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Touch & Go
Dare to Love # 2
Dare to Love # 2
By: Mira Lyn Kelly
Releasing February 17th, 2015
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USA Today bestselling author Mira Lyn Kelly cranks up the heat for two
lifelong friends whose most secret longings come true in every delectable way.
Vivacious and successful, Ava Meyers is living her dream life, except for one thing: Ever since childhood, she’s been in love with her best friend . . . and she’s never admitted it. Back then, Sam Farrow was a damaged young man with a tough past. Now he’s supremely confident, super-sexy, and totally untouchable—until the night when Sam pretends to be Ava’s boyfriend to save her from some unwanted attention. In a moment of weakness, Ava finds out that a long friendship is no match for blistering sexual chemistry.
After years of denying his own feelings, Sam finds that one amazing night with Ava isn’t enough to chase away all the pent-up fantasies. So he proposes they spend a few weeks driving each other wild, exhausting their every desire, and then return to their perfect platonic relationship like nothing ever happened. But Sam’s plan has one fatal flaw: the part where they give each other up. Because the more they let go of their inhibitions, the more they’re tempted to never go back.
Vivacious and successful, Ava Meyers is living her dream life, except for one thing: Ever since childhood, she’s been in love with her best friend . . . and she’s never admitted it. Back then, Sam Farrow was a damaged young man with a tough past. Now he’s supremely confident, super-sexy, and totally untouchable—until the night when Sam pretends to be Ava’s boyfriend to save her from some unwanted attention. In a moment of weakness, Ava finds out that a long friendship is no match for blistering sexual chemistry.
After years of denying his own feelings, Sam finds that one amazing night with Ava isn’t enough to chase away all the pent-up fantasies. So he proposes they spend a few weeks driving each other wild, exhausting their every desire, and then return to their perfect platonic relationship like nothing ever happened. But Sam’s plan has one fatal flaw: the part where they give each other up. Because the more they let go of their inhibitions, the more they’re tempted to never go back.
Stalker Steve off my scent. Just a smidge of attention and
doting and possibly I should borrow your engagement ring too,” she added in a
rush, moving on before Maggie had the chance to protest. “Second, Tyler’s your
fiancé, not your boyfriend. And third, as to owing? If it weren’t for me, you’d
still be calling him Apartment Three and hissing every
time your paths crossed. It was the dating pact I forced you
into that landed that fat diamond on your left hand and Tyler rocking your
world six times a night. So consider this your chance to square up.”
Okay, so maybe she was stretching
it a bit with the debt-of-gratitude thing, but desperate times . . . Ava had
already asked Sam—her go-to guy for all things fix-it and faux date—but the ass
had turned her down with some feeb excuse about preexisting plans. She couldn’t
ask her brother, Ford, because for this bailout she needed someone to look like
he was sort of in love with her and, that would be gross. Which left her with
Sam’s sketchy cousin Tony, the horny perv who’d been trying to shoehorn himself
into her panties since the ninth grade. And while Tony had agreed to fill the
role of her love-struck date for the following Friday, there’d been some
suspicious noises on the other end of the line and when he started getting all
out of breath—well, she didn’t want to know, but she definitely needed a
different date.
Expelling a frustrated breath, Ava
surveyed the park around her. The sun was shining, the air crisp and clean, as
tender green shoots and unfurling leaves marked spring’s foothold in her
favorite corner of Wicker Park. Maggie was getting married in less than a month
and Ava was the maid of honor. Life was good and she wanted to get to the part
of her Sunday afternoon where she could enjoy it, but this problem of hers was
pissing her off and she wanted it resolved.
Only the look Maggie was giving
her didn’t bode well.
“Sorry. You’re just going to have
to tell him to back off.”
If only. Stalker Steve, a.k.a.
Steven Hapron, was season-ticket-connected with all the major Chicago teams and
chummy with about half the partners in her firm. And working toward partner
herself, bad press was the last thing she needed. Which meant being
exceptionally careful how she handled him. “Mm-hmm, except it would be so much
better if he just thought I’d found someone else and he lost interest on his
own.”
Maggie was shaking her head with
that whole judgy thing going on in her eyes, like she was pretty sure Ava was
more than a little off base. Which sucked, because Maggie didn’t whip that look
out often, but when she did, she was usually right.
Not this time.
One of my favorite friends-to-lovers stories! I loved that Sam and Ava have known each other since they were kids - and that they never acted on their feelings in order to protect the other. They are great as friends, but even better as lovers. This story is hot, hot, hot! Highly recommended - I want Ford's story now!
ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
HI Everyone! Thanks for
having me over and helping me to celebrate the release of TOUCH & GO (Dare
to Love #2)—YAY!!
Okay so Friends-to-Lover’s
stories are definitely among my favorites to write. I love taking a
relationship that’s so right in ALMOST every way and just giving it a
little…nudge. You know, like taking a sledge hammer to the foundation of this
thing two people count on in their lives and totally shaking things up.
There were lines
friends didn't cross. Lines that started above the knee and ended below the
belly button. Panty lines. Bust lines. And most importantly, lip lines. ~Ava
*Smiles sweetly, while stroking
my hairless cat*
Fine. Mean.
I know. And I’m not proud,
lol, but I just can’t help myself!!
Now before you get too
down on me, it’s not like I don’t make it worth it for these guys. I mean
Happily Ever Afters are seriously my thing. I just like to make my people work
for them. A lot.
I like to give them a
taste of something they know they never should have had.
"Jesus Ava, that
blush is going to be the end of me. I shouldn't be able to make you do it. I
shouldn't know I can." ~Sam
I like to get them hooked
on the sweet, hot rush of that most forbidden temptation.
And heck, I like to make
them laugh and cry and pant and sweat and basically come within a hair’s
breadth of losing their minds while they figure out that I’ve actually given
them exactly what their ALMOST perfect lives were missing.
Why you ask? Why do I
torture my people so??
For one minute, she’d
let herself believe.
For one minute, the
potential of everything she’d ever wanted had been too tempting to resist.
And now she could
barely breathe.
Well because I AM just a
little mean, lol, but also because I know firsthand how satisfying the rewards
can be when you’re willing to risk ALMOST perfect. It’s how I found my very own
Happily Ever After, and fifteen years and four kiddies later… I can say with
all certainty, it was worth the risk!
Seriously, I loved writing
Sam & Ava’s story, and hope you’ll give these two a read :-)
((Hugs))
USA
Today bestselling author Mira Lyn Kelly grew up in the Chicago area and earned
her degree in Fine Arts from Loyola University. She met the love of her life
while studying abroad in Rome, Italy, only to discover he’d been living right
around the corner from her back home. Having spent her twenties working and
playing in the Windy City, she’s now settled with her husband in rural
Minnesota, where their four beautiful children and naughty dog provide an
excess of action and entertainment. When she isn’t reading, writing, or running
to keep up with the family, she loves watching movies, blabbing with the girls,
and cooking with her husband and friends.
Thank you for hosting Mira and TOUCH & GO!
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