My Thoughts
Katie gets into an accident one night and Marcos is the one who hit her car due to another driver trying to run them off the road. When she is pinned in the car until help arrives, Marco is there talking to her. Something he says that night changes everything for Katie. After the accident she can't find him so she put an add in the paper saying that she wants to see him. His friend calls and tells him about it and he comes to her. They spend a blissful sexy week together and then he heads home to Miami to take care of some things, but Katie isn't ready to let him go.
I loved these two together. Not only are they steamy hot, but they get each other. Really get each other. Katie is so persistent in chasing her heart. And I just love how Marcos speaks into her life with words of encouragement and how protective he is of her. He's one bad ass alpha male in love.
I give The Viper 5 hearts!
I loved these two together. Not only are they steamy hot, but they get each other. Really get each other. Katie is so persistent in chasing her heart. And I just love how Marcos speaks into her life with words of encouragement and how protective he is of her. He's one bad ass alpha male in love.
I give The Viper 5 hearts!
Excerpt
“You’re stubborn, cariño.”
Katie flipped her hair back. She crawled over Marcos and
straddled him once more. She reached for her coffee and took a sip. She noticed
he didn’t have a complaint this time. He seemed a little too relaxed to bother
as she admitted, “I am very stubborn. Ask anyone. It’s usually their chief
complaint about me.”
“I like it.” He tugged a long strand of her hair. “A lot.”
“That’s why you’re perfect.” She grinned, enjoying how
completely unselfconscious she was around him. It was such a rare commodity in
her life. For some reason, she didn’t question for one minute that he liked her
just as she was. She felt the same about him as she eyed his body under hers.
She reached out and touched one of the stars on his shoulder. There was a
matching one on the other shoulder. “What do these mean?”
He winced. “If you knew, you wouldn’t think I’m perfect.”
She arched an eyebrow. “Try me.”
“They mean I’m a thief,” he said simply, as if daring her to
judge him.
“Of what?” She took another sip of her coffee as she studied
the strange stars that decorated each of his shoulders.
“Of anything left unattended long enough for me to take
advantage of.” He laced a hand behind his head, still studying her
thoughtfully. “Cars. Houses. Pretty, innocent gringas with talented mouths.”
She laughed. “I’m not that innocent.”
“That’s what you think.”
“Mmm,” she hummed rather than argue, and took another sip of
her coffee that was extra creamy and sweet, making it the color of Marcos’s tan
skin. She studied him again, and ran her hand over the tattooed cross on his
chest with the names of his mother and cousin above and below it. Then she
touched the inked black tribal tattoos on his right biceps. It covered so much
skin, and the left side matched. “What about these?”
He looked amused with her exploration of him. “They mean
nothing.”
“Then why get them?”
“I dunno, ‘cause I was young and vain and had a lot of
disposable income.”
“From stealing things.”
“Yup.”
“Where’s your disposable income now?”
He laughed. “On my arms.”
“So you must not be stealing things anymore,” she said,
because she suspected as much.
“Not right now, no.” He took her coffee from her and leaned
up, stealing a sip before he put it back on the nightstand. “Soon, maybe.”
“Once a thief—” she mused.
“Always a thief,” he finished for her as he laced his other
hand behind his head. “You’d be smart to remember it, chica.”
“Why did you get the tattoos?” she asked as she touched his
right arm again. She didn’t believe for one minute he did them just for vanity.
Every marking on his body had a meaning. It was like an illustration to the
history of his life, and she found it fascinating. “The truth.”
He looked away from her. His body stiffened all of a sudden,
and she got the impression she may have pushed too far before he admitted in a
low, raspy voice, “Because they hurt.”
“Huh?”
“I just wanted something to hurt me. To make me forget. To
make it sting so bad I couldn’t think about anything but the needle digging
into my skin.”
“Did it work?”
“No.” He looked back to her, the pain glimmering in his
light eyes. “If it did, I would have a lot more.”
She laid down over him and let her head rest on his shoulder
over one of the stars that marked him as a thief. He stroked her hair and
together they shared a quiet moment where she didn’t judge him, and he let her
be still and ache for him.
About the Book
Marcos
Rivera is a fighter. A gang member. Someone who has seen the dark side of
humankind and survived. He has lost family and gained enemies. He has stolen
cars and destroyed hearts, stripping one for money and the other for pleasure.
His past is haunted and his future is bleak.
Until
her.
Katie
Foster is a high school history teacher. Smart, strong, and sexy. She is a
woman Marcos shouldn’t want. Shouldn’t touch. Shouldn’t love. He met her in
Garnet, a backwards, hick town that’s the last place in the world he wants to
be, but he finds himself going back for a taste of the forbidden.
Katie
represents all that is good in the world, and Marcos knows he’s nothing but
trouble for her perfect life. He fights and he screws. He commits crimes and he
breaks the rules. He will never change and he will never escape his gang
lifestyle.
Or
can he?
What
happens when two different people from two very different walks of life risk it
all by giving into the passion that threatens to consume both of them? Can a
woman who only knows how to play it safe give her heart to a man who lives hard
and loves harder?
Will
she survive The Viper?
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About the Author
A
freckle faced, redhead born and raised in Hawaii, Kele Moon has always been a
bit of a sore thumb and has come to enjoy the novelty of it. She thrives off
pushing the envelope and finding ways to make the impossible work in her story
telling. With a mad passion for romance, she adores the art of falling in love.
The only rules she believes in is that, in love there are no rules and true
love knows no bounds.
So
obsessed is she with the beauty of romance and the novelty of creating it she’s
lost in her own wonder world most of the time. Thankfully she married her own
dark, handsome, brooding hero who had infinite patience for her airy ways and
attempts to keep her grounded. When she leaves her keys in the refrigerator or
her cell phone in the oven he’s usually there to save her from herself. The two
of them now reside in Florida with their three beautiful children who make
their lives both fun and challenging in equal parts–They wouldn’t have it any
other way.
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