by L. V. Lewis
The television cameras were a little intimidating, but Mia tried to ignore them the best she could.
All through the stands were multitudes of people holding flags and signs for their country, along with matching clothes. Brazil’s flag was everywhere, too. One of the athletes participating was from her country, but out of everyone competing, Gunnar was the man she focused on.
He wore his country’s colors of red, white, and blue with pride, and the confidence surrounded him like it was invisible armor shielding him for battle.
Mia said a silent prayer of apology to her country, but there was no one she wanted to root for more than him. She hoped it was a forgivable offense supporting Gunnar. Brazil was known for its passionate people, and that gave her confidence and pride as she kept her eyes on him.
Seeing all of his competition go first made her restless. The first few athletes failed to clear the bar, and two had knocked it over. What if Gunnar couldn’t get over that height?
No, she couldn’t think of anything negative stopping him from reaching that goal. He was stronger and faster than those who failed.
Mia leaned forward in her seat as Gunnar took the long pole to his starting position. Her palms sweated as she gripped the rail, and she rubbed them together and gripped it again.
While she had seen Gunnar do this on the internet, and several times that day until his competition had fallen, this would be her first opportunity to see his live performance of a record-breaking vault. Part of her wanted to close her eyes until he finished, but she refused to miss seeing him work in the sport he was made for, one that was a part of the biggest global competition possible.
She inhaled as he ran and thought of how he described it to her the night before. He called it a split second of heaven. She zoned in on that beautiful image as he planted the pole in the ground and soared up in the air.
In those few seconds, she stopped breathing all together. When he cleared the bar and went through the air, time stopped for her. She was right there with him, feeling what he was experiencing as he moved. She knew it only lasted for a brief moment, but she savored the flight as if she vaulted through the air herself.
After he landed on the mat, Mia jumped up from her seat as the people around her applauded. There was no way she could sit still, even if she tried to. She was thankful his parents had stood up with her to cheer for their son.
It took forever for his name to appear on the leader board, but when it did, his full name glowed there in first place as the announcers spoke the same out loud. He won the gold medal, what he’d spent most of his years training for, and she reveled in the victory with him as he fell to his knees. She didn’t see him as some famous track star or a gold-winning Olympian. Mia saw Gunnar Kingsley for who he was to her: the man she loved.
She wanted to go to him and tell him that and more, but she couldn’t move from where she stood. He made his way past the athletes congratulating him and patting him on the back until he came up to them. He hugged his parents before making his way over to her.
Mia leaned over the banister and hugged him with everything inside of her, all the years of caring for him and sharing her life with him breaking through in that one loving embrace. She couldn’t speak, because she knew she’d cry, but as she looked into his eyes she saw so much carnal promise in them as she felt his lips graze her ear.
“That run was for you, Mia,” he whispered. “All for you.”
Continue the Olympic Medal Romance Series in book two, Streaking for Silver.
COMING AUGUST 8, 2016
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Growing up, L.V. Lewis wanted to be an internationally known rock star, but unfortunately, lived in the wrong part of the country to pursue that career (and neither American Idol nor The Voice were available then). An early love for the written word gave her the plan B she sought. Now she pens romance novels that let her live vicariously through rock stars, Olympic athletes, witches and other fascinating archetypes she’s fortunate enough to create.
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BACKLIST TITLES BY L.V. LEWIS
Fifty Shades of Jungle Fever © 2012
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY to the second power meets Keisha and Jada from the Block.
If you’ve wondered how an ethnic girl from the hood might’ve handled an arrangement with an experienced white Dominant, this is your book. If you’d like to see the sexiest TWIN DOMS in a contemporary romance series in interracial relationships, this is most definitely your book.
Aspiring recording studio owners, Keisha Beale and Jada Jameson, score a rare meeting with venture capitalist Tristan White and are thrust into a world beyond their wildest imaginations.
Street-wise Keisha is startled to realize she wants this rich white man, despite the certainty that he is out of her league. Unable to resist Keisha’s sassy, irreverent, and fiercely independent spirit, Tristan knew from day one he wanted her, too—as his first African American submissive.
Upper Class Jada of the Springfield Jamesons has traveled in almost the same circles as the White brothers, and has had a secret crush on Nathan White, the point guard for the Chicago Bulls, for quite some time.
Both brothers have succumbed to jungle fever and want a little coffee in their cream.
Lured by Tristan White and his offer of fronting the capital for her business in exchange for kinky sex, Keisha finds herself with no other option. Keisha is also tortured by a demons from her past, and her inability to come to terms with them threatens to undermine the future of her business and her tumultuous, unconventional relationship with Tristan White.
Erotic, amusing, and in places hilarious, the Ghetto Girl Erotica Trilogy is a parody with a unique take on a Fifty Shades-type story that will take you even further into the BDSM world, and promises to make the vanilla original Fifty Shades Blacker.
Exit Strategy © 2013
The Highly Anticipated Follow-up in the Ghetto Girl Romance Quadrilogy!
Ex*it Strat*e*gy (noun) 1. A preplanned means of extricating oneself from a situation that is likely to become difficult or unpleasant. 2. The method by which a venture capitalist or business owner intends to get out of an investment that he or she has made in the past.
Will Keisha and Tristan exercise their elaborate EXIT STRATEGY and end their unorthodox arrangement?
Assailed by demons she thought she had conquered, Keisha Beale has uttered the words to end her tumultuous relationship with Tristan White. Separated, they grapple for a time with their personal demons. However, when their lives apart become unbearable, a credible threat brings them back together prematurely.
As they seek to discover who is responsible for the threats, several seemingly unrelated incidents throw them into a tailspin. Will Keisha’s youthful indiscretions or Tristan’s un-reconciled feelings for an ex derail their tenuous arrangement?
In the meantime, trouble in Nathan and Jada’s paradise send dramatic ripples that hint of future difficulties in the idyllic pairing.
Nothing Ventured...
Tristan uses his vast wealth and connections to correct a gross miscarriage of justice, while Keisha makes herself utterly vulnerable to Tristan and fears he has chosen to exercise his own exit strategy.
...Nothing Gained!
Will this be the end of the indecent proposal that became a fairy tale? Or will Keisha and Tristan reveal the trauma from their pasts so they may heal and completely embrace their relationship?
Sensual, suspenseful, and still infused with the riotous levity of Triple-G and Fairy Hoochie Mama, the Ghetto Girl Romance Quadrilogy departs from full parody w
ith a distinctive take on love, loyalty, sacrifice, redemption, and acceptance.
Redeeming the Amazon © 2013
Most come to The Beaudelaire Hotel a select few times a year merely to indulge in sexual fantasy, but the stakes are higher for Karen Freeman and Paul Beaudelaire this New Year’s weekend. Karen is nine years post-op from a double mastectomy, and her vain ex-husband hadn’t agreed with her decision to remove her remaining good breast or to eschew reconstruction. In the end, that decision cost her. She lost her marriage, but she’s certain the move has prolonged her life.
Returning to a normal dating and sex life has been difficult. She hasn’t made love fully unclothed since the demise of her marriage, and her most significant relationship occurred right after her surgery. When she was still recuperating, she had an affair of the heart with a Marine amputee who’d also been her Ph.D. classmate.
Paul Beaudelaire once led a charmed life as a ladies’ man who had his pick of women in the upper echelons of New Orleans society. He’d been satisfied to continue in that vein, until a Marine recruiter wooed him from LSU with tales of valor, courage, and commitment. His career in the corps cut short by the loss of his left leg, Paul returned to New Orleans with the best prosthesis Johns Hopkins orthopedics experts could fit him with. The problem was, he’d left his heart in Baltimore with a beautiful former model, whose crippled marriage was the only deterrent to his waning honor.
Will this fantasy weekend at his Uncle Henri’s hotel give him a second chance with his contemporary Amazon, or will her fear of rejection be a barrier to their reconnection?
Christmas With The White Brothers © 2014
Keisha Beale has an 'arrangement' with one of the richest men in Chicago, who treats her like a queen, but she wants normalcy for the holidays. Well, as much normal as you can get from a man like Tristan White, who has everything and doesn't think love is something he needs.
Jada Jameson's dark past may be surprising to some considering the family she comes from. Nathan White wants her in every way a man wants a woman, but she needs hardcore kink, and the pace at which their relationship is progressing has left her wanting more.
Will the ladies of Kente Studio Records get everything they want from their first Christmas with the White brothers?
Rekindling The Flame © 2015
Sabine Beaudelaire returns to her hometown of New Orleans to the bedside of her favorite uncle, Sebastian Beaudelaire, who’s been in a horrific accident and lies comatose at a local hospital. Estranged for six months from her fiancé of eight years, she still hopes for reconciliation. Enter a gorgeous man she affectionately dubs “Hot IT Guy”, whose sex appeal—and open season at her family’s secret sex lair—fills her head with thoughts of propositioning a man for the first time.
When it becomes apparent she’s lost the love of her life to a more accommodating woman poised to give him everything he desires, Sabine’s hopes are shattered. With career benchmarks looming, Sabine is fulfilled by her work but lacking a love to call her own, a situation which Hot IT Guy, aka Xander “Fish” Fishbourne is eager to remedy.
Is it by coincidence or by design that Xander, her protective older brother’s high school friend who once admired her from afar, becomes her guest at the Den of Sin? Who cares? Her dormant libido needs a serious kickstart since she and her fiancé called it quits. But will this weekend of sexual freedom rekindle an old flame, or will it further complicate her already complicated life?
Rekindling the Flame is a second chance romance bringing an alpha hero back together with a woman he wanted before any other, and a heroine whose dominating older brothers shielded her from every man's advances. Now, it’s The Beaudelaire Big Easy Luau, a Den of Sin event where long held fantasies are made to be acted upon.
The Venture Capitalist © 2015
Tristan White, the CEO of a multibillion-dollar venture capital firm, has every material thing he could ask for. The loss of his mother and a tragedy involving a dear friend has left him unable to form lasting intimate relationships. Even the alternative lifestyle he adopted shortly before entering college to help him cope with the trauma has become less than fulfilling for him in the last year.
When the alluring Keisha Beale breezes into his life seeking startup capital for her record store and studio, his first inclination is to turn her down. But something about the captivating beauty stirs his dormant libido. Mixing business with pleasure ended in tragedy for him once, so he knows he has to tread carefully.
Tristan always builds an exit strategy into every entanglement, but it's Keisha who severs their arrangement by uttering her safe word.
European Tour © 2016
Broken. Guilt-ridden. Ready to start over.
Brody Kent walked away from the pinnacle of rock superstardom and never looked back. Financially, he never has to work again, but takes jobs as a personal assistant to keep his mind—and other things—busy. The women he works for always want something, and he's more than willing to help. But when he's sent to work for a pop princess, Brody will do anything to make her happy—even if it means admitting the ugly truth about his past.
Smothered. Talented. Ready to start her life.
Successful pop star, Skylar Samuelson is about to embark upon the turning point of her career—a summer tour in Europe. Her manager mother has promised to pull back and allow her full reign of the overseas tour. When Brody Kent becomes her new assistant, Skylar can't deny the attraction. He's perfect. Everything she's ever wanted. But Brody's hiding something and the truth may break her. If someone else doesn't break her first...
Lies. Betrayal. And the truth that could ruin them all.
The Caster’s Canticle © 2016
When hopelessness and lust collides, how does one give life to a heart that sings to you like no other?
Disillusioned by his own kind and living among humans, powerful warlock Stellan Kierkegaard encounters his foretold soulmate in the ailing Leilani Gibson.
Together, they’re prophesied to knit two dark and light covens to lead the Caster world. Yet how can this be when she is, by every indication, mortal?
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