Forbidden (Southern
Comfort #2)
by Lisa Clark O'Neill
Contemporary Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Self-Published/Indi
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Heat Level: Steamy
Word Count: 95,000
Buy Links
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Blurb
Special
Agent Clay Copeland lives his job. As a behavioral specialist with the FBI’s
Investigative Support Unit, his days are spent traveling the country assisting
other law enforcement agencies with their most disturbing and difficult
cases. Clay excels at his work,
maintaining an easygoing affability and sense of humor despite his frequently
gruesome job.
Until
one case goes terribly wrong…
Shaken
by the loss of a young child whose death he lays at his own feet, Clay seeks
refuge in the sandy beaches and plentiful feminine distractions to be found
along the South Carolina
coast. And no female has ever distracted
him quite as much as local innkeeper Tate Hennessey.
A
woman with her own ghosts, Tate is a single mother to five-year-old Max. Against her better judgment, she finds
herself drawn to the charming and handsome agent. When an outing to a traveling carnival ends
with another family’s tragedy, Tate and Clay are sucked into the resultant
investigation into the abduction of a young teen.
And
neither of them can be prepared for what their chance encounter eventually
uncovers.
Warning: This title is intended for readers over the
age of 18 as it contains adult sexual situations and/or adult language, and may
be considered offensive to some readers.
THE
hazy half-light of dusk had begun to settle by the time Clay and Max finally
made their way to the Ferris wheel.
Midway lights throughout the entire fairgrounds popped on in a symphony
of rainbow hues.
“Look, Mommy.” Max pointed toward
the kaleidoscope of bright bulbs outlining the ride. Reds and greens winked against the pinks and
indigos of the evening sky, creating a panorama of saturated color.
“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” Tate
scooped him into a hug, smiled over his head toward Clay. The first tentative
breath of night sighed like relief through the trees.
“It certainly is.” Blind to the lights, Clay looked at Tate, and
thought he’d never seen anything more lovely.
The fact that she’d seen both innocence and trust perverted, was raising
a child without a father, and still managed to look at the world and see its wonder
made Clay feel that he’d taken his first real breath of that air.
He’d been suffocating, Clay
thought. In work. In routine. In the sheer, unrelenting misery he saw all too
often. And here, here was goodness.
He wanted to drink it in.
About the Author
One fine day in the not-too-distant past, Lisa Clark O’Neill left Wittenberg University with a BA in English, which
she promptly neglected. After working as
an interior designer, decorative artist, and Montessori art teacher (there may
have been a BA in art as well,) she finally settled into the role of mother to
two very fine children.
However,
two years of doing the stay-at-home-mom brain cell melt drove her to pull out a
pen and one of her old college notebooks.
That
turned into six manuscripts.
Lisa
spent subsequent years avoiding housework by burying her nose in just about
every romance novel she could get her hands on, after completely falling in
love with the genre. Her own work falls
into the romantic suspense sub-genre, with strong comedic undertones.
Lisa
currently lives in the Atlanta
area with her family, her dog, her cat and her daughter’s pet rabbit. When she isn’t attempting to keep the rabbit
from eating the woodwork, she’s hard at work on her next novel.
Connect with Lisa
Clark O’Neill
Website: http://www.lisaclarkoneill.com/
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