Synopsis:
A badass ex-Special Ops officer and a smartass hacker fight a dangerous enemy…and a blistering attraction to each other.
Connor Hughes is an ex-special ops officer, CEO of Metrix Security, and bonafide badass. His private security firm is renowned for its effectiveness. He’s renowned for his lethal precision and iron self-control. But when the former Marine meets a gorgeous young hacker with a mouth as smart as her brain, his control unravels in ways he never could have predicted.
Tabitha West is a genius MIT dropout with a bad attitude, an obsession with Hello Kitty and piercings in unmentionable places. Tabby amuses herself by outwitting the most secure technology systems on the planet. Known in hacker circles as Polaroid due to her photographic memory, she’s as secretive as she is accustomed to working alone. So when Connor decides she’s the only one who can help him catch a cyber criminal intent on taking down one of his clients, she tells him exactly where he can stick it.
But when the cyber criminal turns out to be the Hannibal Lecter of computer crime—and a dark presence from Tabby’s past—Tabby and Connor are drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. They quickly find themselves fighting not only their common enemy, but also an explosive desire that threatens to consume them.
When the stakes are this high and the game this deadly, will falling in love be the most dangerous
move of all?
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Excerpt:
For
a moment Connor just examines my face in silence. There’s a strange
tension in him, a stillness, like a held breath but in his entire body.
Then he abruptly swings around in his seat so he’s facing me, his
massive thighs on either side of my bar stool, his booted feet planted
on the floor.
Trapping me.
“What do you think you’re doing?” I ask, my voice high with panic.
“Got something to say to you. It’s important, so don’t talk until the end.”
He
looks dangerously intense. His dark eyes are heated, drilling into
mine. His cheeks are flushed from the fire, or from something else, but I
don’t have time to think about what that something else might be
because he opens his mouth and starts to speak, and my brain faints dead
away, leaving me to fend for myself.
“I want you. Bad. Don’t
know exactly why, you’re a complete pain in my ass and pretty much the
most contrary, foul-tempered woman I’ve ever met, and you’ve made it
really clear what you think about me, but every time I look at you I
have an almost overpowering urge to touch you, kiss you, do a lot of bad
things to you, and I don’t know how to manage it. Yeah, it might be
more prudent for me to keep this shit to myself, but I know that when
you don’t talk about shit it festers, gets worse, and if the way I feel
about you gets any worse I won’t be able to put my goddamn shoes on in
the morning. So I’m putting it out there.”
He takes a breath. Deeply shocked, I stare at him with my mouth open, my heart up in my throat.
“We’re
both professionals. We have a job to do. And I don’t mix business with
pleasure. Ever. But the way I figure it, we’ve got one more night until
the work actually starts, and if I don’t do something to get you
straight in my head I won’t be able to do the job at all.”
He stops abruptly. Then he waits, watching me with unwavering intensity as I attempt to digest what just happened.
I whisper in disbelief, “You’re propositioning me?”
His gaze drops to my lips. When he looks back into my eyes, his own are burning. “You liked that kiss.”
He gives me time to deny it, but I don’t. How could I? We both know I’d be lying.
He adds, “And you called me hot, so I know you don’t think I’m a complete troll, even though you act like you do.”
“That was an accident.”
“Yep.” He nods. “And you fuckin’ hated yourself for it. Which is why I know it was true.”
Things
are happening in my body. My nipples harden, my breath quickens, there
is a distinctive throb and ache between my legs. All because this
jarhead I hate just told me he wants to do bad things to me.
Bad things. Dear God, were any two sexier words ever spoken?
Great story! In fact, I like Wicked Sexy better than the
first book in the Wicked Games series, Wicked Beautiful. I am crazy in love with the characters in
this story. The characters piqued my
interest in the first book to the point that I hoped we would learn more about
them. The first paragraph in Wicked
Sexy sucked me in to the book and held my attention to the end. I love the writing
and the dialog between the two main characters is funny at times, hostile at
times, and sexy often.
Wicked Sexy is the story of
Tabitha (Tabby) West, a genius and master hacker and Connor Hughes, a former Special
Ops Marine and technology security expert. You
can tell right off the bat in Wicked Beautiful that they are going to bump
heads and they do. You can also feel the
burn bubbling to erupt and it does in Wicked Sexy.
In Wicked Sexy, Connor needs help
tracking down a hacker who infiltrates a
movie studio’s technology and threatens to cause her trouble. He turns to Tabby for help because of the
potential of more damage to this studio and the email incident at Sony a few
years earlier. Tabby isn’t interested in
the beginning because she doesn’t trust Connor.
Besides he rubs her the wrong way until she finds out who the hacker
is—Maelstr0m. The hackers have a history
and Tabby wants revenge.
Tabby and Connor have great
chemistry even when they verbally spar with each other. They are attracted but fight it. In the beginning, Connor wants a
roll-in-the-hay while sensing that there is more to this woman than meets the
eye. He feels the possibility of a relationship and that confuses him. Connor isn’t a relationship kind of guy and
women don’t monopolize his time or thoughts—until Tabby.
Tabby is a loner. Her only long-term
friend if Victoria, her employer, in Wicked Beautiful. After Victoria, Tabby is working as a consultant. She
doesn’t need the money, she needs the challenge. Tabby doesn’t have relationships with
men. She is used to being alone and
doesn’t let anyone break down the walls she has built around her heart. Connor makes her think there is a possibility
for more.
The story is perfect. The plots and characters are creatively
constructed. The way the push-pull
relationship develops between Tabby and Connor is perfectly paced. For me, many times authors make the push-pull
last too long or the reasons for the push isn’t clear; that isn’t the case in
this book. It feels right. I never felt frustrated with this couple. Add to that the nail-biting, edge of the seat
plot that unfolds building the tension so you have to keep turning the page.
Overall, Wicked Sexy has
everything I like in a book. The writing
is excellent, the hero is to die for, the heroine is determined, damaged,
strong, and highly intelligent. The sex
scenes are hot and required a fan at times.
The story has a good solid romance base with the added suspense of
solving a cyber crime. In other words, it isn’t the typical
cookie cutter romance. The author
delivers a story full of suspense, action, an unexpected twist, secrets and
some steamy and romantic scenes. I
recommend it highly.
Author Bio:
J.T. Geissinger is an Amazon #1 bestselling author of smart, sexy romance. Writing in both the paranormal and contemporary romance genres, her eleven published novels all include a high level of sensuality, intense emotional connections, and plot twists galore.
She is the recipient of the Prism Award for Best First Book, the Golden Quill Award for Best Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, and was a finalist for the prestigious RITA© Award from the Romance Writers of America. Her work has also finaled in the Booksellers’ Best, National Readers’ Choice, and Daphne du Maurier Awards.
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Website: www.jtgeissinger.com
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