Back in the Game: A Stardust, Texas Novel (40 page)
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Authors: Lori Wilde
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #United States, #Contemporary Fiction, #Romance, #Humour, #Contemporary
He was lost. Gone. Adrift in ecstasy.
She reached up and untied him.
He grabbed her, pulled her to his chest, whispered, “Breezy, Breezy, Breezy.”
She wriggled against him. Fierce. Tiny. Amazingly beautiful in his eyes. Dark blond hair. Bewitching green eyes. Bunny rabbit nose quivering. She sat up, stripped off his baseball jersey, flung it behind her. He spanned her waist, lifted her bottom to his face, and chewed the thin strap of her G-string panties in two.
His lover wrapped the softest material on earth around her hand, rubbed that sweet hand over the hardest part of his body, and with each caress she whispered, “One soft touch identifies the other.”
A stroke of the cheetah scarf.
A sizzle of sex.
And at long last, Rowdy Blanton was made whole.
Find out how the next Carlyle sister finds love in
New York Times best-selling author
LORI WILDE’S
second Stardust, Texas novel
Coming June 2015 from Avon Books!
New York Times
and
USA Today
bestselling author LORI WILDE has sold seventy-eight works of fiction to four major New York publishing houses. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Texas Christian University and a certificate in forensic nursing from Kaplan University. She is a member of the Internal Association of Forensic Nurses. Her first
New York Times
bestseller, the third book in her Twilight, Texas series,
The First Love Cookie Club
, has been optioned for a television movie. The town of Granbury, Texas, upon which her fictional town ofTwilight, Texas is loosely based, honors Lori with an annual Twilight, Texas weekend each Christmas.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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EPub Edition March 2015 ISBN: 9780062311276
Print Edition ISBN: 9780062311269
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