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ABOUT BEAUTIFUL
RUIN
Grace Kendall knows what it’s like to have life knock you on your butt. She’s been through hell and made it back. She’s fine with trusting no one and expecting nothing until a night wind blows something quite unexpected onto her doorstep in the rain.
The
scruffy, yet gorgeous enigma known as Nathan Henley steps inside her
apartment and brings with him all those feelings Grace has tried so
hard to tuck safely away. Beneath his bruised and damaged exterior,
she senses all the dark and beautiful secrets lost within the
tarnished diamond of his lonely heart.
Like
everyone before him, he must be too good to be true. She resists his
mystery as long as she can, but she knows that any woman would gladly
throw themselves against his rock hard chest and shatter helplessly
into a million lustful pieces.
When
Grace finally decides to trust again, her ex-boyfriend Jack returns
to her life with his crooked grin and the past comes crashing down.
With the world spinning all around her, Grace must do more than
trust, she must fight for the salvation of her own lonely heart.
*Content
Warning: this book contains explicit language and sex. Mature readers
only.*
EXCERPT:
He
raises my chin with one finger and smiles at me with a sincerity that
is worrisome rather than reassuring. I’m not sure what game he’s
playing, but everything in me screams that this is indeed a game.
“You’re
so innocent,” he says.
“You
mean naïve?”
He
shakes his head, staring deep into my eyes. The smell of his tanned
skin is intoxicating. My heartbeat increases making me feel faint.
Control
yourself, Grace,
is all I manage to think. He’s not the man I kissed at the library.
I take a
breath and pull myself away from the physical and emotional closeness
he’s trying to build between us.
This
will never happen. It cannot happen. I’m not bad looking, but I’m
not exactly calendar material. There’s no way a man like this could
be interested in me. Taylor is the one who’s always gotten the
attention when we went out together or met new people. Whatever
Nate’s issues are, they have nothing to do with me and I don’t
need another troubled man in my life.
“This
has been interesting, but I think it’s time for you to go,” I
say. “It’s getting late and I’m exhausted.”
He
looks frustrated. “I haven’t said what I came here to say.”
“Well,
just say it already.” This might have come off as a little
aggressive. I try to soften it up. “Or don’t say it.”
“Will
you be my friend again?”
His
meaning escapes me. “Are you asking if things can go back to
normal?” I say, shrugging my shoulders. “Sure, why not?”
“I
want us to go back to that moment when I invited myself for dinner,”
he says slowly. “I want us to start from that exact moment.”
I
get up and lock my eyes on his. “Why, Nate? I mean, we had no
problems being shelter buddies and getting along in our strange way.
That seems to be our most peaceful state. Why do you need to make it
something more? You sound a little crazy wanting to go back to a
moment in time. Why?”
“Because
you’re the most curious person I’ve met in a long time.”
“Me?
I’m the curious one?” I laugh in an exaggerated manner.
“It’s
more of a curiosity I feel when I talk to you, when we’re close,
when we kiss, when my body feels your warmth,” he says almost
scientifically.
I
make sure to give him my most incredulous glare. “Really? If it was
the kisses and warmth you were after you pretty much fucked that up.”
“I
know I did,” he says like a sad puppy. I sincerely want to jump his
bones, but resist. “That’s why, Dear Grace, I am asking to be
friends only.”
“Silly
Nate,” I say. “Forgive me, it’s Nathan, right?”
“Nate’s
fine,” he says. “Anything your voice says is fine by me.”
“What
girl can be only friends with you?” I say weakening.
Instead
of an answer, he puts one hand behind my head and pulls me back down
to the couch with his face close to mine. “I don’t care about any
other girl,” he says.
My
whole body loses the will to resist as he parts my lips with his
tongue. He tastes like honey and cinnamon. He tastes like happiness.
He gently bites my upper lip, letting a finger trace my ear ever so
slightly.
His
arm tightens around my waist sending splintered pulses along my
spine. I fight to keep a simple truth from him, that he could make me
do whatever he wants. I hide a thousand yeses
from him, desperate that if they all spill out at once there would be
nothing left of me to love.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Alison
Foster loves reading a good love story almost as much as she loves
writing one. She spends her time dreaming up strong heroes and even
stronger heroines and she enjoys finding unexpected strengths within
her characters when they are in the most unexpected places.
She
believes that passion makes the world go round and that a sexy grin
is as sweet as candy. She loves interacting with readers, so feel
free to drop her a line.
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