Beyond Seduction
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By: Stephanie Morris | Other books by Stephanie Morris Categories: Mainstream Romance, Contemporary, Interracial Word Count: 39,800 Heat Level: SENSUAL Published By: Amira Press, LLC
Autumn Harris made a vow not to have sex before marriage. Problem is she didn’t know it would take so long to find a suitable husband. Autumn comes up with a plan of seduction to help get rid of her “problem”, only to have sexy bachelor rancher Eli King step in to play hero and wreck her plan. Or maybe not… Eli King has been burned once before by love and plans to avoid a repeat at all cost. So when he steps in to rescue Autumn from being pawed by a creep, he has no idea he is walking into a harebrained plan of seduction. He agrees to help Autumn find Mr. Right only to realize he is her target and her plan goes beyond seduction. 1 Rating
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 Beyond Seduction
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Excerpt“What was I thinking?” she muttered. “Sort of what I was wondering,” he replied. She looked up at him and blinked a few times as if trying to bring him into focus. “Okay, fine. K.C. was a mistake.” “Granted. The question is, why were you about to make it?” Autumn huffed out a breath. “It’s not like I had a lot of choices, you know.” Eli shook his head. “I still don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.” “What I am talking about is, you ruined the plan.” “What plan?” “It’s your fault,” she repeated. “You messed it up, so you owe me.” “I peeled a jerk, who happened to be mauling you, off you.” “Exactly,” she snapped, and narrowed her gaze on him as she swayed back and forth. “And stand still!” “I’m not moving.” “Oh, boy. That can’t be good.” She frowned at him. “Are you laughing at me?” He held up both hands in mock surrender and shook his head while managing to hide his smile. “Not a chance.” “You have to promise to help me.” “Help you what?” “I’ll tell you after you promise to help.” “I don’t do blind promises.” “But you owe me.” He scowled. “Stop saying that.” “Then promise.” Eli looked around. Everyone else was still inside, but he didn’t know how long that was going to last. Autumn was still unsteady on her feet and her brown eyes just a little hazy from too many daiquiris. Plus, it seemed as though she was willing to stand there and debate forever. He figured the only way out of this was to promise to do whatever it was she wanted. Then he could tuck her safely into his car and take her home. Hell, she’d probably forget all about this mess when she sobered up anyway. “Okay, fine. I promise.” Taking her arm, he steered her toward the parking lot again. She pulled away. Stubborn woman, he thought, and waited for whatever was coming next. “Oh.” She blinked, them smiled. “Well, good then. That’s better.” She reached out and patted his chest with the flat of her hand. “You are a prince among…among…um…a prince among…princes!” “That’s me. Prince Eli.” He took her hand in his and tried not to think about the flash of heat that surged through him with that simple touch. It had been way too long since he’d felt the kind of electrical charge that was even now sizzling along his blood stream. Hell, until that moment, he’d have been willing to bet his libido was nonexistent. But, apparently not. Oh, yeah. Best to get her home, quickly. Best for both of them. She was too intoxicated for him to be thinking what he was thinking. “Now, I’ll take you home before you get into more trouble.” “I wasn’t in trouble,” she argued. “Not what it looked like to me.” “Hey, you think it was easy for me, flirting with everybody in the room?” Autumn pulled her hand free of his and poked him in the chest with the tip of her forefinger. “You think it’s easy to pretend to be fascinated by how Bobby Nayer goes muddin’ in his truck? Or to act interested when Neal Carroll describes his mountain climbing tale for the third time?” She exhaled heavily. “And that’s not even counting the time I had to hear the acceptance speech of our new town sheriff.” “Sounds pretty horrible.” “You have no idea.” “So why do it?” She shifted her gaze to look out into the darkness. “Because I am twenty-seven years old and my cousin just got married, leaving me as the only single female member of my family.” “And that means…?” She turned her disgusted gaze back to his. “It means that unless I make some changes, I’m looking at old-maid hood.” “Are you crazy?” Eli took a good, hard look at her. Every one of her curves was outlined to perfection. Her brown were eyes flashing into the dim light tossed out by the lamps overhead and her dark hair had a luster to it that made his fingers itch to glide through it. “Crazy? Probably,” she said on a heavy sigh. “But it is so much worse. I am the last of a dying breed. A quagga. A dodo. A dinosaur. A…what else is extinct?” “What the hell are you talking about?” “I’m a virgin.” |
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