ONE WEEK GIRLFRIEND fans...you are going to LOVE
this new series by Monica Murphy! Check out the covers and the FAIR GAME excerpt
below!
Title(s): Fair Game, In the Dark, Slow Play
Series Name: The Rules Series
Author Name: Monica Murphy
Genre: NA Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer: Sarah Hansen, Okay Creations
Blurbs (subject to change):
FAIR GAME (The Rules Series, Book 1) May 12, 2015
Bad enough Jade Frost’s boyfriend drags her to a boring poker game. Even worse
that he actually threw her into the betting pot during an intense round…and lost.
Talk about the perfect excuse for Jade to make him her ex-boyfriend.
Now she supposedly belongs to the ultra rich, extremely gorgeous Shep Prescott. He
could have anything he wants yet he seems to be in hot pursuit of her. No matter
how rude, how snarky, how impossible she acts, it doesn’t stop him. More like her
horrible behavior seems to make him want her more.
When she finds herself starting to fall for him, Jade’s confused. There’s more to Shep
than the carefree rich charmer he portrays. He has secrets. And she wants to
discover them, no matter how ugly they might be…
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FAIR GAME Excerpt (unedited):
“What are you doing?” she asks, sounding the tiniest bit breathless.
“Making sure you’re not injured,” I answer, proud of how under control I sound.
Inside, I’m chaos. My heart is thumping hard against my chest and my breathing’s
accelerated. I grip her knee, and realize my hand is fucking shaking.
“I
think you’re trying to get your hand up my skirt.” Leave it to Bitch Face to call me
out. I can’t help but find her straightforwardness attractive. No girl is ever
straightforward with me. They’re always coy. Playing games and flirting and never
asking for what they really want. They always defer to me.
After awhile,
that gets pretty damn boring.
“Maybe I am,” I say, moving my hand to
rest on top of her knee.
Her lips curve into the smallest smile and seeing
it feels like a victory. As if I’ve just won an extra difficult battle and that tiny curve of
her lush lips is my prize. “You’re pretty determined, aren’t you?”
She’s
not pushing me away. I need to take this moment. Seize this fucking moment and
make it mine. Make her mine. At least for tonight. Her scent is making my head spin
and just touching her knee has got me sporting wood. “I'm always determined.”
“Determined to piss me off?”
I chuckle and her smile grows.
“Am I doing a good job?”
“You’re an expert at making me mad.”
“I think we’re having a moment,” I tell her. “A bonding moment.”
She looks the slightest bit horrified. “No. Way. That is the last thing I want to
do.”
I raise my eyebrows, let my hand slide up a bare inch more. Then
another. I’m so close to getting under that skirt, it’s not even funny. “You don’t like
me very much, do you?”
“You don’t like me either. You call me Bitch
Face.”
“You introduced yourself to me as Bitch Face.”
She
tilts her head, all that wavy red hair tumbling over her shoulder. My fingers itch to
touch it. “I did, didn’t I?”
“Yeah. I thought it was an unusual name…” I let
my voice drift and she smiles once more.
“Says the man with an unusual
name.”
“I told you it’s an old family name.”
“As a last name,
not as a first.” She makes a little face. “It’s not very sexy.”
“You don’t
think?” Interesting.
“I can’t imagine shouting out your name in the
throes of passion.” Her cheeks go the faintest pink. That she’s even thinking like this
gives me a secret thrill.
Forbidden. Unknown. This is the last girl I
should consider getting naked with.
“Throes of passion?” I ask.
“Someone’s been reading too many romance novels.”
“You know what I
mean.” She waves a hand, dismissing her words.
“I don’t.” I pull the
innocent act, which she isn’t falling for but it’s still fun. “What are you talking about
exactly?”
“You’re not going to make me explain, are you?”
“I
would love for you to explain. Or maybe I should help you.” I crawl my fingers up
her thigh, playing with the frayed hem of her denim skirt. “Are you talking
about…having sex?”
She nods, her cheeks blazing up. Hmm, she’s extra
pretty when she blushes.
“And that moment…when we’re fucking…and
you’re so damn close.” I lean in and inhale deep, my eyes almost falling shut as I
absorb her scent, her warmth and that flush in her cheeks, the way her breathing
quickens. “So fucking close as I push deep inside you. You don’t think it would be
sexy to yell out my name just as I make you come?”
“N-no.” She shakes
her head, that single word coming out as a squeak.
“Really.” I give in and
settle my cheek next to hers, nuzzle her ear with my nose before I whisper, “Because
by the time I have you coming, I’m fairly certain you’ll be crying out my name and
begging me please.”
“You’re a real arrogant prick, aren’t you?”
I pull back from her the slightest bit, a little shocked. The girl doesn’t mince
words. “Merely confident in my abilities.” I cup the back of her head, thread my
fingers in the silky soft waves of her hair. I’d love to wrap her hair around my fist
and tug her head back right before I kiss her…
“Proud of your
manwhore status?”
“I can’t help it if the ladies flock to me.”
She rests her hand on my chest and gives me a gentle shove. “I’m not flocking to
you.”
“Even after all that talk about coming and with my hand up your
skirt?”
Jade looks down with a sharp gasp, dropping her hand to mine
and shoving it out from beneath her skirt. “What are you doing?”
“I thought it was obvious.” When she says nothing, only glares at me, I continue. “I
was going to kiss you and hopefully get you off with my fingers.”
Her
mouth drops open. Instead of looking aroused, she looks…pissed. Vaguely horrified.
“You’re disgusting.”
I lean back. Move way, way back though I’m not
getting off the bed. Not yet. I still have a chance.
Or then again, maybe I
don’t.
IN THE DARK (Book 2) August 25, 2015
Stuck spending the summer with his screwed up family, Gabriel Walker is bored out
of his mind and looking for an adventure. And he seems to find it with the hot girl
who lives next door. The attraction between them is instant. Electric. Soon they’re
spending every stolen minute together. Talk about the perfect summer fling…
Lucy isn’t what she seems. She doesn’t live next door—she’s the maid who’s been
hired to house sit for the summer while the family goes on a worldwide vacation. If
Gabe wants to believe she’s a spoiled rich girl looking for some fun, she can go along
with that. After the summer, she’ll never see him again.
They don’t count on running into each other at college. Now Lucy must keep up the
pretense of being a rich girl—and it’s exhausting. She knows she’s falling in love
with Gabe and she’s scared he feels the same. Will he still care about her when he
discovers the truth?
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SLOW PLAY (Book 3) November 3, 2015
Newly broke girl Alexandria Asher just wants to live a normal life. After her parents
are sent to prison on embezzlement charges, she enrolls in college under her
mother’s maiden name and tries her best to pretend she’s someone else.
Tristan Chadwick is everything Alex is trying to avoid. A seemingly egotistical, lazy,
rich jerk, she dumps her beer on his head when he comes on to her one night at a
party. This only spurs Tristan into action. He loves nothing more than a challenge.
And the beautiful Alex is exactly the type of challenge that intrigues him.
Despite her reluctance, Alex finds herself quickly involved with Tristan. Underneath
that playboy exterior is a good guy, a sweet and sexy guy who she is undoubtedly
falling for. What they both don’t realize is the actions of Alex’s parents are the
reason for so much tragedy in Tristan’s family. And when Tristan discovers who
Alex and her family really is, can he forgive and forget?
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About the Author:
New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author Monica Murphy is
a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite with her husband and
three children. She's a workaholic who loves her job. When she's not busy writing,
she also loves to read and travel with her family. She writes new adult and
contemporary romance and is published with Bantam and Avon. She also writes
romance as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.
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