Laura’s Light
by Donna
Gallagher
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Welcome
everyone! Today I'm spotlighting Laura' Light by Donna Gallagher. Goddess Fish
Promotions is organizing a Virtual Super Book Blast Tour for Laura's Light, a
Contemporary Erotic available February 25, 2013 from Total E-Bound. The Super
Book Blast Tour will take place on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Donna will be
awarding a $50 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour.
The
tour dates can be found here:
BLURB:
Forty-two- year- old single mother Laura
Harris devoted more than half her life to raising her son. She remembered the
concept of having sex but it had been aeons since she’s actually been a participant
- especially with a real flesh-and-blood partner. But it’s time to reclaim her
life. Her son is a man now. And the rising star of the Jets rugby league team.
Their future is brighter than ever and, for the first time, financially secure.
But Laura is starting to think agreeing to have dinner with Trevor Hughes could
be biting off more than she can chew. Not that she can’t see herself taking a
nice big chunk from the absolutely gorgeous thirty-four-year-old sports
commentator’s rump, he’s one prime piece of masculinity! She just isn’t sure
how or when the whole sex thing will become an issue. She can’t even get past
the what-to-wear step. Let alone the when-to-take-it-off stage…
Trevor Hughes usually avoids the woman with substance - he has enough
of his own demons to deal without trying to care for anyone else. But there’s
something about the upbeat, sexy, one-woman-dynamo Laura Harris. The woman is
pure sunshine and happiness. And that’s surprising when you look at what life
has handed her. Nothing seemed to dampen Laura’s spirits and she quickly
becomes someone Trevor needs in his life…Until misunderstandings come between
them. Can Trevor put things right?
Excerpt:
Trevor thrust hard, pounded into her relentlessly. The
muscles she clung to in his back tensed, and even though he was wearing a
condom Laura swore she could feel his seed, the warmth of it as it flooded into
the protective latex skin that covered his penis, buried deep inside her. She
drew her finger nails down his back, knew that the scratch mark would mar his
skin, but she didn’t care. She wanted to mark him. Claim him. And it was that
thought that brought her crashing back to reality. She had just had sex with a
relative stranger on a first date. No promises made.
“My God, I’m acting like a tramp.” Laura didn’t realise she
had voiced her thought until Trevor raised his prone body, placed his hands on
either side of her face as he took his own weight on his elbows.
“Never. Don’t say that. I refuse to let you think like that.
I’ve wanted you from the first time I set eyes on you, Laura. You were at the
club after Rookie’s first-grade debut. It was the colour of your hair that
caught my eye. You were standing next to Rookie, then you smiled—it shone like
a beacon, lighting up the room. At first I thought you were with Rookie. It
wasn’t until Brodie mentioned later on that you were his mother that I knew any
different. Even then, I couldn’t believe that you were anywhere near old enough
to be his mother. I still don’t. You must have been just a babe yourself when
you gave birth. You are not a tramp. This is not dirty. What we just
experienced, Laura, is something special. You are special, and I will never
think of you any other way.”
Laura was so moved by Trevor’s words that her heart nearly
burst with joy, but in her mind a niggling voice cautioned her. Trevor had
mentioned her age—well, not specifically, but the fact she was no spring
chicken was not lost on her. How long could she expect him to desire her when
he was so many years younger, still had his life ahead of him? She was certain
Trevor would never find himself short of younger female attention, even without
the notoriety of his career. The man was sin on two legs. What right-minded
female wouldn’t want him between her thighs?
Laura would have to be careful that she didn’t do or say
anything that would portray her as a needy, clingy female, that she didn’t do
anything to scare Trevor away. She thought that maybe if she remained aloof, in
it for the joy of sex with no strings attached, she could keep Trevor
interested for a while longer. It was up to her to protect her heart along the
way.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Sydney-born
Donna Gallagher decided at an early age that life needed be tackled head on.
Leaving home
at 15 she supported herself through her teen years.
In her
twenties she married a professional sportsman, her love of sport -- especially
rugby league -- probably overriding her good sense.
The
seven-year marriage was an adventure. There were the emotional ups and downs of
having a husband with a public profile in a sometimes glamorous but always
high-pressure field. There were always interesting characters to meet and
observe and even the opportunity to live for a time in the UK.
Eventually
Donna returned home a single woman, but she never lost her passion for watching
sport, as well as the people in and around it.
Now happily
re-married and with three sons Donna loves coffee mornings with her female
friends, sorting through problems from the personal to the international. But
she's on even footing with the keenest man when it comes to watching and
talking rugby league.
Donna
considers herself something of a black sheep in a family of high achievers. Her
brother has a doctorate in mathematics and her sister is a well-known sports
journalist.
An avid
reader, especially of romance, Donna finally found she couldn't stop the
characters residing in her imagination from spilling onto paper. Naturally
rugby league is the backdrop to her League of Love Series, published through UK
publisher Total-E-Bound, spicy tales of hunky heroes and spunky heroines
overcoming adversity to eventually find true love.
