Title: CAPTURE ME
Author: Anna Zaires
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Blurb
A
new dark romance series from the New York Times bestselling author of Twist
Me
She
fears him from the first moment she sees him.
Yulia
Tzakova is no stranger to dangerous men. She grew up with them. She survived
them. But when she meets Lucas Kent, she knows the hard ex-soldier may be the
most dangerous of them all.
One
night—that’s all it should be. A chance to make up for a failed assignment and
get information on Kent’s arms dealer boss. When his plane goes down, it should
be the end.
Instead,
it's just the beginning.
He
wants her from the first moment he sees her.
Lucas
Kent has always liked leggy blondes, and Yulia Tzakova is as beautiful as they
come. The Russian interpreter might’ve tried to seduce his boss, but she ends
up in Lucas’s bed—and he has every intention of seeing her there again.
Then
his plane goes down, and he learns the truth.
She
betrayed him.
Now
she will pay.
NOTE: Capture
Me is the first book about Lucas & Yulia and has a cliffhanger-ish
ending. It’s a long novella/short novel of approximately 45,000 words (about
200 pages) and is a spin-off from the Twist Me trilogy. It’s not
necessary to have read that trilogy to enjoy Capture Me, but the book
does contain major spoilers for books 2 and 3 of Twist Me.
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Excerpt
Author’s Note:
This is from Yulia’s POV. For those of you familiar with the Twist Me series,
this scene takes place in Moscow, when Lucas & Julian were there to meet
with the Russian officials.
He steps into my apartment as soon as the door swings open.
No hesitation, no greeting—he just comes in.
Startled, I step back, the short,
narrow hallway suddenly stiflingly small. I’d somehow forgotten how big he is,
how broad his shoulders are. I’m tall for a woman—tall enough to fake being a
model if an assignment calls for it—but he towers a full head above me. With
the heavy down jacket he’s wearing, he takes up almost the entire hallway.
Still not saying a word, he closes
the door behind him and advances toward me. Instinctively, I back away, feeling
like cornered prey.
“Hello, Yulia,” he murmurs,
stopping when we’re out of the hallway. His pale gaze is locked on my face. “I
wasn’t expecting to see you like this.”
I swallow, my pulse racing. “I just
took a bath.” I want to seem calm and confident, but he’s got me completely
off-balance. “I wasn’t expecting visitors.”
“No, I can see that.” A faint smile
appears on his lips, softening the hard line of his mouth. “Yet you let me in.
Why?”
“Because I didn’t want to continue
talking through the door.” I take a steadying breath. “Can I offer you some
tea?” It’s a stupid thing to say, given what he’s here for, but I need a few
moments to compose myself.
He raises his eyebrows. “Tea? No,
thanks.”
“Then can I take your jacket?” I
can’t seem to stop playing the hostess, using politeness to cover my anxiety.
“It looks quite warm.”
Amusement flickers in his wintry
gaze. “Sure.” He takes off his down jacket and hands it to me. He’s left
wearing a black sweater and dark jeans tucked into black winter boots. The
jeans hug his legs, revealing muscular thighs and powerful calves, and on his
belt, I see a gun sitting in a holster.
Irrationally, my breathing quickens
at the sight, and it takes a concerted effort to keep my hands from shaking as
I take the jacket and walk over to hang it in my tiny closet. It’s not a
surprise that he’s armed—it would be a shock if he wasn’t—but the gun is a
stark reminder of who Lucas Kent is.
What he is.
It’s no big deal, I tell myself,
trying to calm my frayed nerves. I’m used to dangerous men. I was raised among
them. This man is not that different. I’ll sleep with him, get whatever
information I can, and then he’ll be out of my life.
Yes, that’s it. The sooner I can
get it done, the sooner all of this will be over.
Closing the closet door, I paste a
practiced smile on my face and turn back to face him, finally ready to resume
the role of confident seductress.
Except he’s already next to me,
having crossed the room without making a sound.
My pulse jumps again, my newfound
composure fleeing. He’s close enough that I can see the gray striations in his
pale blue eyes, close enough that he can touch me.
And a second later, he does touch
me.
Lifting his hand, he runs the back
of his knuckles over my jaw.
I stare up at him, confused by my
body’s instant response. My skin warms and my nipples tighten, my breath coming
faster. It doesn’t make sense for this hard, ruthless stranger to turn me on.
His boss is more handsome, more striking, yet it’s Kent my body’s reacting to.
All he’s touched thus far is my face. It should be nothing, yet it’s intimate
somehow.
Intimate and disturbing.
I swallow again. “Mr.
Kent—Lucas—are you sure I can’t offer you something to drink? Maybe some coffee
or—” My words end in a breathless gasp as he reaches for the tie of my robe and
tugs on it, as casually as one would unwrap a package.
“No.” He watches as the robe falls open,
revealing my naked body underneath. “No coffee.”
Coming February 2, 2016!
Bind Me (Capture Me, Book 2)
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BIND ME (Capture Me, Book 2)
For Lucas
Kent, his new prisoner is a maddening contradiction: compliant yet defiant,
fragile yet strong. He needs to uncover her secrets, but doing so may ruin
everything.
His obsession
could destroy her.
She’s determined to escape.
For Yulia
Tzakova, her captor is the man of both her dreams and her nightmares: tender
one moment, cruel the next. She can’t let him crack her, but resisting him may
leave her broken.
A moment of
weakness could cost her everything.
About the Author
Anna
Zaires fell in love with books at the age of five, when her grandmother taught
her to read. She wrote her first story shortly thereafter. Since then, she has
always lived partially in a fantasy world where the only limits were those of
her imagination. Currently residing in Florida, Anna is happily married to Dima
Zales (a science fiction and fantasy author) and closely collaborates with him
on all their works.
After
graduating from the University of Chicago with a degree in Economics, Anna
spent eight years on Wall Street analyzing stocks and writing research reports.
In 2013, she became a full-time author, pursuing her lifelong dream of writing
romance novels.
Dima
Zales is the love of her life and a huge inspiration in all aspects of her
writing. Every book Anna writes is a product of their unique collaborative
process.
In
addition to reading and writing, Anna enjoys drinking tea (coconut oolong,
anyone?), watching addictive TV shows, and discussing book ideas during long
walks with her amazing husband.
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