Release
date: May 16, 2015
Meredith Sanders was the golden girl in high school—a homecoming
queen with a trail of worshipping minions. Now she's all grown up with a trail
of failed marriages. The only good thing she has in her life is her
brilliant and beautiful teenaged step-daughter...who's missing. But the best
man for the job has a serious hate-on for her.
Back in high school, queen bee
Meredith made Travis Brennan's life miserable. Since then, he's gone from class
geek to a hardened, former SEAL, specializing in private security. As much as
he wants to help Meredith's step-daughter, he can't help but clash with the
gorgeous woman who once made his life hell.
But as they investigate the
increasingly mysterious disappearance, their conflicted past threatens to turn
into a very provocative present...
About the author:
Ashlee was thirteen when she
discovered her first Kathleen E. Woodiwiss book hidden away in her mom's
closet. After two days of staying home "sick" from school to finish
it, she was hooked. Her rabid love for romance has continued ever since and
after a misadventure in the world of law, she is finally settling into her
dream job of writing about people finding their happily ever afters.
Excerpt
She turned, about to toss the pill in her
mouth, only to find Travis’s hulking body in front of her.
A scream tore from her mouth followed by
the sound of shattering glass. Cold water splashed at her feet.
“Don’t move,” he said and stepped forward
enough to grab her by the waist and lift her into his arms to carry her past
the broken glass. It happened so fast that it took her a moment to realize that
she was being held in the warm arms of the very man she’d come down to try to
forget.
The thumping of his heart under her hand
made her aware she had braced her hand against him.
And that he wasn’t wearing a shirt.
Immediately she wanted to run her fingers
across the smooth expanse of skin, to see if he’d tremble at her touch. She
shook her head. Madness.
She should move her hand. There was no
need to brace herself for anything now that they were completely still. But she
was loath to remove it, the intimacy so comforting and heart-stopping at the
same time. She looked up to see he was watching her, his mouth quirked in the
slightest smile. So rare it made her stomach twist—not uncomfortably.
“I heard you on the stairs.” Of course he
had. “Wanted to make sure you were okay. Did something happen?”
Other than realizing she’d completely
lost her mind where this man was concerned? No. Nothing had happened. She shook
her head.
True to his word, he had showered, and he
now had a clean soapy smell, stronger than the more musky and sweaty scent of
earlier, but neither less nor more appealing.
“Are you going to speak anytime soon?
Because in the entire time I’ve known you, you’ve never stayed silent this
long.”
How could she form words when it was
taking every ounce of control she had not to press herself against that hard
chest, to nuzzle his smooth skin with her mouth?
“If I set you down, you’re not going to
faint, are you?”
Okay, now that was ridiculous. She’d
never do anything so foolish. “I think I’ll manage,” she said, her tone more
imperious than she’d intended, but at least she’d spoken.
He released her legs first, and she slid down his
body. His smile disappeared.
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I love the story line.
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