Four Letter Words
By Charlotte Howard
Genre:
Erotic Contemporary Romance
Synopsis
Paige Holmes has made her choice. But as she begins to get her
life back on track, she also starts to question her decision.
Then, the letters arrive. When Paige finds herself in trouble
once again, she must decide who she can trust.
Will she go back to the one she denied, or will she stand by her
choice?
Love and lust are, after all, both Four Letter Words.
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Excerpt
Laying my head back against the black leather seats of the Jag
and gazing ahead, I lifted a finger and touched my lips that were swollen from
his kiss. The weariness of the past few weeks was beginning to take over,
weighing on my eyelids as they began to droop. I should have been reassured by
the man sitting next to me.
I shifted in my seat so I could watch him as he drove on. He was
a force that even nature had no hold over. There was an urge to reach out and
cling to his broad bicep, a need to feel the security of his physical strength,
aching somewhere deep inside of me.
We didn’t speak as he pressed all his weight onto the
accelerator, urging the car until it was over the speed limit. I half expected
the shine of blue lights to fill the inside of the car, with sirens blaring
around us. But they didn’t. Of course they didn’t. Even if a marked car was to
pass, I doubted Vance Ellery would slow down, and I had even less that the
police would attempt to pull him over. I suspected that the personal phone
number of every single high-ranking officer in the country, was tucked away in
a neat Rolodex on Vance’s desk or even stored in the memory bank of his mobile
phone for easy access.
The silence should have been soothing. I should have been able
to let my lashes flutter against my cheeks, and slip into a relaxing slumber.
Instead the lack of conversation added to the tension that built behind my
eyes. I closed them, hoping that soon I would drift off into a deep sleep,
where I would be surrounded by falling flowers, rainbows, and sunlight. Ha! If
only I was deserving of such luck.
There were no pleasant dreams awaiting me
after the sandman visited. Only nightmares wanted to be part of my night. They
tormented me, bringing memories that I’d tried to bury and forget. They hounded
the darkness, giving me nothing but misery and pain and suffering. It was as
though all my sins from a previous life had been rolled over into this one.
If the visions of his face, the sound of his voice had been the
only elements of my slumber, then I might have been willing to slip away and
let the desperation of rest take me to the shadowed places I dreaded. My soul
was destined for torture though. I was to be punished for his crime.
The mere suggestion of sleep forced my blood to pulsate until it
was the only thing I could hear, throbbing in my temples. The searing pain of
anxiety and panic stabbed at my chest, pins pricking my skin, as I let my
eyelids fall. A shudder fell down my spine, waking me from the light doze I’d
stumbled into.
Breathe in, breathe out. In with the good, out with the bad. In
through the nose, out through the mouth. Breathe in, breathe out. A mantra,
taught to me by a yoga instructor years before hell had entered my life,
repeated over and over in my mind. I inhaled the cool air through my nasal
passages, allowing it to slip down into my pain-filled lungs, exhaling all the
bad out of my mouth in a gigantic whoosh.
Ahead, the roads were empty, weaving out of the village and
headed towards Richart Courts, the hotel that was to be my sanctuary for the
next couple of days before I had to face the next challenge. New York City.
How anyone could expect me to go back there was beyond belief.
The only logical explanation for their plans for my future was that facing New
York was the lesser of the two evils that haunted me, threatening to rip away
the seams that had begun to fray around my already tattered edges.
Four Letter Words is the second, and final, part to Paige’s
story. To celebrate its re-release, the first part of the Words Duet has been
reduced to 99p / 99c!
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Synopsis
Paige Holmes hides herself in a masculine world in a desperate
attempt to remain safe.
Just as she is ready to face her fears and her past, she finds
herself torn between Matt Jackson and Vance Ellery: handsome, rich, and safe –
or handsome, rich, and dangerous?
Which will she choose?
The one who appears to be the most perfect, or the one who makes
her use all Seven Dirty Words?
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Meet the Author
British author, Charlotte Howard, was born in Oman and spent
much of the first part of her life flitting between Oman, Scotland, and
England. Now settled in Somerset, Charlotte lives with her husband, two
children, and growing menagerie of pets.
Her career as a writer began at an early age, with a poem being
featured in an anthology for the East Midlands. Since then Charlotte has
written many short stories and poems, and finally wrote her first full-length
piece of fiction in 2010.
During what little spare time she has, Charlotte enjoys reading
and writing (of course), spending time with her family, and watching action
movies whilst eating curry and drinking tea.
Charlotte is an active member of Yeovil Creative Writers Group.
Charlotte is an active member of Yeovil Creative Writers Group.
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