Dangerous Secrets --- Luke and Julie's story!
72,000 words!
Being a divorce attorney for the rich and famous isn't all it's cracked
up to be. Julie Harrison has learned that love doesn't last, and she's
sworn never to make the same mistakes as her mother, or her clients. She
uses the games men play to keep them at a distance. The only man who
managed to break down her walls was Luke Walker, a Navy SEAL who loved
her and left her, and changed her forever.
When Luke arrives back in New York, running Walker Security with his
brothers and having left his Navy SEAL days behind, he sets his sights
on Julie, the woman he's always wanted and couldn't have. Except, she
runs from him every time he gets close.
But now, one of Julie's clients, a powerful judge, gets involved with a
dangerous cartel, and his soon-to-be-ex wife ends up dead. Julie's next
on the list, and she finds herself on the run from those who believe
she knows too much, and counting on Luke to keep her alive. In the
deepest, darkest moments of the night, passion will bring them together
while danger threatens to tear them apart. Can Julie and Luke trust each
other and find their happy ending before they find ... the end?
About the series...
The Walker Brothers...
Tall, dark, and deadly, these three brothers run Walker security.
Each brother is unique in his methods and skills, but all share key
similarities. They are passionate about those they love, relentless when
fighting for a cause they believe in, and all believe that no case is
too hard, no danger too dark. Dedication is what they deliver, results
are their reward.
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Shades of Grey meets Basic Instinct
Book 1: If I Were You
Book 2: Being Me
Book 3: Revealing Us
He is rich and famous, and dark in ways I shouldn't find
intriguing, but I do. I so do. I don't understand why his dark side
appeals to me, but the attraction between us is rich with velvety
promises of satisfaction. Chris is dark, and so are his desires, but I
cannot turn away. He is damaged beneath his confident good looks and
need for control, and in some way, I feel he needs me. I need him.
More About IF I WERE YOU
How it began....
One day I was a high school teacher on summer break, leading a
relatively uneventful but happy life. Or so I told myself. Later, I'd
question that, as I would question pretty much everything I knew about
me, my relationships, and my desires. It all began when my neighbor
thrust a key to a storage unit at me. She'd bought it to make extra
money after watching some storage auction show. Now she was on her way
to the airport to elope with a man she barely knew, and she needed me to
clear out the unit before the lease expires.
Soon, I was standing inside a small room that held the intimate
details of another woman's life, feeling uncomfortable , as if I was
invading her privacy. Why had she let these items so neatly packed,
possessions that she clearly cared about deeply, be lost at an auction?
Driven to find out by some unnamed force, I began to dig, to discover
this woman's life, and yes, read her journals---dark, erotic journals
that I had no business reading. Once I started, I couldn't stop. I read
on obsessively, living out fantasies through her words that I'd never
dare experience on my own, compelled by the three men in her life, none
of whom had names. I read onward until the last terrifying dark entry
left me certain that something had happened to this woman. I had to find
her and be sure she was okay.
Before long, I was taking her job for the summer at the art gallery,
living her life, and she was nowhere to be found. I was becoming someone
I didn't know. I was becoming her...
The dark, passion it becomes...
Now, I am working at a prestigious gallery, where I have always
dreamed of being, and I've been delivered to the doorstep of several
men, all of which I envision as one I've read about in the journal. But
there is one man that will call to me, that will awaken me in ways I
never believed possible. That man is the ruggedly sexy artist, Chris
Merit, who wants to paint me. He is rich and famous, and dark in ways I
shouldn't find intriguing, but I do. I so do. I don't understand why his
dark side appeals to me, but the attraction between us is rich with
velvety promises of satisfaction. Chris is dark, and so are his desires,
but I cannot turn away. He is damaged beneath his confident good looks
and need for control, and in some way, I feel he needs me. I need him.
All I know for certain is that he knows me like I don't even know me,
and he says I know him. Still, I keep asking myself -- do I know him?
Did he know her, the journal writer, and where is she? And why doesn't
it seem to matter anymore? There is just him and me, and the burn for
more.
EXCERPT:
His fingers knot in my hair and I gasp at the unexpected bite of his
grip, holding me steady. "Is that all you got?" I demand, shocked at how
much I want more. How much I want whatever is beneath his surface.
I'm not scared. I'm aroused. I'm ready.
His eyes probe mine, his expression hard, intense. "I thought you were a good little school teacher."
"You're corrupting me," I declare, "and I seem to like it." I barely
issue the challenge before he's pulling my mouth to his, and he is
kissing me with unrestrained, burning passion. I taste the part of him I
want to know, the part he's afraid of, and I burn to know more. Maybe
he's right. Maybe I am playing with fire, but I cannot stop myself.
Beyond reason, I will push him until he reveals everything
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I really, really don't like cliff hanger endings. I think each book should be a complete book, a stand a lone book that works well in a series. I don't do cliff hanger endings.
ReplyDeleteYes, but I have been blindsided before (Karen Marie Moning, Jim Butcher, Shiloh Walker etc.) and although I growl, I do still anxiously await the next book...I just complain bitterly while I am waiting. We are definitely an instant gratification society and it's even worse when you have to wait a year for the next book but fortunately that happens less and less. This one is still definitely worth reading, even if you wait until closer the the publication date of the next one, lol.
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