Jesse laughed out loud.
Stan glanced up at the moon, emerging again from the clouds. “Secrets aren’t always bad,” he said.
“Yours was a whopper,” Jesse admitted.
Stan’s grin widened. He stretched his shoulders and his thick neck, then gave a bark of impending transformation, heralded by a disgusting popping sound from the vicinity of his spine. He asked gruffly, “Does he still wear those poofy shirts?”
Then he was gone …
And another body, the epitome of magnificent mysteries … golden hair gleaming in the moonlight like a halo … eyes the color of a Slovenian lake … fangs hinting at his own special kind of lust, and just now tipped in red … pushed her into the side of the closest building, pressed his body suggestively to hers … and smiled.
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First published in Great Britain 2011
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of Harlequin (UK) Limited,
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© Linda Thomas-Sundstrom 2011
ISBN: 978-1-408-92884-4
Table of Contents
Cover
Excerpt
About the Author
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Ninteen
Chapter Twnety
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Copyright
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