A desperate espresso café owner, a determined coffee franchise rep, a quiet Midwestern town, anonymous threats out of the blue—where does the true danger lie?
I am Not For Sale
Contemporary Romance, Erotic
Romance, Romantic Suspense and Mystery
Heat level: Four flames
Print length 287 pages
81,000 words
THIS POST CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT. READERS 18+ ONLY PLEASE!
Blurb
It’s nothing personal…
It all seems simple enough—Ukrainian immigrant Nadja Petrov is determined to hold on to her thriving new coffee shop, Nadja’s Literary Cappuccino, and Java Beans District Rep Kevin Langley is equally determined to move into her North Iowa town with a franchise and run her out of business.
He scopes her out, she keeps a watchful eye on him, and the sparring begins. But there are other players involved, and the web of intrigue soon threatens Nadja, her shop, and her aunt as well as Kevin, his potential franchise, and his son.
Within this cauldron simmers a sexual attraction between Nadja and Kevin that catapults them to overcome their fears of intimacy and commitment. Their lovemaking is tender and raw. Their love is nearly lost in tragedy—can it survive doubts, fire, and even a death?
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Excerpt
Set Up: Kevin has driven three hours and dropped by unannounced late in the evening…
“Come in,” Nadja said, her voice just above a whisper. “I’ve wanted to call you, but I didn’t know how.” She grimaced. “I made a mistake. I know you didn’t talk to the newspaper reporter.”
“How do you know that?” Kevin folded his arms across his chest.
She tried her best to ignore her memory of him standing bare-chested in her kitchen. She failed miserably. “Because you said you wouldn’t lie to me.”
“And you trusted that?”
“Once I had time to think about it, yes.” She brushed back tears. “I’m sorry I panicked.”
“I know.” His voice was soft. “Let me.” He wiped away her tears. “You were badly frightened. It was best for me to leave—though I wasn’t thrilled about that at the time.” He gave her a quirky smile. “I guess we both needed some space for reflection.”
She nodded, grabbed his hand, and led him toward her kitchen. “You want some coffee, or wine?”
“Wine would be great. That would be relaxing.”
She led the way to the kitchen, where she grabbed an open bottle of wine from the fridge. “Hope you like Pinot Grigio. It’s what I have left.”
“That’ll be quite fine. Maybe it will help me unwind. I did speed more than I usually do getting down here. I wasn’t at all sure you’d even talk to me.”
Nadja chewed on her lower lip, then handed him a glass of wine. “I think I’d like to do more than talk, if you want to.” She paused. “Maybe a little of this,” she whispered, rising on her toes to slant her lips across his. She parted before he had a chance to react. “Why don’t we take our glasses into the living room?”
They settled on the couch, and she held a glass in one hand and intertwined the fingers of her other hand with his.
He squeezed. “Do you have anything on under that robe?”
She grinned, certain he’d wanted to ask that question ever since he’d gotten over his initial nervousness. She shook her head and squeezed his fingers back. “I wasn’t expecting company.”
“And if you’d known I would ring your doorbell this evening? Would you have worn something else?”
“It would not have made any difference.” She blushed and glanced away.
“Unless you chickened out?”
“That could’ve happened, I suppose.” She jutted out her chin. “But you’re here now. And I’m not running away this time. And yes, I am naked under this robe. Does that fascinate you?” She saw no need to inform him that she’d become very wet, almost as wet as when she played with her wand.
He brushed a finger across her willing lips. “More than I can say. Before I kiss you, I need to let you to know I met with my bosses at Java Beans. They are no longer interested in buying your property. They remain committed to setting up a franchise in the Northern Iowa area. But they are not at all pleased about someone misrepresenting them in the paper.”
“I don’t want to talk about that now.” She pushed back a lock of hair from her brow. “I thought you came to see me. I want you to see me. All of me.”
She held his gaze steady and guided his hand under her robe until her hand and his cradled a breast. She moaned when his fingers came to life. She left him there, wrapped both of her arms around his neck, and leaned across to kiss his partly open mouth. She swallowed whatever verbal response he made while his fingers continued caressing her breast.
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About I Am Not For Sale
I Am Not for Sale was
born in the fortuitous intersection of several threads when Mr. Kraft and I
lived in a small Midwest town – our favorite sole proprietor espresso café, the
opening of a newly authorized casino in the next county, the growth of a new
regional chain of espresso cafés, and a trip one of us took to Ukraine at about
the same time. Our heroine is a feisty self-sufficient recent Ukrainian
immigrant to the U.S. whose aunt helps her open an espresso café in their small
town. Her café, the new chain of cafés,
and the possibility of a new local casino are on a collision course…
About Adriana Kraft
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Award winning author Adriana Kraft is a married couple writing Sizzling Romantic Suspense and Erotic Romance for Two, Three, or More. Whether readers open our romantic suspense or our erotic romance, they can expect characters they care about, hot sex scenes, and a compelling story. Our suspense stories deliver one man, one woman, danger and intrigue. Our erotic romance is edgier and nearly always includes ménage or polyamory, sometimes with two women and a man, sometimes with two (or more) couples. We write our Erotic Romance stories to entertain, of course, but most of all we write them because we believe in happy endings for all who fall in love, whatever their gender, sexual orientation or numerical combination.
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