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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert
delivers the next book in her sizzling O'Malleys family series, hailed as
"The Godfather meets Romeo & Juliet." FORBIDDEN PROMISES features
Sloan O'Malley and her mysterious new next-door neighbor, Jude MacNamara.
Meet Jude!
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Title: Forbidden
Promises
Author: Katee
Robert
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 30,
2017
Publisher: Grand
Central/Forever
Series: The
O’Malleys
Page Count: 336 pages
Format: Digitial
and Print
ASIN: B01KT7YSJM
ISBN-13: 9781455597031
Synopsis:
Some
lines should never be crossed . . . not even for love.
Sloan
O'Malley just left her entire world behind-her family, her wealth, and even her
real name. For the first time in her life, she's free. She can live
the "normal" life she's always wanted. A life without
fear. But there's nothing safe about her intensely sexy next-door
neighbor.
Jude
MacNamara has no room for innocence in his life. Only revenge. Still, he's
never been able to walk away from the forbidden, and Sloan-who is every inch of
pure, mouthwatering temptation-has forbidden written all over
her. Only after it's way too late does he discover the real danger: claiming
Sloan as his puts a target on her back. To protect her, Jude is willing risk
everything . . . and to hell with the consequences.
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Forbidden Promises Excerpt
Copyright © 2017 Katee Robert
She nearly tripped over Jude when she opened the door, and that was the
last straw. “What is your problem?”
He raised a single eyebrow, not looking perturbed in the least. “Sorry?”
“No, you’re not. You’re not sorry that you turned me down last night, or
that you left in a hurry, or that you were an…an insufferable jackass this
morning.”
If anything, his eyebrow inched higher. “You’re in a mood.”
“Are you kidding me?” She pushed at his chest, but he
didn’t even pretend she had the strength to move him. “You weren’t interested
last night, so you don’t get to waltz into the diner and order me to go out with you. I’ve taken orders my entire life,
and I’ll be damned before I take one from you.” The outburst left her feeling
deflated, but she clamped her mouth shut and refused to apologize. Maybe she
was being the slightest bit dramatic, but that didn’t mean she was wrong.
Jude took a step closer, towering over her, his shoulders so broad, they
filled the doorway. “Are you done?”
Just like that, she had a whole lot more to say. “Actually—”
“That was a rhetorical question, sunshine.” His big hand cupped the back
of her neck, his thumb tracing over her jaw and up to drag against her bottom
lip.
The touch shocked her into silence.
For a moment. “Jude—”
Apparently he wasn’t finished. “I didn’t say no last night because I
wasn’t interested. I wouldn’t have apologized—twice—if I wasn’t interested.”
“But—”
“You want to know the truth? The truth is that I can’t look at you without
wanting to strip you down, to run my hands over that tight little body of
yours, to spread those sweet thighs and fuck you with my tongue until you’re
screaming my name and begging for mercy.”
She swayed, her anger, her ability to think or move or talk or do
anything except stare helplessly at him, all gone. She licked her lips,
forgetting that his thumb was there, and stroked him with her tongue instead.
His chocolate eyes went even darker, and he suddenly seemed larger.
Say something.
“You shouldn’t say things like that.”
“It’s the fucking truth, sunshine.” He stroked her bottom lip with his
thumb, his hand gentle yet holding her in place easily. “You’re a good girl. I
don’t have to spend any time with you to know that. You deserve better than the
likes of me, even for a fuck. But that’s the difference between us. I’m not
good. I might as well be the goddamn devil as far as you’re concerned, but I’ve
never been good at walking away when I have my mind set on something. And,
sunshine, I have my mind set on you.”
She couldn’t speak, couldn’t take a step, though she was at a loss if
she’d move away from or toward him. It was like he held her captive with only a
single hand, stalling out any and all reasoning ability.
Jude’s grip tightened, ever so slightly. “I was going to take you out.
It’s not my scene, but I was willing to give it a shot. I changed my mind.” He
stepped into her, his chest lightly pressed against her breasts, his thighs
bracketing hers, his…Oh my good
lord. His hard length
pressed against her stomach, and it felt perfectly in proportion with the rest
of his massive body, not that she was an expert on these matters.
His other hand came to rest on her hip, fingers bunching the fabric of
her dress as he kneaded her. “Tell me to stop, and it’s done. I’ll walk away,
and I’ll do my damnedest to leave you alone. Tell me to walk away, sunshine.
Just say the words.”
She knew he was right. He was no good for her, and this would only end
in tears on her part. The man wasn’t asking to date her. He didn’t want to get
to know her. He was telling her all the things he’d do to her body.
But she couldn’t say the words to make him leave.
Sloan had never taken anything for herself in her entire life. She’d
stayed in the background and gone with the flow and done everything in her
power to play least in sight. Her brothers ran off any boy remotely interested
in her, and she’d allowed it to happen. If her father had decided to move
forward on his plans to marry her off, she would have walked down the aisle to
a man of his choosing.
She’d never done a single selfish thing in her life until she asked
Teague to help her escape.
Until she tentatively ran her hands up Jude’s chest, sucking in her
breath at the way his muscles tensed beneath her fingers. Until she looked up
into his stormy dark eyes and said the word that would damn them both. “Stay.”
Praise
for The O’Malleys Series
"It can be hard to make a ruthless assassin into a
sympathetic character, but Robert handles the task with ease. She also deftly
shows Sloan’s transformation from a pampered and protected naïf to a strong
woman with a backbone of pure steel. A tension-filled plot full of deceit,
betrayal, and sizzling love scenes will make it impossible for readers to set
the book down."—Publishers Weekly on
FORBIDDEN PROMISES
“You will finish it in one sitting and die after you’re done
because the next book isn't out yet. This was one sexy ride!”—Reviewer Top Pick, Night Owl Reviews on
FORBIDDEN PROMISES
“Two story
lines end up converging into one explosive finale at the end. A great
read from the talented Robert!” —RT Book
Reviews
“Katee Robert's has created
a fictional underworld of such veracity, that one almost expects the characters
to turn up on the front-page news. It never feels over the top or implausible;
the author writes extremely well-crafted stories… The romance between Cillian
and Olivia is very beautiful, tender and real.”—Fresh Fiction on AN INDECENT PROPOSAL
“Will
keep you turning pages.”—RT Book Reviews on THE WEDDING PACT
“If you
like angsty reads, this book is right up your wheelhouse.”—Heroes &
Heartbreakers on THE WEDDING PACT
"Dark, dirty, and dead sexy."—Tiffany Reisz, bestselling author of The
Original Sinners series, on THE MARRIAGE
CONTRACT
Other Books in The O’Malleys
Series
THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
THE WEDDING PACT
AN INDECENT PROPOSAL
UNDERCOVER ATTRACTION (Coming soon!)
About Katee Robert
New
York Times and USA
TODAY bestselling author Katee Robert learned to tell her stories at her
grandpa’s knee. Her 2015 title, The Marriage Contract, was a RITA finalist, and
RT Book Reviews named it 'a compulsively readable book with just the
right amount of suspense and tension." When not writing
sexy contemporary and romantic suspense, she spends her time playing imaginary
games with her children, driving her husband batty with what-if questions, and
planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
