Samhain Publishing

It’s here! It’s here! I’m so excited that it’s release day for One Night in Napa! This is my third “twenty-four hour romance,” and if you haven’t read my other two, I hope you’ll pick this one up for a treat. This romance unfolds over a single day and night: 24 chapters in 24 hours. News reporter Grant Walker and mysterious missing stranger Kira March find themselves trapped inside the March mansion overnight…where Grant stumbles upon a secret so big, it could boost his entire career – but it’s the same secret that Kira is bent on protecting at all costs. Who’s going to win – and what happens when a power outage and attraction bigger than they both bargained for get in the way?

Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite. This one actually happens late in the story, which means the secret is just around the corner…

“I don’t want to talk about it,” Kira whispered.
“Okay. It’s okay.”
She laid one hand on his arm, fingers splayed. “You don’t know me. You don’t know anything about who I am.”
“So tell me.”
Unshed tears glittered in her eyes. “I can’t. You’ll never believe it. And if you do, you’ll never want anything to do with me.”
“I doubt that.” He wound her fingers through his. “I don’t think anything you tell me right now is going to send me running for the hills.”
She smiled, but the look held pain. “Ah, you have no idea.” They stood there a moment longer in silence. Then she sank onto his lap and pressed her cheek against his.
That was all Grant needed.
With one hand, he turned her face to his. Her eyes widened, and when he kissed her this time, he waited for her breath to catch in the back of her throat before he closed his own eyes and gave himself up to her.
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Kira fought against the desire. She couldn’t do this. She couldn’t let Grant believe she was someone else, someone untainted. Yet she couldn’t stop herself either, because she wanted him more than she could remember wanting any man. Her lips opened to his tongue, searching and aching and asking a question she could answer in only one way. Turning in the chair, she straddled him, and when he moaned, she wound her fingers through his hair and pulled him closer. For a moment she wondered if the emotions of the day had thrown her into such turmoil that she’d been lifted out of her body, and if the person who sat here slippery with want was someone she’d abandoned long ago.
Or someone she’d never allowed herself to know at all.
“Kira.” He whispered the name into the hollow of her throat, and she felt him shift beneath her.
She groaned and shared his agony. Too far gone, she thought. Whatever I’ve done now, I can’t go back and change it. If tomorrow Grant found out the truth, she only prayed he’d forgive her for hiding it. She bent her head and nipped his bottom lip. He moaned, and his lips moved against her pendant.
He looked up at her, eyes dark. He plucked the sterling silver charm from where it lay nestled close to her heart. “What is this?”
A warning sounded in her head, and she ran her mouth along the ridge of his ear to distract him. “What’s what?”
He ran gentle fingers over the curved piece of metal. “This. Does it mean something?”
Does it mean something? She wasn’t sure whether to laugh or scream.
His fingers moved from the necklace to her chin. “Tell me.”
She sighed. “It means know thyself,” she whispered. She caught his hand and held it in hers. “It’s an old Greek symbol.” And don’t ask me any more of the story…

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