For thirty-six years, Marcus Sullivan has been the responsible older brother, stepping in to take care of his seven siblings after their father died when they were children. But when the perfectly ordered future he's planned for himself turns out to be nothing but a lie, Marcus needs one reckless night to shake free from it all.
Nicola Harding is known throughout the world by only one name - Nico - for her catchy, sensual pop songs. Only, what no one knows about the twenty-five year old singer is that her sex-kitten image is totally false. After a terrible betrayal by a man who loved fame far more than he ever loved her, she vows not to let anyone else get close enough to find out who she really is...or hurt her again. Especially not the gorgeous stranger she meets at a nightclub, even though the hunger - and the sinful promises - in his dark eyes make her want to spill all her secrets.
One night is all Nicola and Marcus agree to share with each other. But nothing goes as they plan when instead of simply tangling limbs, they find a deeper connection than either of them could have anticipated. And even though they both try to fight it, growing emotions - and sizzling attraction - keep drawing them closer together.
Close enough for them to wonder if stealing one more secret moment together can ever be enough?
We have had a glance at Marcus in Book 1
‘The Look of Love’. He is the oldest brother,
who has a good head on his shoulder and is responsible. He never had a chance
at childhood or to ‘live his life’ as he was forced to grow up when their
father died. But when his plans start to fail and his picture perfect life seems
impossible, Marcus decides to take a night off and head off to the pub. There
he catches the eye of Nicola, a sensational pop artist. Burdened by the cost of
her fame, Nicola finds Marcus a refreshing change. Each trying to forget their
lives for a night, end up together with each other. Rest as they say is
history.
I have to say, Marcus has a certain charm
that really attracted me. His sense of family and responsibility was really
endearing. Nicole is still struggling to ‘move on’ from her last disastrous
relationship. It was actually a ‘match made in heaven’ as they were just right
for each other. Though things don’t really go smoothly and they keep pushing
each other away, what matters is that they do end up with each other. I thought
that Marcus’s plan to show Nicole that they can work it out was really sweet.
Also, his dominating side did take me by surprise.
With every book, I am starting to like the
Sullivan family more and each book makes me want to know more about them. It is
really a heart warming story that I quite enjoyed reading.
An Excerpt
Marcus Sullivan was known for his
patience. After helping to raise his seven siblings, he’d learned to wait out
tantrums, fistfights, even tears.
But tonight, he was all out of
patience.
He’d come to the club tonight to
find a woman, to proposition her, to claim her for one no-holds-barred night,
but he’d been watching the dancers for long enough to know that he wasn’t going
to take a single one of them to bed. None of the women who’d walked in through
the thick red curtain in the past thirty minutes had been contenders, either.
Until, suddenly, the curtain
parted… and she walked in.
Marcus felt like a fist had slammed
straight into his gut.
The woman was young, mid-twenties
probably, and so beautiful it almost hurt to look at her. Her black leather
dress left nothing to his imagination, fitting her like a second skin with wide
cut-outs that ran down the side of her insane curves.
She
was the one.
As she stood in the doorway and
slowly scanned the crowd, every eye in the room was on her. She was magnetic,
had that special something that made it impossible to pull your eyes away from
her.
And then her eyes met his,
illuminated by a beam of light in the dark room, and although Marcus hadn’t
drunk nearly enough at Chase’s engagement party to be unsteady on his feet, one
look at those clear blue eyes had him fighting for balance.
What was wrong with him?
He needed to remember, at all
times, what tonight was about. Pleasure. Not emotion. Not a relationship. It
was okay for certain parts of his body below the waist to react like a match
had been lit from nothing more than looking at the woman. Everything else was
off-limits. He wasn’t looking for a woman to respect.
And he definitely wasn’t going to
fall in love.
The dangerous curves began to shift
beneath the thin layer of leather as she moved straight toward him, never once
breaking stride, even in impossibly high heels. Marcus couldn’t miss the
challenge in her gaze, a look that asked if he was man enough to handle her.
He’d always liked his women tall
and slim, not barely coming up to his chest like this one. A voice in his head
told him she was way too young for him, young enough that if this were any
other night, he’d walk away from her now.
But he wasn’t planning on walking
away from whatever this woman offered. Not until first light.
And definitely not until he’d had
his fill of those curves.
...Excerpt from FROM THIS MOMENT ON by Bella Andre ©2012.
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Bella Andre has always been a writer. Songs came first, and then non-fiction books, but as soon as she started writing her first romance novel, she knew she'd found her perfect career. Known for "sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance" (Publishers Weekly) about sizzling alpha heroes and the strong women they'll love forever, nearly all of her novels have appeared on Top 10 lists at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple and Kobo.
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