Ecstasy (A Contemporary Romance) (17 page)

She stared at him for a long moment, hail
hammering between them, around them, onto them. Chase found himself
holding his breath, waiting for her decision. It shouldn’t matter
to him what she decided.

But, for some strange reason, it did.

...Excerpt from THE LOOK OF LOVE by Bella
Andre ©2011.

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The Look of
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FROM THIS MOMENT ON

Marcus & Nicola ~ The Sullivans #2

© 2011 Bella Andre

For thirty-six years, Marcus Sullivan has
been the responsible older brother, stepping in to take care of his
seven siblings after their father died when they were children. But
when the perfectly ordered future he's planned for himself turns
out to be nothing but a lie, Marcus needs one reckless night to
shake free from it all.

Nicola Harding is known throughout the world
by only one name - Nico - for her catchy, sensual pop songs. Only,
what no one knows about the twenty-five year old singer is that her
sex-kitten image is totally false. After a terrible betrayal by a
man who loved fame far more than he ever loved her, she vows not to
let anyone else get close enough to find out who she really is...or
hurt her again. Especially not the gorgeous stranger she meets at a
nightclub, even though the hunger - and the sinful promises - in
his dark eyes make her want to spill all her secrets.

One night is all Nicola and Marcus agree to
share with each other. But nothing goes as they plan when instead
of simply tangling limbs, they find a deeper connection than either
of them could have anticipated. And even though they both try to
fight it, growing emotions - and sizzling attraction - keep drawing
them closer together.

Close enough for them to wonder if stealing
one more secret moment together can ever be enough?

Enjoy the following excerpt for
FROM THIS MOMENT ON
...

Marcus Sullivan was known for his patience.
After helping to raise his seven siblings, he’d learned to wait out
tantrums, fistfights, even tears.

But tonight, he was all out of patience.

He’d come to the club tonight to find a
woman, to proposition her, to claim her for one no-holds-barred
night, but he’d been watching the dancers for long enough to know
that he wasn’t going to take a single one of them to bed. None of
the women who’d walked in through the thick red curtain in the past
thirty minutes had been contenders, either.

Until, suddenly, the curtain parted…and she
walked in.

Marcus felt like a fist had slammed straight
into his gut.

The woman was young, mid-twenties probably,
and so beautiful it almost hurt to look at her. Her black leather
dress left nothing to his imagination, fitting her like a second
skin with wide cut-outs that ran down the side of her insane
curves.

She was the one.

As she stood in the doorway and slowly
scanned the crowd, every eye in the room was on her. She was
magnetic, had that special something that made it impossible to
pull your eyes away from her.

And then her eyes met his, illuminated by a
beam of light in the dark room, and although Marcus hadn’t drunk
nearly enough at Chase’s engagement party to be unsteady on his
feet, one look at those clear blue eyes had him fighting for
balance.

What was wrong with him?

He needed to remember, at all times, what
tonight was about. Pleasure. Not emotion. Not a relationship. It
was okay for certain parts of his body below the waist to react
like a match had been lit from nothing more than looking at the
woman. Everything else was off-limits. He wasn’t looking for a
woman to respect.

And he definitely wasn’t going to fall in
love.

The dangerous curves began to shift beneath
the thin layer of leather as she moved straight toward him, never
once breaking stride, even in impossibly high heels. Marcus
couldn’t miss the challenge in her gaze, a look that asked if he
was man enough to handle her.

He’d always liked his women tall and slim,
not barely coming up to his chest like this one. A voice in his
head told him she was way too young for him, young enough that if
this were any other night, he’d walk away from her now.

But he wasn’t planning on walking away from
whatever this woman offered. Not until first light.

And definitely not until he’d had his fill of
those curves.

...FROM THIS MOMENT ON excerpt by Bella
Andre
©
2011.

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FROM THIS MOMENT
ON

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CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE

Gabe & Megan – The Sullivans #3

© 2011 Bella Andre

Gabe Sullivan risks his life every day as a
firefighter in San Francisco. But after learning a brutal lesson
about professional boundaries, he knows better than to risk his
heart to his fire victims ever again. Especially the brave mother
and daughter he saved from a deadly apartment fire...and can't stop
thinking about.

Megan Harris knows she owes the heroic
firefighter everything for running into a burning building to save
her and her seven-year-old daughter. Everything except her heart.
Because after losing her navy pilot husband five years ago, she has
vowed to never suffer through loving - and losing - a man with a
dangerous job again.

Only, when Gabe and Megan meet again and
uncontrollable flames of desire ignite between them, how can he
possibly ignore her courage, determination, and beauty? And how can
she deny not only his strong bond with her daughter…but the way his
sweetly sensual kisses are challenging her to risk everything she’s
been guarding for so long?

This winter, if one - or both - of them
aren’t careful, they just might end up falling in love.

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FALLING IN LOVE...

Gabe Sullivan’s captain, Todd, stepped into
the room.

“How’re you feeling, Gabe?”

“Good, Captain.”

He moved to sit up straighter on the bed and
Todd shook his head. “You’re fine just like that. I know your skull
must hurt like hell.” He nodded back to the doorway. “Are you ready
to see Ms. Harris and her daughter, Summer?”

No,
he thought,
he
’d be
better off never seeing those eyes again.

He’d thought about Megan and her daughter one
too many times for comfort. Not just because he was reviewing the
rescue, trying to look for what he could have done differently, to
have gotten them out faster and more safely—but because he hadn’t
been able to forget her strength, how hard she’d fought to stay
conscious, and what a fighter she’d been every single second of the
harrowing journey from her burning apartment.

Still, he understood that fire victims often
felt compelled to say thank you to the men who had saved them.
Especially in a case like this, where they’d just barely held death
at bay.

“Sure.” He began to nod, but a sharp shooting
pain stopped him halfway into the movement.

Catching his grimace, Todd said, “I’ll ask
Megan and her daughter to come back later.”

Her name fit her, Gabe had found himself
thinking one too many times.
Megan
was pretty and strong all
at the same time. It would be better to think of her as Ms. Harris.
Although, he had to wonder, was there a husband? And if so, where
had he been during the fire and why wasn’t he here with them
now?

“No,” he said, “it’ll be better if I see them
now.”

She’d say thank you, he’d tell her he was
happy to see her and her daughter doing so well, and that would be
that. No more being haunted by her eyes, by the surprising strength
she’d shown him as she’d crawled on the floor of her apartment and
down the stairs.

A couple of minutes later, Todd walked back
in with the mother and daughter. Ignoring the pain in his head,
Gabe sat up higher and forced a smile on his face.

And then, his eyes locked with Megan’s and
his smile froze in place.

My God
, he found himself thinking
before he could shove the thought away,
she’s beautiful.

The last time he’d seen her face it had been
through a thick haze of dark smoke and the knowledge that one wrong
move meant their lives were over. Her eyes were just as big and
pretty, her limbs looked as lean and strong as they had when he’d
been helping to move her along the floor, but now he could see the
softness in her, the sweet curves of her breasts and hips in her
T-shirt and jeans. He couldn’t stop staring at the startling green
of her eyes, the silky dark hair falling across her shoulders, and
the way her pretty young daughter was a carbon copy of her, the
only difference their hair color, one dark, one light.

She seemed just as stunned as he and for a
long moment, the two of them just stared at each other in silence
until her daughter ran over to him and threw her arms around
him.

...Excerpt from CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE by
Bella Andre ©2011.

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CAN'T HELP FALLING IN
LOVE

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The following Bella Andre titles are also
available in electronic format.

The Sullivans series

The Look of
Love

From This Moment
On

Can’t Help Falling In
Love

I Only Have Eyes For
You

If You Were Mine (coming Summer 2012!)

Bad Boys of Football series

Game For
Love

Game For
Seduction

Game For
Anything

Take Me series

Love Me

Take Me

Stand-alone Novels

Candy
Store

Ecstasy

Red Hot
Reunion

Tempt Me,
Taste Me, Touch Me

Hotshot Firefighter series

Wild
Heat

Hot As
Sin

Never Too
Hot

Bella Andre has always been a writer. Songs
came first, and then non-fiction books, but as soon as she started
writing her first romance novel, she knew she'd found her perfect
career. Known for "sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady
romance" (Publisher's Weekly) about sizzling alpha heroes and the
strong women they'll love forever, many of her 20+ titles have
appeared on Top 20 bestseller lists, including THE LOOK OF LOVE
(The Sullivans #1), FROM THIS MOMENT ON (The Sullivans #2), CAN’T
HELP FALLING IN LOVE (The Sullivans #3), GAME FOR LOVE (Bad Boys of
Football #3), CANDY STORE, and LOVE ME.

Her books have been Cosmopolitan Magazine Red
Hot Reads twice (GAME FOR ANYTHING and WILD HEAT) and have been
translated into German, Thai, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French,
Portuguese and Ukrainian. NEVER TOO HOT won the Award of Excellence
in 2011. The Washington Post has called her “One of the top digital
writers in America” and she has been featured on NPR, Forbes.com
and in The Wall Street Journal.

If not behind her computer, you can find her
reading her favorite authors, hiking, knitting, or laughing.
Married with two children, Bella splits her time between the
Northern California wine country and a 100 year old log cabin in
the Adirondacks.

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