MARKED: Three stories of passion, possession, and ink
Stories can take us from our everyday world into the future, or to places in the current here and now that we’ve never before been. They can show us heat, and passion, and in the case of an anthology, provide more than one trip to a fabulous happily-ever-after.
Kit Rocha, Lauren Dane and Vivian Arend welcome you to MARKED. Three brand new stories we’re thrilled to share with you.
We’re stopping off at some our favorite blogs with some steamy excerpts. Each of us has pulled a snippet from our novella following a chosen theme, to give you a taste of what you’ll find in MARKED. The theme for this post?
~~~TOUCH ME~~~
Beyond Temptation
Kit Rocha returns to Sector Four in BEYOND TEMPTATION. A promise to a dying friend backfires when Noah Lennox finds that the girl he was supposed to rescue is all grown up–and wearing O’Kane ink. He wants to protect her from the secrets of their past, but she wants him. And an O’Kane woman always gets what she wants.
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His arms flexed as he hauled his shirt over his head and let it fall. “Then touch me.”
Touch him? He may as well have asked her to touch some priceless pre-Flare sculpture. The lines were the same, chiseled and perfect, but carved from muscle instead of stone. Alive and responsive.
Emma came to her knees. She traced the hard swell of one pectoral, grazed his nipple, and molded her hand to his shoulder. “You’re beautiful.” His skin was bare, unadorned, but she could already see the art beneath it, the places where she’d lay ink.
His head tilted back and swallowed. “I’m out of practice,” he said roughly. “I haven’t had a lot of time for…affection lately.”
“No?” That was a shame. A body like his should be celebrated–tasted and stroked and licked and sketched, committed to memory in every sense that existed.
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Rocky Ride
Take a ROCKY RIDE with New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Vivian Arend as she leads you back to the Six Pack Ranch. Anna Coleman might be the law around Rocky Mountain House, but bad boy Mitch Thompson knows that under the stiff RCMP uniform is a woman with a passion for speed and pleasure that matches his own, and he’s not giving up until she’s his.
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She looked up into a far more serious expression than expected. “What?”
Mitch stroked a thumb over her cheek, his touch lingering and affectionate. “Thank you for coming out tonight. Thank you for agreeing to try this with me. You’re one hell of a woman.”
All her fears seemed irrational in light of the passion in his eyes. She rubbed her cheek against his hand for a second. It was time for them to go public? They might as well do it right. “One hell of a woman who plans to ride you hard tonight.”
The double entendre shot all seriousness away like she’d hoped, and suddenly her cocky, arrogant hoodlum was back in control. “You wish, babe. You wish.”
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All That Remains
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lauren Dane takes you into a brand new world in ALL THAT REMAINS. Summer Killian falls fast and hard when Charlie arrives in Paradise Village. But the heat turns all the way up when she learns Charlie is also with Hatch – the man she loved three years before. While she’s not sure she’s cut out for a triad, neither man is going to give her up.
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Summer took a shuddering breath as Charlie touched her calves, catching the soft material of her dress up. His hands were work-rough, warm, big and sure, a contrast to the well worn, soft as a breath cotton of her dress.
The night air came through the open windows of her caravan, like a kiss against the skin he revealed as the hem inched higher and higher. There was something narcotic about this moment and she let it take her.
Her head bent, her hair over her face, hiding from Hatch who saw her to her bones.
He allowed it but she knew he wouldn’t for long.
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