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Out of Bounds Book One
Christy
Gissendaner
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal
Romance
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Number of pages: 83
Word Count: 39,820
Purchase Links: www.lsbooks.com, www.amazon.com
Book Description:
Julie
Hendricks is a thirty-year-old workaholic who goes to her friend’s bar to meet
him for a drink. It’s her first night out in years, and she envisions a normal
evening. Instead, she meets Sin, a sexy karaoke DJ who’s not what he seems, and
her idea of normal goes completely out the window.
Sin
is actually Taliesin, the Welsh god of music and wisdom. For fun, he helps his
old college football buddy at the local bar, Out of Bounds. His buddy’s prim
friend captures his attention, and he soon reveals more of himself than he
usually does.
Julie's
attraction to Sin is immediate, even though she doubts she could ever please a
god. When her friend’s business is threatened, Julie must help hunt down the
enemy while resisting falling in love with the dangerously intriguing Sin.
Short
Excerpt
This was going to be fun.
The crowd must’ve realized what he
was about to do because it suddenly grew quiet, and all eyes turned toward him.
Sin removed his earphones and reached for the microphones. “I’ve had a
request.”
A cacophony of whistles and shouts
filled the air.
“About time!” one of the sorority
girls shouted and was echoed by the giggles of her friends.
Sin held up his hand for silence.
“I’m going to need a volunteer.”
At least fifty female hands shot
into the air. Sin ignored them all for the one hand that didn’t go up. As he
had expected, Julie shrank against the back of the couch when his eyes met
hers.
Jumping off the dais, he weaved his
way through the crowd toward the back of the room. “Come here, Julie.”
Julie’s eyes widened, and she
frantically shook her head.
Sin laughed into the microphone.
“Don’t panic, Jules. I’m not going to make you sing. Now get on up here.”
She continued to shake her head.
“No, Sin.”
Sin decided the audience was going
to have to help him. He swept his arm out to gesture toward Julie and spoke
into the microphone. “Everyone welcome Jules. She’s a good friend of Hal’s, and
this is her first visit.”
If looks could kill and he was
mortal, Sin would be a goner from the look Julie gave him. He reached out and
plucked her from her seat before she could stop him. He wrapped an arm around
her waist and propelled her forward. “Don’t worry. All you have to do is stand
there.”
Julie elbowed him in the ribs and
spoke through clenched teeth. “I don’t like being the center of attention,
Sin.”
He twirled her in a small circle so
that she faced the crowd. “Lucky for you,” he paused to throw his arm out in a
dramatic fashion to gesture toward Hal. “I do.”
The music started, and he could tell
the moment Julie recognized the song. Her eyes grew wide with disbelief, and
her face paled.
“You are going to pay for this,” she
hissed in warning.
“Relax, Jules. It’ll be fun.”
Sin plopped the top hat Hal handed
him on Julie’s head, and the crowd went wild. The noise was deafening. For a
moment, he thought she was going to bolt. Instead Julie crossed her arms over
her chest and glared at him. “No funny business.”
Sin winked at her and turned back
toward the audience as he sang “You Can Leave Your Hat On.” For each item of
clothing he mentioned, he teasingly acted as if he was removing it from Jules.
In previous acts, his helper would
sometimes become overzealous and actually strip. Thankfully Jules didn’t show a
similar inclination. She merely alternated between glaring at the ceiling and
at him.
Sin circled her and reached for the
buttons of her jacket. Julie tensed as he undid the top two buttons. His
fingers brushed the lacy edge of her camisole and desire shot through him. He
wanted to have her.
But first he had to get through the
next couple of hours. “Don’t look so frightened, Jules. I’m not going any
farther.”
“You’d better not unless you want
two black eyes,” she warned out of the side of her mouth.
The crowd hooted and yelled for
more. Sin nuzzled the side of her neck, enjoying the feel of her skin against
his lips. “The crowd is wild for you, Jules.”
“It is not me they want to see,
Sin.”
“Maybe not the female half, but the
men in the room can’t take their eyes off of you.”
It was true. Sin sensed the envious
looks he was being given. He did not feel threatened by their interest. Julie
would be his even though she didn’t know it yet.
Sin undid the third button of her
jacket, and then a fourth when she didn’t argue. The lapels of her jacket
parted and exposed her thin camisole. Even the women hooted with delight as he
ran his hands down the sides of her waist.
No one was more surprised than he
was when Jules turned and yanked the mic from his hands.
She turned toward the crowd and
lifted the microphone to her mouth. “Ya’ll want to see more?”
The crowd went crazy. She turned
back to him with a wicked smile. Reaching up with one hand, she removed the
hat.
She plopped the hat on his head at a
crooked angle and lifted an eyebrow in challenge. “Turnabout is fair play.”
Julie Hendricks shows up at her best friends bar for that
much promised drink she kept putting off, only to find an unmistakable
attraction to Taliesin “Sin” as well.
Sin is the god of magic, music, poetry, and wisdom and every instinct he
has tells him that revealing this to Julie will play a huge part in his
future. Julie can’t wrap her head around
the sexual chemistry she feels with Sin, the more time she spends with him the
more she can’t deny her feelings.
This was a very fun read, loved the idea of Sin being a
god. He was enchanting from the first
page he is introduced and his ability to make each page sizzle keeps the reader
engaged throughout the story.
About
the Author:
Christy Gissendaner is a romantic comedy
author and believes that laughter and love should go hand in hand.
Christy lives in
Alabama with her husband and three sons. She’s always hard at work on her next
novel, but in her spare time she loves blackjack, karaoke, and anything
resembling a vacation!
To find out more,
please visit http://christygissendaner.webs.com
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