Smoldering Hunger
(Dark Kings Series, #8)
by Donna Grant
Blurb:
His kisses were soul stirring, leaving her gasping and hungry for more. They pulled her from the wasteland of her life viciously and ruthlessly. With just one kiss she was clinging to him, silently begging him to show her all that one brush of his lips had promised.
TEMPTING FATE
Darius is back. Edinburgh thought it had seen the last of this seductive Dragon King, but that was before Darius found something worthwhile. He just can’t stay away from the impossibly beautiful Dr. Sophie Martin—even though he knows that a passion this strong could prove detrimental…for them both.
CRAVING DESIRE
Sophie tried to forget her encounter with smoking-hot Darius to no avail. He’s in her dreams, tempting her. But her association with Darius catches the attention of another, putting her in mortal danger. . .and Darius, who has vowed to protect her, is her only hope. But can she trust the notorious dragon shapeshifter? The only thing she knows for sure is that she cannot resist him…
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Excerpts
“Sophie?”
She blinked and looked down to
find Claire watching her with a worried look in her brown eyes. Sophie shot her
a smile, but Claire cocked her blonde head to the side and put a hand on her
hip, telling Sophie she wasn’t buying the act for a second.
“Just lost in thought,” Sophie
said with a shrug.
Claire raised her brows as she
regarded Sophie. “By that look, I’d say it was a man.”
A man? Darius was so much
more. His presence seemed to make the earth still, waiting for his order. He
commanded without a word, dominated with a look from his dark brown gaze.
Man? No man she’d ever met
could be so strong and imposing.
And sexy.
Her mouth went dry thinking of
the hard line of his jaw and his lips that were soft and insistent. His eyes
could cut coldly, but they could also blaze with a fire so hot that it could
melt the sun.
She knew what desire looked
like reflected in his chocolate-colored depths. His eyes softened, turned
downright sensual as he held her gaze, challenging her to try and look away.
All the while his gorgeous
body with rippling muscles brought her higher and higher, giving her ecstasy
the likes she’d never known.
And never known she could
have.
If she hadn’t been sore the
next morning when she woke, she might have thought it all a dream.
“I don’t know who he is, but
you need to see him again,” Claire said, breaking into Sophie’s thoughts again.
Her smile was wide, a knowing look in her eyes.
Sophie swallowed and smoothed
a hand over her hair to make sure the thick length was still in place. “I don’t
know what you’re talking about.”
“Uh, huh,” Claire said with a
wink. “Two weeks ago you walked in here with a flush to your skin and a smile
on your lips. You wore the look of a woman who had been rode well. Ever since,
you occasionally get that look in your eyes. I’m telling you as your friend,
Soph, go see him again. Because if I could find a man who could make me look
like that after sex, I’d chain him to my bed.”
This time Sophie’s laugh
wasn’t forced. She knew all too well Claire’s issues with men. She was a
petite, pretty woman who had a bright smile and infectious laugh, and yet every
guy she was interested in preferred someone else. Worse, it was all the wrong
sorts of men who were attracted to Claire.
If Sophie thought her years
without a date was a long time, Claire wasn’t behind her by far. It was why the
two of them had become such good friends.
Sophie leaned down and
whispered in Claire’s ear, “The sex was out of this world, but he’s also out of
the picture.”
She walked away, leaving
Claire with her mouth gaping and questions in her eyes. Sophie inwardly
laughed, because it was a rare thing when she got to shock Claire. Normally, it
was Claire who astonished her on a daily basis.
Sophie turned the corner and
found a man leaning against the wall staring at her. He was drop dead gorgeous
in his dark red sweater and jeans.
He wore a small smile about
his wide lips as his golden eyes stared at her. His long black hair was pulled
back showing off the hard planes of his face.
It unnerved her how he watched
her, as if she were something to be studied under a microscope. Sophie pulled
her gaze away from him, and stopped dead in her tracks when spotted Darius.
Her heart thumped in her chest
and her stomach fell to her feet. She couldn’t decide if she was excited to see
him or surprised. Especially after just thinking of him.
The strands of his long, dark
blond hair was windblown. Just disheveled enough to make him even sexier. His
hair, in addition to the five o’clock shadow of a beard, made her blood race
and her hands itch to touch him, to run her hands up his chest and over his
thick shoulders once more.
He watched her with his deep
brown eyes without a hint of any emotion. While she was reeling from seeing him
after so long and her body instantly beginning to throb with need, he
felt...nothing.
Sophie knew what kind of
disaster lay with Darius. She swore to never go down that path again. As
tempting as he was – and good Lord was he tempting
– she fortified the walls around her heart.
She walked into her patient’s
room without a backward look to Darius. If only it was as easy to erase him
from her thoughts as it was to look away.
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About the Author
She was born and raised in Texas but loves to travel. Her adventures have taken her throughout the United States as well as to Jamaica, Mexico, and Scotland. Growing up on the Texas/Louisiana border, Donna’s Cajun side of the family taught her the “spicy” side of life while her Texas roots gave her two-steppin’ and bareback riding.
Despite deadlines and voracious reading, Donna still manages to keep up with her two children, four cats, and one long haired Chihuahua.
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