Series: Choisie
Titles included: Contessa, Olivia, Dear Jon, and Livvy
Author: Lori L. Otto
Released: Feb 2014
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The Choisie series
is a Young Adult/New Adult story following a teenage girl as she struggles to
find her footing under the scrutiny of local media and the cautious eye of her
overprotective father.
Livvy
Holland was adopted by a generous and wealthy couple as a child. Now sixteen,
she is a burgeoning artist, encouraged by her mother and inspired by a man she
was never able to meet. Feeling estranged from a loving father whose mind works
much differently than her own, she questions whether or not she was paired with
the right guardians. In her plight for independence, she reconnects with a
fellow art student who grew up alongside Livvy.
Jon Scott has led
anything but a privileged life. After his father passes away, he is left to
care for his two half-brothers while his mother’s alcoholism
threatens to tear his family apart. All he wants for himself and his brothers
is a better life. His dreams for an Ivy League education are coming to
fruition, thanks to a lifetime of hard work and ambition. This is not only
important to Jon himself; he also knows that the man who will win
Livvy’s heart has to be someone exceptional. Her father would accept
nothing less–and Jon believes that Livvy deserves the best of
everything, too.
That may be the
only thing Jon and Livvy’s father agree
upon.
Over the course of
their courtship, these two teens will experience the bliss of true love, but
their immaturity and differing lifestyles will also threaten to tear them
apart. They both begin to question the other’s devotion and
commitment; only time will tell if their first love is meant to last a
lifetime.
This series,
comprised in totality of four books, allows the reader to experience first love
for a second time. The first three books–Contessa, Olivia, and Dear
Jon–are available now, with the fourth book–Livvy–slated
to be released December 9!
Contessa
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Olivia
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Dear Jon –
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“I
want you to make love to me.” My voice cracks when I say
it.
“Why?”
he challenges me. Why? What kind of a question is
that?
“Because
I love you.”
“You wear
my ring because you love me. You devote every Saturday night to me because you
love me. You answer my calls every day because you love me. Why do you want
me?”
“I
don’t… I don’t think I
understand.”
“Here’s
what I want. I want to trail my fingers down the length of your naked body and
feel the excitement they leave in their
wake.”
I look around
quickly, grateful that he’s not speaking too
loudly.
“I want
to smell the perfume you wear as I nip at your earlobe and whisper things to
you I’m too afraid to say when I’m not inebriated by your
very presence.”
I can’t
believe he’s saying these things to me right here, in the light of
day, as if he’s telling me about his classes or what color shoes he
decided to wear today.
“I
want to hear you pronounce my name with such desperation, supplicating me for
more – deeper, slower – like you can’t get enough
of me even though you’re holding me so tightly you leave marks on my
skin that take days to disappear and underscore the words forever inscribed on
my shoulder
blade–”
“I’m
sorry–” He interrupts my interruption with a surprising
kiss, his hand supporting my neck as his mouth moves hard and fast against
mine. I gasp when he pulls away, and my eyes are enraptured by the fervency of
his gaze.
“I’m
not,” he whispers, then shakes his head. “I want the taste
of you…” He pauses and nods just so, making sure I fully
understand what he’s implying. “…on my
lips.”
“Jon!”
I nearly shriek, taken aback by his brazenness and indelicate suggestion. Oddly
enough, though, I’ve never been more attracted to him than I am in
this moment. He laughs at my response.
“And I
want to make you blush, just like that.” He touches his thumb to the
warm skin of my face. “To see the glow of tamarisk in your cheeks
when you’re coming down. There’s not a prettier color in
nature.”
I can say nothing,
do nothing, except stare at him with my mouth
agape.
“And do
you want to know why I want these
things?”
It takes me a
moment to realize he’s asked me a question, that he’s
waiting for my answer. “Because you want me to be
happy?”
“No.”
Now both of his thumbs rub my temples as he stares lustfully at me, through me.
My pulse is raging, and I can hear it in my ears and feel it coursing beneath
my skin. “Because I’m a selfish man, and every one of those
things rouses me and makes me want to take you in ways I never have —
ways your virtuous mind has probably never even imagined. You engage me and
provoke me and you drive me to the brink of insanity, and just when I think
I’m gone, you save me, Olivia. A brush of your hand. A kiss. A
whisper.”
After
graduating from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1997 with a
Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Lori Otto worked in the
billboard industry for ten years. Frustrated with trying to communicate entire
messages in “seven seconds or less,” she decided to leave
outdoor advertising and return to her love of creative
writing.
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