Romantic Suspense/Psychological Thriller
Date Published: September 2018
Grace followed the rules. She always played it safe and never put her heart in jeopardy. Until the night she met Ryan. She’d never imagined that she could connect with an alpha male like him. Giving herself to him as he'd cradled her in his arms came naturally... until she sobered up. He was everything that she’d convinced herself she didn’t need. Or was he everything she needed?
Ryan balanced on a thin line of gray. He’d killed his share of demons but managed to live at peace with his actions. Then he met Grace, a woman who pushed all his buttons and shook him to his core. The need to have her overwhelmed him, but she kept shooting him down. Could he convince her that he was exactly what she needed?
Excerpt 1
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Ryan liked the way her cheeks flushed
when she stared at his crotch. The flash of innocence was a total turn-on. How
could she look so innocent when she was so unabashedly sexy? He couldn’t help
but groan as her hands slid over his ass cheeks and squeezed. Unintentionally,
he tilted his hips towards her as he slid a hand into her hair. With the other
hand, he tilted her head upwards and pressed his lips against hers. He tasted
the alcohol on her as he traced the seam of her lips.
She stepped
closer to him and lost herself in the kiss. She squeezed his ass again, harder
this time, and he groaned. His ass muscles clenched in her grip. The burning
ache between her legs intensified.
Parting her
lips, she moaned as his tongue caressed the inside of her mouth. She enjoyed
the overwhelming sensation of him and pressed herself against his body. The
feel of his hard cock against her sent a rush of heat between her legs.
What was it
about this guy? She didn’t go around kissing strangers or feeling them up. But
this man had the pull of a rare earth magnet to iron. She couldn’t resist the
attraction, so she enjoyed the draw. Curving her hands around his hips, she
considered ‘accidentally’ brushing her hand over his groin and sneaking a feel
of the impressive rod in his pants. But she lacked the courage. Instead, she
pressed her breasts against his chest, thankful that she hadn’t worn a padded
bra. Her nipples hardened at the heat of his body. She shifted her chest just
enough to rub her sensitized nipples against her lacy bra.
As the kiss
deepened, and her pleasure intensified, she pulled out of the kiss and glanced
up at him. “Do you want to squeeze my butt?” she purred. She knew she sounded
silly, but she was too drunk to care. She wanted his hands on her. She wanted
to feel again. Besides, it wasn’t fair that he was the only one getting groped.
She shouldn’t take advantage of him like that.
Her angelic doe
eyes stared up at him. How had she managed to make that question sound so
innocent and pure? Hell yeah, he wanted to squeeze her ass. “Darling,” he
drawled, “I thought you’d never ask.”
Excerpt 2
Turning his
torso so that he faced her, he asked, “May I kiss you?” Normally, he didn’t
formally ask a woman for permission to kiss her. He just went by the feel of
the moment. But Grace was skittish, and he didn’t want to rush her.
She knew they’d
kissed on the dance floor. Heck, she’d rubbed her body against his in a
shameful way as she’d groped him. But the way he asked her to kiss him, like he
respected her, warmed her heart. With nerves whirring through her, she nodded
and said, “Yes.”
The soft,
whisper reply warmed Ryan’s heart in a way he hadn’t expected. He wanted to
pound his chest in a proud display of masculinity. She was giving him her
trust, putting herself out there for him, and he appreciated that honor.
Ryan leaned
towards her, looking for any hesitation or concern on her part, but there was
none. The trust and innocence in her expression stirred a desire in him that he
hadn’t felt before. He’d experienced passion in a sexual sense, but now a
different type of passion heated him. This passion didn’t radiate from his
cock. It wasn’t lust based. This passion radiated from his heart and mind and
flooded his body. Grace didn’t casually give herself to men, so her affections
were so much more valuable than she even realized. He liked that purity. He
could see himself with her in a long-term relationship.
As he pressed a
hand against her cheek, his thumb brushed over her lips. Her heart fluttered at
the tender caress. She quickly licked her lips in anticipation and then felt
his lips against hers. Heat washed over her that nothing to do with the hot,
humid evening of a summer in the South. This was a heat that was stirred
through passion and went right to her core.
She wanted more
of him, tracing the seam of his lips with her tongue, she urged him to take the
kiss further. He didn’t disappoint. The little boat rocked as he repositioned
his body for a better angle to continue the kiss. His tongue slipped into her
mouth and caressed hers in an erotic dance. Her girl parts woke up and
moistened. The ease and pleasure of his kiss assured her that sex with him
would be equally pleasurable. Where had
that thought come from? They wouldn’t be having sex anytime soon, despite
the need surging through her body.
When he pulled
away, he’d left her panting and with a pulsing need between her legs that
Daniel had never stirred up. She adjusted in her seat, wishing she could beg
him for another kiss. Did he feel the same desire in his own body?
“I like you,
Grace,” he said. He wanted to kiss her again. Hell, he wanted to take her back
to his place and make love to her, but he knew that would be rushing her. If
Daniel was telling the truth, and she’d only had sex with him, then she wasn’t
the type to have sex after a first date. That was okay with him. He knew they’d
have more dates, and she’d eventually have sex with him after one of them. He
only needed to wait her out.
About the Author
Karen Tjebben lives in central North Carolina with her wonderful husband, twin daughters, and two hamsters. When her girls left for kindergarten, Karen discovered that she needed to fill her days with something, and that was the beginning of her new career in writing. She loves to create worlds filled with unique characters that she hopes will delight and raise goose bumps on her readers. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her husband and seeing the world through her daughters' eyes.
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