Second Skin
by Jesse
Pearl
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BLURB:
Obsession
is never just skin deep.
Sam
Blanco’s greatest desire is to escape his abusive father and violent
neighborhood the only way he can—by earning money as a tattoo artist for a
street gang. He’s befriended their leader, the deadly Leo Reyes, and gained a
measure of safety under their protection. But just when things are going right
for the first time in Sam’s life, Leo’s girlfriend, Pilar Flores, walks in and
requests a tattoo in an unusual location. Sam obliges, but the experience
leaves them both reeling. Unable to focus for days, Sam finds himself craving
Pilar’s touch, but she’s exactly the kind of trouble he doesn’t need.
Pilar
Flores is her father’s daughter. Being the daughter of a drug lord is not an
easy role to fill, but she aspires to live up to the title and make her father
proud. But her father has no plans to allow her into the business, and Pilar
hates being sidelined. She hates that Leo is away for days on end, and she
especially hates being treated like an incompetent female by every man she
sees. Except for Sam. She decides to take control of her life the only way she
knows how—through seduction. But she’s not prepared for how eager and
passionate a lover Sam is, or how deeply she’s drawn to him. Even though she
knows their ill-fated affair can’t possibly end well…
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EXCERPT
“So you just leave the pictures in here until they’re done
or what?” Benny asked, flipping through the loose-leaf leather-bound book that
Sam always kept with him wherever he went.
“Yeah, if I’m finished working on them I might take them
out, give them away or what not. But it’s hard to know when I’m done. Some take
a while.”
Sam set out the pieces of his machine in the usual,
methodical order to begin assembling it once his client arrived. Something
niggled at the back of his mind, however—somewhere behind the image of Pilar
tied to her bed, her sweet dimples challenging him to do exactly the thing he
planned to do as soon as he finished his drawing.
“Motherfucker,” Benny muttered under his breath.
A hot rush of panic infused Sam at the same instant he
realized what he’d done…or failed to do.
“Like this one?” Benny turned the sketchbook around.
Sam’s stomach lurched when he saw the detailed nude sketch
he’d made of Pilar Sunday morning. He’d spent enough time rendering her face
that there was no mistaking who she was.
“Tell me you just drew her face from memory on some other
girl’s body.”
Sam was sure he had a deer-in-the-headlights look when he
said, “Not exactly…”
Benny gaped at him then looked back at the drawing. After a
second more of studying it he just shook his head.
“Man, you are something else. I seriously think you must
have a death wish. Or one huge pair of cojones.”
Sam had lost the ability to speak. His brain frantically
attempted to process the implications of his friend seeing the picture of
Pilar. Fuck, fuck, fuck, this wasn’t supposed to happen. You’re a fucking
idiot, Sam.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Jesse Pearle grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina in
a place where there was no danger in dancing naked in the moonlight at the top
of a mountain. Always possessed of a creative mind, but never quite the right
amount of focus, she wandered for decades. She received a degree in fine art
which she put to poor use working an uneventful desk job for an engineering
company when she started writing her first really ambitious piece of fiction.
She lives in sunny Southern California with her ever supportive husband and
four attention-whoring cats.
Links
All Romance:
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-secondskin-1542565-340.html
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