#NEBT – “Hot and Hotter” by Daryl Devore

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Tag Line – Some like it hot… others like it HOTTER!

I like mixing and matching things up. This is my second duology (2 book box set). This time I combined my tropical island crash romance – Brace for Impact – with my urban fantasy – Love My Fate. Both are steamy and hot love stories with fun characters, crazy adventures and passionately hot sex.

Blurb

Some like it hot… others like it HOTTER! Daryl Devoré has done it again, pairing two of her smoking hot romances into one smouldering book.

What could be simpler than a routine plane trip from Toronto, Canada to Caracas, Venezuela for a rookie flight attendant and a sexy R.C.M.P. officer?

But Fate had other intentions.

After leaving a disastrous marriage, Paix Allcot begins a new career as a flight attendant. First time in her dream job, she is no longer a trainee and the passengers in economy class are under her care. Especially the handsome passenger seated in 36C.

Guy Lapierre, undercover officer, is following a vicious human-trafficker. He has little time for relationships. Too many innocent lives are at stake. Stranded on a tropical island, he is forced to work with Paix to survive until he makes a relationship destroying discovery.

Can a pink bra and a hot night on the side of a volcano save the relationship and their lives?

What’s a woman to do when a voice follows her home and makes mad, passionate love to her?

Corporate businesswoman, Capricious Gray, is dragged to a sex toy convention by her best friend. After a mysterious disembodied voice helps her with her purchases, it follows her home. Passion ensues, leaving Capri torn between lust for her fantasy lover and the desperate need for reality in her life.

Thall, son of one of the Fates, harbours the irrepressible need to be with the woman he’s desired from afar for years. In order to make her his, once and for all, he must help Capri get past her fears, including the fear of what he represents – a fantasy.

Can fantasy become a reality for these two lovers?

Excerpt (G-rated)

Scene set – opening scene of first book in duology – Brace for Impact

Lori gagged on the bile rising in the back of her throat. She inhaled sharply to calm her stomach. If I’m going to die, it’s not going to be with vomit all over my uniform.

A distant whimper caught her ear. She lifted her head and opened her eyes. The lady in 37D rocked back and forth in her seat. Lori fought the urge to run to her. Her flight attendant training told her to stay seated. The Captain had called, “Brace for impact.”

Hang on, 37D. Just a bit longer. I understand how you feel. Isolated way back here in no-man’s land at the back of the plane. No one’s hand to hold for comfort. Alone. Scared. Me too.

The gentleman in seat 36C stood, then pulled open the overhead bin.

Lori sat up taller. “Sir! The Captain said, brace for impact. Get back in your seat. Please.”

He turned his head, glancing at her. Lori blinked. She’d noticed him as she did her rounds of economy class. Sexy tousled hair. An unshaven chin. Gorgeous smile. Focus on your job. “Sir. Please. Sit. Down.”

He grabbed a bag out of the bin, slammed it shut and returned to his seat.

Her heart raced as she shouted out the words she’d practiced in flight attendant school a hundred times and prayed she’d never have to use. “Head down. Brace. Brace.” She hoped the sound of her voice could offer a moment’s relief to the terrified passengers in economy. They were her passengers. If she could hold each of their hands, she would. “Head down. Brace. Brac—”

The plane dropped and shuddered.

Lori’s professional calm shattered. The passengers under her care were going to die. She was going to die. The sensation of utter loneliness swamped her. She clenched her fists until her short nails dug into the palms of her hands. Pressure built in her ears. She tried all the tricks she knew, but the pressure wouldn’t release. We’re dropping too fast.

Wonder what dying is going to feel like? Will it hurt? Mom. Trembling as her mother’s smiling face popped into her mind, she swallowed back a wail of grief at the thought of her mother’s pain when she heard the news of the plane crash.

What’s taking so long? Maybe— A ray of light shone down on the darkness of her despair. Maybe the captain was landing the plane. Captain Fraser was one of the best. He could save everyone.

The plane jerked. Metal shrieked in complaint. Fear rang loud in the screams of the passengers. Lori’s pulse pounded in her chest. Her breaths came in short pants. She swiped at the sweat on her upper lip. Her stomach knotted, then boiled. It was close. The end. Whatever the end was. She squeezed her eyelids shut and whispered, “Mom. I love you.”