WELCOME
TO TEMPTATION
by
Charlotte Hughes
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BLURB:
With
a hurricane closing in on Temptation, Louisiana, Michelle Thurston
fails to convince her stubborn grandmother to leave her home on the
bayou. Sheriff Gator Landry arrives by boat, hell-bent on forcing the
elderly recluse to evacuate. He is stunned to find Michelle, who was
just 16 years old when he courted her one steamy summer.
Now,
at 32, Michelle comes face-to-face with the man whose kisses tempted
her to lose control, only this time there is no place to run.
Although Gator is not about to leave the two women defenseless,
Michelle can’t help but wonder if he is more dangerous to her than
anything the storm can do.
“We
need to get out of these wet things,” Michelle said, crossing her
arms in front of her in an attempt to hide herself. She shivered as
Gator continued to stare. He still had the power to make her body go
berserk when he looked at her that way. Those glittering black eyes
didn’t miss a thing. It was as though he were capable of seeing
past flesh and bone to her inner workings, all of which shook at the
moment as violently as the tree limbs outside the window. She was
certain he knew what that look did to her. He had it down to an art.
And if it had had a powerful effect on her at sixteen, it was doubly
so now at thirty-two.
“That’s
the best idea I've heard all day," Gator said, shrugging out of
his shirt. He mopped his brow and chest with it and ran it across the
back of his neck.
Michelle
wondered if he had any idea how sensual that simple act was. He was
all rippling muscles and taut flesh. Goose pimples stood out on his
shoulders and his nipples puckered from the chill in the room. His
arms were lean and as brown as the rest of him. The room seemed to
shrink to the size of a shoe box. Michelle had seen enough male
bodies in her job to know that the one before her was one of the best
she’d ever laid eyes on.
Gator
would have had to be blind not to notice her perusal. The grin he
shot her was brazen. “Like what you see, Mic?”
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Charlotte
Hughes published her first category romance in 1987, a Bantam Books’
Loveswept, titled Too Many Husbands, which immediately shot to #1 on
the Waldenbooks Bestseller list. She went on to write almost thirty
books before the line closed in 1998.
Although
Charlotte is widely known for her laugh-out-loud romantic comedies,
she went on to pen three Maggie-Award winning thrillers for Avon
Books in the late nineties, before resuming her first love, funny
stories about people falling in love. She thrilled readers with her
hilarious books, A New Attitude and Hot Shot, the latter of which won
the Waldenbooks Greatest Sales Growth Achievement in 2003.
Her
books received so many accolades that she was invited to co-author
the very popular Full House series with mega-star author Janet
Evanovich.
With
that series behind her, Charlotte began her own, starring
psychologist Kate Holly; What Looks Like Crazy, Nutcase, and High
Anxiety, creating a list of somewhat kooky but always loveable and
funny ensemble characters.
To keep
current with Charlotte and her projects, please sign up for her
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You can
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and follow
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