Creating
stories on the pages where duty, honor and passion unite.
Sha Renée is a native New Yorker who joined the
US Navy right after high school. She now lives in New Jersey where she creates
stories on the pages where duty, honor and passion unite. A true nature lover,
Sha enjoys spending time outdoors with a camera in her hands. She’s a fan of
auto racing, military air shows and The
X Games and dreams of someday riding
her own motorcycle.
Sha loves watching bulldozers and diggers work, and believes
every day should begin with a strong cup of coffee and end with a glass of
chilled wine.
About
FORBIDDEN KISSES
Series: Anchored Hearts
What do you do when the person you love
is off limits?
Military regulations prohibit personal
relationships between senior officers and their juniors.
Violation of these rules is a serious
offense. Unfortunately, for Layla and Ethan, they don’t discover each other’s
military status until after they’ve already fallen for each other. With the
threat of disciplinary action and their careers at risk, the lovers are faced
with an impossible decision.
Layla is an enlisted member of the US
Navy. On a weekend trip, she meets and grows close to the perfect guy. Her
world is turned upside down when she later discovers he’s a Navy lieutenant,
which means a personal relationship with him is forbidden. Is Layla strong
enough to walk away from the only man to hold her heart?
She’s everything Lieutenant Ethan
Parker wants, and during his darkest moment, Layla was everything he needed.
Learning that a relationship with her is off-limits catapults the decorated
officer into a place darker than the one she helped pull him from. Ethan is
forced to choose between the profession that means everything to him and the
woman he’s waited his entire life for.
Can military regulations separate
lovers destined to be together?
EXCERPT
For the next forty-five minutes, my coworkers spoke, but I
hadn’t a clue what any of them said. My mind was busy replaying the events of
the day I first met Ethan. Piercing blue eyes. Beautiful dimples. Coffee.
Bathroom. Flirting. Not once had he said anything about the Navy. He had mentioned his new position, but
never revealed that he was third in command at an aviation training facility...
Had he?
At the conclusion of the staff meeting, everyone emptied the
room, but I remained seated, waiting
for a chance to confront Lieutenant Parker. I pulled my cell from my pocket,
pretending I had a reason to linger. The message notification on my phone
startled me.
Ethan: My office. Now.
Me: Are you kidding? I can’t just walk into your
office.
Ethan: We need to talk. Wait a few minutes, and
then knock on my door.
He stood and left the room without a glance in my direction.
The sight of Ethan in uniform made my heart flutter a little.
Memories of nights I’d spent wrapped in his arms flooded my consciousness. How could neither of us
know the other’s military status? How could neither of us think to ask?
The door to his office was ajar. Should I just go in? Should I
knock? I figured I’d better follow standard procedure just in case anyone saw
me. I knocked on the door and spoke immediately after.
“Request permission to
enter, Sir.”
“Granted.” He rose from his desk, walked past me, and shut the
door.
Tension radiated
through every muscle in my body. We stood for a beat, staring at each other. He
had to be thinking the same thing I was: What! The! F---!
“Layla, what the hell is going on?”
Was he accusing me? Did he think I somehow
planned this shit? “You tell me. You never said you’re in the Navy. That you’re
an officer. That you work here. Do you know what this means?”
“Of course, I know what this means. I thought you were a student.”
“I am. I was.”
“You didn’t say you’re also an instructor.” He started to pace.
“It didn’t come up. I had other things on my mind.”
“Like what?” Those vivid, blue eyes held my gaze as he stood
mere inches away.
He was too smart to
be that clueless. “Like you.”
His expression softened.
“You didn’t tell me you were the new Director of Training at
one of the Navy’s best training facilities.”
“We can discuss everything later at the hotel.”
“What are you? Crazy? We can’t meet at the hotel. We
can’t talk. We can’t text. We can’t anything.”
“We need to figure out what we’re going to
do.”
“There’s
nothing we can do. This is it for us.
I finally meet the perfect guy... and I can’t have him.”
A knock at the door
startled us and we quickly backed away from each other. My heart beat wildly as
the Commanding Officer swung the door open and came right toward us.
PURCHASE
FORBIDDEN KISSES
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WITH SHA
beautiful cover!
ReplyDeletegood luck and God's blessings
PamT