Hi, I’m thrilled to be welcomed over to your fantastic
blog today. I’m delighted to share the news of my hot new release PI HONEYTRAP with all your great
visitors.
Hayley examines
the dark secrets of men’s hearts, but
doesn’t look
too closely at her own.
But first
of all, here’s a little bit about me - Kristal Baird - BIO:
I write sexy romance. I laugh a lot. I sometimes do
both at the same time!
I’ve had an eclectic mix of jobs which include working for a vet and an
orthopaedic surgeon (I never got mixed up but I did sometimes want to pat cute
humans!). I’ve driven a four ton truck for a touring theatre company and worked
as an au pair for a French alpine ski-ing instructor… (I’m making that one a new novel so look out for it). I taught
English to adults in Italy (and got that job because I was the only applicant
who could speak French to the French School Principle who spoke no English –
and you think you’re confused!)
I’ve lived in several different countries as far apart as Australia and
Scotland and tend to make myself right at home. I even adopt the local slang
and have kept twinges of several accents to this day.
I get most of my exercise letting dogs out and cats in and catering to
their every whim. I’m a soft touch, like that. One day I’m going to walk El
Camino de Santiago in one go. And get on the New York Times Best Seller List –
wonder which I’ll do first?
I also wrote PA Exposé, my debut full-length sexy romance.
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Now here’s a peek at my latest release:
P I
HONEYTRAP
Blurb
Hayley doesn’t trust men. She thinks most of them
are only good for one thing. And she gets plenty of that honey-trapping
cheating husbands or satisfying her own needs with local gym owner, Reuben.
And woe-betide him if he even tries to get
emotionally close to her. Because tough girl Hayley is running. From her past.
From herself.
Will Reuben ever understand this girl? Will Hayley
ever accept exactly who she is and what she needs from a man? Will she learn to
trust again?
Excerpt
[Hayley interviews a potential client who thinks her husband is
cheating on her, but she's daydreaming about last night...]
‘Go on.’ Hayley settled back in her chair. She could listen and
drift away at the same time.
She drifted straight back to the gym where she’d retreated late
last night, to pound a little tension out of her body. Her private arrangement
with the owner allowed her to use the place long after his other customers had
gone home …
‘Still running, Hayley?’
Hayley knew that Reuben had been standing behind her in the
doorway between his office and the main gym hall watching her for some time.
She was observant about things like that. And about his choice of words.
Perhaps it was time to cancel the arrangement?
‘Still running, Reuben. Are you wanting to lock up or something?’
She kept pounding the treadmill. The angle was at full elevation and it was
hard work to keep going at that speed. She didn’t want to break her stride.
‘I did that an hour since. It’s just you and me.’
She knew that tone. He moved closer but the stare was the same. It
meant only one thing, and Hayley didn’t mind how she pounded the tension out of
her tonight. Particularly with Reuben.
‘I’m kind of busy right now.’ Hayley liked to tease him; to keep
things light between them.
He walked over to her machine. ‘Then let me help you with your
workload.’ Reuben punched the controls and the incline began to slowly reduce.
Hayley adjusted her body’s forward drive and stared at him as he
started to ease the pace she was running too. She’d been on the machine for
nearly an hour. That was the reason she suddenly noticed her pulse rate was
so high, her heart pounding. The only reason. Sweat dripped off her skin,
which glowed with heat. Even between her thighs.
‘I’m a bit of a mess,’ she claimed. She was jogging steadily now,
coming down gradually from her peak.
‘I like my women hot, sweaty, and out of breath.’ The tight lift
at one side of his mouth told Hayley he liked his own jokes and he was hot too.
For her.
She checked out the bulge in his sweats and cocked an eyebrow.
Ready to rumble. ‘You’re a lucky guy, then. You’ve got a machine that does most
of the work for you, getting them in that condition.’
‘Look around you. I’ve got quite a few.’ Reuben’s eyes were fixed
solidly on hers. ‘Machines. Not women.’
Hayley didn’t need to look around to know what was there. Since
she’d opened her private investigation office two doors down from Reuben’s Gym,
she’d worked out on most of the equipment – with and without Reuben. With was a
different kind of workout. And, whatever he said, there were women too. She’d
seen their eyes follow Reuben about. But she wasn’t intending to make that her
business. This was strictly casual.
‘Machinery? Kind of makes your job a bit too easy. What’s left for
you to do?’ Hayley was off the machine and twisting the top off the bottle of
water that Reuben had handed her. She tipped her head back and downed the lot
in one go, needing the rehydration if she was to keep working out. Making out.
And she’d already made up her mind that, tonight, she would be.
Hayley wondered if she liked coming here more for the machine
workout or for the other kind of exercise she got at Reuben’s place, and if
Reuben wondered too.
He stepped in closer. His body was all muscle. He didn’t just own
a gym, he used it on a regular basis. In her line of work, Hayley really
appreciated a fit guy. She honeytrapped plenty for her clients, and most were
creeps. But Reuben wasn’t work. He was all playtime.
‘I step in for the rub-down.’ He took the empty bottle from her
and flipped it across to the bin.
‘Good shot.’
Reuben’s grin told her he wanted to show her another kind of slam
dunk. ‘My talents are many.’
They sure were. God, he looked sexy when he smiled. Hot body with
all the defined tendons and sinews of an athlete. Great features. The complete
package. It was Hayley’s turn for her mouth to twist up into a smile of
appreciation. Looking sexy in a white vest and sweatpants was only the start of
Reuben’s endowments.
He placed his hands on her forearms and ran them up to her
shoulders. She was hot before, but now she began the slow rise to combustion as
his firm fingers kneaded the tight muscles at her shoulders and ran up the
length of her neck into her hairline.
Hayley reached back and pulled out the elastic that was holding
her dark hair back into a tight ponytail. Reuben pushed his fingers through its
length, curving around the shape of her skull beneath. She moaned softly.
‘You like that?’
She nodded, eyes half closed.
‘I can do better,’ he promised. He gathered the fabric at the hem
of her T-shirt, having given her the expression that she recognised as asking
her consent, and peeled it off her damp body. She let him.
The air-conditioning hit her hot, sticky skin and sent shivers
dancing across it. Reuben grasped her wrist and towed her behind him towards
the massage room. There was an urgency about his movements that told her he’d
waited long enough; that he wanted to get her to a place where she would
let him fuck her as soon as possible. The guy was hurting.
That’s why she came back to Reuben’s. He worked hard to turn
things his way, but it was always her choice in the end. With the hard,
muscular size of him, no matter how fit she was he could have her pinned
beneath him in seconds flat. But she always knew a simple no would end matters
there and then. The guy had self-control.
Unlike some of the jerks she worked with. She’d been involved in
some pretty nasty encounters to get the evidence her clients needed. To prove
their husbands and boyfriends were cheating, lying scum who would chase any
pretty woman who looked their way, irrespective of the fact they were
supposedly committed.
She could feel her tension mounting again. Reuben could probably
feel it too. He threw a warm, fluffy towel on the massage bench and pressed
Hayley face down towards it. She twisted her hair again into a loose knot and
fixed it on top of her head.
‘I’m going to unhook your sports bra, Hayley. Is that OK?’
‘Mmm.’ It was only the beginning. The tingle in her nipples told
her that tonight she was going all the way. But it wouldn’t hurt to let him
wonder.
Reuben unclipped the garment with a practised hand that made
Hayley smile. They had an understanding. No ties. Just a little R and R
whenever they wanted it; needed it. She liked it that way.
She liked what Reuben was doing to her now too. Her nose told her
he had poured warm coconut oil into the palms of his hands, which he slicked
across the entire surface of her back. He started palm-circling in small movements,
slowly up to her neck on one side of her spine and down to the top of her
sweatpants. She could feel the tightness in her muscles soften as he
worked.
Time disappeared. Perhaps she drifted off to sleep beneath
Reuben’s expert hands as he went through his magic routine; lifting, knuckling,
twisting. It was those sexy little thumb strokes that eventually brought her
back to consciousness.
Or his gravelly voice.
‘I want to give you a full-body massage, Hayley.’ The gruff tone
told her the massage was doing as much for him as it was for her. God, she
liked this guy.
He was asking her permission again, to take it up a notch. No
point pretending. ‘I want that too.’
They both knew he had been given approval for more than just a rubdown.
Reuben’s fingertips hooked in her waistband and he tugged her
sweatpants down over her hips. She heard him moan softly as she raised her hips
off the bench to accommodate him. She smiled at the silence as he discovered
she wasn’t wearing panties. What was the point under sweatpants? At the gym.
With Reuben.
A little more oil swirled between his hands and Reuben’s strong
fingers flowed from the arch of her spine, over the rise of her lower back to
the firm mounds of her buttocks and down her thighs, not stopping until they
reached her lower calves. Without ceasing, they returned on their journey to
her bottom again.
Her legs felt long, strong, and lean under his actions. Reuben
always made her feel good about herself. So good. She parted her legs minutely.
His fingers hooked softly beneath her hip bone and he alternately
pulled and pushed the heel of his hand across the muscle of her buttock,
working the tight flesh loose and warm. He walked around to the other side,
drawing his hand across her body, keeping contact as he went, and repeated
the firm movements on the other side.
Despite the relaxing slide of his hand across her oily flesh,
Hayley sensed a moment when the contact between them changed. She grew taut and
tense. She felt Reuben harden too, somehow. This was it. His hand lay over the
cleft of her bottom. His oily fingers dipping lower and lower between her legs.
She relaxed them further apart to ease his way.
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Thank you for reading. I really hope you enjoyed it. It’s a
full-length novel, so there’s plenty more PI
HONEYTRAP …
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Kristal x
