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Tease, tempt, tremble…but don't touch.
Old friends and colleagues Jared and Elle embark upon a sexual game with only one rule: no touching. Whoever breaks the rule first loses the game, and no matter how much they want each other, they're both too stubborn to give in.
At the end of a long working week filled with close encounters and teasing phone calls, who will win their maddening battle of thrills?
General Release Date: 26th September 2011
Friday
Their private game began almost by accident.
At seven p.m., Elle Matthews headed for the bathroom to transform herself for her night out. After wriggling into a tiny mini-skirt and a clinging shirt that showed just the right amount of cleavage, she returned from the bathroom to find Jared at her workstation, studying the background research she’d been about to drop by his desk on the way out.
Jared Lancaster, one of the Beechbank Courier’s star journalists and a close friend. Intelligent, often impatient, but always there for her.
Except in a friends-with-benefits way. She didn’t even dare hint at her attraction to him—workplace romances could be so messy, and screwing up her friendship with Jared wasn’t on her agenda.
He noticed her change of clothing and raised an eyebrow, smiling a little. “Going out?”
“Friend’s birthday,” she explained, plucking the file from his hands and hoping she wasn’t blushing. “And I wasn’t finished with that.”
Ignoring his glare, she picked up a pen from her desk. It slipped through her fingers and skittered across the floor towards Jared, and they both bent to pick it up at the same time, ending up crouching scarcely a foot from each other.
He grabbed the pen first and handed it to her. She took it with murmured thanks, then glanced up at him as she began to rise.
The expression on his face stole the breath from her lungs, and she could have sworn he was looking down her shirt a moment ago…
Her mind in turmoil, Elle straightened and turned to the research document. Trying to reorder her thoughts, she dropped into her desk chair, filled out the paperwork on the last page and slotted it into the file.
Holding it out to Jared, she crossed her legs, forgetting she really shouldn’t do that in this skirt. His eyes strayed to her exposed thighs, and she was pretty sure he got a glimpse of her thong, too…
“See something you like?” she asked softly, pushing back her nerves and focusing on the desire his gaze provoked.
He took the file from her, not bothering to look through it. Keeping his gaze locked on hers, he said, “I’m not playing your games, Elle.”
“Okay,” she agreed easily, shrugging. “Let’s play yours.”
Amy Valenti attained ‘crazy cat lady’ status at four years old, but took a little longer to get to the ‘published author’ stage, which was her other goal in life. Now in her late twenties,she tries to minimise the number of cats she puts into her erotic romance stories, but more than one has slipped into a character’s home while her back’s been turned. After all, the ultimate test of a man’s worth is what his new partner’s pets think of him…
Cats aside, Amy enjoys writing about intelligent female characters who know themselves and their desires. She’s been fascinated by sex, relationship and power-play dynamics for many years, and experiments with different sub-genres under the overarching category of BDSM, concentrating on Domination and submission romance in particular.
Reviewed by Night Owl Romance Reviews
Battle of Thrills is a smokin' hot read!...Ms. Valenti writes with a sexual intensity that will make you feel very much in the moment...Battle of Thrills is a very yummy read and you'll be mad at yourself...
Reviewed by Customer
Wow, I really wish I could give this book something higher than a 5. I love the thrill of the chase between two people and in this book, the characters make it into a game. The teasing and tempting...
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