your jacket?” I can’t
seem to stop playing the hostess, using politeness to cover my anxiety. “It
looks quite warm.”
Amusement flickers in his wintry gaze.
“Sure.” He takes off his down jacket and hands it to me. He’s left wearing a
black sweater and dark jeans tucked into black winter boots. The jeans hug his
legs, revealing muscular thighs and powerful calves, and on his belt, I see a
gun sitting in a holster.
Irrationally, my breathing quickens at
the sight, and it takes a concerted effort to keep my hands from shaking as I
take the jacket and walk over to hang it in my tiny closet. It’s not a surprise
that he’s armed—it would be a shock if he wasn’t—but the gun is a stark
reminder of who Lucas Kent is.
What he is.
It’s no big deal, I tell myself, trying
to calm my frayed nerves. I’m used to dangerous men. I was raised among them.
This man is not that different. I’ll sleep with him, get whatever information I
can, and then he’ll be out of my life.
Yes, that’s it. The sooner I can get it
done, the sooner all of this will be over.
Closing the closet door, I paste a
practiced smile on my face and turn back to face him, finally ready to resume
the role of confident seductress.
Except he’s already next to me, having
crossed the room without making a sound.
My pulse jumps again, my new found
composure fleeing. He’s close enough that I can see the gray striations in his
pale blue eyes, close enough that he can touch me.
And a second later, he does touch me.
Lifting his hand, he runs the back of his
knuckles over my jaw.
I stare up at him, confused by my body’s
instant response. My skin warms and my nipples tighten, my breath coming
faster. It doesn’t make sense for this hard, ruthless stranger to turn me on.
His boss is more handsome, more striking, yet it’s Kent my body’s reacting to.
All he’s touched thus far is my face. It should be nothing, yet it’s intimate
somehow.
Intimate and disturbing.
I swallow again. “Mr. Kent—Lucas—are you
sure I can’t offer you something to drink? Maybe some coffee or—” My words end
in a breathless gasp as he reaches for the tie of my robe and tugs on it, as
casually as one would unwrap a package.
“No.” He watches as the robe falls open,
revealing my naked body underneath. “No coffee.”
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Coming February 2016 .........
He’s determined to break her.
For
Lucas Kent, his new prisoner is a maddening contradiction: compliant yet
defiant, fragile yet strong. He needs to uncover her secrets, but doing so may
ruin everything.
His
obsession could destroy her.
She’s determined to escape.
For
Yulia Tzakova, her captor is the man of both her dreams and her nightmares:
tender one moment, cruel the next. She can’t let him crack her, but resisting
him may leave her broken.
A
moment of weakness could cost her everything.
NOTE: Bind Me is book 2 of 4 in Lucas &
Yulia’s story, and it ends on a cliffhanger.
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~ About the Author ~
Anna Zaires fell in love with books
at the age of five, when her grandmother taught her to read. She wrote her
first story shortly thereafter. Since then, she has always lived partially in a
fantasy world where the only limits were those of her imagination. Currently
residing in Florida, Anna is happily married to Dima Zales (a science fiction
and fantasy author) and closely collaborates with him on all their works.
After graduating from the
University of Chicago with a degree in Economics, Anna spent eight years on
Wall Street analyzing stocks and writing research reports. In 2013, she became
a full-time author, pursuing her lifelong dream of writing romance novels.
Dima Zales is the love of her life
and a huge inspiration in all aspects of her writing. Every book Anna writes is
a product of their unique collaborative process.
In addition to reading and writing,
Anna enjoys drinking tea (coconut oolong, anyone?), watching addictive TV
shows, and discussing book ideas during long walks with her amazing husband.
She loves hearing from her readers,
so please don't hesitate to contact her through her website or connect with her
on Facebook, where she hangs out way too often. Also, please visit her husband
and collaborator, Dima Zales, at www.dimazales.com and check out their fantasy & science fiction books.
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