My Thoughts
I really do love Anna's writing. She creates these twisted alpha men who you can't help but fear and fall for all at the same time. Lucas is another one of those men. Now there are a few times I wanted to shake him, but totally got why he couldn't trust Yulia. Now at the same time I love Anna's men, I also love her women. Yulia is fantastic. Smart. Super smart. I want to know more about her. I want more of her and Lucas together. They are scorching hot and scary. I definitely want more of that and I am dying for the next part of their story to come out.
I give Capture Me 5 hearts!
I give Capture Me 5 hearts!
About the Book
A new dark romance series from the New York Times
bestselling author of Twist Me
She fears him from the first moment she sees him.
Yulia Tzakova is no
stranger to dangerous men. She grew up with them. She survived them. But when
she meets Lucas Kent, she knows the hard ex-soldier may be the most dangerous
of them all. One night—that’s all it should be. A chance to make up for a
failed assignment and get information on Kent’s arms dealer boss. When his
plane goes down, it should be the end. Instead, it's just the beginning.
He wants her from
the first moment he sees her.
Lucas Kent has
always liked leggy blondes, and Yulia Tzakova is as beautiful as they come. The
Russian interpreter might’ve tried to seduce his boss, but she ends up in
Lucas’s bed—and he has every intention of seeing her there again. Then his
plane goes down, and he learns the truth. She betrayed him. Now she will
pay.
NOTE: Capture Me is
the first book about Lucas & Yulia and has a cliffhanger-ish ending. It’s a
long novella/short novel of approximately 45,000 words (about 200 pages) and is
a spin-off from the Twist Me trilogy. It’s not necessary to have read that trilogy
to enjoy Capture Me, but the book does contain major spoilers for books 2 and 3
of Twist Me.
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Excerpt
Author’s Note
This is from Yulia’s POV. For those of you familiar with the
Twist Me series, this scene takes place in Moscow, when Lucas & Julian were
there to meet with the Russian officials.
He steps into my
apartment as soon as the door swings open. No hesitation, no greeting—he just
comes in. Startled, I step back, the short, narrow hallway suddenly stiflingly
small. I’d somehow forgotten how big he is, how broad his shoulders are. I’m
tall for a woman—tall enough to fake being a model if an assignment calls for
it—but he towers a full head above me. With the heavy down jacket he’s wearing,
he takes up almost the entire hallway. Still not saying a word, he closes the
door behind him and advances toward me. Instinctively, I back away, feeling
like cornered prey. “Hello, Yulia,” he murmurs, stopping when we’re out of the
hallway. His pale gaze is locked on my face. “I wasn’t expecting to see you
like this.” I swallow, my pulse racing. “I just took a bath.” I want to seem
calm and confident, but he’s got me completely off-balance. “I wasn’t expecting
visitors.” “No, I can see that.” A faint smile appears on his lips, softening
the hard line of his mouth. “Yet you let me in. Why?” “Because I didn’t want to
continue talking through the door.” I take a steadying breath. “Can I offer you
some tea?” It’s a stupid thing to say, given what he’s here for, but I need a
few moments to compose myself. He raises his eyebrows. “Tea? No, thanks.” “Then
can I take your jacket?” I can’t seem to stop playing the hostess, using
politeness to cover my anxiety. “It looks quite warm.” Amusement flickers in
his wintry gaze. “Sure.” He takes off his down jacket and hands it to me. He’s
left wearing a black sweater and dark jeans tucked into black winter boots. The
jeans hug his legs, revealing muscular thighs and powerful calves, and on his
belt, I see a gun sitting in a holster. Irrationally, my breathing quickens at
the sight, and it takes a concerted effort to keep my hands from shaking as I
take the jacket and walk over to hang it in my tiny closet. It’s not a surprise
that he’s armed—it would be a shock if he wasn’t—but the gun is a stark
reminder of who Lucas Kent is. What he is. It’s no big deal, I tell myself,
trying to calm my frayed nerves. I’m used to dangerous men. I was raised among
them. This man is not that different. I’ll sleep with him, get whatever
information I can, and then he’ll be out of my life. Yes, that’s it. The sooner
I can get it done, the sooner all of this will be over. Closing the closet
door, I paste a practiced smile on my face and turn back to face him, finally
ready to resume the role of confident seductress. Except he’s already next to
me, having crossed the room without making a sound. My pulse jumps again, my
newfound composure fleeing. He’s close enough that I can see the gray
striations in his pale blue eyes, close enough that he can touch me. And a
second later, he does touch me. Lifting his hand, he runs the back of his
knuckles over my jaw. I stare up at him, confused by my body’s instant
response. My skin warms and my nipples tighten, my breath coming faster. It
doesn’t make sense for this hard, ruthless stranger to turn me on. His boss is
more handsome, more striking, yet it’s Kent my body’s reacting to. All he’s
touched thus far is my face. It should be nothing, yet it’s intimate somehow.
Intimate and disturbing. I swallow again. “Mr. Kent—Lucas—are you sure I can’t
offer you something to drink? Maybe some coffee or—” My words end in a
breathless gasp as he reaches for the tie of my robe and tugs on it, as
casually as one would unwrap a package. “No.” He watches as the robe falls
open, revealing my naked body underneath. “No coffee.”
Coming February 2, 2016
Bind Me
(Capture Me, Book 2)
Synopsis
He’s determined to break her.
For Lucas Kent, his new prisoner is a maddening
contradiction: compliant yet defiant, fragile yet strong. He needs to uncover
her secrets, but doing so may ruin everything. His obsession could destroy her.
She’s determined to
escape.
For Yulia Tzakova,
her captor is the man of both her dreams and her nightmares: tender one moment,
cruel the next. She can’t let him crack her, but resisting him may leave her
broken. A moment of weakness could cost her everything.
NOTE: Bind Me is
book 2 of 4 in Lucas & Yulia’s story, and it ends on a cliffhanger. It’s a
novel of approximately 51,000 words (~250 print pages).
About the Author
Anna Zaires fell in
love with books at the age of five, when her grandmother taught her to read.
She wrote her first story shortly thereafter. Since then, she has always lived
partially in a fantasy world where the only limits were those of her
imagination. Currently residing in Florida, Anna is happily married to Dima
Zales (a science fiction and fantasy author) and closely collaborates with him
on all their works. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a
degree in Economics, Anna spent eight years on Wall Street analyzing stocks and
writing research reports. In 2013, she became a full-time author, pursuing her
lifelong dream of writing romance novels. Dima Zales is the love of her life
and a huge inspiration in all aspects of her writing. Every book Anna writes is
a product of their unique collaborative process. In addition to reading and
writing, Anna enjoys drinking tea (coconut oolong, anyone?), watching addictive
TV shows, and discussing book ideas during long walks with her amazing husband.
She loves hearing from her readers, so please don't hesitate to contact her
through her website or connect with her on Facebook, where she hangs out way
too often. Also, please visit her husband and collaborator, Dima Zales, at
www.dimazales.com and check out their fantasy & science fiction books.
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