MINE TO TAKE
Release Date: June 17,
2013
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Genre: Romantic Suspense
AVAILABLE NOW!
Sometimes you want someone so
much…
Sometimes you need someone so
much…
Lust can become love.
And love can turn into a deadly
obsession.
Skye Sullivan knows that someone
is watching her. Not just watching—stalking her. Months ago, Skye was involved
in a dangerous car accident. The accident ended her dancing career and sent her
fleeing back to Chicago. Skye is convinced that her stalker caused the crash,
and she fears that he won’t stop pursuing her, not until she’s dead.
When someone breaks into her
apartment in Chicago, Skye turns to the one man she believes can protect
her—Trace Weston. Once, Trace was her lover. Two lost souls, they’d come
together in a firestorm of need and desire. But then Trace had pushed her away.
He’d joined the military, vanishing from her life. She’d put all of her emotion
into dancing, and she’d tried to forget him.
Now Trace is one of the most
successful men in the United States. Rich, driven, and carrying dark secrets, he
agrees to help Skye. He’ll protect her from the danger that lurks in the
darkness, but Trace wants more than to just be a guard for Skye.
He wants her. And he’ll take
her. The years have changed him, hardened him. He’s not just a poor kid from the
streets any longer. Now, he can have anything—or anyone—that he wants. And the
one woman he has always wanted has just come back into his life. He won’t let
her go again.
But with the threats mounting
against Skye, she suspects that her stalker may be intimately close. He’s a man
who knows her too well. As his attacks grow ever more dangerous, she realizes
that if she trusts the wrong man, she could be making a fatal
mistake.
Lust. Love.
Obsession.
Just how far would you go in
order to possess the one person you want the most?
******** EXCERPT ********
“H-hello, Trace.” She
hated that stupid break in her voice. Trace made her nervous.
Always had.He stopped in front of
her. He stood at several inches over six feet, while she barely skimmed five
feet three. Skye tilted her head back so that she could meet his
stare.
“It’s been a long time,” Trace
said, the words a deep, dark rumble. His voice went perfectly with the rock
hard body and the sexy face—a voice that a woman could imagine in the
darkness.
She swallowed because her throat
was suddenly dry. “Yes, it has.” Ten years and three months. Not that she’d
counted.
That assessing gaze of his slid
down her body once more. There was an awareness in his stare that she hadn’t
expected. A heat that made her remember too many things.
He was close enough to touch.
Close enough for her to smell the crisp, masculine scent that clung to
him.
His nostrils flared, as if he
were catching her scent, too.
“You look good, Skye.” Again,
that heat was in his stare. A heat that said he knew her intimately.
She wished her heartbeat would
slow down.
“But you’re not here for a
friendly chat, are you?” And he stepped away from her. He waved to the open
chair near his desk and returned to his seat.
“We’ve never really been the
friendly chat kind,” she said softly as she eased into the leather
chair.
She didn’t take off her coat.
She just pulled it closer to her.
A faint furrow appeared between
his brows. “No, we weren’t, were we? More the hot sex type.”
Her lips parted. He
had not just said that to her.
His faint smile said that he
had.
“I’m not here for
that, either.” She’d been wrecked after her last go round with
Trace.
He leaned back in his chair. The
leather groaned beneath him. “We’ll get to that…”
Uh, no, they wouldn’t.
She wasn’t ready to feel that burn again.
He tapped his chin. “You’re not
here for pleasantries, you’re not here for sex, then why have you come looking
for me?”
This was where she’d have
to beg. Because there was no way she had enough money in her account to
cover his services. Not with the guy sporting this high rise building and
looking like he’d just walked off the cover of GQ. How things have changed. “Someone is watching me.”
He stilled. The heat banked in
his eyes as his whole expression instantly became guarded. “And what makes you
so sure of that?”
“Because I can feel him.”
Wait, that sounded crazy, didn’t it? When she’d gone to the cops, they’d sure
looked at her as if she were crazy. You couldn’t feel a stalker. So
they said.
She disagreed.
USA Today Best-selling author Cynthia Eden has
written over twenty-five novels and novellas. She was named as a 2013
RITA® finalist for her paranormal romance, ANGEL IN CHAINS, and, in 2011,
Cynthia Eden was a RITA finalist for her romantic suspense, DEADLY
FEAR.
Cynthia is a southern girl who
loves horror movies, chocolate, and happy endings. She has always wanted to
write (don’t most authors say that?), and particularly enjoys creating stories
about monsters–vampires, werewolves, and even the real-life monsters that
populate her romantic suspense stories.
Cynthia’s foreign sales for her
books include translations to Japan, Germany, Thailand, Greece, and
Brazil.
(Back in the day…) Cynthia
graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Alabama where she studied
Sociology (because people interest her) and Communication (because she likes to
write about said people). Cynthia has worked as a college admissions counselor,
a teacher, and as an editor. But now, Cynthia is thrilled to be spending her
days making up stories.
Connect with Cynthia:
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2 comments:
I can't wait to dig in to this later today :)! Love Cynthia's work! Thank you.
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Thank you for posting the excerpt and book information for MINE TO TAKE! I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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