Be Prepared
Trying to be ready, so as to survive with minimal screw-ups,
has to be a good thing in a world where natural and man-made disasters happen
anywhere and everywhere.
When I was asked to write a story with ties to Preppers
(survivalists who prepare for whatever life can throw at them), I was intrigued
at how much fun it could be to write about the obvious, unexpectedly falling in
love, that blindsides people who think they have a handle on everything.
My heroine in Falling for Water has a touch of OCD disorder,
while the hero doesn’t easily recover from loss, so much so that he charms
everyone and falls for no one. When the two are thrown together and bullets
fly, compulsion and closed heart are pushed back into the past while the need
for the other to survive takes over.
If you like flawed characters who risk all for a happy
ending, I hope you check out this new series at Decadent Publishing. DL Jackson
in her premier story for the series, Finding Mercy, has created a fantastic
imaginary town based on a real one in which to concentrate preppers at, the
only requirement is romance be involved.
Thank you, so much, for hosting
me, Grace.
Sincerely,
Arlene
Falling for Water - the blurb
Water.
What Cassi thought was a simple obsession with clean water has taken over her life. When she orders a distiller online to replace the one smashed by her abusive boyfriend, she gets more than she bargained for.
Enter a man with a badge, hunting a terrorist, and Cassi is his number one suspect. Not only is she struggling with her fixation on pure H2O, she has to prove she’s not the one he’s looking for—only she kind of wishes she was. Before she knows it, Cassi is in over her head.
Justice
Ray had everything, until a random crime ends badly and he’s left to hold to his grief or make changes in his life. Charming his way into people’s personal business—slapping on the cuffs as needed—gives him reason to get up in the morning. When he falls headfirst into another chance at love, he must take the plunge without hesitation or risk losing more than his heart.
What Cassi thought was a simple obsession with clean water has taken over her life. When she orders a distiller online to replace the one smashed by her abusive boyfriend, she gets more than she bargained for.
Enter a man with a badge, hunting a terrorist, and Cassi is his number one suspect. Not only is she struggling with her fixation on pure H2O, she has to prove she’s not the one he’s looking for—only she kind of wishes she was. Before she knows it, Cassi is in over her head.
Justice
Ray had everything, until a random crime ends badly and he’s left to hold to his grief or make changes in his life. Charming his way into people’s personal business—slapping on the cuffs as needed—gives him reason to get up in the morning. When he falls headfirst into another chance at love, he must take the plunge without hesitation or risk losing more than his heart.
As the pair join hands, sparks fly as well as bullets, leaving Cassi and Ray to wonder if the universe could right itself. Will the past reach out and drown their chance for happiness?
He stared
at her, his expression wary. “And I’m thrilled you’re so into evolution,
variation, and moving toward different things. I…er…just wondered, do you have
a problem with saliva?”
“Saliva?
What the hell are you talking about?”
He smiled.
Not slow and lazy, not sweet and gentle, but the wolf smile she’d seen at the
bar. “You admitted a thing with water right away. So what I’m hearing is no, I
love saliva. Go ahead and slap me, and…maybe I’ll stop.” He grabbed her, yanked
her up, and took her lips with his.
Ray tried
for gentle and slow, but the moment his lips locked onto hers it felt like he
had to make this the kiss of a lifetime or she’d slip through his fingers and
disappear. She’d either run screaming from yet another bully who took advantage
of a vulnerable state, or she’d fall through the cracks of the justice system
and out of his reach.
From his
mouth to hers, he yearned to dive in fast and hard, plundering with his tongue
until she opened more than her heart to him by confiding an intense trauma. He
wanted the supple and beautiful body rolled over him as well.
He
deepened the kiss, and his heartbeat pounded faster and faster as the tension
left her shoulders. She melted into him, soft and sweetly yielding to his
aggressive hardness, and she began kissing him back.
His
careful exploration, the tip of tongue easing along the seams of her mouth,
forced his lust into an easy, steady climb as lips meshed, escalating on the
roller coaster scale to maybe a five, a first-time kiss like when a boy walks a
girl to her door.
Forget
that. It was no-hold-back time. He was too into the taste and feel of this
woman to strive for less, and he had to bring her over the edge with him.
Plunge down and down into the world-is-about-to-end type kiss. A kiss that’d
stay with her, marking her as his own.
Falling for Water is available at
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Decadent Publishing is current accepting submissions in all sub-genres of romance, including their ongoing series'.
Decadent Publishing is current accepting submissions in all sub-genres of romance, including their ongoing series'.
Thank you for hosting me, Grace. I love your site, it's such fun.
ReplyDeleteI love the flaws your characters often have, in Falling for water, you show the OCD beautifully. It's a great story and I really enjoyed it.
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