Sweet
Surrendering by Chelsea M. Cameron
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She’s his boss. He doesn’t care. This office isn’t big enough for the
two of them…
When Rory Clarke ends up hiring the guy she spent one steamy night with
to be her administrative assistant, she's determined to keep things
professional.
Lucas Blaine has other plans for her. He wants Rory, and it’s hard to
resist his stunning blue eyes, chin dimple and the way he fills out a suit.
Everywhere she looks, there he is, giving her a panty-melting smile and pulling
her away for the most amazing (and satisfying) sex she’s ever had in her life.
What starts off as one sexual encounter turns into multiple trysts in
and out of the office and the lines she’d tried to draw so carefully are
blurring. But the closer they get, the more Rory realizes that there are things
about Lucas she doesn’t know, things he’s hiding from her. She’ll have to
decide if she can surrender to her feelings or get out while she still can.
Top Ten Facts You Don't Know About Sweet Surrendering
10. Sloane Harris'
name is the composite of two fictional people: Sloane, Ferris Bueller's
girlfriend and Xander Harris from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
9. Rory is partially
named after Rory Gilmore.
8. I used the name
Lucas in the first book that I ever wrote, but didn't publish. I liked the name
so much I wanted to use it again.
7. The cover was made
by me even before the book was written.
6. The sticky note
scene was one of the first scenes that popped into my head when I started
writing.
5. I didn't intend
for there to be a connection between Lucas' nickname for her of Sunshine, and
her full name, Aurora, which means sunrise.
4. I ate truffle mac
and cheese because I like to eat what my characters eat. Couldn't find a
truffle pizza though.
3. All of Sloane's
designs, with the exception of Rory's ball gown came directly from my
imagination. No visual inspiration needed.
2. My mother sews
women's clothing for a living, so I drew on my knowledge of that, and it helped
inspire Sloane's character.
1. Lucas was the
first redheaded guy I ever wrote, and he is NOT based on any real person. At
least not anyone I've known.
Excerpt:
The
announcer started to introduce him, but Lucas whispered in his ear, and then
the announcer spoke into the mic. “Our next act is Lucas Blaine. Give him a
hand everyone.”
Lucas
pulled a stool forward and adjusted the mic as Sloane and Marisol talked about
the various sexual things they’d like to do to him. Chloe just stared into her
drink.
“Do you
want to go?” I asked her, hoping she’d say yes so I had an out.
She
shrugged.
“I’m good
for now.” Crap.
I decided
that I wasn’t going to watch. Nope.
But then
the bastard started singing, “Sooner Surrender” by Matt Nathanson and my head
snapped around at the sound of his voice.
Oh, f*ck
me. Again.
His eyes
were half closed, his hair falling in front of them. And his voice. Oh, his voice
touched me in places that a voice shouldn’t have access to.
His voice
crawled down my body and under my clothes and teased me, taunted me, pleasured
me. Like he was making love with music.
Alcohol.
It had to be the alcohol causing me to be more turned on by a song than I’d
ever been before. Everything else faded into the background as my entire being
focused on him on that stage.
The song
ended, and the spell was broken, almost with a snap, and I was back to reality.
Her New Adult Contemporary Romance titles include My Favorite Mistake,
which has been bought by Harlequin along with a sequel, Deeper We Fall and
Faster We Burn (April 20, 2013)
Her Young Adult books include Nocturnal, Nightmare and Neither, the
first three books in The Noctalis Chronicles. The fourth and final book,
Neverend will be out in 2013. Whisper, the first in The Whisper Trilogy is also
available, with the second book in the series, Silence and the final book,
LIsten coming out in 2014.
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