Showing posts with label Shameless Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shameless Series. Show all posts
A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine
Title: A Shameless Little Con
Series: The Shameless Series #1
Author: Meli Raine
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Blurb
I didn’t do it.
I never betrayed my friend.
Last year, I was kidnapped along with presidential candidate’s daughter Lindsay Bosworth, forced to help her assailants, my mother implicated in one of the biggest political scandals in American history.
I've been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that doesn’t matter. Once you’re tried by the media, you’re guilty as sin. The truth doesn’t get the public’s attention.
But shame? Shame sells.
And everyone assumes you’re tainted.
Now I have my own personal security team, courtesy of the United States government. Not the one you learned about in civics class, though.
I’m being tracked by the deep state. The shadow government. They’ve assigned Silas Gentian to be with me twenty-four seven. He thinks he knows everything about me – all of it bad -- and he does.
On paper.
Like everyone else, he assumes I’m a traitor. A backstabber. A betrayer. Someone who helped a group of violent psychopaths, puppets of powerful men in Washington who made me into a tool.
Yet I see how he looks at me. True desire can’t be faked.
Or hidden.
And that goes both ways.
He assumes I’m trying to fool him.
And he might be right.
But not for the reasons he thinks.
A Shameless Little Con is the first book in the Shameless trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine.
Read the whole series:
Book 1: A Shameless Little CON
Book 2: A Shameless Little LIE
Book 3: A Shameless Little BET
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Excerpt
“Has it
ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, if you thought it through, there
might be a completely different angle on every part of this mess? That maybe
I’m telling the truth?” I taunt him. That’s how this feels–like nothing but a
nasty game. The push-pull of wanting him to treat me like a human being and
wanting to lash out and hurt him is infuriating, but it is better than sitting
here and taking his negativity like a passive little doormat.
“Of course
I have.”
“And you’ve
rejected that. Completely.”
“Yes.”
“Then you’re
really bad at your job, Silas,” I say, letting all the bitterness and contempt
come through my voice.
“You’ve
wounded me, Jane.” Turns out he can do contempt, too. Better than I can.
“I mean it.
Anyone whose job is to protect people can’t be such an absolutist. It makes you
weak. Gives other people an easy shot at you.”
“‘Other
people’? Do you mean people like you?”
“No. I mean
people like the ones who attacked Lindsay.”
“Right.
People like you.”
I shake my
head slowly, the waves of panic flowing through me, giving in to them. Letting
them come because what choice do I have?
A Shameless Little Bet by Meli Raine
Title: A Shameless Little Bet
Series: The Shameless Series #3
Author: Meli Raine
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Blurb
How do I
prove a negative?
I need to
prove Jane is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Mirrors,
smoke, and lies can conjure a truth that isn't real. Money, bribes, and power
can twist reality. What we call proof is all an elaborate magic act.
So is love.
How do you
prove you're in love? How can you know with unrelenting certainty that the
person you can't live without really loves you?
It's all
about what you believe. Who you believe. And I believe Jane. I love her. But it
might be too late.
Or,
worse-it might all be an illusion. If proof is just a magician's sleight of
hand, then we're caught in a sick trick.
A deadly
one.
One that
doesn't end with applause.
But with a
bang.
Read the
stunning conclusion to the Shameless series as Jane and Silas fight against
forces that conspire to keep them apart -- maybe forever.
Purchase Links
Excerpt
SILAS
I won’t let
her go again.
My body has
to prove what words cannot.
Her hands
slide up under my suit jacket and pull my cotton shirt out of the waistband,
riding up under the conservative clothes with a hot passion that makes me need
her, naked and writhing under me, filling her. If she hesitated, I would stop
in a split second, but from the way her tongue moves in my mouth, lips eager
and telling me how much she’s missed me, I don’t sense one hint of question.
Only
answers.
A Shameless Little Bet by Meli Raine
Title: A Shameless Little Bet
Series: The Shameless Series #3
Author: Meli Raine
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Blurb
How do I
prove a negative?
I need to
prove Jane is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Mirrors,
smoke, and lies can conjure a truth that isn't real. Money, bribes, and power
can twist reality. What we call proof is all an elaborate magic act.
So is love.
How do you
prove you're in love? How can you know with unrelenting certainty that the
person you can't live without really loves you?
It's all
about what you believe. Who you believe. And I believe Jane. I love her. But it
might be too late.
Or,
worse-it might all be an illusion. If proof is just a magician's sleight of
hand, then we're caught in a sick trick.
A deadly
one.
One that
doesn't end with applause.
But with a
bang.
Read the
stunning conclusion to the Shameless series as Jane and Silas fight against
forces that conspire to keep them apart -- maybe forever.
Purchase Links
Excerpt
SILAS
I won’t let
her go again.
My body has
to prove what words cannot.
Her hands
slide up under my suit jacket and pull my cotton shirt out of the waistband,
riding up under the conservative clothes with a hot passion that makes me need
her, naked and writhing under me, filling her. If she hesitated, I would stop
in a split second, but from the way her tongue moves in my mouth, lips eager
and telling me how much she’s missed me, I don’t sense one hint of question.
Only
answers.
A Shameless Little Lie by Meli Raine
Title: A Shameless Little Lie
Series: The Shameless Series #2
Author: Meli Raine
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Blurb
I did it. I admit it.
I fell in
love with Silas. My bodyguard. My protector.
My new
informant.
We’re
playing a cat-and-mouse game. I’m not sure whether I’m the cat or the mouse,
but I can definitely tell I’m in a trap.
A trap with
no way out.
I’m not who
everyone thought I was. The truth is out there, finally turning the lie about
me inside out. I am the shameless little lie. It’s finally been revealed, and
now even more people want to kill me.
As a
presidential campaign hangs in the balance, a delicate web of international
relations and economic stability at risk, power becomes more important than
anything else.
Even my
life.
Especially
my life. I’m a nothing. A no one. Just a tool, remember?
But tools
can be used to open locks. Cracking open the truth and exposing it could change
the balance of power. Tip the scales. Make a presidential campaign turn on a
dime.
Too bad
Silas doesn’t believe me when I tell the truth.
And that
may make him the biggest tool of all.
A Shameless
Little Lie is book two in the Shameless trilogy by USA Today bestselling author
Meli Raine
Read the
whole series:
Book 1: A
Shameless Little CON
Book 2: A
Shameless Little LIE
Book 3: A
Shameless Little BET
Purchase Links
Excerpt
My ear is
stroking something so soft and smooth. It’s comforting and inviting, so I rub
against the softness, reveling in sensation, sighing.
And then
the something moves.
“Hey,”
Silas says, his voice coming from above. “She’s awake.”
I open my
eyes, then shut them quickly to make the spinning stop. The world is full of
random objects that move in and out, forward and back, my depth perception put
in a blender and puréed.
“What?” I
whisper, his hand on my shoulder. I want him to stroke my hair, to bring me
ginger ale, to keep me safe and let me relax.
“You
fainted,” he says, voice somehow both taut with worry and gentle with concern.
“Right into my arms.”
“You have
good arms.”
“I like
them.”
A Shameless Little Lie by Meli Raine
Title: A Shameless Little Lie
Series: The Shameless Series #2
Author: Meli Raine
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Blurb
I did it. I admit it.
I fell in
love with Silas. My bodyguard. My protector.
My new
informant.
We’re
playing a cat-and-mouse game. I’m not sure whether I’m the cat or the mouse,
but I can definitely tell I’m in a trap.
A trap with
no way out.
I’m not who
everyone thought I was. The truth is out there, finally turning the lie about
me inside out. I am the shameless little lie. It’s finally been revealed, and
now even more people want to kill me.
As a
presidential campaign hangs in the balance, a delicate web of international
relations and economic stability at risk, power becomes more important than
anything else.
Even my
life.
Especially
my life. I’m a nothing. A no one. Just a tool, remember?
But tools
can be used to open locks. Cracking open the truth and exposing it could change
the balance of power. Tip the scales. Make a presidential campaign turn on a
dime.
Too bad
Silas doesn’t believe me when I tell the truth.
And that
may make him the biggest tool of all.
A Shameless
Little Lie is book two in the Shameless trilogy by USA Today bestselling author
Meli Raine
Read the
whole series:
Book 1: A
Shameless Little CON
Book 2: A
Shameless Little LIE
Book 3: A
Shameless Little BET
Purchase Links
Excerpt
My ear is
stroking something so soft and smooth. It’s comforting and inviting, so I rub
against the softness, reveling in sensation, sighing.
And then
the something moves.
“Hey,”
Silas says, his voice coming from above. “She’s awake.”
I open my
eyes, then shut them quickly to make the spinning stop. The world is full of
random objects that move in and out, forward and back, my depth perception put
in a blender and puréed.
“What?” I
whisper, his hand on my shoulder. I want him to stroke my hair, to bring me
ginger ale, to keep me safe and let me relax.
“You
fainted,” he says, voice somehow both taut with worry and gentle with concern.
“Right into my arms.”
“You have
good arms.”
“I like
them.”
“So do I.”
I roll in
his lap and look up into those bright eyes full of mirth and worry. “Can you
sit up?” he asks.
“No.”
“That bad?”
“It feels
so nice here. I could sleep here forever.”
Someone
clears their throat in the distance. It’s a masculine sound.
“She okay?”
the throat-clearer asks from another continent away. Or maybe the front seat.
It’s hard to tell.
“I think
so,” Silas responds, easing me up slowly.
“I did not
consent to sitting up,” I murmur, snuggling in.
“And I
didn’t consent to being your pillow.”
“But you’re
a good pillow. The best pillow ever.”
“Jane?”
Silas asks slowly. “Are you on something?”
“On
something? I’m on you.” My muscles go slack, body in need of this all-too-short
moment to enjoy being at rest in a place of sanctuary.
Rumbling makes
my head move lightly as he–is he laughing? “No. I mean, did you take a drug, or
a pill? You’re acting very weird.”
“Have we
met? Come on. You try going through what I’ve been through these last few days,
then faint, and come out of it perfectly sane,” I grouse.
As I come
to a full upright position with my back against the upholstered seat, I realize
it’s not just me, Silas, and–oh. The throat-clearer is Duff.
Drew is
behind him, their heads huddled together as they speak through the window.
“I’m fine,”
I lie. “Just tired and a little weary from having my entire life blitzed to
smithereens.”
Coming Soon
Releasing June 5, 2018
Author Bio
Meli Raine
writes romantic suspense with hot bikers, intense undercover DEA agents, bad
boys turned good, and Special Ops heroes — and the women who love them.
Meli rode
her first motorcycle when she was five years old, but she played in the ocean
long before that. She lives in New England with her family.
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