Into the Blue
by Chanel Cleeton
July 5, 2016
Wild Aces #2
Adult Contemporary Romance
Penguin/Berkley
BOOK SUMMARY:
From the author of Fly with Me
and the Capital Confessions Novels comes the newest in the sexy Wild Aces
Romance series.
Eric Jansen—call sign Thor—loves
nothing more than pushing his F-16 to the limit. Returning home to South
Carolina after a tragic loss, he hopes to fix the mistake he made long ago,
when he chose the Air Force over his fiancée.
Becca Madison isn’t quick to welcome
Thor back. She can’t forget how he shattered her heart. But Thor won’t give up
once he’s set his sights on what he wants—and he wants Becca.
Thor shows Becca that he’s no longer the impulsive boy he used
to be, and Becca finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. But will Thor be able
to walk away from his dream of flying the F-16 for their love or does his heart
belong to the sky?
BOOK LINKS:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24820432-into-the-blue
EXCERPT:
Eric’s hand felt warm against mine—warm and big. He squeezed, and even though he touched my fingers, I
swore I felt an answering tightness around my heart, as though the power to
crush it lay in the palm of his hand.
I wanted to pull back, had never
intended to let him get this close, but here we were, and I didn’t
move. The temptation was just too strong to ignore and it felt too good
to have him hold my hand.
“I’m so sorry,” he whispered
again, his voice and eyes full of an emotion that spelled trouble.
This time I did pull back, too
close to losing my heart. Too much time had passed, too much between us. I
didn’t want to fall into the trap of thinking that this could be something
again, of letting old feelings confuse me.
“I need to go.”
“Can we get dinner sometime, or
coffee, or something?”
“I don’t think that’s a good
idea.”
“I know I don’t deserve for you
to let me in again, not after what I did, but what if we just gave it a chance.
If we took things slowly? What if we started as friends?”
I didn’t know how I was supposed
to answer that one, what slow was with people who had the kind of baggage we
did. We’d been engaged; I didn’t know how to pretend we
were just two people getting to know each other. At the same time, I didn’t
really know him. Not anymore. But what was the point of getting to know him if
he was just going to leave again?
“What’s changed?”
“What do you mean?”
“What’s changed?” I repeated.
“You’re back here, but what’s different? What’s the point? You’re going back to
Oklahoma in a few weeks, aren’t you?”
He nodded.
“Then what?”
He shifted in his seat, his
expression guarded. “Well, we have the deployment coming up, and then I’ll
probably go on to my next assignment. I don’t know where yet.”
Yeah, I’d been here before.
“So nothing has changed. Not
really.”
“I’ve missed you.”
I’d missed him, too. It wasn’t
enough. It had been ten years. We’d been apart longer than we’d been together.
It wasn’t like we could just hit “Play” and pick up where we’d left off.
“We still want different
things.”
He didn’t answer me for a beat.
“What if we didn’t want different things?”
I froze. He knew me too well,
knew just how to worm his way back in.
“Don’t try to make this about
me. Don’t come back here with your ‘maybes’ and your
‘what-ifs’ and expect me to hang my future on it. I’ve
been here before. I know how this goes. You’ve been back, what, a day? Do you
honestly think that after everything we’ve been through, I’m going to trust
that you want a future together? That you’ll actually choose me?
“I’m not going down this road
with you again. I’ve been there and all it did was give me years of heartbreak.
I don’t trust you anymore. There is no us. Not anymore.”
I grabbed my wallet, putting
some cash on the table for my breakfast. I got up on shaky legs, not giving him
a chance to respond, not sparing him another glance.
Check out Book 1 in the
Wild Aces series, Fly with Me:
On
Broken Wings, Wild Aces Book 3 Pre-order (out January 3, 2017):
AUTHOR
INFORMATION:
Originally a
Florida girl, CHANEL CLEETON moved to London where she received a bachelor’s
degree from Richmond, The American International University in London and
a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Chanel fell in love with London and planned to stay there forever, until fate
intervened on a Caribbean cruise and a fighter pilot with smooth dance moves
swept her off her feet. Now, a happily ever after later, Chanel is living her
next adventure.
Law school made
Chanel realize she’d rather spend her days writing sexy stories than in a
courtroom, and she hasn’t looked back since. An avid reader and hopeless
romantic, she’s happiest curled up with a book. She has a weakness for
handbags, her three pups, and her husband.
Chanel writes contemporary
romances, women's fiction, and thrillers. She is published by Harlequin
HQN, Penguin/InterMix, and Penguin/Berkley and is the author of the
International School, Capital Confessions, Assassins, and Wild Aces
series.
AUTHOR
LINKS:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/authorchanelcleeton
Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/chanelcleeton
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