Book 1 of the all new The Heroes of Silver Island series, Safe and SEALed with Ecstasy is now available at Siren-BookStrand!
Welcome
to Silver Island, where ménage isn’t a dream, it’s reality.
As a
senator’s daughter, Lara Hampton uses her influence to stand up for her
beliefs, even when they land her in danger. Her latest venture brings her to Silver
Island where she comes face-to-face with two SEALs who rescued her before and
left her dreaming of sizzling nights with them since.
Brandon
“Ace” McCormick never got Lara out of his head. When he finds out she’s on
Silver Island, he knows it’s time to make his move. The trouble is, his best
friend wants her, too.
Once a
SEAL, always a SEAL, but John is Sheriff of Silver Island now and he’s been
trained to protect by the best. He’s willing to fight for Lara, or Ace can
accept the norm of Silver Island and share. But a stalker is after her. When he
gets on the island they must protect her or sharing won’t be an option.
Excerpt:
“Lara.”
Yikes! She didn’t need to look to know who’d just
called out her name. Now what? She couldn’t ignore John. Not
that she wanted to ignore him anyway. Except, she should. She should
absolutely, positively pretend she didn’t know him from the man in the moon.
She should walk away, quick, and act like she hadn’t heard him. Shouldn’t she?
On the other hand, he wasn’t a SEAL anymore. That meant associating with him,
getting hot and sweaty between the sheets with him, wouldn’t label her a SEAL
groupie. But who said he wanted to get hot and heavy between the sheets with
her? The man had merely said her name, for crying out loud.
Oh, for Pete’s sake,
Lara, you’re thinking yourself right through the door of confusions-r-us.
She squared her
shoulders, took a deep breath, and turned. The smile she hadn’t yet allowed to
waver was still plastered on her lips. Good thing, too, because he was headed
her way and, the closer he got, the more her jaw wanted to drop. Holy hormones,
the John Cabelly who’d visited her dreams had been the man clad in full battle
fatigues with streaks of war paint on his face and barely visible in the
darkness. By the light of day, the John Cabelly walking toward her now looked
ten times more dangerous, more forceful and, God help her, more appealing than
ever.
The deep breath she had
taken a nanosecond before she’d turned stuck in her throat as her gaze took it
upon itself to do a leisurely glide down his front. His khaki button-down shirt
stuck to his torso like a second skin, delineating every muscle in his shoulders,
arms, and abs, and making her head spin. The shirt was tucked into a pair of
khaki cargo shorts secured to his waist by a gun belt and riding low on his
trim hips. Despite the bagginess of their design, his shorts failed to conceal
what was obviously one very impressive male package between his strong-looking
legs.
Lara’s girly parts went
haywire as her focus slammed into his black ankle boots and did a gradual climb
back up. Wetness pooled between her feminine lips, threatening to soak the
cotton lining of her panties. Her nipples beaded to hardened points inside the
lacy cups of her bra. Lust zinged off every erogenous zone in her body as her
gaze finally settled on his face. Dark sunglasses covered eyes she remembered
being a potent light blue. Thin lips curved into a drool-worthy smile that
rocked her to her toes. Sweat she knew had absolutely nothing to do with the
growing temperature of the summer morning and everything to do with the intense
heat of this supremely hunky male gathered between her breasts and trickled
down her abdomen as she finally expelled the breath that had lodged in her
throat.
“John Cabelly.” He
extended a hand in greeting. “Island sheriff.”
Lara took his hand,
forgetting to brace for the contact, and nearly melted at his feet. Long
callused fingers closed around her hand. She stared at her reflection in the
lenses of his sunglasses as her head swam. That simple, casual touch made her
dizzy, intoxicated, as if his fingers came equipped with tiny needles that
penetrated her flesh and injected her with a heavy dose of erotic desire.
“Lara Hampton.” Relief
collided with the yearning in her system when her voice came out steady and
normal rather than trembling and breathy, which was exactly how she felt. “But,
you already know that.” And she’d already known his name. Did he think she
didn’t recognize him?
His smile stretched
wider. “Yeah, I do. Kenneth Winters informed me of your visit and asked that I
stand in to welcome you to the island. He wanted to be here himself, but got held
up in town.”
“Oh.” Disappointment
twisted in her belly and she ruthlessly squashed it. So what if he had been
here waiting for her on orders from his boss? That was better than him spotting
her and wanting to say hello for an entirely different, definitely salacious
reason, wasn’t it? She was here on a mission, to offer her support and use her
popularity to gain positive publicity for the island. At the same time, she was
here in hopes of finding a sense of safety for herself, praying her stalker
would use her absence from the mainland as the time he needed to find a new
hobby like her father had said. She wasn’t here to jump between the sheets with
the first man she met on the island, even if said man had been invading her
dreams for the last four years.
John released her hand.
“He said to extend his sincerest apologies and to show you around the island.”
Yep, no doubt about it.
John Cabelly was doing his island duty. She and all her girly parts were safe,
at least from him. Especially seeing as how he thought she didn’t remember him
in the first place.
“Thank you, Sheriff
Cabelly, but a tour guide really won’t be necessary. I’m sure I can find my way
around and I’d hate to keep you from your job.”
He pulled off his
sunglasses and she got her first real look at the potent light blue eyes she’d
remembered so well. The mere sight made her heart skip a beat and her mind
retracted her earlier thought. No, all her girly parts were not safe
from this man. They were in danger of serious lusty overload, whether she and
John went their separate ways right now or not.
Those powerful light
blue eyes steadied on hers and his lips thinned, his expression turning serious
with a trace of molten heat that sent embers of need raining through her body.
“You don’t remember me, do you?”
“You’re not an easy man
to forget.” The words spilled from Lara’s lips before she could stop them.
Shit. She should’ve said no. She’d meant to say no. If he’d kept on his
sunglasses, she might could’ve pulled it off. But, the second he’d removed them,
the instant she’d looked into his eyes, she’d felt herself fall under his
spell.
His lips unfolded in
their sexiest smile yet. It was the kind of grin that dripped with victory and
promise and pure male satisfaction. “That’s good to know because I damn sure
never forgot you.”
Oh, holy hormones. The
way his voice softened, turning his words husky and hot, told her he wasn’t
merely performing his island duty any longer. He was hitting on her and she was
so screwed.
