Today I have an excerpt and giveaway from a contemporary romance, "Toying with Temptation" by Madison Martin. Madison is also the author of Briefly Yours: An Erotic Romance Novel, Nights on Catalina, The Deep
End: Erotic Stories For Women, and The
Deep End 2: Wedding Night. To find out more about Madison, visit http://www.madisonmartinbooks.com/.
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Excerpt
“Trust me. I never thought we’d be in this…er,
position.” Hailey Burton smoothed her hands over the skirt of her brand new
Armani suit to keep her hands from shaking. Quinn Matheson could never see how nervous she was. She wouldn’t let
him. It would add further humiliation to her unfortunate circumstance, and she
felt humiliated enough.
Quinn, the King of
Matheson Toys and the picture of confidence, silently appraised her from behind
the huge oak desk in his office.
“I mean, we’ve been
in every other posi—” She coughed before she finished a sentence that could get
her in big trouble. Whatever “positions” she and Quinn may have found
themselves in ten years ago, it was too long ago to matter now. Wasn’t it?
She stiffened her
spine and felt herself growing hotter by the second. A trickle of sweat began
to run down the small of her back. Why fight it? Her brand new, one-of-a kind
suit, bought for a special occasion, was headed straight for the cleaners.
Why did she think
this would be easy? Why did she think she’d have the upper hand? And why was
Quinn sitting there staring at her, refusing to say anything?
He watched her with
calculating dark brown eyes, noticing every time she fidgeted or said something
stupid. It was beginning to drive her crazy.
“Are you going to
say something?”
He shrugged. “It’s
your meeting.”
In her eight years
of experience, she’d met with and given presentations to presidents and
corporate execs from companies all over the world. She always acted with cool
confidence in situations that made tough men sweat, and not one minute of it
ever fazed her.
What did faze her was sitting here in front of her
ex, begging for tens of thousands of toys for her company’s first Christmas toy
drive in five years.
Christmas was beyond
the limits of her expertise. In her entire life she’d celebrated maybe one or
two. Last year, she’d spent the holiday on a conference call closing a deal
with a company in Hong Kong. The year before that, she’d been in New York
collecting leads for a new account. Her boss knew Christmas was out of her
league, but he also knew she never gave her projects less than a hundred and
twenty percent, and he’d saddled her with the toy drive despite her protests.
If the promise of
moving up the Tryton Financial Institute corporate ladder weren’t waiting for
her at the other end of this, she’d have told her boss to forget it. But as
usual, the desire for success was stronger than…well, the desire for anything
else.
Stronger, even, than
the will to never see the man she’d run out on ten years ago. As much as she
never thought she’d have the guts to look him in the face again, that promotion
was staring her down…waiting. Begging for her to come and get it.
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Toying With Temptation
Author: Madison Martin
Publisher: Chances Press
ISBN: 978-0981718644
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
Length: 188 pages, 310 KB
Format: paperback, ebook
Buying Links: Smashwords ARe Barnes & Noble Amazon
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Madison is giving away 10 eBook copies of "Toying With Temptation" (1 each to 10
winners). Contest is tour-wide, open internationally, and ends Dec 17th. Must
be 18 years of age or older to enter.
