Melting
Shadows
Rhea
Rhodan
Genre: Romantic Suspense, with a
Fantasy twist
Publisher: Rhea Rhodan
Date of Publication: March 4,
2016
ISBN: 978-1523859375
ASIN: B01CEYVHGU
Page Count: 259 (Kindle)
Page Count: 342 (pb)
Word Count: 80K
Cover Artist: Fiona Jayde
Book Description:
When fantasy and reality collide,
only love can be believed.
Shattered by a brutal attack and
forced to flee, painfully withdrawn Dr. Prudence Marsh buries her emotions
under numbing logic. For years, her escapes to a fantasy world created to
survive her hellish past have been nothing more than a guilty pleasure. But
when the host of the safe house turns out to be a dead ringer for her dream
warrior, she fears she’s lost her precious mind along with everything else.
Ex-SEAL Max Delaney has been
known to dabble in a hot, delicious mess—or two, or three. He has no idea how
to handle a cold, sour one. Blackmailed into babysitting Dr. Marsh in his
hidden bunker while she finishes a top-secret project sucks. Until he falls for
her. Then it blows. Every clue Max unravels buys him more questions. Every step
forward lands him two steps back, flat on his ass.
Demons past, present, and future
haunt Max and Prudence as they stumble along the twisting path to love.
Merciless enemies and shifting alliances drive both to desperate measures,
tumbling them over the border between shadow and substance—where each must
choose what, and whom, to believe.
Excerpt:
He whispered
praise in her ear, “That’s it. Now don’t you feel better?”
She shivered in
response, though her hands at his back had warmed. He smiled into the fresh
scent of her hair and wrapped her more tightly in his arms. She was his now;
even if she didn’t know it yet.
With firm,
subtle pressure, he brought her head to rest on his shoulder. Her hands
tightened around him, then, finally, her body relaxed fully into his.
Her sigh was
what did him in, what scrambled his brain and sent the jolt to his heart, then
racing lower, hotter. He swallowed hard. Patience was suddenly a whole lot
scarcer than it had been a minute ago.
The Balconies.
Any one of the half dozen private patios facing the ocean would do. Each of the
double doors was chaperoned by a broad back discreetly turned from the couples
enjoying the seclusion they offered. It was one of the unique and best features
of the club.
With experienced
ease, he guided his plunder across the dance floor to the nearest unoccupied
one. “You’re a bit flushed. Would you like some ocean air? The view is great.”
About
the Author:
Award-winning author Rhea Rhodan
resides in Minnetonka, Minnesota. She’s been telling herself stories since long
before she learned to write. She attended the University of Minnesota with a
focus on Journalism, then Brown Institute for Broadcast Journalism. After many
adventures, misadventures, and a couple of short marriages, she found the love
of her life in Regensburg, Germany, and has been living happily ever after
since.
She journaled those adventures
extensively (some might say rabidly) beginning in middle school, but didn't
combine her writing and story-telling until several years ago, when one of the
stories grabbed her by the throat and shook her like a rag doll until she gave
in and wrote it. Having tasted freedom, her muse refuses to return to the
confines of her head, and has successfully turned the tables, keeping her at
the keyboard to appease it.
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