Sweet Seduction Secrets (Sweet Seduction, Book 8): A Love At First Sight Romantic Suspense Series
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I felt it all.
This man who made me feel. Who caught me when I fell. Who loved me when I was barely whole enough to be loved. He saw through it all. He saw me. He loved me, in spite of it all.
Or maybe, because of it.
Breathless, we pulled apart, just staring at each other, as if we couldn’t tear ourselves apart.
And the words just came out.
Not planned, but very much wanted.
Foreign, but feeling so very right.
I never knew I could feel this way, want this. Need it.
But there you are.
“Marry me,” I said softly. He stilled.
“Charlie.” My name was nothing more than a whisper.
“This is me catching you, Stalker.” This is me feeling. “Marry me.”
He looked down at me as if I was a precious jewel. As if I was something to covet and desire. Something priceless and unobtainable. Something he’d wanted for so long and thought he’d never truly have.
“Marry me,” I said, my heart damn near bursting out of my chest, the words getting stuck inside my throat. The world suddenly so bright and vibrant, and this man standing before me the centre of it all.
“Say it again,” he murmured, his arms bands of steel around my body.
“Marry me.”
The world stilled.
Then, “Yes, firecracker,” he whispered huskily. “I’ll marry you.”
Every star in the universe burst apart inside me. Filled me up with so much emotion I threatened to come apart.
But Adam caught me. Like he’d always caught me. Like he always would.
And instead I danced in the shower of sparks.
I embraced every single emotion.
I relished what I was feeling.
I was me. I was free. And I felt it all.
Another Message From The Author
There are two words I will never forget my husband saying to me. Two words that when life gets hard, or I’m feeling a little down, keep popping back into my head. Every single story I’ve written, I’ve thought of those words at one time. So, of course, they had to appear in the final book of Sweet Seduction.
Not every romance needs these words, but for me, for reasons I shan’t bore you with here, they meant everything.
“Marry me,” he said. Just like that. So easy.
And yet they are the words I remember most. The moment I constantly think back on. The one point in my life where I can truly say it all began.
Writing Charlie and Adam’s “Marry me” moment brought it all back to me. For them it was also something so precious and so very real. Something they both thought they’d never have.
It’s nice to have been able to give it to them.
And, just as an aside, Sweet Seduction Secrets was released on February 14th, Valentine’s Day, in a Leap Year, and you all know what that means… Charlie got it right!
So, this is it. The end, my friends. Sweet Seduction has been a blast; a little more death defying than my romance, but often just as sweet. But as much as I am pleased to see all the main characters settled, I’m also sad to say goodbye. So, watch this space. I could return to Sweet Seduction. I might just write a novella sequel so we can all catch up with our favourite ASI men.
What do you think? Sound like a good plan?
In the meantime, I have devised a way to stay in touch with some of them. First and foremost, and already out there, the H.E.A.T. series; a spin-off crime-thriller romance revolving around a specialist group of firefighters in the Hauraki Emergency Assistance Team. The first trilogy in the series is currently underway, where you can meet Lara Keen, a detective in the Criminal Investigations Bureau and her love interest, Damon Michaels, chief investigator of H.E.A.T.
But wait, there could even be more…
Charlie Downes came to me complete with a background and a world that existed in detail inside my mind. A world that tempted and shocked and also gave me goosebumps. A world I just had to delve into further and see where it led. It’s intriguing, dangerous, secretive, and not just a little seductive, but most importantly it’s fiction laced with a romance you can trust. A romance that was born from reality, making Charlie’s world, and those who traverse it, more real, more human, more dynamic. Just more. Keep an eye out for the Secret Cravings series, a romantic suspense where knowing his/her secret could get you killed.
I do love me a good romance story thick with action, tension and illicit risk.
Well, that’s it. (No, really this time!). And if you made it to book eight, thanks for sticking with Sweet Seduction right to the end.
You guys rock! I mean it. You can take that as being very real.
♥ Nicola
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