Book Blitz: Enzo by Shyla Colt
Title: Enzo
Series: Jinx Tattoos #1
Author: Shyla Colt
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: January 29,
2016
*** Enzo is Book One in the Jinx
Tattoos Series but is a STAND ALONE novel ***
Neglected, abandoned by a
heroin-addicted mother, and placed in foster care at ten, Enzo Jordan
has learned one thing…love hurts. At thirty-five, he has a
successful tattoo shop and his choice of women. The one-night stands
are getting old, and the love he holds for his best friend, Aibhlinn
is impossible to hide. When the attraction between them reaches a
boiling point, he’s forced to choose between facing his fears and
walking away.
Aibhlinn Leahy has been in love with
her best friend for years. The Irish-born comic book artist has
poured time, energy, and love into the wounded man. His choice to
walk away breaks her heart but frees her to explore a new future.
Life is a cruel and amazing thing. An
abandoned baby brings the two back together, and they’re forced to
examine the love that has long existed between them. This is a story
of pain, scars, and fear. We all have demons to battle. The real
decision is who’s in control…us or them?
PAST
If you told him a few years ago, he
would go to the Prom and enjoy it, he would’ve laughed. Yet, here
he was lounging on the bed watching television in the hotel room he
and Aibhlinn had rented. Their friends had started off partying with
them before bowing out to retreat to their own rooms or head on
home.
She was still dressed in the blush pink gown that
hugged her curves, and belled out into a skirt that brushed the
floor. He’d ditched his tux jacket, unbuttoned his top buttons and
rolled up his sleeves hours ago.
“We really are morbid
you know,” Aibhlinn commented.
“Why?”
“Watching
Carrie on prom night,” she said.
“Well, no one
dumped pig’s blood on you, so I think we’re good.”
“The
night’s still young,” she stated dryly.
Enzo laughed
and shook his head. “Like I would ever let that happen.” He felt
fiercely protective of his best friend. The girl had cracked opened
his chest cavity, wormed her way into his heart…brought him kicking
and screaming out of the darkness and into the light. She’d done
something few people could, gained his trust. He studied her as she
beamed.
Her blue-green eyes sparkled and he could see
the small flecks of green inherited from her father. Her thick hair
tumbled around her slender oval face in insane curls, and she glowed.
Her full lips were tempting him. Bare of lipstick they glistened and
glimmered a light shade of pink. Suddenly, he wanted to know what
that lip-gloss tasted like, what she tasted like.
“Enz?”
she said.
“Shhh.” He leaned forward and cupped her
face.
She went still, but didn’t move away.
He
took it as permission. He pressed their lips together, and his world
exploded around him. She tasted like sugar, sweet, and addictive. He
couldn’t get enough. He tilted his head for better accent and she
gasped. He slipped his tongue into her mouth.
It was
akin to sticking his tongue into a light socket full of pleasure
endorphins. Energy rushed through him weaving a seductive spell. His
pants grew too tight, and his hunger for more flared. She whimpered,
and he moaned. The sound of her surrender tasted better than any of
the pleasure filled cries he’d wrung from other girls.
His
heart raced, and his hand shook slightly as he brushed her hair way
from her face. It was baby soft and smelled like flowers. He’d
fallen into heaven. He lowered her body to the bed. Pressed chest to
chest, their eyes locked and he knew he was in way too deep. I love
her. The words jolted him from his lust. He pulled back, breathing
hard. “As good as this feels and as amazing as this would be with
you, I just can’t. It would ruin what we have and if I ever lost
you, I’d lose my mind. You’re the only female I can trust. I need
you to stay that. Do you understand? It’s nothing against you, and
everything for you. I’m a bastard and I know it. You deserve
romance, flowers and a deep commitment. I can’t give you that,
babe.”
“Who says it’s what I want,” she
said.
Enzo smiled and brushed the stray strands of hair
behind her ear. “It’s what every girl wants, whether they realize
it or not. Trust me, I’m older and wiser.”
“Oh
fuck you and your six months,” she said with a shaky laugh.
Her eyes looked glossy and he knew if
he saw a mirror, his would be the same. If he’d been a better
person, someone capable of love the way she deserved, he would’ve
continued. He cursed the bitch of mother and the way she’d twisted
his dark soul. She broke something inside him, he would never be able
to fix. He rested his forehead against hers, and tightened his hold,
knowing he would never again get to experience this level of intimacy
with the one woman he loved as much as he was able to.
Shyla Colt grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio,
but has lived a variety of different places thanks to her wanderlust,
interesting careers, and marriage to a United States Marine. She's
always loved books and wrote her very first novel at the age of
fifteen. She keeps a copy of her first submission letter on her desk
for inspiration.
After a lifetime of traveling, she
settled down and knew her time had come to write. Diving into her new
career like she does everything else, with enthusiasm, research and a
lot of prayers, she had her first book published in June of 2011. As
a full-time writer, stay at home mother, and wife, there's never a
dull moment in her household.
She weaves her tales in spare moments
and the evenings with a cup of coffee or tea at her side and the
characters in her head for company. A self-professed rebel with a
pen. Her goal is to diversify romance as she continues to genre hop,
and offer up strong female characters.
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