✮✮✮ THE SAPPHIRE HEIST is here! The highly anticipated conclusion of New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely’s new contemporary romance Jewel Novel series, this enemies-to-lovers series is filled with sex, wit, glamour, and high stakes, with a rugged, ex-military, dirty-talking alpha hero! Don’t miss this explosive and passionate series! ✮✮✮
EXCERPT
He grabbed her waist and slammed her close. Her breath caught. He nipped her earlobe.
“Admit it,” he growled. “Admit I am masterful at darts. Then, and only then, will I accept your rematch offer.”
She shook her head and made a move to reach for the dart in his hand. Like she was trying to subtly snatch it away. He clamped his palm around it and raised an eyebrow.
“You trying to pickpocket me?”
“If pickpocketing from your hand counts, then yes. I was.”
“You need a lesson in proper pickpocketing then, woman. You’re too obvious. Like you were in the alley earlier today.”
“You’re telling me you know how to pick pockets, too?” She narrowed her eyes, skepticism in her tone as she grabbed her iced tea from the nearby counter and took a drink.
He laughed. “I do. I don’t do it often, but it’s a useful skill.”
She put down the glass, then parked her hands on her hips, hiking up her purse on her shoulder. “Teach me.”
“Can’t really teach you everything in one night, but it’s all about the art of deception,” he said as he led her back to the dartboard. Grabbing a dart from the green felt, he raised it and took aim at the bull’s-eye. Her gaze followed the dart. “That means you need to get the person to look elsewhere, like at the dartboard.”
She nodded and stared at the dartboard. For one second. Two seconds. Three. Then it dawned on her. When she snapped her focus back to him, he brandished her wallet.
“You got that from my purse,” she said, stomping a foot.
“I sure did. But that was the point. To show you how it’s done.”
“OK,” she said, wiggling her fingers. “Let me try.”
He taught her a few basic distraction tricks, and she practiced on him, dipping her hands in his pockets and trying to pilfer his watch. She was no pro, and he was aware of her moves every time. But her technique improved with the brief lesson. However, the constant gliding of her hands into his pockets zapped his focus away from teaching and onto the next phase of tonight.
“That’s all for today’s lesson,” he said, since he had no more interest in being out with her. “Need to get you alone now.”
Her eyes told him she wanted that, too. “Let’s say good night to Marie.”
She’d been busy all evening pulling the tap and pouring drinks, so he drummed his fingertips against the bar, tipped an imaginary hat to her, and waved good-bye. But she beckoned them over. “Hey. You found your sexy fisherman,” Marie said to Steph, flicking her long braid off her shoulder so it hung down her back. She turned to Jake. “And you found my favorite mermaid.”
“We did find each other,” Steph said in a sweet voice that nailed him right in the heart. We found each other.Those words. They pulsed with double meaning.
Review
(by Cindy)
Review (by Cindy)
"Sapphire
Heist" is the delightful conclusion to Lauren Blakey’s Jewel series.
"Sapphire
Heist" picks up right where "Sapphire Affair" leaves off, with
Steph questioning her alliance (and her tryst) with Jake.
Driven first by their
physical attraction, and then ultimately by mutual interest, Jake and Steph
join forces to find out what has happened to $10 million worth of stolen
precious blue diamonds. But their reasons for wanting to recover the diamonds
couldn’t be more different. For Jake, search and recovery is his job. A job he
relies on to help support his siblings, and while that’s certainly personal for
Jake, Steph’s reasons hit even closer to home.
For her, the man
suspected of stealing the diamonds is also the man Steph has called “dad” for
most of her life. He’s also the man who eventually deserted their family,
taking all of the financial resources with him. Steph’s reason for being in the
Cayman Islands isn’t the diamonds or who has them. She’s here on behalf of her
mother to appeal to her step-father Eli’s sense of right and wrong, but when he
summarily dismisses the notion, Steph decides that helping Jake recover
millions of dollars in stolen diamonds may be the only way to restore her
mother’s financial stability.
I loved the multiple
facets of connection the author created between these two characters. Their
cat-and-mouse antics and witty banter was both funny and endearing, and their
off-the-charts red-hot physical attraction was as sizzling as a Cayman sunset.
I found myself repeatedly swept away by the author’s descriptive writing.
Whether the characters were snorkeling in the waters of Cayman, hiding in an
attic of a local church, or satisfying a sweet tooth in a village café, Lauren
Blakely’s gift for building a scene put me right there with them.
The "Jewel"
series is a fun and sexy summer read. Funny, with enough intrigue and shell
game antics to keep the reader turning page after page. It’s just the kind of
précis that romantic comedy movies are made of!
Five “I want a movie”
stars!
THE SAPPHIRE AFFAIR & THE SAPPHIRE HEIST are being released by Montlake, which is an Amazon publishing company, and will only be available for sale at Amazon. You can download a free Kindle reading app for any smartphone or tablet here: http://amzn.to/1MIyrHi
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ABOUT THE SAPPHIRE HEIST (Jewel Novel #2):
Keep your lover close and your enemy closer…
After giving in to a fiery night of passion, island adventurer Steph Anderson and bounty hunter Jake Harlowe are back to square one. With millions in stolen jewels at stake, it’s hard for Steph not to question her new partner’s true motives—no matter how sexy he might be. Jake is hungry for more of Steph, but he can sense her growing mistrust, which only fuels his own doubts. Worse, there’s undeniable evidence that someone else is now after the jewels—and that they are both in real danger.
Fighting against their magnetic attraction is a distraction these two can’t afford. In order to survive, they’ll have to pull off one more heist—and trust each other with something even more precious than jewels: their hearts.
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