Part of ALLURING TALES 2 - Hot Holiday Nights
Anthology by Vivi Anna, Cathryn Fox, Sylvia Day, Delilah Devlin, Myla Jackson and Sasha White
Avon Red (November 4, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0061463175
ISBN-13: 978-0061463174
Contemporary

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From the authors of the bestselling ALLURING TALES: AWAKEN THE FANTASY comes a new erotic romance anthology featuring seven super-sexy holiday-themed short stories. Together, the Allure Authors offer more than just steamy romances—they introduce readers to an erotic world full of limitless possibilities.

Kelli Cameron grew up fantasizing over her big brother’s best friend, Ryan. But when Ryan left San Francisco to join the Army, she turned her focus elsewhere. Or so she’d thought. Hearing Ryan has returned home, and this time to stay, draws a spark of interest she can’t deny.

Kelli still wants Ryan and this time, she plans to have him.

Ryan is about to find out just how grown up the ‘kid’ next door has become. Of course, Kelli knows Ryan will consider her ‘hands off’, being her brother’s best friend and all. So Kelli hatches a plan. She’ll see Ryan for the first time again, on her terms.

Ryan is about to meet a sexy stranger with seduction on her mind.

The minute Ryan hears Kelli’s voice on the phone, he feels the spark of their past connection. It’s clear he’s never quite escaped his hidden desire for her. Accepting her invitation to the charity masquerade party she is hosting at her art gallery, he finds himself eager to see the woman she has become.

The next evening, Ryan arrives at the party, and finds himself lost in the crowd of costumes and masks, unable to locate Kelli. In a corner of the gallery, he stands, a glass of champagne in hand, hoping to spot her. But it’s not Kelli he finds.

It’s a masked seductress.

With her long, blond hair, glittery make-up, and slim cut emerald green dress, she him think ‘goddess of desire’. His desire. He wants her instantly.

Before Ryan has time to consider his actions, he finds himself following her up a stairwell, to a tiny room filled with flickering candles.

Soon, Ryan is drawn into a game of power and play. One where he first shares the control, but soon finds himself doing what he has never done before…he gives this stranger, this alluring female, all the power.

He allows her to tie him up with silk scarves. Allows her to take hold of his body and mind, pulling him into a journey of exploration and passion unlike any he has ever experienced.

This woman, this stranger, teaches him things about himself he’s never known before and touches him beyond the physical. He vows to know her beyond the night. A vow that he can’t keep when she disappears before he even knows her name.

Ryan slips from the party, unable to see Kelli, feeling exposed and confused over the night’s events, and oddly bothered by a familiar feeling of knowing the masked seductress.

Kelli spends the week after the party unsure what to do about Ryan. She hadn’t expected the way he’d made her feel or the connection of the past so evident in their time together. The old feelings of special bond she’d thought only a girlish fantasy lived. Not only lived, but thrived, even through time, and despite her disguise.

Did Kelli dare tell Ryan it had been her that night? That she had tied him up and taken advantage of him as if her were a stranger, not a close friend of the past?

And if she does, what price will she pay for her deception?