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Guest Blogger: Lisa Renee Jones (Contest)
Friday, August 17th, 2012

Don’t forget! The Cowboy Lust Blog Tour continues!
Today’s stop is Ramblings from This Chick! ~DD

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Less than a week until IF I WERE YOU! I just can’t believe it is finally going to be here. I’ve waited for this book for what feels like a lifetime. I say this because the story was born when Diego, my DH, and I were buying and selling storage units, long before the shows existed.

Oh what an experience that was. Well, DH found a journal in one of the storage units and started reading and from there he was convinced that I had to write a story. And after years of hearing him say this–I finally did.

Looking back, who would have know how buying and selling those units could have influenced my career. I remember the first time we got a until, our house was packed with boxes and we didn’t know what we were doing. All we knew was the furniture was worth money. We took pictures and it sold fast so we had to clean it out. And what did I find? A sex drawer. Oh yes. I did. Can you say GLOVES? There is nothing sexy about cleaning out someone’s sex drawer. You can imagine what might have been in there! I won’t share:) Your imagination might be more fun. In fact, this seems like a good time to share a sexy excerpt to get back to sexy!

EXCERPT:

Rounding the corner, I enter the hallway, and Chris is suddenly there in the narrow passage with me, pressing me against the wall, his powerful thighs framing mine.

My hand goes instinctively to his t-shirt-clad chest. I am immediately aware of the intimacy of the touch, of my body’s reaction to the man who has betrayed me. “Don’t shove me against another wall and try to intimidate me, Chris.”

“I’m not trying to intimidate you. I was protecting you, Sara.” His hands move to my waist, scorching me, and my reaction to the sizzling touch is instant. I cover his hands with mine, trying to control what he does next, but it doesn’t help. Now, my hands are on his hands and his hands are on my body.

“Call it what you want,” I ground out, “but you had no right to do what you did.”

“He had to know he couldn’t manipulate your dream. Money, and my many resources at your disposal, does that.”

His words knock my anger and my breath away, and confusion consumes me. His actions and his words conflict at every turn. “Why would you help me? You said I don’t belong in this world.”

“Because I won’t watch him gobble you up and destroy you.”

I remember his words, and understand now that he wanted me out of this gallery, not this profession. “Because he’s a dark, messed up, arrogant asshole who will play with my mind and use me until there is nothing else left of me I recognize.”

“That’s right.”

“And yet you say you’re worse.”

He stiffens and cuts his gaze, seeming to struggle before fixing me in a turbulent stare. “I am, Sara, which is why you should run as far away from me as you can. And I should step back and let you.”

“Then why aren’t you?” I whisper.

His eyes hold mine, and what I see there, the depth of his desire, overwhelms me. He flattens his palm on my belly and I tremble beneath the touch, and he has to feel it too. “Because,” his voice low, seductive, his hand traveling up the center of my body, “I can’t stop thinking about you, and everything I want to do to you, everywhere I want to touch you.”

His hand presses to the swell between my breasts, and my nipples ache with a wish he would touch them. His boldness ignites something sultry and dark inside me, a side of me that defies the good-girl school teacher who is appalled I haven’t stopped this. I want him. I want him here and now, and any way I can have him.

And when his gaze lowers to my mouth and lingers, I know he is thinking about kissing me and I have never wanted to be kissed so badly in my life.

“Do you taste as good as I think you do?” he asks, but he doesn’t wait for my reply.

Suddenly, his fingers have tunneled into my hair and he’s dragging my mouth to his. I am all soft submission, yielding to the moment, to the man. I melt into him, welcome the hardness of his body pressed to mine. And when his tongue presses past my lips, a long, wicked caress, I taste his hunger, his need. There is possessiveness to his kiss, to his hand on my back, molding me closer. I am lost in the ache that has become my need for this man, this stranger I cannot resist. He says he’s protecting me; he says he’s dangerous. I am conflicted, and sure I should be angry with him, but I am completely incapable and unable of processing why.

Want to win? Just comment for your chance to win a $10 Amazon gift card.

Want to win $75? I draw every week on Saturday through August 24th. Every time IF I WERE YOU hits 100 new bookshelves I draw for $75. If it hits 500 new shelves that week I draw for $75 5 times. You can win more than once.

The details are here:

http://www.lisareneejones.com/win-75-every-time-if-i-were-you-sells-100/

I look forward to your comments!

Lisa

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About IF I WERE YOU:

If I Were You
Fifty Shades of Grey meets Basic Instinct
Read Ch. 1 Enter To Win
Book 1: If I Were You
Book 2: Being Me
Book 3: Revealing Us

He is rich and famous, and dark in ways I shouldn’t find intriguing, but I do. I so do. I don’t understand why his dark side appeals to me, but the attraction between us is rich with velvety promises of satisfaction. Chris is dark, and so are his desires, but I cannot turn away. He is damaged beneath his confident good looks and need for control, and in some way, I feel he needs me. I need him.

More About IF I WERE YOU

How it began….

One day I was a high school teacher on summer break, leading a relatively uneventful but happy life. Or so I told myself. Later, I’d question that, as I would question pretty much everything I knew about me, my relationships, and my desires. It all began when my neighbor thrust a key to a storage unit at me. She’d bought it to make extra money after watching some storage auction show. Now she was on her way to the airport to elope with a man she barely knew, and she needed me to clear out the unit before the lease expires.

Soon, I was standing inside a small room that held the intimate details of another woman’s life, feeling uncomfortable , as if I was invading her privacy. Why had she let these items so neatly packed, possessions that she clearly cared about deeply, be lost at an auction? Driven to find out by some unnamed force, I began to dig, to discover this woman’s life, and yes, read her journals—-dark, erotic journals that I had no business reading. Once I started, I couldn’t stop. I read on obsessively, living out fantasies through her words that I’d never dare experience on my own, compelled by the three men in her life, none of whom had names. I read onward until the last terrifying dark entry left me certain that something had happened to this woman. I had to find her and be sure she was okay.

Before long, I was taking her job for the summer at the art gallery, living her life, and she was nowhere to be found. I was becoming someone I didn’t know. I was becoming her…

The dark, passion it becomes…

Now, I am working at a prestigious gallery, where I have always dreamed of being, and I’ve been delivered to the doorstep of several men, all of which I envision as one I’ve read about in the journal. But there is one man that will call to me, that will awaken me in ways I never believed possible. That man is the ruggedly sexy artist, Chris Merit, who wants to paint me. He is rich and famous, and dark in ways I shouldn’t find intriguing, but I do. I so do. I don’t understand why his dark side appeals to me, but the attraction between us is rich with velvety promises of satisfaction. Chris is dark, and so are his desires, but I cannot turn away. He is damaged beneath his confident good looks and need for control, and in some way, I feel he needs me. I need him.

All I know for certain is that he knows me like I don’t even know me, and he says I know him. Still, I keep asking myself — do I know him? Did he know her, the journal writer, and where is she? And why doesn’t it seem to matter anymore? There is just him and me, and the burn for more.

37 comments to “Guest Blogger: Lisa Renee Jones (Contest)”

  1. Aemelia
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 8:34 am · Link

    I can’t wait for this to come out! 🙂



  2. P Howell
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 9:24 am · Link

    I LOVE your work!!! I’ve been waiting for this to come out. PICK ME!! PICK ME!!! 😕



  3. Penny
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 9:27 am · Link

    Want it!!!!!!!



  4. Lisa
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 9:55 am · Link

    Delilah thanks for having me and Morning Penny, Pam, and Aemelia!!!Thank you ladies!



  5. Rachel C.
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 9:57 am · Link

    How could you not want to read this book. I was hooked on the background story of why you wrote the book in the first place. Great excerpt.—Rae



  6. Lisa
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 10:00 am · Link

    Thank you Rachel!



  7. Laura
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 10:37 am · Link

    Wow – a sex drawer!? I can’t even imagine… I would have double-gloved to clean that one out! I had a friend in college whose parents were super-religious and she made us promise if anything ever happened to her, we would dispose of her “secret box” so her parents wouldn’t find it! The things you’d do for your friends 🙂
    Can’t wait for the book to come out – it’s exciting!



  8. S. Young
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 10:53 am · Link

    I can’t wait to read this book. I have loved all your other books I have read so far! 🙂



  9. Lisa
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 11:10 am · Link

    Laura that is funny! Yes what we do for friends. And thank you S. Young!!



  10. stacy wright
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 11:39 am · Link

    Can’t wait one week left! 😀



  11. Renee
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 11:56 am · Link

    I am so excited to read IF I WERE YOU. I love all of your books–yes that’s me sucking up to win 😉



  12. Regina Ross
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 12:03 pm · Link

    Great Post and only one week left bet you can hardly wait 🙂



  13. merriedth
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 3:18 pm · Link

    This sounds like a really good book can’t wait to read it… 😀



  14. Lisa
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 5:32 pm · Link

    Stacy, Renee, Merriedth, Regina –thank you!!::) And I can’t wait!



  15. infinitieh
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 6:14 pm · Link

    What a hot excerpt!

    Yeah, a sex drawer can be icky; can the items be tossed or is it incineration time?

    Congrats on you upcoming release!



  16. Alison
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 8:15 pm · Link

    How long do we have to wait….? thats tooo long.. would love to win.. love your books 😆



  17. Tina Rucci
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 8:16 pm · Link

    I don’t know if I could go through someone’s personal possessions and feel comfortable doing it. If I did I would be like Sara and want to find the owner to give it back. Good luck on release day!



  18. Jen B.
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 9:24 pm · Link

    I am stuck at “cleaning out other people’s sex drawers”. Eewwww. See, this is why I would never buy other people’s junk sight unseen! Thanks for the giveaway!



  19. elaing8
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 9:48 pm · Link

    oh this sounds really good. Thanks for sharing the excerpt.Adding this one to the TBR list.



  20. Ginger Robertson
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    · August 17th, 2012 at 10:33 pm · Link

    Hi Lisa.
    Thanks for the book info. I thought it was about something else, that’s what I get for not paying more attention. Also, with this link I have a new author to check out and read.
    Have a great weekend everyone.



  21. Ann Quin
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 12:03 am · Link

    I think that sometimes it is worth the risk to allow relationships to develop, especially if you are so attracted to that person. If a man wants to protect you ,yes, go for it.



  22. Melissa Porter
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 12:11 am · Link

    Okay I am adding another one on my Need to get list. I am starting to think I might need to take two weeks off from work just to get caught up on it. 😛



  23. Lisa
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 12:21 am · Link

    Thanks everyone for stopping by and yes the sex drawer really was ik! And it was our first unit and the only one I found that kind of sex drawer in. Think of how much that broke me in with a bang lol!



  24. ginger Warrick
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 12:27 am · Link

    Oh wow that’s definitely a way to get introduced. Can’t wait Ans that was before the excerpt now I’m so overly excited



  25. Lisa
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 2:05 am · Link

    Thank you Ginger!!



  26. Mary Preston
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 3:39 am · Link

    IF I WERE YOU looks absolutely incredible. Great reading ahead.



  27. Leanna Craig
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 10:16 am · Link

    Wow. Just wow…that was hot! This book promises to sizzle and I can not wait for it to be out!



  28. June
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 2:59 pm · Link

    Oh, I could not imagine coming across someone’s sex drawer. Now, when I was a teen I did come across a “massager ” while looking for something in my parent’s room. I just put it back and never mentioned it, lol.



  29. Pamk
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 8:23 pm · Link

    I’m looking forward to reading this one. And that would be my luck too having to clean out a sec drawer.



  30. Pamk
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 8:25 pm · Link

    I hate auto correct. I meant sex.



  31. erika gracilla
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    · August 18th, 2012 at 11:10 pm · Link

    REALLY REALLY excited! I don’t mind living someone else’s life if it means I will encounter Chris Merit!! lol 😆



  32. donnas
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    · August 19th, 2012 at 2:34 am · Link

    Great post. Love the excerpt.



  33. vickey r
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    · August 19th, 2012 at 10:48 am · Link

    Wow..great snippet! Its a definite must read and the cover is excellant 😉



  34. Lori Fenn
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    · August 19th, 2012 at 2:59 pm · Link

    I am so excited for this to come out!!



  35. ELF
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    · August 19th, 2012 at 4:58 pm · Link

    Good luck with the release, I am sure it will do well! Thanks for sharing.



  36. Linda Scarchuk
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    · August 21st, 2012 at 9:54 am · Link

    Would love to read your book…



  37. Pam Howell
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    · August 21st, 2012 at 12:46 pm · Link

    ok – so who won?? 😳



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