Title: Birthday Bash
Series: The Edge
Author: Kelli Scott
Genre: Contemporary, Ménage,
Erotica
Publisher: Decadent
Format: Ebook
Length: 6999 words
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Blurb:
Juli Falzone is stuck at home
for her thirtieth birthday after the TSA puts her on the no-fly list…until her
doorbell rings and she finds two hot cops standing on her porch with a warrant
for her arrest.
Are they a practical joke from
her well-meaning friends, the best birthday gift ever, or has her identity been
stolen? Wanting answers and maybe a little more than curious, she lets them in.
Can she talk her way out of the situation or will they make her come along
peacefully?
Excerpt:
“No, sweetie. I’ve got to go.
But I did send you a little gift. Enjoy.” Dara hung up.
Juli held the phone out,
staring at it, bewildered by the abrupt brush-off.
Another knock brought her to
her senses.
When she opened the door, phone
still in hand, a summer breeze blew along her skin. Two police officers,
completely opposite in appearance, stood on her stoop, stone-faced serious. The
taller, darker cop had a white-knuckled grip on his nightstick. The other,
shorter and fairer of hair and complexion, wore a pair of intimidating,
mirrored sunglasses despite the darkness.
The taller officer cleared his
throat. “Ms. Falzone?”
“Y-yes.”
“May we come in?” the
shorter—just shy of six feet—blond man asked.
Her instincts said, no, don’t
let them in. But she hadn’t done anything wrong, and they were peace officers.
Maybe a crazed killer ran loose in the area, and they wanted to search her
backyard, secure her locks and ensure her safety. But after the harrowing day
she’d spent at the airport that morning, she was a quart low on trust, dubious
of authority figures, and testy in general.
Oh, what the hell.
She opened the door wider,
looking past them to the curb. “Sure.” A streetlight shone bright on a sedan.
No other cops appeared to be canvassing the neighborhood. The uniformed duo
filed in, but she wasn’t in the mood to make a pot of coffee or answer a bunch
of inane questions. She’d filled her quota for the day.
“What’s this about?” She closed
the door.
“We have a warrant.” The tall
man whipped out a tri-folded piece of paper like he meant business.
She scoffed. “A warrant. For
what?” She put on her tough girl act, but had visions of spending life in
prison. “I haven’t done anything wrong.” Ever. Someone must have stolen her
identity. First the no-fly list, now this.
The blond whipped off his
shades, treating her to sky blue eyes. “Haven’t you?”
Dara always encouraged her to
take a walk on the wild side. But every potential one-night stand date had
struck her as a prospective serial killer or would-be stalker. She didn’t want
to have regrets for living a boring life, but she’d seen too many friends,
family members and co-workers make tragic mistakes in judgment. Unplanned
pregnancies. Bad marriages. Worse divorces. Bankruptcies. She avoided all of
the above.
“What’s the charge?”
Officer
Tall-Dark-and-Handsome’s upper lip quirked. “The charge is being
too sexy to be thirty.”
About the Author:
Left for dead in an enchanted
forest, Kelli was raised by wolves, which explains her thick coat of fur and
keen night vision. As an adolescent, she was exiled from the pack due to her
love of well-done steak smothered in ketchup (her penchant for blackened beef
has also caused her ejection from several fine eateries). On her own, she
roamed the streets, eating from dumpsters and sleeping in abandoned dog houses.
Cold, starving and destitute, Kelli turned to the oldest profession—writing.
Since her fall from grace, she has penned several smutty stories for which she
has received many accolades. And despite her limited vocabulary, inability to
punctuate properly and her well-documented spelling disability, Kelli has
collected some awards (some of them for her writing). But what she wants most
in the world is to return to the enchanted forest and her pack. As soon as she
figures out north from south and east from west, she will do just that.
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