Guest Post & Giveaway with Dee J. Adams

Author Dee J. Adams is here with us today talking about doing the wrong thing for the right reason. Welcome back to The Book Vixen Dee!

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I have to thank Brianna for having me twice in two months to celebrate the release of Against the Wall! I’m really thrilled to be able to share it here!

This is truly one of my favorite books for so many reasons. I love when good characters have to do things out of their norm, when they have to rise up and become someone they never thought they’d be. Both the hero and heroine in Against the Wall come way out of their comfort zones in the name of justice and it makes the journey that much more unpredictable.

How much do you love the reluctant hero? I’m a huge fan. (Take most of Harrison Ford’s movies. I think that man is the master of the reluctant hero. He perfected it in the Indiana Jones movies.) Reluctant heroes always find themselves in situations they never imagined, which usually means they have to find their way out with very little help from any outside forces. And what happens when the outside force turns out to be someone who wants something you know is wrong before they’ll help you get what you need? A lot of conflict, that’s what!

So, tell me, how much do you love the reluctant hero or heroine? Do you have a favorite? I’d love to know! One lucky commenter will receive Living Dangerously, the fourth book in the Adrenaline Highs series.

Against the Wall excerpt:

(I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at the first kiss. Shh…don’t tell.)

Uh, oh. Not a good thought. Not good the way he stared down at her either. His gaze sizzled, stoked the heat that crept up her body and flushed her cheeks a second time.

She should move her head down instead of craning to look at him. Standing this way gave him a target and he clearly had a target since his gaze was still fastened on her mouth as his finger gently traced her lips.

“Uh…” She went dumb. Had nothing to say and forgot what she’d been about to say. “I, uh…”

Tanner bent his head a fraction and Jess’s heart thumped so hard it was bound to register on the Richter scale. He kept moving closer, his lips closing the gap between them and Jess didn’t pull away. Couldn’t. He gave her nothing but time to change her mind. Slow, slow, slow.

Back away, leave, don’t let him kiss you. But she didn’t budge.

Her eyes fluttered closed, his lips brushed hers and time stopped. He grazed her mouth, back and forth, barely a touch, as if were he to do more, everything would stop and the illusion would shatter. This had to be an illusion. Jess didn’t kiss ex-cons. She hardly kissed at all, couldn’t even remember the last time she’d been on a date.

The kiss beat any date-ender by miles and Jess didn’t pull away. She moved closer, nearly brought their bodies into contact, but not quite. He leaned down, put more pressure against her lips and Jess reciprocated, lifted onto her toes to fit better. They did fit. Perfectly. His lips molded to hers, firm but soft at the same time. She didn’t expect him to be tentative, she’d expected—

Boom.

He grabbed her, pulled her tightly against him and took her mouth hard. Drove his tongue past her teeth and filled her with himself. He tasted like the coffee they’d shared that morning. He tasted dangerous. With his arms wrapped around her so tight she couldn’t budge, didn’t try. She took his kiss, stunned at the ferocity, at his strength. At the obscene way he owned her.

She should be scared. She should be fighting to get free, struggling to get out of his bear-like grasp. Instead, heat spread through her body. Chills streaked down her back. She wanted to feel the muscles of his arms, his back, wanted to touch any part of him, but he’d grabbed her, wrapped his arms around her and pinned her, holding her tight as if she might run otherwise. His mouth continued to take hers. His tongue stroked roughly around hers, deeply into her mouth as if he couldn’t control the motion, as if he had never experienced it.

At least not in seven years.

The shockingly hard ridge of his erection burned against her stomach. A flare of panic spiked in Jess’s chest. Just as quickly as it did, Tanner let go. She stumbled backwards and gasped for air, her whole body awash in tingles.

His eyes were wild, stunned, so dark she couldn’t tell where the pupil ended and the iris began. He stepped back, leaned his head against the door and shut his eyes. “Jesus.” Wiping a hand down his face, he shook his head. “I’m…I didn’t mean…” He opened his eyes, watched her. “I won’t do that again. I’m sor—I won’t do it again.” He opened the door and left her alone, with her lips throbbing, stinging from his kiss, and her body overheated from his touch.

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Dee J. Adams writes the Adrenaline Highs for Carina Press and Against the Wall, is the first in her new High Stakes series. It is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, and other e-book retailers.

You can find all the books in her Adrenaline Highs series: Dangerous Race, Danger Zone, Dangerously Close, and Living Dangerously at CarinaPress.com, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible and many other online booksellers.

Find the author online: website | blog | goodreads | twitter | facebook

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Title: Against the Wall
Series: High Stakes, Book 1
Author: Dee J. Adams
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Published: June  2013

Tanner Bryant wants revenge. After spending seven long years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, he’s determined to even the score with the man who put him there. The only thing in his way is a slip of a girl in a big ass bind. Jess St. John needs eight million dollars or her kidnapped family will die. Caught in a war between the mob and her boss, a corrupt film producer, she will stop at nothing to get the job done. In a race against the clock, and a deal with the devil, Jess forms an unwilling partnership with Tanner to help find and free her family before it’s too late. In return, she’ll look the other way when her boss goes permanently missing. It soon becomes apparent that Tanner has more honor than he wants to admit and Jess finds herself falling for the gentle man beneath the rough exterior. But love and revenge run a close race and when push comes to shove, Tanner has to decide which one is more important.

 

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Thanks to Dee J. Adams, one lucky winner will receive an ebook copy of Living Dangerously. Good luck to all who enter!

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