Available from The Wild Rose Press, Amazon, B&N, and wherever you get your romance fix!
I’m so thrilled to celebrate my very first book birthday! There’ll be many more to come, but an author never forgets her debut release day. My spicy contemporary romance, Through the Red Door, is available today wherever you get your tasty romance reads.
Letting him inside could be her salvation…or her undoing.
Clara Martelli clings to Book Nirvana, the Oregon bookshop she and her late husband Jared built together. When rising rents and corporate competition threaten its survival, her best hope is their extensive erotica collection, locked behind a red door. In dreams and signs, her dead husband tells her it’s time to open that door and move on. When a dark and handsome stranger’s powerful magnetism jolts her back to life and he wants a look at the treasures of that secret room, she can’t help but want to show him more.
Professor Nick Papadopoulos is looking for historical erotica. Book Nirvana’s collection surpasses his wildest dreams, and so does its lovely owner. A widower, he understands Clara’s battle with guilt, but their searing chemistry is too strong to resist. Besides, he will only be in town for two weeks, not long enough for her to see beyond the scandal that haunts his past.
Here’s a tiny taste:
Harry got to work on the window display, leaving Clara to concentrate on paperwork and the handful of customers who wandered in. When Margot arrived a little after two, Clara retreated to her office, really just a small desk behind a carved wooden screen. She was ready for a coffee refill when Margot knocked on the screen and peeked around the corner, her eyes twinkling.
“Hey, Clara, there’s a dude here who wants to look in the back room.” She waggled her thrice-pierced eyebrows. “You wanna check him out, or should I just give him the key?”
“What’s he like?”
Margot rolled her eyes heavenward. “He’s gorgeous!”
“Well then, guess I’d better check him out.” After all, who knew what sort of fellow merited that label in Margot’s world.
She’s right. He’s gorgeous.
He leaned one elbow the counter, examining the fliers posted there, so Clara’s first view was the firm curve of his behind, cupped by soft wool slacks. His crisp white dress shirt stretched across broad, muscular shoulders, and his rolled-up sleeves revealed powerful forearms dusted with sleek, dark hair. At her approach, he straightened to greet her, a half-smile on his full lips.
She gulped, and her hand strayed to the locket nestled between her breasts.
Dark eyebrows arched over his espresso brown eyes. His nose was straight and sharp, with flaring nostrils, and his dark olive complexion whispered of strong sunlight. Mediterranean, or Caribbean? A shadow of beard dusted his jaw, and, when he tilted his head to smile down at her, one perfect black curl flopped onto his forehead. The hand he extended was broad and warm and surprisingly gentle. She gazed into his sparkling eyes, stepped in closer—then jolted backward, startled by her own reaction. Not since Jared had she felt so compelled to touch a man.
Buy links:
https://www.amazon.com/Through-Red-Door-Book-Nirvana-ebook/dp/B07J5BCTSG/
https://wildcatalog.thewildrosepress.com/all-erotic/6283-through-the-red-door.html
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/through-the-red-door-sadira-stone/1129705434?ean=2940161713808
