I have another guest today. Please welcome Jeanne St James as she tells us about her boo, Made Maleen.
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
A Novella loosely based on the Grimm’s fairy tale Maid
Maleen.
Blurb:
“Just let me love
you.”
When Maleen King’s father catches her naked in the hay loft
with her high school sweetheart, he sends the eighteen-year-old away to receive
a college education and rise above the humble beginnings of an Idaho dairy
farm. Now fourteen years later, Mal comes home to run the farm after the death of
her father. The stress of a disastrous marriage and being a NYC stock broker
made her long to return to a simple life.
Braydon Daniels, devastated when Mal’s father sent her
thousands of miles away, has thought about her every day since. Now, over a decade
later, he finds himself alone, divorced, and beaten down by the trauma of his
broken marriage. When Mal comes back to town for her father’s funeral, he
realizes the feelings he once had for her are just as strong. There’s one
little snag, though. His ex-wife is the woman Mal has hated her whole life. And
they have a child together.
Despite the struggle to recover from their past
relationships, the undeniable attraction between them still exists. Can they
rekindle the passion they once had?
Excerpt:
Mal picked at her black
pencil skirt, pulling the scratchy fabric away from her skin. She was anxious
to get back to the house and change into an old, comfortable pair of jeans. She
wished she still fit into the worn pairs she found in a box at the bottom of
the closet in her childhood bedroom. But like Braydon, she had also matured.
Which meant having curves that no longer fit into junior skinny jeans.
As she walked down the
ramp from the funeral home, it surprised her to find a car other than hers
still left in the parking lot. She figured she would be the last one leaving,
especially after staying to make arrangements with the funeral director for her
pop’s cremation.
She stumbled and caught
herself by grabbing the metal rail running alongside the concrete incline.
He looked good.
Shit. Good was a gross understatement. That was like saying a
sundae full of ooey, gooey hot fudge, wet walnuts, colorful sprinkles, a pile
of real whipped cream, and a cherry on top tasted only good.
Her stomach growled.
She wasn’t sure if it was due to the fact she found herself now hungry for a
sundae, or the sight of Braydon Daniels leaning his ass against the side of a
pickup truck, his arms and ankles crossed as he watched her approach.
She looked down at her
blouse. Yep, her nipples had hardened into two mountain peaks. She sighed. Way to be so obvious, Mal.
Though she could kill
two birds with one stone: Eat the sticky sundae right off his—what she could
only imagine—firm stomach. She bet his six-pack had indentations where the
melted ice cream and fudge would pool until she licked away all traces of the
sweet goodness.
Mal faltered and had to
take a deep breath before closing the gap between them.
“I figured that was
your car.”
She wasn’t used to his
deep voice yet. The voice of a man, not a teenager. He was parked only two
spaces away from her bright red Audi R8 convertible. With the upgraded 5.2 L
V10 and manual transmission, the pretty little sports car had set her back a
cool $166,000. Five-hundred fifty horses weren’t cheap. Though a beauty and
hell of a lot of fun to drive, out here in Bum-fuck, Idaho, the car was nothing
but a joke.
Oh, it impressed her
colleagues back home in New York, but here a manure spreader was more useful.
Suddenly, she realized she mistakenly thought of New York City as “home.”
“How’d you guess?” she
asked, trying not to be too apparent when her gaze skimmed every inch of him.
He laughed, shaking his
head, and glanced down at the pavement for a moment. When he looked back up, he
pinned her with his greenish-gold eyes.
She did her best not to
squirm.
Available at Amazon
for only 99¢ or FREE in KU: http://amzn.to/2klYO8o
Author
Bio:
JEANNE
ST. JAMES is an erotic romance author who loves an Alpha male (or two). She was
only thirteen when she started writing since it gave her an escape from teenage
angst! Her first paid published piece was an erotic short story in Playgirl
magazine. Her first erotic romance novel, Banged Up, was published in 2009. She
is happily owned by farting French bulldogs. She writes M/F, M/M, and M/M/F
ménages.
She
has a few new releases coming up in 2017. So keep an eye on her website at www.jeannestjames.com or sign up for her newsletter: http://www.jeannestjames.com/newslettersignup
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with Jeanne here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeanneStJames
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Thank you for having me!
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