*Dashes in* Aorry I'm late. Limited net and chasing my tail with all that's going on...
But.... look...
*Mega chair swivel jiggle moment here*
and it's out on 22nd, (But up for preorder on Amazon and Kobo) so I'm taking my tease from it...
Blurb
To
have and to hold?
Reluctant
debutante Lady Clarissa Macpherson has never forgotten the forbidden kiss she
shared with notorious rake, Lord Theodore ‘Ben’ Bennett, all those years ago.
Even now, he’s the one man who sets Clarissa’s pulse racing and her skin
tingling – no matter how hard she tries to ignore it!
Yet,
when Ben rescues her from the unwanted advances of a drunken Lord at a society
ball, she finds herself in a most scandalous predicament – engaged, to the most
eligible bachelor in London!
Wedded?
It appears so, but bedded? Clarissa demands more from her marriage than simply
surrendering to her new husband’s sexual desires, especially when she realises
she’s falling deeper in love with him every single day. Ben must prove that
she’s the only woman for him – and surrender his heart!
Yet
resisting her new husband’s delicious seduction may prove the hardest thing
Clarissa has ever done…
Lord Theodore
Bennett, known to his friends as Ben, and to his enemies – of whom there were
several – as that bloody Bennett, rolled over in bed, and opened one
brandy-bleary eye. No doubt if a mirror were handy, the eye would be as blood
red as the wine he thought followed the brandy. Or was that before? Ben was
more than a little hazy with regard to the previous night’s activities. The
last he remembered was accepting a wager that he couldn’t empty the overlarge
glass put in front of him, in one go. Had he? He had no idea, but it was a
certainty someone would let him know if he owed them money.
Ben sighed, winced
as the noise set off a blacksmith’s hammer in his head, stretched, and froze.
Why was a bolster down the middle of his bed? A soft squidgy flesh-covered
bolster? He patted it cautiously and it moved. He dropped his hand as if it
were scalded, and tried to bring his thoughts into some form of order. It
wasn’t easy.
A woman? He never
spent the night with a woman. Never, ever. Bed them and leave them had always
been his motto. And not in his own bed. That was a given. Everyone knew and
accepted that. Didn’t they?
Somewhere in the
back of his fragmented mind he remembered music and damned doves flying
overhead. Doves, for fuck’s sake, and he didn’t even get a chance to take a pot
shot at them. Had he been to Vauxhall to watch one of the many spectacles
there? No, the music had been ‘churchy’, and … Oh my lord. A wife. I have a wife. The events of the previous day
came back to him with immediate and hideous clarity. This needed to be
discussed further. He reached out to the softness next to him and squeezed.
The bolster
stirred and muttered something. Even in his less than awake state it didn’t
sound complimentary. He pulled his hand back again. Soft fingers fumbled over
his body, and fastened on his morning erection.
The screech sent
sharp daggers of pain splintering through his head. Nails dug into his skin,
and that hammer hit his skull with monotonous regularity.
‘For goodness’
sake, woman’ – he hoped to hell it was a
woman – he didn’t think he’d suddenly discovered a propensity for his own sex –
‘there is no need to awaken every dog and monkey for streets around. Have you
never felt a …?’ He paused. What polite way was there of informing your wife –
or who he assumed must be his wife, for surely he was not debauched enough to
take another woman to bed on his wedding night – how your body woke up every
morning? Even, it seemed, after an excess of wine and brandy. ‘A man’s body
like this? If not, get used to it.’
and in case you are interested...
http://www.amazon.com/Scandalous-Proposal-Lord-Bennett-ebook/dp/B013L2OHW0/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1439208106&sr=1-2
Happy Reading,
love R x
Haha! Get used to it! Love it!
ReplyDeleteWell, SOMEONE'S going to have a learning curve ahead of them. :-D Awesome tease, Raven, and good luck with the release.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your upcoming release! That's definitely quite the excitement to wake up to. Wonder how they'll both manage. :)
ReplyDeleteHeheh, I love this bit! So looking forward to reading this again. Hurry up 22nd :-)
ReplyDeleteHehehe oh brother. They're both in trouble. Great tease, Raven. :)
ReplyDeleteOh goodness I cannot WAIT to read this!! :D
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