Driven
By Passion's Destiny
by
Bobbi
Cole Meyer
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GENRE:
erotic/contemporary
romance
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BLURB:
Lee
Harris’s life of championship wrestling, gorgeous women and
trekking all over the world to manage his chain of gourmet
restaurants is over. A spinal injury puts him in a wheelchair.
Despite a will of steel that has seen him through numerous injuries,
there is no getting up and walking away from this one. Confused,
bitter and angry, Lee resists all efforts of rehabilitation to help
him adjust to his new life. Frustration is added to the mix when he
meets Cassie, the first woman he wants since his accident. Wants and
can’t have.
Cassie Sheppard has never gotten over her crush for the green-eyed, charismatic wrestler, Lee Harris. Now fate puts him within her reach. She is assigned to be his live-in physiotherapist. Despite his coldness toward her she finds herself falling for him more each day. She is determined to break through his stubbornness to help him regain his mobility, sexuality and self-esteem. Even if it costs her a broken heart.
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Excerpt
One:
The
wrestling crowd exploded in a deafening, reverberating chant, “Wild
Man Harris” as Raymond Lee Harris sauntered toward the ring.
His
red, white, and blue cape swung backwards, caught in the draft of
wind generated by two huge, rafter-mounted fans, turned on per his
instruction. He stood with a slight smile, eying the crowd from
lowered lids, his green eyes made more noticeable by the dark
eyeliner he’d applied. It was all part of his signature
presentation, hyping his motto of “Wild Man Harris, always ready to
fly into action.”
His
skin-tight purple trunks hugged his six-foot-four frame, leaving
little to the imagination, emphasizing the obvious—Lee “Wild Man”
Harris was definitely well endowed.
He
lifted a hand in a wave. The gesture exposed the perfection of his
muscled upper torso, his broad chest, ripped abs, and perfectly
tapered body. He flashed his famous, white-toothed smile to the
ladies in the front row, pausing briefly to tease them by flexing his
pectorals before blowing them a kiss.
One,
a pretty, blonde girl he guessed to be in her late teens, struggled
to unhook and wiggle out of her bra. She surprised him by tossing it
to him as he drew near her. Laughing, he caught it mid-air, kissed
it, and gave her a sexy wink before tossing it back to her.
This
kind of over-the-top accolade still astonished him. Ever since he’d
won the championship title the year before, it had been this way.
Drinking in the adulation, he wondered what his rabid fans would say
if they knew this on-stage persona, which he’d worked hard to
perpetuate over the years, was contrary to his true personality.
He
was actually shy in his everyday world. He preferred reading a good
book and cooking a gourmet meal to enjoy at home with his family—his
three best friends, or “co-husbands” as he liked to refer to
them, and the one lady they all loved and shared in their polyandry
nirvana, Kayla.
Yet
here, in the midst of this adoring crowd of strangers, his shyness
disappeared. He preened as was expected of him, donning that
unrestrained personality as easily as he had his cape, to give his
fans the show they anticipated. The show he knew they had paid to
see. And tonight, he wanted the show to be the best ever, because
after this performance, he was retiring from the ring.
He
executed his usual agile and flamboyant flip over the ropes to enter
the ring. He smoothed his long, chestnut-colored hair back from his
face, unhooked his cape, and tossed it to his designated corner
before bowing low to the audience.
With
his second glance at the upturned faces, he frowned as he spotted
Kayla and her other “husbands”—Harm, Luke, and J.J. He wasn’t
surprised to see Luke and Harm because he knew they enjoyed
wrestling, but Kayla and J.J.? This didn’t make sense. He knew that
J.J., the youngest to have been invited into Kayla’s home as part
of their alternate lifestyle, preferred ice hockey or boxing or any
other sport to wrestling. And Kayla had said more than once she
considered wrestling to be barbaric.
Something
was wrong—very wrong! He knew it as the bell rang. He stood
confused, not moving as the bell rang again.
This
time, the ringing was followed by a jarring rendition of his adopted
theme song, Hail to the Chief. Everything began to waver as that
pulsating, persistent ringing morphed into a sharp pain.
Shaking
his head, he glanced down at his friends again, only to discover they
had all vanished. Even the crowd was gone. Nothing was left but that
damnable ringing and the pain that throbbed behind his eyes.
Lee
awoke from the dream with a start, his heart rate accelerating with
anxiety. Struggling back to the present, reality hit him with brutal
force.
His
glory days in the wrestling ring were far behind him. As was his life
with Kayla, the woman he had loved. And he no longer was even in
contact with the men who had once been not only his co-husbands with
Kayla, but his best friends.
The
final kicker, the hardest blow of all in this stark, awake reality
was that he was now living in the aftermath of a plane crash he had
miraculously survived. But that survival had carried a high price.
He
was paralyzed.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Bobbi
Cole Meyer is the pen name for Barbara Meyer, who relocated from her
hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a
career as a lyricist. Over the years Barbara has had numerous songs
she co-wrote cut by major artists such as Tom Jones, Loretta Lynn,
Barbara Mandrell, Barbi Benton, Stella Parton, The Soul Shakers, the
Poppies, Bandana, Mason Dixon, the Wright Brothers and several
others. She also co-wrote the theme song for the Italian movie,
Summer Affair, with well-known guitarist and composer, Bucky Barrett.
Now
residing in a small town outside Nashville, Tennessee, with her
husband, Hank, Barbara is busy pursuing a second career, writing
fiction, which she claims is her first love.
Barbara’s
slogan is, “grab them with the first paragraph and don’t turn
loose until the last period.”
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GIVEAWAY
INFORMATION
Bobbi
Cole Meyer will be awarding one electric pink beach tote bag. (U.S.
giveaway only) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the
tour.
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ReplyDeleteWhat character in your book are you least likely to get along with?
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