Luke by Madison Quinn Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Luke
Dark
Water Security Series Book 1
by
Madison Quinn
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
What
happens when your worst nightmare becomes your new reality?
More
than ten years have passed since Luke was kidnapped and held captive
by a crazed mad man. He still struggles to leave that period of his
life behind. However, when he meets the new computer security expert
his partner wants to hire, the memories of the young girl who stole
his heart during the worst time of his life suddenly come rushing
back. Why is it this woman reminds him so much of the girl he needs
to forget? The girl he shouldn’t be dreaming of. The girl who
suffered because of him.
When
a new case forces them to spend time together, Luke has no choice but
to face his undeniable attraction to her. Can he stop seeing her as
the constant reminder of his past mistakes and start seeing her for
the beautiful, talented woman that she is?
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Contains adult themes; content might not be suitable for all readers.
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Because
I didn’t try—I’m fucking done. The bruises, the cuts, the
broken bones, they all eventually heal, but nothing else changes.
When he first brought me to the fights, I stupidly believed his
promise: if I brought in enough money, he would let me go. Since
then, though, I’ve come to the realization that he’s never going
to let me go. Why bother trying? I don’t give a shit how much money
I make him or he loses because of me.
I
should probably be scared, but I’m so fucking tired of being
scared. Part of me is giving up—I know that. I’ve tried escaping
but he always finds me before I can get out of this shitty house.
I’ve tried playing by his rules: winning the fights like he said,
but nothing happened. I’ve lived through all of his punishments so
far: each time he’s whipped me with the belt to the point where I’m
bleeding, when he’s brought his friends over and let them use me,
when he injected me with something that kept me awake for more than
two straight days–and so much more, but I survived. What if I’m
tired of surviving?
I
shake my head, trying to focus on anything else. I hate that I’m so
weak. I hate that I cry myself to sleep every night, whereas Luke is
stronger than I ever could be, even though he’s been trapped down
here for almost a year. Why can’t I be strong like he is? How did
he stay so strong all these months? How has he not given up? Part of
me keeps hoping that one of these days someone will come and rescue
us. But the other part of me thinks that if no one has come for Luke
in all these months, they’re never going to come.
As if
there’s some magic button that can be pressed that makes you move
on after something horrible like that happens to you. There is no
moving on; there’s no forgetting what happened in the eighteen
months I was in that house. But, if there was a chance that seeing me
would hurt Em, I wouldn’t do it. No matter how much I wanted to
talk to her, to see her, I can’t hurt her more than I already have.
Have
I mentioned the fucking pull I feel every time she walks into the
room? Every. fucking. time! It’s always there! I don’t know if
she feels it; sometimes I catch her watching me when she thinks I’m
not looking, but it seems like it’s more out of curiosity than
anything else. I doubt she feels the same pull that I do, because
what I feel makes no fucking sense for someone I just met. I have to
fight the urge to touch her, especially when she leans next to me to
read something or hands me a file to review. It’s a constant
struggle to remind myself that she’s my employee which means I
shouldn’t be thinking about touching her, no matter how badly I
want to.
“You’re
killing me,” I whisper when we step out of the room.
“What?”
“The
dress. You’re killing me. Do you have any idea how sexy you look in
it?” I know I shouldn’t say things like this to her, but here
it’s so easy to forget that she’s technically working for me.
Over the last couple of days, I’ve been slowly giving into the urge
to touch her. I find myself reaching for her whenever she’s near,
almost as if I need to touch her.
“Oh…
I…”
“As
your boss, well, one of them, it’s entirely inappropriate for me to
say that, but…you need to know, you look sexy as hell right now.”
“Um…thanks?”
The
kiss is anything but soft and sweet like I would expect from Emily;
instead it’s full of heat and desire. She boldly slips her tongue
into my mouth and I swear I nearly lose the ability to think
straight. Wrapping my arms tighter around her, I tug her against me,
momentarily forgetting where we are and the reason we’re even here
in the first place. She’s moving against me, whether still dancing
to the crappy music or for another reason, I don’t know. All I do
know is that I love the way she feels against me. I fight the urge to
take her back to the room, strip her naked and feast on the beautiful
body that’s been driving me mad these last two days.
Madison
Quinn is a mom to three energetic boys who constantly keep her on the
go. She's also a wife to an amazing husband.
She
works full time in the human services industry and in her spare time
she enjoys reading and writing.
Where did you come up with the names
in the story?
Google… LOL I typed in name generator
and slowly grew a list of names. Since I already had an idea of my
characters in my head, it was a matter of finding a name that fit
them.
What did you enjoy most about
writing this book?
Telling their story.
Tell us about
your main characters- what makes them tick?
Luke—His determination to help
others, to not fail even though everyone has failed. Emily—to
survive.
How did you come up with the title
of your first novel?
Haha… actually I didn’t. I was
stuck when it came time to On His Terms. I knew the book would be a
duet, so I needed a title that not only worked for the first book but
also for the second. I was brainstorming with another author and we
came up with On His Terms and then On Her Terms.
Who designed
your book covers?
For Luke, I hired Undercover Designs to
come up with the perfect cover because I had no idea what I wanted. I
knew I wanted the woods to be on the cover because they played such
an important role in the book. Lee blew my expectations out of the
water with the cover.
If you had to do it all over again,
would you change anything in your latest book?
I don’t think so.
Did you learn anything during the
writing of your recent book?
I’m always learning, especially since
I’m a new author.
What is your
favorite part of this book and why?
In Luke, that’s a tough one. I don’t
want to say the beginning is my favorite because it was by far the
hardest to write. But, it made each of them who they are today.
Beyond that, it’s probably when Emily shows up on Luke’s
doorstep.
Are your characters based off real
people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
They all exist only in my head LOL
Do your characters seem to hijack
the story or do you feel like you have the reigns of the story?
Sometimes they hijack it and I need to pull the reigns in some.
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