Book Blitz: Hot Shade by Tamara Lush
Title: Hot Shade
Author: Tamara Lush
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Journalist Skylar Shaw covers a plane crash on a Florida beach
that leads her to a handsome yet mysterious Italian man...and the
conspiracy that threatens all he holds dear.
Romance is
the last thing on reporter Skylar Shaw's mind when she covers a plane
crash on a Florida beach. Her best source could be a mysterious
Italian man, but he's strictly off the record—unless it involves
indulging their electrifying attraction to each other. Little does
Skylar know, but that crash is only the beginning.
Luca
Rossi is hiding a big secret: He's a journalist, too, and his
anonymous exposé on the Mafia destroyed his world. Now, after two
lonely years on the run, he will do anything to possess this
vulnerable American beauty. But Skylar is as relentless as the
Florida glare, and the situation ignites when she reports on a
gruesome murder in a swamp. Soon erotic nights will bleed into
dangerous days, and nowhere will be safe from the heat.
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She had come here on business. To ask him about the plane crash.
To be a journalist. She had promised herself that when she came to
Palmira she would start fresh and respect herself more, at least
where men were concerned. That’s what her mother would have wanted,
and God knew her mom would have been horrified if she’d been alive
to see how Skylar allowed James to steamroll her confidence. Then
again, Mom would probably also have been appalled by Skylar
half-naked in a pool, lusting after a guy she’d just met.
“It’s interesting. Like I said earlier, one of the paramedics
told me that the man who saved the injured guy on the beach had a
tattoo on his arm.”
“Imagine that.”
Luca’s eyes met hers, and she couldn’t read his expression.
She tipped her head, and her wet hair spilled toward one shoulder.
“Were you the one who helped the victim?”
Skylar’s heart pounded when he smiled. He was so beautiful that
it was unsettling, and the look on his face showed obvious confidence
and desire. With previous dates—even the first time she was with
James—she’d always had a running commentary in her mind: When
will he kiss me? Now? Later? Ever? Tonight there was no guessing.
He reached through the water and wrapped his fingers around her
wrist, gently guiding her hand to his shoulder. She automatically
drifted toward him, clasping her other hand at his nape.
She was so close that her breasts brushed his chest. His hands
lightly cupped her jaw and neck, while her legs and arms and
everywhere in between tingled from his touch.
His mouth hovered over hers, and Skylar was acutely aware of his
smooth face, his searching eyes, his scorching fingertips on her
skin. His soft mouth met her lips, tentative and gentle at first. He
tasted like the wine, crisp and cool and new, and Skylar’s lips
instantly flared with heat. It was as if the shimmering blue light in
the pool had entered her body and pulsed through her.
Luca pulled back and caught his breath, as if the kiss had taken
him by surprise, then again pressed against her. The second assault,
too, was shockingly sensual. It slammed into Skylar, defeated all her
defenses. Almost.
She shifted her head away from his. Her gaze drifted downward, and
she was fascinated by the hard surface of his chest muscles against
the softness of the water that surrounded them. Trying to catch her
breath, she licked her lips, and guilt over kissing a potential
source stung her sensible journalist self. It was a stalling tactic
to gather her thoughts, although her only desire was to kiss him
again.
“You’re not going to answer my question, are you?” she
whispered. With half-lidded eyes, he slowly shook his head and kissed
her again.
Tamara Lush is an award-winning journalist who first started
writing in grade school, penning elaborate stories inspired by
Raiders of the Lost Ark. After completing her undergraduate degree at
Emerson College in Boston, she began her reporting career at a small,
weekly newspaper in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in The
Village Voice, People Magazine, The St. Petersburg Times, The Boston
Globe, USA Today and the Associated Press.
When Tamara
isn’t writing or reading, she’s doing yoga, cooking for her
Italian husband or chasing her dogs on a beach on Florida's Gulf
Coast. She loves connecting with people on social media.
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