Forged in Desire, an all-new
sexy standalone from Brenda Jackson is live!!!
Forged in Desire by Brenda Jackson Publisher: HQN
Books Genre: Contemporary Romance
Strong enough to
protect her. Bold enough to love her.
When good girl Margo Connelly becomes Lamar
"Striker" Jennings's latest assignment, she knows she's in trouble.
And not just because he's been hired to protect her from an underworld
criminal. The reformed bad boy's appeal is breaching all her defenses, and as
the threats against her increase, Margo isn't sure which is more dangerous: the
gangster targeting her, or the far too alluring protector tempting her to let
loose.
Though Striker's now living on the right side of the
law, he's convinced his troubled past keeps Margo out of his league. But
physical chemistry explodes into full-blown passion when they go on the run
together. Surrendering to desire could be a deadly distraction—or finally prove
that he's the only man qualified to keep her safe, and win her love.
Excerpt:
Margo Connelly
stared up at her uncle. “A bodyguard? Do you really think that’s necessary,
Uncle Frazier? I understand extra policemen are patrolling the streets.”
“That’s
not good enough. Why should I trust a bunch of police officers?”
“Why
shouldn’t you?” she countered, not for the first time wondering what her uncle
had against cops. On more than one occasion he’d made that quite obvious.
“I have my reasons, but this isn’t
about me—this is about you and your safety. I refuse to have you placed in any
danger. What’s the big deal? You’ve had a bodyguard before.”
Yes,
she’d had one before. Right after her parents’ deaths, when her uncle had
become her guardian. He had shipped her off to London for three years. She’d
reckoned he’d been trying to figure out what he, a devout bachelor, was to do
with a ten-year-old. When she returned to the United States, Apollo remained
her bodyguard. When she turned fourteen, she fought hard for a little personal
freedom. But she’d always known the chauffeurs Uncle Frazier hired could do
more than drive her to and from school. More than once she’d seen the guns they
carried.
“Yes,
but that was then and this is now, Uncle Frazier. I can look after myself.”
“Haven’t
you been keeping up with the news?” he snapped. “Three people are dead. All
three were in that courtroom with you. Erickson is making sure his threat is
carried out.”
“And
more than likely whoever is committing these murders will be caught before
there can be another shooting. I understand the three were killed while they
were away from home. I have enough paperwork to catch up on here for a while. I
didn’t even leave my house today.”
“You
don’t think a paid assassin will find you here? Alone? You either get on board
with having a bodyguard or you move back home. It’s well secured there.”
Margo drew in a deep breath. Back
home was the Connelly estate. Yes, it was secure, with its state-of-the-art
surveillance system. While growing up, she’d thought of the ten-acre property,
surrounded by a tall wrought-iron fence and cameras watching her every move, as
a prison. Now she couldn’t stand the thought of staying there for any long
period of time…especially if Liz was still in residence.
Her
forty-five-year-old uncle had never married and claimed he had his reasons for
never wanting to. But that didn’t keep him from occasionally having a live-in
mistress under his roof. His most recent was Liz Tillman and, as far as Margo
was concerned, the woman was a real work of art with the words gold digger written all over her. Margo
knew her uncle was a smart man and would eventually figure that fact out for
himself. But right now it seemed he was quite taken with Liz’s looks and body.
“It’s
final. A bodyguard will be here around the clock to protect you until this
madness is over.”
Margo didn’t say anything. She
wondered if at any time it had crossed her uncle’s mind that they were at her
house, not his, and she was no longer a child but a twenty-six-year-old woman.
In a way, she knew she should appreciate his concern, but she refused to let
anyone order her around.
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Brenda Jackson, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling
author of over 100 novels and novellas, was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Jacksonville
University. She married her high school sweetheart, Gerald, and they have two
sons, Gerald Jr. and Brandon, ages thirty-six and thirty-four, respectively.
She is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Her professional
writing career began in 1995 with the release of her first book, Tonight and
Forever. Since then she has written over 100 titles, which includes a
made-for-television movie by BET, One Special Moment as well as the movie,
Truly Everlasting. She was a 2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding
Literary Fiction for her book, A Silken Thread; and was named Romance Writers
of America’s Nora Robert’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient for 2012.
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