Black
Listed by Shelly Bell
Benediction
#4
Releasing
March 22, 2016
Avon Red Impulse
Blurb
She sacrificed
everything to keep him safe…
Five years ago, con artist
Lisa Smith broke the first rule of hustling when she fell in love
with—and married—her mark, billionaire Sawyer Hayes. The erotic
nights spent acting out her darkest fantasies with her husband and
Master were the happiest of her life. But when her ruthless father
demanded she kill him and take his money, she had no choice but to
disappear without a trace…or lose him forever.
He’ll risk
everything to have her again…
Now Sawyer has found her,
and he has an indecent proposal: submit to him for seven nights and
he’ll grant her the divorce she desires. Forced to pretend she no
longer loves him, each night spent in his arms is exquisite torture
as they reignite their intense passion through role play and ménage.
But when a deranged killer out for revenge targets Lisa, she must
finally trust Sawyer with the secrets of her past…or neither of
them will live to see the future.
Warning:
Scenes
depicting BDSM, fisting, MMFMM, consensual non-consent
and
references to abuse!
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Excerpt
Lisa turned and caught
sight of Rachel walking toward her with two men by her side.
It took only a moment for
it to register.
The long blond hair she
loved to tug on during rough sex.
The stubble lining his jaw
that used to scratch the skin of her inner thighs as he worked her
over with his mouth.
The roguish and
lighthearted appearance he maintained in public and the dark
dominance that lurked beneath the surface.
It was him.
He was here.
Her Master.
He had found her.
She blinked a few times,
trying to see if maybe she was imagining that the man she’d run
from four years ago was suddenly only feet away and talking with her
friends as if he knew them. That was impossible, right?
Her heart galloped a wild
beat, and the sounds of the crowd disappeared under the roar of her
pulse.
She wanted to run from
him.
She wanted to run to him.
All the sorrow and regret
she’d buried deep down inside came rushing back with a force that
nearly bowled her over. And when the ghost from her past stood right
in front of her and looked at her like a stranger, the glass of red
wine slipped from her shaking hand onto the green grass, the liquid
pooling beneath her heels.
Seemingly oblivious to her
shock, Rachel smiled, a twinkle of mischief in her eyes. “I’d
like to introduce you to Logan’s friend, Sawyer Hayes. Sawyer, this
is Lisa Smith.”
Logan’s friend? Sawyer
was Logan’s friend? This was the man who had helped Rachel and
Logan in Las Vegas when they were framed for murder and running from
the FBI?
“Hello,” Sawyer said
cordially, standing so close she could feel his body heat radiating
off him and smell a scent that reminded her of the best days of her
life. “It’s nice to see you again, Annaliese.”
Her mind was a jumbled
mess.
Like she was prey caught
in the sights of a hunter, she became entrapped in his eyes.
She couldn’t breathe.
Couldn’t speak.
Couldn’t move.
“You know each other?”
Rachel said, her brows wrinkled in confusion.
“You could say that,”
Sawyer said slowly, still holding Lisa captive with his eyes. “She’s
my wife.”
“Lisa is the woman who
conned you?” Logan asked incredulously.
Shame heated her cheeks,
and she suppressed the threatening tears. Her friends would hate her
when they discovered what she’d done. Not that she deserved any
less.
And what did it matter?
She was about to lose everything. She wouldn’t be surprised if she
was arrested at any moment.
Rachel took her hand, but
she still couldn’t look away from Sawyer. “I’m sure if she did,
she had her reasons.”
Yes, she had her reasons.
Dark, dangerous reasons that sometimes woke her out of her sleep in
the form of violent nightmares.
And now with Sawyer’s
appearance, her nightmares were one step closer to becoming true.
Author
Info
A sucker for a happy
ending, Shelly Bell writes sensual romance often with a bit of kink
and action-filled erotic thrillers with high-emotional stakes for her
alpha heroes and kick-ass heroines.
She began writing upon the
insistence of her husband who dragged her to the store and bought her
a laptop. When she’s not working her day job, taking care of her
family, or writing, you’ll find her reading the latest smutty
romance.
Shelly Bell writes the
Benediction series for Avon Red Impulse and the forthcoming Forbidden
Lovers series for Grand Central Forever.
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