Complete Abandon - Softcover

Holt, Cheryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031298460X ISBN 13: 9780312984601

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003

Synopsis

No bargain as enticing as...
When Emma Fitzgerald storms the manor home of the new Viscount Wakefield, she feels more than justified fury. Having just inadvertently witnessed his lordship in scandalous dishabille with his London mistress, her blood pounds with outrage...and with a thrill she has never felt. She has come to demand better treatment for his tenants, to seek some compassion, a shred of decency from this dastardly rake whose reputation for sin and debauchery precedes him. Now, the erotic image of his powerful flesh only heightens her determination to make this wicked rogue accountable for his actions...

One sealed with a kiss...
Certainly no woman has ever dared to take John Clayton to task as though he is a naughty schoolboy, and no woman, especially one as enticing as Emma, ever has refused to be baited by his bold, assessing gaze. Instead she seems to look beneath his skin to see more than a scandalous rake. But this prim and proper Vicar's daughter leaves him speechless when she proposes a bargain worthy of his own insolence. In return for his kindness to others, she offers herself. Vowing to regain the upper hand, John brazenly sets out to introduce Emma into the art of love-heedless of the consequences to his own heart...

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From the Inside Flap

"I want to make love to you..."

"Here in the forest." John's voice was tempting, seductive, urging her to do what she oughtn't.

"No, someone might come by. Someone might see us."

These woods are deserted. It will be fine."

She glanced around. They were so isolated. They could...

No! What was she contemplating? They couldn't!

He let go of her, guiding her so that she slid down his front, every titillated inch taking a leisurely trip across his anatomy. He unfastened her cloak and spread it on the grass. Pensively, she watched, not assisting or hindering him, not running off as she knew she should. He knelt and brushed the cloak flat, a smooth, inviting bed where they could romp and rollick. Then, he sat and held out his hand to her. She was so apprehensive, yet so excited, that she was paralyzed. If she joined him, she wouldn't be able to contain her baser impulses.

"Come to me, Emma." His ravishing eyes were beseeching, his smile beguiling her, luring her to her doom. He clasped her hand in his, his thumb tracing captivating circles in the center of her palm. "I won't hurt you."

Gently, he tugged on her wrist, and her knees buckling, she collapsed down. He reached out and petted her hair, her shoulder, his hand descending to her breast. He seized her nipple, squeezing the raised peak.

"What do you want from me, Em?"

There were dozens of potential answers she could give, from simple to difficult, from cheap to expensive. But what she said was, "I want you to touch me. All over. With your hands and your mouth..."

About the Author

National award-winning author Cheryl Holt is a lawyer, novelist, and mom who lives on the Oregon coast. Her varied employment history includes public school teacher, mediator, cook, bartender, lobbyist, musician, and political activist. A graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law, she worked as a law clerk for the Attorneys General of Colorado and Wyoming. Later, she served as a deputy district attorney in metro-Denver.

Cheryl's sixth novel, Love Lessons, was nominated as the Best Erotic Romance of 2001 by the National Readers' Choice Awards. Her seventh, Total Surrender, was recently nominated for the Reviewers' Choice Award as the Best Sensual Romance of 2002 by Romantic Times magazine.

Complete Abandon is her tenth novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 031298460X
• ISBN 13: 9780312984601
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384