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Divulging Secrets
by Lynn Burke
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Art Work: Jay Aheer, Simply Defined
Art
Keywords: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense
BLURB:
Candace Lake's testimony against her father landed her in the Witness
Protection program. With a new identity comes a new beginning, one based on
lies and loneliness. How can she find someone to share her future with when a
relationship without trust at its foundation won’t stand the storms of
life?
Tom Berkley didn’t expect his new tenant to make
him question his solitary lifestyle in the backwoods of Maine. He also didn’t
expect to be caught up in the secrets of her past that bring his own tragic
ones to the forefront of his mind.
The sizzling chemistry between them can’t be
ignored, but when the threats from Candace's turbulent past catch up with her,
can she trust Tom enough to protect her from the price on her head?
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PG-rated EXCERPT:
I followed the two marshals carrying the four suitcases I’d been allowed to
pack. Nothing personal, no documents. No electronics. I had been forced to
leave behind Butter, my old tabby that I had gotten for my tenth birthday. The
locket my late mother had inscribed with my name and gifted to me on my sweet
sixteenth birthday still lay inside its velvet box, left with one final
longing, loving gaze, same as I’d done with her in a satin-lined coffin five
years earlier.
Boston’s spring air chilled me through as we
stepped outside, and I gladly climbed into the dark-windowed sedan, wrapped my
sweater tight around me, and allowed myself one last look at the condo Papa had
bought for me.
Papa.
My throat thickened, and welling tears blurred
my vision. I had unknowingly helped him smuggle millions of dollars’ worth of
stolen gems and jewelry to and from overseas.
I had knowingly helped put him behind bars in
return for leniency in my own sentencing. But freedom had cost me my life.
Everyone and everything I had known for
twenty-five years lay in my past, and a new beginning loomed before me. Where,
I had no clue—and I couldn’t bring myself to care. My luxurious condo … gone.
My group of friends … gone. The gym I’d been going to for yoga classes since
moving to Boston for college … gone. The diploma I had received from Harvard
Law School with Lila Scorzoni written on it would never hang on my wall.
I followed the marshals aboard a small, private
jet inside a hangar at Boston’s Logan. Settling onto one of the seats, I tipped
my head back and shut my eyes.
The knot in my stomach had twisted months
earlier when my lawyer suggested testifying against Papa to save my own ass.
The nauseating twist had yet to relent, but at least I’d lost those damn
freshman twenty I’d picked up over the years spent in college.
The only good thing to come from the fucked-up
situation that was my life.
I heaved a sigh and turned my head, opening my
eyes as the plane sped down the runway. We lifted into the air, leaving my home
behind. Forever.
Drawing easy breaths had proven difficult since
finding out Papa wasn’t the successful business man—honest one—I’d always
thought. His communications business at the office building downtown worked as
a front for his shady dealings. The board of six who had helped to oversee said
company, nothing more than a band of thieves.
Witness protection.
My mind chewed on the two words, but I wondered
how protected I would be. Four of Papa’s associates were in the slammer, thanks
to me, and two who had last been seen overseas—one in Rome, the other in
Paris—still wandered free. Two men with the connections and motive to do away
with me. Money at their disposal and without doubt, thugs or hitmen on their
payroll.
Where could the WITSEC plant me that would be
safe from such men?
Nowhere, I feared.
R-rated EXCERPT:
So much
for restraint.
She
ground herself against my cock and tangled her fingers in my hair, moaning. “I
want you so bad it hurts, Tom.” Breasts pressed against my chest, she attacked
my lips again.
I
couldn’t form the words to tell her I felt the same, my mind was so damn
focused on the feel of her curves against me. The taste of her mouth. My hands
slid down her ass, squeezing and holding her still as my hips moved, thrusting
my cock against her softness.
Candace
reached between us and grasped me through my swim trunks. I grunted as she
squeezed. “I want you inside of me,” she murmured against my lips and slid her
hand beneath my waist band.
“Fuck.”
My head fell back as her hand closed around me, skin on skin. Talk about seeing
fucking stars. I thrust into her grasp, gone.
She
wiggled and tugged, yanking my shorts down enough to free my hard length.
“I-I
can’t do this,” I heard myself whisper.
“Yes,
you can,” she whispered against my ear, moving her hips forward. She’d untied
her fucking bathing suit bottoms.
I
groaned a few curses as she rubbed her bare pussy against me, her blue eyes
overcome by the black of her pupils.
She
lifted and lined up my cock, sinking down an inch before I could breathe.
ABOUT LYNN BURKE:
Lynn Burke is a full time mother, voracious
gardener, and scribbler of spicy romance stories. A country bumpkin turned Bay
Stater, she enjoys her chowdah and Dunkin Donuts when not trying to escape the
reality of city life.
Website: https://www.authorlynnburke.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorLynnBurke
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