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Part of Me by A.C. Arthur Release Date: May 13, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Series: Damaged Hearts
Buy It: Amazon | B&N
Description from Goodreads:
Lidia Morales has always felt out of place. The one stable presence in her childhood has always been Brayden. Every major moment, every growing pain, everything in her life has been shared with him since they were little, so it makes sense to her that they will stay friends at college together. Until one night, emotions are revealed in a heated kiss, and Lidia’s world is turned upside down. Brayden has always been just a friend and she knows she should look somewhere else for love. But the memory of the passion between them is undeniable—and Brayden isn’t about to let her forget it. As trouble brews, Lidia may need Brayden more than she realized and Brayden will do whatever it takes to convince her that they are soulmates…bonded for life, in Part of Me by A.C. Arthur.
“I know this great game we can play,” he continued,
trying to sit on the stool across from me but missing the seat entirely
because, one—he didn’t have eyes in the back of his head and two—he was too
drunk to possess any type of balance. His free hand caught the side of the bar
just as his knees buckled.
Now I was looking down at him instead of
across, still at a complete loss for words.
Brown liquid sloshed over the rim of his
glass and down his arm. “Whoa,” he half-moaned, half-laughed, then to my
horror, licked the rivulets from his hairy forearm.
I closed my eyes, counting backward from
ten and praying that when I opened them again he’d be gone.
No such luck.
“It’s called dare,” he whispered, hot liquor
breath fanning over my face because that’s where he was now. Standing right
next to me, leaning down so his face was in mine, his eyes aligned with mine,
his lips too damned close to mine.
“I dare you to take your clothes off. And
then I take my clothes off.”
“And then I vomit all over both of us,” I
quipped, finding my words before actually vomiting on this dirtbag.
His hair was greasy and lay in a haphazard
yucky mess while his half-closed eyes continued to glare at me. He looked like
he was actually thinking about that as an option. I flattened my palms against his chest and the sweaty
T-shirt with the totally outdated and faded band logo on front and pushed him
away.
“Not interested,” I said in the clearest
and loudest English I could manage.
“That’s because I haven’t showed you my
piece yet,” he told me just before lifting his arm and pushing it down between
where my arms were still extended toward him. Fearing he was going for his
“piece,” I yanked my arms back, about two seconds after realizing the jackass
had been using the arm with the hand that held the half-empty glass of liquor,
which now spilled down the front of his pants.
“Bitch!”
he yelled as his “piece” was now outlined by a growing wet stain.
Artist C. Arthur was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland where
she currently resides with her husband and three children. An
active imagination and a love for reading encouraged her to begin
writing in high school and she hasn’t stopped since.Working in the legal field for almost thirteen years now she’s seen lots of horrific things and longs for the safe haven reading a romance novel brings. Her debut novel Object of His Desire was written when a picture of an Italian villa sparked the idea of an African-American/Italian hero. Determined to bring a new edge to romance, she continues to develop intriguing plots, sensual love scenes, racy characters and fresh dialogue—thus keeping the readers on their toes!
During the course of her writing career Artist has won the YOUnity Guild’s Best New Drama and Romance Author Award in 2005/06; been nominated 3 years straight for EMMA Awards, with the fourth time being a charm she took home the 2007 EMMA Award for Favorite Romantic Suspense; and has also received her first Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award Nomination for Best African American Romance. She is represented by Christine Witthohn at Book Cents Literary Agency, LLC.
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ReplyDeleteA.C.? How do you do it? It sounds like you live a very full and busy life. With work, family, writing, that's alot for someone to handle! But..you seem to handle it beautifully with your wonderful books!
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