Rumor Control: The Men of Sentinel Security Book One - #Reporter #NavySeal #Romance @taishademay012

Blurb

Wounded in action, the only thing former Navy Seal turned security expert, Archer Lincoln wants is to be left alone. But when he finds himself the focus of the tabloids and gossip columns, he has no choice but to go to the enemy for help.

Ambitious New York Beat reporter Trinity Black wants to move to the news desk. She knows it’s where she belongs, even if nobody else thinks so. But the only way to do that is to snag the story of a lifetime. When she is approached by Archer for help rehabbing his image, she is reluctant to help. After all, she isn’t exactly his favorite person. Especially not after an article previously written about him by her. But knows this is the one thing she needs to propel her to where she wants to be, so Trinity agrees. But as time passes and she gets to know him, Trinity realizes he isn’t the man she and everyone believes he is. And Archer gets to know her, he too realizes he’s been wrong about her. Can these two, stop fighting long enough to fall in love, or will their plans blow up in both their faces?

Excerpt

His plan was ridiculous. Outrageous. So why was she so tempted? Because he was dangling an irresistible lure in front of me. Damn him. She’d do anything to get the business reporter’s beat.

“Well?” he prompted.

Trinity shook her head. “Can’t. I don’t want to compromise my journalistic integrity. I’m sure you’ve heard of that, right?”

“Isn’t it a little late to be thinking about that? Considering your line of work.”

She frowned. “I’ll have you know, all my information is checked and verified before I write a story.”

He arched a brow. “Oh really? I seemed to recall a story you did about a CEO that caused a lot of trouble, and you nearly paid a heavy price for that mistake.”

“Yeah, don’t remind me,” she muttered.

“So, I’ll ask you again, will you help me?”

Trinity sighed. “How do I know you won’t renege on me?”

He made the sign of the cross on his chest. “You have my word.”

“Not good enough.”

He sighed in frustration. “I’ve already offered you broad access to Sentinel, as well as the identity of my father’s successor, what more do you want?”

She considered it for a moment. “I don’t know if I should take the chance on this blowing up in both our faces. It’s too much of a risk, especially on my part. I’ve already made one huge mistake; I don’t need to make another.”

“Don’t tell me you aren’t the least bit tempted? The two of us together would be explosive.”

Before she could respond, he lowered his head, taking her lips with his. The only thing she could do was give into it. He smelled like soap, aftershave, and man. He tasted of mint, warmth, and subtle sweetness. An intoxicating mixture.

When their kiss ended, Trinity reached up and slapped him as hard as she could, before brushing passed him, hurrying inside and across the ballroom, while Archer stared at her retreating back. Perhaps he may have laid it on a little bit too thick? Damn!

Book link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M81CL72

About the Author

Author Taisha Demay is a New York native, but resides in North Carolina. She is the author of Taste of Intrigue: Food Fight Mysteries, Lady Guardians: Black Money (Mystic Belles) and the newly released, Rumor Control: The Men of Sentinel Security. Not content with strictly writing in the fiction arena, she began expanding her portfolio by becoming a Blogger and Reviewer. An independent author, she has started her own company, NewYorkCityGirl,LLC and working on her fourth release.

A passionate author who brings a wide variety of characters to life of page after page of pulse-pounding stories from the city that never sleeps and beyond. A Blogger and Reviewer, she is also, a member of the Erotic Authors Guild, Erotic Readers and Writers Association, and the Society of Children’s Writer’s and Illustrators.

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My Life as a Lesbian

By Roger Collis (Guest Blogger)

Not my real life, I hasten to add; although the boundary between reality and imagination is somewhat blurred these days. Oscar Wilde famously said: ‘One’s real life is often the life one does not lead.’ And, after all, the mind has been described as the ultimate sex organ.

I am what you might call a ‘regular guy,’ a hot-bloodied heterosexual male of a certain age (and an uncertain future) with five children spread among three marriages, and a few affairs.

A few months ago, I was browsing in a favorite bookstore in London, when I came across a remaindered copy of ‘Best Lesbian Erotica 09’ published by Cleis Press. I was taken by a story ‘Velvet’ by Lisabet Sarai, its literacy, depths of feeling… So I wrote Lisabet a fan letter – which is why and how I come to be writing this guest blog for Lisabet’s ‘Beyond Romance.’

Which begs the question, how come my interest in lesbians, in how they behave, in what drives them, in what turns them on? Not in a voyeuristic way, you understand, but more in a participative way – to share their experience, to participate, to become one of them if only in the mind.

As a man, I always thought that the ultimate sexual experience was the exquisite thrill of penetration, of being inside a woman – of possessing, and being possessed, drawn in and trapped. But you know the penis is a vastly over-rated piece of male kit; it is unreliable; unpredictable; one or two shots at the most, until in the words of Dylan Thomas, it comes ‘pouting out when the limp time comes.’

The penis, it seems, can never compete with the strap-on dildo that I read about in lesbian erotica, that provides both parties an endless cascade of orgasms. And then there all the other things which only two women lovers can do – such as scissoring with their pudenda exquisitely enjoined; and the manifold permutations in the reciprocity of oral sex. So how envious can a guy get?

I am conscious here that I am writing a blog, not an article. I wish I could remember what Joan Didion said about the difference between writing a blog and a regular piece. Didion said something about when she started to think too much about structure, she realized she was starting to write an article. Perhaps it is also something to do with relaxing, letting it all flow; there is, inevitably, something self-indulgent about writing a blog – a temptation to let it all hang out in a stream of consciousness.

But freedom brings its own restraints and responsibilities.

Over the years, I suppose I have written around 600 columns for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. And it is hard to escape the tyranny of the ‘pyramid lead,’ and the ‘editor over the shoulder:’ which is what I’m trying to do without ignoring the ‘reader over the shoulder.’

So let’s try and relax; let’s try to forget the serried rows of copy editors out there longing to get their hands on my copy. Not that I’m not grateful guys; but this is my spot for now.

When I lie on my back in bed and fantasize, I am a young man enslaved by a much older woman, required to service her orally; or else, I am waking up in a mysterious clinic with the news that I have had transgender surgery; that I am now a woman ready to service my lesbian mistress…

And, as I lie back (with a surging erection), I think with wonder of my new shape ‘down there;’ the marvelous multilayered complexity of the female pudenda, the outer and inner labia, the clitoris, the opening of the vagina… making love with another woman.

So, if I could ever come back to earth in another incarnation, it would be as a lesbian, not a butch, heaven forbid, just as a gorgeous woman with all her femininity and guile.

Bio: Roger Collis has earned world-wide recognition as a business travel guru through his weekly column, 'The Frequent Traveler,' every Friday for 23 years (1985-2008), in the International Herald Tribune; and as a contributing travel columnist for the New York Times. He has been described as the dean of business-travel journalists in Europe, who ‘created the template for business-travel columns in newspapers worldwide.’ He has written a bi-monthly column for CNN Traveler magazine for about 15 years and contributes to publications on both sides of the Atlantic. .

A veteran corporate infighter, with 15 years’ experience in international consumer marketing, Collis was educated at Liverpool University in England; he is a member of the International Alumni Association of IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The second edition of Collis’ bestselling book, "The Survivor's Guide to Business Travel," was described by the London Times as "the best source of independent travel advice on the market." He is also the author of "If My Boss Calls, Make Sure you Get His Name," a collection of columns satirizing the corporate life. He won a special award in the Carlson Wagonlit 2004 press awards for the Business Travel industry.

Roger is working on three new books: a definitive collection of management satire, a collection of erotic stories, and a cook book.

Roger is in frequent demand worldwide as a conference and round-table speaker; meetings and focus group facilitator; broadcaster; podcaster; and film narrator.

www.rogercollis.co.uk

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