Amy & Liam get married
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Blurb
From New York Times bestselling author Lisa
Renee Jones comes the fourth and final part in the sexy, suspenseful The Secret
Life of Amy Bensen series—finally revealing the long-awaited wedding between
Amy and Liam. But with the explosive secret they’re hiding, will their enemies
ever let them live happily ever after?
For six long years I lived on the run, in
fear and devastated by loss. That began to change the day I met Liam Stone, who
is so much more than his money and power, and even the protection he has
offered me. He is passion. He is friendship. He is love and happiness, and the
man who made my enemies his own. And now with his help, the secret that drove
me into hiding is buried, our enemies contained. Liam and I can finally start
our life and put this behind us. The nightmare is over. Unless…it’s not.
**Please choose one excerpt**
Excerpt #1
“Hands back over your head,” he
orders, his hands falling from my body, promising he won’t touch me again until
I comply.
I do as he wishes, crossing my
wrists above my head, staring down at him, and he is naked and beautiful, the
kind of man who can make a woman beg. This woman. Because I hurt in all the
places he’s still not touching me. “Please, Liam,” I whisper.
Satisfaction flickers in his gaze,
as if my plea is what he’d been waiting for. He tangles his fingers into my
panties, holding my stare as he oh so slowly drags them downward. They fall to
my ankles and he presses his mouth to my belly, one palm on my upper thigh, his
thumb flicking ever so gently on my clit. I try to suck in air but fail as over
and over that thumb teases me, the delicate friction driving me insane, enough
to make me burn, but not enough to let me breathe.
“Liam,” I gasp, and again, it seems
to be another plea he seeks as it has barely left my lips when his fingers slip
into the wet, swollen flesh of my core and enter me. And his mouth, his gifted,
amazing mouth, replaces his thumb and closes down on my now throbbing nub. The
wait is over as he suckles and licks, and when my knees tremble, his hand is on
my hip, holding me steady, the way he has from the moment we first met.
Somehow I keep my arms over my head,
when what I want is to reach down and touch Liam. Oh how I burn to touch him. A
burn that radiates through my sex and suddenly I am on the edge of the sweet,
blissful place that is release. I suck in a breath that lodges in my chest, my
body tensing, and then I’m there, so very there, tumbling into a place that can
only be called perfection. I lose everything. Worry. Time. Pain. And when I
come back to the world, Liam is holding my hips, keeping me from falling.
He kisses my belly again but this
time he lingers there, his cheek settling where his lips were seconds before,
as if he’s holding on to me, making his claim that he won’t lose me real. There
is vulnerability in the act, the kind that he shows no one else.
No one but me. He shows me. He
trusts me the way I do him. And I have never felt so loved and complete as I do
in this moment.
He’s different now, the edge that
was there moments before shifting to something equally dark, but free of sharp
corners. My heart squeezes with the impact of what he feels, and the way he
dissolves the loneliness of my past. I reach for him, my fingers slipping into
the thick, dark strands of his hair. He lifts his head to fix me in a deep,
dark stare, cupping both my hands in his to bring them to his lips. I sink to
my knees in front of him, my hand flattening over his heart.
“I love you,” I whisper.
He cups my face. “I love you, too,
but baby, I won’t apologize for protecting you.”
There are a million things I could
say in that moment but he is already kissing me, deeply, passionately, the
moment of tenderness transforming into something hungrier, hotter. Suddenly, we
are clinging to each other, trying to get closer, hands all over each other as
we tumble to the ground, lying side by side. Still kissing, still trying to get
more of each other, he shifts our bodies, his thick erection pressing between
my legs into the slick heat he’s created.
His mouth leaves mine but our
foreheads are pressed together, and we do what we’ve said we will do. We
breathe together, and it’s intense and wonderful and I swear I can feel him
everywhere, in every part of me.
He pushes inside me, driving deep,
and his hand slides up my back, molding my breasts to his chest. “This is where
you belong. With me. That’s what matters.”
“Yes,” I whisper. “With you.”
Excerpt #2
“Let’s make more good memories,
baby.”
“Yes. Please,” I say, and my words
land on his tongue as he kisses me tenderly. His mouth lingers over mine, my
body coming alive, and I feel him breathing with me. Sometimes it feels as if
he’s the only way I can breathe.
Liam shifts the spell between us to
new places, turning me to face the massive four-poster bed that stirs
wonderful, intimate memories, and I am most definitely ready to make more. He
unzips my skirt and with deft fingers undresses me, removing one of the
barriers between us. Slowly. Seductively. Somehow he never touches my skin but
I feel him everywhere. My skin tingles the way my backside had when he smacked
it. I know he’s teasing me, driving me to a place where there is only this man,
this room, and me. I feel the energy shift and know that he’s no longer
directly behind me, leaving me naked and untouched. The freedom to be
vulnerable with this man, which I don’t dare with anyone else, is sexy in a
thrilling way.
“Turn around,” he orders, and the
rough, aroused quality of his voice tells me I affect him, too. I like that
even when he’s in control, there’s a part of him that I set free.
I face him, finding him close, but
not close enough. He shrugs out of his jacket and I’m mesmerized by him, his
power, his grace. Every move he makes is controlled. Every action calculated.
And I realize something I think I’ve known all along: we are the same. Both
damaged. Both shattered in some deep way. Both defending ourselves from future
wounds with our self-control.
He tugs his tie off and wraps it
around his hand, silently promising me that soon I’ll be at his mercy. It’s not
the first time he’s tied me up, and each encounter is different in a good way.
Yet tonight feels like the first time—as if we really are starting a new
chapter.
During our first encounter, he’d
said, “Sometimes having a safe place to
give it away is the best way to block everything else out. I’m asking you to
let me show you that I’m that safe place.”
And Liam is my safe place.
“Amy.”
His voice commands my attention, and
I look up to find I’ve missed the delicious moments leading up to him now being
gloriously naked. My gaze lands on the “pi” tattoo on his belly, the 3.14
etched above a row of numbers in an upside-down triangle that is all about the
infinite possibilities of life. It’s both thrilling and terrifying at times
when I consider them with this man.
“Hold out your hands,” he orders,
and it speaks volumes that I no longer hesitate to give myself fully to Liam.
He twists his tie around one of my
wrists, and I think of the many ways he has helped me escape my past. But what
about his past, which is just as etched in heartache as mine? He doesn’t talk
about his mother, not since his sole emotional breakdown. Since then, he’s protected
me—but who protects him?
He completes the knot binding my
hands and pulls me to him. “And now, you’re mine to please and tease.”
“Yes, I am,” I agree.
For More information on The Secret Life of Amy
Bensen series page including: buy links, and excerpts for the previous two and
also upcoming releases. Visit Lisa’s
website here: http://bit.ly/AmyBensen
About the Author:
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling
author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT
SERIES, and is now in development by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland) for
cable TV. In addition, her Tall, Dark and Deadly series and The Secret Life of
Amy Bensen series, both spent several months on a combination of the NY Times
and USA Today lists.
Since
beginning her publishing career in 2007, Lisa has published more than 40 books
translated around the world. Booklist says that Jones suspense truly sizzles
with an energy similar to FBI tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or
Suzanne Brockmann.
Prior to
publishing, Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many
times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine.
In 1998 LRJ was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur
Magazine.
Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You
can reach her at on her website and she is active on twitter and facebook
daily.
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