Title: Slaying The Dragon
Series: Deception Duet #2
Author: T.K. Leigh
Genre: Romantic Suspense / Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Blurb
I should have resisted him, but I couldn’t. My addiction to him was all-consuming, the high from his touch unlike any other.
Without him, I couldn’t focus, couldn’t think, couldn’t breathe.
With him, I hated myself for being too weak to fight the devil himself.
And Tyler Burnham was the devil.
He used me.
He lied to me.
But he loved me. And he still does.
Unable to stop thinking about the man who deceived her, Mackenzie Delano struggles to move on with her life and forget that Tyler Burnham ever walked into her life. But she still aches for him, despite his betrayal. Her mind is at war with her heart, a war that could be the difference between living and dying.
Tyler Burnham is lost without Mackenzie. As he contemplates the meaning of everything, he tries to find a way to prove that his feelings for her are true. That he would walk through fire to keep her at his side. That he would sacrifice it all…his career, his fortune, his life…to protect her.
The truth is, he may just have to…
Recommended for readers 18 & up due to strong language, explicit sexual situations, and graphic violence.
This is the second book in a two-book duet, which must be read in order. If you have not yet read Chasing The Dragon, please start there.
Unable to stop thinking about the man who deceived her, Mackenzie Delano struggles to move on with her life and forget that Tyler Burnham ever walked into her life. But she still aches for him, despite his betrayal. Her mind is at war with her heart, a war that could be the difference between living and dying.
Tyler Burnham is lost without Mackenzie. As he contemplates the meaning of everything, he tries to find a way to prove that his feelings for her are true. That he would walk through fire to keep her at his side. That he would sacrifice it all…his career, his fortune, his life…to protect her.
The truth is, he may just have to…
Recommended for readers 18 & up due to strong language, explicit sexual situations, and graphic violence.
This is the second book in a two-book duet, which must be read in order. If you have not yet read Chasing The Dragon, please start there.
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Favorite Quotes:
“Sometimes we
don’t forgive people because they deserve it.
We do so because they need it.”
“You’re my
heart. The air I breathe. My
everything. I don’t care what it
takes to prove it was real. That it is real. Still.
I will beg every day for the rest of my life to make you mine.”
“I’d rather
wake up to an empty bed without you in it than wake up next to the wrong person
every day for the rest of my life. You
are it for me. You’re my turtledove, my
lightning strike.”
“Grief is like
a storm. It can be calm and refreshing,
a way to finally close one chapter of your life. Or it can be as unforgiving as a
hurricane. It can bring our world into
the abyss of darkness and turmoil.”
My Review:
Over the 5
months since I read Book 1 Chasing the
Dragon – I had forgotten too many of the salient details I needed to make
sense of Book 2. Busted - I will admit
to brain slippage… as well as to reading too many books in between. I felt totally bewildered when I started Book
2 the first time, so I felt the need to actually reread the first book to
comprehend what was happening with Book 2.
But as I reread Chasing the Dragon
anew, I was reminded of what an excellent job she had done, and what a gifted
writer T.K. Leigh actually is. I bow
down to the goddess. And this time I
was not fuming and foaming at the mouth when I finished Book 1 with its heinous
cliffhanger, as I now had all the answers waiting for me with Book 2 on my
beloved kindle. Oh happy day – this is
how is it SUPPOSE to be!
So now,
smirking with self-satisfaction, I start Book 2 fresh with the knowledge of all
that had gone before. And I was
fascinated by the mystery, sucked in by the complicated and well-paced plot,
and unable and unwilling to put the book down for long, despite the constant
interruptions of the universe attempting to conspire against me! The writing was superb. The story was
delicious, intricate, and intriguing; and I was committed, engaged, and
engrossed. And as it finally answered
all those nagging questions, I can now sigh with the fulfilment of a mystery
solved while a steamy and passionate love story and HEA also transpired. Oh yeah, good times!
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Excerpt
“Wait, Mackenzie!” Tyler cried out after me. “Tell me what you want me to say and I’ll say it! Letting you walk away from me once was the biggest mistake of my life. I won't do it again.”
I spun around just as I was about to open the front door. “You let me walk away from you?” I hissed, my teeth clenched.
“That’s not what I meant.” He ran his hands through his dark brown hair and I could see the desperation wash over him. “What I meant to say is all the lies, all of it… I’m so sorry I put you through it. But do you think I regret any of it?” His eyes grew more intense and impassioned, his chest heaving as he poured his heart out to me. “Not for a second.”
I glared at him, waiting for him to explain.
“If it wasn’t for all the lies, for my assignment, I never would have met you, so I’m not going to say I regret a fucking second of any of it. I don’t care what it takes to win back your heart. You can push me away all you want. You can tell me you’ll never forgive me, that there will never be an us again, but I will always come back for you. A hundred times. A thousand times. I will fight for us until I take my last breath.”
He stepped toward me, grabbing my hand in his, caressing my knuckles in such a delicate way that made me want to melt into a puddle.
“Please, Mackenzie…” He leaned toward me, brushing his lips against my forehead, kissing me so delicately, so lightly. “Serafina,” he whispered, “tell me what it will take and I’ll do it.”
Despite everything he had just said, I simply couldn’t let him back in. Relationships were based on trust, and Tyler took my trust and used it against me. I couldn’t forget that, no matter how much my skin yearned for his touch.
“You want to know what it’s going to take?” I asked softly, freeing my hand from his grasp.
He nodded, nervous anticipation radiating through his body as he looked at me with eager eyes.
“It’ll take one more time,” I murmured, opening the door. Peering over my shoulder, I saw his deflated expression. “It will always take one more time.”
Author Bio
T.K. Leigh, otherwise known as Tracy Leigh Kellam, is the USA Today Best Selling author of the Beautiful Mess series. Originally from New England, she now resides in sunny Southern California with her husband, dog and three cats, all of which she has rescued (including the husband). When she’s not planted in front of her computer, writing away, she can be found running and training for her next marathon (of which she has run over fifteen fulls and far too many halfs to recall). Unlike Olivia, the main character in her Beautiful Mess series, she has yet to qualify for the Boston Marathon.
T.K. Leigh is represented by Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. All publishing inquiries, including audio, foreign, and film rights, should be directed to her.
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