Okay, even though October 23 is the official release date, there’s a possibility this book will be out by next Friday. Add it to your GoodReads TBR pile now and check my Facebook page for updates. I will be having a one day .99 sale on release day, and then after that the price goes up to 3.99.
And now for a sneak peek!
Damned and Desirable, Eternally Yours Book Two, by Tara West
**Warning, this book contains scenes of dead people having sex, only really sexy dead people, not zombies or sparkly vampires. Rest assured, no body parts fell off during the making of these sex scenes, just bras and undies, and no fangs or hammers were used during foreplay.**
What could be worse than getting tricked by a demon and sucked into the fiery pit of doom? Discovering that the demon who captured your soul is also the devastatingly sexy twin of the man who still has your heart.
The only fate worse than eternal damnation is eternal temptation. Someone please get me some water. It’s getting hot in here.
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“You’re only with me because I look like her,” I said on a sob, biting down on my knuckles to keep more tears from falling.
He shook his head. “That’s not true.”
“Then why? Am I supposed to believe all the kissing and groping and credits were because you fell in love at first sight?”
Aedan’s shoulders slumped with his sigh. “I’ll admit, when I first saw you I was taken by your similarities to Marie, but that’s not why I’m here now.”
I leaned forward, eyeing him intently, wanting so badly to know the truth but fearing it as well. “Tell me why you’re here, Aedan.”
“I’m here because I couldn’t imagine spending eternity without you.”
My hand flew to my heart, trying to quell the heavy banging that ricocheted in my eardrums, drowning out all other sounds in the room. I wanted to believe his soft smile and heartfelt gaze were sincere, but there was something nagging the back of my conscience that I couldn’t let go.
“I don’t understand why you didn’t just ascend to Heaven with Mar. Didn’t you love her?”
Aedan tensed, the veins in his neck rising like raging torrents, threatening to burst through his tanned flesh. “Mar’s resented me for over a hundred years. Her sister Katherine went to hell, and Mar blames me for it.” The fatigue in his eyes reflected a century of sorrow. I knew then he’d pined for her, and maybe he still did.
The thudding in my heart subsided to a dull hammer pounding away at a rusty tin, not hard enough to break it but enough to dent it out of shape. “Why is that your fault?”
“I couldn’t save her on the night a hurricane claimed our lives.”
My hand flew to my throat. “You died in a hurricane?”
He sighed. “Drowned in the surge.”
Oh. That explained his hydrophobia. I thought how frightening his death would have been, caught up in the wind and waves, and for the first time appreciated my brief blow-dryer accident. But I still didn’t understand why it was his duty to look after Mar’s sister. “And Mar expected you to take care of Katherine?”
“Of course. She was my wife.”
“Oh,” I barely mouthed the words. Aedan couldn’t marry Mar, so he married her sister instead. What did that make me? Rebound victim number two? Or were there other Murphys in-between?
Aedan’s wife obviously wasn’t nice if she’d been sent to the fiery pit of doom. Disregard the fact that I’d been assigned to level two in Purgatory, which was just a few credits away from burning in eternal damnation.
“Why did she get sent to hell?” I asked on a shaky breath, almost afraid to know the answer. I still couldn’t wrap my head around Aedan’s wife being cast down to Hell.
His gaze flickered to me, and then he looked away, but in that fraction of a second I caught the intensity of a thousand hurricanes swirling in his eyes.
He rose with stiff legs, a dark shadow falling over his features as he looked down at me. “She was a lying whore.”
Without another word, he turned and walked out the door. Well, shit. I thought about following him, but I figured we’d torn through enough raw wounds for one evening, wounds that after a century still hadn’t healed and I feared never would.
