Title: Pulled Beneath (Bar Harbor Series #1)
Author: Marni Mann
Genre: New Adult
Publisher: Booktrope (http://booktrope.com/)
Synopsis:
What happens when you uncover years of secrets and find out everything
you thought to be true was a lie?
Drew Stevens finds her world turned upside down when her parents are
brutally murdered. Soon after, she learns she inherited a property in Bar
Harbor, Maine from recently deceased grandparents that she believed had died
when she was a baby.
Excerpt from Pulled Beneath:
Saint’s hand moved to my cheek. He was
holding it tighter than he probably should have been, but I needed that. I
needed a bit of physical pain to mix with the emotional ache. It made me
feel balanced.
“I…don’t know what to say, Drew.”
Nobody ever did.
My fingers touched his face, and the pad of
my thumb grazed his lips. I melted from the sensation, from the texture of
his flesh, the wetness of his mouth, the heat, I wanted all of them…all of
them on me. “There’s nothing you can say.”
“No, I guess not.”
I was compelled by more than just the way he
had listened or the brokenness I saw in his eyes. It was the feelings that
had continued to stir within me since the first time we’d met, the ones
that had nothing to do with our mutual pain. But it hadn’t meant as much to me
then as it did now. Still, I couldn’t act on it. I couldn’t want anything
from him.
Could I?
I slowly closed the gap between us, using my
legs to draw him against me, letting our faces drift nearer. My arms began
to fold around his neck. And just as my lips were about to touch his, he
lifted me into the air above him.
“Tell me, Drew.” His chest was rising as fast
as mine. “Tell me this is really what you want. If not, I’ll put you back
on land and we can forget this ever happened.”
I hung weightless, his hands supporting all
of me as I thought about his question. Was I even in the right state of
mind to give him an answer? I felt free in his grip…and hungry.
There was nothing I wanted more than his lips
all over me.
“It’s what I want,” I whispered. “Don’t let
me go.”
He gently slid me down his body, bringing me
deeper into the water as his hands traveled to the small of my back. My
legs found his waist again, circling around him, pulling him into me.
His mouth parted when I neared. Just before my lips touched his, he bent
his head and kissed my neck, the spot where my throat met my chest. His
hair tickled my nose, filling me with the smell of the ocean and his skin.
My nipples hardened, poking into him, begging for his fingertips. It
wasn’t only my desire I could feel…his was there, too, pressing into me.
“I can’t wait to kiss you,” he said.
“Then why don’t you?”
His mouth suddenly left my neck and traveled
to my chin, slowly rising up my cheek and to my ear. He moved his lips across
my forehead and down the other side, stopping when he reached my earlobe.
He stayed there, breathing into my face, the intensity between us
growing.
About Marni Mann:
A New Englander at heart, Marni Mann, now a Floridian is inspired by
the sandy beaches and hot pink sunsets of Sarasota. She taps a mainstream
appeal and shakes worldwide taboos, taking her readers on a dark and breathtaking
journey. When she’s not nose deep in her laptop, she’s scouring for chocolate,
traveling, reading, or walking her four-legged children.
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