Title: A Reckless Note
Series: The Brilliance
Trilogy #1
Author: Lisa Renee Jones
Release Date: June 23, 2020
ABOUT A RECKLESS NOTE
Book one in the Brilliance Trilogy…
Passion, seduction, and my family’s secret that could change everything.
I went looking for my missing brother, but I found him: Kace August. He's dark.
He's dangerous. He makes me want things I can’t have and brings me into a world
of forbidden seduction. But I just can't seem to walk away.
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EXCERPT
I kiss him with abandon, with passion. I kiss him with my
own demand, and then he tears his mouth from mine and backs me up until I’m
pressed against his grand piano. “What are you doing to me?” he demands.
“This,” I say, pressing my hands under his T-shirt.
In reply, he tugs the shirt over his head and tosses it
aside. “Is that what you want?”
“Yes,” I say with no hesitation, my hand caressing the
musical notes on his arm, tattoos that say he claims who he is, he embraces who
he is. I want this man. I give myself permission to own my desires the way he
owns me just by being in the same room as me. And I’m not afraid of that. Not
here. Not now. Not this night.
He grips the piano behind me, “Do you know what I want,
Aria?”
There’s an edge to him again now, a dark edge that shouldn’t
appeal to me, but it does, it so
does. I ask the question he’s demanded. “What do you want, Kace?”
“Too much,” he says. “Too much, Aria.”
He means it. It’s in this moment that I understand the hot
and cold I’ve experienced with this man is far more than I realized. He wants
me. He doesn’t want to want me. He doesn’t believe I should be here. My
defenses flare and my hand presses to his bare chest. “Why am I here then? You
don’t want me here.”
“I want you, Aria. Very much. Too much. That’s the
point.”
“But you don’t want me here.”
He cups my face and stares down at me, the hardness, somehow
tender. “I do very much want you here.”
“You’re confusing me.”
“The feeling is mutual, baby,” he says, his voice thick with
emotion that I don’t understand, that I’m not sure I’ll ever understand. But it
moves me. He moves me and I reach up and cup his hand on my face.
“What are we doing, Kace?” I whisper.
He leans in and brushes his lips over my lips, a
feather-light seduction that trembles through me. “This.” His mouth closes down
on mine and his tongue licks past my teeth, a long, deep stroke that is
seduction and power, passion, and dominance. I’m panting when his lips part
from mine, linger there, his finger stroking my cheek.
“You, woman,” he murmurs, a hint of torment in his voice.
“You are going to be my undoing.”
I don’t know what that means, and I don’t have time to
analyze it anyway. Not when he reaches up and catches the zipper at the front
of my dress, and heat pools low in my belly, every inch of me alive. I am alive
with this man, a ball of nerves and desire like I have never known. Slowly, so
very slowly, he lowers it, but his gaze is locked with my gaze. The zipper
slides past my belly and halts at the top of my thighs.
His hands settle at my waist, and he leans in and kisses me.
I can taste that dark edge on his tongue again, I can taste the demand, the
absolute control. In this moment, I remain acutely aware of how much that
control arouses me, how much it calls to me.
His lips leave mine, the hunger in his stare ravenous, but I
have this sense that this is still about control to him—he allows me to see
this. His control is a need, an absolute need that I understand. It’s the kind
of need that we aren’t born with. It’s created. I find myself in contradiction
to what I need, in wanting to give him what he wants. I am in fact wet and
trembling with the idea of giving him the control.
But that means trust, the kind of trust that has left me
alone and that I give no one.
And yet I am here with him. Haven’t I already made the
decision to trust him, not with my secrets, but with my body?
His hands go to my shoulders, sliding under my dress,
scooting the straps halfway down my arms. He captures me with the material,
holds me with one hand, but I’m not thinking about being held captive. I’m thinking
about his lips lingering above mine again, his breath a warm tease that
promises a taste that does not come. He doesn’t kiss me. I want him to kiss me,
I want it so badly that it hurts.
But still, he doesn’t.
He pulls back, his gaze lowering to the swell of my breasts,
his fingers stroking the sensitive skin just above the black lace of my bra, my
nipples puckering beneath the silk. His gaze lifts to mine and he catches the
front clasp of my bra. He shoves aside the cups, his attention returning to my
breasts, and my lashes lower with the heat of his inspection, a wave of
unexpected shyness overtaking me. He has this way of making me feel owned
and it’s intense, so very intense.
The Series
A Reckless Note
(book one) – Available Now
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A Wicked Song
(book two) – August 18, 2020
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A Sinful Encore
(book three) – September 22, 2020
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ABOUT LISA
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee
Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series.
In addition to the success of Lisa's INSIDE OUT series, she
has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE
SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of
the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists. Lisa is also the author of
the bestselling WHITE LIES and LILAH LOVE series.
Prior to publishing Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency
that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised
by the Dallas Women's Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women
owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.
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Elizabeth's Review
3.5 stars - Worth a Reader's Time
Review Copy Provided by Author
I need to clarify this rating a little bit - based on what I’ve read so far, Aria and Kace’s story is tracking to be a 4 star (or more)read, but since we get a bit of a cliffhanger here, I felt the need to hold back.
I don’t want to tell the story all over again, but I will say that I am really liking both Aria and Kace. I appreciate how both have been wounded by life and are grudgingly willing to explore something with the other.
The plot is layered and filled with intrigue. Not only do we have the challenges Aria is facing, the secrets both she and Kace are keeping, but there is a secondary cast who seem to have agendas as well.
I am normally not a fan of cliffhangers and am withholding judgement how well this one will be executed, but for now, I am very curious about where this story will be going next.
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