High-Sticked by Lily Harlem
High-Sticked
is Book #5 in Lily Harlem’s popular HOT ICE series - http://www.lilyharlem.com/hot-ice.html.
All of these sexy hockey books can be enjoyed as stand-alone stories though if
you read them in the order you’ll meet the hero of each next book as you go
along. High-Sticked is the only M/M in the set and follows the story of Rangers
player Todd Carty and professional photographer Matthew Foster. It’s hot, it’s
spicy and is sure to hit the spot!
Blurb
Dating Todd “Pretty” Carty was a
trailblazing, headline-grabbing ride that shocked and divided a team, a sport and a nation. While controversy
ruled, our feelings exploded and we couldn’t deny the desire that sizzled between
us. Nothing, however, was easy outside the bedroom. Not when my world-class,
fearless athlete wanted to shout from Everest that he was in love with another
man.
But laying my heart on the line and having
my picture dominating the papers was worth it. Everything about Todd turned me
on. His bold hockey skills, his courageous attitude and the way he melted in my
arms when I kissed him. I melted too, because he knew how to press my buttons,
remind me of the man I used to be and take me to those places where ecstasy
ruled.
The world might have trouble accepting us,
but we’d committed to each other, mind, body and soul, and nothing could change
that.
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Excerpt
**Contains mature content**
Finally
I came to the last picture. It was another of Gareth and Joel, and one I’d captured
spontaneously although the viewer could be mistaken for thinking it was staged.
It replicated a famous WW2 picture of a GI kissing a girl in Times Square,
tipping her back and devouring her mouth in the most unchaste of ways. My
picture had been taken on New Year’s Eve when we’d been out having fun. At the
stroke of midnight, Joel had grabbed Gareth, dropped him over his arm and
kissed him. Camera always at the ready, I’d captured the shot—ticker tape
fluttering around them, people celebrating, lights and noise bursting from the
frame. But the real beauty was how they were totally lost in each other,
oblivious to everything else. The kiss transported them to their own perfect
time and place—a whole year of fun to look forward to, a whole previous year of
wondrous times to look back on.
A
flush of envy washed over me. It often did when I looked at that shot. “So
that’s it,” I said, clearing my throat. “My exhibition is a collection of
portraits and landscapes, places I enjoy and people who have stood by me. I’m
thrilled the curators at Theodore Gallery think enough of my work to want to
show it to the world.”
“You
mean other than on billboards and magazines.” He set his bottle on the table.
I
laughed. “Yep, other than billboards and magazines. That’s when I’m being told
what to take shots of instead of choosing my own subject.” Suddenly my words
caught in my throat. “I mean, not that I wouldn’t, I mean, not that I wouldn’t
want to take shots of you, obviously, that was—”
It
was his turn to laugh now. “I know what you mean, don’t stress.”
His
body nudged mine as his chest rose and fell. I quickly shut down the window and
flipped the screen shut, tugged out the memory stick and set it and the laptop
on the coffee table.
I
sat back and stared at my knees. The exhibition and Armani should be the main
things on my mind right now. But how could they be when Todd Carty was sitting
next to me with his big hand resting only an inch from mine?
The
pale fuzz of his sun-bleached hairs skimming up the back of his wrist and onto
his forearm made me want to stroke, kiss, lick them. An image of doing so
rushed through my mind. Damn, a wave of heat to my cock warned me of an
impending erection. I was such a fool. Why was I even here, torturing myself
like this?
“Matthew,”
Todd said.
I
turned, saw his keen, intelligent eyes gazing straight into mine. He was so
close I could make out every whisker on his chin, the delicate shadow within
the upper indent of his lip and each individual eyelash. “What?” I managed,
tensing my stomach and resisting the urge to reach for him, kiss him. Just grab
him and make him mine for a few sweeter than sweet seconds. Hell to the
consequences. Hell to the black eye I would no doubt get.
“Matthew,
I…” He shook his head and his eyes narrowed. He lifted his hand and cupped my
cheek in his palm, his fingertips grazing my earlobe and his arm resting down
the column of my neck and onto my collarbone. Jaw set tight he said, “Fuck, I
want to kiss you.”
“What?”
“I
want to kiss you, right here, right now,” he said in a strained, dark voice.
“But,
I…?”
“Please,
don’t question it.” He leaned closer still. So close his lips were just a
hairsbreadth from mine. “It’s just, I’ve been thinking about it so much, and I
have to do it, now.”
His
mouth connected with mine, big firm lips pressing with both hesitation and
determination. It was a close-mouthed peck, not wild, not full of movement,
certainly no tongues, but one of the most sensual kisses of my life.
Lily Harlem Bio
Lily
Harlem lives in the UK and is an award-winning author of contemporary erotic
romance. She writes for publishers on both sides of the Atlantic including
Ellora's Cave, HarperCollins, Total-E-Bound, Xcite and Sweetmeat Press. Her HOT
ICE series regularly receives high praise and industry nominations.
Before
turning her hand to writing Lily Harlem worked as a trauma nurse and her latest
HarperCollins release, Confessions of a Naughty Night Nurse, draws on her many
experiences while nursing in London. Lily also self-publishes and The Glass
Knot and Scored have been blessed with many 5* reviews since their release in
2012.
Her
latest m/f novel, Breathe You In, is a super-sexy romance with a twist that
will not only heat you up but stay with you for years to come.
One
thing you can be sure of, whatever book you pick up by Ms Harlem, is it will be
wildly romantic and down-and-dirty sexy. Enjoy!
Lily Harlem Links
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