For week two, I’m featuring my sapphic second chance romance, The Lady Wants More. It’s part of this week’s I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge – and if you click this LINK, you can enter for two drawing for free books. Comment on my post in the IHeartSapphFic Facebook group to enter a drawing for one of my eight books featured on their website. You can read more about the story behind The Lady Wants More HERE.
Welcome to MFRW Hooks, where the authors of Marketing for Romance Writers share snippets from their stories to entice you into wanting more. Be sure to click on the links at the end to travel!
EXCERPT
Set Up: After running into each other at their twentieth college reunion, Brenda has persuaded Janet to bail and hit a bar they frequented as undergraduates. Now they’re dancing together…
Brenda spun around to face Janet when they got to the far corner of the dance floor. She knew Janet would prefer to be in the corner rather than on the front edge, where bar patrons could easily gawk at them. She preferred center stage herself, but—she grinned at her partner—tonight she’d cater to Janet’s desires. She just wished she could get a better read on them. Did they include her, yet? She saw no need to rush things, now that they’d reconnected after all these years.
Brenda had already decided Janet needed, once again, to break out of her shell and get on with her life. Of course, Brenda had often been accused of making quick judgments, if not rash ones. But she was sure the universe hadn’t crossed their paths just so they could share a drink and swap life stories. While she wasn’t looking for a permanent relationship—whatever that was—she was always on the lookout for a relationship that might offer enough challenge and spice to keep her going for more than a night or two.
Brenda smiled at Janet. She knew for certain this tall, dark-haired woman with gorgeous, long legs could provide ample challenge and spice for some time. She held out her hands, interlaced her fingers with Janet’s, and picked up the beat to the fast-paced hip-hop music. At arm’s length, they swayed and stepped to the music. They circled each other.
Brenda filled her lungs. Her body throbbed with the music. Her brain clicked into hypersensitive mode—once again, she’d become the huntress. “Are you ready for me?”
BOOK INFORMATION
Title: The Lady Wants More
Author: Adriana Kraft
Cover Artist: Alessia Brio
Publisher : B&B Publishing (October 24, 2014)
Length: Novella, 22,000 words, 83 pages
Genres: Erotic Romance, Sapphic Romance, Later in Life, Second Chance
BLURB
Janet Baxter keeps her post-divorce life neatly compartmentalized: Secure job, spacious Westchester County home, successful adult children, dependable community volunteer activities. Why is she drawn—for the first time ever—to attend her twenty-year college reunion in New York City?
Always a free spirit, Brenda Cassidy is comfortably bisexual and has no plans to ever settle down. But a fling? The reappearance of svelte, reserved Janet Baxter in Brenda’s life is nothing less than a gift, worthy of every enticement Brenda can conjure up. Can Brenda seduce Janet into an endless night of the lovemaking they enjoyed too briefly as college roommates? What if the lady wants more?
BUY LINKS
Want to support keeping LGBTQ Romance available for everyone? If you purchase The Lady Wants More (or any of the books in this week’s reading challenge) through the link on the book’s I Heart SapphFic page, a small portion of the price goes to help keep the website running. Definitely a worthy cause.
The Lady Wants More is exclusively on Amazon and is on sale for $0.99.
It is also available on KU.
https://iheartsapphfic.com/bookinfo/the-lady-wants-more/
If you live outside the U.S., this universal link will take you to the appropriate Amazon outlet:
https://books2read.com/u/bzn6RL
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So much about the characters is packed into this excerpt. Their personalities. Their backstory. And what Brenda wants, while trying to gauge what Janet wants. Well done!
Thanks so much, Maggie!
Nice post. A lot og getting to know the characters
Thanks, Janet!
Sorry to be so late in commenting. I was traveling most of last week.
Great excerpt, lots of erotic tension. Sometimes the chase is as much fun as the conclusion.