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To help promote her upcoming release, CHAINS, author Shiloh Walker is doing a dash through some of the blogs in romanceland, leaving behind excerpts. If youâd like to get entered to win a gift certificate for $100 (your choice from the online booksellers), all you have to do is visit the blogs, read the excerpts and leave a comment. The excerpts are in order, just visit the first blog, Karen Knows Best and go on from there!
Chains
An all new novel of erotic suspense
They werenât friends. They werenât enemies. The only thing the three girls had in common was the high school they went to in Madison, Ohioâuntil one tragic night. Now, fifteen years later, theyâre returning home where passionâand dangerâawaitâŚ
Renee Lincoln was the homecoming queenâwith the perfect boyfriend and the perfect life. After that horrible night, she rebelled the only way she knew how: by submitting to her wildest fantasiesâŚ
Tall, blonde, and athletic, Lacey Talbot was a golden girl with a bright future. Sheâs found success as a photographer, but no man has ever been able to satisfy her. No man but the bad boy she left behindâŚ
Sherra Salinger has always looked like a princess out of some fairy tale. The books she writes, though, stem from the nightmare of that one night. And she shrinks from any manâs attentionâespecially the one stalking herâŚ
Theyâre coming back to Madisonâand it wonât be happy reunion. There are three men, all dangerous in a different way. And when each of them surrender their bodies to the heat, when they succumb to desire, theyâll find the safety they desperately needâŚ
Excerpt (part three)
Instead, she settled back in that hard, uncomfortable, miserable excuse of a chair and drew a knee to her chest. Resting her chin on her knee, she asked, âAny luck finding the driver?â
Seth gave a disgusted snort. âHell, no. Even in a place as small as Madison, there are a ton of dark sedan type cars.â He slid her another look. âYou sure you didnât get the make? A Ford emblem on the back? Anything?â
Lacey shook her head. âSorry. Iâm not exactly car-minded under the best of circumstances.â Her mouth suddenly dry, she licked her lips and reluctantly thought about just why it hadnât been the best circumstances.
A minute ago, sheâd been trying to focus on anything other than Seth, but now she would have been very happy to think of him. Or that one night she tried damn hard to forget.
Anything but what sheâd seen earlier.
It was a terrible thing, seeing somebody on the ground, helpless while a couple of tons of metal plowed straight towards her. Even worse when it was a friend.
Seth nodded, taking the chair across from hers. She was gladâat firstâthat he hadnât sat down next to her. But then she realized that sitting across from him made it damn hard not to look at him. Heâd always been too damn easy on the eyes and the past fifteen years had only improved that fact of life.
It was a fact she didnât want to enjoy, either. She didnât want to notice that heâd started cutting that midnight black hair, but not all the way. It was still long enough for a woman to run her hands through, framing that narrow face, just long enough to brush the collar of his shirt. His eyes were the color of dark chocolate and his eye lashes were almost ridiculously long and curly. What kind of guy needed eyelashes like that?
Unlike his twin Sherra who had to slather down with SPF 50 whenever she went out in the sun or end up looking like a lobster, Seth was tanned. Very nicely tannedâand she knew it was because he spent a lot time outside.
At places like the lake outside of townâŚwhere she liked to go to shoot pictures, where he liked to go to fishâor at least pretend to fish, wearing nothing but a pair of jeans and beat-up tennis shoes.
Her brain went back on its little stroll down memory lane and she remembered that day. A hot, muggy summer day when she had come home for a short visit five years ago. Her trip had been a last-minute one and she hadnât realized until she got home that her parents had taken a quick trip of their own and she was alone in the house. Instead of heading back to her empty apartment in [area near New York] , sheâd decided to stay in Madison and just relax a little. After sleeping in late and helping herself to some of her momâs homegrown tomatoes for breakfast, Lacey had gathered up her gear, climbed on her sadly neglected mountain bike and headed for the lake.
Hot days like that one usually had a bunch of people gathered at the southern end for swimming. The northern end wasnât as easily accessible and thatâs where a lot of guys headed for fishing. That had been her destination, too, but she was more interested in the area around the lake than any fish in it.
Seeing Seth there had come as a surprise. In high school, Seth had been the typical bad boy, practically straight out of a good girlâs fantasy, dark eyes, a wicked smile, a way of watching you that turned the insides to molten lava. The years since graduating had only increased his appeal.
Sheâd seen his bike first, a big, mean looking bike that he had built with his own hands. Even though sheâd recognized the bike, it had been a surprise to see him there, a fishing pole in hand.
All that nice, golden skin probably came from days spent out on the water.
Like heâd been that dayâŚ
Stop it, Lacey! She jerked her attention back to the present, but it didnât help her focus much. Well, it didnât help her focus on anything besides Seth.
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