For years Camellia has avoided capture. Working behind the scenes and using whatever means necessary to shake up the establishment, she's been helping the descendants of disavowed women reclaim their birthright. But when she falls into the arms of an uncompromising spy, she may very well have met her match.
Melody Knight’s "In Trysts" (www.melodyknight.com), published December 2006 by Linden Bay Romance, is a must read for thriller fans and romance readers alike. The book is the author's nineteenth published novel, but her first passion piece. Years of science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing offer an edge to this fast-paced romantic thriller.
Watch out, "Casino Royale". New Zealand knows how to make great movies, and "In Trysts" may be next.
Excerpt:
He could tell from her moves that she pictured herself as a ferocious feline. Now, as she wriggled, he could have told her how wrong she was. He was the feline, the cat, the predator. She was fragile, fighting, like some fluffed-up chick in her ridiculously bright plumage. And he was about to eat her.
He pulled her in, close, her arms pinned between them. She butted him with her head, right in the chin, so his teeth clacked together.
Dammit!
Jake locked his fingers in her hair, and tilted her back, to see her face.
Experience told him she’d do anything—say anything now—to save herself.
It wasn’t the message in her eyes.
Too proud to use him...too proud to be used. Experience also told him he’d be a fool to read her that way. This was no time for whimsy.
But there was no doubt she was terrified, and didn’t know how to end this. Jake did. He wrapped his arms around her, and tilted her head back, fingers still trapped in her hair, so she couldn’t slam him any more.
He was still within the bounds…nothing overstepped...yet. It was like watching himself from without. He could’ve stopped what came next…told himself to stop what came next...but didn’t.
He lowered his lips, ever so slowly...to hers.
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