She
doesn’t surrender to his kiss.
He
doesn’t back down from a challenge.
It’s
going to be a sensual fight … to the death.
Audition,
a sexy and enthralling new standalone romance from New York Times
bestselling author Skye Warren and USA
Today bestselling author Amelia Wilde, is available now!
Blood and sweat. Bethany Lewis danced her
way out of poverty. She’s a world class athlete… with a debt to pay.
Joshua North always gets what he wants.
And the mercenary wants Bethany in his bed. He wants her beautiful little body
bent to his will.
She doesn’t surrender to his kiss.
He doesn’t back down from a challenge.
It’s going to be a sensual fight … to the
death.
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Excerpt:
I
open the door, expecting to see a couple of rough-hewn bastards fighting or
training. They might even take a swing at me. We’re all a bunch of army
bastards, more comfortable using our fists than our words.
Instead
I’m struck by the sight of a body in motion, but not in violence.
She’s
dancing. Grace. Strength. And completely inappropriate to this place—desire.
It’s nothing so base as tits and ass, though I’m sure hers are lovely. No, it’s
the sweep of her calf and the indent at her waist. The lift of her chin.
I
could not be more shocked if I had been punched. Or shot.
It
feels a little bit like being dunked in lava, watching her dance. I’m immobile
in the doorframe of the warehouse. My sanity is one step behind me, utterly
gone. I’m seeing visions. She can’t be real. I don’t even want her to be real.
This kind of beauty doesn’t belong in the goddamn gutter. A pale pink leotard
against the dinge-dark hollow. Satin ballet shoes pushing into the dirt.
Slowly, very slowly, my sluggish mind searches the perimeter. Alone. We’re
alone. If anyone had wanted to shoot me, they’d have had plenty of time. An
eternity while I’d been staring.
Her
spin slows, like a top that’s run out of momentum. Dark eyes meet mine.
Surprise. A flash of something else—anger. She drops to flat feet. No longer a
goddess, a blur. She becomes a woman. “No,” she says. Then again, “No,” with
such force I glance behind me in case someone’s charging at her wielding a
knife. The shipyard is empty. It’s only my company she’s objecting to.
Well,
you can’t fault her for taste.
“Normally
I have to say something for women to hate me,” I say, strolling into the
warehouse, pretending my heart doesn’t thud at the sight of her lithe body.
Pretending my cock isn’t a breath away from rock-hard. “I have to say something
about their tits or their ass.”
Her
eyes narrow, but she doesn’t seem particularly shocked by my crude language.
No, she wouldn’t be. Not in this place. She would have heard much worse. “I
told him no more guards.”
“You
told who?”
“Who
else?” she says. “Your boss.”
My
boss? I work for the US government. My job is to drive around godforsaken
deserts and pray I don’t get blown up by a bomb buried underground. If I play
my cards right, I might move into special operations. That’s what was implied before
I went on leave. Go along with what Caleb
Lewis offers. Collect information. Report back.
It’s
a chance to be somewhere other than the bottom rung. Maybe the only chance I’ll
ever get. Which means I have no business being interested in this girl. She
probably isn’t even eighteen. “My boss,” I repeat, my voice flat.
“Isn’t
that why you’re here? To guard me?”
“Why
don’t we do this—you dance again. I’ll stand here, but if anyone attacks you,
I’ll just let them have at it. No bodyguards for you.”
She’s
not amused. “The guards aren’t there to protect me. You’re here to keep me in
the warehouse or keep me at home. Make sure I don’t wander away. Make sure I
don’t talk to anyone.”
“You’re
talking to me.”
“You
tell Caleb we had a deal. And it doesn’t include some—” Her narrowed gaze
sweeps down my body, as if she’s only now noticed that I have a body. “Some
overmuscled asshole on steroids.”
I
put my hand over my chest. “Direct hit. I’m wounded you think I’d resort to
steroids. These muscles were earned the old-fashioned way, thank you very
much.”
She
snorts, which somehow sounds feminine and delicate. “I’m sure you do much worse
things than steroids. And there is no way, absolutely no way, that you’re going
to be my new guard, so tell Caleb he can forget it.”
“Would
it put your mind at ease to know he didn’t send me?” Though I’m curious how
he’s connected to her. We enlisted at the same time. Went through basic at the
same time. We’ve never been close, really. When we both had leave, I was
surprised he offered for me to hang out with him in New Orleans. I accepted
because I have nowhere else to go. At the time I had no idea that I’d be
approached by some special department to gather intel for them. Doesn’t take a
genius to figure out Caleb’s into some bad shit.
“Right,”
she says, unconvinced. “So you’re standing in the one warehouse that doesn’t
contain anything illegal because…?”
“Total
coincidence. I was looking for the illegal stuff.” Which means I have no
business staying to chat with this woman, no matter how compelling she looks
with that notch between her eyebrows. She looks goddamn fierce. “Honestly.”
A
roll of her eyes. “Tell my brother he doesn’t need to waste time and energy
watching me. I’m staying out of trouble.”
Her
brother. Jesus. If she’s Caleb Lewis’s sister, then she’s not staying in
trouble. It won’t be a clean shot that brings him down. It’ll be a grenade
launcher that hits him—metaphorically speaking. Or literally speaking. Everyone
in his vicinity will end up in jail or dead. That’s inevitable.
And
she’s right here.
About Skye Warren
Skye Warren is the New
York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance such as the Endgame
trilogy. Her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today Happily Ever After, Glamour,
and Elle Magazine. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, sweet
dogs, and evil cat.
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About Amelia
Amelia Wilde wrote her first story when she was six years
old, a narrative strongly inspired by The Polar Express. When she was nine she
wrote her first novel-length work, all in one paragraph.
Now, Amelia is all about that love. Her romances feature
unique, independent heroines and alpha heroes who are strong of heart and body.
Readers have described her work as “emotional,” “intense,” “phenomenal,” and
“like a child scribbled with a crayon,” which she takes as the highest praise.
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