Today is my blog tour stop for Legally Charming by Lauren Smith! Grab your copy of this sexy new contemporary romance and follow the tour!
Felicity Hart has one goal: Completing her masters in art. Falling in love isn’t part of the plan. She reluctantly agrees to attend a Halloween party with her best friend. After sneaking away from the party and falling asleep in an unoccupied room, she wakes to the sexiest pair of eyes she’s ever seen. Eyes that belong to the one man who could turn her well organized world upside down. When he flashes that wicked, panty-melting smile at her the vow to not fall in love seems impossible…
EVERY PRINCE IS LOOKING FOR HIS SLEEPING BEAUTY TO KISS…
Jared Redmond used to be the ultimate bad boy. But now his legal career is taking off and the partners of his firm are trusting him with high-dollar real estate transactions. Jared’s king-size bed is empty. But when he arrives home on Halloween to find a princess sleeping in his bed – his all work and no play attitude goes out the window. There’s nothing he wants more than to explore the hidden desires of this mysterious beauty and show her just how much of a bad boy he really is by fulfilling her every fantasy.
WHEN MIDNIGHT STRIKES AND COACHES TURN TO PUMPKINS…
Underneath the glitter of this fairy tale romance, Felicity and Jared might have found true love. But the mounting pressure of their real lives takes hold again and Jared and Felicity are pulled further and further apart. Can they find their fairy tale ending or will they be left with the dying embers of what could have been?
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“You
really wanted me?” She couldn’t believe it. A guy like him could have anyone.
Why did he want someone like her? She wasn’t good enough for him. She was… Dark
voices from her past slithered through her. Hateful words she knew couldn’t be
true, yet she still believed them anyway. She wasn’t good enough for him. Just
a mousy little girl from a small town in Nebraska. She’d been a waitress at an
Applebee’s in high school while he’d probably been studying in law school. It
just didn’t…fit. They didn’t fit.
His
eyes darkened. “There you go again, with that look on your face.”
“What
look?” she demanded, irritation and pain prickling her inside like deep-rooted
thorns digging into flesh.
Jared
walked around the table to stand in front of her. She’d almost forgotten how
tall he was, but as he towered over her, forcing her to tilt her head back, she
remembered the way his long, lean body had curled around hers in bed.
Protective, warm, seductive. A combination that was fatal to her heart.
He
cupped her chin and turned her face to the right where a gilt-framed mirror
hung on the wall. Embarrassment hollowed her out inside as she saw her face.
Eyes wide, lips trembling, a heavy sadness painted its broad brush across her
features, which now flamed red with shame.
“That
look,” he breathed in a disappointed sigh. “Like you can’t believe that anyone
would want you.” Anger snapped and burned in his eyes like hungry flames
devouring tinder. He didn’t unleash it though, didn’t hurt her. He only
muttered a strangled curse before his fingers dropped from her chin to the back
of her head, his fingers fisting into her hair as he dragged her into his arms.
Mouth
open in shock, Felicity was unprepared for his punishing kiss. The edge of
violent desperation that sparked from his lips and the way he savaged her heart
and soul with the pain she tasted in that kiss. His pain and hers. She had hurt
him. But she couldn’t take it back, could not turn back the clock to undo this
morning. Her hands rested on his chest, feeling the faint thump-thump of his
heartbeat beneath her palms. Her own heartbeat echoed his, like a dove cooing
to its mate.
Whenever
he kissed her, she lost all sense of self and time. She found herself swept
into a secret place where only sensations and emotions reigned. It wasn’t
something she could fight, nor did she want to. If only she could stay like
this in his arms forever and not have to face reality.
Jared
brushed his lips back and forth over hers, and she tried to press close again.
He shook his head and stepped back. “You’re killing me, princess.” His words
were husky and a little rough. He licked his lips and then tilted his head back
and sucked in a deep breath.
Felicity
watched him, her body shaking with need, her chest squeezing her heart in its
iron fist.
“You’re
afraid,” he said. “You’re so young. I keep forgetting that. Just a kid in some
ways.”
She
started to protest, but he held up his hand.
“You
don’t know how to make a leap of faith. I get that. It’s scary as hell. We
probably aren’t right for each other. Trust me, I know that. We’d never have
time to be together between my work and your school. I get that, too.” He
dragged his fingers through his hair and reached for his coat. As he slid his
coat on, he stepped away from her, and the feeling of that distance cut her
soul deep. How could someone she’d only known a few days make her feel like
this? Like her heart couldn’t beat if he walked out that door?
“Jared—”
“I
like you.” A rueful smile twisted his lips. “You made me…feel. It’s been a long
time since anyone’s done that. But if you aren’t ready, I’m not going to push
you.”
His
words were destroying her as much as they saved her. She couldn’t have anyone
in her life, not anyone she loved. In a way he was right. She was afraid he’d
be too perfect, and once he left her, no other man would ever measure up. The
idea of spending the rest of her life someday with another man…it left a sour
taste upon her lips.
Lauren Smith is an Oklahoma attorney by day, author by night who pens adventurous and edgy romance stories by the light of her smart phone flashlight app. She knew she was destined to be a romance writer when she attempted to re-write the entire Titanic movie just to save Jack from drowning. Connecting with readers by writing emotionally moving, realistic and sexy romances no matter what time period is her passion. She’s won multiple awards in several romance subgenres including: New England Reader’s Choice Awards, Greater Detroit BookSeller’s Best Awards, Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-Finalist and a Semi-Finalist for the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Award. To connect with Lauren, visit her at www.laurensmithbooks.com
This looks like a really good book, great post.
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