Title:
Shiver
Author: CM Foss
Release Date: Nov 22, 2014
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This
is a love story.
This is a romantic
story.
Except bananas.
Bananas are never romantic.
Lissa was a
twenty-year-old girl trying to make it in the equestrian world. She was sassy
and smart, strong and a little weird. And she had no idea what she was
doing.
Ethan was
twenty-seven, tattooed, tall, dark, and hot. And lugging some baggage.
He’d already made it in the business and brought Lissa on to help get
her on her feet. And it turned out, he liked a little
weird.
Ethan made it clear
that he wasn’t in the market for a relationship. Lissa was happy to
learn the ropes and push her attraction
aside.
But how do you draw
the line when every touch makes
you…shiver?
It sometimes
surprised people how effectively I could tune out the world when I fell into a
great read. I didn’t do it in the company of others often because,
well, it was pretty rude. My family knew they could talk at me for twenty
minutes and I wouldn’t process a word of what they’d said.
Ethan had not had the dubious honor of witnessing it.
“Are you
reading porn?” he whispered really loudly over my shoulder, startling
me into actually dropping the Kindle onto my lap.
I fumbled to keep
it from falling to the floor. “What? No!” I whispered back,
laughing. “Are you reading over my
shoulder?”
“I’ve
been trying to talk to you for the past five minutes, and you haven’t
heard a word I said. I figured I should see what had you so
captivated.”
I started to
giggle. “It’s not porn. It’s
romance!”
“Romance.”
He scoffed. “So you would consider it romantic if my huge cock
slapped you in the
face?”
I let out an
incredibly loud bark of laughter, drawing looks from surrounding passengers.
“That is not what it says!” I smacked him in the
chest.
“Go on. Enlighten
me then.”
“It’s
about the emotions, you asshole! The feelings people have when they fall in
love. The man who would never settle down finding his other half, who makes him
realize he needs no one but her. If a penis inadvertently smacks someone in the
face”—I shrugged, grinning
wickedly—“well, so be it.”
He threw his arm
around me, squeezing me close and kissing the top of my head. “You
still fascinate me.” He laughed.
“I still
haven’t decided if that’s a good thing or not,” I
muttered.
I live in beautiful
Northern Virginia with my incredible husband, two awesome kids, three dogs, and
two budgies. My husband and I both grew up riding and competing horses and have
our own equestrian operation that we run together. In my spare time, I read
through the hundreds of stories awaiting me on my
e-reader.
My love of books
started early, and my mom used to ration my reading time so I didn't go
through them too quickly. I love all things romantic, whether it's dark
or light or silly or dirty, but I really love a happy
ending!
In my small moments
of quiet time, you'll find me sipping on wine and reading while any
movie where people randomly burst into song or dance plays in the
background.
