Midnight Highlander
by Anya Summers
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GENRE: Contemporary Erotic Romance
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BLURB:
Xavier Campbell needs a miracle. If he doesn’t want to lose the life he’s worked so hard to build,
he must get married, and quickly. Trouble is, there is no woman in his life. Not even a friend with
benefits. As a regular Dom at Eternal Eros, he gets what he needs and goes home. And a wife?
Hell, no. This Highlander is single for a reason. So when his entire existence threatens to come
crashing down, he realizes he might have to make some adjustments…or a bargain with the
she-devil who beguiles him, body and mind, from the first moment he touches her.
Emma Morton wants a man. To play with. Watch television with. Cuddle with. And yes, God
help her, she wants him hard, naked, and in her bed. More than once. What she doesn’t want is
complications. Expectations. She is dedicated to her work, to building her business. She’s
worked too long and too hard to change her plans for something as fleeting as love. No matter
how much she wishes otherwise, life has repeatedly proven that romance is a myth. Pure
fairytale.
But passion? Yes. She could definitely go for a ‘Single’s Night’ of play—and release—at the
infamous Eternal Eros.
After one scorching night of pleasure, a reckless bargain is made. Marriage with an expiration
date. A business arrangement. Nothing more.
But what starts as a farce becomes a bit too real and Xavier realizes this is no game. Telling
Emma the truth would be dangerous…especially when he realizes he is playing for keeps.
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Excerpt One:
On her trek to the bar, she smiled demurely at Cooper, the hotshot, daredevil firefighter. He was
sitting at one of the booths with Dr. Levi Mitchell, Gage Walker, and his business partner, Henry
Sinclair. By the time she reached the bar, she was certain tonight would be exactly what she
needed as a reprieve from the impending financial doom of her business.
Not even a short sale on the building would help get her out of this mess.
Every hair on her form stood at attention as the bartender’s frosty ice blue gaze landed on her.
She didn’t know what it was about Xavier Campbell, but the sexy hulking brute always rubbed
her the wrong way. Most of the Doms here, she could charm with a sweet smile and by
exposing some skin.
This one, not so much.
He prowled her way, dressed for the event tonight in Scottish tartan, shit-kicker boots, and a
bad attitude. For such a large man, he moved with lionlike grace. Emma was tall for a woman,
clocking in at five nine. Yet Xavier towered over her, even in her four-inch stilettos. And he wore
his control around him like barbed wire, liable to rip a body to shreds if they got too close.
“What’ll you have?” His voice, thick with Scots burr, seemed to caress her skin as he raked his
scowling gaze over her body.
For tonight’s pagan-themed event, she had dressed as a Pagan Warrior Queen, which, at the
costume store, had turned out to be a miniscule black dress that shimmered with glossy fabric
made to look like leather, and a faux chainmail panel down the front. She even had a fake
plastic sword attached to the belt around her waist. “Macallan. Make it a double. Neat.”
A thick inky brow rose at her drink order. “You sure you can handle that, lass?”
The way his voice rolled over the word lass turned her insides to melted butter. If he could do
that with a simple word, he would be lethal if he touched her. Thank god she would never let
that happen. Even if the man was the most sinfully handsome man she had ever had the good
fortune to meet, he had danger written all over him. She even thought his long, dark chestnut
hair with braids descending from each temple was sexy as hell. Most often, he wore it pulled
into a ponytail at his nape. Seeing the wealth of his thick hair had her fingers itching to find out if
it was as soft as it looked.
And his naked chest on display made her want to fan her face to diffuse the flames. The guy
was ripped. Every muscle was defined, exuding just how powerful the guy was, with a light
dusting of dark hair over his bulging pectorals, which arrowed down into a single happy trail over
his muscly abs.
But his insinuation that she couldn’t handle her liquor pissed her off. “Why, because I’ve got
tits?”
His expression turned to stone. “It’s a valid question. If I were you, I would drop the attitude,
lass. Not a single Dom here wants to take a viper to their bed.”
“It’s a good thing then, that I’m not in your bed. Nor will I ever be.”
“I’d rather take a poisonous snake to bed than to have to deal with your sharp tongue. Just be
careful, lass, because you’re walking a fine line with your disrespectful tone. If you cross it, I
won’t hesitate to punish you. And I can guarantee that you won’t like it.”
She rolled her eyes at his brutish attitude. “And you’ve not earned my submission… Sir.”
She was in no mood to trade barbs with the beast.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Anya grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything
she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right
type of books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have
been a doctor. While Anya never did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the
University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.
Anya is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres. She also
writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and contemporary romance under the name Maggie
Mae Gallagher. A total geek at her core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest
comic con or spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry
felines.
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