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That was when my hard persona cracked and shattered into pieces. My hands shook as I wiped away all of the tears streaming down my face. The hysteria that I__ held in all night fled my body.

If I thought I__ been drawn to her, now I knew, I__ been taken,kidnapped,caged,destroyed,and all the other things that went with someone having complete power over another.

I__ been kissed before. Many times. There were awkward and sloppy kisses, those tension-fraught moments of fumbling intensity as a teenager. There were more skilled kisses, passionate and intentional. There were kisses that stole my breath, kisses that merged seamlessly with the shedding of clothes and the joining of bodies. But never, before this moment, had there ever been a kiss that stole my will to pull away, that devoured my capacity for thought, that removed my ability to resist, to feel anything but the kiss.

I__ pretty much the definition of an American Hero.

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his kneesExcerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.

Check the top 1000 books on Amazon. Most of them have a shirtless guy on the cover, because they're smutty "romance novels" (read: porn for women) about a girl being swept off her feet by one (or more) billionaire alpha-males. There are literally tens of thousands of books out there about shirtless billionaire alpha-male vampires who can't wait to mate with you. Lucky you! And women eat that shit up! Men, not so much. Men prefer to watch actual porn.

Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride

After a few seconds of scraping, I_realize_what he has isn__ a trail, it__ a whole forest! Ack! Weren__ all men supposed to shave their chest and stuff nowadays? Whatever happened to having fuzz-free Hollywood heroes as role models? At least my embarrassment is completely foregone by the irritation at his lack of upkeep._The only thing distracting me now is that heady mix of musk, shaving cream and a distinctly_male scent. And God knows that is one seriously_jeopardizing_distraction. Especially with a whizzing needle in one__ hand.

She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter__ day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.

There was really way too much hotness going on back there.

I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.

Dastien ran his fingertips along my jawline "Je suis desole, mon amour.

The tears were there, waiting to make their escape. But she wouldn__ let them. Not this time. She couldn__. Because if there was one thing she had to do now, it was be strong and brave. She just had to be strong and brave for one week. That was no time at_all. And when the week was over and Milo had found his true_mate, she would disappear.

Being a werewolf, an alpha more so, isn't about being aggressive over others but controlling yourself, the wolf's wild virus inside my DNA, and emotions that comes with the beast.

We were a galaxy exploding into a million pieces, creating a whole new world, as we crashed against each other on the soft surface of his mattress, a cloud in the darkness, our bodies finally falling together like rain.

Ben was in his truck, window down, idling at the curb, dark lenses hiding his eyes from her, looking effortlessly big and badass.The way she wished she felt.

And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.