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    Burn

    By Anne Rainey

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    High-school sweethearts Ally Ryanaldo and Blake Steele were in love and inseparable. Ally always assumed they’d get married, and she’d raise his babies and live happily ever after.

    Until Blake shattered her dreams, leaving Ally and small-town life behind in favor of New York City.

    Now, it’s ten years later, and Blake is back. He wants to pick up where they left off, but Ally has other ideas. Naughty ideas. With the help of her kinky girlfriend, Heather, Ally shows Blake her wild side. But when her plan backfires, Ally’s afraid she may lose the only man she’s ever loved, for good.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 21, 2017
    ISBN9781640632844
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    • 4/5
      Chloe is an up and coming real estate developer, escaping a troubled past. Ryan is a firefighter (and who doesn't love firefighters!) trying to leave the ghosts of his past mistakes behind. Can either of them learn to trust again?

      The conflicts and the suspense were well done, the characters believable. Ms. Altieri gave us several red herrings as we had to guess "whodunit" and brought everything to a satisfying conclusion. Well done!

      I'd issue a warning to those people who might be offended by profanity - I think the use of it was realistic given the characters' occupations, but there will be some readers who might be put off by it.

    • 3/5
      Received an ARC for my fair review for netgalley. I enjoyed book. It was a romantic suspense. Chloe is being set up for arson. She meets Ryan in bar after being questioned repeatedly. Ryan is a firefighter, and he is attracted to Chloe, but he is worried that she might have committed arson, but in his gut he does not think she did, even though there is evidence. Chloe, also has to deal with her ex who is a jerk, and had abused her, but he is her boss, and he has a secret on Chloe, that he is blackmailing her with, and he really thinks she did it. Ryan and Chloe, do give in to attraction, and then secrets do come out. What are they? You have to read to find out.

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    Burn - Anne Rainey

    Table of Contents

    Dedication

    Prologue

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    About the Author

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    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

    Copyright © 2009 by Anne Rainey. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. For information regarding subsidiary rights, please contact the Publisher.

    Entangled Publishing, LLC

    2614 South Timberline Road

    Suite 109

    Fort Collins, CO 80525

    Visit our website at www.entangledpublishing.com.

    Scorched is an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC.

    Edited by Linda Ingmanson

    Cover design by Fiona Jayde

    Cover art from iStock

    ISBN 978-1-64063-284-4

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    First Edition January 2009

    Rerelease August 2017

    For Connie, our official Goddess of Goodies. Thanks for being such a sweet lady. You take the time to make friends with total strangers and that’s something I dearly treasure. I’m so glad you found your way over to After Dark!

    Prologue

    May 1997

    Lancaster, Ohio

    I love feeling you against me, baby. You’re so soft. I can’t get enough of your satiny skin.

    My eyes drifted closed as I heard his words of praise and felt his fingers touching me beneath my panties. Blake, please, I begged shamelessly, I need you inside of me this time.

    Blake went still, then I felt his fingers beneath my chin, urging me to open my eyes and look at him. When our gazes locked, he asked, Are you sure this is what you want, Ally?

    Yes. I know I love you. I don’t want to wait anymore.

    I can make you feel good. We don’t have to go all the way for you to come, baby.

    I know. It’s wonderful what you do. When you…kiss me down there, I like it a lot. But I want to feel you deep. I want our bodies connected.

    Blake leaned back and closed his eyes. I was afraid I’d said too much, that he was disgusted with me, but when he opened them again, it was with new purpose. He unlocked his door and said, Get out of the car. Your first time isn’t going to be in this old clunker.

    I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. I was so nervous my entire body shook with it. I pulled the handle and left the beat-up black Charger behind. Blake was in front of the car, waiting for me. When I drew near, he grabbed my hand and led me to a more secluded spot in the woods. We walked so long I was about to lose my nerve, but he stopped suddenly, and I realized he’d taken me to a clearing. Clovers littered the ground and the full moon shone through the trees. It was romantic and beautiful, and I adored Blake for being so sweet with me this first time. He turned around and kissed me. His touch was electric. It’d been that way since the first time he’d stroked a hand down my cheek and asked me to the spring formal. I’d been head over heels ever since.

    I want you so bad, Ally. You’re special. Never forget that, okay?

    I didn’t know why he felt the need to say that. I knew what we had was different. Blake had dated other girls, but he’d never treated them the way he treated me. We were in love. That was the difference. I knew in my heart we were meant to be together.

    Take off your blouse. I want to see you.

    I did as he asked. Blake could have anything he wanted from me. As far as I was concerned, my body belonged to him. With shaking fingers, I unbuttoned the pink silk and let it drift to the ground. He stepped forward and unclasped my bra with a quickness that surprised me. I didn’t want to think about how he’d gotten to be so good at unhooking a girl’s bra.

    As he bared my chest, the night air rushed over my skin, and I instinctively covered myself with my palms. I watched in heated interest as he licked his lips and murmured, You’re so pretty, baby. Don’t hide from me. Never from me.

    Nervous, but willing to give Blake everything, I slowly dropped my hands to my sides. His head came down. He clasped my left nipple between his lips and sucked hard. I arched

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