I almost always find it difficult to find something to post about, but I told myself I’ll add to my blog every week, at least once a week. So here goes. I finished the edits on Tied and Tempting and feel comfortable enough to give you a peek at my goodies. So here goes…
Tied and Tempting
Blurb
Yahara does not do nature. She does not hike. She does not do trees. She does not do anything remotely green or natural. As far as she is concerned Central Park is all the green the world needs. She likes her concrete-filled city just the way it is. But as the leading ad “man” at her firm, she’s given the incredible job of creating the new magazine spread for a clothing line that’s totally green.
Her big break!
It just might be Yahara’s chance of getting one of her ads in a high paying fashion magazine. She’s more than willing to trade her Manolo’s for hiking boots.
Kauri does not like humans. They are selfish, self-centered, and careless. They care nothing about the world that is their home. But he must mate. And with a human. Once his gaze catches sight of the tall, dark-skinned full figured woman that is Yahara, he decides humans aren’t so bad.
His big break!
Now, if he could just get her to stop threatening to burn down his forest whenever he makes her angry… He just might have to pull out the whips, chains, and handcuffs for Yahara.
Excerpt
Yahara shifted from her left to right foot as she stared up at the seemingly endless path that lead up the hill. She glared at the trail. According to Kauri she was supposed to haul her big ass up it.
“You’re kidding, right?”
“Afraid of a few trees?”
One dark eyebrow lifted. He had to be kidding. She wasn’t afraid of a few trees. She was terrified of the pollen, plants, and animals that lived along the trail. Woods were her natural born enemy, but she wasn’t about to tell the hottest man she’d ever met that. “No, I’m not,” she muttered.
“Great.”
“That doesn’t mean I’m going to trek my ass up there.” She turned and headed back toward her cabin. Unfortunately, it wasn’t going to be a quick walk. It had taken them nearly twenty minutes to reach the beginning of the path and that was because Kauri had carried both of their backpacks. She was not looking forward to the walk home.
When he’d talked of a date she’d pictured herself in a black dress, him in dress slacks, and a candlelit table between them. She had not dreamed of flies, dirt, and the sound of critters in the distance. No fucking sirree!
If Kauri’s ass had not been so fine, she wouldn’t have even considered taking her hiking boots out of the box. But no, she’d let his muscles, dark brown eyes and sexy, overgrown mahogany hair get the best of her.
She blamed her response entirely on her dry spell.
For Christ’s sake, what self-respecting black city girl starts hunkering for a white nature boy?
The sexy bastard probably lived off granola.
“Yahara!”
She shook her head and picked up her pace. “No way, Jose. That damned thing is two miles up.”
Yahara had made the mistake of asking Kauri how far their trail was right before they reached it. She’d laughed so hard, she thought she’d broken something. And then she looked at his face. Yahara immediately sobered up.
He was serious.
And after taking a look at the trail, Yahara knew she was not climbing it.
“Stop running away.” The words seemed to rumble around her seconds before his long, strong fingers grasped her arm. She glanced down at his hand before lifting her gaze and glaring at him. “Why are you touching me?”
He smiled.
Both eyebrows lifted at that. Either the man was stupid or brave. She’d given him the, “Do you want to keep your manhood” voice and he’d smiled at her like she’d just asked the time.
“What if I promise to give you something very special when you reach the top?”
Visions of them together, limbs tangled immediately flashed through her mind. She pushed them aside and gritted her teeth before shaking her arm from his grip. “This better be damned good,” she growled before turning and heading back to the trail.
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