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Avery Flynn | Whew! I Love a Strong and Silent Hero

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I am a talker. I know that shocks you. :) But in my latest steamy romance, HOLLYWOOD ON TAP, the hero, Sean is the strong and silent type. Itโ€™s so much easier to keep his secret that way. But when the nosey efficiency expert Natalie Sweet shows up at the Sweet Salvation Brewery, well itโ€™s just about all over for him. Who knew that one of the things he was hiding was a penchant for the hot librarian type? To show you what I mean, I brought along an excerpt from HOLLYWOOD ON TAP.

***

All Sean wanted to do was get lost in Natalie. Heโ€™d carry her upstairs to his
kingโ€“size bed, lay her down in the middle of his sheets, and lick every inch of
her until she broke apart in his arms and cried out for mercy. Then heโ€™d make
her do it again.

He sucked the juicy fullness of her bottom lip into his mouth, lightly raking
his teeth across the
tender flesh. The woman heโ€™d too often thought of as a thorn in his side
shivered in his arms. The need to touch her everywhere steamrolled over any
objections. He brought his hands around front to the tiny buttons on her sweater.

Deepening the kiss, he slid his tongue into her welcoming mouth just as his
fingers closed on the
button at the bottom of her cardigan and slipped it free. He followed the soft
material north to the next fastened button, but sheโ€™d beat him to it.

โ€œNo,โ€ he whispered against her mouth.

Her hands stilled, but her chest heaved. โ€œWhy?โ€

Removing the button from her grasp, he slipped it through the hole. โ€œI have
spent way too much time thinking about what it would be like to unbutton each
one of these.โ€

Not satisfied to remain a passive partner, she snuck her hands under his
Tโ€“shirt. โ€œYou think about
that, huh?โ€

โ€œEvery damn day.โ€ The woman had taken up residence in his thoughts the first day
she arrived at
the brewery with her clipboard. He was beyond fighting the attraction.

Her touch against his abs was the best kind of torture, and the bulge pushing
against his zipper
grew. How many times had he stroked himself while fantasizing about this exact
moment? How many times had his balls tightened in anticipation? How many times
had he finished alone but remained hungry for moreโ€”for the real thing? For only
Natalie?

Three buttons down, two more to go. Torn between the release of going faster and
the anticipation of taking it slow, he bought time by trailing his lips down the
creamy column of her neck.

โ€œAnd does thinking about it make you hard?โ€ Her thumb, and only her thumb,
rubbed up and
down the length of his zipper.

The contact destroyed and rebuilt him with every stroke. โ€œLike concrete.โ€

Her lips rested against his earlobe, close enough that moisture from her breath
evaporated against his overheated skin. โ€œJust because of a row of buttons?โ€

โ€œNo, because of what you keep hidden away from the world behind this
conservative facade.โ€ The last button was all that remained.

โ€œWhat makes you think itโ€™s an act?โ€

โ€œRight now?โ€ He slipped the last button free. The small amount of blood not
concentrated in his
dick pounded against his eardrums. โ€œA whole lotta hope.โ€

***

Whew! You see why I love that Sean? He may not be a lot for talking but oh man is he excellent when it comes to action. :) Check out HOLLYWOOD ON TAP for yourself at Amazon, iBooks, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. Itโ€™s on sale for 99ยข through Sunday Nov. 9 only, then the price goes up to $2.99 so get a deal while you can! And donโ€™t forget to enter the HOLLYWOOD ON TAP giveaway. Thereโ€™s tons of good stuff in it including a $50 Amazon gift card - right in time for the holidays. Check out the giveaway here. Have a great rest of your week and I hope to see a bunch of you at the Readers & 'Ritas this weekend!

xoxoxoxo

Avery

Comments

4 comments posted.

Re: Avery Flynn | Whew! I Love a Strong and Silent Hero

I love The Sweet Salvation Brewery Series! Hollywood On Tap
it Hot! Great read! You'll love Sean and Natalie's story!
(Delene Yochum 5:27pm November 5, 2014)

Loved High-Heeled Wonder. Cannot wait to read the Sweet
Salvation series.
(Summer Sharp 9:10pm November 5, 2014)

How I wish I had that book in my hands right now so that I
could read the rest of the story!! That was horrible of you
to print that passage and leave us hanging like that!! lol
You really are good with the love scenes, and I'm sure that
the rest of the book is just as good!! This will definately
be on my TBR list, without the hot beverage, since I won't
need it, for the upcoming Fall/Winter reading season. Thank
you for coming here and talking about your latest book!!
(Peggy Roberson 9:44am November 6, 2014)

:)
(Denise Holcomb 11:14pm November 6, 2014)

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