An electrifying journey of emotional and sexual discovery that pushes two damaged souls to their breaking point—and beyond.
He’s the last man Chloe Girard should love . . . but the first she ever could.
Ethan Frost is a visionary, a genius, every woman’s deepest, darkest fantasy—even mine. And, somehow, I am his.
He stole into my life like a dream. Turned my reality upside down and made my every desire come true—especially those I never knew I had. He demanded everything I had to give and gave me everything of himself in return.
But dreams don’t last forever, and ours is no exception. Because my nightmares are darker, and my wounds deeper, than I could ever reveal.
And as much as Ethan wants to protect me, the secrets we we share will only tear us apart.
He’s the last man Chloe Girard should love . . . but the first she ever could.
Ethan Frost is a visionary, a genius, every woman’s deepest, darkest fantasy—even mine. And, somehow, I am his.
He stole into my life like a dream. Turned my reality upside down and made my every desire come true—especially those I never knew I had. He demanded everything I had to give and gave me everything of himself in return.
But dreams don’t last forever, and ours is no exception. Because my nightmares are darker, and my wounds deeper, than I could ever reveal.
And as much as Ethan wants to protect me, the secrets we we share will only tear us apart.
Advance praise for Ruined
“Tracy Wolff knows how to steam up the pages, and she proves it again in Ruined. If you’re looking for a hot read, curl up with Ethan Frost.”—New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J. Kenner
“Tracy Wolff knows how to steam up the pages, and she proves it again in Ruined. If you’re looking for a hot read, curl up with Ethan Frost.”—New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J. Kenner
“Heat sizzles off the page and the oh-so-sexy Ethan Frost will make you swoon!”—USA Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy
Excerpt:
“Chloe.” His voice is as warm and familiar as the smile on his face. “How was your day?”
It’s an innocent question, but it triggers all the anger and discomfort I’ve
been feeling since the moment he walked into that conference room and
spoke to my boss. I tell myself to chill, to temper my response, but the
second I open my mouth everything just comes pouring out.
“How was my day? How was my day? How the hell do you think my day was when you deliberately sabotaged me?”
The smile disappears from his face, is replaced by a wariness that tells me
he’s as intelligent as all the business and tech blogs give him credit
for. He doesn’t make excuses, doesn’t blow me off. Instead, in a voice
that says he’s taking me, and my words, very seriously, he says,
“Explain.”
“What’s there to explain? You basically painted a target on my back and gave them carte blanche to fire at will.”
“Who?”
“What do you mean, who? Everyone. I’m a brand-new intern who’s just finished
her second day with the company. It was bad enough that you walked into
that meeting with me, but to take the most coveted research assignment
away from the guy who’s been there the longest and give it to me for no
reason—”
“There was a reason.”
“Yeah, well, wanting to sleep with me isn’t actually a valid reason. Trust me,
if I hadn’t known that already, it would have been hammered home
today.”
“What did they do?” The question is deceptively quiet, his face maintaining
its placid lines. But there’s a fire in his eyes that tells me there’s a
lot more going on under the surface than he wants me to know about.
“What they did isn’t the point. The point—”
“It’s the point to me.” He leans forward, brushes one of my wayward curls out
of my eyes. For the past few minutes they’ve been escaping the
stranglehold I put them in earlier. Like the rest of my body, they have a
tendency to spring out of my control whenever Ethan Frost gets a little
too close.
But I refuse to be shaken by his touch or swayed from what I want to say.
Not this time. “No, the point is you can’t just go around showing
blatant favoritism. Especially when I’ve given you no encouragement.”
“It’s not favoritism. I read your file yesterday, cover to cover.”
“Why?”
“Because your skill at getting your point across impressed me in the cafeteria.”
He smiles at my disbelieving look. “What can I say? I like a woman who
knows how to argue.”
“What is it with you?” I’m completely exasperated at this point and don’t
even attempt to hide it. I’ll treat him like my boss when he starts
acting like it. Until then, he’s just another guy annoying the hell out
of me. “Don’t you know getting involved with an intern is never a good
idea? That’s got to be on the first page of CEOs for Dummies.”
He laughs, not some polite little chuckle but a full-out belly laugh, and
the sound is so sexy that it shoots right through me, making my knees
tremble and putting the rest of me on alert despite my anger. And that
isn’t even taking into account how the laugh changes the sharp and
reserved planes of his face, warming everything up until he looks a
million times more approachable.
It’s a good look for him, and one that my instinct tells me not many people
get to see. Which is ridiculous when I think of how I’ve seen him
interact with people over the last two days—the easy way he speaks to
everyone from cafeteria workers and security guards to Maryanne, who is
an executive in the legal department.
“I think you have CEOs for Dummies confused with Politics for Dummies.”
“Is there a difference?”
“Politicians are the married idiots who keep getting in trouble for sleeping with
the interns when they should be running the country. I’m not married and
I don’t want to run anything but Frost Industries.”
“Tell that to someone who believes it. You put me on the Trifecta merger, the
biggest merger in this company’s history. You want to run a lot more
than just Frost Industries.”
“Touché. But when they’re absorbed by us, they’ll become part of my company and I will have spoken nothing but the truth.”
“That’s a nice loophole. You sure you haven’t been reading Politics for Dummies in your spare time?”
He laughs again. “I like you.”
“Well, that’s a shame, since I can’t stand you.”
He leans in even closer, and I have to fight not to swallow my tongue.
Which, I know, is anatomically impossible, and yet feels like a totally
reasonable description of what happens when he comes within centimeters
of brushing against me.
“You sure about that?”
No. “Pretty sure.”
“I don’t think you are.”
I fake boredom that I’m far from feeling at this point. “Oh, yeah? What makes you say that?”
He reaches over, runs his fingers lightly over the hollow of my throat. “I
can see your pulse right here. It’s beating fast. That’s a big sign
that someone isn’t telling the truth.”
“Don’t get too excited.” I force the words past a suddenly tight throat. His
hand on my skin is strangely soothing and also incredibly exciting. I
want to lean into him, to arch my neck and press against that hand in
encouragement. Not that I have any intention of letting him know what he
does to me. “I’m just nervous.”
It’s the wrong thing to say. I know it as soon as the words slip past my
lips. His eyes take on a wicked gleam that only makes my pulse beat
faster.
“Do I make you nervous, Chloe?”
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