Meet Smith and Carina in Black & White Flowers,
the first
standalone in The Real Seal Series
by Rachel Robinson.
“Nothing is fair in love and war.”
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Blurb
Carina Painter lives a life
she created in between the pages of her bestselling novel. At least, that’s
what she outwardly portrays. A heart-rending childhood followed by an abusive
engagement leaves her broken in all ways possible. A chance encounter provides
the fork in the road she so desperately desires.
Navy SEAL Smith Eppington
is fighting the war of his lifetime. One that isn’t fought with weapons and
highly sought intelligence. It’s a battle to remember his past. The accident
that scarred seventy five percent of his body, and stole the life of his best
friend also seized parts and pieces of his memory. When an author asks to
interview him for a fiction novel, he’s ready to pour his heart out no matter
the cost.
The friendship that
blossoms between Smith and Carina is something extraordinary. It’s a living, breathing
love story about finding yourself, change that is out of your control, grasping
what you can, and letting go of everything else.
In a twist of kismet,
remembering could destroy everything, but fiction may be what saves the day. A
friendship built on new truths and a relationship torn apart by old lies
collide in a poignant novel by International Bestselling Author, Rachel
Robinson.
Excerpt
Shrugging,
he pulls me into his warm, shirtless body and yanks the quilt back up to our
necks, his hands now wandering over my body. “Sleep is the very last thing on
my mind right now.” His gaze burns into mine and his hands find the hem of my
nightshirt. His lips twitch. “You wear so little to bed. I can’t help myself,”
he says. With a featherlight touch his fingertips stroke the side of my thigh
up to the string of my panties. He hooks a finger in and drags his finger
underneath it, teasing himself. Teasing me, too. “It took all of my
self-control to go to sleep with this much of your bare skin in touching
proximity.”
I blush.
Big time. Everything below my waist cries out for attention in one wild rush of
excitement. It’s been too long. But it’s more than that now because everything
before this has been lukewarm. “What did you do at work last night?” I ask
before all important thoughts flee my mind in favor of his touch—something that
scrambles my brain cells. “Why did it take so long?”
His face
changes. His hand stops on my hipbone and he grabs it, his fingers encompassing
the whole side of my body. Breathing in and out makes his hand move with me.
It’s warm. It’s demanding. “It’s nothing for you to worry about,” Smith
replies.
I shake
my head. “When people say stuff like that typically there is almost always
something to worry about, but you don’t want to worry the person. Do you see
how counterintuitive that is? Now I’m worried because you told me not to
worry.”
He sighs
and then pulls the covers over his head and disappears under the blankets. In a
fast maneuver that tickles and makes me pull away in mock protest, he makes his
way between my legs. With the edge of the quilt in my hand I lift it to see his
smiling face between my knees. “You’re trying to distract me,” I say. Pressing
my lips into a firm line, I try to hold a serious face. “Smith Eppington. You
better tell me what I want to know.”
Smith
takes the sides of my panties and pulls them down and off my body with one
fierce tug. It’s playful, but so damn hot at the same. Some noise exits my
mouth and it makes him smile, his good side wider than his bad. I shake my
head. “Is it working?” he asks, then kisses the inside of my right thigh. “Are
you distracted?” His warm breath on my skin clenches my core. He drags his lips
up and down, inching his way higher.
I adjust
my legs and try to calm my breaths. “I don’t see how I can’t be distracted with
my underwear on the floor and your head between my legs. I don’t forget,” I
say. Tapping the side of my head, I finish, “I’m like an elephant.”
He licks
the inside of my left thigh and runs his hands under my nightshirt up and down
the sides of my rib cage. I shiver. Tipping my head back, I close my eyes.
“An
elephant isn’t what I want to think about right now,” Smith growls. “I’d ask
you how you like this, but I honestly don’t care. I’m starving for you. You’re
wet. I smell you.” With his lips pressing against my skin, and the
disappearance of my panties, he’s turned into a lust crazed man. A man I’ve
wanted to meet since I first laid eyes on him.
My Review: (ARC provided)
5 stars!
If you are familiar with Rachel, you know she can write
the heck out of a Seal romance. I fell in love with Crazy Good a few years ago
and continued to read all the books she’s published after that. Well, she has written
a new Seal romance and it doesn’t disappoint, I can tell in her writing that
this is a subject close to her heart. She poured her heart into this novel, she
had my emotions on every level possible, I found myself messaging my friend as
we were reading and asking her where she was in the book because holy shit,
there is this part that will tear you up, you may even need to put down the book
for a minute to regroup. I didn’t set it down for long though because I needed
to know what was going to happen.
“He’s
my morphine, the solitary reason my heart beats fast and slow in any single
moment.”
This was so beautifully written and Rachel always adds
her humor in which makes it that much more real and what draws me to her as an
author. If you follow her and are familiar with her she adds little things in
the book you may catch that made me chuckle. I had made a comment when the
cover was revealed on how much I loved the cover, well after reading this book
It all clicked and I loved it that much more.
This is my kind of book, a love triangle of sorts,
likable characters, hard times and even the anticipation of the characters
getting together, like pulling my hair out wondering when they would just “do
it” already. ;)
“And
right before my eyes, one kiss tilted the Earth.”
I had high expectations for this book and Rachel
surpassed them. This is a sad story, it is a “real” story, it is a story you
need to read. It will tug at your heartstrings and leave you wanting more of
Carina (h) and Smith (H).
Not every hero and heroine has to be perfect and this
book is a wonderful example of that. This is “a real Seal novel.”
“I
can’t fix you, Care. I can’t. I’m flattered you think I can, but I know for a
fact that only you can fix you.”
“Maybe
I fixed me. Because of you.”
I highly recommend!
About the Author
Rachel
grew up in a small, quiet town full of loud talkers. Her words were always only
loud on paper. She has been writing stories and creating characters for as long
as she can remember. After living on the west coast for many years she recently
moved to Virginia Beach, VA.
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