One Kiss
Midnight Kiss # 1
Lisa Fox
Midnight Kiss # 1
Lisa Fox
Contemporary Romance
Harper Impulse
74 Pages
Harper Impulse
74 Pages
Sometimes one kiss can change everything.
New Year's Eve
is supposed to be a night for celebration and new beginnings. For best friends
Kat and Dean, it is a nightmare filled with disastrous dates and enraged
ex-girlfriends!
Lucky for them,
they've got each other to help laugh off the embarrassing, and downright
inappropriate, moments. But then midnight rolls around and neither of them have
anyone to kiss…
There's no doubt
this is a night they will always remember.
The real
question is whether it will be a night they want to forget…
Dean
climbed into the cab and smiled when he saw Kat. He always smiled when he saw
her. She was beautiful. Most people saw some typical, vapid Southern California
girl when they looked at her, she embodied it with her light blond hair,
cornflower-blue eyes, and smoking beach body, but he knew better. He had seen
it the first time she flashed him that dark little smile of hers. Underneath
that seemingly tame exterior beat the heart of a brilliant, though somewhat
warped, rebel woman and being with her was like being on a perpetual adventure,
even when they were sitting on his couch playing video games.
He
leaned over and kissed her cheek, breathing in her scent, the heady combination
of lilac and soap that had a way of stimulating his senses. He pulled back
slightly and when their eyes met an electric current zapped his nerve endings,
raising the fine hair on his arms. She made some noise, or maybe exhaled a
little louder than usual, and his eyes flicked to her glossy red lips, plump
and slightly parted, close enough to kiss.
For
a heartbeat he considered it. All he had to do was dip his head a centimeter
more and his lips would be on hers, her taste in his mouth. A part of him
craved the contact, demanded it, but he pushed the temptation aside. It was
nothing new. He was always kind of tempted, from the moment they met. But he
was with the Congressman’s daughter at the time, and when that ended, there was
the Knicks City Dancer, and then, not much later, Marine. He might have gone
for it during one of the few occasions when they were both single, but he never
quite knew if she would welcome it or not.
Sometimes
he thought she might, other times, not so much. He decided long ago that
finding out was not worth the risk. She was already his in the best possible
ways. He didn’t need to gamble what they shared on one kiss.
Instead,
he dropped his gaze to her lap and took her hand, running his fingertips over
the tattoo around her wrist, the words, “We’re All Mad Here.” He was with her the
night she got it done, holding her other hand while she laughed through the
discomfort. Afterward, they’d gone to his rooftop, drank a bottle of Jack, and
danced to “Don’t Stop Believin’” until the neighbors complained about the
noise. It was one of his best memories.
He
laced his fingers through hers and squeezed. She smiled over at him and
returned the gesture. And just like that, his entire world was better.
“So,
tell me about this guy,” he said, breaking the comfortable silence. Teasing her
was one of his favorite activities, and he wasn’t about to let this prime
opportunity pass him by. It had nothing to do with the niggling worm that
wanted to squirm its way into his heart.
Kat
snorted. “I don’t really know that much. He’s Alan’s sister’s massage therapist’s
brother.” She waved her hand, dismissing it all. “Something like that.” A lock
of hair dropped in front of her face and she swiped it back behind her ear.
“According to Ron, he’s ‘perfect for me,’ whatever that means.” Her hair was
messier than she usually wore it, a chaotic tumble of waves that fell around
her shoulders and almost looked as if she’d had a good romp in bed. He liked
it. “You know how Ron and Alan are,” she went on. “Just because they’re happily
married, they think everyone should be too.” She smiled, but it looked
strained. “I don’t know how they talked me into it.”
“I
was wondering that very same thing,” he said. “Are they blackmailing you or
something?” Getting set up on blind dates was very much not Kat’s style. She
was a notorious commitment-phobe and over the years he had known her, she’d had
flings, but not much else. Agreeing to a blind date, a match from Ron no less,
was completely out of character. Ron and Alan were hopeless romantics and
because they wanted everyone to find their “soul mates,” they often set up the
Sharpe Designs family members with suitable prospects. They were good at it
too—three of their matches had turned into marriages. Kat knew what agreeing to
a set up like this could mean and he was surprised that she might be
considering something more long term. He wondered what changed. And why.
“Or
something.” She shook her head and shrugged. “I guess they caught me a weak,
horny moment.”
Dean
smiled. A very typical Kat response. He tapped her knee, her stockings silky
under his fingertips. She could be a hard woman, even cold at times, but her
body was always soft, her skin warm and supple. “Guys are for more than just
sex, you know.”
“Are
they?” Her eyes widened with feigned innocence. “I can’t image what else I
would do with one.”
“Oh,
I don’t know, we can be handy to have around. We can lift heavy things, get the
tops off most jarred products, kill spiders.” He was rapidly running out of
examples, and he tried to think of things his dad did that made his mother
happy, grasping onto the first thing that came to mind. “Yard work.”
Her Perfect
Lips
Midnight Kiss # 2
Lisa Fox
Contemporary Romance
Harper Collins
74 Pages
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Stacy took a sip
of her drink, the sweetness exploding on her tongue. The familiar
lightheadedness of intoxication warmed her skull, and she frowned. She might
not have the tolerance to take on Mardi Gras anymore, but she was no
lightweight either. She held up the plastic cup, the low light reflecting in
the funky yellow-green liquid. “What’s in these things?”
Ten gave her
that wicked grin again. “Good old-fashioned New Orleans grain alcohol.”
Even as her eyes
widened, she had to chuckle. No wonder she was feeling it. The drink in her
hand was a one hundred and ninety proof bomb of pure alcohol. “Are you trying
to get me drunk?”
“Maybe.” His
gaze moved over her, so slowly and thoroughly it almost felt like a physical
caress. “Wasn’t that part of your plan?”
Her gaze flicked
to his lips and then quickly away. God, she still had it so bad for him. She
took a quick sip of her cocktail to try to cool herself down.
He reached over
took her hand. “I’ve thought about you.”
Every molecule in
the air between them instantly ignited. “Have you?” Heat rushed to her cheeks,
her pulse raced in her veins. “What’d you think about?”
He ran his thumb
over her knuckles. “Do you remember that night?”
“Of course I
remember.” She would never forget the night before she left for New York. The
night she spent with him. The memory often came to her in the darkest hours,
when she was home, alone in her bed. No one had ever held her the way he did,
no one’s skin had ever felt quite so good against hers. “I almost missed my
plane.”
He traced
patterns over the back her hand with his thumb, a delicate caress that made her
blood run hot. When he met her eyes again, tension exploded between them,
turning her insides liquid.
Her gaze fell
back to his lips, and she couldn’t help but remember the taste of his kiss. The
way he’d touched her. The texture of his skin. Given the chance to have it all
again, she’d start right there at his mouth and then work her way down to his—
“Hey,” Peter
said as he and Melanie returned to the table. “Do you want another drink?”
“No,” Stacy
said, rising to her feet. This was too much. “I have to get back to the hotel.”
And take an ice cold shower.
Ten stood up as
well. “I’ll walk with you.”
She waved him
off. The last thing she needed was Ten anywhere near her hotel room. That was
just too much temptation. She wasn’t a kid anymore, and she wasn’t in New
Orleans to get laid. She needed to remember that. “Thanks, but it’s just around
the corner.”
“Stacy,” he
said, his voice stern, a tone she knew all too well. It was the one he used
whenever he thought she was being unreasonable. She’d heard it a lot. “This
city is dangerous.”
She couldn’t
really argue with that. He was right. The city was dangerous. And it wasn’t
smart to walk alone. She knew that all too well. The very first night she moved
out of the Loyola dorms and into the Marigny was a night that should have been
like any other. But that night, seven murders occurred in a sixteen-hour span.
Seven different people were killed for seven different reasons in seven
different places all within the city limits. She had missed one of those
murders by a single block. If she had turned left instead of right… A graveyard
chill raced down her back. It wasn’t something she liked to think about. “Okay,”
she said, and turned to the others. “Do you guys want to walk back with us?”
They wanted to
stay, so Stacy and Ten said their goodbyes and exited the bar. They turned onto
Canal, and Ten grabbed her around the waist to keep her from colliding with a
Lucky Dog vendor heading into the Quarter for his shift. She wrapped her arm
around him, enjoying the heat of his body.
World-renowned
neurosurgeon, jet fighter pilot, secret member of American royalty, seducer of
legions of beautiful, outrageously sexy angels and demons and vampires and
werewolves and the occasional pirate, Lisa Fox has done it all…in her own mind.
In reality, she can generally be found at her desk with a cup of coffee close
at hand. Or maybe a martini. It really depends on the day.
Feedback, comments, opinions, words of wisdom, chocolate cake and the addresses of super hot men are always appreciated and encouraged. Please feel free to contact me any time.
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Five little known facts about you
- I love bunny rabbits
- When I moved to New Orleans, I left my home (New York) with $1,000, two suitcases, and a one way ticket. I’d never even NOLA before, but it seemed like a good place to move to
- I've flogged a man for charity
- I've only ever driven one car, one time, in my whole life and I learned that when you turn a corner, you want to take your foot off the gas
- I spend waaaaay too much time on Tumblr
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- Captain Hook Once Upon a Time (For research! I swear!)
- Meliá Caribe Tropical All Inclusive Beach & Golf Resort - Punta Cana (I’m going there for my birthday and I’m a little obsessive. The pictures are so pretty!)
- Male model boat cruise
- Henry Watkins
- Red Shoe Diaries
Five questions you wish someone would ask you in an interview
- How do you like the Yankees' chances this year?
- Can I get you a cocktail of any sort?
- Would you like to have this $1000 I have right here?
- I have Hugh Jackman's home phone number. Would you like it?
- What are your top five bucket list dream destinations
Grand Prize winner a 'delicate daytime' tiara from Sabrina York and each of the eBooks listed below. Two winners will get the following eBook titles: Picture Her Bound: Bayou Bound # 1 by Sidney Bristol, One Kiss: Midnight Kiss # 1 by Lisa Fox and Rebound: Tryst Island # 1 by Sabrina York
3 winners will
get copies of Picture Her Bound by Sidney Bristol, One Kiss by Lisa Fox and
Rebound by Sabrina York (Book 1 of the series from each author)
Drawing ends at 11:59 PM EST on 25 November – winner has 24 hours to respond. 18+ only
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