As part of the Hot Angels/Cool Demons blog tour, I figured I should show off my "hot angel", Gabriel, from
FALLING HARD.
Gabriel
is everything you love to hate in a celebrity. He’s a rock star. A
hard-living, selfish musician whose music causes radio stations to go
crazy with the bleeping, whose dirty jeans and Strokes t-shirt becomes
immediate high fashion with misguided teenagers, and whose
self-destructive behaviour makes everyone else shake their head. A bad
boy of rock and roll--and he has all the angst and baggage that goes
along with it. But after a devastating loss a year ago, he's tried to
set his life to rights and may finally be on the right track...
Until
he discovers he and the devil share a soul and that Lucifer will stop
at nothing to use Gabriel as his ticket to living and breathing once
more.
The only thing standing between Gabriel and
destruction is the angel Amelia. The opposite of him in every way. Light
to his dark. Calm to his anger and pain. Gabriel's turbulent emotions
too often get the better of him, while Amelia's concrete control over
hers only makes him want to work harder to ruffle her feathers.
As
the darkness grows inside him, Gabriel begins to think not even Amelia
can save him, and why should she? He has never doubted he was no good
and he definitely doesn't deserve to be saved. How can Gabriel fight
something he can't see, that's inside of him, a part of him? Should he
even try?
Find out in
FALLING HARD from
Carina Press!
"Rocker.
Emotionally scarred bad boy. Literal inner demons. Possible apocalypse.
OK; truth be told, this book had me at the “rocker” and the rest was
just icing on an already tempting brownie." ~ from BJ at
Dark Side of the Covers Reviews
Don't
forget! Commenters here and on the rest of the blog tour are eligible
for great prizes! I'll be giving away a copy of FALLING HARD and a set
of my romance trading cards!
Excerpt:
Amelia
circled until she could look into his hard face. Despite his public
success and wealth, Gabriel’s was a face that had lived with much pain.
She knew better than most what he’d gone through, since she had been
there, seen it happen.
She’d
experienced it with the detachment of her emotionless existence, but
now there were too many feelings warring within her, swamping her with
hurt and guilt and loneliness. All the images of
Gabriel's past came
back to haunt her. Amelia didn’t know how to make them stop. Maybe she
deserved to feel his pain now as if it were her own.
She did the only thing she could think of. She leaned forward and pressed her mouth softly to his, kissing him.
The
sharp electric shock flaring between them was instantaneous. A
stronger, deeper expression of the awareness and heat that had been
building inside her, simmering just under the surface since their first
meeting.
Spooked, she pulled back
almost instantly, but Gabriel growled deeply and followed her. He
wrapped his arms around her waist, crushing his lips to hers in firm,
unrelenting hunger. It felt alien and wonderful at the same time. Amelia
couldn’t fight it, however wrong, however forbidden. She wanted to
explore these feelings she’d been given, was tired of pretending she
didn’t have them.
After only a
brief hesitation, she slid her hands up his chest, twined her fingers
around his neck. The measured beating of her heart was a deafening
hammering in her ears. She felt it pounding away and wondered if Gabriel
could feel it too.
His soft
lips felt sinful, so incredible. She moaned and Gabriel responded in
kind, pressing for more, sliding his tongue over the seam of her lips
before slipping inside to sweep her mouth. Again and again until she
matched him, giving him her tongue so that they dueled together in a
slick, sensual challenge.
Her
gasp broke through their heavy breathing and deep kisses as Gabriel’s
hands pushed beneath the hem of her shirt. His calloused fingers were
rough on the smooth skin of her waist, up the length of her spine,
splaying over her back and pressing her closer to him as if they could
melt into each other and become one person.
Regret
and disappointment. That’s what she felt when he finally broke away to
look into her face. Her gaze was caught by the drugging temptation of
his mouth, and she self-consciously bit her lip against the urge to kiss
him again.
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