Excerpt Reveal: ‘Cold Hard Truth’ by Eva Simmons
Cold Hard Truth by Eva Simmons is releasing January 12th!! Take a peek inside, but be prepared…it’s a scorcher!
Cold Hard Truth
(Twisted Roses Book Three)
Author: Eva Simmons
Publishing Date: May 17, 2024
Genre/SubGenre: Romance | Contemporary Romance | Dark Romance
Synopsis:
I saw the future.
Years on the run taught me fate always catches up. And that’s what happened when Sage Jackson found me.
My destiny. My keeper. My father’s enforcer.
Sage owes the club a favor, and now that I’m back, it’s his time to pay up. My freedom for his. A task he’s happy to accept when I’m the reason his father is dead.
Sage swears to protect me.
To guard me.
To keep his hands off me.
He thinks showing me his dark side will make breaking the rules easier to resist.
But the truth is, he isn’t the only one with scars and secrets. And I prefer being at the mercy of a beast over the boredom of dating a prince.
COLD HARD TRUTH is an emotionally twisted, dark, fairytale inspired romance with a morally grey hero, heavy subject matter, mature content, and explicit scenes. Content/TWs (which contain spoilers) can be found on author’s website. 18+ only.
“You make me lose all fucking sense, butterfly.”
His mouth finds mine again, but he releases one of my legs to reach into his pocket. His hips hold me to the wall, and it’s been so long since I’ve felt anything that I pull him to me.
He breaks our kiss to open the door next to us, before setting me down and pulling me inside the side entrance to Twisted Roses.
Sage closes the door behind him and pauses, with his back to it. While I stand out of breath in front of him. It’s silent inside the shop, and dark, except for the streetlight streaming from the other end of the hallway. The rain falling outside fills the space with a peaceful pitter-patter.
I take a step back, and Sage’s eyes skim down my body. My clothes are soaked, and the chill has my skin prickling. Taking another step back, I reach for the hem of my T-shirt and slowly peel it over my head, tossing it to the side so I’m standing in nothing more than a paper-thin bra and skirt.
“What’s wrong? You worried about something, Sage?” I step back again, slowly stepping into his room at the shop. “Think my daddy is going to kill you if you touch me?”
Sage’s dark eyes gleam. A smirk lights the corner of his mouth as he lifts off the door and stalks toward me. Any hesitation strips away, and he’s the hunter, out to get his prey. The confident side of him I’ve heard so much about reveals itself when he’s been holding back.
He hooks his fingers through the choker around my throat and pulls me to him. “I’d like to see him try.”
“He just might.” I keep going, enjoying pushing his buttons. “And he’s got a whole club on his side to help him. So if I were you, I might be a little bit worried.”
“Keep running that sassy little mouth…” he drags his thumb over my lower lip, “and I’ll put you on your knees just to shut you up.”
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About Eva Simmons
Eva Simmons writes hot, heartbreaking romance with complex heroines, and broken, dirty-talking bad boys who fall hard for them.
When Eva isn’t dreaming up new worlds or devouring every book she can get her hands on, she can be found spending time with her family, painting a fresh canvas, or playing an elf in World of Warcraft.
Eva is currently living out her own happily ever after in Nevada with her family.
My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
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