Caleb Hall has always been the golden boy of the gridiron. Because of his talent at football, coupled with his father’s wealth, he’s always gotten his way. But when a night of drunken debauchery lands him in hot water with the college athletic board, neither his influential father nor his charming grin can save him. He finds it a total buzz kill when he is sentenced to community service with troubled youth at an inner-city shelter. But his nightmare is only beginning when his greatest high school regret is the very one in charge of the program, and she has him by the balls in more ways than one.
For Avery Prescott, senior year was a nightmare of epic proportions, and Caleb Hall played the lead villain. After she fled her small town for college in the bright lights of Atlanta, she thought she had escaped the painful memories of her past. She never could have imagined Caleb would waltz through the door of the outreach program she presided over. But Avery has news for Caleb—she isn’t the same shy, doormat of a girl she was in high school. Since she holds Caleb’s football future in her hands, she’s more than ready to make payback a real bitch.
Will they stay in the defensive zone or discover that sometimes life's greatest lessons are learned the hard way?
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Katie Ashley is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Best-Selling author. She lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her daughter, Olivia. She has a slight obsession with Pinterest, The Golden Girls, Shakespeare, Harry Potter, Designing Women, and Scooby-Doo.
With a BA in English, a BS in Secondary English Education, and a Masters in Adolescent English Education, she spent eleven years teaching both middle and high school English. As of January 2013, she became a full-time writer.
Danger, mysterious pasts, and passion come together in this new standalone contemporary romance novel from USA Today bestselling author, Rebecca Shea. Can Saige and Holt get over the past in order to have a future? Pick up DARE ME today and immerse yourself in the unforgettable moments where one dare spirals out of control and changes lives.
I dare you.
Five coworkers.
Four drinks.
Three glances.
Two fleeting smiles.
One dare.
A dare that will change my life.That’s all it takes to send me plummeting into the arms of the mysterious Holt Hamilton. Behind his crystal blue eyes is a secret, one that screams danger but calls to me anyway.My name is Saige Phillips.
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Excerpt
Six lemon drop shots line the center of our table, and we’ve all
refreshed our drinks and have fresh glasses of ice water.
“Ready?” Emery asks, and looks around at everyone, a hint of a challenge
in her eyes.
“Let’s do it,” Zay says and rubs his hands together, ready to begin.
Emery beams with delight. “Okay, so we’re going counterclockwise. Rowan
goes first, then Saige, then Zay, then Kinsley, and I’m last. We’ll ask you
Truth or Dare. If you pick truth, we’ll use the questions from the app. If it’s
a dare, we’ll come up with one as a group. Rules though, friends.” She looks
pointedly at each of us. “It has to be safe, but it has to push boundaries.”
The guys grumble.
“I refuse to kiss Rowan,” Zay teases.
“You’re not my type,” Rowan jokes back.
“So, Ro.” Emery grins at him. “Truth or Dare?”
Rowan rubs his chin and ponders his two options for a minute. “Truth.”
“I knew he’d go easy on us,” Kinsley says.
“Hey hey,” he chides. “Let’s start off nice and slow. Build our way up.”
Emery taps the app on her phone, and the questions scramble. “Okay,” she
says and chuckles to herself as she reads the question before reading it back
to us. “Have you ever cheated on a boyfriend or girlfriend?”
“Really?” Rowan raises an unenthused eyebrow. “That’s the question?”
“Yep.” She turns the phone to face him, and he turns up his nose.
“Yes,” he answers, sounding bored. “I’ve cheated on both.”
“What!” Kinsley screams across the table. “You’ve had a boyfriend and a
girlfriend?”
“Yes,” he mumbles and takes a sip of wine. “It was a long time ago.”
She drops her head back in laughter. “I need to hear more about this.”
I glance over to where Holt stands with his guest, and we make eye
contact again, sharing a brief but friendly smile before I quickly turn my
attention back to my friends. Emery is smirking at me, which means she caught
me looking.
“No, you will not hear more about this.” Rowan raises his chin in
defiance, then snatches Emery’s phone. “Moving on. Saige, truth or dare?”
I glance around the table at my friends and, without much thinking,
blurt out, “Dare.”
Oh, shit. My stomach twists into a giant knot as those words fall from my
tongue.
Everyone begins hooting and hollering, and I can’t help but laugh along
with them. “Remember, safe,” Emery reminds us. “And, friends, let’s be
reasonable.”
“Reasonable,” Kinsley snorts. “Okay, let’s put our heads together,
guys.” They lean in to the center of the small round pub table, and
whisper-yell over the tops of empty drink glasses and finally all sit back in
their chairs.
“Bad idea.” Zay shakes his head and purses his lips. “I don’t like it.”
“Well, if one of you disagrees, then maybe you should come up with
something new,” I chime in and look at Zay, who looks irritated.
“Not in this lifetime.” Kinsley giggles. “You ready, Saige?”
I swallow hard against my dry throat. “No.”
Truth. Always choose truth. What was I thinking?
“Too bad.” She grabs a shot off the table. “You are going to go ask Holt
Hamilton out for a drink.”
“What?” I snap at her. I look around the table like my friends have lost
their damn minds. “I can’t ask him out for drinks. He’ll think it’s a date, and
dating a superior is strictly prohibited per the company handbook. There’s this
thing called ethics in the workplace, people. Have you all lost your minds? Are
you all crazy? Are you trying to get me fired?” They all roar with laughter and
my heart races.
“First of all,” Kinsley tips her head back and swallows the lemon drop
shot, “it’s not against company policy to date a coworker. You cannot date your
direct manager. Holt is not your direct manager.” She looks pleased, like she
just solved a murder case.
“He owns the fucking company,” I bark at her. “That pretty much
qualifies as my manager.”
“Pipe down, little one.” Rowan pats my hand. “It’s just a drink, and
purely innocent.”
I glower at him. “You said you’d have my back. This is not having my
back, Ro.” I wipe my sweaty hands on my skirt.
“It’s all in pure fun.” His eyebrows dance at me. “Tell him we dared you
if you have to.”
My frown deepens. “So I look like a thirteen-year-old? Hi, Mr. Hamilton.
My friends over there dared me to ask you out. Will you have drinks with me? No
thanks.” I cross my arms over my chest in defiance. Then, realizing that I probably
look like I’m actually thirteen, I uncross them.
Zay chimes in, “I’ll bet one hundred dollars she won’t do it.”
“Chicken, Saige?” Kinsley kicks me under the table.
“I’m not a chicken, you assholes,” I grumble. “I’m reasonable. This is
not reasonable. I’d like to keep my job.”
Emery nudges me. “It’s all in fun, and I am dying to see the look on his
face when you ask him.”
I glance at Holt, feeling anxiety building in my stomach. Suddenly, he
turns in our general direction to find all of us watching him. His brows pinch
together in a confused look, but he offers us all a polite smile and a little
nod of his head.
Ugh… “Fine. I’ll do it.” I add my two whiny cents, “This is really stupid,
though, and if I wasn’t already close to being three sheets to the wind, I’d
just take the damn shot.” I fan my face. The heat from the alcohol or the
stuffy bar is getting to me.
“Atta girl!” Rowan grabs my hand and helps me down from the tall
barstool. My knees wobble, and I press a hand my cheek to cool the flush
crawling across my face. Between my nerves and the alcohol, my stomach is
twisting and turning.
“Just breathe,” Rowan whispers in my ear as he grips my hand tightly.
“Just ask him if he’d be interested in grabbing a drink sometime.”
“And when he says no?”
“You just smile and come back to us.”
Zay clears his throat. “What if he says yes?”
I turn around to shoot him a death glare.
Emery answers, “Then just know that she asked out the hottest man alive,
and he accepted. Win-win.” She offers me a reassuring smile.
“Hottest man alive?” Zay mumbles under his breath and pffts into his
glass of beer.
“Yes!” Emery and Kinsley say simultaneously.
“I can’t do this,” I say, reaching for my chair. Nerves are getting the
better of me, and my knees are literally knocking together.
Rebecca Shea is the USA Today Bestselling author of the Unbreakable series (Unbreakable, Undone, and Unforgiven) and the Bound and Broken series (Broken by Lies and Bound by Lies). She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her family. From the time Rebecca could read she has had a passion for books. Rebecca spends her days working and her nights writing, bringing stories to life. Born and raised in Minnesota, Rebecca moved to Arizona in 1999 to escape the bitter winters. When not working or writing, she can be found on the sidelines of her sons’ football games, or watching her daughter at ballet class. Rebecca is fueled by insane amounts of coffee, margaritas, Laffy Taffy (except the banana ones), and happily ever afters.
Born into blood, I was a mafia princess. Raised in hiding, I was a
Californian sweetheart.
The day my father sold my thirteen year old body to pay off a five
year old debt was the day my mother stole me in the dead of night. She
protected me as she was supposed to.
My father may have been the king, but my mother was the queen.
The mafia blood was hers.
That was ten years ago. Now… the devil was on the loose.
Carlo ‘Hunter’ Rosso was my father’s right hand man and the boy
I’d loved since I could tie my own shoelaces. He was always the most ruthless
and the most deadly of all the children.
He’d thought I was dead until the day his assignment was given:
Kill Adriana and Alexandria Romano. Kill the princess, and definitely kill the
queen.
What he didn’t know was that the queen was dead, and the princess
had taken her throne.
Blood didn’t lie. It smeared, distorted, stained. But it didn’t
lie.
My father was going to learn the hard way that the empire he’d
stolen belonged to me.
He leaned forward and
rested his mouth by my ear. “You still have time to make me stop. I meant it,
Addy.” Two of his fingers trailed up the inside of my thigh, coming dangerously
close to my wet pussy. “I don't want to ruin you. I don't play nice, but the
second my mouth is on your cunt, I won't be fucking playing at all.”
I turned my face toward
his, and my lips brushed his jaw when I spoke. “Then don't play.”
He pushed two fingers
inside me, and I gasped at the sudden intrusion of my body. Heat rushed over me
as he pumped them inside me and gripped the back of my neck. “You have until I
reach 'one' to make me stop. Five.” He dragged his mouth down my neck. “Four.”
His tongue circled my nipple, and he pressed his thumb against my clit.
“Three.” He released my neck, licking down my stomach and dipping his tongue
into my naval, falling back onto his knees, still bending forward. “Two.” His
mouth hovered over my pussy, and he pulled his fingers from my me. “One and a
half...”
I half-laughed,
half-gasped as he dipped his fingers back inside me.
He grasped my ass with
both hands and lifted my hips. “Fucking. One.” He slowly ran his tongue up the
length of my pussy, from my ass to my clit.
I threw my arm over my
eyes as he zoned in on my clit. Pleasure rocketed through me like waves as he
worshipped that tiny spot, rolling his tongue over it again and again. I
writhed against him as he fucked me with his mouth, bringing me close the edge
before he pulled back and stretched his tongue inside my pussy inside.
I was mumbling
incoherently. I didn't know if I was begging for more, for the end, or if I was
just pleading his name. The only thing I was sure I knew was that I didn't want
him to stop but he needed to stop right now.
“Please tell me you have
a condom,” he rasped, his fingers tightening on my thighs like all his retraint
was being channeled through his touch.
I nodded and waved toward
my nightstand. I was the kind of girl who was prepared for every situation, and
apparently having sex with my assassin was one of those.
The drawer slammed open
and shut within seconds, and I propped myself up on my elbows to look at him.
Hunter dropped his pants, and my throat went dry as he pulled down his boxers.
The tip of his cock was just free when he noticed me watching him. His lips
tugged up on one side, and the look in his eyes was heated and predatory, but
amusement glinted, too.
“I thought you didn't
play.”
My words were a
challenge, one that sobered him.
The smirk dropped, along
with his boxers, and his cock sprung free from the constraints of the fabric.
Desire hit me like a tidal wave as he ripped open the packet and pulled out the
condom. He grabbed his long, hard cock in a firm grip and rolled on the
protection.
I was never surer that a
guy touching his own cock was the hottest fucking thing ever.
The second the condom was
on fully, Hunter climbed back onto the bed over me and grabbed my hips. I
half-laughed as he dragged me down to him, but he swallowed my giggle as he
closed his mouth over mine.
He was inside me seconds
later.
About The Author
Blaire Drake is a pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling author who wanted to think outside her box and write the kind of things that would shock even them. She loves taboo romance and pushing boundaries in her work. She also enjoys long walks on the beach at sunset, as long as it’ll be followed by a good, old-fashioned spanking right after. DEAR PROFESSOR is her debut standalone novel, and her next book, PRETTY PORNSTAR, is also a standalone novel that promises to be equally as taboo and sexy.
From Best Selling
Author, Lexy Timms, comes a billionaire crime romance that'll send your heart
racing.
Rachel Evans has the life most people could only
dream of: the promise of an amazing job, good looks, and a life of luxury. The
problem is, she hates it. She tries desperately to avoid getting sucked into
the family business and hides her wealth and name from her friends. She’s seen
her brother trapped in that life, and doesn’t want it. When her father dies in
a plane crash, she reluctantly steps in to become the vice president of her
family’s company, Syco Pharmaceuticals. Detective Adrien Deluca and his partner have
been called in to look at the crash. While Adrien immediately suspects not
everything about the case is what it seems, he has trouble convincing his
partner. However, soon into the investigation, they uncover a web of deceit
which proves the crash was no accident, and evidence points toward a shadowy
group of people. Now the detective needs find the proof.
To what lengths will Deluca go to get it?
Seeking Justice is book one in the Justice Series. It will end on a cliff
hanger.
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From Bestselling
Author, Lexy Timms, comes a billionaire romance murder mystery that'll send
your heart racing.
Rachel Evans reluctantly steps in to become the
vice president of her family’s company, Syco Pharmaceuticals when her father is
murdered. After his death, and a sudden rise in billionaire’s being murdered,
Rachel begins to suspect everyone, as does the lead detective assigned to the
case.
Detective Adrien Deluca and his partner, Chase
Hunters, can’t seem to catch a break in the serial billionaire murders. When
the case hits too close to home, Deluca steps back to let Chase lead the
investigation. As time moves too fast and the evidence too slow, Deluca begins
to worry that the girl he’s falling for might be the next victim.
Can they catch the killer before it’s too late,
and Rachel ends up the next victim?
Finding Justice is book two in the Justice Series.
It will end on a cliff hanger.
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