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Title: Reading His Submissive (book 2 in Restrained Fantasies series)
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Author(s): Brandi Evans
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Release
Date: Feb 2, 2018
Every girl has her breaking point.
Blurb
Raven:
I’ve spent my life
depending on one person: myself. I’ve learned the hard way other people will
only let me down. I’ve worked for everything I have, but thanks to my
drug-addicted mother, I’m about to lose the one thing I’ve craved for years.
Needing to make some extra cash, I ask my boss at Restrained Fantasies, a
Dallas BDSM club, for some extra shifts. Much to my chagrin, Master Carter
Burkes is with him, and Carter leaps to my rescue, bound and determined to save
me—only I’m not the kind of girl who needs to be saved.
Carter:
I can’t sit by while Raven,
a recurring figure in my fantasies, is in trouble. My job as a detective keeps
me busy, but I’m not looking for a relationship, just a sub to assist with a
class I’m teaching: Reading Your Submissive. Raven always claimed she wasn’t a
member of the lifestyle, so imagine my surprise when I discover a budding
submissive inside her. She gets under my skin in ways I can’t fight, but
emotions are dangerous. I learned that the hard way. Is getting close to Raven a mistake? Will I
destroy her life like I destroyed the life of the only woman I’ve ever loved?
This is book two in the
Restrained Fantasies series but can be read as a standalone.
Publisher’s Note: This
romance is intended for adults only. It contains elements of danger, suspense,
mystery, BDSM, sensual scenes, romance and adult language. If any of these
offend you, please do not purchase.
First Excerpt, NC-17
Leaving the table behind, he returned to Genny. He didn’t touch her. He
suddenly didn’t trust himself to. He had to keep his head about him until she
got out whatever she needed to say.
“What do you want then, pet?”
Her lips parted, but nothing came out. She closed her mouth again, and
her Adam’s apple bobbed up and down.
“Despite what you’ve accused me of on many occasions, Genny, I can’t
actually read your mind. You’re gonna have to use your words.”
“I know. It’s harder to say than I thought it would be, Sir. It’s like
I want to say it, but then I get scared.”
“Overcoming your own mind is often the hardest thing for a sub. Giving
yourself to another person and relinquishing complete control takes strength,
and I know you’re strong enough.”
Her eyelids fluttered closed briefly. “Everything feels so much clearer
when you’re touching me, Sir. I need your touch, now, more than ever.”
Taking a calming breath, still not entirely trusting himself to touch
her, he traced his right index finger along her cheek, to her neck, and
outlined the crisscrossing lines of her tattoos as he worked his way to her
hand. Careful of her restraints, he linked their fingers. He repeated the act
on the opposite side until his position mirrored hers. His stance was symbolic.
He was as irrevocably bound to her as she was to the cross; just as she was
powerless to escape her bindings, he was powerless to escape her pull.
“Genny.” His lips played with hers as he spoke, but he didn’t kiss her.
“I swear on my life I’d rather die than ever hurt you. I—”
I love you. But the words
wouldn’t come out; strike that, he didn’t let
them out.
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Author
Bio
Brandi Evans was raised by
a caravan of traveling Gypsies. She spent her days learning the ways of her
people and her nights lost in legends as old as time. Okay, not really, but
that's way more interesting than the truth!
In reality, Brandi grew up
the oldest child of an ordinary family. Grade school, middle school, high
school. Nothing extraordinary happened until she left the nest. She joined the
military, went to college, got married, and became a mom. And somewhere along
the way, she discovered she liked to read—and write!—stories hot enough to melt
eReaders.
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Spotify
Playlist: Did you know the author has a
personal Spotify Playlist for Reading His
Submissive? Just head on over to Spotify and search “Reading His Submissive”, and you’ll get to listen to the music
featured in the book, as well as the music that inspired the author. Either way
you look at it, these tunes will get your hips swaying and your libido pumping!
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Behind the
Pages: Want some bonus content? These are fun
little story tidbits from the author straight to you.
Fun Facts from Reading His Submissive
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I added the following lines because this IS me. Raven is me! It’s just
a little part of myself I put into her.
When Raven was finished
dressing her coffee—two sugars and just a splash of cream—she took a sip and
sighed. “I swear I could live off coffee.”
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The following is also a little bit of me I crafted into Raven.
“So, you’re not big into
cooking, I see.” She flashed a dick-hardening smile. “I actually enjoy cooking.
I suck at it, but I enjoy it.”
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The following line is actually inspired by Robin Hood. Ya know,
the old Disney animated movie. Two cookies for anyone who gets it, LOL.
“And I’m so very glad she
did.” He made a twirly motion with his index finger. “Let me see the back.”
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The following post-sexy-times exchange is a bit of a nod to the show Lost
Girl.
He was tracing a straight
line of her arm tattoo when she finally spoke again. “Is it always like that
between Dom and sub? The sex, I mean.”
“Well, I like to think I
add a little something special to the mix.”
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For anyone who knows me, you know I’m a giant nerd, and I like to put
geeky references into all my stories. So here’s a Doctor Who (Ten) reference.
“I’m sorry, Genny. I’m so,
so sorry.”
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And this one is pretty obvious. I’m not sure I even need to say where
it’s from, but for those who don’t know, this is a nod to Danny Glover’s
character in Lethal Weapon.
“He was seriously getting
too old for this shit.” Nod to Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon.
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Near the end of the story, when the hero meets a fellow detective from
Oregon, the woman is wearing a Harry Potter t-shirt, jeans, and Converse high
tops, which just so happened to be the same outfit I was wearing when I wrote
the scene. ;-) Is this an example of art imitating life?
