Cupid Rocks
Francesca Hawley
ISBN: 9781419945281
Book Length: Novel
Availability: Feb 22, 2013
DESCRIPTION
When her parents’ rock band The Pack performs
at Zach’s bar, Mandy discovers her True Mate, Joe Blackwolf, the band’s lead
singer and guitarist. All she has to do now is convince Joe that she told a
little white lie to make her mom happy, her father that rock musicians aren’t
all alike, and her new mate’s family that rockers aren’t all that different
from classical musicians.
Joe Blackwolf is celebrating his fortieth
birthday. And what he wishes for when he blows out the candles is to find his
True Mate. He succeeds when he meets Mandy Goldwolf. Problem is…she belongs to
someone else. Finding out the truth leaves him free to explore every inch of
her smokin’ hot curves, but now Joe and Mandy are neck deep in overbearing
relatives and everyone is in for a rockin’ Valentine’s Day.
A Romantica® paranormal erotic
romance from Ellora’s Cave
Excerpt
“Am I dead, Angel? Cause you look like you’re
straight from heaven!”
“That has to be the worst line I’ve ever
heard,” Mandy laughed, looking up into warm brown eyes. She shivered as he
settled into the chair beside her.
“Maybe, but it made you laugh.” He took her
hand. “Can I buy you a drink?”
Joe waved over a waiter and ordered for them
without once releasing her hand. She could feel the rough calluses guitar
playing had created on his fingers, but they turned her on. He turned her on.
This was Joe? “Good ole Joe” as Eddie called
him. He was neither good nor old. No. He was gorgeous…and talented. Zach wasn’t
kidding when he’d said this Blackwolf was a great guitarist and singer. For the
first time since Carly bugged her, she wished with all her might she hadn’t
lied about Zach being her mate. Zach might be handsome, but Joe made her throb
in places that hadn’t throbbed in all of her thirty-five years.
“So what’s with the camera, Angel? Fan or
reporter?”
Mandy looked down at her fingers clenched
around her camera strap. If she told him who she was, he’d back off so fast
she’d see skid marks on the floor. Just this once, she wanted to pretend she
was someone else. Just tonight. She leaned forward pressing her lips against
his ear.
“I’m more than a fan. I’m a groupie. Can’t
you tell?” He shuddered, turning his head he met her gaze. The fire glowing in
his eyes set her boiling. Yes. She had to have him. Now.
“A groupie? For just any rock musician?”
“No, Joe. I want you.”
“Fuck, yeah,” he growled, standing so
abruptly his chair toppled over. No one nearby noticed as he dragged her to her
feet. “Where?”
Mandy looked over toward the hallway leading
to Zach’s office and smiled. They had a clear path. She pulled him after her
and they ducked into the shadowy space. He pressed her to the wall and took her
mouth in a deep kiss. Their mouths meshed together. Joe pulled back to nip at
her lips, then ran his tongue along the inside edge of her lower lip. She caught
his long dark hair in her fingers, holding his mouth to hers.
Fire. Heat. She’d never felt anything like
this in her entire life. She moaned as his mouth slid to nuzzle her neck. Mandy
wrapped her free arm around him, clutching his leather jacket. She lifted her
right leg along his hip. He stepped into the opening she’d created, thrusting
his hips against hers.
She shivered as his rough fingers slid along
her leg and under her skirt. He slipped his fingers under her panties and
cupped her ass. Grasping her, he pulled her more firmly against his hard cock.
He reached up to her peasant top, untying the drawstring to bare her bra
covered breast. His hot breath teased her neck and then his warm tongue grazed
her skin as he licked his way over her curves
“Hey. Anyone seen Joe?” Mandy and Joe froze
as she heard Eddie’s voice. He was close. Too close. She looked out of the
entrance of the hall. She didn’t see him, but he was right there. She knew it.
Mandy closed her eyes, fighting to keep her panting excitement from giving them
away.
“I think I saw him with a hot chick earlier.
I didn’t get a good look at her though. Just noticed she was his type.” Tom
responded with a laugh.
Joe groaned in her ear, and kissed her cheek.
She turned to look up at him. He was still on fire, she could see it but there
was a definite question in his dark eyes? Stop or go?
She lowered her leg and he sighed, then she
smiled and grabbed his hand. “This way,” she whispered.
Mandy knew there was an empty unlocked office
back here and she wanted this wolf and she wanted him now. He chuckled as they
moved into the darkness. She found the door on the right and turned the knob.
Hearing the click, she pushed, wincing at the creak when the door stuck. He
pushed her through and they shut the door behind them. Mandy flipped the light
switch, blinking a bit to adjust to the table lamps that came on. She’d been
expecting an overhead. They looked at each other and grinned.
Joe pulled her over to the empty desk and she
climbed up onto it. He stroked her cheek. “You’re sure?”
“Yes. I don’t want to stop. Not now.”
About the Author
Hi. I’m Francesca Hawley and I’m
a fat chick. A woman with dangerous curves just like my heroines.
Many people don’t like the word,
“fat” but I do because it’s the truth and I’ve learned to own it. I am a fat chick and I always will be. Even
if my fairy godmother popped in right at this moment and waved her wand to make
me a size 2, I know that mentally and emotionally I’d still be a fat chick. So
why is this relevant? Well, my size has had a major influence on how I see the
world and how I write.
I first began to read romance
when I was in my teens. I loved the genre, but the heroines were all thin.
Their thighs didn’t rub together…had never rubbed together…and frankly I had
trouble relating to these ladies. The stories were great—full of emotion and
well told, but the heroines weren’t like me and that was a major
disappointment. I kept wondering where
were the fat heroines? I found some occasionally, but to have their Happily
Ever After they usually had to lose weight and go from ugly duckling to swan.
Well, I wanted a fat heroine who
loved herself—or at least learned to love herself—and a hot alpha hero who
liked her jiggly bits just the way they were. Since I didn’t find many big
girls to read about, I decided to write
about them myself. After all, I loved to write anyway and had been writing
almost as long as I’d been reading, so Francesca Hawley – author of Romance with
Dangerous Curves was born.
In a Francesca Hawley romance, my
readers will find authentic, sensual, fat heroines who love and are loved by
their intense, passionate, and seductive Alpha heroes. I hope you enjoy their
dangerous curves just as much as their hunky heroes do.
