Title: Very Bad
Things (#1 Briarcrest Academy)
Author: Ilsa
Madden-Mills
Release date:
September 10
Genre: New Adult
Contemporary Romance
Book
Description:
Born into a life
of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any
nineteen-year-old girl could desire. She’s an accomplished
pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high
school. She’s perfect…
Leaving behind
her million dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she becomes a girl
hell-bent on pushing the limits with alcohol, drugs, and meaningless
sex.
Then she meets
her soulmate. But he doesn’t want her.
When it comes to
girls, twenty-five-year old Leo Tate has one rule: never fall in
love. His gym and his brother are all he cares about…until he
meets Nora. He resists the pull of their attraction, hung up on
their six year age difference.
As they struggle
to stay away from each other, secrets will be revealed, tempers will
flare, and hearts will be broken.
Welcome to
Briarcrest Academy…where sometimes, the best things in life are
Very Bad
Things.
~EXCERPT~
The
Kiss in the Library
“I
got one last request, and I’ll never ask again,” Leo said.
“What?”
I croaked out.
He
set his books on a shelf and then took mine and set them beside his.
He tugged me to him until our chests were touching.
“What
are you doing?” I mumbled in confusion.
He
put his hands on either side of my face and slid them into my hair,
letting out a breath as if in relief. “Just saying goodbye, Nora.”
“You’re
going to kiss me?” I asked, tears pricking my eyes at the sadness
in his face.
“Please,
just this last time, Buttercup,” he said.
And
with that one word, I was his.
He
lowered his head, his gaze holding me captive. When our lips touched,
his heated eyes stayed open and mine did, too. My mouth melted into
his, moaning as his hot tongue explored the details of my tongue, my
teeth, my lips. We started slow but it escalated rapidly, the passion
between us burning higher and higher. He owned me with his mouth, and
I was lost.
I
palmed his ass, grinding myself against him. He hissed at the
increased pressure and pushed me back against the sturdy bookshelf,
positioning me so his hips fit into my pelvis. I lifted one of my
legs, and he caught it and wrapped it around him.
“Say
my name,” he muttered gruffly as I sucked hard at his neck. He
grunted, and I dug my nails into his back as I kissed my way around
his collarbone, sucking another spot.
“Say
it,
Nora.”
“Leo,
Leo, Leo,” I pleaded, arching my back and pushing into him.
He
shuddered. “Fucking love that,” he whispered.
He
placed his lips back on mine, dominating my mouth, like a man
starved. All I could think about was him, him, him . . . his
lips, his tongue, his taste, his butterscotch smell. I wanted all of
him, and I’d never have him, and that thought made me frantic. I
gripped him tighter, pushed my nails deeper, and kissed him harder.
I
never wanted to say goodbye.
About
the Author
Ilsa
Madden-Mills wrote her first work at the age of twelve when she
penned a little ditty about a handsome prince who had no sense. Since
then, she’s always written, whether it was for work or fun. When
she was young, she entered every short story and poetry contest
around; when she was in college, she wrote for the university paper;
when she taught English, she wrote a play along with a wonderful
group of drama students.
Very
Bad Things is
her first full-length novel and part of a new series called
Briarcrest
Academy.
She loves to hear from fans and fellow avid readers. Check her out on Facebook or her author website.
I seriously cannot wait to read this book & I can only hope that it lives up to the hype because I REALLY want it to. It's all I've heard about for at least a week now, but I'm looking forward to it regardless. Thanks for adding to my torture. LOL! :)
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