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Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in the sure and
certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.
Four
caskets. Two bodies.
Jessica and Jude Day witness their funeral and that of their
parents a few yards away from mourning family and friends. Stripped of the only
life they’ve ever known, the Days say goodbye to San Francisco forever.
Four months later, two thirty-year-old misfits with elite
self-defense skills and penchants for alcohol, sex, and trouble arrive like an
earthquake to Peaceful Woods, a retirement community in Omaha, Nebraska, that
thrives on rules and gossip. Welcome home, Jackson and Jillian Knight.
Jackson
celebrates his new beginning by embracing his job and wiping his cavalier past
clean with a temporary oath of celibacy.
But
Jillian’s past is branded into her soul—the deaths, the insanity, Dr. Luke
Jones, and the need to make her lovers bleed.
Her
chance for redemption comes in the form of a next door neighbor, one Senior
Master Sergeant Monaghan.
He’s
sexy, dangerously alluring, and riddled with emotional issues from years of
service.
He’s
also … So. Damn. Grumpy.
“Miss Knight.” He shut the driver’s door and slung his messenger bag over
his shoulder. “Do you need something?”
“What does AJ stand for?” She inched forward until they were
toe to toe, red rain boots to tan combat boots. Jillian loved how her skin
tingled in his proximity, how she felt dominated by his stature but not
submissive to his strength.
“Your shorts are too short.” The authoritative intonation of
his voice felt like a tongue dragging over every pleasurable nerve ending in
her body.
“Too short for what? You, Sergeant Monaghan?”
“We don’t have a club house or swimming pool. Why the bikini
top?” AJ clenched his fists as Jillian moved her feet between his. Her
cleavage-bared chest pressed against his stomach.
“Is my
body appalling to you, Sarge?”
“The old men in this neighborhood don’t need to have their
wives pissed at them all day because the new neighbor gets her mail wearing a
little bit of nothing.” His voice escalated with each word as it muffled into
pure grit.
“Sarge, are you upset about my mail-retrieving attire or that
I get the mail after you’ve already left for work?”
He narrowed his eyes.
“Because you’ve already seen more than the other neighbors.”
AJ maintained a scowl, but his deep swallow gave him away.
“How’s your lip?”
The tip of his tongue instinctively glided over the small red
spot that was still there. “Tell
me. Are you one of those kinky dominatrixes that likes it rough?”
Jillian twisted her lips and rolled her eyes, diverting her
gaze from his. “Hmm … no, that’s not an accurate assessment.” Dr. Jones ruled
out that possibility years ago.
“And why is that?”
She yanked his T-shirt from his pants and snaked her hand up
a few inches against his taut, bare skin. Gripping his dog tags, she
gently tugged until he gave in and leaned forward to prevent her from breaking
them.
“Because I don’t want you to submit to me,” she whispered her
words like a potion meant to cast a spell.
AJ secured her ponytail in his fisted hand. “I assure you words like surrender, succumb, and submit
are only under the list of things I’m incapable of doing.”
Jillian smiled. She never considered her issue an
addiction, but at that moment it was powerful and all-consuming. “I’m
going to bring you to your knees, Senior Master Sergeant Monaghan.”
About
the Author
Jewel is a free-spirited
romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.
With 10 years of flossing
lectures under her belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene
career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.
After her best friend of
nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the Contemporary Romance genre,
Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more,
she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.
When she’s not donning her
cape and saving the planet one tree at a time, she enjoys yoga with friends,
good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your
Mother reruns, and of course…heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching
novels.