A New Englander at heart, Marni Mann is now a Floridian inspired by the sandy beaches and hot pink sunsets of Sarasota. She taps mainstream appeal and shakes worldwide taboos, taking her readers on a dark and breathtaking journey. When she’s not nose deep in her laptop, she’s scouring for chocolate, traveling, reading, or walking her four-legged children.
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Charlie is a passionate, sensually inspired art student, desperately seeking an escape from an abusive past that haunts her and a tragic accident that emptied her heart. Scarred and unable to love, her yearning for physical pleasure and contact leads her into a tantalizing, dangerous world of power and seduction. The anonymity of the deal offers security, the money provides financial freedom, and the madam’s authority is the mother figure she longs for.
But the thrill of the mansion and its arousing dominance quickly fades when she meets the renowned yet mysterious Cameron Hardy, whose intense, baby blue eyes send a nervous flutter through her core. He’s sexy, and not in a subtle way. Cameron stimulates her art, intellect and desires. Just as he begins to break through her emotional boundaries, Charlie discovers a devastating connection between her past and her scandalous work at the mansion, shattering everything she thought to be true.
Provocative, intoxicating and erotic, Seductive Shadows is the unforgettable tale of a young woman’s discovery as she learns to forgive, to love and be loved, and to find redemption amidst a memorable journey that will captivate your mind and stimulate your soul.
This book is for mature audiences. It contains explicit language and sexual content.
Title:
Seductive Shadows
Author: Marni Mann
Publisher: Booktrope
Genre: Erotic romance
Age Group: Adult
Event organized by: AToMR Tours;
If you are not 18 or older, you need to quit reading this post now. The following excerpt is inappropriate for people under 18.
Here's an excerpt:
“Good evening,” he said. He slowly moved closer.
I took in all of him. Though he was dressed as a gentleman, there was something rugged about him; a man who didn’t use only his brain when he went to work, but his hands, too. His eyes moved from mine and landed on my body, causing everything below my neck to redden. Only a few seconds passed before I felt him. His thumb grazed my bottom lip, his skin cold from the glass he held in his palm. I licked my lips, tasting the sweetness he had left behind. The spark from that simple touch opened my pores.
I needed him to want me.
He pressed the rim of the glass against my lips, pouring a shot of the amber liquid into my mouth. I swallowed. It was exactly what I wanted, something stiff that would ease my flutters. It burned my throat, gliding down smoothly and without effort. It felt so good…and it tasted even better. His hand brushed against my jaw as he held the drink out in front of me. I met his eyes and waited, but he wouldn’t give me a second sip. He moved a few inches closer, and I leaned farther back into the pole. The liquid finally entered into my mouth, and my body responded to his power.
“You can call me anything you want,” I replied. “Tell me, Jay: who do you want me to be?”
The breath he exhaled trickled inside my collar and down my neck. “Tell me your name,” he said a little louder. There wasn’t any anger in his tone. Just desire.
“Cee.”
He dipped his head, his lips stopping just above my earlobe. His fingers traced the skin below my jaw. I expected words to come out of his mouth, but instead it was a tiny moan. A breeze of cold air rushed against me as he moved over to the bed. He sat on the edge, unknotting his tie before resting his hands on the mattress.
“Come to me.”
I stepped past the pole and around the end of the bed. His commands and the way he expected to be obeyed enticed me. They weren’t cruel or threatening; his voice, his words, his whole persona was deliberate and inviting. The need from my other sexual partners had often been a turn off, but Jay’s tone was just the opposite.
“Slowly,” he said.
With my chin pointed down, hair falling over my cheeks, I looked up at him as though he were my master. If this was the role I needed to take tonight to impress Victoria and make her proud, I was ready to abide. Our eyes met, and his breath quickened. I bit my bottom lip and took a step forward. My toes danced over a broken slab of mirror, pausing for several seconds, and I took another. Landing just a foot from his lap, my fingers caressed the buttons of his shirt. When I got to the bottom, I started back up.
“Take it off,” he said, his eyes never leaving mine.
I pushed his top button through the hole.
“No,” he said quickly. “Yours.”
My fingers circled around the top buttons of my shirt, popping them through their holes. As I got lower I shimmied my shoulders out of the collar, and the shirt fell to my chest. With my breasts still hidden, I hesitated.
His mouth opened. “Drop it. Now.”
His impatience was sexy; his demands caused everything below my stomach to soften as the fluttering increased. His voice was as nerve-wracking as it was arousing.
I pulled the shirt open, rubbing the fabric over my nipples, making them even harder as they pushed through the thin cotton. I watched the shirt fall to the floor. It floated so slowly and gracefully in its descent. I kept my eyes lowered as I dipped my fingers into the waist of my panties, running the width of my stomach.
“Now those.”
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it's a little difficult to explain but i'm not at aise at all after reading the books description, my alarms all go up so it's probably better if i don't try this book ( perhaps later)
ReplyDeleteI know its seems like a kinda dark read?
Deletedark and hard ... i have so many possibility in mind for her reason to do what she is doing and none of them is rassuring or " kind"
Deleteyea. im with you on this one. Im not sure that im going to read it.
Deleteso glad not to be the only one feeling that way
DeleteI mean it seems intruiging but Im not into that overly dominating male. I dont find that sexy the ones who are mean and controlling. I dont mind alpha males but not to the extreme.
Deletetrue i don't like them extreme either but in this case he looks like he is and at the same time the past of the girl looks quite dramatic so together it doesn't make me want to read it at the moment
Deleteyea thats whats making me not really want to read this right now either. Maybe if Brenda reviews it then I may change my mind
Deletenow she will probably think the same as us too^^, we do have similar tastes^^
DeleteWe really do!
Deleteit's really strange isn't it? we live so far but are so similar in so many ways
DeleteYes, we all have our special quirks but its crazy how much are interests are alike. I just hope we wont influence her if she wants to read this. But like you said we share the same tastes.
DeleteYou can trust her to have a independant mind still^^ she does try the books she wants so i wouldn't worry about that^^ ( it's more the opposite we could make her try books she didn't think of but make her avoid reading no)
DeleteI just ment that she may go oh well that does sound kind bad, not that she wouldnt think for herself. :) But I am interested to see what she thinks(if she reads it) because maybe we're really wrong?
Deleteperhaps ^^ time will tell us i guess^^
DeleteMaybe. I'll keep it in mind.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new release :)
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