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New York Times and USA Today
bestselling author Katee Robert delivers the next book in her sizzling
O'Malleys family series, hailed as "The Godfather meets Romeo &
Juliet." FORBIDDEN PROMISES features Sloan O'Malley and her mysterious new
next-door neighbor, Jude MacNamara.
Forbidden Promises
The O’Malleys
Katee Robert
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Publisher: Grand Central/Forever
Sloan O'Malley just left her entire world
behind-her family, her wealth, and even her real name. For the first time in
her life, she's free. She can live the "normal" life
she's always wanted. A life without fear. But there's nothing
safe about her intensely sexy next-door neighbor.
Jude MacNamara has no room for innocence in
his life. Only revenge. Still, he's never been able to walk away from the
forbidden, and Sloan-who is every inch of pure, mouthwatering
temptation-has forbidden written all over her. Only after it's
way too late does he discover the real danger: claiming Sloan as his puts a
target on her back. To protect her, Jude is willing risk everything . . . and
to hell with the consequences.
Copyright © 2017 Katee Robert
Up until this point, Sloan
O’Malley has been kind of lost in a sea of the strong personalities in her
family. She’s the quiet one. The wallflower. The obedient one. But now she’s
out of Boston and out of that life behind, and she’s stepping out to stand on
her own for the first time in her life. She wants her freedom, but more than
that, she wants to live. What better
way to do that than to give into the desire that sparks an inferno between her
and the gorgeous guy next door?
All her hard-won calm disappeared
when she saw Jude lounging in the corner booth. Lounging wasn’t the right word.
He looked like a big cat who was as likely to tear out her throat as purr and
rub against her.
Rub against…
She tried and failed to shut
the thought down. From there, it was a slippery slope to thinking about what
she’d done last night while picturing him.
It was almost enough to make
her flee into the kitchen again. Or it would have been if not for the knowledge
that Marge had given her a chance, and the woman wouldn’t take kindly to her
hiding in the back when there were customers to be served.
Sloan took a careful breath
and approached Jude. “What can I get you?”
“I feel like I’m perpetually
apologizing to you, but I left abruptly last night and I’m sorry.” He didn’t
wait for her to respond. “Come out with me after your shift.”
She blinked. Did he just…“I’m sorry, what?”
“I’m going to take you out.
Tonight.” His intense dark eyes never wavered, though she was wondering how she
ever labeled them cold. Right now, they were so hot, they were liable to turn
her into a pillar of flame.
The only question was if she’d
perish in the fire or emerge as something altogether different.
That thought should have
scared her, but she’d been afraid for so long. Maybe it was time to do more
than think about taking the first step into the future. Maybe she needed to
actually put herself into motion. Sloan licked her lips, aware of the way he
tracked the move. Everything about Jude was intense. He’d toned it down for her
last night, but he wasn’t even trying right now. She shifted her stance, still
torn. “I’m not exactly in a good place to date right now.”
He considered her, and she
suddenly got the impression that he was choosing his words with care so as not
to spook her. “What is it, exactly, that you think I’m asking?”
“I, ah…” She clutched her
little notebook to her chest, painfully aware that the handful of diners in the
place were blatantly eavesdropping. “I don’t know.”
He lowered his voice to the
point where she had to inch closer to hear him clearly. “Let me show you.”
And, suddenly, she wanted to
do exactly that. Sloan found herself nodding even though every instinct she had
said that Jude was trouble in the worst way. But, whatever he was, he was
vitally different from her brothers and father back home. He might seem brutal
and dangerous and intense to a criminal degree, but this wasn’t Boston. This
was Callaway Rock. No matter how dangerous he seemed, odds were that he wasn’t
a man who had skeletons in his closet—literal or otherwise.
That made him safe in a way
none of the men she’d ever known were.
Jude’s gaze sharpened. “That’s
a yes.”
“That’s a yes.” Her voice was
too breathy, too irregular to pass for anything other than nerves, but she
didn’t care. If she fell flat on her face, at least she was living.
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Katee Robert
learned to tell her stories at her grandpa’s knee. Her 2015 title, The Marriage
Contract, was a RITA finalist, and RT Book Reviews named it 'a compulsively
readable book with just the right amount of suspense and
tension." When not writing sexy contemporary and romantic suspense,
she spends her time playing imaginary games with her children, driving her
husband batty with what-if questions, and planning for the inevitable zombie
apocalypse.
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