• A full-length novel - not a novella! ☺
New readers should/need to start with Nikki & Damien's first book #ReleaseMe ☺
★★★★★
4.5 StarsFrom New York Times and #1 International bestselling author J. Kenner comes a new full-length novel in the wildly popular Stark Saga that’s left millions of readers breathless.
His touch takes my breath away. Our passion feeds my soul...
My love for Damien fills me, and the intensity of our bond brings me to my knees. There is no burden I wouldn’t bear for him, no decadent punishment to which I won’t submit.
The dark days seemingly behind us, we have carved a life out of adversity, chiseling away pain to reveal strength and beauty. Now, all I want is to laugh with our children in the sunlight, then surrender myself to Damien’s embrace in the dark.
But lingering secrets and hidden menace threaten our family. Now, Damien and I must forge a new strength from our shared passion and hope the fire between us will burn away the darkness and protect everything we hold most dear.
This sexy, emotionally charged romance continues the story of Damien Stark, the powerful billionaire who’s never had to take “no” for an answer, and his beloved wife Nikki Fairchild Stark.
EEEEEP!!! Nikki and Damien Stark are back with another FULL-LENGTH-NOVEL!
I hope we'll get books and novellas about the Starks forever and ever and ever!☺
This time it's a lot about Nikki and her job, her new offices, her employees and the nanny and people who are begrudging Nikki her life and family.
This book is full of family moments, business moments. Moments with friends and family. And some verrrrry exciting and dangerous and suspensy moments. 😱
I just adored reading it. I could read a Damien Stark book every month for the rest of eternity!
This was the perfect next chapter for all fans of Damien and Nikki and their friends and family!
Nothing much more I want to say - I don't want to spoil anything.
If you're fan of the series, you will love this book and if you're not a fan - why are you reading it? Or if you're not a fan YET - run to amazon and get started with book #ONE!!!!!
I never ever want to say goodbye to the Stark world! And I hope I never have to - there's another novella coming soon and a book from Damien's POV!!! And we'll get a new trilogy about the Stark Security Group soon too! ☺
LOST WITH ME was another very moving & sexy & super exciting #MustRead about Nikki & Damien and their adorable little family and amazing circle of friends!! Run to your nearest amazon for your own Damien - this one is MINE! ☺
ARC received for an honest review
Yessssss! I love diving back into Stark World. I just can't get enough of Damien, Nikki and their brood.
I could keep reading books in the Starkiverse for ever! I just want to know every little tidbit of their lives. I want more Nikki, I need more Damien. I love getting more of Jamie and Ryan's lives.
I want to be part of their lives (in a non-stalkerish way of course).
One thing though - I wish Ms Kenner would let them have a break from all the stuff people keep trying to do to their family! Oy, my heart hurts for them every time something happens!
I don't want to give anything away, however if you are already a fan of the Starks, you are going to adore Lost With Me.
I can't wait to see what Ms Kenner brings us next.
♥ EXCERPT ♥
His name dies on my lips, but I hear it all the same in my
head. Damien. My voice breathy. Full of need.
He eases me back so that my body is flush against his, and I
close my eyes, losing myself in the way his touch makes me feel even while
fighting the urge to step away. To tell him to stop. That we’re in public, and
we can’t do this.
But I don’t. I stay, and as I close my eyes in acceptance of
my own desires, I hear his low, soft moan of satisfaction and feel the swell of
his erection against my lower back, his arousal growing with my acquiescence.
Mine, too.
Because while I may not want to be the kind of woman who
gets turned on by her lover’s touch in a public gallery, I can’t deny the heat
building between my thighs any more than I can deny the basic truth that where
Damien is concerned, there are no limits. Not because I have none, but because
he knows how to take me right to the edge. To make me breathless and needy and
desperate. But never to push too far.
I’d changed before meeting Jamie for lunch, and now I’m
wearing a knit tank that hugs my body and a wrap style skirt that fastens with
a single button at my hip. His hands are pressed against the curve of my waist,
the heat of contact burning through the black knit of my top. I make a small
move as if to turn around, but he tightens his grip, his utterance of noso soft
that I may have only imagined it.
But I know I’m not imagining the motion of his hands as he
slowly eases them up my body, making my heart beat faster with each millimeter
of progress higher and higher. My breath is shallow, and I whisper his name,
“Damien,” not certain if I’m acknowledging the moment, pleading with him to
stop, or begging him to continue.
His hands curve under my breasts, his palms lifting them as
he presses his thumbs down until my nipples are pinched tight between his
thumbs and forefingers. He increases the pressure, and I suck in air, squeezing
my legs together, my clit throbbing as I bite my lower lip and fight the urge to
surrender to the heat that is building inside me.
“You’re wondering if it’s pleasure she’s feeling,” he says,
and my mind has traveled so far from these walls that it takes me a moment to
realize that he’s referring to the woman in Blaine’s painting. “Pleasure or
embarrassment,” he adds as his right hand eases lower, his fingers finding the
flap of material where the ends of the skirt overlap.
He slips his hand in, his palm sliding over the brushed
cotton, his fingers slowly tugging the interior layer toward him. It bunches
within his hand, and I bite back a gasp when his fingertips graze the bare skin
of my thigh. “Was she turned on by the knowledge that so many would see her
portrait?”
His fingers slowly ease higher, closer and closer to my bare
sex. I bite my lower lip and close my eyes, my entire body aching with need,
craving his touch. I can imagine his hand cupping my sex, his fingers sliding
inside as his lips brush my ear while he whispers to me, his sensual words
making my imagination soar as my body quivers and tightens and explodes around
him, and taste blood from biting down so hard to keep from crying out.
I imagine all of that. Craving it. Desperate for it.
And at the same time terrified of it.
“Not here,” I murmur, resting my hand over my skirt. Over
his hand. “Not now.”
His fingers still, but he inches closer, his heat burning
into my body, the beat of his heart reverberating through me.
“I got your note. And your present.” His whisper rumbles
through me, his words making me even more aware that I’m bare beneath this
skirt. “I missed you by just ten minutes.”
“How did you find me?”
“I have my ways. And I’m willing to use all my resources to
get what I want.”
There’s a tease in his voice, and I smile in realization and
amusement. Because it didn’t actually take too many resources. Just the app
that’s installed on both our phones as well as our cars—and Bree’s, of course,
in case we need to find her and the kids.
He would have checked his phone, seen that I’d parked in
Beverly Hills, and remembered that I was going to check on the girls’ cakes
today. Presumably he was following my route and saw me step in here.
“Do you really think I need a tracking device to find you?”
he counters, after I tell him all that. “Don’t you know that you’re always in
my heart, and how can I lose track of that?”
I smile and sigh happily, his words delighting me. And, who
knows. Maybe it’s true. My husband is a remarkable man.
“I wanted to see you.” There’s a tone of finality in his
voice. As if the details simply don’t matter.
As if his will alone is enough to find me.
Maybe it is.
“To touch you.” The fingers of his hand that still cup my
breast tighten on my nipple, sending a new shock of desire running down to my
core.
“I wanted to know if you’re still bare, or if you’ve put on
a fresh pair of panties.” His hand stays perfectly still, but, damn me, I relax
the pressure of my own hand that’s been keeping his in check.
“We can’t.” It’s a public gallery. Anyone could come in. But
even as I think that, my eyes roam the room. The section we’re in has no
windows. And the gallery is empty and echoey, with a bell over the door. We’re
alone, except for Emily. And if she came this way her heels will undoubtedly
click on the floor, giving us plenty of warning.
The thought—the fantasy—makes my body tighten. “We can’t,” I
repeat, as much to underscore the point as to remind myself of that very basic
truth.
“No?” His mouth brushes my ear, his breath disturbing my
hair and sending shivers down my spine. “What if I told you that Emily was busy
at her computer. That she’s locked the door for lunch. That I’m certain we
won’t be seen.”
I swallow and say nothing, afraid that if I speak, my desire
will betray my common sense.
“She won’t want to disturb us. Not when we might be
contemplating a purchase. Destroy the moment, and she could lose a sale. She
knows that. Knows that a client needs to get lost in the art. In the moment.”
His thumb has been making small circles on my breast, and my
heart is beating so hard now that I’m surprised Emily can’t hear its echo on
the far side of the gallery. On my legs, his fingers move subtly. Not rising,
but neither are they still. Instead, his fingertips brush my bare flesh in
sensual movements designed to entice and tease.
“What do you want, Nikki?” His words are as tender against
my flesh as his fingers. “Do you want me to move higher, millimeter by
millimeter, up your wet thighs as you hold your breath in anticipation? Would
you cry out if I stroked your clit, unable to hold back the explosion?
“Or maybe I shouldn’t stroke you there at all. Maybe I
should slide my fingers deep inside you. Feel how slick you are, the way your
body will clench around me, drawing me in as I use my thumb to tease around
your clit. Never quite touching, but drawing you up and up, until you can’t
take it anymore.”
I can’t take it right now, and I’m certain he knows it. I
want to tell him to stop—except I don’t want him to stop.
And so all I do is whisper his name. A plea. A prayer.
“Damien.”
“That’s right, baby.” I hear heat in his low, melodic voice,
a passion now equal to my own. “Would you scream my name when you explode? Or
would you be so quiet as you tremble in my arms, that I’d be the only one who
knows the force of your orgasm rocking through you?
I’m trembling now, so close to the explosion he’s describing
that my skin seems to sizzle. The thin whisper of air from the ducts above does
nothing to cool my heated flesh. I want the release, crave it, and yet I can’t
quite let myself go. Not here. Not like this.
Damien
knows that, of course. His real purpose isn’t to make me come—it’s to take me
to the precipice. Pleasure, yes, but underscored by frustration. By need. And,
ultimately by anticipation.Pre-Order the upcoming Stark Books:
#StarkSeriesReadingOrder
1 - RELEASE ME getBook.at/ReleaseMe
2 - CLAIM ME
3 - COMPLETE ME
3.5 - TAKE ME
3.55 - TAME ME - Jamie & Ryan 1
3.6 - HAVE ME
3.7 - PLAY MY GAME
2 - CLAIM ME
3 - COMPLETE ME
3.5 - TAKE ME
3.55 - TAME ME - Jamie & Ryan 1
3.6 - HAVE ME
3.7 - PLAY MY GAME
3.8 - SEDUCE ME
3.9 - UNWRAP ME
3.10 - DEEPEST KISS
4.2 - PLEASE ME3.10 - DEEPEST KISS
5 - LOST WITH ME - 23 October
6 - DAMIEN - Damien's POV - 8 January 2019
6.1 - INDULGE ME - 9 July 2019
Of course there are a few connected Spin-Off trilogies happening here and there...
First the Heated, Wanted, Ignited - very slightly connected!
Then it's Jackson Steele's trilogy, very connected:
Say My Name, On My Knees, Under My Skin
And then it's Dallas Sykes with
Dirtiest Secret, Hottest Mess, Sweetest Taboo.
And this year we'll have the Wicked Spin-Off which features a few guys we already met and see again in Anchor Me:
Wicked Grind, Wicked Dirty, Wicked Torture.
J. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and International bestselling author of over seventy novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres.
Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy, Victorian-era thrillers (coming soon), and paranormal mommy lit.
Her foray into the latter, Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner, has been consistently in development in Hollywood since prior to publication. Most recently, it has been optioned by Warner Brothers Television for development as series on the CW Network with Alloy Entertainment producing.
JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations” and by RT Bookclub for having “cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swopn for him.” A three time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy).
Her books have sold well over a million copies and are published in over over twenty countries.
In her previous career as an attorney, JK worked as a clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced primarily civil, entertainment and First Amendment litigation in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as in Austin, Texas. She currently lives in Central Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and two rather spastic cats.