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Title: Burned by Passion
Author: Dez Burke
Genre: African American
Romance/Interracial Romance
Publisher: Pink Lotus Publishing,
Inc.
Release Date: Aug 8 2013
Blurb/Synopsis:
Even good girls make mistakes.
Kira was shocked to meet her
boss’s handsome, long-absent son and find him even more lethal in the flesh.
He’d always been just a face in a photo - and nothing had prepared her for the
way they clashed and burned when they finally met.
Blake Carter returned to America
for a reunion with a father he hadn’t seen since he was ten. But Blake had
never bargained for falling for his father’s sexy secretary, the beautiful and
impressionable Kira Taylor…
Blake caught one glimpse of the
gorgeous beauty from across the crowded room and felt the primal taste of
desire like he’d never known. The sparks were more antagonism than attraction
on her part as they collided over differences about the way he treated his
father. But Blake had very strong persuasive skills when it came to bringing
the vulnerable Kira to bend to his carnal passions…
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Author Information
Dez Burke grew up in rural Alabama and spent most summers
reading worn copies of her Grandmother's Harlequin Romances. Even as a young
girl, she noticed the absence of African American characters. So today, she
writes hot, steamy romance books featuring black women and gorgeous men of all
races.
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Excerpt
“Blake Carter! Wait up; I want a word with you!”
From behind him, Blake heard Kira call angrily to him but he
walked on, crossing the wide foyer and headed for the study wing of the ground
floor. He’d just about reached the right turn leading to his destination when
he felt her hand grab his shoulder. He let her jerk him forcefully round to
face her even as he suppressed his temper.
“I said, I want to speak to you,” Kira gritted out, glaring
up at him with those gorgeous brown eyes surrounded by thick, spiky lashes. He
was getting used to seeing the gleam of anger blazing back at him.
He quenched a smile. “I heard you, lady. I just can’t stand
to listen to another lecture right now.”
“Well, you’d better. Because I’m not backing down until I
let you know what an unfeeling, disrespectful brute you are.”
Blake’s lips tightened in anger at that. “Why? Because I let
him know he couldn’t push me around?”
“No. Because you displayed to the world how little respect
you have for your father. Those are his most important friends and associates
in there. And after he took all the trouble to put together such a nice welcome
party for you. How could you be such a-”
“Jerk?” Blake put in before she could find the word to
finish. “I wonder why it’s just my father’s feelings you seem so worried about.
What about mine, hmm? Do you have any idea how it feels when every time I try
to act civil he lets me see how much he enjoys controlling other people’s lives
- and without a care for what they really want? I don’t think you understand
what’s going on here, Kira,” he said dismissively.
His words seemed to calm her a little as she said with far
less venom, “Oh yes I do. I don’t think you realize how much he loves you. Yes,
he does try to stick his nose in sometimes. That’s how he is. You don’t know
how lucky you are to have a father even remotely concerned about your welfare.
Why, if I had someone like him for a father, I…” She stopped abruptly, her
voice choking as tears stung her eyes.
“Oh please,” Blake said cuttingly. “Do you really think I’ll
believe that all he is to you is some “father figure”? You must take me for a
fool to think I can’t see that you’re his pretty little plaything on top of
everything else.”
Kira’s eyes blazed with fury and she lashed out to slap him
but he easily grabbed her wrist. So she raised the other one and he caught that
too.
“Don’t even think about it,” Blake warned, jaw clenched. “Or
you’ll realize what a jerk I really am.”
Her big, brown eyes suddenly brimmed with tears, surprising
him. Her voice was filled with hurt when she finally choked out words. “How
dare you! You really don’t think much of
him – much less know him, if you think he’s capable of what you’re suggesting.”
Blake was staring fixedly down at her, at the tears
streaming down her beautiful face. Her gaze held anger and a look of injustice.
Damn; he hadn’t meant to be mean to her or make her cry. But she should have
known better than try to get in the middle of this. His family had issues no
one could even begin to understand. And that only made him madder.
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