Smoldering Hunger
(Dark Kings Series, #8)
by Donna Grant
Blurb:
His kisses were soul stirring, leaving her gasping and hungry for more. They pulled her from the wasteland of her life viciously and ruthlessly. With just one kiss she was clinging to him, silently begging him to show her all that one brush of his lips had promised.
TEMPTING FATE
Darius is back. Edinburgh thought it had seen the last of this seductive Dragon King, but that was before Darius found something worthwhile. He just can’t stay away from the impossibly beautiful Dr. Sophie Martin—even though he knows that a passion this strong could prove detrimental…for them both.
CRAVING DESIRE
Sophie tried to forget her encounter with smoking-hot Darius to no avail. He’s in her dreams, tempting her. But her association with Darius catches the attention of another, putting her in mortal danger. . .and Darius, who has vowed to protect her, is her only hope. But can she trust the notorious dragon shapeshifter? The only thing she knows for sure is that she cannot resist him…
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Excerpts
“Sophie?”
She blinked and looked down to find
Claire watching her with a worried look in her brown eyes. Sophie shot her a
smile, but Claire cocked her blonde head to the side and put a hand on her hip,
telling Sophie she wasn’t buying the act for a second.
“Just lost in thought,” Sophie said
with a shrug.
Claire raised her brows as she
regarded Sophie. “By that look, I’d say it was a man.”
A man? Darius was so much more. His
presence seemed to make the earth still, waiting for his order. He commanded
without a word, dominated with a look from his dark brown gaze.
Man? No man she’d ever met could be so
strong and imposing.
And sexy.
Her mouth went dry thinking of the
hard line of his jaw and his lips that were soft and insistent. His eyes could
cut coldly, but they could also blaze with a fire so hot that it could melt the
sun.
She knew what desire looked like
reflected in his chocolate-colored depths. His eyes softened, turned downright
sensual as he held her gaze, challenging her to try and look away.
All the while his gorgeous body with
rippling muscles brought her higher and higher, giving her ecstasy the likes
she’d never known.
And never known she could have.
If she hadn’t been sore the next
morning when she woke, she might have thought it all a dream.
“I don’t know who he is, but you need
to see him again,” Claire said, breaking into Sophie’s thoughts again. Her
smile was wide, a knowing look in her eyes.
Sophie swallowed and smoothed a hand
over her hair to make sure the thick length was still in place. “I don’t know
what you’re talking about.”
“Uh, huh,” Claire said with a wink.
“Two weeks ago you walked in here with a flush to your skin and a smile on your
lips. You wore the look of a woman who had been rode well. Ever since, you
occasionally get that look in your eyes. I’m telling you as your friend, Soph,
go see him again. Because if I could find a man who could make me look like
that after sex, I’d chain him to my bed.”
This time Sophie’s laugh wasn’t
forced. She knew all too well Claire’s issues with men. She was a petite,
pretty woman who had a bright smile and infectious laugh, and yet every guy she
was interested in preferred someone else. Worse, it was all the wrong sorts of
men who were attracted to Claire.
If Sophie thought her years without a
date was a long time, Claire wasn’t behind her by far. It was why the two of
them had become such good friends.
Sophie leaned down and whispered in
Claire’s ear, “The sex was out of this world, but he’s also out of the
picture.”
She walked away, leaving Claire with
her mouth gaping and questions in her eyes. Sophie inwardly laughed, because it
was a rare thing when she got to shock Claire. Normally, it was Claire who
astonished her on a daily basis.
Sophie turned the corner and found a
man leaning against the wall staring at her. He was drop dead gorgeous in his
dark red sweater and jeans.
He wore a small smile about his wide
lips as his golden eyes stared at her. His long black hair was pulled back
showing off the hard planes of his face.
It unnerved her how he watched her, as
if she were something to be studied under a microscope. Sophie pulled her gaze
away from him, and stopped dead in her tracks when spotted Darius.
Her heart thumped in her chest and her
stomach fell to her feet. She couldn’t decide if she was excited to see him or
surprised. Especially after just thinking of him.
The strands of his long, dark blond
hair was windblown. Just disheveled enough to make him even sexier. His hair,
in addition to the five o’clock shadow of a beard, made her blood race and her
hands itch to touch him, to run her hands up his chest and over his thick
shoulders once more.
He watched her with his deep brown
eyes without a hint of any emotion. While she was reeling from seeing him after
so long and her body instantly beginning to throb with need, he felt...nothing.
Sophie knew what kind of disaster lay
with Darius. She swore to never go down that path again. As tempting as he was
– and good Lord was he tempting – she
fortified the walls around her heart.
She walked into her patient’s room
without a backward look to Darius. If only it was as easy to erase him from her
thoughts as it was to look away.
The Dark Kings Series
About the Author
Donna Grant is the New York Timesand USA Today bestselling author of the sizzling Dark King series featuring dragons, immortal Highlanders, and the Fae.
She was born and raised in Texas but loves to travel. Her adventures have taken her throughout the United States as well as to Jamaica, Mexico, and Scotland. Growing up on the Texas/Louisiana border, Donna’s Cajun side of the family taught her the “spicy” side of life while her Texas roots gave her two-steppin’ and bareback riding.
Despite deadlines and voracious reading, Donna still manages to keep up with her two children, four cats, and one long haired Chihuahua.
You can find Donna at
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