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Sometimes, one dark moment is all it takes to turn your world black...
For 24-year old Dominic Kinkaide, that moment took place on the night of his high school graduation. One dark incident changed him forever. He's a hardened actor now, famous in the eyes of the world, but tortured in his own. He doesn't care about much of anything, except for losing himself in the roles that he plays.
23-year old Jacey Vincent doesn't realize how much her father's indifference has affected her. She is proof that sometimes it isn't one specific moment that wrecks a person, but rather it's an absence of moments. She's like a bird with a broken wing-strong yet fragile, as she tries to float through life, finding acceptance in the arms of random guys, one after the other... to fill the void that her father left in her.
Until she meets Dominic.
After jaded Dominic and strong-willed Jacey are thrown together, his secret and her issues create a dark and damaged energy that will soon turn their attraction to each other into an explosive storm.
Even though when the clouds have cleared and the dust has settled, both of them are almost obliterated... they've learned a priceless lesson.
Sometimes, before we fall... we fly
Meet Dominic Kinkaide in the prequel novella:
Until We Burn
Dominic Kinkaide does bad, bad things.
As a 24-year old actor with the world on a string, not many women tell Dominic no.
In a life where no doesn’t exist, he stretches the boundaries between what is right, what is wrong and what is downright depraved.
Dark and damaged, Dom wants no commitments. He wants no attachments. He only wants to disappear into the taboo, into a place where he feels something.
Anything.
But when the aching need to disappear into the darkness is the only thing he has left, Dominic flounders. In a world that is hollow and sexual, without a guiding light or a reason to breathe, Dominic is lost and broken.
He knows he’ll never be fixed.
So he makes a decision.
If he’s going to hell, he might as well make it worth it.
Excerpt TWO for Be the First to Fall
week:
He laughs, a velvety
sound. “Babe, I could show you a bunch
of things you’ve never done. And I
guarantee, you’d like every one of them.”
For some reason, I have no
doubt of that. It’s an exciting thought.
He bends his head and nips at
my neck, then soothes the bite with a soft suck. His lips, so soft and smooth, ease the pain
of the bite away. His nearness is
intoxicating and everything about him screams that he is capable of so many
things… things that would please me… things that would embarrass me in the
light of day.
But still, I don’t move. I stay
right with him, my gaze frozen on his.
Keeping his eyes on mine, he
slowly dips his head and plunges his tongue into my mouth, completely
plundering it, consuming me yet again.
It’s like he can’t kiss me without devastating all of my senses at once,
annihilating my thoughts and causing my blood to throb as it all races toward
one destination… the V between my legs.
Right where I ache for
him.
He’s like a drug….and one taste
just isn’t enough.
I open up my mouth and breathe
around his lips, sucking in air, grasping at his back and pulling him
closer. He reaches back and grabs my
hands, holding them together at my wrists and pinning them over my head against
the plexi-glass gondola cage. I’m
trapped here with him, yet there’s no place I’d rather be.
The energy around us now is
primal and raw…and it’s exhilarating too, because we’re out in public. Every time the gondola swoops along the
ground before it begins its ascent upward again, anyone could look in and see
what we’re doing. They could see Dominic
pinning me against the wall, and his other hand buried in my crotch, if only
they looked closely.
Honestly, I think he might like
that idea.
“What are you doing?” I finally
manage to whisper, pulling away just ever so slightly.
His eyes are a little
unfocused, his pupils dilated. “What would you like for me to do, Jacey?”
He knows. Oh, God, he knows. He knows exactly what I’d like for him to do.
Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people.
Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.
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