*Warning: Adult Content (18+)
“A YEAR OF SIZZLING HOT SAX”
THE SEXIEST 12 MONTH SERIAL
is SINFUL REWARDS!!!
The thrilling conclusion to the Billionaires and Bikers series is here!!!
By USA Today bestselling author Cynthia Sax
Release date: June 16th, 2015
Published by Avon Red Impulse (HarperCollins)
Genre: Adult Romance
Format: eBook
SUMMARY
One tiny mistake turns Bee Carter's worst fears into a
terrifying reality. She knows she isn't alone. The sexy, honorable man she
adores stands by her side, willing to sacrifice his freedom to ease her concerns.
But she yearns for more than he is offering. She wants a
partner who will love her as fiercely as she loves him, who will say the words
and mean them, and someone who will choose her because this is what he desires
more than anything else, not merely out of a misguided sense of duty.
Will saying no to the man she loves earn Bee unbearable
heartache or will she finally get the forever she craves?
SINFUL REWARDS 12 EXCERPT
Nicolas stands in the hallway, a sheepish
smile on his beautiful face, and my small burst of joy dissipates, replaced by
the dreaded malaise. He’s handsome, the lights shining on his black wavy hair,
tanned skin, dark eyes. He’s immaculately dressed in a gray suit, white shirt,
pink tie. He’s carrying ice cream, a small tub of Heavenly Hash cradled in his
perfectly manicured fingers.
But he’s not Hawke. He’s not the man I love,
the only person I want to see.
“Don’t look at me like that, Bee.” Nicolas
pushes his way into the condo. “I had that situation with the New York build
last night. There will be fancy events in the future.” He holds up the tub. “I
brought ice cream.”
I summon a smile. “You forgot about me.” I
take the ice cream from the dashing billionaire. “What do those articles I sent
you say about forgetting friends?”
Nicolas grimaces. “You knew I was a bad
friend.” He walks with me to the kitchen, smelling of expensive cologne and
wealth.
“You’re not a bad friend.” I set two bowls
and two spoons on the counter. “You’re a terrible friend.” I open the tub of
ice cream.
The real estate developer settles his long
lean body on a bar stool and dips a spoon in the container. “You’re not giving
up on me, are you?” The lines carved between his perfect eyebrows belie his
casual tone.
“I’d never give up on you.” I knock his
sucked-clean spoon away and huddle over the tub, protecting the ice cream from
impatient-billionaire-induced contamination. “Hawke doesn’t love me,” I blurt,
needing to voice this, to share this with someone.
“He said that?” Nicolas steals a spoonful of
ice cream from the bowl I’m filling.
“No.” I frown, scooping as fast as I can.
“But he’s never said he loves me, either.” I push Nicolas’s bowl toward him.
His eyes sparkle. “I’ve never said I love ice
cream.” He shovels the sweet treat into his mouth with a boyish glee. “But I
do. Very much.” His lips curl upward. “The name of this flavor is perfect. It
is heavenly.”
“Hawke doesn’t love me,” I repeat stubbornly,
dishing out a smaller portion for myself.
“A good friend would agree with you.”
Nicolas’s head is bent over his ice cream.
“You’re not a good friend.” I place the tub
in the freezer compartment of the fridge. “What would you do?”
“I’d tell you that neither of you are acting
rationally, that if craziness is a sign of love, Hawke has it much worse than
you.” Nicolas licks his spoon. “He guards you like you’re the last piece of
prime real estate on the planet. I’m taking my life into my hands by simply
eating ice cream with you.”
I climb onto the bar stool beside him, his
observations about Hawke’s protectiveness appeasing me, banishing some of my
melancholy. “He cares about me.”
“No, he cares about his team.” The billionaire’s
lips flatten grimly. “Disregarding all of my advice about maintaining his
distance.” Nicolas believes remaining aloof from his employees makes painful
staffing decisions less traumatic. “What Hawke feels for you is in an entirely
different category.”
“It
isn’t love.” Or is it?
Saying Goodbye to
Bee, Hawke And Nicolas
by Cynthia Sax
One of the most common questions
reading buddies ask me is “What is the toughest part of writing?” For me, the
toughest part is the last chapter or, in the case of Sinful Rewards, my
sizzling hot 12 novella contemporary erotic romance series, the last novella.
I know, while writing this part of the
story, that I’ll be saying good-bye to beloved characters. Yes, I’ll be able to
reread the story and visit them but I’ll no longer be living in their world,
listening to their every thought, experiencing every emotion.
What will I miss most about the
characters in Sinful Rewards?
Bee/Belinda
Bee, of all of the characters in
Sinful Rewards, has grown the most. Our exhibitionist-in-training heroine
started the serial with a fairly shallow view of others, herself, love, life.
She’s endured quite a bit. These experiences have changed her.
I suspect she’ll continue to change,
continue to make the transition from twenty-something new grad to mature,
confident woman. She’s surrounded by strong female role models—her mom, Ellen,
Lona. I can see them all influencing her. I’ll miss seeing that change.
Hawke
Hawke is a man of surprises. That’s
what I’ll miss about our tattooed bad boy biker. He loves new experiences and
sharing these new experiences with the people he loves. I doubt that he will
ever have a ‘normal’ day. His job is constantly changing and he enjoys this
aspect of it.
I couldn’t guess what he’ll be doing a
day, month, year after Sinful Rewards ends. I know he’ll have his loved ones,
his team around him. He’s as loyal as Bee is, as committed to his friends,
family, woman. But I don’t know what his day will entail.
Nicolas
Nicolas is the character I wish I had
spent more time with. Our jellybean eating billionaire has emotional depths we
haven’t even started to explore. I’ll miss his self-depreciating sarcasm and
his feigned arrogance, the vulnerability he hides under his business bastard
personae.
I’ll miss the characters from Sinful
Rewards but I feel fortunate to have known them. They’ve changed me as much as,
I suspect, I’ve changed them.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Cynthia Sax
USA Today bestselling author CYNTHIA SAX lives in a world filled
with magic and romance. Although her heroes may not always say “I love you,”
they will do anything for the women they adore. They live passionately. They
play hard. They love the same women forever.
Cynthia has loved the same wonderful man
forever. Her supportive hubby offers himself up to the joys and pains of
research, while they travel the world together, meeting fascinating people and
finding inspiration in exotic places such as Istanbul, Bali, and Chicago.
