Welcome to a Tantalizing Tuesday post here at Sassy Vixen Publishing. We're thrilled to celebrate the brand new release by one of our friends author Dakota Skye.
Blurred Lines is the first paranormal erotic romance from Dakota and we hope it is the start of many more to come. This one centers on a love triangle between the heroine and two male lovers—one just happens to be a ghost! Come on in, take a seat and check out Dakota's novel.
BLURB
Letting go is like a
death. Sierra never thought she would be caught in a love triangle between
her writing partner, Alex, and the love of her life, Shane—especially because
her ex-fiancé is now a ghost. Tormented with both guilt for moving on with
someone else and a desire to be free of the past, she's pulled between both
men. Shane struggles with accepting his death and seeing the woman he loves
with someone else. Alex is determined to free Sierra from limbo and change
their relationship from casual to serious, but the bond she has with Shane
transcends death. One of the three needs to let go.
Only the good die
young. When Shane Weston is murdered before prosecuting a key member of the
Mexican drug cartel, he can't accept the idea that all of the plans he had had
for his life will never come true. More than that, he can't let go of the love
he has for his fiancée.
Love never dies.
Sierra Daniels is crushed after Shane's death. Head writer on a successful
television series, she can't get back into the groove of life. All enthusiasm
for work is gone. Ready to quit everything, she travels to her cabin in Lake
Tahoe in hopes of escaping everyone's expectations and disappearing for a while.
The lines between
right and wrong often blur. Alexander Blaine has risked his future on a
career change from DEA agent to lead consultant and writer on hit television
series. Sierra's grief has shadowed everyone around her, including him, and
jeopardizes both of their careers. Unwilling to accept defeat, he follows her
to Lake Tahoe determined to break through the barrier enveloping her and make
her see that life is still worth living.
EXCERPT
She walked into the bathroom to
brush her teeth. When she looked into the mirror, she saw Shane's reflection
standing behind her. When she turned, no one.
"Why are you doing this to
me?" she asked the empty space.
"I
love you so much, Sierra." A whisper. Faint. Barely noticeable.
Every inch of her pulsated with
restrained emotion. She gripped the edge of the sink with both hands and cried
because she felt torn between wanting the confusion to stop and needing it to
be real to save her sanity. Some days it took all of her strength simply to
fake normalcy.
She'd cheated with another man.
Right or wrong, that's what it felt like. She had had sex with Alex and loved
it, wanted to do it again. But if Shane still existed, wasn't it wrong?
Confusion rocked her world.
She held onto the sink as if were
the only thing keeping her upright. Sobs began deep in her gut before ripping
through her body with deep convulsions. Silent screams caught in her throat.
Tears she'd been battling to hold back for too long streamed from her eyes.
Unchecked.
She'd come here wanting to quit her
job and her life, to hide away, to give up. All of these months spent working
and fighting and pretending to have it all together had taken a toll. She
couldn't do it anymore. She had come here to break down.
A ghost? How many times in the last
months had she prayed Shane would walk in the door and tell her it had all been
a mistake? Why hadn't he come to her then? Why now?
Every inch of her vibrated with
unrestrained agony. For an hour, she'd felt normal again, with Alex of all
people, and it had felt damn good. But now guilt ate her up like an infection
devouring her from the inside out. Each sob abused her body and twisted her gut
into knots. She couldn't stop. She'd held the grief at bay for too long and now
it had busted loose.
"It's okay." Alex wrapped
his arms around her from behind and whispered against her hair, "I'm here.
You need to trust someone, let it be me. It's going to be all right. I'm not
leaving. I'm here."
She turned within the circle of his
arms; eyes closed for fear of seeing Shane's face again, and gripped Alex's
shoulders as if he were a lifeline.
She cried, unable to hide her pain
any longer. Tears of both confusion and sorrow fell. She clung to the one man
she'd never anticipated trusting or needing while he whispered against her
hair, "I'm here, it's going to be okay."
"Sometimes I feel like I'll
never be normal again," she confided against his shoulder once the sobs
had subsided and her voice returned.
"It's all going to be exactly
as it needs to be."
But that's what she worried
about...that she'd go so far away from what she'd ever known herself to be that
she'd be lost forever. She'd been fighting to hold on to who she'd been with
Shane and who'd she'd been before him. The two images didn't mesh and the
battle seemed pointless.
What if
surrendering—accepting—meant that she'd be like this, an angry woman who
couldn't break free of the sadness? Every fiber of her being begged her to stop
fighting; she didn't know if she had the strength for surrender.
About the Author
Dakota Skye is an author fascinated
by the paranormal. After having several personal "unexplained experiences"
in her life, she started exploring the idea of the "other side."
Ghosts, angels, Spirit Guides…what are they and do we interact with them more
than we know? In her stories, she incorporates that fascination with fantasy
while always focusing on the love.
Where to find Dakota
Where to find Blurred Lines
