Thundering Luv

Thundering Love (Book 2 in the LUV series) © 2013 LM Preston

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Summary: Jewel has always been able to get the guy she wanted. The starting jock on the football team, the team captain on the basketball team, and the lead swimmer on the swim team. Problem is, she didn't find them the least bit exciting. Was she cold or a she-wolf for guys? Colin thought so, and he'd do anything to bring her down a peg or two. When these two collide on the sandy beach during their mixed up summer vacation, sparks fly, making this a summer neither will forget.

Cover illustration by Emma Micheals

Interior design by
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Young Adult:

The Pack
 by LM Preston– Teen, blind, vigilante on a mission to save the missing kids on mars. Shamira is considered an outcast by most, but little do they know that she is on a mission. Kids on Mars are disappearing, but Shamira decides to use the 
criminals
 most unlikely weapons against them the very kids of which they have captured. In order to succeed, she is forced to trust another, something she is afraid to do. However, Valens, her connection to the underworld of her enemy, proves to be a useful ally. Time is slipping, and so is her control on the power that resides within her. But in order to save her brother's life, she is willing to risk it all.

The Pack – Retribution (book 2)
 - Revenge doesn't have a name, but has chosen a victim - Shamira. But she's never been the type to lie down and let someone hurt her family or her friends. In order to find the mastermind behind the threat to all she cares about, she must give up the one person who's found his way into her guarded heart, Valens.

Valens refuses to back off easily, and neither will Shamira's friends. They join forces with her in order to deal with a new enemy who seeks to kill everyone in Shamira's life that dared save the missing kids on Mars.

Bandits
 by LM Preston - Daniel's father has gotten himself killed and left another mess for Daniel to clean up. To save his world from destruction, he must fight off his father's killers while discovering a way to save his world. He wants to go it alone, but his cousin and his best friend's sister, Jade, insist on tagging along. Jade is off limits to him, but she is determined to change his mind. He hasn't decided if loving her is worth the beating he'll get from her brother in order to have her. Retrieving the treasure is his only choice. But in order to get it, Daniel must choose to either walk in his father's footsteps or to re-invent himself into the one to save his world.

Flutter Of Luv
 by LM Preston - Dawn, the neighborhood tomboy, is happy to be her best friend’s shadow. Acceptance comes from playing football after school with the guys on the block while hiding safely behind her glasses, braces, and boyish ways. But Tony moves in, becomes the star Running Back on her school’s football team, and changes her world and her view of herself forever.

Jewel sighed, giving her phone the stink eye as it rang for the tenth time in the last hour. She kicked the cellphone off the beach chair and bit her nail.

The sea
. The beautiful sea in front of Jewel couldn’t evoke any depth or feeling within her heart. Maybe what they called her at school was true. Ice Princess, cold-blooded and frozen faker. She fought against tearing up at all the things she knew to be true. She couldn’t feel, couldn’t love, was only a pretty face with nothing in between. The large beach home that shared a wraparound deck and a middle wall with a neighbor had seen better days. It was perfect, a temporary escape from all the drama at home. And she needed an escape, more than anyone knew.

“You should just answer the thing. Stop stringing him along,” her cousin Megs teased, and tapped Jewel’s dark tan leg with her pale foot.

“Easy for you to say. You don’t have a boyfriend who’s scrumptious, head of the football team, and everything a girl should want. But he doesn’t ‘
do
’ it for you.” Jewel rolled her eyes and huffed, plopping back in her beach chair. She tied her dirty-blonde hair up into a knot. Her curly bang’s pale highlights clashed to her darker hued skin tone which made most people wonder if she’d dyed her hair.

“Nobody ever does it for you.” Megs burst out laughing. “What is he, like boyfriend number five this year? And girl, you’ve been known to make the big guys cry. What do you do with them?” Megs’ platinum blond hair appeared to glow in the sun.

Jewel wrinkled her nose at Megs when Amy, her best-friend, came onto the deck of the beach house. This getaway home was an Aunt of Amy’s. Luckily for them, the lady mentioned she would be scarce this summer, but promised to drop in and check on them from time to time. Amy’s dark skin and light brown eyes were accented by her bright orange bikini and she put her hand on her hip, with a smirk and a shake of her head.

Amy sat on the chair next to Megs and joined in laughing. “She’s right. Didn’t you make the star player on the basketball team cry and actually lose a game because you dumped him only minutes before the start? I mean, to do it by text to me is plain skeezy.”

Jewel slid on her shades. “I didn’t want to do it in person.” She shrugged trying to appear nonchalant, but a shiver trickled through her. “None of those jocks are what they seem when they are winning a game or smiling the first time they met me. I did them a favor. I couldn’t give them what they wanted.” Her friends giggled louder. “Oh, you don’t know how bad that actually makes me feel.” They snickered and she groaned, “Shut up! I’m—” The phone rang again.

She put a finger to her lips, lifted her shades and glared to her friends. With an exhale, she grabbed the phone and answered it. “Hey Matt?” Jewel didn’t need to check the number; she’d known it was him. His ringtone had the school song, his favorite that he sang off-key to her every time he got on a roll bragging about himself.

Matt’s deep voice came through, “Hey babe, why aren’t you answering my calls?”

Jewel pictured Matt, muscular frame, thick shoulders, all the makings of a star quarterback, topped with curly red hair. Crap, he was gorgeous. What was she thinking? Maybe she shouldn’t break up with him.

“Uh…” Jewel took several deep breaths.

“You’re scaring me. Talk to me, you know I love you like crazy. When you don’t answer my calls I’m thinking you don’t love me anymore.” He sounded almost whiny. “You didn’t even answer the door when I came to your house to say goodbye.”

She hated when they did that. Whined, cried, and made her feel like a she-witch.

“Well I’ve been busy. You know, with the girls. We got here today. And since you know I’ll be gone all summer maybe we should um, take a break?” Jewel swallowed the lump in her throat, feeling like scum. She should really be a pro at this, but she hated it, especially doing it where she had to hear or see her next victim. And she didn’t want to hurt them; she knew they’d be better off with someone who could really fall in love with them. Not someone like her, someone broken. Some of the guys she’d broken up with would cry, others had tried to physically hurt her. She’d learned her lesson and tried to break up with them from a distance – a great distance. But ending this with Matt now on the phone couldn’t be helped.

“No. I don’t want a vacation from you. I
love
you. I was thinking about driving up there today. Me and the guys could rent a place nearby. My dad said he’d foot the bill. Since my parents split, he’ll do anything for me. He even brought me a new convertible, your sexy gold hair would feel good slapping against my face while I drive,” he chuckled. “And you’ll be able to ditch your cousin and stay with me—alone.”

Jewel slapped her forehead. Why couldn’t Matt take a hint? “But I—no, I don’t think that’s a good idea. My mom barely let me come with Megs and Amy because she’s so protective. If she knew I was meeting my boyfriend here she’d think you…ah, I were, you know…” Jewel put her hand over her beating heart. Not only that, but being alone with Matt made her feel extremely uncomfortable. The last time they were alone at her house, he popped over unannounced. Matt had almost ripped off her shirt while they kissed in her living room. He’d tried to force her blouse up, but she fought him to put it down. If Megs hadn’t stopped by earlier than planned, Jewel didn’t know what would’ve happened.

“Say it? C’mon tell me you love me back. I kinda feel like— Jewel, I really miss you. And you never tell me you love me back. You never seem to give me part of yourself. I want that. I want you, to be closer to you than anyone else. So say it. Say it and mean it.” Matt cleared his voice, like he was about to continue.

“I can’t. It’s because. W-well, I don’t. Matt, I’m not in love with you the way you want me to be. And I’m sorry, I really am, but we need to break up. I can’t do this to you anymore.” Jewel felt like a lowlife. Again and again, she couldn’t give up hope that she’d find someone, somebody out there that her heart connected too. She’d thought it was Matt, felt a little flutter in her tummy when they first met, but it died the next day, and by then he’d pressured her to be his girlfriend. And after that, he, like all her other ex-boyfriends, turned scary.

Matt was silent a bit longer. A low growl rumbled from him. “I’m not surprised. All the guys said you were a screwed-up a tease. They were right. You’re a cold hearted bitc—”

Jewel hung up. Then she threw the phone off the deck and into the sand. The relationship ended badly, all of them did. At least she didn’t have to hide from him at school like she did from most of her ex-creepy boyfriends.

“Uhum, I guess he didn’t take that well,” Amy said in her baby doll voice. “Maybe you should’ve text or tweeted the message like you did with the others. Oh, or do a break up song cheer like you did to the guy last year. That was beautiful! I heard about it at my school and watched the YouTube video. Girl, that video went viral at my school.”

Megs piped in, “No, I think the chocolate and marshmallow messaged ‘You are ditched’ she did on the swim team ex was the best, o-oh t-that was,” Megs hiccupped between giggles.