NEW RELEASE!!! Intimate by Noelle Adams
They've loved each other for years, but
they've never been intimate before.
Marissa has decided to live without sex, since it's brought her nothing but trauma. At twenty-three, she'd rather just be celibate, and not even her best friend, Caleb, will change her mind.
After spending his childhood touring as a concert cello prodigy, Caleb is experimenting with living a stable life. For years, he has refused to commit to anything except his friendship with Marissa, but his feelings for her have never been romantic. Until recently.
So now he has to show her that sex doesn't have to hurt.
Marissa has decided to live without sex, since it's brought her nothing but trauma. At twenty-three, she'd rather just be celibate, and not even her best friend, Caleb, will change her mind.
After spending his childhood touring as a concert cello prodigy, Caleb is experimenting with living a stable life. For years, he has refused to commit to anything except his friendship with Marissa, but his feelings for her have never been romantic. Until recently.
So now he has to show her that sex doesn't have to hurt.
Excerpt from Intimate
“I’m perfectly capable of getting
rid of my own unwanted admirers. I sure don’t need you storming in like an
uncouth cowboy protecting the last virgin in the territory.” Marissa’s lips
were curled in annoyance.
Despite his intensity—sometimes
bordering on obsessiveness—Caleb actually had a fairly well-developed sense of
humor.
His mouth quirked involuntarily at
her words, and he saw a responding gleam of humor ignite in her eyes.
She was still too mad at him to
follow up on it, but the sight of her brief flash of amusement softened Caleb’s
voice as he responded. “Maybe I overreacted, but it’s been a long time since
sex has been a part of your life. You might not understand what drives a man.
Just because you’re not thinking about sex doesn’t mean that men are going to
back off.”
Apparently—despite the strange
tenderness that had warmed his voice—this had been the wrong thing to say.
“Damn it, Caleb. You’re treating me
like I’m some clueless girl who doesn’t know a penis from a candlestick. I made
a conscious decision not to have sex. It wasn’t based on naiveté. Having sex
doesn’t make people more mature, or more knowledgeable, or more in control of
their surroundings—and I’ll defy anyone who says it does. I haven’t spent the
last five years in a convent. I am perfectly capable of realizing when a man is
hitting on me. I can tell when he wants to get me into bed.”
She was right, for the most part.
Caleb was acting irrationally.
But he hoped she was wrong about one
thing. Hoped she wasn’t quite as observant as she believed.
He really hoped she didn’t know that
for the last two weeks he’d been dreaming of getting her into bed.
“I was just trying to help.”
“No, you weren’t. It was some macho
pissing contest. I don’t know what’s gotten into you for the last week or two,
but I’m really getting sick of it.”
Caleb was getting sick of it too.
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Noelle handwrote her
first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she
hasn't stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and
currently resides in Virginia, where she teaches English, reads any book she
can get her hands on, and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
She loves travel, art,
history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her life in
graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus on
writing contemporary romances.
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Release
date: June 17, 2013
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age
Group: New
Adult/Adult
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