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Looking for a Valentine’s Day read? If you like your Friends-to-Lovers stories as smoking hot as they are sweet, then check out my Valentine’s Day themed erotic romance GETTING FRIENDLY–Temporarily marked down to $1.99 .
It’s a TOP Pick from THE SEASON Blog, where Beverly says, “Three words sum up GETTING FRIENDLY, scorching sexual tension. I loved it!”
AMAZON
BARNS & NOBLE
EXCERPT:
CHAPTER ONE
February 14th
Twelve years of friendship. In all that time, he hadn’t done it. And he wasn’t going to do it now. Absolutely not.
Matt Reeves stood with Nichole folded in his arms, the limits of platonic stretching with every ragged breath and each passing car—making the wet shush of tires sluicing through the day’s accumulation of melting snow outside, the soundtrack to this moment of weakening resolve. Jaw clenched, he willed himself to let her go.
Nichole peered up at him, her over-bright blue eyes glistening beneath a dark fringe of damp lashes. “Everything was falling apart. Everything I’d worked so hard for. My company. My reputation. It all hinges on the Kink opening tonight.”
Their stares held a moment too long, and a tiny furrow pulled between her brows as her gaze drifted to his mouth. Breath feathering in soft puffs against the open collar of his shirt, she wet her lips with the pink tip of her tongue. Lingered briefly in that suspended state of indecision, before bringing her questioning focus back to his eyes. “You’re saving me.”
Matt swallowed hard, warning himself this was gratitude. Misplaced emotion under the guise of attraction. Nothing more. The model hired for the club opening that night had broken his leg an hour before, putting Nicki into a panic that she wouldn’t be able to deliver on her proposal. As it happened, Matt fit the bill, and had been willing to step in.
He’d bailed her out of a jam, and now she was looking at him like her own personal hero. The firm stroke to his ego, fortifying the rebel force staging a coup beneath his belt. But the uprising was one he needed to tamp down. Fast.
Nichole was his best friend. Without benefits. The cornerstone in the foundation of his life. The one who got him. Who understood. Who made him laugh and listened when he needed to talk. She ribbed him about his dates, trash-talked about everything from Scrabble to her fantasy football team kicking the crap out of his. She was one of the guys—albeit, one who happened to come stocked with a wholly different set of enticing amenities.
She was his friend.
In his head and in his heart he knew exactly how she fit. Where she belonged. What he wanted. Only when she looked at him like she was now, his cock got ideas about putting her in other positions altogether. Ideas he wouldn’t risk acting on. Not even for a taste of the sweet, wet mouth that had been tormenting him on and off since high school…and ruthlessly for the last months.
“Anyone would have done it. Any one of the guys.”
“But it’s always you,” she murmured softly. “It always has been.”
He gritted his teeth as her fists unfurled between them, resting too damn hot against his chest.
Don’t do it, man. Don’t even think about it.
I’ve got a brand new column over at The Pink Heart Society talking about life as a Write At Home Mom. Hope you’ll pop over and check it out.
pinkheartsociety.blogspot.com/2012/01/write-at-home-mom-talking-2012.html
Just saw the most fantastic review of GETTING FRIENDLY and I’m all a jumping around delighted this morning now. Thanks so very much to Beverly at THE SEASON FOR ROMANCE for taking the time to review my story.
Berverly says, “Three words sum up GETTING FRIENDLY, scorching sexual tension. I loved it! ”
I’m over at the Pink Heart Society today sharing a family recipe and a little about the woman behind it…
How about a bit of both, because that’s what you’ll find on my recently updated BOOKSHELF page on this site. I’ve included all of my available backlisted books under both my Mira Lyn Kelly and Moira McTark (this would be the naughty one, lol) pen names. Everything is available through Amazon, though I only had time to link the McTark covers directly back to Samhain. Will try to get more BUY links up in the next month or so.
Oh I know I’m such a slack about keeping up on my website and Facebook (Twitter though, seriously you can’t shut me up about all the mundane little happenings in my everyday, lol). But the truth is, there hasn’t been a ton of urgent stuff going on. GETTING FRIENDLY released in September and made a bunch of noise about it (Thanks again to everyone who picked it up and for all the awesome great feedback!) and then THE S BEFORE EX hit the shelves in October, also with the confetti tossing and general whoop whoop that accompanies a new release.
Happenings on the horizon… I’ve sold NEVER LEAVE PAST MIDNIGHT (Working title: Mr. Right-Now) and am thrilled to be looking at May UK/August US release dates. Have just heard back from my editor on the proposal I turned in for GET LUCKY (working title) and was thrilled to get an awesomely positive response. This one starts out in Vegas with a wicked little set-up that kept me cackling through writing the entire first three chapters. So hoping the rest of the story works out nearly as well and will keep you up to date on deets (An easy promise as I’m the slowest writer in the world and won’t possibly have anything to report back for months!)
The year is wrapping up and with it my stint as editor at Pink Heart Society. Come January I’ll be retiring my editors hat and stepping into the role of columnist, contributing one post a month about life as a write-at-home-mom. Looking forward to that change as it will open up a bit more of time I never seem to have enough of…and speaking of, I’m late for making Christmas cookies!! Gotta go
Huge congrats to my friend Suzie Quint who just made #11 on Kindles Top 100 FREE list with her fabulous contemporary romance short ALL’S FAIR . I totally loved this story and love the whole McKnight family from the series she is building around them. So if you’re in the market for a new fave author, why not give ALL’S FAIR a test drive for free!
Hope you love it!
NEVER STAY PAST MIDNIGHT has a release date of May 2012! Whoot! That’s UK at least, not sure if US will coincide or follow later. More deets as available.
I’m blogging over at the PINK HEART SOCIETY today with a family pleasing recipe for Roasted Garlic Alfredo and a chance to win WILD FLING OR A WEDDING RING or FRONT PAGE AFFAIR. Pop on over and say hi!