Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Someone To Come Home To by Zanne Sweeney [Book Blitz & Excerpt]








SYNOPSIS:

A romance novel packed with suspense and intrigue. Placed into Witness Protection, Kit Taylor, formerly Karen Sue Murphy, now a self -imposed loner, slowly pieces her shattered life back together in beautiful Steamboat Springs Colorado. Jess Ryan, a firefighter and Explosive’s Expert just back from Afghanistan, is haunted with demons of his own. When they meet the attraction is undeniably.  However, unwitting influences jeopardize their new relationship. Separate and equally dangerous undertakings lead them into perilous situations that test their courage and ultimately their love for each other.

This romantic thriller is offered in two versions. The Uncut Edition contains adult content and is intended for mature readers. The Abridged Edition is a milder in content.

EXCERPT:

As the sun slipped lower in the pristine blue sky, Kit snuggled into Jess’s warm chest. She’d worn a lightweight skirt and Jess covered her bare legs with the ends of the blankets as they cuddled and watched the glowing colors cascading across the sky. When the sun had set a sliver of natural light cast a glow on their picnic spot giving it a romantic atmosphere. Jess picked Kit up as if she were light as a feather and turned her so she was straddling his hips and they were face to face. A thick aspen tree bolstered his back. Kit placed her hands on his wide shoulders, her thumbs grazing gently along his neck. Kit was closely watching his face and Jess was studying hers, neither of them moved. 
Jess took the initiative and leaned in to taste her delicate lips. She returned the gentle kiss and softly stroked his lower lip with the tip of her tongue. Kit heard him stifle a small groan. One small, almost ticklish lick later and he opened for her, welcoming her warm tongue as it wreaked havoc on his libido. His cock fought for space, so Jess lifted Kit’s little body slightly off his lap so he could reach down and adjust himself.
Their kiss started as a sweet, exploration but exploded into a hot, wild, ‘can’t get close enough’ surge of passion. Kit ran her hands through Jess’s thick hair and suckled him with her lips. Jess played with her, nipping and stroking inside her warm mouth until moving to taste her neck. His hands were everywhere, first her hips then roaming her back, and then, hesitantly, moving to fondle her small breasts through her thin tee shirt. Her nipples were aching as they pushed outwards and Jess swept over them roughly with his thumbs sending delicious waves throughout her system. 
Jess placed his hands on her hips and encouraged her to move on him. Kit needed no further prompting as she rubbed her wet cleft up and down his thick cock, trapped and full in his jeans. The friction she was feeling on her clit, through her satiny thong and the way Jess was rubbing her breasts sent the heady whirl of a pre-orgasm racing towards her core. Kit moaned into Jess’s mouth and leaned her forehead on his as the sensation became too intense. The feeling was so foreign, so forgotten, she became timid. Jess felt her stiffen and knew she was nervous about letting go in front of him.
“Give it to me Kit, let it go baby. I want to feel it.”
Kit’s head fell back exposing her delicious neck and Jess leaned in to erotically suck on her soft skin. The massaging of her clit, his hands rubbing her breast and the gentle sucking of her neck sent her over the edge. Her back bowed and an epic orgasm crashed through her, causing her hips to buck uncontrollably. Kit moaned out Jess’s name in such a husky voice Jess almost came himself. Kit collapsed, boneless against his heaving chest. Jess held her tightly rubbing his hands up and down her back and softly kissing her hair and shoulders, anywhere he could reach without disrupting her.
Kit regained some semblance of coherent thought and sat up pressing a soft, shy kiss to his lips. “Jess... That was...it was...thank you.”
She felt the hard ridge of his jeans pressing against her damp thong and realized he was stone hard. She stuttered, unsure of how to continue. 
“You didn’t... You’re still...hard. I...”
“Kit, relax.” Jess said tenderly.  “I loved making you come. I’m hard because you are such a sensual person it’s a turn on.”
“Yes, but don’t you want to... I mean... Can I please you now?”
Jess tucked a stray hair that had fallen on her flushed cheek behind her ear.
“Not tonight baby. Tonight was all about you.”
“Sure?” She asked quietly too boneless to argue.
“Sure.” He confirmed. Then he pulled her gently into his chest, her cheek using his strong shoulder as a pillow, his cheek resting on her forehead. Jess would have loved to relieve the powerful throbbing of his cock but for some reason he knew it was more important for Kit to know she was his priority and not his sex drive. They sat content just holding each other, his dick finally softening. 




PURCHASE LINKS:

Someone To Come Home To (Uncut Edition)




Someone To Come Home To (Abridged Edition)









AUTHOR BIO:

Zanne Sweeney a graduate from Kent State University is a teacher, and coach, who loves to write stories that she hopes her readers won’t want to put down. “That’s the ultimate compliment.”

When she’s not teaching, coaching, or writing Zanne loves to spend time with her family and fun loving friends. She is a novice photographer, a consummate sports fan, and is never without a book to read.

Other Zanne Sweeney books:

Neighbors
A Chance For More (A finalist in the Readers Favorite Book Contest in the category of Romance – Sizzle)


AUTHOR LINKS:

You can reach out to Zanne on Twitter @zanneweeney and on her Facebook like page: Zanne Sweeney - Author. https://www.facebook.com/zanne.sweeney.author?ref=hl


Chapter 1

With a fake smile and a hopefully cheery voice Karen Sue thanked her neighbor for the ride home. She opened the rickety gate that separated their backyards and the familiar squeak of the rusty hinges brought forth bittersweet memories.

Years ago she and her best friend Katrina had practically worn the hinges off that white, little gate as they ran from one house to the other seeking better snacks or newer toys.  The memories still stung even though an entire decade had passed.  Katrina and her family had moved to Ohio, leaving Karen Sue to bravely face her freshman year in high school without her best friend of 13 years. 

Not too long ago Karen Sue had been filled with pride and contentment when she came home to her cozy house. Now as she crossed her weed choked lawn, a small frown tended her lips as she noted that the grass, well dandelions now, needed to be cut again.

Wearily she walked down her short driveway towards the front of her house to get the mail. She sighed somberly knowing there would be bills with ‘Urgent’ red stamps marring the white envelopes. As much as she had been denying it she knew she was going to have to sell her beloved home to dig out from the havoc Ray had created to her once good credit. She knew she could get a good price for her house that would pay off her bills and leave her enough money to restart, if…if Rays lawyers didn’t try to claim any of it.

Three young boys that Karen Sue taught at school peddled past her driveway on their bikes, waving shyly to their beautiful art teacher. Karen Sue smiled and waved back as she juggled her computer case and purse to free a hand. A large black sedan parked in front of her house with the motor running drew her attention from the boys. She could see someone sitting in the driver's seat and he appeared to be talking on a cell. Her eyes caught his when he glanced up to his rearview mirror. Karen Sue figured the man was being responsible and had pulled over to talk on the phone, she wished more people did that.

She gathered the mail from the mailbox that she had painted flowers on just three years early, when life was good. Now when she opened the brightly painted box she was stung with how drastically her life had changed. Turning back she walked up the driveway and let herself into the house through the side kitchen door. Placing the mail down on the dull Formica counter without looking at it, she settled her computer bag and oversized purse on the nearby kitchen table. Coming home was never a good thing anymore. Karen Sue pulled her arms out of her lightweight coat and hung it on the wooden hook behind the door; it was then that she heard voices, angry voices coming from the adjoining room.

 Curious and slightly alarmed she headed towards the swinging door that separated the kitchen and living room. She heard Ray say. “Leave her out of this, she doesn’t know anything.”

 As she extended her arms to push open the door she heard three sounds, like wet snowballs hitting a wall, followed by an anguished low grunt. Without warning the door slammed back inwards forcing Karen Sue’s arms back against her body. Ray fell through the swinging door his back colliding heavily with her chest. The force that had propelled Ray through the door caused them to both to keel over backwards. She landed painfully on the kitchen floor with Ray sprawled on top of her. Their prone bodies acting as a door stop holding the swinging door wide open.  The jarring Karen Sue’s body took knocked the breath from her and she fought for air. The moment became surreal as Karen Sue noticed many things at once.

Two men were in her living room; a smaller man in a dark business suit holding a gun, and standing next to him was a larger man in dress pants, a collared shirt with gold chains surrounding his beefy neck. It was clear that the smaller man had just fired the gun, although she hadn’t seen it. Realizing that a man she didn’t know, held a gun in her living room and the gun had been fired, Karen Sue vainly struggled to push up on her elbows hoping Ray would move. Gasping for breath she peered over Ray's shoulder wondering why he wasn’t getting up. It was then she noticed Ray’s shirt was blooming with crimson wet circles, two in his chest and one in his shoulder.

Karen Sue tried to maneuver out from underneath his heavyweight but the floor was slippery. Rivers of blood seeping onto her body ran off her pooling onto the floor below them. A copper smell permeated her senses as she tried to suck in air. Her face was wet and she panicked realizing it was Ray’s blood that was splattered on her skin and soaking her clothes.

Ray was not moving, at all, his deadweight hampering her ability to regain her lost breath. She heard the smaller man say, ‘shit” as he looked at her. His head tilted to one side, as if he was in thought. Karen Sue watched him hand the gun to the larger man who was also looking at her. Her mind was slush, she couldn’t think, her survival instinct was urging her to get out from underneath Ray and run. She frantically pushed against the kitchen floor but the blood coating the floor had her hands slipping frantically, like Fred Flintstone's feet when he started his car. The front door burst open, momentarily halting Karen Sue’s attempts to escape.  A large, muscle-bound younger man dressed in a black tee shirt and dress pants appeared. His eyes darted over to Karen Sue and Ray, surveying the scene he had walked in on.

He then looked to the man in the suit and said; “Boss, we gotta go, scanner says cops are on their way.” Karen Sue was silently praying, ‘Go, please, go.’

“How the fuck are they on their way?” The smarmy thin man questioned.

“Don’t know but I think a neighbor called in a suspicious vehicle.”

Karen Sue was listening to this conversation as if she was watching a TV show that she was staring in. Her shocked, small body clenched tightly to Ray as if he could somehow help her. A gooey blob of wetness slid down her cheek jolting Karen Sue back into reality. Ray had been shot and he was currently pinning her down and three men, one wielding a gun were in her living room getting ready to do God knows what. Bile caught in her throat as she swiped what she knew was a bloody piece of her husband from her face causing her to whimper in distress.

The older man took the gun back from the gold- chained gorilla like man and handed it to the new guy. “Kill her,” he said. He then turned and walked out the front door. The gorilla remained behind guarding her front door. Karen Sue knew she was the ‘her’ that was about to be killed.

Try as she might she couldn’t lift Ray off of her and the blood had caused the linoleum underneath them to become so slippery she couldn’t even scoot backwards. She could hear sirens in the distance, but she knew there was no way they would get to her in time. Her mind slipped into a hyper focused state and her body trembled with terror. Her random thoughts were crazed as she thought about the many times she had watched horror movies and had laughed at the victims who had stood shocked and unmoving just before they were slaughtered. The muscle-bound man approached her; his large frame blocked her sight from the gorilla standing at the door.

She feebly lifted one arm palms out stopping gesture and garbled out, a lame “please, don’t...” The killer raised the gun, aiming it at her and Ray. She noticed his hands were not shaking in the least and she knew that only a monster could kill someone without emotion. She had a moment of bravado and decided if this bastard was going to kill her then she was going to be looking him in the face when he did it. She saw his mouth move without speaking and she thought he mouthed the words. “Play dead,” then he squeezed the trigger. Her last conscious thought was that the bullets silently firing from this gun sounded like the blow darts the natives would use in the old Tarzan movies. Karen Sue’s head hit the floor with a hard thump, her arm slipped limply to the blood coated linoleum as her eyes rolled up into her head. A welcoming blackness engulfed her.



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