SUMMER LOVIN' BOOK SPOTLIGHT
Book Details:
Light My Fire, part of the
Harlequin E Contemporary Box Set: Volume 2
Lily MacIntyre's life is
offtrack, and she knows exactly how to right it: shed her America's sweetheart
image in a big way. Getting down and dirty in a limo with rocker Nate Lansford
seems like the perfect solution. Plus, she's had a mad crush on him practically
since birth. The only problem? Nate is her brother's best friend…and he doesn't
see her as anything other than a surrogate little sister.
Links:
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Harlequin-Contemporary-Romance-Box-Volume-ebook/dp/B00JD7P8B2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401296353&sr=8-1&keywords=kristina+knight
BN.com:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harlequin-e-contemporary-romance-box-set-volume-2-rebecca-m-avery/1119054656?ean=9781460336274
iBooks:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/harlequin-e-contemporary-romance/id866954970?mt=11
Excerpt:
#1:
“Don’t.”
Her words were a whisper, but still loud in the back of the limo.
“Don’t, what?”
Finally she looked at him, her deep
brown eyes molten in the darkness. “Don’t be my brother’s best friend tonight.
Don’t be my cheerleader. Just…” Her hand trembled against his on the cool
leather seat. “I’m not America’s favorite sixteen-year-old any longer. I don’t
need to pretend I’m still sixteen, and the magazines are already burning me at
Trey’s sacrificial altar, so why not send that old image up in flames all the
way?”
She leaned across the seat, brushed
her sweet lips across his cheek, and Nate nearly lost it. He was holding on by
a thread. This was Lily.
The same girl he’d grown up with.
The Lily who’d brought him home after school because she noticed he hadn’t
eaten lunch for three days. The Lily who cheered for him at the high school
talent show. The Lily who couldn’t really want him, because if she did…he would
ruin her.
Nate groaned when her lips brushed
against his. A bit of her hair had come loose from the sleek updo and brushed
against his neck, fanning that trickle of flame even hotter.
Her hand traced the line of his jaw,
and Nate’s resistance burned to the ground. He pushed her back into the corner
and dug his hands into her hair. “You don’t know what you’re asking for.”
She panted. “I know exactly what I
want, Nate Lansford, and what I want is you.”
Nate lowered his lips to hers,
tasting the sweetness of her lips for the first time. Her tongue tangled with
his, pushing him further, asking him for more. And Nate gave it.
When Lily arched her back, Nate
reached for her breast, feeling her nipple pucker beneath the fine silk of her
dress. She moaned, a tiny sound, but it was enough to pull him back into the
present.
What was he doing? This was Lily.
The girl who made him want to be more than the kid from the wrong side of
Malibu’s tracks. His friend.
He couldn’t mess that up.
Nate pushed away from her, fisting
his hands in his hair as he tried to put a few more inches between them. The
back of the limo was too tight. He was too close to Lily. He needed air. Space.
Distance.
“I’m sorry.” His voice was rough.
“That shouldn’t have happened.”
#2:
Nate smiled at her. “Still
putting on a show?”
She
could only shake her head.
“Because
I’m about through watching it.”
Her
belly twisted at the innuendo. “Sometimes you have to be part of the sh—”
He
put his index finger over her lips. “No quippity-quips. Not now, Lil. Let’s
just dance, okay?”
Her
lips burned under his finger, but she nodded and slid into his arms as the DJ
switched from bass-thumping fun to guitar-sensitive slow.
Nate
slid his hands beneath her coat and reached under the camisole to play with the
sensitive skin at the small of her back. And she melted into him. Lily rested
her head below his shoulder and twined her fingers with his. She sighed at the
rightness of being in his arms, even in the middle of a crowd and fully
clothed.
He
played his fingers along her sides like a piano and then worked his way around
to the small of her back again, burning her from the outside in. Lily
swallowed. She might want Nate, but she wasn’t ready for him.
Wasn’t
ready for whatever this was building between them.
A
small part of her still wanted the Nate she remembered—the boy who stood up to
school-yard bullies for her, who smiled at her and only her while he performed
before the rest of the student body in talent shows. The boy she shared her
lunch with, the boy who took her to the senior prom when Bailey Yeardley stood
her up at the last minute. She had so many memories with Nate, and almost all
of them also involved her brother. What if whatever this was messed up not only
her friendship with Nate, but also Chase’s?
Her
waking up a year ago and realizing the boy she’d grown up with had become a
heart-stoppingly attractive man didn’t mean a thing . He was still her
brother's best friend. He might be the guy who would give the reporter's
something to talk about besides her show being cancelled, but that wasn't a
good enough reason to act. Not if they couldn’t salvage their friendship when
this lust train arrived at the next station.
Author Bio:
Once upon a time, Kristina Knight
spent her days running from car crash to fire to meetings with local police--no,
she wasn't a troublemaker, she was a journalist. Her career took her all over
the United States, writing about everything from a serial killer's capture to
the National Finals Rodeo. Along the way she found her very own Knight in
Shining Cowboy Boots and an abiding love for romance novels. And just like the
characters from her favorite books, she's living her own happily ever after.
Kristina writes sassy
contemporary romance novels; her books have appeared on Kindle Best Seller
Lists. She loves hearing from readers, so drop her a line!
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