NEW RELEASE!!! BUILDING TIES AVAILABLE AUGUST 25TH
The next full-length book, Book 4 of the SEAL TEAM Heartbreakers Series will be Building
Ties. Building Ties will be out August 25, 2014.
Here’s the blurb:
Navy SEAL Brett 'Cutter' Weaver is on a mission to Nicaragua when he learns his bride-to-be, Tess Kelly, has been injured in a car bombing. At Homeland Security’s demand, he’s rushed home on the next available transport and arrives to find Tess embroiled in three controversial stories. One may offer the key to her attacker.
On top of the emotional and physical upheaval of the bombing, Tess has been offered the journalistic opportunity of a lifetime at the Washington Post, and is torn between her love for Brett and the need to prove herself to her father, a famous war correspondent. If she accepts the job, she and Brett face living on opposite sides of the country. With their wedding two weeks away, she has temptations to face and tough decisions to make.
Serving as her security detail, Brett sees Tess’s remarkable investigative reporting skills in action, and acts as her sounding board and partner. He’s willing to sacrifice to ensure her happiness, but more, he wants to keep her safe. Because there’s a killer stalking her, and one interview at a time, they mean to catch him.
BUILDING TIES EXCERPT:
Brett woke. Instead of steel girders supporting the roof, the ceiling
hung low and smooth overhead. Realization clicked. He was home. Thank you, Jesus. He breathed in the
scent of orange blossoms and hardened in a rush. Tess curled tight against his
side and he half turned to tuck her closer and nuzzle her neck.
Tess’s eyes opened and she smiled.
Her fingers brushed his jaw in a caress. Jesus he’d missed her touch, her
body, Her.
The phone rang on the nightstand across the bed from him. She started to
turn toward it.
“Let it ring,” he urged.
Obnoxious and persistent, it rang again. “It may be the police officers in
the building. They’ve been calling to check on me.”
He released her with a sigh. Her movements stiff, she rolled away from
him to reach for it.
Whoever was on the other end of that line was officially at the top of his
shit list.
He stared at the slender length of her back. Two nickel-sized spots of
dried blood stained her white T-shirt at shoulder blade level. Fuck. While he listened to her end of
the conversation, he struggled with the emotions the sight had triggered.
Concern for her hit him in the solar plexus, then rage overtook it. When guilt kicked in, he ground his
teeth. He should have been here for her.
She hung up and rolled back to him. “That was a detective I’d contacted
before my car blew up. He’s been waiting his turn to interview me. He’s on the
way here.”
“Of course he is,” Brett said dryly.
Tess laughed, then snuggled up to him. “We’ll make up for lost time
later.”
He brushed her temple with his lips. “After I’ve put something on your
back, Tess. You’re bleeding and your shirt has stuck to it.”
She sighed. “It’s just a little road rash.”
Brett drew back so he could look into her face. He smoothed her hair from
her cheek. “How many times have you pampered me through little nicks and
bruises since we’ve been together?”
“Nicks and bruises? Nicks and
bruises? Jesus, Brett. It was a bullet
hole.”
The indignation in her expression, triggered the urge to laugh and he bit
his bottom lip to suppress it. If he laughed, she’d punch him. “It wasn’t exactly
my fault I got shot, honey. I didn’t know Moussa was up on the cliff with a
sniper’s rifle while we were surfing. We didn’t even know he was in the country
until then.” He jerked the conversation back to the point he wanted to make.
“What I’m getting at is, I want to be there for you, like you were for me.
Isn’t that part of being a couple? Being married people?”
Her expression cleared and softened, her sherry brown eyes misting.
“We’re not married yet.”
“That doesn’t mean we can’t practice the together ‘in sickness and in
health’ part.” He leaned forward and kissed her, because in that moment she
looked so freaking beautiful he couldn’t not
kiss her. “You don’t have to hide your injuries from me. It only makes me feel
like more of an asshole for not being here for you when you needed me.”
She ran her fingertips up and down his forearm in a comforting caress.
“You wouldn’t have been able to do anything if you had been here.”
“Maybe not, but I’m here now, and you might as well use me.”
“Use you?” One perfectly arched auburn brow went up.
He couldn’t suppress a grin this time. “For whatever you need, honey, but
I was thinking a body guard, driver, and corpsman.” He wiggled his brows. “And
your own personal love machine.”
Tess laughed. She ran the fingers of one hand over his close-cropped
hair, moved in and kissed him. “I never laugh as much with anyone as I do you.
But that is one of the cheesiest things I’ve ever heard you say.”
“What about your, ‘I’ve handled your weapon, and now I want to touch your
gun’ comment?”
Tess chuckled. “As I remember, you were all for having me handle your
gun.”
“Yeah. Want to do it again?”
She dropped her gaze to his chest and ran a fingertip down between his
pectoral muscles to the thin line of hair that bisected his abs. His muscles clenched in response and
his cock stood at attention.
“I’ll even oil it if you want me to,” she breathed. “But you’re going to
have to wait until after Detective Buckler has his interview.”
“Do you sense a theme happening here?” Brett asked. “Later, later,
later.”
Tess laughed.
Thank you so much for your continued support and your wonderful reviews. I appreciate them so much!!!
Read on,
Teresa Reasor
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