Pride by Sandra Marton
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Summary
Luca Bellini is
tough. He’s had to be, to make it to the top. Luca grew up the son of an
emotional Sicilian mother and a cold American father and learned, as an adult,
that his entire life was a lie. How did he deal with that? By believing in
control. In being in charge. Cheyenne McKenna is tough, too. She’s had to be,
to make it to the top. Cheyenne grew up without a father, and with a mother who
saw her as something to trade for cheap whiskey. How did Cheyenne deal with
that? Right. By believing in control. By being in charge.
Cheyenne and Luca
meet by accident. The sex sizzles, but Luca wants more. He wants to be in
control. He wants dominance, and it doesn’t take long before he decides that
the way he can achieve it is by leading Cheyenne into a world of silk scarves
and velvet blindfolds, wide beds and lightly-bound wrists. But Luca is in for a
lesson, too. He’s going to learn that what really separates them is not a fight
for power but the folly of pride.
Excerpt
“Rule number one is
that I am in charge tonight.”
There it was again.
That breathless feeling, as if she couldn’t draw enough air into her lungs.
That whisper of excitement, sighing through her bones.
“I don’t want you to
make rules for me. You don’t know anything about —”
He touched her.
She heard a soft
whimper of pleasure. Had she made that sound?
“I’m going to take
what I want, cara. What we both want.”
Images flashed
through her head. Luca, moving over her. His hands, his body, his lips holding
her captive.
Captive to his
touch, to his kisses, to his slow possession.
A honeyed weakness
stole through her muscles. She began to tremble.
“Rule number two,”
he said, raising his head.
Her eyes widened
with shock as his black silk tie replaced his hands around her wrists.
Her heart began to
race.
“Luca?”
He kissed her again,
hard, deep.
“Luca,” she
whispered as he drew her arms above her head and fastened the ends of the tie
to the slatted headboard.
“Rule number three,
cara. Tonight, you belong to me.”
About the Author
Sandra Marton always
dreamed of becoming a writer. After graduating with honors in English, she
married, had a family, became active politically in the small town outside New
York City where she and her husband lived. Then, one day, she paused long enough
to realize her dream was getting away from her and decided to do something
about it. Sandra wrote her very first novel, a romance she called Rapture in
the Sands which was published by Harlequin Mills and Boon. Today, Sandra is a
USA Today bestselling author with over 34 million books in print in over 20
languages. She has won the Holt Medallion, finaled in the Romance Writers of
America prestigious RITA award four times, and won eight Romantic Times
Magazine Reviewers’ Choice Awards. A full time author, Sandra lives in northern
Connecticut with her husband, who was her childhood sweetheart, in a
sun-drenched house surrounded by woods.
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