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Bella Andre!!!!
Info about KISS ME LIKE THIS (The Morrisons, Book 1):
Kiss
Me Like This is the first book in my series about the Morrisons, six
siblings between the ages of 18 and 25. I've been wanting to write about
this family for so long and I can't wait for everyone to read Sean
Morrison and Serena Britten's sexy and emotional love story! Serena was a
side character in my most recent Sullivan book (Just To Be With You)
and Smith Sullivan from Come A Little Bit Closer appears in Kiss Me Like
This, too. (Btw, I am still going to be writing Sullivans! Dylan
Sullivan's book will be out this fall.)
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Sean
Morrison, one of six siblings and the top college baseball player in
the country, is reeling from a heartbreakingly painful loss. Nothing
seems to matter anymore…until the night Serena Britten unexpectedly ends
up in his arms.
Serena
is a world-famous model who has only ever wanted to be normal, even
though her mother has always pushed her to become a superstar. Though it
isn’t easy to try to leave everyone and everything she knows behind,
Serena is determined to enroll in college. More than anything, she wants
to turn her love for books into a new career that she actually loves.
Only, she never expected to meet someone like Sean on campus—or to be
instantly consumed by their incredible chemistry and connection.
But
when the pressures of her high-profile modeling career only get bigger
and more demanding, will it make living a normal life as a college
student—and falling in love with the hottest guy on campus—impossible?
EXCERPT 1 from: “Kiss Me Like This" (The Morrisons, Book 1) by Bella Andre copyright 2014
“You
keep talking about wanting to be normal.” Sean looked confused. “But I
don’t get why would you want to be anything other than as extraordinary
as you are?”
Serena
wished she’d learned enough in her English classes already to have the
right words to explain things to him. To her mom, too. When she didn’t
answer him because she didn’t know how, she could read his frustration
loud and clear. She expected him to keep hammering away at her until she explained why she was such a freak.
But instead of pressuring her, he simply said, “If you want normal, I’ll give you normal.”
It
was the nicest thing anyone had ever said to her, and her surprise at
his offer—one that showed he already understood so much more about her
than anyone else ever had—made her momentarily speechless.
“As
soon as I get back to my frat house, I’m going to set everyone straight
about us so that they know this story is bogus and that we’re just
friends. I’ll make sure they spread the word.”
“That’s great,” and he was too, “but we couldn’t even go get pizza together without it making the national news.”
“You
said you were starting to trust me, right?” When she nodded, he said,
“So now how about you let me actually be your friend.”
She
wanted so badly to take everything he was offering at face value, but
what if her mother was right? What if all men did was use and lie and
hurt?
“Why would you want to do this for me?”
“In the past year, since we found out my mom was sick, it’s been…” He swallowed hard and looked away for a moment. “It’s
been pretty rough.” He brought his gaze back to hers and held her
spellbound in his green depths. “But when I’m with you, I forget to feel
bad.”
Everything
he said was so sweet, and so heartfelt, that as all her fears
temporarily fell away, she couldn’t keep from saying, “When I’m with
you, I forget about all the craziness, too.”
“He grinned at her. “Does this mean you’re going to let me show you what it’s like to be a normal college student?”
Maybe
she was being crazy to open herself up to him like this, but her heart
was whirling and twirling around inside her chest too fast for her to do
anything but smile back at him and say, “Yes.”
As
they stood there smiling at each other outside the library, amazingly,
what she felt between them was as powerful as his kiss had been at the
party. Only, this time she wanted to be the one to pull him against her
so that she could kiss him.
Excerpt 1 from: “Kiss Me Like This" (The Morrisons, Book 1) by Bella Andre copyright 2014
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Excerpt 2 from: “Kiss Me Like This" (The Morrisons, Book 1) by Bella Andre copyright 2014
“Sitting
on the blanket she’d brought, he let her do it all—unscrew the top of
the tequila bottle, put out the salt shaker between them, pour the
shots, cut up the lime—and she knew why. Yet again, he didn’t want her
to feel that he was forcing her to do anything. He wanted to be sure
that “everything she was doing was her decision.
But
while she hadn’t changed her mind about her plans for tonight, and the
tequila thankfully smelled better than she’d expected it to, that didn’t
mean she felt all that confident about how to actually drink it.
“I looked up several ways to do the shots on the Internet,” she admitted. “But I’m sure you have some favorites.”
He
reached out and brushed his thumb across her lower lip. “I do.” His
gorgeous mouth tipped up into a smile. “But I’ll need you to come closer
so that I can show you what they are.”
Every
inch of her wanted every inch of him already. It had been that way from
the first moment he’d held her in his arms at the frat party, but now
that she knew how amazing he was...well, she was barely a heartbeat from
shoving aside all the drinking paraphernalia and tackling him.
“Care to share some of what’s going on inside that big brain of yours?”
She
looked up at him in surprise, feeling as if he’d already read her mind.
And since she guessed that even if she didn’t say it aloud, he’d know,
she said, “I’m having trouble concentrating on my goal of learning how
to drink tequila when all I want to do is kiss you.”
His mouth curved up wider even as his eyes grew darker. “Who says you have to pick one or the other?”
He
poured tequila into one of the shot glasses, quickly drank it, then
drew her onto his lap so that she was straddling him. He slid his tongue
into her mouth and she instinctively knew to suck the liquor from it,
then lick his lips clean, too.
“How was that?”
She was almost too breathless to reply. “Good.” She couldn’t drag her gaze away from his “mouth. “So good.”
He poured another small amount into a shot glass, then held it out to her. “Your turn.”
She brought the glass up to her lips and tasted it, unable to stop her nose from wrinkling at just how strong it was.
“It’s
usually better if you just toss it back,” Sean coached her. “Although
I’m perfectly happy to quit the drinking part of the evening now if you
want...and just get back to the kissing part.”
Oh,
but she was tempted. It would be so easy to skip over this rite of
passage. Only, she knew it would keep bothering her that she’d never
experienced something that was a part of nearly every other college
student’s normal vernacular.
Taking
a deep breath, she tilted her head back and tossed the shot down her
throat. Oh God, she thought as her eyes watered, it burned like
fire...but then Sean was there with his fingers tangling in her hair and
his mouth on hers as he sucked at her tongue the way she’d sucked at
his. As the fire immediately moved from her throat to her breasts and
the vee between her legs, the shot glass dropped from her hand and she
wrapped her arms around him to try to get closer.
“What did you think about that?” His mouth was still so close to hers that his question felt like another kiss.
“It was hot. But I’m not sure how much of the way I’m feeling has to do with the tequila.”
AUTHOR BIO:
Bella
Andre is the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly
bestselling author of “The Sullivans” series. Having sold more than 3
million books, Bella Andre’s novels have been #1 bestsellers around the
world and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller
lists 16 times. She has been the #1 Ranked Author at Amazon (on a top 10
list that included Nora Roberts, JK Rowling, James Patterson and Steven
King). Known for “sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady
romance” (Publishers Weekly), her books have been Cosmopolitan Magazine
“Red Hot Reads” twice and have been translated into ten languages.
Winner of the Award of Excellence, The Washington Post called her “One
of the top digital writers in America” and she has been featured by NPR,
USA Today, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and TIME Magazine. If not
behind her computer, you can find her reading her favorite authors,
hiking, swimming or laughing. Married with two children, Bella splits
her time between the Northern California wine country and a 100 year old
log cabin in the Adirondacks.
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