Sometimes
love isn’t beautiful...
Meet
Max & Courtney is this southern mafia romance!
Blurb
Sometimes love isn’t
beautiful...
Sometimes the only way to
describe it is beautifully brutal.
If you think you know him…
You’re wrong.
If you think you know his
family… Wrong again.
If you think you know his
story… You don’t.
If you did, you’d likely
wonder how the hell a man like Maximillian Adorite managed to make it
to this point in his life. At twenty-nine, he’s experienced more
than most people could only ever imagine, all thanksto his family.
Organized crime they call it. Mafia.
No matter how they spin
it, it comes down to one thing. Max gets what he wants. Except for
the one thing he wants most.
Her name is Courtney
Kogan.
And now that he’s had a
taste of her, Max knows he’ll never be able to let her go.
The Southern Boy Mafia
series is a spinoff from the Sniper 1 Security series. It has been
set up to be read without reading Sniper 1 Security, however, the
characters will frequently cross over.
Teaser
Quotes & Excerpt
Quote 1: Max knew
all about dark and dangerous. It was his life. He was the son of
Samuel and Genevieve Adorite, and Max’s world was entrenched in the
dark and dirty underworld that his parents had proudly built around
them.
Southern Boy Mafia, they
called them.
Quote 2: The moment
the doors opened and she stepped into view, his heartbeat slowed, as
did his breathing. It was an automatic, predatory response, one that
he’d honed over the last two years. It was his body’s way of
arming for the battle he knew would come. The battle that fired him
up and made his body ache for her.
Courtney Kogan.
Quote 3: Courtney
picked up the pace, heading directly to Max’s office. She needed to
get this over with and get far away from this man before she did
something really, really stupid.
Like give in to him again,
because no matter what she tried to tell herself, Maximillian Adorite
had always— always—been her weakness.
Quote 4: Max’s
lips curved upward. This time there was definitely something
inherently sexual in his wicked gaze.
And the sad part ...
something inherently sexual inside her responded in kind.
Quote 5: There was
nothing gentle about this, but there never usually was.
No, what he and Courtney
had was combustible. Hot. Erotic. Intense.
Quote 6: This thing
between them, the chemistry ... it was already smoking, threatening
to set off the fire alarms, and the longer she was with him, the more
she wanted him, the more she craved his smile, his kiss, his touch.
It was a recipe for disaster, and she was hard-pressed to ignore it.
Which was ultimately the
problem.
Quote 7: Courtney
swallowed hard, mesmerized by the golden glow of his eyes,
intensified by the strobe and colored lights flashing around them.
They were repeatedly pitched into darkness only to be lit up again.
But Courtney didn’t need the light to see the intensity in his
gaze. She could feel it.
Quote 8: Their
interactions were heated, passionate, and innately sexual underneath
it all.
Beautifully brutal, that
was how she’d come to think of this thing between them.
Quote 9: She’d
known from the beginning that Max was a killer, that he was ruthless
and extremely powerful, yet she’d followed this path, and look what
had happened.
She’d fallen in love
with a killer.
Quote 10: Just as
it had always been between them ... intense, hot, electric.
Backing her against the
wall, he dominated the kiss, never giving her an ounce of control as
he inhaled her.
Fuck.
It was impossible for him
to resist her. No matter how imperative it was that he stay away from
her, he just couldn’t fucking do it.
Short excerpt: Before RT
could say anything else, Courtney’s cell phone chimed.
She was up and walking
across the kitchen before she realized she’d moved. A wave of
dizziness swept over her, letting her know she was a little on the
tipsy side. How many shots had she had? Three? Four? Seven?
Squinting down at the
screen, Courtney frowned when she saw who it was.
Punching the talk button,
she put the phone to her ear. “What do you want?”
“Let me through the
gate.”
“No.”
“Courtney.”
God, she hated the way he
said her name. It was so... sexual.
“Let me through.”
Sighing, Courtney hung up
the phone and then hit the icon for the program to allow her to see
who was at the main gate of the family compound. Sure enough, it was
Max. More accurately, it was Max’s phantom-black Dodge Charger SRT
Hellcat idling at the gate, waiting for her to grant him entry.
“Damn it.”
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About the Author:
New York Times bestselling author Nicole Edwards launched her professional writing career in July of 2012. Having been an avid reader all of her life and a huge fan of creative writing, it seemed the likely path for her to take. Since then, she has released fifteen books and has no plans to stop. As her full-time career/hobby, Nicole writes steamy contemporary and erotic romances. Nicole is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who was born and raised in Texas. Married with three kids and four dogs, she has plenty of interaction to keep her imagination brewing. Her books have been featured in USA Today’s Happy Ever After segment as well as Indie Reader’s best seller list. She has forged her way as an independent author. Although she has a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, she prefers to be hiding out in her writing cave, talking to the fictional characters that have built up in her head over the years. When she isn’t writing or plotting her next book (sometimes translated to “playing on Facebook”), Nicole loves to read and spend time with her family and her dogs.
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