SYNOPSIS
Do you know what it feels like right before lightning strikes? How you can feel the current running through your veins? The trembles of warning that ripple through the air? It was a thrill Tamar King chased all her life until it became the very thing she had to escape.
For the last four years, Tamar King has hidden herself in an isolated world she created. She was safe. No one could touch her. Until Lyrik West walked through her door.
He’s the lead guitarist for Sunder and everything she can never have. The dark and beautiful rock star becomes everything she craves.
Lyrik’s life has been devoted to his band and that success has cost him. Bitter, hard, and filled with regret, he refuses to lose himself again, but from the moment he sees her, he wants one night with Tamar King.
The gorgeous bartender is more than he bargained for. Their attraction is consuming. Their desire overpowering. With one touch, they ignite.
But is it worth the cost of getting burned?
She’s a gorgeous nightmare and he’s a wicked dream…
WHERE LIGHTNING STRIKES, a Bleeding Stars Stand-Alone Novel
Excerpt
For one night, I wanted it. I wanted
her secrets. I wanted to sink my fingers in and take for myself. She was the
exact kind of contradiction I craved.
The push and pull.
But this time the pull was too great
to ignore.
I traced my thumbs along the
delicate slope of her neck. Dragged them across the soft, soft skin. Her pulse
was racing with a violent beat. I forced her to look at me while my entire body
ran hot.
“Tell me what you want, Red.” It
slipped out in a rough murmur.
In the distance, thunder rolled.
Those blue eyes flashed. Flashed with courage and fear.
Something about it made me shake.
Almost defiantly, she lifted her
chin, and she reached up with her small hands and grasped me around the wrists.
“I want you to kiss me.”
Motherf*cker.
Leave it to Red to ask for the thing
I didn’t want to give. Memories cut a path of panic through my consciousness.
Reminding me of what I’d done. Of why I could never get too close.
Of where my loyalty truly lay.
Clenching my jaw, I gripped her
tighter. My heart was giving its all to reject this. Screaming at me to
wise up and to do it fast. To turn my back and walk away. No doubt, my feet had
officially crossed into the forbidden zone. Out of bounds.
Red was trying to take me places I
didn’t want to go.
On the inside, I struggled like a
goddamned madman. Torn between lashing out like I’d done the last time she’d
been tempting me with the need to sink inside her, to discover the countless secrets
she had lying underneath, and gathering her up and letting her in on all of
mine.
I was at an all-out war with my
instincts. The f*cked-up thing was I didn’t even know what those were anymore.
Not when it came to her.
Wavering, I rocked forward in
indecision then rocked back. Getting closer to those full red lips with each
pass.
Her attention flitted over my face.
They jumped from my eyes to my mouth and back again. She fisted my suit jacket.
“What do you want?” she demanded,
turning the question on me. Her voice was a brazen, needy mix of the siren who
had no issue with putting me in my place and the soft vulnerability that kept
seeping through.
My tongue darted out and swept
across my bottom lip.
Dying for a taste.
“F*ck it.”
Figured she was going to kill me,
anyway.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary and new adult romance.
She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student. She filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.
Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children.
Connect with A.L. Jackson online: www.aljacksonauthor.com
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