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Four Letter Words Blurb:
Paige Holmes has made her choice. But as she begins
to get her life back on track, she also starts to question her decision.
Then, the letters arrive. When Paige finds herself
in trouble once again, she must decide who she can trust.
Will she go back to the one she denied, or will she
stand by her choice?
Love and lust are, after all, both Four Letter
Words.
Excerpt from Chapter One:
Laying my head back
against the black leather seats of the Jag and gazing ahead, I lifted a finger
and touched my lips that were swollen from his kiss. The weariness of the past
few weeks was beginning to take over, weighing on my eyelids as they began to
droop. I should have been reassured by the man sitting next to me.
I shifted in my seat so I
could watch him as he drove on. He was a force that even nature had no hold
over. There was an urge to reach out and cling to his broad bicep, a need to
feel the security of his physical strength, aching somewhere deep inside of me.
We didn’t speak as he
pressed all his weight onto the accelerator, urging the car until it was over
the speed limit. I half expected the shine of blue lights to fill the inside of
the car, with sirens blaring around us. But they didn’t. Of course they didn’t.
Even if a marked car was to pass, I doubted Vance Ellery would slow down, and I
had even less that the police would attempt to pull him over. I suspected that
the personal phone number of every single high-ranking officer in the country,
was tucked away in a neat Rolodex on Vance’s desk or even stored in the memory
bank of his mobile phone for easy access.
The silence should have
been soothing. I should have been able to let my lashes flutter against my
cheeks, and slip into a relaxing slumber. Instead the lack of conversation
added to the tension that built behind my eyes. I closed them, hoping that soon
I would drift off into a deep sleep, where I would be surrounded by falling
flowers, rainbows, and sunlight. Ha! If only I was deserving of such luck.
There were no pleasant dreams awaiting me after the sandman visited. Only
nightmares wanted to be part of my night. They tormented me, bringing memories
that I’d tried to bury and forget. They hounded the darkness, giving me nothing
but misery and pain and suffering. It was as though all my sins from a previous
life had been rolled over into this one.
If the visions of his
face, the sound of his voice had been the only elements of my slumber, then I
might have been willing to slip away and let the desperation of rest take me to
the shadowed places I dreaded. My soul was destined for torture though. I was
to be punished for his crime.
The mere suggestion of
sleep forced my blood to pulsate until it was the only thing I could hear,
throbbing in my temples. The searing pain of anxiety and panic stabbed at my
chest, pins pricking my skin, as I let my eyelids fall. A shudder fell down my
spine, waking me from the light doze I’d stumbled into.
Breathe in, breathe out.
In with the good, out with the bad. In through the nose, out through the mouth.
Breathe in, breathe out. A mantra, taught to me by a yoga instructor years
before hell had entered my life, repeated over and over in my mind. I inhaled
the cool air through my nasal passages, allowing it to slip down into my
pain-filled lungs, exhaling all the bad out of my mouth in a gigantic whoosh.
Ahead, the roads were
empty, weaving out of the village and headed towards Richart Courts, the hotel
that was to be my sanctuary for the next couple of days before I had to face
the next challenge. New York City.
How anyone could expect
me to go back there was beyond belief. The only logical explanation for their
plans for my future was that facing New York was the lesser of the two evils
that haunted me, threatening to rip away the seams that had begun to fray
around my already tattered edges.
Four Letter Words is the
second, and final, part to Paige’s story. To celebrate its re-release, the
first part of the Words Duet has been reduced to 99p / 99c!
Seven Dirty Words Blurb:
Paige Holmes hides herself in a masculine world in
a desperate attempt to remain safe.
Just as she is ready to face her fears and her
past, she finds herself torn between Matt Jackson and Vance Ellery: handsome,
rich, and safe – or handsome, rich, and dangerous?
Which will she choose?
The one who appears to be the most perfect, or the
one who makes her use all Seven Dirty Words?
Author bio:
British author, Charlotte Howard, was born in Oman
and spent much of the first part of her life flitting between Oman, Scotland,
and England. Now settled in Somerset, Charlotte lives with her husband, two
children, and growing menagerie of pets.
Her career as a writer began at an
early age, with a poem being featured in an anthology for the East Midlands.
Since then Charlotte has written many short stories and poems, and finally
wrote her first full-length piece of fiction in 2010.
During what little spare time she has,
Charlotte enjoys reading and writing (of course), spending time with her
family, and watching action movies whilst eating curry and drinking tea.
Charlotte is an active member of Yeovil Creative Writers Group.
Charlotte is an active member of Yeovil Creative Writers Group.
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