I am happy to be hosting a stop on the blog tour for CAPTIVE DESIRE by Robin Lovett! I have an excerpt to share with you today check it out and enter to win the giveaway below!
About The Book:
Gahnin, a Ssedez general, hasn't had a woman since his first mate died a century ago. And since his kind can live for a thousand years, he's still bound by traditional mourning. If he breaks mourning, he could lose his position in the Ssedez military. His friends and family. Everything.
That means no falling in love. No lust. No sex. For another century.
Then he's ordered to guard Assura, a human woman and military special operative, on a planet whose atmosphere causes a sexual arousal so fierce, it drives people insane if it isn't satisfied.
Even though he tries to keep Assura at arm's length, he's hooked. Forbidden desire called to life by a human, the same species who killed his first mate. Assura needs his body if she is going to live. But if he gives in to his passion, it could destroy him.
Now on to the excerpt!
Assura
grasps my hand. “Gahnin, my relationship with my former lover was what we
call casual.”
“Casual?”
I have misunderstood and betrayed my concern for her. I am not supposed
to care about her—and I am failing.
My
vulnerability grips at my anger and pulls at my chest. I do not understand this
woman or these humans or any human. “What is casual about love? There is
nothing more powerful in the universe.” I have lived with the grief of losing
it for ten decades. I am both marked and scarred forever.
Assura
leans her head on her knee, and her expression is full of sensitivity and
patience. “I love her for the extraordinary woman she is. She is glorious to
share a bed with. But I never had any desire to be exclusive with her or to
have a commitment from her.”
This
translates into nothing I have experienced before.
I
have seen other unmated warriors engage in such relationships. But I have never
succeeded. “So, you have not cheated or been unfaithful with me?”
“No.
I’m free to sleep with whoever and whenever I like.” She says it
with lightness almost like it is a joke.
But
there is nothing funny about it to me. “That means that what you and I have is
also…”— I have to swallow before I can say it—“…casual.”
The acid eating at my stomach, rather than lessening, gets worse. It starts to
burn in my gut.
There
is nothing casual about the mating bond that is still brewing inside me for
her. It is a force of nature, one that I can try to deny or avoid. One that I
must conquer.
She
hesitates but eventually agrees. “Yes, this is casual.”
I
stare off in the forest. “It is also chemically induced.”
“What
do you mean?”
“We
have been lovers only because of the toxin in the atmosphere which makes us
want to have sex, the desidre.” I say this because I
need it to be true. That is the only reason I still crave her body like an
addiction.
She
stops breathing, so I have to look at her. “That… is…” She stutters
with confusion, and her voice morphs to indignation. “Do you honestly believe
that? You think the only reason we’re like this”—she gestures back
and forth between us—“like
a damn lit fuse waiting to go off, is because of the desidre?”
“Of
course it is,” I assert but cannot stop from noticing how her breasts are
propped up against her knees, from remembering what they felt like in my hands.
She
tosses her head back and stares at the stars. “You know, they say it’s
the desidre, but I haven’t felt like having sex with anyone but
you, and the Fellamana told me the desidre should make us want to
have it with anyone who
breathes.
Why is that?”
My
breath stops, and I do not want to answer. “I do not know. I have never
indulged in casual sex.” It would have been disrespectful to my first mate's
memory. Still is.
Assura
drags her gaze down to mine, and there’s a mischievous glint to her eye, like
she knows something. “You are what we call a serial monogamist, Gahnin. You need
to wrap your logic around sex as recreation, not only something to indulge in
when one is mated or committed or whatever.”
I
try; I do. But it’s as though my brain is a computer and the entry code is
wrong.
About Robin:
ROBIN LOVETT enjoys trips to alien worlds to avoid
earthly things, like day jobs and housework. When not reading romance
with her cat, she’s busy writing sexy books, which may or may not involve
anti-heroes, aliens, or both, but almost always enemies-to-lovers. She’s a
big fan of her husband who regards writing romance as far more important than
practical things, like paychecks. Her favorite surprise in the world, or
the universe, was finding out by some miracle other people want to read
the same kind stories she loves to write.
In a past life, Robin worked as a
professional opera singer who grew tired of playing dying heroines and took up
writing Happily-Ever-After instead.
Her ultra hot sci-fi
erotic series releases through Entangled Publishing’s Scorched line
in 2018. Her first contemporary dark thriller series released summer 2017
through St. Martin’s Press Swerve, Stranger:
A Dark Stalker Romance, Deceiver:
A Dark Revenge Romance and Keeper:
A Dark Captive Romance.
She can be happily reached on Twitter @LovettRomance and
on Facebook.
You can also follow her on Pinterest or Instagram or at her author pages on Amazon, Goodreads, or BookBub.
For the writers, check out her
weekly posts on #RWChat,
a Twitter chat for romance writers every Sunday evening. She also writes a
monthly romance writing column on diyMFA.com and was a
contributor to the former Heroes & Heartbreakers blog. She is
represented by Rachel Brooks of BookEnds Literary Agency.
Giveaway Details:
1 winner will receive a $15 Amazon
Gift Card, International.
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Tour Schedule:
Week One:
11/19/2018- bookriot- Review
11/19/2018- BookHounds- Excerpt
11/20/2018- Reese's
Reviews- Review
11/20/2018- Parajunkee- Excerpt
11/21/2018- Good
Choice Reading- Excerpt
11/21/2018- Two
Chicks on Books- Excerpt
11/22/2018- Aisha E Reads- Review
11/22/2018- A Dream Within A Dream- Excerpt
11/23/2018- Angel's
Guilty Pleasures- Excerpt
11/23/2018- Dena
Garson-Real... Hot... Romance- Excerpt
