BLURB:
A descendant of the Angel of Vengeance,
Nate da Luca was gifted with an uncanny ability to find things. It made his job
as a detective a breeze—until he learned the hard way that some things should
remain hidden. After that, his powers vanished, along with his belief in
himself. Which is going to make tracking down Gabriella Littlefield for his
latest client a challenge.
Personal trainer Ella Little paid a
hefty price for her life—now all she wants is to live it in peace. Then a sexy
hulk of a man turns up in her gym, reigniting desires she thought she'd left
behind along with her real name and hair color.
Desires she can't deny even after she
discovers Nate's no stranger to her dark past.
Before he can convince her the
attraction is mutual, Nate's going to have to earn Ella's trust. But a demon is
playing for keeps in the world of humans, using Ella as bait, and the last
thing they have is time…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Excerpt:
“Feel
free to help yourself, Nate. Those rolls come from the bakery by the gym.
Ironically they do a brisk business, thanks to our clientele rewarding
themselves for working out. Do twenty reps and give yourself a cookie.”
“Thanks,
but I didn’t come here to bum a meal off of you.”
“Coffee
and a roll could never be called a meal.” As she spoke, she placed a mug of
steaming coffee at his place and settled down across from him with her own mug,
then forked a gooey roll onto his plate when he didn’t serve himself. “Correct
me if I’m wrong, but considering how you were trying to demolish my door, I
have a feeling you didn’t drop by to see if my Southern hospitality muscles
were rusty.”
His
face was the grimmest she had ever seen it as he took a fortifying sip of
coffee. “I thought I’d find you dead.”
“I
gathered that from what you were yelling, so that doesn’t surprise me.”
Surprise, no. Alarm, yes. On every possible level, her instincts were on red
alert and she was ready to bolt into the nearest hole she could find. “The
question is why you thought this. It’s not like I’m in any danger of
spontaneously keeling over. Don’t I appear to be in relatively decent shape?”
“Whatever
goddesslike shape you’re in has nothing to do with suffering a sudden accident.”
Her
mind veered off into two radically different directions—the irrelevant and the
ominous. “Goddesslike? You think I’m in goddesslike shape?”
Funny,
how the irrelevant was so much more appealing than the ominous.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Author Bio: A
competitive figure skater from the age of eight, Stacy Gail began writing
stories in between events to pass the time. By the age of fourteen, she told
her parents she was either going to be a figure skating coach who was also a
published romance writer, or a romance writer who was also a skating pro. Now
with a day job of playing on the ice with her students, and writing everything
from steampunk to cyberpunk, contemporary to paranormal at night, both dreams
have come true.
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I must admit I'd be more inclined to latch onto "goddesslike shape" rather than anthing else,.
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*laughs* You and me both, Mary. Way cooler than the ominous stuff. :D
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the excerpt. I love that he finds her godess-like
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*dreamy sigh* Me toooooo. :D
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Thanks for dropping by, Ingeborg! :)
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Thanks Karen, you too! *waves*
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ReplyDeleteWhat woman wouldn't want to be called "goddess-like shape". I know my mind would have focused on that first too.
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