Title: Hero
Author: Leighton Del Mia
Genre: Dark Erotica, Standalone
Expected Release Date: February 27, 2014
Cover Designer: Cover It! Designs
Photographer: Scott Hoover Photography
Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets Promotions
Synopsis
Calvin ParishThey call me Hero. I defend. I protect. I ask for nothing in return, and that makes me good. Doesn’t it? That which makes me the ultimate predator also feeds dark impulses I’ve learned to control—until I bring her too close. For years I’ve watched her from afar, but what started out as duty has become obsession.
Cataline Ford
I work hard. I play by the rules. I’m content. My scars are quiet and invisible, and that keeps me hidden. Doesn’t it? One fateful walk home, I’m taken by someone I didn’t know I should fear. Captive and afraid, nobody will tell me why I’m confined to this hauntingly beautiful mansion. I’m given everything; I have nothing. He takes what he needs from me, and for that I hate him. But I might have loved him once. And just because you’re reading this doesn’t mean I survive him.
Excerpt
Because
I’m lost in my thoughts, I don’t hear Cataline enter the room. Her tight black dress
cuts across her mid-thighs, and her cleavage teases from a plummeting neckline.
She’s done her makeup for probably the second time since arriving at the
mansion.
“What
is this?” I ask, narrowing my eyes.
“What?”
Jasmine
drifts under my nose as she walks away from me to her seat.
“I
told you not to dress up for dinner.”
“I
thought you’d like it,” she says, lowering herself gracefully into the chair.
Her back is straight as a rod, and her fingers are laced. “You don’t?”
Norman
decorates the table with food as I stare Cataline down. He clears his throat.
“For dinner, we have—”
“Leave
us.”
He
pauses. Though my eyes are still fastened on Cataline, I know he’s watching me
as he bows his head. “As you wish, sir.”
I
stand and slowly walk the line of the long table. My footsteps echo through the
hall, appropriately menacing. I’ve just come from a burning building but am
back in my suit and tie to maintain appearances. And my ridiculous glasses,
which I remove and toss aside. She’ll believe I’ve just returned from the
office. When I’m standing over her, she tugs up the neckline of the dress and
blinks at me. I resist smirking as she tucks hair behind her ear twice.
“Well,”
she says, “aren’t we going to eat?”
“I’m
going to eat.”
“I’m
not?”
“As
far as I’m concerned, there’s only one meal at this table, and it’s you.”
My
ears pick up her slow swallow, my eyes the curl of her hands in her lap. “That
sounds like a threat,” she says quietly.
I
bend over, flatten one hand on the table and wrap the other around the arm of
her chair. “It’s not. This is a threat: if you’re not naked and spread out on
this table in two seconds, I’m going to spank you so hard, you won’t know up
from down.”
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