The Duality Principle by Rebecca Grace Allen
Published by: Samhain Publishing
Publication date: November 11th 2014
Genres: Erotica, Romance
Published by: Samhain Publishing
Publication date: November 11th 2014
Genres: Erotica, Romance
Synopsis:
Sometimes A + B = O. Yes. Oh, yes. Just like that.
Gabriella Evans’s life exists in terms of logic and definitions. She’s holed up in Portland, Maine, for the summer to work on her PhD thesis, but something is screwing up her concentration: the rumble of a motorcycle every time the embodiment of her rough-and-tumble fantasies rides down her street.
When her best friend talks her into a blind date, she finds herself out with the opposite of her fantasy. He’s polite and well-mannered, yet something behind his crisply tailored shirt doesn’t add up—a rebellious gleam in his eye that piques her curiosity.
Orphaned at fifteen, Connor Starks has finally put the years of failing grades, breaking laws and breaking hearts behind him. The only holdover? His penchant for getting down and dirty in public places. But Gabriella makes him want to prove he’s become a better man.
Nothing intrigues Gabriella more than a problem she can’t solve. But the more Connor tries to bury his past, the more determined she is to uncover it. And what she finds makes all her trusty logic begin to fail her…
Warning: This book contains a summer romance, dirty talk, dockside kissing, motorcycles and tattoos. Features a rebellious nerdy girl with an appetite for outdoor sex and light spanking, and a bad boy who’s turned good…or at least he’s trying.
Gabriella Evans’s life exists in terms of logic and definitions. She’s holed up in Portland, Maine, for the summer to work on her PhD thesis, but something is screwing up her concentration: the rumble of a motorcycle every time the embodiment of her rough-and-tumble fantasies rides down her street.
When her best friend talks her into a blind date, she finds herself out with the opposite of her fantasy. He’s polite and well-mannered, yet something behind his crisply tailored shirt doesn’t add up—a rebellious gleam in his eye that piques her curiosity.
Orphaned at fifteen, Connor Starks has finally put the years of failing grades, breaking laws and breaking hearts behind him. The only holdover? His penchant for getting down and dirty in public places. But Gabriella makes him want to prove he’s become a better man.
Nothing intrigues Gabriella more than a problem she can’t solve. But the more Connor tries to bury his past, the more determined she is to uncover it. And what she finds makes all her trusty logic begin to fail her…
Warning: This book contains a summer romance, dirty talk, dockside kissing, motorcycles and tattoos. Features a rebellious nerdy girl with an appetite for outdoor sex and light spanking, and a bad boy who’s turned good…or at least he’s trying.
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EXCERPT:
“Your folks were pretty hard on you?” Connor scooped up
another big mouthful of ice cream, and Gabriella tried not to focus on the way
his tongue lagged over the edge of the plastic spoon.
“Were?” she asked with a snort. “They still are.” She almost
added that their constant distance and propensity to judge were slowly killing
her, but she forced the thought away, not wanting her baggage to become a third
wheel on the date. “But I guess all parents hard on their kids, right?”
“I wouldn’t know. Mine took off years ago.”
Gabriella stopped walking. “They took off?”
Connor paused as well and frowned at the ground.
“My dad left when I was thirteen. Apparently, his next fix
was more important than we were. I found out he died a few years later.”
He looked up, squinted and pinched his lips together, as if
the words had a bad taste to them. “Mom tried to manage for a while, but she
was using too. She couldn’t make ends meet, so she left me with my grandparents
when I was fifteen to go into rehab.”
“Wow. How did that go over?”
“Weird at first, since I’d never met them before, but they
took me in right away, no questions asked. Of course that was because Mom said
it would only be until she got out of rehab.”
“She didn’t go?”
“She did. She just never came back.”
Gabriella’s mouth fell open. For all her parents made her
crazy, she couldn’t imagine being abandoned like that. “I’m so sorry.”
Connor shook his head and let out an abrupt laugh. “Don’t
be. She made the right choice. She couldn’t have handled me anymore. I was a
real rebel back then. I needed some serious discipline.”
Something inside her flared at the word rebel, but she
squashed it down.
“So your grandparents raised you?”
“Yup. They made me clean up my act. Taught me to respect
others and to play by the rules.”
Gabriella’s stomach bobbed like a buoy on the tide. She
wondered exactly how dirty his act had been and what rules he’d forgotten to
play by, but she concentrated on her ice cream instead as they resumed their
stroll down the street.
“My grandmother always taught me to just be myself,” she
said. “Even when my parents seemed to want the exact opposite.”
“They don’t want you to be a mathematical genius?” He smiled
at her, and that damn dip under his nose taunted her again.
“They do, but my mother wants me to find a safe, rich
husband and settle down too.”
“And that’s not what you want?”
She halted on the corner and looked up at him. There were so
many things she wanted, the least of which was the comfortable parameters of
the kinds of relationships she’d known. No, she wanted Connor, wanted those
brawny hands of his pushing her up against a wall and showing her all about the
rebel he once was.
She flattened her tongue against the shaft of her ice cream
and licked. Slowly.
“No. That’s not what I want.”
AUTHOR BIO:
Rebecca Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts in English with a double concentration in Creative Writing and Literary Comparison, which seemed like a good idea at the time. After stumbling through careers in entertainment, publishing, law and teaching, she’s returned to her first love: writing. A self-admitted caffeine addict and gym rat, she currently lives in upstate New York with her husband, two parakeets, and a cat with a very unusual foot fetish.
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