The
Way Back Home
By
Carmen Jenner
Genre: Military Romance
Release Date: May
29, 2017
Synopsis
August Cotton
shouldn’t be here. When a tragic accident calls him home to Magnolia Springs,
this returned Veteran adds his parents to the list of things he’s lost in
recent years, right along with his IED detection dog and his left leg. As the
sole guardian of his four-year-old sister, August must rely on his Marine
training in raising a tiny hellion who’s as stubborn as he is. But the Corps
could never prepare him for this. Nor could they prepare him for Olivia Anders,
a woman who’ll stop at nothing to get her way.
As owner of Paws
for Cause, Olivia is no stranger to the broken men and women who return home
from war. She’s no stranger to broken dogs either. In fact, she’s made it her
mission to pair the two and enrich both of their lives, but pairing ornery and
aloof August Cotton will take some work. The last thing August wants is some
pushy southern woman occupying his parents’ bed and breakfast and forcing him
to open up about the hell he narrowly escaped, but that’s exactly what Olivia
intends.
They complete
one another, and yet they can’t stand to be in the same room.
Can Olivia make
this hardened Marine feel again and finally show his heart the way back home?
*** Intended for
a mature 18+ audience only. This book may contain triggers for some readers.
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Excerpt
“You know, if
you want to see me naked and sweaty, all you have to do is ask, darlin’.”
“I do not . . .
I wasn’t . . .” My words are stolen from me as he stalks forward with a
maddening smirk on his face. “What are you doing?”
“Getting tired
of waiting for you to be okay with this.”
“August, we
talked about boundaries.” I press my hand to his chest because he's too close,
and I can't think straight with the heady scent of his sweat and sandalwood
soap distracting me. It wasn't my intention to run my hand over that sweat, to
feel the hard-won muscle beneath, but here I am, petting him as if he's my
favorite kitty.
“No. You talked
about boundaries. I told you I was gonna fight, and I ain’t above fightin’
dirty.”
“How dirty?” I
breathe.
August’s lips
curl up into a smile. “So dirty.”
Both hands snake
around my waist and he lifts me onto the counter, wedging his hips between my
thighs. He hooks a finger in the sash and unties my robe as if he were opening
a gift made just for him. I wrap my legs around his hips to pull him closer,
and that’s all the admission he needs. He threads a hand through my hair and
pulls my neck back to expose the tender flesh to his mouth. I close my eyes and
whisper his name as my whole body turns to flame, starved for the oxygen that
only his touch can bring. His hot mouth trails down my neck, his hands cup my
breasts, squeezing, kneading, and I slide a hand between us, into the waistband
of his shorts. I take his hard length in my hand, stroking him from base to
tip. August grunts as he pushes my negligee out of the way with frenzied hands.
His fingers find me bare and exposed with no panties.
“So fucking’
dirty,” he groans, wetting his lips.
Meet
the Author
Carmen Jenner is a
thirty-something, USA Today and international bestselling author.
Her dark romance, KICK (Savage Saints MC #1), won Best Dark Romance Read in the
Reader’s Choice Awards at RWDU, 2015.
A tattoo enthusiast, hardcore makeup addict and zombie fangirl, Carmen lives on
the sunny North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, where she spends her time
indoors wrangling her two wildling children, a dog named Pikelet, and her very
own man-child.
A romantic at heart, Carmen strives to give her characters the HEA they
deserve, but not before ruining their lives completely first … because what’s a
happily ever after without a little torture?
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