Release Blitz: Deep Under by Lisa Renee Jones
DEEP UNDER is the newest stand alone in
the Tall, Dark & Deadly Series by Lisa Renee Jones!
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Kyle, one of the alpha men of Walker
Security, is hot, bothered, and intense, and when Myla lands in his
line of fire, she'll soon learn her secrets, and her passion, belong
to him, from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.
Myla is beautiful, a dove with clipped
wings, captive by the wolf, a vicious drug lord. One look into her
eyes and Kyle could see the pain, the fear...the desperation. Or so
it seems. He's been fooled before by a woman and it cost him
everything and everyone he loved. He won't be fooled again.
“Who are you? And I mean really. Who
are you?”
My gut tells me that if I tell her
right now, in this moment, it will not be well-received. “A
friend,” I say, my gaze lowering to her lush mouth and lifting.
“And the man who wants to kiss you. Really kiss you. Can I kiss
you, Myla?”
“You’re asking?”
“Yes. I’m asking. After all you’ve
been through-”
“He hasn’t destroyed me. He hasn’t
beaten me and I don’t like that you think he has.”
“I don’t think he’s beaten you.”
“He hasn’t,” she insists. “I’m
not giving him that power and damn it, you better not either by
treating me like I’m broken and fragile. So kiss me if you’re
going to kiss me or let me go, if you don’t want-”
I cup the back of her head, and slant
my mouth over hers, my tongue sliding against hers, stroking,
caressing, and the taste of her, one part hunger I welcome, but the
other part, the torment, I intend to drive away. I deepen the kiss,
my hand pressing beneath her tank top, finding warm, soft skin. My
fingers splay over her rib cage, while my mind reminds me that no
matter how big she talks, she wants this escape for a reason. She has
been abused, used, hurt.
I tear my mouth from hers, my breathing
and hers ragged, my hands settling at her waist. “Myla-”
“Don’t do this,” she pleads,
“Don’t be the kind of hero I don’t need. Give me something good
to remember the next time he touches me, something that gets me
through it.”
“I told you,” I grind out. “He
will never touch you again.”
“You underestimate him.”
“You underestimate me,” I assure
her. “You want to forget? Let’s forget.”
“Don’t treat me like-”
I tangle my fingers in her hair and
drag her gaze to mine. “Is that too gentle?”
“It is until you kiss me again,”
she challenges, and so I do, holding nothing back. My tongue
stroking, taking, demanding, and she rewards me by giving me no fear,
but rather a soft moan, and a whisper of “Kyle,” when I nip her
lip.
“That’s what I want,” I say. “My
name on your tongue, not his. My tongue on your body, not his.”
“That’s what I want too,” she
dares, and when she adds, “very much,” there is this sense of her
claiming something outside of a world she’d accepted but hated that
empowers me, to help her go there, be there. I reach down and pull
her tank top over her head, tossing it away. And she is not shy,
timid or scared. She tugs my shirt up, but my shoulder strap and
weapon, hold it in place. I’m far from detoured though, unhooking
her sports bra and dragging it down her arms, my gaze raking over her
high full breasts and pebbled pink nipples. And the minute our gazes
collide, the fire between us ignites, and we are kissing again, my
hand flattening over her back, melting her naked breasts to my chest.
She tries a new approach to getting me
naked, shoving at my jacket and I shrug it over my shoulders, letting
it fall to the ground, but when her hand goes for the clasp on my
shoulder strap, my reaction is automatic. I grab her hand and stop
her. “What are you doing?”
“I can’t get your shirt off while
your gun is on,” she says, and then gives me an unhappy look. “Did
you think that I was going for your weapon?”
“Programming,” I say. “Protect
your weapon, always. And you aren’t the only one with a bad
relationship baggage.”
“I can accept that and understand it,
but now it’s my turn to say quid pro quo. I’m opening the door to
trusting you. You need to do the same and trust me.”
She’s right. A hand for a hand. I let
mine fall away now, leaving hers at my strap, a move from my gun. She
closes her hand over the butt of my gun, daring me to challenge her,
her chin lifting, gaze meeting mine as she says, “If you were him-”
My hands slide around her neck,
dragging her mouth to mine. “Obviously I need to fuck you fast and
hard before I go slow and sexy, just to get him the hell out of this
room.” I kiss her, a deep, demanding, stroke of tongue on tongue, I
end with a challenge. “Do you want me or my gun?”
“You,” she whispers, her hand
sliding away from my weapon. “I want you.”
“I want your trust.”
“And what will you do if you get it?”
His hand comes down on my leg,
intimate, wrong. Right. “When I earn it you won’t ask that
question.”
“I wish you could earn it,” I say,
and my hand goes to his and I tell myself it’s to push him away,
but I don’t even try.
“I can and I will,” he says,
leaning in, or maybe I lean in or we both do, but we are close, our
faces, our lips, and our breath. “Maybe not tonight or tomorrow,
but I’m not going anywhere.”
“And then what?”
“And then, everything changes,” he
promises, and suddenly his lips brush mine, a barely there touch that
I feel, oh how I feel it in every part of me, before he pulls back
and then he’s gone, leaving me swaying and grabbing hold of the
cushion.
“Fuck,” he curses, standing up and
giving me his back, just long enough to run a rough hand through his
hair and to face me while I try to calm my racing mind and heart.
“That can’t happen,” he says.
I blink. “What? I didn’t try... we
didn’t…” Confused, heat and embarrassment assail me and I stand
up, rushing toward the bedroom, running this time, but I simply don’t
care. But I also don’t escape. He’s there before I make it into
the bedroom, stepping in front of me, his hands settling at my waist,
branding me, scorching me.
“If we happen now, you’ll question
why. You will fear that I’m setting you up, and fear is not what I
want from you.”
“Then what do you want from me?”
“I could tell you trust again, which
is true, but right now, in this moment, what I want is you. Every
part of you naked, every way I can get you. Beneath me, on top of me,
under my tongue, and many other ways.”
“You can’t say that to me.”
“And if I’d given you some generic
bullshit answer you wouldn’t have believed it, I would have scared
you just as much as actually doing what I want.”
“I wouldn’t have let you.”
“We’re fire, sweetheart. We both
know it. It’s inconvenient, but it’s undeniable, which means
we’re going to have to find a way to deal with it because I meant
what I said. I’m here. I’m not leaving.”
My hands go to his wrist. “Let me
go.”
“I’ll stop touching you,
sweetheart, but I’m not letting you go.”
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Bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly
acclaimed INSIDE OUT SERIES, and is now in development by Suzanne
Todd (Alice in Wonderland) for cable TV. In addition, her Tall, Dark
and Deadly series and The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series, both
spent several months on a combination of the NY Times and USA Today
lists.
Watch the video
on casting for the INSIDE TV Show HERE
Since beginning her publishing career
in 2007, Lisa has published more than 40 books translated around the
world. Booklist says that Jones suspense truly sizzles with an energy
similar to FBI tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or
Suzanne Brockmann.
Prior to publishing, Lisa owned
multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The
Austin Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine. In
1998 LRJ was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in
Entrepreneur Magazine.
Lisa loves to hear from her readers.
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