BOOK: Burnt (Book One)
SERIES: Wild Flames
Series
AUTHOR: Bella Love-Wins
GENRE: Contemporary, New Adult
Romance
RELEASE DATE: February 7th,
2015
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SYNOPSIS
What happens when falling madly in
love leads to murder?
Tara and Kevin have been best
friends for as long as they can remember. When they begin to develop feelings
for each other, their relationship is challenged by more than their internal
struggle to hold onto the friendship.
Someone in their circle burns with
rage when he learns that the girl he's loved from afar has developed feelings
for another. What begins as a perceived betrayal soon becomes deadly. How this
predator chooses to deal with his jealousy will rock Tara and Kevin’s small
town to the core.
As Tara and Kevin continue to
nurture the wild flames of their blossoming relationship, a sadistic and
virtually unstoppable force is determined to destroy them and their new found
love by any means necessary.
PURCHASE
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EXCERPT
It was Saturday evening, and Tara
was torn.
She didn’t know if she could go out on
their movie night and act like
everything was normal. What bothered her
even more was she really was jealous
of Kevin and Amy going on a date, and she
had no reason to feel that way. She
finally picked up her cell phone and typed
in a text message to
Kevin.
Tara: Hey Kev, not feeling well. Just gonna stay home.
Maybe next
month.
She put her cell phone down and
stared at
it as if waiting for it to miraculously
chime to confirm he had left a reply.
After several minutes of sitting there and
seeing no response, she turned on
the television and unmuted it, then laid
back and sprawled out on the couch.
She was in lounge pants and a tank top,
already dressed for bed. The time alone
was good, although she was not looking
forward to hearing about his date. She
flipped through channels, until she came
across a station that just read
Breaking News. She turned it up, stopping
on the channel.
“Another grizzly murder has taken place today. We’re
reporting live on the corner of Broderick
and Schaeffer Street, where the body
of 23 year old Derek Jeffries was
discovered in the woods two hours ago. He was
reported missing forty-eight hours earlier.
There are no suspects, as of yet.
However, the police have asked the public
to come forward if they witnessed
anything. One eye witness has reported she
saw a man with a red hoodie and the
trim of a blue baseball cap coming out of
the woods, just an hour before the
body was discovered. The witness was not
able to recall any other information
about the identity of the possible suspect.
Reporting live, this is Parker
Jacobs.”
Tara turned off the television. She
couldn’t believe there was another murder,
and so soon. Their small town had
rarely experienced any violent crimes in
the twenty-two years she had grown up
there. In fact, she couldn’t recall a time
there was ever a killing. She heard
the doorbell and got up to answer it. When
she opened up the door, Kevin stood
gawking at her. He looked her up and down.
“It doesn’t appear you are ready to
go to
the
movies.”
“Didn’t you get the message? I’m not
going.
I sent you a text,” she replied, moving
away from the
door.
He stepped into the house.
“I got your message, but I didn’t
think you
were being serious. I know how much you
want to go to this movie. It’s a
romantic comedy…isn’t
it?”
She heaved a sigh. “Yes,
but…”
“You have no reason not to go.”
Again he
looked her up and down. “Other than the
fact you’re dressed for bed. But you
can fix that quickly. Come on, I want to
take you out.”
Tara groaned, frustrated.
“Whatever,” she said. “Give me ten
minutes.”
She hurried up the stairs and into
her
bedroom to look for something to wear. She
finally settled on a simple
University of Alaska t-shirt and a pair of
jean shorts. She put some lipstick
and mascara on, brushed her hair quickly,
and headed back
downstairs.
“So
how was your date yesterday?” she asked
with some sarcasm.
Kevin laughed, turning to her before
opening the front door.
“Tell me the truth. It really
bothered you,
didn’t it?”
Tara was thrown by his question. She
figured he’d leave well enough alone. She
looked at him in mild disdain,
rolling her eyes as she searched for an
answer.
“It didn’t bother me. I just…” She
paused,
knowing she wasn’t telling him the truth.
“Maybe it bothered me a little bit.”
She hesitated. “But, just a
little.”
He laughed. “I’ll take that.”
He waited on the porch for her to
lock up,
and put his arm over her shoulders as they
headed to his car.
“Let’s just put it this way. After
yesterday,
I’m sure Amy knows where we stand.” He
opened the door for her, and she met his
eyes.
“How so?” she asked,
smiling.
“It’s possible I might have
mentioned your
name a couple of times during the
conversation.”
“A couple?”
“Five…six times max, but that’s
all.”
She snickered, getting into the car.
She
felt relieved, but all the more curious to
hear how it went.
***
Sitting in the theatre next to Tara,
Kevin
found it difficult to ignore his feelings
for her. He regretted not telling her
how he felt. It probably wasn’t a good idea
to take her to a romantic comedy
movie. As the couple made out on the big
screen, he pictured them as the two in
the starring roles. He glanced at her out
of the corner of his eye, and could
see she was probably uncomfortable as
well.
At one point, he could swear she
groaned
next to him. Kevin perked up, now more
aware of his erection pressing against
his zipper. He shifted his body in his
chair, but nothing seemed to help. He
reached his hand into the popcorn
container, trying to take his mind off of it.
That didn’t help. His hand grazed across
Tara’s. He froze for a moment, and
then allowed his fingers to slowly stroke
hers. He was longing to touch her. He
hoped she felt the same
way.
His fingers traced hers up and down
and
when he looked over at her, their eyes met.
The moment their eyes connected, Tara
was torn from the trance. She pulled her
hand out of the bucket and turned back
to the movie screen. The moment was
lost.
Kevin tried to turn back to the screen
and
watch what was going on, but the couple was
now doing a lot more than kissing.
He moaned as he saw their foreplay, knowing
a sex scene was imminent. This was
going to be too much to take. He just knew
it. He shifted again in his seat,
accidentally brushing her leg. His hand
trailed down her bare leg and instead
of quickly pulling away, he allowed it to
linger. What was even more shocking
was she didn’t try to move
away.
As his hand slid back up her leg, he
let
his fingers slip past the seam of her
shorts, gently grazing her thigh. Their
eyes met and she made no attempt to stop
him. He drifted up a tad more, feeling
the silk of her panties and then falling
back. His hand pulled out from under
her shorts. His anxiety mounted, as did his
excitement. They never looked away
from each other. Kevin looked at her with
shock and pleasure as she moved her
hand toward him and cupped her hand on his
jeans, right over his throbbing
hardness. Kevin moaned, closing his eyes
and taking a deep breath. He opened
his eyes to find her staring at
him. She
appeared as lost in the moment as he
was.
DREAM
CAST
Kevin Crawford – Chris
Hemsworth
Tara Matthews – Jennifer
Lawrence
Jake Crawford – James
McAvoy
Amy – Alice
Eve
ABOUT Bella Love-Wins
Bella is a fairly new writer. She enjoys new adult and
contemporary romance based on her deepest
fantasies.
She is twenty-three years old and works by day as a
communications analyst in a small firm. She lives north of Toronto and dreams
of moving to the small town of Grimsby, Ontario one day. She loves pets and
cannot wait to have a Shih Tzu as a practice kid.
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