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Kissing Fire
By A.M. Hargrove
Contemporary Romance
Date Published: 4/15/2013
Description:
Preston Mitchell has many secrets. As an undercover DEA
agent, he’s lived a life of danger and obscurity. A relationship was never a
consideration...until the lovely Avery Middleton stumbles into his life.
To the outsider, Avery has it all...wealth, family,
connections and a great job. But on the inside, she’s miserable. With a selfish
mother driving her to the brink of insanity, a kooky neighbor that has zany
plans for her to become a sumo wrestler, and a social life that’s in the
toilet, Avery decides her only salvation is to get the hell out of town and
start a new life. So she moves across the country and right into the path of
hot and sexy, Preston.
Unfortunately, Avery ends up being in the wrong place at
the wrong time and is now running for her life. Preston is determined to
protect her but she suddenly finds herself irresistibly captivated by him.
There’s only one problem. Preston’s covert missions have
created a load of mental baggage resulting in an
impenetrable wall around him that no one can break through. But Avery rocks
Preston’s world because she is nothing like anyone he’s ever met and something
extraordinary begins to develop between them.
Can their love survive in this world, where danger, intrigue
and deception lurk on every corner?
Excerpt
Boy oh boy, was Preston hot.
Make that boiling. Scorching. Molten lava kind of hot. Messy dark brown,
slightly wavy hair that was not long but not short either. And, oh what a mouth
he had. His mouth made me want to jump on board and ride that train for life.
His lips were the perfect kind of full and every so often, he’d run his tongue
across them and I’d automatically squirm. His face was pure angular
perfection...high cheekbones with those slight hollows beneath them, that were
the perfect shape to accommodate my lips. But those eyes...my oh my. They were
golden brown, like coffee with lots of cream. I could only imagine what they
looked like right when he was... Cheezits Ava, get your head out of the bedroom!
“Wouldn’t you agree Ava?” my
brother was asking me.
I shook my head and swallowed.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?”
“We were talking about the
weather here in the summer and I was saying how much more pleasant it is than
in Charleston?”
“Oh, yes it is.” Was my voice
breathy sounding, or was it my imagination?
Preston was wearing jeans that
rode low on his hips. They were tight and he had a superior set of buns. What
would I pay to see those babies?
“Ava? What do you think?”
someone asked.
“Buns!” I blurted
out.
“Excuse me?” Caroline, my
sister-in-law, asked.
Holy Toledo, did I just say
buns out loud? What the hell Ava!!!
“Fun! Anything sounds fun!” I
quickly said.
“Ava, you look a little
flushed. Are you sure you’re feeling okay?”
“Hot! I mean no, I’m fine.” I
looked across the room and my face totally flamed. Everyone was staring at me.
I had unbuttoned my blouse and was fanning myself. I’d noticed that Preston had
a gloriously hot tattoo of a sideways cross on his arm. I think I needed to go
home.
“So Avery, where are you
staying?” Caroline asked.
“Oh, I’m at the Four Sexy.
Seasons! I mean the Four Seasons.”
Oh dear
God, I need to get my act together here.
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Bio
One day, on her way home from work as a sales manager, A.
M. Hargrove, realized her life was on fast forward and if she didn't do
something soon, it would quickly be too late to write that work of fiction she
had been dreaming of her whole life. So, she rolled down the passenger
window of her fabulous (not) company car and tossed out her leather
briefcase. Luckily, the pedestrian in the direct line of fire was a
dodgeball pro and had über quick reflexes enabling him to avoid getting bashed
in the head. Feeling a tad guilty about the near miss, A. M. made a
speedy turn down a deserted side street before tossing her crummy, outdated
piece-of-you-know-what lap top out the window. She breathed a
liberating sigh of relief, picked up her cell phone and hit #4 on her speed
dial.
Boss: Hello
A.M.: Boss, is that you?
Boss: Why yes, A. M., who else would be
answering my phone?
A.M.: Er... right. Well, I'm calling to
let you know you can pick up my luxury Ford Focus at Starbucks near the
interstate.
Boss: Why ever would I want to do that?
A.M.: Because I quit!
A.M. hit the end button and speed dialed her husband.
A.M.: Hi hubs, can you pick me up at Starbucks?
Hubs: Sure... Having some car trouble?
A.M.: Not at all. I don't have a car to have
trouble with because I just quit my job.
Hubs: WHAT?!
A.M.: It's time for a new career and I am going
to be a very famous novelist.
So began A. M. Hargrove's career as a young adult
paranormal romance author of self-published ebooks. Her series, The
Guardians of Vesturon, centers around a family of six siblings and is a mix of
humor, mystery, suspense and of course, love. Survival and Resurrection
are her first and second full length novels in the series and Beginnings is the
prequel novella. Her third installment, Determinant, will be released on
June 30, 2012. (It didn’t happen exactly like that, but you get
the idea!)
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Not sure I want to kiss fire, unless her looks like the guy on the cover! Great excerpt and fun way you became a full time novelist.
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Loved the excerpt,Thanks for the chance to win.
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