Fifteen Nights by Zoe Lee
Publication Date: January 26th, 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance
An all new STANDALONE novel from Zoe Lee is now LIVE!!
The deeper they look, the harder they fall.
Jamie Houston was supposed to just be Leda Riveau’s Thursday night (and maybe Friday morning) fun.
Leda has awesome brothers, friends who are as allergic to emotions as she is, and a great job. She’s back in her hometown, Maybelle County, after a romantic and professional disaster three years ago in Nashville. It might not be what she planned when she was a teenager, but it’s perfect.
Or, well, it’s almost perfect. Because Leda is still angry and bitter about Nashville, and everyone knows it. She hates romance and doesn’t do relationships, and her younger brother’s trying to get her to be nicer. But she’s not nice. She even has her own hashtag: #ledagoesnuclear.
Then she sees Jamie again, when he’s between serious girlfriends, and discovers that the chemistry she’s always suspected is right there, ready to explode if she lets it.
Jamie is a serial monogamist who’s always liked Leda, but the timing’s never been right. After he sees her while they’re both single for the first time since high school, he knows he wants to be with her. Everybody knows she doesn’t date and doesn’t get serious, but he’s always serious, especially because he has a three-year-old son and a three-hour commute to get from work to Leda.
What starts out as a casual Thursday night arrangement gets messy when Leda and Jamie also have interfering friends, sad brothers, a pushy mom, an amazing son, and chemistry so intense it’s scary.
How does a man who needs forever win a woman who hates romance?
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Excerpt:
I
stalk-strolled towards her, my patience stretched paper-thin by desire.
I
crowded close, so tall and wide that she couldn’t see anything else but me, and
my hand cupped her waist. She stumbled against the wall, her feet wide apart to
keep her balanced.
“You’re
so damn tall,”I murmured. Still a few inches shorter than I was in her heels,
she angled her head back, her hair scraping the textured wallpaper, to meet my
eyes again. My thumb stroked in arcs over her hips and I saw her try to
suppress a shiver. “You must be six-three in those heels. Usually I can’t look
a woman in the eye unless we’re lying down.
”Her
eyes flashed fire and she asked belligerently, “Are you going to keep me here
till midnight?”
I ran
my fingertips down her earlobes and chandelier earrings, not bothering to
confirm what was obvious. I knew she didn’t want to go anywhere either. If Leda
Riveau didn’t want to be somewhere, she sure as hell would’ve told me so and
moved.
When
the crowd screamed and chorused “Happy New Year,”I half-smiled.
My face
dipped until the tips of our noses grazed together, testing the boundaries, and
when she only parted her red lips, I laid mine against them for the first time.
Light
flickered behind my closed eyelids as her mouth softened a fraction.
But I
didn’t want her soft, I wanted her fierce and dynamic, so I caught her around
the waist. My voice dropped in volume and register while I demanded, “Kiss me
harder, Leda.”
Her
arms wound around me and her nails dug into my neck, scratching hard as she
swooped in and bit at my bottom lip before her nimble tongue pushed into my
mouth.
I
couldn’t have stopped the heartfelt moan that escaped into the air between our
open lips.
But at
the noise, she pulled back sharply and looked at me, brows creasing. I didn’t
know what had made Dunk say what he had, but I knew plenty of gossip about
everyone in Maybelle, and I’d never heard so much as a word about her sleeping
around.
I
wanted to reassure her, but I knew that the usual platitudes about how she was
beautiful and Dunk was a fucking idiot wouldn’t work because they’d make her
feel too vulnerable. My best shot was probably self-deprecation, to shift the
attention to my shit and away from her.
So I
hooked her hair behind her ears, smoothing the disarray I’d caused.
“Do you
know how many women run from this?”I pointed at my eyes. “I always have to hide
it. I haven’t been able to do that with you tonight, and all you’ve done is
stare right back.”
“I, uh,
like it. It makes me feel special,”she practically stammered. “And that’s
incredibly…”She swallowed, her eyes dipping down to my mouth again.
“…tempting.”
My gaze
sharpened with desire. “I would like to make love with you.”
She
jabbed a finger in my chest. “You cannot call it that,”she ordered. “No
bullshit about how you were moon-eyed over me half our lives ago when we didn’t
know shit about shit.”
I
grabbed her finger and reeled her in.
“You
can stare at me all you want,”she half-babbled, “but this is just good
chemistry.”
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