Title: Red Blooded
Author: Caitlin Sinead
Genre: NA, Romance
Publisher: Carina Press
Release Date: 3rd August 2015
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Instead of eating ramen and meeting frat
guys like most college freshmen, Peyton Arthur is on the campaign trail.
Traveling with her mother, the Democratic pick for vice president, she’s
ordering room service, sneaking glances at cute campaign intern Dylan and
deflecting interview questions about the tragic loss of her father. But when a
reporter questions her paternity, her world goes into a tailspin.
Dylan left Yale and joined the campaign
to make a difference, not keep tabs on some girl. But with the paternity
scandal blowing up and Peyton asking questions, he’s been tasked to watch her
every move. As he gets to know the real Peyton, he finds it harder and harder
to keep a professional distance.
When the media demands a story, Peyton and
Dylan give them one—a fake relationship. As they work
together to investigate the rumors about her real father and Peyton gets closer
to learning the truth, she’s also getting closer to Dylan. And suddenly, it’s
not just her past on the line anymore. It’s her heart.
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EXCERPT
EXCERPT
With the flood of more people
outside of the Wawa, and even more phones attached to Instagram and Pinterest
and god knows what else, there isn’t time to think. There’s only time to act.
I brush against Dylan, fear
gurgling in my stomach. What if he doesn’t get it? What if he doesn’t want to
play along?
“Dylan, promise me you’ll keep
looking at me as I say this.”
His eyes dart up. “What?”
“Just, don’t look anywhere
else,” I say, as I approach him, our bodies almost touching. “People recognized
me.”
He jitters, about to look
around, but he stops himself. His attention is all on me. “Yeah,” he says,
voice low.
“Remember how you told me that
in politics we need to make the story our own. Make it something positive?” I
close the gap between us, my body pressing against his. He stiffens, but only
at first, then his breaths grow deep.
He nods. “Yeah.”
“This is me making my own
story.”
My palms glide over his
knuckles. I press down on his wrists to help leverage myself up as I stand on
my tiptoes. I bring my face closer and closer to his, until our lips touch. I
move, but barely, running my mouth along his. His mouth opens, and together,
our breaths connect.
We stay there, not moving past
the lip-touching, until he lowers his head. His hands fly around my hips. He
pulls at me, pressing my belly into his pelvis as his lips come down hard. His
tongue slips into my mouth, tender and curious. I reach my hands around his
neck, pressing my breasts against him. His right hand reaches just under the
back of my shirt, and his fingers press against my lower spine as his left hand
scoops my neck, ensuring my mouth stays with him. Ensuring our tongues and lips
can stay together, caressing and connecting. His thumb rubs against the
sensitive part under my ear. I arch my back as he holds me close. I’m ready to
relinquish everything to him.
Just as I’m wanting his hands
to skid all over me, just as I’m wanting his mouth to never leave mine again,
he draws back. He looks down and swallows. I hold on tighter as his hands glide
to my upper arms. We’re both catching our breath as we stare at each other.
Then he looks to the crowd that
I realize, belatedly, has been joyously catcalling from the Wawa doors. He
leans to the side of me that they can’t see. His warm breath blows against my
ear.
“That was just for show?” he
asks.
I mumble something and try to
nod my head. Up. Down.
“Okay.” He lets me go and
climbs into the driver’s seat faster than I thought possible. Especially now.
My legs feel like Jell-O, my mind feels like something even less solid than
Jell-O. I look up in a haze. He opens the door a sliver. The familiar, gruff,
Dylan voice is back. “You coming?”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caitlin Sinead is
represented by Andrea Somberg at Harvey
Klinger, Inc. and her debut novel, Heartsick, is available now from Carina Press. Her
writing has earned accolades from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery
Magazine, Glimmer Train, and Writers & Artists, and
her stories have appeared in multiple publications, including The Alarmist, The Binnacle, Crunchable, Jersey Devil Press, and Northern Virginia Magazine. She
earned a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University.
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