Wednesday, November 8, 2017

A tempest of love - Rough Weather (#MFRWHooks #pnr #elemental)

Rough Weather cover

I missed last week’s hop, but I’m back today with a hook from my paranormal erotic romance Rough Weather. The book seems quite topical, given all the hurricanes and typhoons that have afflicted the world lately.

After you’ve read my hook, I hope you’ll visit go read the goodies on offer from the other authors participating in this week’s event. You’ll find their links at the end of my post.

Blurb

Destiny hides in the tempest’s heart

Ondine has always felt at home in the sea. Orphaned at birth and raised by her grandmother on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, she has never really questioned her extraordinary affinity for the watery world. She concentrates on her work as a marine biologist, spends her weekends relaxing among the waves and worries about human threats to her beloved ocean environment. Fears of a deadly pregnancy like her mother’s make her cautious about sex.

When she encounters an attractive but arrogant engineer on her private beach, surveying the site for a prospective off-shore wind farm, anger is her first reaction. A casual touch, however, transforms that emotion to incomprehensible, irresistible, terrifying lust.

Ebony-skinned Marut has his own talents—aside from his uncanny ability to swamp Ondine with desire. He can control the winds and summon storms. He informs Ondine that they share a supernatural heritage and claims she is his destined mate. She responds with scepticism and tries to resist the charismatic Haitian, but ultimately her scientist’s training won’t permit her to deny the evidence of her senses—and her heart. As a brutal northeaster batters the island and Marut’s life hangs in the balance, Ondine learns that true power lies in surrender to her elemental nature.


The Hook

Wind is far less destructive than fossil fuels. You know that.”

The stranger cupped his tea mug in his big hands. Marut, he called himself. His handsome face wore an earnest expression, while his body was wrapped in her old terrycloth robe, the one she planned to donate to Goodwill. Meanwhile, Ondine herself wore a loose T-shirt and sweatpants that effectively hid her curves. No sense tempting fate.

She hadn’t intended to bring him here, but his clothing was soaked and, like her, he had bloody abrasions on his hands and knees from their fierce encounter on the rocks. So she’d led him over the dunes—careful not to touch him—to the weathered clapboard house she’d inherited from her grandmother. After giving him antiseptic and Band Aids, she’d left him alone in the downstairs bathroom to clean himself up and tend to his wounds. She certainly didn’t intend to play nurse to him, that was certain. She had no idea what had possessed her out on the beach, but she didn’t want to experience it again.

Not that it hadn’t felt wondrous. Indeed, every time she looked at him, she recalled the overwhelming hunger that had seized her and the intense sensations of their frantic coupling. The pleasure had been incredible. The loss of control, though, had been terrifying.

Buy Links

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Totally Bound (on sale for only 99 cents!)
https://www.totallybound.com/book/rough-weather

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5 comments:

Janet Lane Walters said...

What a lovely cover.

Kayelle Allen said...

Interesting! Loss of control was terrifying. Makes you want to read more.

Kris Bock said...

Gotta love a man who cares about the environment. :-)

Holly Bargo said...

Great Cover!

Anonymous said...

Now I'm really wondering what happened at the water.

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