Want to win $100 in free books?
To help promote her upcoming release, Chains, author Shiloh Walker is doing a dash through some of the blogs in romanceland, leaving behind excerpts. If you’d like to get entered to win a gift certificate for $100 (your choice from the online booksellers), all you have to do is visit the blogs, read the excerpts and leave a comment. The excerpts are in order, just visit the first blog, Karen Knows Best and go on from there!
Chains
An all new novel of erotic suspense
They weren’t friends. They weren’t enemies. The only thing the three girls had in common was the high school they went to in Madison, Ohio—until one tragic night. Now, fifteen years later, they’re returning home where passion—and danger—await…
Renee Lincoln was the homecoming queen—with the perfect boyfriend and the perfect life. After that horrible night, she rebelled the only way she knew how: by submitting to her wildest fantasies…
Tall, blonde, and athletic, Lacey Talbot was a golden girl with a bright future. She’s found success as a photographer, but no man has ever been able to satisfy her. No man but the bad boy she left behind…
Sherra Salinger has always looked like a princess out of some fairy tale. The books she writes, though, stem from the nightmare of that one night. And she shrinks from any man’s attention—especially the one stalking her…
They’re coming back to Madison—and it won’t be happy reunion. There are three men, all dangerous in a different way. And when each of them surrender their bodies to the heat, when they succumb to desire, they’ll find the safety they desperately need…
Excerpt (part two)
Fifteen Years Later
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
Lacey tried to block out the sound of the leaky water faucet, closing her eyes and resting her back against the wall.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
Muttering under her breath, she surged out of the hard, ladder-backed chair and stomped across the waiting room, into the bathroom. It was small, with nothing more than a toilet, a mirror and a sink. A sink with a faucet that kept going…drip. Drip. Drip.
Clenching her jaw, she turned the knobs until that infernal dripping stopped. “There.” Spinning around, she headed out of the bathroom—and crashed straight into Seth Salinger’s chest.
Seth—shit.
One of the main reasons she rarely came back home for more than a day or two. Enough time had passed. Lacey would have thought that maybe she could handle seeing him.
Obviously not.
Get over it. It was one fucking night. Five years ago!
One long, blissful night…one night…and the last damn time a guy touched me and made me feel much of anything—
A night where her brain had actually shut down on her. A night that haunted her dreams. A night that still had the power to make her belly get all hot and shaky. There you go, making things seem bigger than they really are. It was one night—the earth didn’t move, you didn’t fall head over heels in love, and there’s no reason you can’t act like an adult here.
No reason. Adult. Got it. She forced herself to look in his eyes and reminded herself, It’s been five years since that night, kid. It was a fluke—
She might have even succeeded if he hadn’t touched her. His hands came up, cupped over her upper arms and steadied her and heat flared along her skin. Her heart skipped a few beats and started to slam in a sexy little rumba against her breastbone while she tried to get her breathing to level.
“Hey. You okay?”
Easing back, she forced herself to smile at him. “Just peachy, Sheriff.”
A smile tugged at his mouth. His very nice mouth…
“You look exhausted.”
But Lacey barely heard the words at first—she was too busy focusing on that mouth and remembering. Lacey groaned inwardly and gave herself a mental kick in the ass. This was why she hadn’t come back home much since then. At Christmastime, always in and out, a few quick weekends where she stayed with her parents and didn’t leave the house.
Because of him.
What had he been saying…
Oh. Yeah.
Exhausted…smothering a laugh, she edged around him and said, “I am exhausted.” Just barely, she managed to keep enough distance between them so that her arm didn’t brush up against his. She felt his heat though, caught a trace of his scent and wanted to press her face against his neck and just breathe him in.
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Loving it…
This is getting better and better! 🙂
Nice transition from the first excerpt!
Can’t wait to read the next excerpt.
wonderful excerpt, can’t wait to read more!
Hmmm… love the description of the one night. I am afraid I may be hooked….. of to the next bit.
I do believe I’m hooked…
I need to get MY breathing leveled right now.. WOW.. off to the nexy part.. I can’t wait!
This is soooo good,
Gotta go !
I will pop back later though
Love how she can capture your imagination and flesh out characters in just a few paragraphs. You already feel like you know these people, and want to know more about them and the back story that has brought them here….
Keep em coming!!!!
Seth Salinger? Sherra’s husband or brother? Uh oh.
Oooh I love this excerpt I want more!!
This is one of the great scenes from the book, I almost wish I hadn’t read it all ready so that I would appreciate the excerpts more. Dang.
I have to see how this story goes. I am off to the next site. Love this so far.
Got to have more!
VERY EXCITING!
This book sounds so great, I need to read more….
On to the next. I am hooked!!! GREAT BOOK!!!
Ok…..now I have to pick up the book. It was going on my let’s-see-how-to-swing-it list and now’s it’s bumped to I-must-have. Gotta hand it to her, the lady has skills. Glad she shares them.
I couldn’t find the first except anywhere on that page of Karen’s. This one looks hot
Seth the sexy sheriff…oh yeah!
I think I am going to hear drip drip drip all night.
Great way to tie the excerpts together! The poor woman, I’m sure that noise drives her crazy…
I can’t wait to read more!
Ashley A
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Drip
Drip
Drip
Drip
Now I am going to have this echoing in my brain all day !
oN TO THE NEXT BLOG !
Shiloh is a great author -luv her stories!!!! Keep em coming.
It’s addicting. On to the next blog 🙂
I am starting to think I might want a piece of Seth. This book just gets better and better as I run through the excerpts.
Wow! It does definatly get better as it goes!