Monday, October 3, 2016

Four Letter Word

Title: FOUR LETTER WORD
Author: J. Daniels
Series: Dirty Deeds, #1
On Sale: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Forever
Trade Paperback: $14.99 USD
eBook: $3.99 USD

Fate. Hate. Love. Lies. Which four letter word will change their lives forever?

Sydney Paige was never so mortified to hear the words "wrong number" in her life. She meant to tell off the guy who broke her best friend's heart, but unleashed her anger on a perfect stranger instead. And now her world is turned upside down by the captivating man who wants to keep her on the line.
Brian Savage is living a life he's quickly come to hate—until Sydney's wild rant has him hooked and hungry for more. Soon the sexy woman on the phone becomes the lover in his bed. But Brian has secrets, and the closer he lets Syd get, the harder it is to shield her from the devastating mistakes of his past.





EXCERPT 
I’d been in Dogwood a month and had been down to the ocean only once. Insane, right? I lived at the beach and I wasn’t experiencing it. 

It hadn’t been a priority, and honestly, I didn’t have a lot of free time on my hands. 

When I wasn’t picking up shifts at Whitecaps, I was talking on the phone to Brian, shut up in my room or doing it lying on the couch if Tori wasn’t home. 

Now I wasn’t shut up in my room or lying on the couch, quilt-covered and heart-shattered. I was no longer talking on the phone to Brian and I wanted to see the ocean. I wanted to feel the sand beneath my feet and skim the waves with my hand. 


I had tons of free time tonight while Tori got laid. Might as well make the most of it. 

I took the stairs down a level and stepped out beneath the deck. 

A couple was sitting on a hammock going at it like their boat was sinking, sloppy-suctioning kisses and need-filled moans spilling into the air. 

There had to be a handful of empty rooms in that house. They couldn’t pick one and save me the surround sound? 

Gross.

I followed the sand-covered path down the beach, taking small sips of my daiquiri as I went. Deep voices grew louder the closer I got to the water. I wasn’t paying much attention to them. I was looking ahead and forward to feeling the temperature of the ocean and maybe even finding a couple of pretty shells when the voices grew loud enough to hear clearly. 

Very clearly. 

That’s when it happened. 

I stopped, feet frozen and ears alert when one of the voices not only grew loud enough to focus on but also registered in my mind as a voice I’d possibly heard before. 

“Don’t know why I gotta keep repeating myself. It wasn’t like that,” the man said, sounding irritated. “She was sweet and good to talk to. Funny and cute about shit. Real cute. The fact that she was also a stunner didn’t surprise me. I heard it in her voice. But for the last fuckin’ time, and I mean this, I’m not saying it again, that’s not what got me. I was fucked before I even saw her picture.” 

“You saying you were gone for a girl you never fucking met, Brian? Not possible,” the other guy replied. 

I sucked in a breath. 

Brian. 

A phantom heartbeat fluttered in my chest. 

No way… 

With gentle steps, I moved closer to the voices, reached the end of the path, and peeked around an overgrown bush, spotting the two men standing on the beach. 

I watched the one guy, taller than the other, who had his back to me, cross his arms over his chest and say to his friend, “Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. You talk to Sydney one fuckin’ time and you’ll know where I’m coming from. It was that fuckin’ good.” 

I squeaked then. Not a gasp but a squeak I tried to conceal with a quick hand to my mouth, cup hitting the sand, but it was too late. 

They both heard it. 

Two pairs of eyes sliced in my direction. I stared back at the one pair coming from the one voice I knew, in my blood and my bones and the breath filling me, I knew that voice and the man it belonged to. 

He stared back, eyes narrowing to focus better, focusing enough to make me out where I stood then going round and filling with surprise. 

Pain lanced through me. 

I wanted to run. To him or away, I didn’t know which urge was stronger, and it felt like I was being pulled in both directions by forces I couldn’t fight so I stood there, staring back as my hand uncovered my mouth and skimmed my throat. 

“Brian?” 

He was moving before I spoke, long legs closing in fast, and before I could blink, he was right in front of me, close enough to smell and feel if my eyes were closed but I definitely couldn’t test that theory right now. 

I stared unconsciously into his face, tilting my head back to do so and taking in every inch of him. 
Dark hair buzzed close to his scalp, thick eyebrows and deep green eyes, several days’ worth of stubble coating his jaw, which appeared sharp beneath it and full, perfect lips, parted as he breathed slow and heavily. 

Beautiful. 

I knew he was. 

“Oh, my God,” I whispered. “It’s you.” 

He blinked, breath shuddering. 

“You recognize me?” he asked. 

I bit my lip to suppress a moan because, God, that voice. It melted my insides when it sweetly assaulted my ears and turned my bones to jelly. It always had but now, seeing the man behind it and the mouth responsible for it, watching it shape and twist those words so perfectly, I was done. 

Done. 

Toast. 

A goner. 

I blinked when he stepped closer. 

“Syd,” he pressed, eyes desperate as they searched mine. 

“Holy shit. Are you the girl?” 

The other man moved beside us and slapped his hand against Brian’s back, who was keeping his eyes focused on me. 

I looked to the friend and recognized Exhibit A from Whitecaps, who I now knew went by Cole. 

“Uh,” I answered. 

I was in shock. Was he expecting me to speak? 

Cole grinned. “Small world,” he chuckled, looking between us. “Small fucking world. I’ll leave you two alone since you probably have a lot to talk about.” 

He gave me a wink then shuffled past me and disappeared down the path, doing just that. Leaving us alone. 

I was alone…with Brian. 

Oh, God. 

Oh…God. Now what?

I looked up and met pleading greens, filled with desperation I could feel against my skin. 

Questions and confusion swirled in my brain. My stomach was doing nothing but flips and excited little twists. 

It was Brian. My body knew Brian and it was acting up impulsively, reacting to that smooth familiar voice and more, and when he reached out and held my face, thumb sweeping over my cheek as his lips whispered, “Wild,” soft and ache-filled, I stopped thinking and feeling altogether and sprang, launching myself at him and into his arms, which curled instantly around me, drawing me nearer and higher until our mouths met in a kiss that hurt and healed so deeply my soul cried out. 

Beautiful. 

Knew it would be.


Four letter word for a score of zero? 
Love The answer is love, and I did, I loved this book, and the characters, and the overall feeling of the story. Just reading about Brian and Sydney make me happy and it was a pleasant experience of reading their story. 

Sydney never thought her life would take such a drastic turn to where she was moving in with her best friend and starting a brand new job as a waitress. So when her friends heart gets broken by a douche bag she decides that enough is enough and these men need to stop thinking they get to mess with women the way they do. So she dialed up that bastard and let him have her anger, screaming at him about his use of dildo's and some other choice words. Too bad it was a wrong number and not the douche bag she meant to call. 

Brian's life is of his own making, he doesn't think he deserves to be happy so he's stuck himself in a life that he doesn't particularly like. When he gets a random call from some woman yelling at him and saying the most outrageous things he laughs for the first time in what feels like forever and he enjoys his night. So then he texts the number, wanting more of that feeling. He just never thought it would be the change his life needed or that this woman would come to mean something to him. 

Phone calls are so old school now, and I loved that this author went back to actually talking on the phone. In today's world most people meet online, they email, chat or whatever without ever speaking to each other and honestly it takes something away from that initial meeting. So I really enjoyed the fact that Sydney and Brian met because of a phone call and then got to know each other through actual conversations and not strictly a text relationship. I think it definitely added the uniqueness to this book and it was really fun to read about. 

I'll admit that I was a little scared in the beginning that there would be some ex drama popping up in the end. There was none of that though, instead the story focused on the two main characters, which was perfect. The fact that J. Daniels kept it classy and didn't have any over the top dramatic moments made me like her as an author even more. There were still plenty of things that kept this book interesting, though, without having to have those crazy drama moments.

Four letter word for a persons interpretations of something? 
Read As in, read this book! The characters are amazing, including the secondary ones, the story is intriguing, and it's hot as hell! So seriously, you need to read this book. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J. Daniels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sweet Addiction series and the Alabama Summer series. She loves curling up with a good book, drinking a ridiculous amount of coffee, and writing stories her children will never read. Daniels grew up in Baltimore and resides in Maryland with her family.




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