Hot and Cold (7 page)

GABRIELLE: 
I've been avoiding risk my whole life. That's what you learn to do growing up well-off in a place like Detroit. This is a city that knows how fast things can turn. 
That white boy made me forget myself. A few moments in his presence and I was consumed by a madness. I did things I never dared dream of. 
But it doesn't feel wrong. It feels like freedom. 
I shouldn't go back to him. He's from the wrong part of town. He makes a living out of violence. He's a risk in my unblemished life. One time was enough of a flirt with danger. 
Thing is, he might just have me addicted. 
SEAN: 
I've fought for everything I've got in this world. My fists won me a new life, away from the squalor of my South Detroit past. 
Now I'm starting to get my reward: money, fame, girls. 
The waitress was just supposed to be one of many. Black girls weren't even my type, but something in her set me off. Everything about her screamed class - a word that had never been in this poor boy's vocabulary. 
I thought I just wanted a taste of it. Turns out it's not the thrill I'm after. 
It's her. 
I've gotta show her that I can be more than my body. She wants me to fight for her heart? 
Girl, get ready to be knocked out. 

******

Black and White (Storm’s Soldiers MC Book 1)

MEAGAN: 
I knew that boy was trouble the moment I laid eyes on him: shaved head, leather jacket, tattoos leaking out onto his neck like warpaint. 
I've just now left behind the storms of my past, and he is no fluffy white cloud to land on. 
But one wicked smile from him, and I'm shivering, longing for something I should never want 
Maybe just one night. Yeah, one rough night to shake me free. 
That's all this was supposed to be... 
VAUGHN: 
The girl had my attention from the moment her dark eyes found mine. She shouldn't have been my type, not by a long shot. But opportunity presented itself, and I gave in to weakness. 
Only one woman ever had my heart and she was ripped from this world not long after giving birth to me. This girl though, she won't leave my goddamn mind. I can't keep myself away from her lush embrace. 
This goes on, the truth will find us - burn me to the ground. Cause my family and I run with the Storm's Soldiers - the roughest bunch of white separatists south of the Mason-Dixon. 
And this girl's a lot of things, but she sure ain't white... 

******

Uncaged

GEORGIA: 
I just wanted to escape my past. Instead, I was kidnapped and sold to a monster in Mexico. The creep wants me to give myself to him willingly, and his methods are 
working
. But then, he takes me to an underground arena and I see a man who knows what it means to fight back. 
They call him deadly, but to me, he looks like life. 
Those muscles could set me free in more ways than I dare dream. 
If only I could reach him. 
ANDRE: 
In this town, I reign supreme. Even Cartel kingpins fear my strength. They drown me in riches to see it on display. 
I know the truth. I'm nothing more than a mutt rolling around for treats, chained here by the weight of my past. 
Then I met her - the broken pixie who saw me as a man to trust. 
I thought freeing her would mean my redemption. 
She might just turn out to be my salvation. 

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Break Me Open (Desert Wraiths MC)

When Katie Phillips is caught witnessing a motorcycle club shooting, she doesn't expect to be protected by the gunman himself. He's got a powerful body and otherworldly blue eyes, but he's not just a bad boy. He's plain bad. 
So why does she feel so safe in his arms? 
Ghost will do anything for his biker club. They're the only family he's got after being kicked out of army special ops. But seeing Katie stirs something deep inside. Being with her gives him the purpose he's been lacking in his life of sin. 
To keep her safe, though, he'll have to protect her from his own club. 
With a rival MC declaring all out war and the damn FBI rolling into town to sort out the mess, it's not exactly the best time for romance. But trouble only seems to bring them closer. Which means making a choice: ride away from the town they know and love or bring Katie deeper into Ghost's outlaw world to protect each other.