The Finn Factor
Author: Rachel Bailey
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Publisher: Entangled Embrace
Summary from Goodreads:
A new adult romance from Entangled's Embrace imprint...
Sometimes all a girl needs is a little practice...
It's been twelve months, three days, and eleven hours since accounting student Scarlett Logan made it past a second date. A pitcher of mojitos in hand, she employs her supreme graphing skills to narrow things down to one horrifying explanation. Kissing. Clearly someone needs to teach her how to kiss properly. Like, say, her best friend and roomie, Finn Mackenzie. He's safe, he's convenient, and yeah, maybe just a little gorgeous.
Finn knows exactly why Scarlett's boyfriends are disappearing quickly. Him. Not a single guy she's brought home is nearly good enough. And he'll be damned if he lets some loser give her "kissing lessons." No. He'll do the honors, thank you very much. The moment their lips touch, though, everything turns upside down. But Scarlett deserves the one thing Finn can't give her. And if he doesn't put an end to the sexy little shenanigans, he'll teach Scarlett the hardest lesson of all...heartbreak.
Once we reached his office, Finn pulled me inside and kicked the door
closed. There was something very different going on with him. His
entire body was tense, wired, as if ready for something.
He left the light off.
“Finn?” I said, tilting my head to try and get a read on him.
“I did it again.”
As
my eyes adjusted to the dark, I could see the contours of his face in
the moonlight glinting through the windows. He was at once familiar and
foreign, and the combination was electric.
“Did what again?”
Apart from the muted sounds from the party at the end of the hall, the
only sound in the room was his breathing, heavy and rasping.
“Interfered
in your love life.” He took a step closer. “I promised not to, so I’m
confessing. And apologizing.” He didn’t sound in the least apologetic.
He sounded fierce. Primal. I wanted to touch him, to feel all that
surging power that was surrounding him like an aura, but I waited.
“How did you interfere?” I whispered.
“Someone
wanted to ask you out and I told them not to.” His eyes had no color in
the dim light. They were dark, intense, and focused only on me—a heady
sensation.
“Who?”
“Wrong question,” he practically growled.
A delicious shiver raced up my spine. “What’s the right question?”
“Ask
me why.” He took another step closer, and I could feel the heat
emanating from his body, feel his need filling the air around us. “Ask
me why I interfered this time, Scarlett.”
“Why?” The word was not
much more than a breath escaping, but it was all I could manage. My
entire body buzzed with anticipation.
“Because I wanted to be the
one to touch you.” Another step, and he gently pressed me back against
the wall with his body along mine. “Because I’m the one that can barely
sleep at night, knowing you’re just down the hall. In your bed.
Practically naked.”
Shit. I might never sleep a wink again
knowing he was in his bed thinking of me naked. His hands were still at
his sides, the only place we were touching was the light press of his
torso against me.
“Finn?” I rested my hands on his arms, felt his biceps clench at the contact.
He drew in a shaky breath. “Yeah?”
“I’m not mad that you interfered.” My hands trailed from his biceps up to his shoulders then down over his back.
“You’re not?” he asked, his voice tight.
“Nope.”
My hands reached his butt and I pulled him closer, sighing when I found
him already hard. “And you want to know something else?”
“Hell,
yes,” he rasped and sucked my earlobe into his mouth, biting down
softly. My knees buckled but his weight kept me pinned to the wall.
“Tell me.”
“I don’t care who it was.”
His breath was warm at my ear. “And why is that?”
“Because I want it to be you, too.” I lifted his hands and placed them on my breasts, shivering at the contact. “Touching me.”
I watched that tape so often I can still recite most of the dialogue by heart. I sought out the book, devoured it, then found every other Jane Austen book and read and reread them frequently. I only discovered romance as a genre as an adult. Imagine my delight when I first read modern versions of Jane Austen!
Now I read most subgenres of romance, from category to historical to romantic comedy. Such a banquet!
Thanks for hosting. Looks like a nice romance.
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