Welcome to my First Kiss Friday Blog. It’s always a good day when my friend Jude Knight has a new book baby out into the world! We hope you enjoy this first kiss scene from Hold Me Fast . Happy reading, my lovelies!
This excerpt is from Hold Me Fast, published this week and still only 99c. Tamsyn has just told Jowan that she wants to be his friend.
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Her smile faded. “Jowan, why are you upset? Do you not wish to be my friend?”
Exasperated all over again, he snapped back, “I wish to be your husband and your lover.”
Tamsyn gaped at him. “You do? Still?”
He couldn’t believe she said that. “What did you think I was about? I’ve been courting you for months!”
“But you have never even tried to kiss me,” she replied.
It was the mystified tone that shredded the last of his self-control. If it was a kiss she wanted, then a kiss is what she would have. He grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her to him, but all his indignation eased as his lips touched hers, and he gentled the kiss, his lips firm but tender.
She opened beneath him, her tongue darting out to taste him, and his hands left her shoulders and pulled her closer. Her arms went around his waist and she plastered her body to his, and an endless moment passed as their tongues explored one another and so did their hands.
It wasn’t until he felt her hands pulling his shirt from his trousers that he remembered they were standing on a lookout above the village, where anyone could see them. Reluctantly, his lips attempting to cling, he pulled back.
“The village,” he panted.
“Oh! I forgot.” Tamsyn cast a glance in that direction, and Jowan’s ego celebrated the fact that his kiss had made her unaware of their surroundings.
“I was waiting to be invited,” he told her.
“I beg your pardon?”
“The kiss. You said I never even tried to kiss you, but I was waiting to be invited. Tamsyn, you couldn’t control what has happened to you over the years, and you didn’t need another male forcing their desires on you. If that gave you the impression I had stopped wanting you to be my wife, then I am sorry. But I am not sorry you were upset I didn’t kiss you.” Jowan was, in fact, decidedly smug about that last fact, and about how enthusiastically she had responded when he did kiss her.
Hold Me Fast
Childhood sweethearts Tamsyn Roskilly and Jowan Trethewey are ripped apart when her mother and his father conspire to sell Tamsyn to a music-loving earl. He promises to make her a famous singer, and to keep her from Jowan.
Hold Me Fast starts seven years later, when Tamsyn has become Tammie Lind, a sensational singing success. Jowan, now baronet in his father’s place, hears she has returned to England after a lengthy and successful tour of Europe and beyond. He travels to London to speak to her, but the earl continues to stand in their way.
However, Jowan discovers that Tamsyn has become addicted to drugs and alcohol, supplied by the earl who has seduced, debased, and abused her. Their childhood romance may be over, but now he owes her a rescue.
As he and his friends nurse her through withdrawal and help her make a new life in their home village, Jowan and Tamsyn fall in love all over again. But Tamsyn does not believe she is worthy of love, or that Jowan can truly overlook her past. And the wicked earl is determined to take her back.
It will take the help of their friends and their entire community for Jowan and Tamsyn to finally prevail.
A Twist Upon a Regency Tale
Lady Beast’s Bridegroom
One Perfect Dance
Snowy and the Seven Doves
Perchance to Dream
Weave Me a Rope
The Sincerest Flattery
Inviting the Wild
Hold Me Fast
The Trials of Benedict
Buy link or read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Fast-Twist-Upon-Regency-ebook/dp/B0DBXN9GYJ/
Meet Jude
Jude always wanted to be a novelist. She started in her teens, but life kept getting in the way. Years passed, and with them dozens of unfinished manuscripts. The fear grew. What if she tried, failed, and lost the dream forever? The years since 2014 have brought 17 novels, 16 novella, 6 volumes of short stories, a number of awards, and hundreds of positive reviews. The dream is alive.
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5 responses to “First Kiss Friday with Jude Knight”
Wonderful first kiss, Jude! Love your blurb, another must read!
I’m looking forward to reading this.
Thank you!
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