Release Blitz: Christmas at Eden Manor by Noelle Adams
Title: Christmas at Eden Manor
Series: Eden Manor #4
Author: Noelle Adams
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 5,
2016
Brie Graves might be jobless, living
with her brother, and recovering from a painful break-up, but she's
determined to enjoy the holidays. Until the end of the year, she's
going to do anything she wants to do, no matter how crazy it might
be. Soon, she discovers exactly what she wants--to spend a week with
a fascinating, sophisticated stranger. It doesn't matter that she
only knows his first name or that he's more than twenty years older
than her. After this one week, she'll never see him again.
Cyrus Damon has spent his life making
money and holding himself to impossibly high standards. Pressured
into taking a vacation in Savannah, he's alone and at loose ends, so
he lets himself do something he never would have considered
otherwise. He gives in to his attraction to a beautiful,
free-spirited, and much-too-young woman. But, after the week is over,
he'll once more be the man he's always been, left with nothing but
the memory of a woman who made him happier than he's ever been.
He has no idea that when he visits his
nephew in a charming bed and breakfast called Eden Manor, he'll find
the woman he thought he'd left for good.
Christmas at Eden Manor is a short
holiday romance with an old-fashioned hero in his fifties and a lot
of swoony romance. It concludes a sequence of three series (Heirs of
Damon, Beaufort Brides, and Eden Manor), but it can easily be read as
a standalone.
Had he been thinking more clearly,
Cyrus would have noticed that there were clothes that weren’t his
draped over one of the chairs in the master bedroom.
That fact hardly registered in his mind
though. He was thinking about Brie, by herself outside. Waiting for
him.
Probably wondering if he wanted her at
all.
He would have to show her how much he
did want her.
He opened the bathroom door and stepped
inside, jerking to a stop when he realized there was someone in the
shower.
Brie was in the shower.
The shower was large, beautifully
tiled, and made so it didn’t need a shower curtain or door, so he
could see her very clearly as the water poured down over her from the
rainfall showerhead.
Water streamed over her bare flesh. Her
arms were lifted to wring water out of her long hair, a position that
lifted her firm breasts in a tantalizing way. Her fair skin looked
luminous in the artificial light, broken only by the darkened tips of
her nipples. Her eyes were closed, and she hadn’t yet seen him.
The fact that she was unaware of his
presence made the sight even more alluring. She was completely
unselfconscious, her motion not intended to be seductive as she
pulled the water out of her hair, causing her breasts to bounce a
little.
Cyrus grew hard as he stood watching,
so quickly it actually hurt. He’d never seen anyone—anything—that
he wanted with such an intense, visceral hunger.
His eyes raked over her dripping, naked
flesh, devouring the sight of her lush breasts, smooth belly, and
rosy, erect nipples. His eyes returned to her face and saw the moment
she recognized his presence.
“God!” she gasped, covering herself
with one arm in an automatic gesture of defense.
His mind finally caught up, and he
turned on his heel quickly, showing her his back. “I’m sorry. I’m
sorry. Gordon said you were outside.”
“I was. It’s fine,” Brie said,
her voice strangely hoarse. “You just startled me. I was
outside—Gordon said I could use the hot tub. But then I wanted to
take a shower, and I thought it would be okay since you were still
working. I’m sorry—”
“Don’t be sorry. It’s not your
fault. I’m sorry to just walk in like that.” He wasn’t really
sorry. He couldn’t stop visualizing Brie’s gorgeous dripping body
behind him, and his body was responding to that luscious vision.
Responding quite dramatically.
“Is everything all right with work?”
she asked. He heard the shower water turn off.
“Yes. It is now. It was an emergency.
I apologize for leaving you alone so long.”
“You don’t have to apologize. But
you took care of everything?”
“Yes.”
“And there’s nothing to worry about
now?”
“No. Nothing.”
“Good. So you can turn around,
Cyrus,” Brie said in a different tone.
“It’s probably not a good idea.”
“I think it would be a good idea. I
think it would be a very good idea.”
Noelle handwrote her first romance
novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she hasn’t
stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and
currently resides in Virginia, where she reads any book she can get
her hands on and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
She loves travel, art, history, and ice
cream. After spending far too many years of her life in graduate
school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus on
writing contemporary romances.
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