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Celebration: A Strongman Vignette (free!)
Posted by Denise on September 2, 2010 under Books, Excerpts, Freebies, Lust Objects
Here it is - free on my website - a vignette with Griff and Fort from Strongman. Ah, I love those two! What can Griff give Fort as a Natal Day present when he’s already handed the big man his heart and soul? All in one pdf file.
Here’s a taste, followed by the link.
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Almost a year.
Griff glanced across the interior of the lamplit van as Fort ran a hand through his hair for what had to be the hundredth time. He was glaring down at the papers spread across the table, the end of an ink brush clamped firmly between his teeth. Gods, he had no idea what he looked like, not even now, after Griff had told him Twister knew how many times. Big and tough and oh-so-serious. Not handsome, not by any stretch, but with his own rough beauty.
Griff’s chest went tight. Blinking rapidly, he drained the last of his Aetherian brandy. And all his, since that day in the hidden valley, almost a year ago. Some sort of celebration was definitely in order, but what?
Fort frowned more ferociously than ever, one big finger running down a column of figures.
“You need spectacles,” said Griff absently.
Fort’s head jerked up. “Nonsense.”
Griff lay back against the pillows and grinned. Fort’s bark was worse than his bite and to be honest, he had no objection to either. “Then why are you squinting?”
“Am not,” said Fort automatically, but his storm-gray gaze skimmed over the other man’s body in the skintight costume, lingering on Griff’s fingers, drumming casually on one muscled thigh.
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Read it! Celebration: A Strongman Vignette
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Read the first chapter
Read the Reviews | Read the free Epilogue
Ebook: Ellora’s Cave
Print: Ellora’s Cave | Australian Bookstores
Remember that the free epilogue (all 30 pages of it) is only available if you subscribe to my monthly newsletter. Enjoy, my dears!And let me know what you think, okay? All feedback is welcome.












Read an article in the paper recently about why women have sex. Among other things, the researchers said that men find most women at least moderately sexually attractive, whereas women don’t find many men desirable at all.
I’d always thought it was “just me”, you know? That I was pretty cold and mean. This is the reason I don’t give detailed descriptions of the faces of my heroes. I, um, can’t. The same reason I don’t go looking for photos of movie stars or models to base them on. I find it too much of a come-down to visualise them as men who actually exist. No real man could be as gorgeous as what’s in my head. *smile/sigh* It’s also why I like covers where you can’t see the faces.
up a telegraph pole because I was leering at cyclist with the most beautiful legs I’ve ever seen on a man. Probably just as well the helmet hid his face. He couldn’t possibly have lived up to those pins.


