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Release Date: March 16, 2015
Category: Hot Contemporary Romance
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From New York Times bestselling author Skye Jordan, Xtreme Heroes is a
brand new series starring super-hot extreme athletes and their adventures.
The Risk, Book 1:
Former Olympian turned
physical therapist to the elite Julia Bailey knows all about pushing the
limits. But when a sexual harassment suit costs her a dream job—not to mention
her reputation—she takes on the biggest risk of her life. Rehabilitating the X
Games’ most notorious bad boy might be just what she needs to secure the funds
for her own treatment center. Problem is, the only kind of recovery her new
client is interested in is under-the-covers freestyle—gear optional.
Daredevil snowboarder
Noah Hunt is a rock star—on and off the slopes. A recent accident might have
him down, but he’s far from out. He doesn’t care what the sexy therapist with
the sweet curves says. He’s got sponsors to impress and trophies to collect, and
taking things slow and steady just ain’t his style. A little dirty talk and a
sizzling night later, Julia learns just how fast and hard he likes to play. Too
bad for him, his heart goes all in, and one wrong move could cost him more than
just his career.
Excerpt from The Risk by Skye Jordan
Julia couldn’t control the
shaking—a combination of fear, rage, and raw adrenaline.
The driver stood outside the car,
waiting to open the door for Noah, and she took the moment alone to breathe
deep and focus her mind, the way she used to before a competition. It helped,
but not nearly as much as she’d hoped. The tremors still rattled through her.
She couldn’t keep her mind
drifting to the sick look in Phillips’s eyes when he had her pinned against
that wall, and she was pissed, so damn
pissed, she’d frozen when she should
have slammed her knee into his balls. At the same time, his sheer size and
strength made her second-guess her ability to ever make a dent in a man that
big, let alone get away after she’d pissed him off.
Then she thought of Noah
confronting him… Fear and fury battled in her heart. Her hands clenched; her
muscles quivered with tension.
The door opened, and Noah slid
in. His hair was falling out of its style, his face was flushed, his jaw tight.
He turned toward her, his hands gripping her forearms. “Are you all right?”
“No, I’m not all right,” she
blurted. “I’m pissed. I’m pissed as hell. We’ve gone through weeks of work to get your ankle stable.
You go to the X Games in a week, Noah, a week.
And you start a fight with Goliath? What in the hell is wrong with you?”
Just voicing the reality wound
her tighter. But Noah hardly seemed ruffled as he pressed a button that lifted
the privacy glass so the driver wouldn’t have to listen to them argue.
“This is your career, your
livelihood, your life,” she said.
“You could have reinjured yourself. You could have ruined all the work we’ve
done. You could have seriously killed your career, for what? What were you
thinking?”
He slouched against the seat at
an angle, body loose, looking so goddamned sexy in that suit, his hair mussed,
a confused expression carving that vertical line between his brows. “I was
thinking that the fucker was abusing you. And I sure as hell wasn’t going to
stand by and let him have his way until your head cleared enough to set him
straight.”
“Just because I didn’t go in for
the kill at the first sign of trouble doesn’t mean I wasn’t prepared to do it,”
she lied. “I was fine, Noah.”
But she wasn’t fine, and they
both knew it. She wasn’t even close to fine. The adrenaline was wearing off,
her concern for his well-being fading now that she saw with her own two eyes
that he was in one piece, free of pain, and the source of her shakes had
transitioned from anger to fear. Fear of what would have happened if Noah
hadn’t come into the hallway. Fear of who saw the exchange and what rumors that
would bring. Fear of what sick game Phillips would play now.
“Dammit, Noah. All you did was
piss him off even more. Now he’s going to think I’m not strong enough to stand
up to him, which is only going to give him the green light to come after me
with twice the vengeance. I should never have come to this stupid event.
Fucking Drake. Every time I listen to him, my life goes into a tailspin.”
Her brain felt like a ball of
strung-out Silly Putty, and her emotions bounced between anger and guilt and
fear and shame…
Noah leaned toward her, sliding
one arm behind her shoulders, the other beneath her knees, and drew her across
the seat toward him.
“Stop it.” Julia pushed at his
shoulder. “I don’t need a savior, dammit.” But all her squirming and struggling
in the small space only succeeded in repositioning herself from sitting on his
thighs to straddling his lap. “I’m fine.”
But his arms held her tight.
“Maybe I’m not fine.” He slid his
hands over her hips, up her sides, and cupped her face. His gaze was deep and
dark and overflowing with emotions—anger, residual fear, lust. “Because seeing
you with him scared the ever-loving shit out of me.”
He pulled her head down and
fitted their lips together. Julia tried to pull back, but Noah slipped his hand
behind her neck and held her there as he swept his tongue into her mouth. His
other hand curved around her hips, tucking her tight against the hardening rod
of heat behind his zipper.
His tongue swirled in hungry
waves; lips suckled and sipped. Julia tasted lime and desperation and raw Noah.
Heat gathered between her legs; pressure climbed. His arms were tight, his body
warm, his mouth hungry. He was holding her, loving her, all without question or
accusation. That combined with the adrenaline still pumping through her body
set Julia on fire.
She leaned in, sinking her hands
into his hair and scraping her nails along his scalp the way he loved. Then she
pressed the front of her body to his, wrapped her arms around his neck, and
tilted her head to take more of his mouth. Noah groaned in approval, tightened
his arms, and lifted his hips, rubbing his stiff cock against her heat.
But it wasn’t enough. Her body
raged with sensation, and she needed more. She pulled out of the kiss and went
for his belt, button, and zipper. She needed him inside her, filling her.
Needed his arms around her. Needed the safety he offered. The unconditional
acceptance. Need, need, need. She
needed so much—and it all came from one source: Noah.
Noah grabbed her wrists before
she reached skin. “I’m not doing another one-off with you, Julia. I want more.
Need more. I care about you, goddammit.”
Lust made her mind float and
fizz. “This is all we have. You said yourself, we live four hours apart—”
“Give me the rest of your time
here. One hundred percent together every minute of the time we have left.”
Why? She had to swallow
hard to keep the word from coming out. Sure it was only another week or so, but
after what he’d learned about her tonight, she didn’t understand why he’d want
more than casual sex without strings.
But one of his hands moved
beneath her dress where it rode up on her thighs, his fingers slipping beneath
the band of her panties and sliding over her ass. His hands were warm and
strong, and Julia sighed with the sensation, until his fingers darted directly
to her heat and stroked her opening, making her groan with an urgent hunger.
Everything inside her ached with the craving she’d suppressed for weeks, but
now she needed his comfort, his trust, his belief. She needed to feel him
inside her, filling that empty space that lived at the center of her chest, the
one she’d ignored for too long.
Leaning away, she reached for his
boxers again.
Noah caught her wrists and held
them tight while his open, hungry gaze drilled into hers. “Mine,” he said. “For
the time you’re here.”
The thought both thrilled and
terrified her. Everything in her mind said no.
But her body, her heart, her soul screamed yes.
Her brain urged her to make him promise he’d be discreet, but he hadn’t questioned
her about Phillips, and he deserved the same unconditional belief.
She nodded her answer.
Something flickered in his eyes,
something dark and sexy. His hands released hers to grip her face firmly, his
gaze lowering to her mouth. “Say it.”
She drew a shaky breath. “I’m
yours.”
He
exhaled in a whoosh, as if he’d been holding it back, and he kissed her hard,
his hunger loose and raging.
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About the Author
Skye
Jordan is a pseudonym for New York Times
bestselling romantic suspense author Joan Swan. Skye’s novels are about
enjoying that little wild streak we don’t let out often enough. About those
fantasies we rarely get the opportunity to indulge. About stretching limits,
checking out the dark side, and maybe even acting a little naughty. They’re
about escape and fun and pleasure and romance.
And,
yes, even love, because while wicked-great sex is good, happily ever after with
wicked-great sex is even better.
Skye
(aka Joan) lives on the central coast of California in the heart of wine
country with her husband and two daughters. As often as possible, she retreats
to a hotel with critique partners for a power-writing week where much drinking,
laughing, and yes, even working, ensues. When she’s not writing, Skye goes to
breakfast with her hubby, attends her daughters’ barrel races, and spends a lot
of time with her own horse, Riddle…while her two dogs, Paxton and Indie, tag
along. She also loves to read, knit, craft, row, ride, and dabble in
photography.
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Blog Tour Stops
There are five excerpts on
this tour – one for each day of the week so be sure to visit the other blogs to
read a different excerpt from the book. The excerpts are not connected, so you
can read them at any time. Some of the blogs will also be featuring reviews,
too.
Monday, March 16,
2015 (Excerpt 1)
Tuesday, March
17, 2015 (Excerpt 2)
Wednesday, March
18, 2015 (Excerpt 3)
Thursday, March
19, 2015 (Excerpt 4)
Friday, March 20,
2015 (Excerpt 5)
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