Blurb:
Kelly McCullough has
always gotten every woman he’s wanted. Of all the McCullough men, his charm and
magnetism is unmatched. However, there is one woman he cannot have.
Ashlynn Fisher is
everything Kelly McCullough is not. She is quiet, shy, and—above all—virginal.
After losing her heart to Kelly in grade school, no other man compares. Paths
cross and temperance is put to the test when Ashlynn decides it’s time for her
to find love. Kelly offers Center County’s sweetest brown-eyed girl all the
guidance he can, but finds himself in a situation he never expected to face.
Through chaste kisses and stolen secrets, his virility is tested and he must
learn what love truly means as his selfish ways are transformed in the face of
a selfless need to give her everything she wants.
Title: CHASTE {McCullough Mountain 3}
Author: Lydia Michaels
Genre: Erotic Romance
Heat Level: Romance (graphic)
Book Length: 384 pages
Date of Publication: February 3, 2014
(Available on Amazon, B&N, and other retailer sites by 2/12/14)
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Excerpt:
His body nudged closer. She
sucked in a breath and tried to focus on speaking, but the press of him was incredibly
distracting.
“That’s the…um…” She caught
her breath. “Um…” Her eyes shut. What was the question? “I can’t concentrate
when you touch me,” she blurted.
He didn’t move. His breath
tickled the back of her neck, as the soft press of his tongue traced over the
curve leading to her shoulder. Her spine stretched as her skin drew tight. His
lips made a smooching sound. “Mmm, you taste like hard work and sunshine.”
“Kelly…” she rasped, silently
panting. Her insides vibrated so rapidly she worried she’d shatter into a
thousand pieces of flesh and bones. Never had anyone aroused her the way he
did.
He nuzzled her ear with his
nose. “Have I ever told you how sexy you are? The glasses make me crazy. And I
love the way your hair looks different every day. You remind me of a little
garden nymph.” The weight of his palms closed over her baggy overalls, low on
her hips, and she grew aware of every part of her body.
His lips sealed over her ear
and she quivered, her body tightening and trembling. Her hands gripped the edge
of the worktable with her leather-clad fingers, her knees turning unstable, as
he proceeded to do wonderful things to her earlobe.
It amazed her that he found
her hair nice. She’d cut it off after she graduated, finding the long locks
dreadfully annoying. When her hair had been long it was always in her face. And
she wore glasses because contacts were too much trouble with the dust from the
gardens.
Oh my goodness! Is that
his tongue in my ear?
Her knees buckled as he
kissed over her racing pulse. Strong fingers dug into her hips, massaging
beneath her overalls deep into her flesh. His hands had slipped into the gaping
sides of her clothes where her tank top met the waist of her panties. No one
had ever touched her so intimately.
“Let’s go inside,” he
whispered.
Somehow she managed to shake
her head. “I…I need to finish this.”
“Ashlynn…”
His mouth. He had a wicked
mouth. She formed some sort of response in her throat as the tip of his finger
toyed with the hem of her tank top next to her navel.
“Please…let me in,” he
whispered as his tongue traveled over the slope of her shoulder, each word an
erotic tattoo on her flesh.
Her feet shifted and his grip
tightened. She whimpered. “Kelly, please…”
His whisper had faded to a
breath of words. “I want you.”
Her hands closed over his,
tightening, stilling his progress. Those last uttered words returned some of
her common sense. “If we go inside my work will never get done.”
His fingers squeezed. “Do you
know how many fantasies I’ve had about you? The things I could do to you
without breaking your vow…” His touch never traveled, but the teasing chills
escaping his whirling fingers seemed to go right to her breasts.
Baiting temptation, she
breathed out a question she had no business asking. “Like what?”
“Mmm. I could spend days
stripping you, unveiling every bit of flesh, anointing each square inch of skin
with soft kisses. Only kissing, Ashlynn, but I’d kiss you everywhere.”
Holy Hannah, she needed to
put some space between them. They hadn’t discussed boundaries and the line of
her virtue was becoming more blurred by the second. Her breath stuttered out of
her lungs as his mouth teased over her pulse. She wanted to know what such
kisses would feel like, but feared her control would break.
“No naked.” Incapable of forming
complete sentences, it was the best she could do.
“Touching?” he whispered.
Oh, God. She wanted to feel
his touch, know what it was to be caressed by those strong fingers holding her
now. She whimpered. Her promise had never been this difficult. There had never
been such a temptation as Kelly and, now, with his hands playing over untried
parts of her body, came a nagging desire for relief. “I should say no.”
“But?”
“Maybe.”
His front pressed into her
bottom and her neck gave out, drooping her head to his broad shoulder. He
growled and his mouth sealed to her throat, his hand sifting under the front of
her overalls and holding her stomach, fingers splayed wide, pressing her into
his hard form. “So fucking sexy, Ashlynn.”
“Kelly…”
“I want to go inside.”
He was already inside, inside
of her head, in her blood, thrumming through her veins, inside every breath
filling her lungs. She worried she could die from such over stimulation. She’d
never survive sex, at least not with this man. But that was off the table.
Her muscles contracted and
strange urges had her body fluttering in unfamiliar ways. It was too much. “No
more,” she pleaded and he froze.
It took him a second to
answer. “Okay.”
His hand slithered out from
under her overalls and he stepped away. She caught her breath and wiped the
back of her glove over her heated cheek. She was probably as red as a bell
pepper.
She desperately searched for
her bearings, but Kelly seemed fine. From the corner of her eye, she watched
him slip his gloves back on and pick up the sanding block as she quietly
panted. The longing inside of her had transformed into a painful ache. Her
throat was thirsty, parched. Yet water did nothing to quench her yearning.
Kelly worked with precision
and efficiency. Her concentration was crap. Every move she made was deliberate
and clumsy, but Kelly proved to be a master carpenter. She suspected he wanted
to be done with the chore and that scared her, because the moment they finished
she’d have to come up with another distraction.
The echo of the nail
hammering into the wood rattled through the air. “How far can we go, Ashlynn?”
Her hand stilled. Her gaze
focused on the head of the nail she’d been about to hammer into the wood.
Swallowing repetitively, she struggled to find the honest answer, but the truth
seemed to abandon her in that moment. “I don’t know.”
Author Bio:
Award winning author, Lydia
Michaels, writes all forms of hot romance. She presses the bounds of love and
surprises readers just when they assume they have her stories figured out. From
Amish vampyres, to wild Irishmen, to broken heroes, and heroines no man can
match, Lydia takes readers on an emotional journey of the heart, mind, and soul
with every story she pens. Her books are intellectual, erotic, haunting, always
centered on love.
Lydia Michaels loves to hear
from readers! She can be contacted by email at Lydia@LydiaMichaels.org
Webpage: www.LydiaMichaels.org
Other Titles by Lydia Michaels:
Falling In
Breaking Out
Coming Home
Sacred Waters
Skin
Chaste
Faking It
Forsaking Truth
As Tears Go By
Simple Man
Breaking Perfect
White Chocolate
All 4 You
To Catch a Wolfe
Chasing Feathers
Called to Order
Calling for a Miracle
Destiny Calls
Call Her Mine
