“For a couple of weeks anyway. You can help edit your video, maybe pick up a few tips from the pros.”
Ah, business, he meant.
“After that…”
“After?”
“Maybe tool around on set with me. New places. New adventures.”
Was Chris Corsair actually asking me to run away with him? Or— “Do you mean with Chris Corsair or Christopher Darnelle?”
He chuckled, the low, throaty sound reverberating down to my toes. How did he manage to be so seductive without even trying? “I was thinking more ménage—you, Chris and Christopher. I’m not sure it would be possible to separate Mr. Corsair and Mr. Darnelle anyway.”
“I don’t know. That’s a commitment to a lifestyle I’m not sure I’d be comfortable with.” Hollywood. Production teams. The Chrises.
He read my mind. “The lifestyle—or me?”
Both.
Neither.
In reality, it was fear I was grappling with. My body certainly knew what it wanted. My heart…my heart was being swayed. No. It had been swayed. Had been from the moment he’d stepped off the plane, if I was honest with myself.
“We can always come back to Africa whenever the shooting schedule allows.”
“Back here, to our pride?”
He nodded. “To watch Caesar and Cleo grow up. To see Cleo’s cubs. And grandcubs.”
He was talking about a future.
Our future.
A future where the lions who’d brought us together could be a part of our lives forever.
Not only on film, but in our hearts as well.
“And later, when we’re old and retired,” he whispered, “we can sit on our porch in the African dawn and watch the lions parade on by.”
Sinking down in the tall veldt grass, our lions keeping guard nearby, we pledged ourselves not once, not twice, but three times to the heart of Africa, to the hearts of our pride, and to the single heart that beat now between us.
Look for NOBLE HEARTS
(Book 3 in the Wild Hearts Romance Series)
Coming Summer 2016
Kayla has always been a sucker for strays—baby gorillas, okapis, even rhinos—so when an American doctor shows up wounded at her door, with a story of being pressed into service as medic to a local militia unit, Mark LeSabre is just another stray to be taken in and taken care of.
Then Ushindi's controversial election tips the tiny nation into civil war, and Kayla’s beloved ancestral coffee plantation becomes a casualty of the escalating conflict. Forced to flee, Kayla’s determined not to leave any of her workers—or her strays—behind, including Mark, who's found his way into her heart...and her bed.
But a rich American doctor is too valuable a prize to let escape. Thwarted at every border access, with the militia hot on their tail, Kayla and Mark’s only option for freedom is to brave a treacherous jungle route across the Mountains of the Moon. Alone, they might make it to Uganda and safety, but their ragtag group of strays will surely perish if they’re abandoned.
How far will Mark and Kayla risk their lives—and their hearts—in the service of love?
BRAVE HEARTS
(Book 1 in the Wild Hearts Romance Series)
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Running from the memories of his devastated heart, ex-special ops veteran Peter Lawson hires on as a ranger at a Tanzanian animal sanctuary owned by Nicky Tarentino, a disillusioned Illinois veterinarian recently relocated to Africa.
The physical attraction is instant, the sex easy, but it will take the grief of a ‘problem’ elephant—who, shattered by the loss of her family, is as broken and wounded on the inside as Peter—along with the heartbreak of an orphaned elephant calf before Nicky and Peter will be able face the sorrow of their pasts and, just maybe, learn to trust and love again.
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ABOUT PHOENIX
In the corporate world, Phoenix was a professional writer and editor for 23 years. Before that, she was a registered veterinary technician, working with small animal clinics and wildlife rehab centers. Today she lives on a 27-acre farm with a handful of ponies, dogs, cats, chickens and goats, and is Managing Director of Steel Magnolia Press (Jennifer Blake, President).
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MORE BOOKS BY PHOENIX SULLIVAN
Wild Hearts Romance Novels
BRAVE HEARTS (Book 1)
PROUD HEARTS (Book 2)
NOBLE HEARTS (Book 3) – Coming Summer 2016
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Medical Thriller
SECTOR C
A rise in stroke-like cases has CDC analyst Mike Shafer on alert. Patients in every demographic in the Great Plains area, from toddlers to healthy adults to the elderly, are succumbing to rapid deterioration—and death.
Veterinarian Donna Bailey, meanwhile, is dealing with an outbreak of her own. It looks like mad cow disease. But to be affecting so many species? Impossible.
Whatever it is, it’s spreading. Fast.
As state and federal agencies race to contain the growing threats, Mike and Donna’s searches for Patient Zero intersect at a big-game compound in a remote corner of North Dakota. There they find their answer buried in a secret thought extinct for 10,000 years. A secret entrepreneur Walt Thurman will kill to protect.
But even if Mike and Donna can escape the compound with the secret of Sector C, it may already be too late.
Because after today, extinct no longer means forever.
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Ripped from today’s research and tomorrow’s headlines, SECTOR C is a near-future medical thriller fans of Michael Crichton and Daniel Kalla are sure to enjoy.
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