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SYNOPSIS
Lennox Collins is a spoiled and pretentious twenty-something; believing anyone living below the poverty line should be extinguished from the earth.
In reality, she’s no different from those she thinks are beneath her since she pathetically reaps from her father’s wealth. After reluctantly saving a strange homeless man from his demise, she slowly discovers a new being within herself. While she nurses him back to health, her daily ritual and sleeping patterns begin to evolve into a life she could never fathom.
There’s only one problem though; the deeper she goes, the less she can differentiate between reality and her own mind.
*This is a contemporary romance with supernatural elements*
EXCERPT
A hand scanted along my thigh leaving a hot sizzle in its path. A gasp passed through my lips as fear trickled up through my chest. My eyes flashed open, but I was unable to see who was drudging up a desire from my core.
His calloused finger pressed over my lips. "Shh… it’s okay. It’s me," he whispered, his breath tickling my neck.
He didn’t have to say who it was; I knew his voice well by now. After all, he’d invaded my life and I seemed to have lost all control over my mental state.
Aaron was hovered over me with both arms stationed on each side of my head. The moonlight streamed through the curtains generating enough light to illuminate the shadow across his face. His eyes stared at me hungrily with lust. I reached up to skim my fingertips over his injured ribs and found his skin bare. His eyes widened along with mine as I realized his entire body was bare.
A tingling sensation seized my core and I lifted my hips in seek of relief. That was all it took for Aaron. He lowered his head and his mouth was on mine, stealing my breath, my sounds, my sexual thirst.
Taking his knees, he pushed my legs apart and his toned quads pressed down between my thighs. The feeling of skin on skin was exhilarating. I could feel his hardened length graze along the top of my inner thigh, teasing the sensitive lips below. My breathing became shallow with need.
REVIEW
Inseparable Strangers by Jill Patten
4* review by Nicole McCurdy
What a rollercoaster ride of a book, literally I didn’t know which way was up or down nor how my emotions survived being tossed and turned so much, I wasn’t sure if I had the inclination to strangle the lead female protagonist or if I wanted to hug her. I can say with my hand on my heart that Jill Patten is a cunning and highly skilled writer, she may have developed a manipulative, cruel and vindictive persona in Lennox our anti-hero but the painful and chaotic journey her character goes through and the inevitable transformation was very well done, it wasn’t instant, it takes certain events and life choices to bring her to that pivotal epiphany moment where she realises what a horrible person she has become.
“Your icy exterior is only paper thin. Beneath that bitchy persona you try to portray, I know there’s a kind and loving heart beating. You’ve just not met the right person to crack that façade.” He pulled away from my grasp and started to walk down the hall. When he was about two steps in, he turned back around, walked up to me, bent his head down toward my ear and whispered “Be careful, I will melt you.”
The person that helps her do that is mysterious and handsome Aaron, a work of art in characterisation, he’s humble, downtrodden and in possession of inner beauty as well as outer and it’s through his perseverance and tenacity that he shows Lennox how good things can be especially when loves comes along and begins to heal them both. There are superb elements of the supernatural in Inseparable Strangers which actually surprised me as I hadn’t a clue what the book would entail but it elevates the entertainment value of the story and I do love a good paranormal romance story especially if there is depth to the players rather than the same old one-dimensional characters. It’s smart, a little different and a whole lot sweet when you add in the epic love story. My only problem with Inseparable Strangers was just how mean Lennox actually was in the beginning, her rants and tantrums often verged on psychotic rages which in turn had me taking a lot longer to warm up to her as the story progressed and I think it all hinges on how you can connect and identify with the lead characters but other than that it was a terrific bit of writing with a dramatic and beautiful tale of forgiveness and redemption.
ABOUT JILL PATTEN
Jill Patten was born a Yankee, but raised a southerner. She lives in the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina which was made famous by a popular TV show back in the sixties. (Maybe there will one day be a statue of her at the end of Main Street. Ha! A girl can dream, right?)
Jill has always loved to read, even during reading labs in middle school for reading comprehension. Judy Blume was her first author she hero-worshipped, maturing to revere the works of Stephen King. With all the fantastic authors today, she simply cannot choose a favorite. Her taste is very eclectic and she loves almost all genres. When she's not captivated by her fictional characters, she spends time with her sweet husband and two beautiful children.
Music is her muse. Jill also loves elephants, sarcasm, and anything made with sugar, especially sweet tea. She enjoys all things rude and crude and laughs at stuff she probably shouldn't. She has been accused of being bossy a time or two, but doesn't really see it herself.
All in all, Jill is just a small town girl in this great big world trying to enable your book addiction.
Oh, and if you read her book, please leave her a review - good or bad, she'll love you forever.
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