COOKING UP A STORM by Ashley Ladd
Available at Totally Bound: https://www.totallybound.com/cooking-up-a-storm
About the Book:
Content Warning: This book contains mature and explicit content, including M/M and multiple partners, with a Sizzling heat rating from the publisher.Brooks and Rique desperately want to win a coveted chef’s job offered by an eccentric millionaire in paradise. Even more, Rique desperately wants to stay alive.Brooks and Rique desperately want to win the head chef’s position offered by an eccentric millionaire Jonah Verleun on his beautiful, private but peculiar island that includes a zoo full of exotic animals, an amusement park and a monster shark tank beneath Jonah’s bedroom floor. While Brooks wants the job to escape his heartache and the lover who thwarted him, Rique is hiding from the mob, hoping to live long enough to pay them off with the prize winnings. Fierce competitors, they cook up a storm in a series of cooking challenges while trying to turn down the heat on their intense attraction. When a hurricane strikes the island, the storm Rique has been cooking up explodes, and no heart—or body—is safe.
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PG Excerpt from Cooking Up a Storm, by Ashley Ladd :
They ran, hunched over, zigging and zagging
as bullets flew around them. Rique damned himself for putting Brooks in this
mess. He wondered if the mob held the others prisoner and that’s why they didn’t
answer the door.
He turned the first corner they came upon
and then the next. He stopped dead and the air left his lungs. A moment later Brooks
ran into his back almost knocking him over. He swayed dangerously but managed
to stay upright and spread his arms wide to keep Brooks from stumbling forward.
He couldn’t believe his eyes. One of
Jonah’s tigers lay in their path crouching low, baring his teeth, and eying
them as if they were dinner.
He tried to quell the jitters attacking his
stomach so the animal wouldn’t smell his fear then whispered to Brooks through
clenched teeth, “What do we do now? Freeze or run?”
“Run. But where?” Brooks whispered back, a
frown trembling on his lips.
“To the closest protection.” He prayed
their hunters had lost them, that they wouldn’t run back into a barrage of
bullets. As Rique bunched his muscles to run, already feeling the animal’s
fangs ripping into him, he noted how the tiger’s thick muscles corded in his
shoulders, and how saliva ran down his snarling lips.
“Dear God, we’re going to die.” Panic laced
Brooks’ voice. “If we get out of here alive, let’s both turn down the job and
move in together.”
Swallowing hard, Rique couldn’t reply so he
nodded. Besides, as much as he wanted to live with Brooks, he couldn’t do it as
long as he was indebted to the mob. However, the point was moot. He couldn’t
see a scenario in which one of them didn’t die in the next five minutes.
Feeling responsible, Rique couldn’t let
anything happen to Brooks as long as he was alive. He would take on the tiger
giving Brooks time to reach safety. “On the count of three, run!”
As Rique whispered, “One,” hisses, then a
blood-curdling growl wrenched the air. It was a different sound than the tiger was
making. Then a crocodile bellowed and jumped out of the bushes and snatched the
tiger by its belly. As it dragged the struggling creature back to the bushes,
the tiger howled in surprise and pain. It clawed the air in vain as the reptile’s
powerful jaws clamped tighter biting through flesh and bone.
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Available at Totally Bound: https://www.totallybound.com/cooking-up-a-storm
About the Author:
Ashley Ladd lives in South Florida with her husband, five
children, and beloved pets. She loves the water, animals (especially cats), and
playing on the computer.
She's been told she has a wicked sense of humour and often
incorporates humour and adventure into her books. She also adores very spicy
romance, which she weaves into her stories.
You can find Ashley at:
http://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Ladd/e/B002PSKTLU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1404670854&sr=8-1
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