Release Blitz and Giveaway: Coming Back: Lauren Dane
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Expected December 8, 2015
Mick Roberts, the newest partner at Twisted Steel's custom hotrod and motorcycle shop, looks like a man with everything. But secretly he still craves the connection he lost when his best friend Adam and the love of his life Jessilynn walked out. Then, he wasn't ready for the pleasure they promised. Now, things have changed.
Rich, powerful, and insatiable, Adam Gulati is used to getting what he wants. And there's nothing he wants more than Mick and Jessi. He hasn't seen either in over a year, but the second he sets eyes on them again his memories-and his desires-can't be denied.
After trying to live without them, Jessi Franklin realized no one else can satisfy her like Adam and Mick. The three of them need one another-in more ways than one. It's time to stop pretending and submit to the hunger they all share. But once they go down this road, there's no turning back. As deeply devoted as they are, no one knows what great bliss their forbidden fantasy will find-or the price they may pay . . .
“Things
just unraveled for me when Mick left. Watching Jessi try to process, trying to
be there for her and not managing it very well. I felt like an asshole, felt
like I’d been tossed away. Felt like I needed to be someone else to see if
that’s what I should do for the rest of my life,” Adam said.
His
leaving—the way he’d done it—had been a way to allow himself the space to take
what he wanted and gorge on it.
Jessi
lifted her face from where she’d been buried in Mick’s shirt, locking her gaze
on his.
Adam
hated that she’d been hurt. Hated that it had been necessary in any case, to
step away and be Adam in a completely different context.
“And
did you like what you found?”
Adam
took her hand. “It was something I had to do. I’m back to you now. For keeps.”
Which
didn’t make it any less harsh, he knew. He had a lot of fucking sins to make up
for when it came to Jessilyn Franklin. He just had to hope he was man enough to
do what it took.
And
that she found it within her heart to understand. One day.
As for
Mick, that was still complicated, only in a different way.
“For
keeps like we’re all close friends again? We hang out and share our lives?”
Mick asked, wariness in his voice.
Jessi
wore the sweetest confused expression, and Adam refused to think about how terrifying
it was that she got to him the way she did just by being herself.
“I
didn’t want to assume,” Adam said.
Jessi
rolled her eyes. “You realize that all three of us showed up after years of
being apart. We all clicked back together pretty much immediately. And now it’s
like we’re all shy? After all we’ve shared? That’s what this is, then? We’re
all friends but not like before? We just forget those times? You two want to
see other people?”
“Is
that what you want?” Adam asked carefully.
“You left, Adam. After you left, Mick. I didn’t want to walk
away. You two did. So asking me that question sort of makes me mad.”
“You’re
the one who lived with someone else and was going to get married,” Mick
mumbled.
“You
guys are such assholes sometimes. Despite what you both put me through, I
accept that you needed to step away. But you come back to me with this? No,
thank you. If you want to just be friends, all right. I can deal. But you need
to be up front and you can’t be kissing my fingers and Mick needs to stop grinding
his cock into my ass. Friends don’t do that.”
“I
just wanted you to know I didn’t expect you to hop into bed or anything. I
didn’t want to assume,” Adam repeated.
Jessi
looked up to Mick. “And you?”
Mick
was smarter than Adam, though, because he hugged her tight. “If it was up to
me, I’d want us to all be together. Really together.”
“Suck
up.” Adam rolled his eyes.
“She’s
on my lap though, so I declare that a win.”
Adam
reached out to snatch her from Mick’s lap, bringing her to his own. “Looks like
she’s in my lap now.”
“Something
friends don’t do,” Jessi reminded him. Adam took her cheeks in his hands and
then claimed her mouth before she could say anything else.
It
slammed into him so hard—a wave of regret that he’d put this aside—that he
gasped, sucking in the sigh she gave him.
A
sweet enough kiss. For now. Hunger, barely leashed, filled him. He wanted.
Wanted what had been freely offered before he’d truly understood how rare and
special it was.
“I’m
always your friend,” he spoke against her mouth. “But I’d be a liar if I
claimed I didn’t want everything from
you. Being away from you only underlined it.”
“I was
so lonely without you both.” She closed her eyes a moment to avoid his seeing
all that pain, but he saw it, felt it cut him to the bone.
“I’m
sorry. I was lonely too.” Adam had filled every moment with a pursuit of
pleasure, but this was something totally different. Something he might not have
really recognized if he hadn’t been without it.
But
what he did see was he’d have a job of earning her trust back, even if she was
being easy enough right then.
Five years after they each went their separate ways, Jessilyn, Adam and Mick are all in the same city and ready to try to find what they have never found anywhere else. Giving one’s heart away is never easy, but when it’s given to two people, it’s even more difficult.
I loved all three of the main characters -- individually and within their relationship. Jessi was such a bright light, always finding the positive in a situation. She was the center of that trio and gave back as much as she got from her guys. Adam was a little less developed, though no less important to the balance of their relationship. He was alpha to the core and though he was new to the Twisted Steel family, he found a fast friend in Asa. And Mick. He was maybe the most in need of understanding from Jessi and Adam. His past was an ugly one filled with judgement and consequences for just being himself.
My biggest complaint is one I don’t usually utter, and don’t use lightly -- not enough drama. For as unconventional as their relationship was (and how often that was noted by various characters) there was no conflict within the trio. No jealousy between Mick and Adam about attention from Jessi or discomfort as they settle into their relationship dynamics. They ran into each other at the Twisted Steel opening and *bam* were suddenly beyond their past, and preparing to move in together.
But that’s also a simplistic look at the relationship, because they did have issues they needed to work through, it just didn’t happen in an order that I was expecting. They have a past together, and certain aspects of their history will crop up to cause problems for them as individual and as a trio.
This was an easy read, more than I was anticipating. The story itself was rather smooth, with few shocks. Mick, Jessi, and Adam were a great team, each filling a need for the others that made their relationship work. I would have loved some scenes in flashback of their time before, but lacking those this story work to heal the hurt Mick has shown in vulnerable moments during the first two books in the series.
ARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I loved all three of the main characters -- individually and within their relationship. Jessi was such a bright light, always finding the positive in a situation. She was the center of that trio and gave back as much as she got from her guys. Adam was a little less developed, though no less important to the balance of their relationship. He was alpha to the core and though he was new to the Twisted Steel family, he found a fast friend in Asa. And Mick. He was maybe the most in need of understanding from Jessi and Adam. His past was an ugly one filled with judgement and consequences for just being himself.
My biggest complaint is one I don’t usually utter, and don’t use lightly -- not enough drama. For as unconventional as their relationship was (and how often that was noted by various characters) there was no conflict within the trio. No jealousy between Mick and Adam about attention from Jessi or discomfort as they settle into their relationship dynamics. They ran into each other at the Twisted Steel opening and *bam* were suddenly beyond their past, and preparing to move in together.
But that’s also a simplistic look at the relationship, because they did have issues they needed to work through, it just didn’t happen in an order that I was expecting. They have a past together, and certain aspects of their history will crop up to cause problems for them as individual and as a trio.
This was an easy read, more than I was anticipating. The story itself was rather smooth, with few shocks. Mick, Jessi, and Adam were a great team, each filling a need for the others that made their relationship work. I would have loved some scenes in flashback of their time before, but lacking those this story work to heal the hurt Mick has shown in vulnerable moments during the first two books in the series.
ARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review.
The men of Twisted Steel are great with their hands. And they're not afraid to get dirty.
Asa
Barrons is never lonely for long. Co-owner of the Twisted Steel custom
motorcycle shop, he works hard and plays harder. But he never allows his
after-hours affairs to interfere with business—until
he meets racing royalty PJ Colman. While the blue-eyed blonde is all
princess on the outside, on the inside Asa can see that this woman is
ready to take a walk on the wild side.
PJ
knows trouble when she sees it, and Asa is the complete package: fast
bike, killer ink, and a sinfully sexy smile that has her imagining
things nice girls never do.
She talks her way onto the Twisted Steel team to prove her painting
skill, and soon learns that Asa is eager to show off some skills of his
own.
With
the help of Asa's expert touch, PJ is initiated into a world of wicked
desire. No limits. No inhibitions. No turning back. But as perfect as
their passion seems, a new challenge awaits, forcing them to ask just
how far they are willing to go . .
FALLING UNDER (Ink and Chrome #2)Lauren Dane
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lauren Dane delivers the second book in her dark, gritty and romantic Ink & Chrome series
Duke
Bradshaw, co-owner of the custom motorcycle shop Twisted Steel, is
great with his hands and not afraid to get dirty . . . especially in his
fantasies about his redheaded neighbor Carmella Rossi.
Carmella
has been secretly lusting after her hot, tattooed neighbor for the last
three years. His gravelly voice combined with the throaty purr of his
custom bike never fails to send thrills down her spine. When Duke asks
her to join him at the shop, she can't say no. Soon their days together
spill over into nights that bring her pleasure beyond anything she
imagined. But Carmella grew up with bikers, and knows how bad a bad boy can be. Can she put herself at risk for someone who has heart-breaker written all over him?
The
story goes like this: While on pregnancy bed rest, Lauren Dane had
plenty of down time, so her husband took her comments about "giving that
writing thing a serious go" to heart and brought home a secondhand
laptop. She wrote her first book on it. Today, Lauren is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 60 novels and novellas across several genres.
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