Excerpt From Flawless
Here is an excerpt from Flawless, my February 2010 release
(and yes, the killer is Tavos Santos, the knife wielding vigilante from Invisible)
“Excuse me.” She rested a gloved hand on his sleeve. Was that a flinch? No. His face was like granite as he turned to face her. This man would never flinch.
“Fuck,” he said under his breath. “What do you want?” Louder. The grating language offset by a deep, low voice, the sound touching the very depths of her.
What did she want? Looking in his flat brown eyes, she knew. To live. To love. To…
“This.” Grace plucked the toothpick away from his lips and, before fear overwhelmed the impulse, she leaned forward, into his warmth, and brushed her mouth against his.
His lips were hard. Unyielding. Like him. Like fate.
She didn’t know what she had expected. Not that. Disappointed, Grace withdrew to the safety and coldness of her own personal space. She had expected more. She took a pen out of her purse. Didn’t matter. Number four. She crossed it off the list. It was done.
“Fuck.” A hand gripped her waist, spinning her and the stool around. His face fierce. He was going to kill her now. Right here, in public. For daring to kiss him. Grace opened her mouth to scream, only to have it covered with his. She struggled. His hand gripped the back of her neck, not allowing her to retreat, hard lips grinding down, his body slamming against her, knocking the wind, the fight out of her, allowing his tongue inside.
It was hungry. Primitive. Deadly. Was death by kissing possible? Her body sagged against his, all resistance gone. Her right hand crept up, around his shoulder and into his hair. He was so lean, hard, not an ounce of softness in his body. A finely trained weapon. To be used against her.
She didn’t die. He stepped back, a dazed look in those eyes. She touched the corner of her mouth with the tip of her tongue, tasting…blood.
“Fuck.” The killer ran a hand through his shiny black hair, smoothing down the tuft she had clenched. “Fuck.”
on March 25th, 2009 at 1:45 am
OMG.
It’s going to be a long year waiting for this
on April 12th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I just read Invisible and loved the book. I can’t wait for Tavos’s story. He was such a great character, he needs his own story.
on January 2nd, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Oh Tavos Santos seems like a hard nut, and not very accomadating, I think that this new novel is going to be an intriguing tension built story, I can’t wait to read it
on January 3rd, 2010 at 3:06 am
WOW! …and I don’t even have “Invisible” yet. I KNOW I have to read this one …. I need it for a serious research study I’m making on the size of the vocabularies of the world’s greatest fiction heroes.
on April 13th, 2010 at 6:39 am
When will this be available in print????