Last year I discovered Christina Lee‘s New Adult series and fell in love. Whisper to Me, book 2, is set to release May 20th. Though I didn’t love it as much as I did Before You Break, book 2, I found it to be witty, sexy and emotionally compelling. I’m excited to share an exclusive excerpt with you today.
A hot and consuming New Adult romance about a wayward musician and the one girl who keeps him grounded…
At college, Rachel has a reputation for being a sarcastic flirt with a thing for star athletes. No one at school knows that she’d had her heart ripped to shreds by her high school sweetheart, who’d driven them both off the side of the road on a borrowed motorcycle, and then abandoned her. No one knows the real Rachel Mattson–except one person…
Ever since he helped nurse his sister’s feisty best friend back to health, pierced bass player Kai Nakos has been head over heels in love. But the supposed bad boy can’t risk letting Rachel know the truth–especially now that the two of them are back in their hometown for the summer, together for the first time since the months following that fateful night. Never mind that Rachel’s ex is back, groveling for her forgiveness.
Shaken by her ex’s return, Rachel finds herself turning to the one guy she knows she can trust. Kai is willing to hide his feelings for her, just to have Rachel touch him again. After all, this is only a temporary fling. Until it becomes something more. But maybe it had been more all along…
WHISPER TO ME Exclusive Excerpt
His eyes were hooded and filled with so much desire that I almost wanted to look away from the truth hidden inside them. He studied my mouth, corner to corner, and then slid his gaze up to meet mine. A fireworks display of yearning exploded inside me.
“I know he left you,” Kai said with a gravelly voice that was like fingernails sliding up my bare skin. I could hardly focus on the meaning behind the words. His head bent forward, his mouth finding my ear. “But look at you now. Strong. Confident. Gorgeous.”
“You left me, too.” I didn’t even know where the words had come from. From somewhere deep inside my body. Deep inside my soul.
He braced his arms against the bar and flicked his penetrating gaze to my eyes.
“Is that what you believe?” As if on cue, tears began to pool behind my eyes again.
“I . . . I don’t know.” I shook my head. Why had I said that? Maybe I had always wanted him to know. That I had needed him to stay. “Ye . . . yes.”
“Fuck, Rach.” His voice sounded tortured as he grabbed on to the back of my head and tugged me closer to him. “I never left you. Never.”
Kai’s warm heat was wrapped around me. His heady scent was potent now—soap and spice, and all man. It made my brain all kinds of fuzzy.
My lips skimmed along his neck, and I pinned his earlobe between my teeth. “Show me, Kai. Show me that you didn’t leave me.”
A low groan escaped his mouth right before his fingers tunneled deeper through my hair, the pads of his thumbs mapping patterns against the hollow of my throat.
His mouth hovered close to mine. So damn close that I could feel the current running between our lips, like a magnetic force drawing us together.
I could see him deliberating—his midnight eyes were deep pools of wonder and lust and heat, and I wanted to swim in them, get lost in them tonight.
Kai’s lips brushed mine—a barely-there kiss—and the hairs on my arms stood at attention.
His mouth was soft and his lips tender as he applied gentle pressure again. I closed my eyes and hummed from the sensation.
“Rachel,” he whispered, and my entire body erupted into flames.
Rowena and I are both giving books by Lee away this month. Check out our Monthly Reads post for more details.
Whisper to Me will be available from Intermix. You can pre-order it here or here in e-format.
Holy goodness…I can’t wait to read this book!