Dating Rules
Serendipity Series
Book Two
Keeley Holmes
Genre: Sexy romantic comedy
Publisher: KH Novels
Date of Publication: 29th May 2018
ISBN: 9781986752664
Number of pages: 289
Word Count: 51k
Cover Artist: Keeley Holmes
Book Description:
Losing control is not an option for Izzy Shaw, something past experience has taught her. When you’re not in control, bad things happen. So when Parker Cole comes bustling into her life with his carefree manner, no full time job and his terrible Hawaiian shirts, she knows she should stay away.
For Parker, seeing Izzy at Penelope’s wedding stirred something in him. Izzy intrigues him. She’s attracted to him but she holds back and she doesn’t realise he sees this as a challenge. Usually when he wants something, he goes for it.
For Izzy, being attracted to a man and allowing herself to act upon it is defined by her rules. She lives by her rules, they protect her...
Parker is a rule breaker.
Over the course of 10 dates Parker has to persuade Izzy that he’s worth the risk, he has to persuade her that sometimes life doesn’t have to be all about rules, sometimes you have to walk on the edge to really appreciate living...
He will prove this to her, one date at a time.
Read Excerpt 1:
Light appeared gradually from the bar but
even that was dimmed. I was aware of my own rapid rate of breathing, aware of
the bodies that were too close to me. A
guitar strummed. A voice started to sing, the guitar complementing the soft
melodic tone. It was seductive and husky, the tone of it reminded me of an
early Bryan Adams. I looked at the stage, but it was so dark I couldn’t see the
person standing there but the voice began seducing the crowd before the lights
came on, and then they lifted, highlighting him.
My
heart punched several times in my chest as shock forced the breath to leave my lungs
in one big rush.
He
was here. On the f 'ing stage. His
golden hair shimmered under the lights as his eyes remained closed. He was
wearing black and I noticed that the shirt he wore really hugged his chest.
A
quick flashback jolted my system. The car. Sex. Amazing sex.
That shirt highlighted all the right areas. He was a walking
advertisement for serious arm porn. The muscles that quivered as he strummed
the guitar made me a little breathless. I’d felt those arms around me.
And then he opened his eyes. Deep, intense blue eyes instantly latched
onto mine.
I noticed the jerk in his body. He hadn’t
known I would be here. I looked back at Daniel who propped up the bar and was
smirking at Parker.
Cocky bastard.
My eyes latched back onto Parker, and I hated to admit it,
but I was transfixed. He could sing.
Like Jon Bon Jovi could sing. And
that was a massive turn on. As was the
hair... the eyes... and again, the arm porn. The words didn’t register with me,
just his voice. He grabbed the microphone from its holder and then he moved and
walked across the stage. He no longer even played the guitar, he just carried
it along. His voice was more than enough.
I’d never seen a crowd so still
before. They were enthralled. Completely
silent, except for the girls who edged their way towards him, instantly falling
in love.
I
couldn’t blame them.
Parker
stepped onto the dance floor and the crowd parted as he walked...towards me.
What the f* was he doing? He wouldn’t. Would he? Not here? What the hell did
he want? He was singing for Christ’s
sake, why would he interrupt his own song?
My heart pounded harder as sweat pinged on my
hands. I stepped back but my escape was blocked by Lacey and Hope.
Bitches.
He strolled casually towards me, like we
were just in a park and not in a club surrounded by hundreds of people. He stopped
right in front of me, his lips twitched as he continued to sing the last of the
lyrics.
Heat bloomed in places I couldn’t control,
my body betrayed me. I couldn’t breathe. Fuck, I was actually panting. And I
needed a drink. Where was Jake? Parker handed his guitar to Hope and then slid
his arms around my waist, pulling me into a body I remembered well, even though
I’d tried to burn it from my memory.
He murmured the final words of the song,
holding the last note. I held my breath. The crowd held their applause. They watched
us. They waited. His lips were on mine, and the breath I held blew out of me.
My head spun as the applause started.
Meet the Author:
Keeley Holmes is the author of sexy romantic comedies and NA books. She loved writing so much that whilst her friends were off doing work experience in schools and child care placements, she was doing hers in a publishing house. That was when she wrote her first book at 15, it was set in America and it was about a murdering woman with a glass eye... Number one bestseller...
After working full time and gaining her English Literature and Language degree, she changed her mind about becoming a teacher, when would she write books if she had to mark them? Instead she wrote her second book in 2007. From that moment, she's written books as a side hobby and now she wants the world to read and love them! She's a sucker for a romance books, with a little bit (a lot!) of kink in them!
She lives in beautiful Yorkshire, when sometimes she leaves the house and appreciates that beauty, before crawling back into her cave to write.
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