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Release
Date: August 18th
Genre:
Erotic Romance
The breathtaking conclusion to the USA Today
best selling Alpha Group Series.
The heart can lead you to dangerous places.
Abandoned by the man she loves, with nothing more than sweet words and riddles
for an explanation, Sophia Pearce felt like her life was crumbling before her
eyes. And then they came for her. Now, things will never be the same.
Confronted with the truth about Sebastian’s
identity, she’s thrust into a high stakes world beyond anything she could have
imagined. A world that threatens much more than just her feelings. Sebastian’s
enemies will stop at nothing to get what they want, and they want her.
Their passion for one another consumes them,
but as the danger mounts, and loyalties are tested, Sophia must answer one
simple question. What is she willing to risk for love?
This book is approximately 54,000 words long,
or about 200 printed pages. It contains erotic content and a dominant man who
always gets what he wants in the bedroom. It is intended for readers aged 18
and over.
Excerpt
(Note: Text may change a little before publication)
I hadn’t expected Sophia to sleep at all, not
after what she’d been through. Trauma like that can ruin a person. But somehow
she’d drifted off. I had no idea where she found the strength to be that tough.
She never ceased to amaze me.
For a while I lay there trying to get some
rest myself, but the events of the last two days had thrown my whole world into
chaos. It was all happening again. The fact that I’d averted the worst didn’t
make the situation any better. I was an asshole. I should never have let it get
to this point, but I was weak, and it had nearly cost the woman I love her
life. How the hell could I sleep knowing that?
To make matters worse, even now I was still
incapable of staying away. She was as secure here as anywhere, but the moment
she’d left my sight I began to feel agitated. I still hadn’t managed to shed
the mindless terror that had seized me when I first heard she’d been taken. The
urge to go to her, to simply hold her and never let go, had been almost
overpowering.
I’d tried to distract myself. There was
certainly no shortage of work to be done — most of my colleagues were holed up
together in the board room, planning things until well into the night — but I
was useless there. My mind only wanted to focus on one thing, and soon I found
myself propped up against the wall outside her room, nursing several fingers of
scotch in a heavy crystal tumbler. I didn’t know why, but just being close to
her helped. I made myself vow not to enter. It had taken an immense level of
control to cut her off the first time, and every moment in her presence
stretched my willpower just a little more. I would keep her safe and solve all
this, and then when it was all over, I’d let her go again. It was the only way.
But the moment I heard her sobbing through
the door, all sense of self-control fled. Before I knew it, I was on my feet, and
then in her bed. I expected her to fight, after all, I had to be the last
person she wanted to see, but she didn’t. Instead she just burrowed into me
without a word. I hated how perfect that felt, the way her body fit like a
missing puzzle piece against mine. I still didn’t understand how such simple
contact could make me so damn content, but it did.
And now she slept. I couldn’t help but run my
eyes over her again. Truth be told, I’d barely been able to stop staring since
the moment I entered the room. She looked so fucking beautiful lying there, her
face utterly peaceful, her curves perfectly accentuated by the thin cotton
sheet. She’d taken the T-shirt I left her, but not the pants, and now in the
throws of sleep she’d managed to knock part of the cover free, exposing one
delicate hip. It was a tiny thing, the barest hint of pale skin and black
cloth, but the sight took my breath away nonetheless. I felt impossibly low
ogling her after everything I’d put her through, but I was powerless to do
anything else. Her body was like a drug, a burning rush through my system that
was impossible to ignore. I knew how that hip would feel if only I’d reach out
and touch it. I had every inch of her body charted in my head; so perfectly
soft, so perfectly feminine.
Fuck. I had to pull myself together.
Ripping my gaze free, I eased my arm out from
under her. I’d done what I came to do. She was resting. There was no reason for
me to stay.
She stirred briefly, and I came within a
hair’s breadth of pulling her back against me once more, but after a few
moments she settled. Taking one last look, I moved quietly out into the
corridor and resumed my watch. I’d be there if she needed me, but anything
beyond that was too hard. There was no happy ending here, and letting myself
think otherwise would only destroy me more.
Links
to Other Books in the Series
Locked (The Alpha Group Book One):
Lockout (The Alpha Group Book Two):
Author
Bio
Maya Cross is a writer who enjoys making
people blush. Growing up with a mother who worked in a book store, she read a
lot from a very young age, and soon enough picked up a pen of her own. She’s
tried her hands at a whole variety of genres including horror, science fiction,
and fantasy, but funnily enough, it was the sexy stuff that stuck. She has now
started this pen name as an outlet for her spicier thoughts (they were starting
to overflow). She likes her heroes strong but mysterious, her encounters
sizzling, and her characters true to life.
She believes in writing familiar narratives
told with a twist, so most of her stories will feel comfortable, but hopefully
a little unique. Whatever genre she's writing, finding a fascinating concept is
the first, and most important step.
The Alpha Group is her first attempt at
erotic romance.
When she's not writing, she's playing tennis,
trawling her home town of Sydney for new inspiration, and drinking too much
coffee.
Social
Media
Website: http://www.mayacross.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/mayacrossbooks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Maya_cross
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6217503.Maya_Cross
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