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Title: After the Fall
Author: Katy Ames
Genre: Contemporary Romance
About After the Fall:
If there was one man in the world Grace Fitzgerald never wanted to see again, it was Mark Donovan.
Sinfully handsome and notoriously cocky, as a guest at her luxury hotel, Mark was impossible. As the new owner, he’s become a nightmare. The kind that wakes Grace in the middle of the night wishing she could forget how right his lips felt against her own, or how tempting his fingers were on her skin.
But despite all the challenges Mark and Grace face working together, it’s impossible to ignore the attraction that flares every time they fight for control. Or the secrets that refuse to stay hidden in the luxury of the Seven Winds Resort.
They’re engaged in a battle of wills. But the real war begins when Mark and Grace realize just how much they have to lose. When mistakes from their pasts threaten everything they’re working for, they have to decide: admit defeat or join forces to save the hotel and each other.
A steamy, enemies-to-lovers standalone romance from Katy Ames, author of After the Island.
For a moment Grace and Mark studied each other, nothing but a few inches of air and progressively shallower breaths separating them. Grace could feel the warmth of his body through the fine fabric of her shirt, the soft weave of his dress pants a whisper against her thighs. It would take the smallest movement, the simplest slip, to touch him, to brush her fingers against the golden skin of his wrist exposed by the turned-up cuff, to angle her head just right so that she’d dip into the curve of his neck and feel the satisfying abrasion of his stubble against the smoothness of her cheek.
She was falling.
Grace could feel it, her body giving way to the pull of his. Despite
the words and battles and omissions and high-handedness, Grace could still feel
the pressure of Mark’s legs beneath her, the tremble of his fingers against her
shirt, the pleading in his eyes when he demanded so many months ago she take it
off.
Grace was falling and she had to stop.
“Three.” It came out choked, only a half-word, the first syllable
swallowed by the dryness in Grace’s throat. Coughing, she stepped back and
tried again. “The third condition. Whatever happened that day I found you on
the floor.” Grace waited for the haze to clear from Mark’s face, for his head
to bob slowly, telling her he was listening. “It doesn’t happen again. We’re
colleagues, working to achieve the same thing. There’s no room for anything
else between us. Agreed?”
She stared at Mark. He needed to agree. She really needed him to
agree.
“Agreed.”
“You’ll keep your hands to yourself.”
“I’ll keep my hands to myself....” Mark’s voice drifted off as he
ran a greedy look down her body, flames licking across Grace’s skin as he
progressed ever so slowly from neck to knee, breasts to hips, waist to toes.
When his eyes returned to hers they were hard and dark, the blue as intense and
alluring as the pre-dawn sky. With one step, Mark swallowed the space between
them, and Grace was sure she could feel his voice in her own chest when he
spoke. “I’ll keep my hands to myself, if you do the same.”
Grace wanted to baulk, to scoff and push him back and tell him he
was being ridiculous. He was the one she needed to be careful of. Not the other
way around. But her remaining sliver of sanity told her if she dared touch any
part of this man neither of them would survive unscathed.
“Deal,” Grace whispered back.
Any other time she would’ve been embarrassed by the shallowness of
her voice, but at that moment her only concern was escaping. Escaping the
villa, escaping Mark, and escaping the heady haze of lust and longing and
lunacy surrounding them.
“Go, Grace.” Mark’s voice was so quiet she barely made it out over
the pounding in her ears. But Grace didn’t need to hear what he said; his face,
angular and beautiful, open and exposed, said everything she needed to know.
“Go, before....”
Grace didn’t wait for him to finish. Without giving Mark a second
look, she turned on her heel and practically ran from the villa, holding her
breath until the golf cart cranked to life beneath her and she knew that when
she inhaled the only things she would taste were the sun and the salt and the
flowers drugging the air.
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About Katy Ames:
Katy Ames has spent most of her life on the East Coast and hopes to spend more of it in the UK. In part, so she can indulge in her serious plaid obsession. There isn’t a teenage drama on the CW or a period British TV show she hasn’t binge-watched at least twice. And she can be persuaded to do most things with the promise of bourbon, coffee, chocolate, or a nap, not necessarily in that order. Katy is mom to a small human who has an obscene amount of energy and a blissful ability to ignore swear words, and wife to a man whose reading habits are far too serious. Katy and her family reside in Washington, D.C., a city she where never planned to live and loves so much she’d be happy to talk about for hours. Just ask.
Katy writes contemporary romances that feature heroes who are strong but not so silent, heroines who aren’t afraid to kick ass, and stories that get a little messy before they end happily ever after.
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Enter Katy’s Giveaway:
Check out Katy’s fun new romance in her newsletter!
#ChooseYourOwnRomance, by Katy Ames
When I joined this wonderful and wild world of romance, I fell in love instantly - with the readers. You guys are enthusiastic, supportive, and passionate. And some of the loveliest people I’ve every had the pleasure to chat with, either in person or online.
I created #ChooseYourOwnRomance not just to thank you for being so awesome, but to bring readers into the heart of the story. Literally. By answering a few “this or that” questions, my followers on Instagram selected the trope, the location, the hero, and the heroine for the romance I’m currently writing.
Every week, I post a chapter on Instagram and readers get to decide how the story continues. Do they kiss? Does he stay? Does she go? Is there a love triangle? Do they have sex...?
And every Thursday, around 8 PM EST, I post the next installment, based on the winning votes from the previous week. It’s like an old-school Choose Your Own Adventure book, but for romance. (gasp!) (and, yes, I dated myself just then)
The current story focuses on Eden and Jude, childhood friends from a small town who haven’t spoken in years. The silence and distance have turned these once-friends into enemies. But a tragedy brings Eden home and Jude is doing everything possible to make her stay. And, maybe, if readers are kind, to show her that he’s never thought of her as anything but the love of his life.
Readers can catch up on Eden and Jude’s story at: https://katyamesbooks.com/chooseyourownromance/
And if you want to get in on some hot and heavy decision making, please join me every Thursday on Instagram (at) katyamesbooks and/or search for #ChooseYourOwnRomance.
Hope to see you there. You’re the best. Romance rocks.
Lots of love,
Katy
1 comment:
seems like we have a lot in common. I love her books and the choice of TV is the same kind I like teenage drama on CW and British. Pretty cool ! Thanks !!
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