Book Title: DEADLY CHEMISTRY
Author: Teri Anne Stanley
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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Author Bio:
Teri Anne Stanley has been writing since she
could hold a crayon--though learning to read was a huge turning point in her
growth as a writer. Teri's first stories involved her favorite Saturday morning
cartoon characters, followed by her favorite teen idols. She has also authored a recipe column (The
Three Ingredient Gourmet), and scientific articles (Guess which was more
interesting!). Now she writes fun, sexy
romance filled with love, angst, and nekkid parts.
Teri's career has included sex therapy for
rats, making posing suits for female body builders, and helping amputee
amphibians recover to their full potential. She currently supplements her
writing income as a neuroscience research assistant. Along with a variety of teenagers and dogs,
she and Mr. Stanley live just outside of Sugartit, which is—honest to
God—between Beaverlick, and Rabbit Hash, Kentucky.
Book Synopsis:
Former undercover cop Mike Gibson has been
lying low, working as a maintenance man to put his troubled younger brother
through college. But when a beautiful scientist enlists Mike’s help to repair
the damage done to her lab by a group of vandals, Mike finds that his, and his
brother's pasts, are about to be brought to light.
Laura Kane was happy having a secret crush on
the hot maintenance man at Tucker University, but when the drug she was
studying is stolen, Laura has a chance to get to know Mike in person. The
problem is, he seems to know more about what's going on than any maintenance
man should. But then the drug turns up in the wrong hands, and Mike and Laura
have to decide if their own chemistry will help, or hinder, the race to save
innocent lives.
Tagline: Some chemical reactions generate too much heat...
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Excerpts:
He was not
for her. Nerdy scientist girls had to stay away from hot guys with big,
muscle-y arms and white smiles. So why the heck couldn’t she stop looking back
at the biology building?
She shook herself. What was wrong with her?
She had to get out of here. She could lust after him from a distance. That
would be fine. Safe. He could be her pretend lover. She turned the key and
threw the car into gear. With one last glance over her shoulder toward her new imaginary boyfriend, she stomped her
foot on the accelerator. And promptly shot backward over the curb, knocking
over a trash can, which wound up wedged under the rear bumper.
“Gack!” She put the car in park and jumped out
to survey the damage. Rounding the back end and seeing the trash can, she
shrieked and stepped out of the way of a family of possums—a mom and
three…teenagers? They tottered about, blinking in the bright morning sunshine.
“Whoa, careful!” Maintenance Man Mike was
suddenly there, grabbing Lauren’s upper arms and shifting
her out of the way of the scraggly little
things. “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” she said. “But the kids—I ran over
their house!” One of the little ones clung to its mother’s fur, but two others
careened blindly away from the scene of the home wrecking.
“I tell you what,” Mike said. “You pull your
car forward, off the trash can, then we’ll see if we can’t help ’em out.”
“Okay.” Lauren’s heartbeat started to slow and
beat a regular rhythm. Except where Mike had touched her arms. There, her skin
seemed to be throbbing and tingling.
Sheesh.
She moved her car forward and off of the
sidewalk, then went back to Mike and the possum. Fortunately, there were no
other faculty members’ cars in the lot yet. What would she have told them? No, I wasn’t texting anddriving. I was
mentally undressing a stranger.
Please, God…don’t let it be her drug they were
talking about on the news. After Crawford left, Mike stopped fiddling with
settings on the centrifuge. He straightened and turned to lean against a clean
section of counter. Crossing his arms, he glared at Lauren.
“What?” She realized she’d crossed her arms,
too, and stood with a hip cocked out. Defensive much? “Let’s have it.”
“You lied.”
“About what?”
“What’s missing. Those pellet things you
showed me yesterday. They’re all gone.”
Damn.
“Yeah. You wanna start talking?” He uncrossed
his arms and moved toward Lauren. He smelled of fabric softener again, like the
day before. What single guy used fabric softener?
“Are you married?” Ugh. Did she really say that?
That slowed him down, though. “What? No. I
live with my brother. I told you that last night.” He took another step into
her personal space. “Why did you lie?”
Instead of feeling intimidated, she found
herself uncrossing her arms and putting her hands behind her to
hold on to the ledge. “How’s the cat doing?”
“Howled all night. Dylan threatened to poison
it.”
“Dylan did? But he’s such an animal lover!”
“Shows you how much of a head case that cat
is.” He pinned her in place with that dark stare. “Why did you lie?”
He was so close that she could feel his heat.
How much closer was he going to get? When she took a deep breath, her breasts brushed his chest.
Which caused her to take another deep breath. Not
on purpose, of course. His eyes heated. She
could smell coffee now. She licked her lips, and his nostrils flared. He bent
his head closer. She needed to answer his question, but what should she say? If
she didn’t answer, would he…what, kiss it out of her? He should work for the
CIA. Or the FBI. As part of the
Threaten to Kiss Information From Witnesses
Unit. -- DEADLY CHEMISTRY @teriannestanley
http://bit.ly/DeadlyChemistryEP
“He went to see a pig about a horse.”
When Mike laughed, Lauren’s heart did one of
those little fluttery things she was getting used to feeling when he was
around. She loved to see him laugh, she realized with a start. This wasn’t a
giant gut-grabbing guffaw, but a headtilting bark of laughter. It turned his
throat—and that little
shadowy area under his jaw—into somewhere she
wanted to lick.
“You know what?” he said. “I actually believe
you.” He stood there for a second, smiling at her. Lauren smiled back. Oh boy. She liked him. Like, liked him. If her best friend had been
there, she’d have slipped her a note to pass to Mike, asking if he liked her
back. Check yes or no.
Then what he had said sunk in and she said,
“Wait—why wouldn’t you believe me?”
“Well…”
She waved the question away. “So what brings
you here on a Saturday?”
“I’m on call. I got a call, so I came in to fix a leaky sink… and to check up on
Dylan. And find out if you’ve heard an update from Crawford.”
Lauren hesitated a minute, then said, “I think
it’s time for you to tell me your story. There’s some kind of…something swimming below the surface
here.”
Mike’s gaze narrowed on her mouth. She licked
her lips, but then said, “Oh, no, you’re not
going to distract me. Spill it.”
He raised an eyebrow, and she realized she’d
revealed too much—that she was aware of him, of how much he appealed to her. He
smirked, then chewed on his bottom lip, as though trying to decide how much to
tell her. -- DEADLY CHEMISTRY @teriannestanley
http://bit.ly/DeadlyChemistryEP
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