Title: The Billionaire Beach: Shark
Fin (Alpha Male Masters Series 7)
Author: Maggie Carpenter
Publisher: Dark Secrets Press
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Blurb:
BEWARE: TRESPASSERS WILL BE TAKEN IN HAND!
Avery Madison is enraged! A farm girl from Montana and
struggling interior decorator, she has been trespassing on a private beach as
payback for a broken promise, but the owner caught her and she’s paid the
price.
Dominant and disciplinarian Dean Guthrie has been irritated
by a young woman disrupting his solitude. Finally catching her he does what
comes naturally. He pulls her over his knee. To his surprise when the spanking
is over she remains defiant, and storms into the sea to swim away.
She doesn't notice the menace lurking in the shallow depths,
and it's thanks to his frantic shouts she barely escapes the jaws of the great
white shark.
As she falls into his arms at the water's edge he suddenly
recognizes the dark-haired green-eyed beauty. Months before she'd begged him to
look at her ideas for his house. Though he'd agreed and was eager to see her
again the portfolio had failed to appear. Who interfered, and why?
If you enjoy a creative take-charge alpha male with a hot
hand, and a feisty female learning about the joys of surrender, you'll love
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A ripple of
something indefinable was moving through his body. He’d wronged her, but who
was she, and what had he done?
“This isn’t
about me owning this property,” he exclaimed. “Tell me, dammit. What’s going on
with you?”
“I’m leaving,
that’s what’s going on with me,” she snapped, and turning away she hurried
towards the water, but to his surprise she abruptly stopped, spun around, and
glowered at him. “I’m glad I was irritating, I’m glad I messed with your perfect
little world,” she shouted. “Maybe I was wrong to trespass, but you deserved
every aggravating moment, and I might have a sore backside but it’s worth it.
It’s time you did some thinking…asshole!”
As she stormed
off a second time, he stared after her in complete disbelief. The bikini-clad,
beautiful young woman had been the source of ongoing irritation for many weeks,
and he’d done what came naturally. He was a dominant, spanking was as inherent as breathing, but had
he acted too quickly? Clearly there was more to the story, but why hadn’t she
told him? He thought about chasing after her but changed his mind. She was in a
state, and he wasn’t feeling particularly happy either. Striding across to the
staircase he punched the code into the gate keypad and started up the steps.
His habit was to take them two at a time for exercise. He’d been tempted to put
in an electric chair, but he liked the forced workout.
“Avery
Madison,” he muttered. “I’d remember that name, but her voice, I know her
voice, dammit.”
She had a
knock-out body, but how could he recognize any woman wearing such large dark
sunglasses? Any time he’d studied her through the telescope they’d covered her
face. Had it been purposeful? Had she deliberately been hiding behind them so
he wouldn’t recognize her?
“Dammit. I
should have made her take them off. What’s wrong with me?”
He couldn’t
abide sand in his house, and before entering he made it a point to clean it off
with a brush he kept hanging on the railing. As he swept his feet and legs he
continued pondering, and moving inside he headed up the stairs to his bedroom.
As he dropped his clothes into the bathroom hamper, and washed his hands and
face, the young woman’s attitude and words continued to weigh on his mind.
“We’ve met,” he
mumbled. “I can feel it, and I know your voice. It’ll come to me. Once I calm
down, it’ll come to me.”
Quickly
dressing in comfortable slacks and a thin v-neck cashmere sweater, he moved
swiftly back to the kitchen and filled a mug with coffee from his built-in
coffeemaker. Curious to see if she’d left he carried the hot drink outside to
the deck, and walking to the railing he stared down at his beach. To his
surprise he saw her standing thigh-deep in the water. The baseball cap was
gone, and her long dark hair was flirting with the wind. The sun, huge and low
on the horizon, was sending a myriad of colors across the sky and sea. The
sight was breathtaking. It was a photograph waiting to be taken.
Hurrying inside
he grabbed his phone, moved quickly back to the railing and framed the shot. He
snapped the picture, and as he stared at the captured image he felt a strange
stirring in his soul. He glanced down at her, and to his surprise she turned
around and gazed up at him. Had she felt his eyes on her? The moment felt almost
ethereal, and impulsively he raised his hand in a simple wave. As she briefly
lifted hers in response, he wanted to run down the stairs and pull her out of
the water. Without those damn sunglasses he’d know her, he was sure of it, but
she had already turned back to face the sea and was moving slowly forward.
“I’m going to
have this printed out,” he mumbled looking back at the photograph, then seeing
what looked like a speck of dirt on the glass he brushed it aside.
It didn’t move.
He enlarged the
image.
A shard of
panic sliced through his being.
It was a
shark’s fin, and it was perilously close to shore.
It was
perilously close to her.
Award-winning and best-selling author Maggie Carpenter has
published over fifty romance novels, and is the recipient of a number Spanking
Romance Reviews awards spanning a variety of genres. Her readers describe her
work as, romantic, funny, suspenseful, beyond a five-star read, exciting
romance with a ton of surprises.
Her work includes a best-selling twelve-book contemporary cowboy series,
Cowboys After Dark, (http://amzn.to/2ihCNtp), a warrior fantasy trilogy,
Warriors After Dark, (http://amzn.to/2iE0cDa) contemporary love stories, and
several Victorian romances. His Willful Bride was a #1 best-seller for several
weeks and a BookBub Feature Deal. She is best known for her smart, witty,
strong-willed women who bring unexpected challenge, mystery and humor into the
lives of passionate, dominant men.
Maggie has a history in show-business both in front of and behind the camera,
but moved from Los Angeles to live in the Pacific Northwest to pursue her
writing. She is an equine enthusiast who rides every day, and writes until the
wee hours of the morning when her eyes close only because they must.
This author loves to hear from readers. You can contact her through her
website: www.MaggieCarpenter.com. To sample her work for free, go to,
www.3FreeBooks.com.
