We are celebrating the release
of Right Through Me by Shannon
McKenna!
Check out the excerpt and giveaway below!
NYTimes and USA Today bestselling author Shannon McKenna
launches The Obsidian Files with RIGHT THROUGH ME, a pulse-pounding tale of
thrilling suspense and searing passion. A beautiful fugitive and a biotech
tycoon with strange powers must face the lethal rage of a vicious enemy bent on
their annihilation.
Publisher: Self
Date of publication: July 2016
Stranger, speak softly...
Biotech tycoon Noah Gallagher has a deadly secret: his clandestine training as a super-soldier gives him abilities that go far beyond human. Yet he's very much a man. When Caro Bishop shows up at his Seattle headquarters with a dangerous secret agenda, his ordered life is thrown into chaos. Caro is a woman like no other—and her luminously sensual beauty cloaks a mystery he must solve.
Caro's lying low, evading a false charge of murder. She means to clear her name, and she'll do whatever it takes to survive—but seducing a man like Noah is more than she bargained for. His amber eyes have the strangest glow when he looks at her—she could swear he sees the secrets of her heart. The desire smoldering in Noah's eyes awakens her own secret hunger, but Caro has to resist his magnetic pull. Anyone close to her becomes a target. The only right thing to do is run, far and fast, but Caro can't outrun Noah's ferocious intensity—or deny the searing passion that explodes between them.
Nothing else matters—until a vicious enemy bent on the ultimate revenge puts his murderous plan into play. Noah and Caro must battle for their lives...and their love...
Biotech tycoon Noah Gallagher has a deadly secret: his clandestine training as a super-soldier gives him abilities that go far beyond human. Yet he's very much a man. When Caro Bishop shows up at his Seattle headquarters with a dangerous secret agenda, his ordered life is thrown into chaos. Caro is a woman like no other—and her luminously sensual beauty cloaks a mystery he must solve.
Caro's lying low, evading a false charge of murder. She means to clear her name, and she'll do whatever it takes to survive—but seducing a man like Noah is more than she bargained for. His amber eyes have the strangest glow when he looks at her—she could swear he sees the secrets of her heart. The desire smoldering in Noah's eyes awakens her own secret hunger, but Caro has to resist his magnetic pull. Anyone close to her becomes a target. The only right thing to do is run, far and fast, but Caro can't outrun Noah's ferocious intensity—or deny the searing passion that explodes between them.
Nothing else matters—until a vicious enemy bent on the ultimate revenge puts his murderous plan into play. Noah and Caro must battle for their lives...and their love...
Excerpt:
“Look,” he said. “I promised not to
touch you. I can’t keep that promise anymore.”
She drifted closer, a cloud of sunset
colors. Her scent washed over his senses. His supercharged synesthesia
translated her aroma into colors in his head. He wanted to strip her bare. His
hands flexed with the impulse to seize her. It almost overcame him.
“Leave.” His voice was tight. “I
paid you.”
“No,” she said.
“You finished your dance. You said
there could be nothing more. So go.”
“Shhh.” She stretched up, touching
his cheek with soft, cool fingertips. Then, to his astonishment, she pressed a hot,
soft kiss to his jaw.
“This is not helping,” he growled.
She rose up on her bare feet, her
mouth near his. Never quite getting there. No kiss . . . just the caressing
heat of her breath. The teasing promise of . . . maybe . . . almost.
He was so close to losing control, he didn’t
dare inhale.
He stepped back. Not far enough. The
sweetness of her perfume taunted him.
She didn’t move. Not one inch. She
was enjoying this, feeling her power. It made his teeth grind, and his dick
ache.
“You’re still here,” he said.
“I’m not ready to leave.” Her voice
was a drifting whisper. “I like the way this makes me feel.”
“I’m ready,” he said. “And it’s my
goddamn office.”
“Yes. After hours. And we’re alone.
More or less.” She closed the slight distance between them with a single step.
So she was seducing him. He got the
message—but he still didn’t dare breathe.
They both inhaled sharply. She was
flower-petal smooth against the hard, callused skin of his palm. A flash of hot
lust pumped through him.
A swift, shocked ripple went through
her, as if she’d had a small orgasm, and then her hand fastened over his,
holding it firmly in place. As if she welcomed the touch but didn’t dare allow
his hand to wander elsewhere.
“Take the envelope,” he said. “Put
it in your bag, and we’re square.”
Her fingers tightened on his hand.
“I asked for a service, you provided
it, I paid you,” he said stubbornly. All business. Meeting over. Too bad his
dick didn’t get the memo. He was about to explode.
Without saying a word, she turned
and headed to the bathroom, purple veils fluttering behind her.
He didn’t have to wait for her to
return. But he knew that he would.
She was back minutes later, wearing
jeans and a baggy black T-shirt. His exotic dancing maiden was gone but she was
as beautiful as ever. Her real hair was a thick, curly dark cloud, caught up in
back in a tousled knot of twisted ringlets. Some of them dangled around her
face.
“Sorry,” he said stiffly. “That got
out of hand.”
“It’s OK. Not your fault.” She looked down at herself. “I thought it was
better to have this conversation in street clothes,” she said. “To see if the
fantasy melted away for you without the props. Better for both of us to know
right now.”
He looked her up and down. Blood
roared in his ears. “That’s not happening.”
Her sig pulsed, excited pinks and
reds. “So?”
“I promised not to touch you, and I
broke that promise. With your help.”
She nodded reluctantly.
“If you stay here, I’ll break it
again. Let me put that right out in the open.”
About Shannon McKenna:
Shannon McKenna
is the NYT and USA Today bestselling author of fifteen action packed,
turbocharged romantic thrillers, among which are the stories of the wildly
popular McCloud series. She’s also the author of the upcoming OBSIDIAN series,
the first of which, RIGHT THROUGH ME, comes out in July of 2016. She loves
tough and heroic alpha males, heroines with the brains and guts to match them,
villains who challenge them to their utmost, adventure, scorching sensuality,
and most of all, the redemptive power of true love. Since she was small she has
loved abandoning herself to the magic of a good book, and her fond childhood
fantasy was that writing would be just like that, but with the added benefit of
being able to take credit for the story at the end. The alchemy of writing
turned out to be messier than she'd ever dreamed, but what the hell, she loves
it anyway, and hopes that readers enjoy the results of her alchemical
experiments. She loves to hear from her readers.
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