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About the Book:
Author: Alex Lidell
Pub. Date: January 8, 2021
Publisher: Danger Bearing Press
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Pages: 296
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, TBD, Bookshop.org
I know all about guys like Cullen Hunt.
Gorgeous. Wealthy. Powerful.
I just fled New York to escape one.
But when I reach Colorado, it’s either take a job at
Cullen’s Trident Rescue or become homeless.
And Cullen? He’s worse than I thought.
Controlling. Demanding. Jerk.
A grenade always teetering on the edge.
He’s also hot as sin and makes my toes curl.
I hate that I dream about him.
Kissing me, holding me.
He has dreams as well.
Nightmares that only I can tame.
I know all about guys like Cullen Hunt.
I’m smart enough to stay away.
Aren’t I?
Amazon top-hundred author Alex Lidell delivers a
page-turning enemy-to-lovers stand-alone romance, with a spunky heroine, a
powerful Navy SEAL, and heart-wrenching PTSD that only love can heal.
Enemy Zone is the first book of the Trident Rescue
Series, which follows a group of Navy SEALs who return home to Denton Valley,
Colorado, and start a search and rescue team called Trident Rescue. The books
can be read in any order.
Pre-order ENEMY CONTACT, book 2 in the Trident Rescue Companion Series
now!
Excerpt:
Cullen
lowers his phone, his attention shifting fully back to me as he weighs me with
his gaze. Instead of being offended, I get a strange sensation that the man is
pleased with my reply. Or rather, that he’s pleased to have gotten under my
skin. As if he’s trying to make up for that hint of a smile he gave me earlier,
to make it really, really clear we
aren’t friends and never will be.
I shake my
head. “You’re a horrible human being, you know that?” I say, getting to my feet
in hopes of finding a better place to read. “You’re rude, quick to make faulty
assumptions, and you enjoy treating people like shit.”
Cullen
leans back in his chair, the sneer spreading over his face somehow managing to
make his chiseled jaw only more unjustly beautiful. He’s like one of those
carnivorous flowers that look nice outside just so it can digest you more
efficiently.
“Well,
princess, the thing about glass houses is that you have to be careful about
stone casting. From where I sit, anyone working for Denton Uncovered lacks either integrity or brains.” Cullen stands,
taking a single step toward me as his voice drops. “Which is it?”
Seriously?
My heart pounds, my jaw clenching so hard, my teeth hurt as Cullen takes up all
the air and space in the room. We’re standing there inches apart, the world at
the edge of my vision flickering with red anger. The most terrible part of his
ridiculous accusation is how true the last half of his statement is. Or was.
Because back in New York, I was a
stupid, naïve girl, thinking I knew the man I thought I loved. Thinking the US
Navy gave one lick about the truth.
Cullen
snorts, shaking his head as he looms over me, his mossy-green gaze cold.
Degrading. “As I recall, I made your probationary period a month. You won’t
last that long, Reynolds. Christ, I don’t think you’ll last the week.”
“You
shouldn’t think so much, Cullen. You’ll sprain something.” I clamp my jaw shut,
my lungs filling with Cullen’s scent with every inhalation. Standing so close
to him, I can make out each detail of his too-perfect face, from his closely
shaved skin, to the small scar that cuts the underside of his square jaw, to
the full lips that are near enough to me that my head spins.
“Don’t bait
what you can’t handle.” Heat radiates off Cullen’s body in waves, each rushing
down my skin.
My thighs
clench together, my treacherous body waking to his presence.
“Tell you
what, little girl.” Cullen takes a step toward me, a predator claiming his
territory, demanding I get the hell out of his way. When he speaks again, his
baritone drips with command and challenge. “Prove me wrong. Get through a month
here, and I’ll give you the equivalent of a month’s salary as a bonus.”
I
straighten my spine and hold my ground, even as my chest brushes against his,
my breasts too large and achy for my bra. “Fine.” The word spills from my lips,
my gaze locked on the green eyes that stare down at me as if nothing else in
the world exists. It’s probably the kind of stare a bug gets before being
squashed, but it rivets me to the floor.
Without
thinking, I lift my index finger to trace along his scar, longing to feel its
irregular texture.
Cullen
freezes, his heart beating so hard, I can see his pulse in the soft hollow of
his neck. His pupils dilate, the shifting material along his groin bulging
against the zipper. My fingertip is a hair’s breadth away when he moves too
hastily for me to see, grabbing my wrist in midair.
“Don’t,” he
says.
I gasp,
taking a step back so quickly that I lose balance when Cullen lets go and crash
into the table. Radios fall from their charging cradles to the floor, a stack
of papers following suit.
Holy hell.
What the hell are we doing? What the hell am I doing?
Shaking my
head to clear it, I crouch to pick up the mess on the floor and feel rather
than see Cullen marching away. By the time I look up, the man’s gone.
About Alex:
Alex Lidell is the Amazon Breakout
Novel Awards finalist author of THE CADET OF TILDOR (Penguin, 2013) and Amazon
top 100 author and KDP-all star winner for POWER OF FIVE and LERA OF LUNOS
(Danger Bearing Press, 2018). She is an avid horseback rider, a (bad) hockey player,
and an ice-cream addict. Born in Russia, Alex learned English in elementary
school, where a thoughtful librarian placed a copy of Tamora Pierce’s ALANNA in
Alex’s hands. In addition to becoming the first English book Alex read for fun,
ALANNA started Alex’s life long love for fantasy books with strong heroines.
Alex lives in Washington, DC.
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