Monday, May 13, 2013

Until I Break by M. Leighton ~ Excerpt & Giveaway



"I’m intrigued. Tempted beyond what I’ve ever been before. To know her, to open her up. To break her."

In love, sometimes what you fear most is exactly what you need.

Laura Drake is an author. She writes bestselling paranormal romances that continue to top the charts. She is sharp. She is confident. She is in control.

And she doesn’t exist.

Samantha Jansen is the woman behind the wig, the woman most of the world doesn’t know exists. She is shy. She is insecure. She is nothing like her main character or her alter ego. She is scarred—deeply scarred—by a past she can’t let go of and a present she can’t make peace with.

Samantha’s dreams are consumed by one man, the broken hero from her books. Mason Strait is both her wildest fantasy and her most terrifying nightmare.

When Samantha meets Alec Brand, a corporate consultant, it is as though Mason has come to life. Alec is handsome to a fault, as elegant as he is arrogant, and more intense than any man has a right to be.

Samantha is soon sucked into a world that mirrors the fiction she writes. Just like her main character, Daire Kirby, Samantha finds herself unable to resist the forbidden lure of Alec. And just like Daire, she also finds that she is faced with taking a chance on a man who could either set her free or destroy her.

The scale tilts toward destruction when Samantha finds out that Alec is as much a work of fiction as Mason. And he has scars of his own, scars that could ruin them both.


**This book may be read as a stand-alone, as the story of Alec and Samantha comes to a conclusion in this book**



Excerpt

I make my way from the room, blending in with the rest of the crowd.  I can still picture the look Laura Drake gave me as she was being led from the platform by the man I presume to be her publicist.
 

There was something about her expression, about the look in her light eyes that seemed incongruous with the sexually progressive woman I would’ve imagined Laura Drake to be.  It was only there for a second, like she let her guard down accidentally.  That or I just imagined it.  Maybe I want there to be more to her than what she seems to be.  Maybe I want her to be vulnerable, almost…frightened.
While I find Laura Drake the author fascinating, I might find this Laura Drake, the person, far more intriguing.  She wouldn’t be the typical type of woman I’m drawn to, the kind I’m attracted to, but parts of her could be.  Obviously, something about her is appealing to me or I wouldn’t still be thinking about her this way.
 

Savvy author of vampire romance novels, possessed of an intriguing mind and a more intriguing past?  Or shy, possibly repressed woman I saw staring back at me from behind those glasses?  Which is the real Laura Drake?  And how do I get close enough to find out? 



About the author:

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, M. Leighton lives in the deep South with her super-hero husband and super-smart malti-poo.  She has a fondness for coffee and chocolate, loves the color red, laughs at almost anything and often stares out her window, daydreaming of far-away places.





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5 comments:

  1. I definitely am going to have to get this book!! Sounds so good!

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  2. I want to read Until I break really bad! It sounds so awesome. This book is one of the reasons I wish I blogged instead of just reviewed on GR.

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    1. You know it's been a while since you've done a read-a-thon... you should do an M. Leighton one. She has plenty of books to fill a weekend!

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  3. Great giveaway! And the cover looks hot. ;)

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  4. This sounds like a good book :)

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