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Note From The Author

T
hank
you for reading
WARRIOR’S HEART!
I hope you enjoyed Vince and Zara’s story as much as I enjoyed writing it. Keep scrolling to read an excerpt from the next thrilling installment of the Iron Portal Series,
REBEL’S DESIRE
. My most favorite first-meet I’ve written is in that book!

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ooks
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About the Author

L
aurie London is
the NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sweetblood and Iron Portal series—dark, sexy paranormal romance, set primarily in the Pacific Northwest. Publisher’s Weekly has called her work “sexy” and “sizzling.”

S
he lives
on a small farm outside of Seattle with her husband, two children and a variety of animals. After graduating from college, she worked for a Fortune 500 company as a programmer/tester and an underwriter. Her other jobs included cocktail waitress, hotel maid, candy store manager and bridal gown sales.

Excerpt from REBEL’S DESIRE

K
eely needed
to sell this kiss.

She gave it everything she had, which wasn’t too hard given that the stranger she was kissing was smoking hot.

With her mouth pressed to his, she ran her hands up the muscular plane of his chest, over his leather jacket, and wrapped her arms around his neck. He tasted and smelled amazing—like whiskey and mint, one hundred percent male. She’d always been impulsive, but she’d never done anything quite like this before.

At first his mouth had been rigid, but then his lips softened and began to move against hers, his hand slipped into her hair. The guy was actually kissing her back!

Good. It made this all the more believable.

All she had to do was make it seem like
she
wasn’t the woman her pursuers were after.
That
woman had been alone and wearing a faded grey sweatshirt with the hood pulled up.
This
woman wore a blue tank top, had longish red hair that fell past her shoulders, and was engaging in some serious PDA with her boyfriend.

Two totally different people, right? God, she hoped so.

From the corner of her eye, she saw her two pursuers sprint around the corner. They were coming right this way.

For a moment she questioned her split-second decision to stop running and try outsmarting them. She was desperate. She just hoped she hadn’t been
too
desperate.

Acutely aware of how high the stakes were, she kissed the stranger with even more intensity. She couldn’t let those men from the club, those thugs, get ahold of her, otherwise where would that leave her sister? It wouldn’t do either of them any good if they were
both
being held against their will. Plus, this was all her fault. She needed to make this kiss work.

Hitching a knee, she hooked her leg around the man’s hip. It shocked the hell out of her when he cupped his hands under her butt and pulled her other leg up, wrapping them both around his waist.

“Thank you,” she whispered against his lips.

“You’re welcome,” he said, his low, rough voice reverberating through her body like a tuning fork.

Her pursuers drew closer. She could feel them looking in this direction. Instinctively, she put up a mental shield, sending invisible jolts of electricity racing down her arms.

The stranger’s body shifted slightly.

He hadn’t felt that, had he? No, he was reaching for something.

Without breaking the kiss, he turned them so that her back was against the wall. His large frame now stood between her and those men.

Was he protecting her?

Something flashed close to her face.

He had a knife!

Panic and confusion shot through her.  

“Shhh. This isn’t for you.” He ran a thumb over the pulse point on her neck.

His touch was intoxicating and she felt herself relax, although she didn’t drop her guard. Almost immediately, he hauled her closer and deepened the kiss, stroking his hand through her hair. He pressed her mouth wider and slipped his tongue inside, acting as if she was his to take. Heat seared through her and desire pooled low in her belly.

Oh God. What was going on? This was all just for show, and yet it felt so…
real
.

Her heart pounded furiously as the two men jogged past them on the sidewalk, not more than a few feet away. She couldn’t tell if her physical reaction was entirely because of them or this darkly compelling man she was kissing.

The moment her pursuers disappeared around the corner, the man took a step backwards and released her. The blade he’d held a moment ago was gone. She disentangled herself, feeling suddenly awkward.

Now that she was staring up at him from a distance greater than the length of an eyelash, her breath caught in her throat.

He stood a good head taller than her, with sleek raven hair pulled into a low bun, warm olive skin and the most intense gray eyes she’d ever seen. He wore a black leather jacket, a plaid shirt underneath, low-slung jeans and black boots with thick soles. If someone were to ask her what two plus two was right now, she’d probably tell them her middle name.

“Um…thanks. I really appreciate…what you did.” Sure, he’d just saved her ass, but that was, quite possibly, the most amazing kiss in the history of the world.

“What the hell was that?” he asked, anger flashing in his eyes.

And just like that, her balloon popped.

R
EBEL’S DESIRE coming July 15
!

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