Hero: Reid “Kenny” Kennedy. Owner of Kenny’s Autoshop, he believes the decisions he made in the past led to the horrific assault on his sister. Bossy in bed and all around dirty talker.

Heroine: Lia Carlisle, tattoo artist and victory-rolled red-head who loves Bettie Page almost as she loves men who get their hands dirty. Daughter of controlling politician who wants her to conform.

(note: this excerpt was provided by the publicist – we have not read this book yet)

“At some point tonight, I might fuck you on the floor, or the sofa, or even standing up in the shower,” he said, getting up off the floor. “But right now, I want your ass back in my bed where I can see if that hair looks as fucking hot on my pillow as I imagined it would.”

He offered her his hand, and she took it, allowing him to lead her back into the bedroom. As she entered the doorway, she slid his T-shirt over her head and dropped it to the floor.

“Jesus, Lia. You might be the only woman alive who could make me come simply by taking her clothes off.”

His words warmed her, filled her with confidence as she crawled onto the bed, arching her back. She laughed at his exasperated expletives as he opened the drawer of a small dresser and removed a box of condoms. Safety first was almost a religion to her, and she appreciated not having to ask.

Lia rolled onto her back and waited as he covered himself. The mattress dipped as he crawled over and covered her with his naked body. Surely there was no better feeling than that heady first touch of skin on skin. It was the most intimate of moments, and her breath caught in her throat with a hitch. Slowly she dragged her nails up his back as he kissed her neck. Kenny used his knee to push her thighs wider apart and trailed his kisses lower, his scruff deliciously rough against her skin, until he sucked one of her nipples into his mouth. Lia arched off the bed involuntarily at the sensation and ground herself shamelessly against his leg, looking for some relief.

“Your breasts are fucking perfect, soft and so sensitive.”

Unable to formulate any words of response, Lia pulled his head toward her, encouraging him to be rougher.

Kenny’s hand slid down her stomach until he reached her clit, which throbbed, viciously in need of release. He dragged his thumb through her wetness, circling her over and over, bringing her closer to the one thing she was desperate for.

“Please Kenny, I need you.”

“Thank fuck for that, Red,” Kenny said, moving fully on top of her. He gripped the back of her knee and pulled her leg up against his thigh. In one steady motion he drove himself deep inside. “Fuck,” he groaned.

Lia closed her eyes and strained against him. The slow and controlled way he eased out and back in again drove her crazy. Nothing had ever felt so good. Kenny stretched her in all of the right places as he slid in and out.

“Faster. I need it faster.”

“I know you do, Red. But you aren’t in control right now, I am.”

When her car breaks down off the side of a lonely highway far from her sunny Miami home, tattoo artist Lia never expected her very own white knight to ride up on the back of a barely street-legal motorcycle…and she never expected to fall for her dark savior. After a string of failed relationships and a bruised heart Lia is not looking for forever, and the hot mechanic, with his sexy scruff and shaggy hair, is simply impossible to resist. He’s the perfect candidate for a mind-blowingly-perfect, no-strings-attached one-night stand.

Reid left his life in Chicago far behind him and hasn’t been back, but he’s never been able to escape the guilt he feels about his own painful role in inviting a monster into his baby sister’s life. A monster who almost destroyed her. Being with Lia is an unexpected gift, one he doesn’t feel he deserves, and their one night together has him wanting more than he should. When he surprises her at her tattoo studio, Second Circle Tattoos, in Miami, he’s in for a shock—and a fist to the face—when his past and present collide.

With secrets coming to the surface, Reid and Lia are thrown into a world of betrayal and lies that threatens to pull them under, and the last link to his former life may be the darkest of them all.

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