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Sometimes you want someone so much…
Sometimes you need someone so much…
Lust can become love.
And love can turn into a deadly obsession.
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Skye Sullivan knows that someone is watching her. Not just watching—stalking her. Months ago, Skye was involved in a dangerous car accident. The accident ended her dancing career and sent her fleeing back to Chicago. Skye is convinced that her stalker caused the crash, and she fears that he won’t stop pursuing her, not until she’s dead.
When someone breaks into her apartment in Chicago, Skye turns to the one man she believes can protect her—Trace Weston. Once, Trace was her lover. Two lost souls, they’d come together in a firestorm of need and desire. But then Trace had pushed her away. He’d joined the military, vanishing from her life. She’d put all of her emotion into dancing, and she’d tried to forget him.
Now Trace is one of the most successful men in the United States. Rich, driven, and carrying dark secrets, he agrees to help Skye. He’ll protect her from the danger that lurks in the darkness, but Trace wants more than to just be a guard for Skye.
He wants her. And he’ll take her. The years have changed him, hardened him. He’s not just a poor kid from the streets any longer. Now, he can have anything—or anyone—that he wants. And the one woman he has always wanted has just come back into his life. He won’t let her go again.
But with the threats mounting against Skye, she suspects that her stalker may be intimately close. He’s a man who knows her too well. As his attacks grow ever more dangerous, she realizes that if she trusts the wrong man, she could be making a fatal mistake.
Lust. Love. Obsession.
Just how far would you go in order to possess the one person you want the most?
Excerpt
“H-hello, Trace.” She hated that stupid break in her voice. Trace made her nervous. Always had.He stopped in front of her. He stood at several inches over six feet, while she barely skimmed five feet three. Skye tilted her head back so that she could meet his stare.
“It’s been a long time,” Trace said, the words a deep, dark rumble. His voice went perfectly with the rock hard body and the sexy face—a voice that a woman could imagine in the darkness.
She swallowed because her throat was suddenly dry. “Yes, it has.” Ten years and three months. Not that she’d counted.
That assessing gaze of his slid down her body once more. There was an awareness in his stare that she hadn’t expected. A heat that made her remember too many things.
He was close enough to touch. Close enough for her to smell the crisp, masculine scent that clung to him.
His nostrils flared, as if he were catching her scent, too.
“You look good, Skye.” Again, that heat was in his stare. A heat that said he knew her intimately.
She wished her heartbeat would slow down.
“But you’re not here for a friendly chat, are you?” And he stepped away from her. He waved to the open chair near his desk and returned to his seat.
“We’ve never really been the friendly chat kind,” she said softly as she eased into the leather chair.
She didn’t take off her coat. She just pulled it closer to her.
A faint furrow appeared between his brows. “No, we weren’t, were we? More the hot sex type.”
Her lips parted. He had not just said that to her.
His faint smile said that he had.
“I’m not here for that, either.” She’d been wrecked after her last go round with Trace.
He leaned back in his chair. The leather groaned beneath him. “We’ll get to that…”
Uh, no, they wouldn’t. She wasn’t ready to feel that burn again.
He tapped his chin. “You’re not here for pleasantries, you’re not here for sex, then why have you come looking for me?”
This was where she’d have to beg. Because there was no way she had enough money in her account to cover his services. Not with the guy sporting this high rise building and looking like he’d just walked off the cover of GQ. How things have changed. “Someone is watching me.”
He stilled. The heat banked in his eyes as his whole expression instantly became guarded. “And what makes you so sure of that?”
“Because I can feel him.” Wait, that sounded crazy, didn’t it? When she’d gone to the cops, they’d sure looked at her as if she were crazy. You couldn’t feel a stalker. So they said.
She disagreed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
USA Today Best-selling author Cynthia Eden has written over twenty-five novels and novellas. She was named as a 2013 RITA® finalist for her paranormal romance, ANGEL IN CHAINS, and, in 2011, Cynthia Eden was a RITA finalist for her romantic suspense, DEADLY FEAR.
Cynthia is a southern girl who loves horror movies, chocolate, and happy endings. She has always wanted to write (don’t most authors say that?), and particularly enjoys creating stories about monsters–vampires, werewolves, and even the real-life monsters that populate her romantic suspense stories.
Cynthia’s foreign sales for her books include translations to Japan, Germany, Thailand, Greece, and Brazil.
(Back in the day…) Cynthia graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Alabama where she studied Sociology (because people interest her) and Communication (because she likes to write about said people). Cynthia has worked as a college admissions counselor, a teacher, and as an editor. But now, Cynthia is thrilled to be spending her days making up stories.
Cynthia on the web: Website | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
Cynthia is giving away a $100.00 Amazon e-card to one lucky winner at the end of the tour.
Cynthia Eden’s MINE TO TAKE Blast Schedule
June 16 – 22
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Book Monster Reviews – http://www.bookmonsterreviews.
Grave Tells – http://gravetells.com/
Hesperia Loves Books – http://www.hesperialovesbooks.
Sassy Book Lovers – http://sassybooklovers.
Ramblings From This Chick – http://ramblingsfromthischick.
June 17:
Books-N-Kisses – https://books-n-kisses.com
Mad Hatter Reads – http://madhatterreads.
Literal Addiction – http://www.literaladdiction.
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Urban Girl Reader – http://www.urbangirlreader.
Salacious Reads – http://www.salaciousreads.com/
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Book, Books & More Books – http://booksbooksmorebooks.
Literal Hotties Naughty Book Reviews – http://
Mimmi’s Musings – http://mimmismusings.blogspot.
The Reading Café (Evening Post) – http://thereadingcafe.com/
June 20:
Book Lovin’ Mamas – http://booklovinmamas.
Nina’s Literary Escape – http://ninasliteraryescape.
United by Books – http://unitedbybooks.blogspot.
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So Many Reads – http://www.somanyreads.com/
Trine’s Review Cave – http://trinesreviewcave.com/
Crazy Four Books – http://crazyfourbooks.
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Froggarita’s Bookcase – http://www.
Scorching Book Reviews – http://scorchingbookreviews.
Bookin’ It Reviews – http://www.bookinitreviews.
I love your books and I am looking forward to reading this one. Congrats on the new release and Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you, Eva! 😉
Great excerpt – I love Cynthia’s work :). Thank you.
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Hi, Viki!! Thank you!
Thank you so much for featuring Mine To Take!