By Amber Daulton (Guest Blogger)
Ryan’s Temptation was a blast to write, but squeezing it into the middle of an already written series was no small task.
As I was writing Arresting Mason, book one in the series, I fell head over heels for a couple of secondary characters who were demanding stories of their own. I wrote a few more novels, and two other secondary characters put their foot down and told me I still wasn’t done, that I also needed to write two novellas.
If only I’d known how much potential book one had, I would’ve done things differently, like plotting all the additional stories before I started them. That would’ve saved me lots of time and stress in rewriting to make sure all the books fit together. I also probably could’ve published them faster too.
You see, Ryan’s Temptation was one of the last books I wrote for the series, even though it appears early in the lineup as book 2.5. All the Onyx books include the men’s names, but I chose a different format for the novellas to help readers differentiate between them and the full-length novels.
I’m happy to announce Ryan’s Temptation is now available for download. I hope you enjoying reading Ryan and Chanel’s sexy romance as much as I did writing it.
Blurb
Wrong place, wrong time. Now she’s running for her life.
Beautician Chanel Leroc can wield a pair of scissors like nobody’s business. After she witnesses a murder and lands on a serial killer’s hit list, she has to figure out how to protect herself—and fast. The killer tracks her down, but her sexy new neighbor, Dr. Ryan Naylor, drives the brute off.
The police dump the pair in a witness protection program, which doesn’t last long. Either the killer has a connection to the police, or he’s far more intelligent than they realize. All Chanel wants to do is get back to her safe life and get to know her neighbor better. Instead, she and Ryan hit the road and try to survive on their own.
How will they stay alive and keep their blooming romance intact with the killer hot on their trail?
Excerpt
“Ryan!” Chanel thrust up her arms. The pillow. Suffocating. Hard hands pushing down. Breathe! Her throat clogged, fear lancing through her. Were knives tearing at her flesh?
“Baby. It’s okay. Calm down.”
The soft masculine voice seeped through the ringing in her ears. Warm hands grasped her flailing arms. Firm lips feathered over her eyebrows and cheeks before caressing her lips and pushing minty air into her mouth. Heat curled through her body. She breached the veil of sleep and gasped into her lover’s mouth.
“Oh God, Ryan.” She twisted her fingers into his hair and deepened the kiss. His mouth, his taste, everything he was—she needed it, craved it. “Make love to me. Make me feel good. Help me forget.”
Ryan lay flat and drew her on top of him so that she straddled his waist. His thick erection tented his pants, pressed against the center of her plaid bottoms, and brushed her clitoris. Ooh, nice. She rolled her hips and curled her fingers in his coarse chest hair. When had he taken off his nightshirt? The faint slivers of light streaming from the window blinds streaked across her man, plunging him in bands of light and shadow. Damn right. Her man.
Every nerve ending in her body sizzled. She grasped his hard pecs, grazed his taut nipples, and lightly scraped her nails across his torso. The hair on his stomach rose like miniature trees. The muscles in his abs bunched under her palms.
“Take control. Do as you want.” Ryan rasped the words, arched his back, and gripped her hips.
Her confidence skyrocketed. How did he know what she needed? Could he read her mind, or did his compassion come from his gift of understanding? If all physicians were like him, maybe she wouldn’t detest them so much.
She licked a wet trail up his left biceps and nibbled the hard expanse. A fine sheen of sweat coated his skin—salty and sweet. Delicious.
He groaned, twisting his head from side to side, and thrust his sheathed cock across her thigh. “Why are you torturing me?”
“Because I can, and you like it.”
“Goddamn it, I do.”
Butterflies took flight in her belly. She yanked off her top, shifted sideways, and stripped off her bottoms and panties. Pleasure shot through her as he thumbed one of her taut nipples.
“Condom. My wallet.” Ryan tugged down his pajama pants and boxers.
She scurried from the bed and grabbed his jeans from the floor. After finding her prize, she knelt back over him and gripped the thick rod jutting from a nest of curls.
“Fuck, yes. Harder, Chanel.”
She rubbed up and down, drawing throaty gasps from his mouth. A pearl drop moistened her hand and aided the slide. She ripped open the packet and eased the latex onto his erection.
“Let me ready you.” He leaned up and grasped her leg.
“Shh. I can’t wait another minute.”
Buy Links
Universal link - https://books2read.com/RyansTemptation
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Official Trailer: https://youtu.be/iuDwwCxD_vA
About the Author
She lives in North Carolina with her husband and demanding cats.
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To celebrate the release of Ryan’s Temptation, I’m giving away two prizes.
First place prize: $50 Amazon or Barnes and Noble gift card
Second place prize: $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble gift card
Contest runs from July 15 to August 16. You only have a few hours left to enter!
2 comments:
Congratulations on the new release, Amber!
I mostly have written standalone books rather than series. Now I'm in the middle of a series and it's a whole new ball game. I find myself bringing up the earlier books all the time, to check for consistency of detail. It's a pain!
But I gather readers love series...
Anyway, hope this one does really well.
Hi, Lisabet.
Thanks so much for featuring Ryan's Temptation.
It's certainly easier to write single titles, but a series can be so much fun (and more stressful! haha). I bring up my earlier series books, too, to double check things. I also use a character sheet for each book that helps me keep track of who the characters are. It helps a lot!
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