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Title: Knockout!
Author: Emma Calin
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: 228 pages
Released: March 19, 2012
He smiled again, showing even white teeth behind the full wide lips that pouted forward as he spoke in such a way that just possibly he really was French.
Sitting opposite him, she could take in the full presence of this stranger. It was as if he transmitted a force - an aura of danger and a sardonic humorous innocence. She attempted to re-assert her normal senses - her ability to appraise a man, threat or situation in the blink of an eye - a skill she had honed on the streets of South London - in a world of gangs, drugs and murder. And yet - here she was, tripping over the bags that some stupid girl had left in the entrance to her brain.
“Luckily Park Lane is on the way to Kilburn,” she said with deliberate plainness.
He looked back at her, holding her eyes, then making a slow upward sweep of her whole body, like a lick of cool flame that swept through the centre line of her thighs, her belly, her breasts. He shrugged.
“It would not matter Madame - I would be your knight in sighing armor.”
Anna shook her head in disbelief at his clumsy deliberate mistake and glanced quickly at his smiling brown eyes. This guy was larger than two lives. This was a pure pantomime act.
“You laugh at a poor little French boy?”
“Not laugh - you just kinda trowel it on don’t you?”
“OK - you got me,” he drawled in relaxed Californian,“you’re a cop right. Outside Scotland Yard - you must think I’m pretty dumb.”
She scrambled for grip. This was a moment - a turning point. Why could she not, at least for a few delicious minutes, be Anna Leyton, service number - zero, rank - woman of this Earth, no police record, no medals, no blood?
“A cop - for God’s sake - do I look like a cop?” she spat at him - hoping he would accept the question as a denial. Any detective knew that a suspect answering a question with a question is beginning to struggle. He nodded seriously
“Please forgive - I mustn’t tease! So, anyhow, what do you do?”
“I sell boats,” she stated plainly. Tie a truth to a lie - you can even believe it yourself.
“Ah yes - the London rain is very famous - did you sell a boat today?”
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Author: Emma Calin
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: 228 pages
Released: March 19, 2012
ON SALE FOR 99 CENTS DURING TOUR!
A Mafia conspiracy. A female undercover cop. Her target: international sportsman and playboy Freddie La Salle.
Can she fake it? Can she nail the gangsters before her cover is blown?
What happens when his charm kicks in, passion takes control and she
falls for this charismatic suspect?
KNOCKOUT! The No 1 Kindle Bestseller from Emma Calin
Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a
hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional turmoil as she fights to keep
her professional cool. But who is deceiving who in this fast moving ride
across continents? What motivates the art loving prize-bull of a lover
Freddie La Salle?
An action-filled pulse-pounding adventure novel. A
tense and erotic romantic affair. Can a relationship survive when it is
founded on deceit? Can she prove her man is innocent? Can she escape
with her life and her love?
The power of love and trust stands against greed and crime as conflicting forces grapple for that KNOCKOUT punch.
Authors
note: This book is quite 'strongly flavoured' and features uninhibited,
but straightforward steamy sexual scenes between consenting adults and
true-to-life street language that would occur in high-stress situations.
from Chapter 1 Anna is captivated by the stranger in her cab.
Sitting opposite him, she could take in the full presence of this stranger. It was as if he transmitted a force - an aura of danger and a sardonic humorous innocence. She attempted to re-assert her normal senses - her ability to appraise a man, threat or situation in the blink of an eye - a skill she had honed on the streets of South London - in a world of gangs, drugs and murder. And yet - here she was, tripping over the bags that some stupid girl had left in the entrance to her brain.
“Luckily Park Lane is on the way to Kilburn,” she said with deliberate plainness.
He looked back at her, holding her eyes, then making a slow upward sweep of her whole body, like a lick of cool flame that swept through the centre line of her thighs, her belly, her breasts. He shrugged.
“It would not matter Madame - I would be your knight in sighing armor.”
Anna shook her head in disbelief at his clumsy deliberate mistake and glanced quickly at his smiling brown eyes. This guy was larger than two lives. This was a pure pantomime act.
“You laugh at a poor little French boy?”
“Not laugh - you just kinda trowel it on don’t you?”
“OK - you got me,” he drawled in relaxed Californian,“you’re a cop right. Outside Scotland Yard - you must think I’m pretty dumb.”
She scrambled for grip. This was a moment - a turning point. Why could she not, at least for a few delicious minutes, be Anna Leyton, service number - zero, rank - woman of this Earth, no police record, no medals, no blood?
“A cop - for God’s sake - do I look like a cop?” she spat at him - hoping he would accept the question as a denial. Any detective knew that a suspect answering a question with a question is beginning to struggle. He nodded seriously
“Please forgive - I mustn’t tease! So, anyhow, what do you do?”
“I sell boats,” she stated plainly. Tie a truth to a lie - you can even believe it yourself.
“Ah yes - the London rain is very famous - did you sell a boat today?”
Knockout! (Passion Patrol Series)
A Mafia
conspiracy. A female undercover cop. Her target: international sportsman and
playboy Freddie La Salle. Can she fake it? Can she nail the gangsters before
her cover is blown? What happens when his charm kicks in, passion takes control
and she falls for this charismatic suspect?An action-filled pulse-pounding
adventure novel. A tense and erotic romantic affair. Can a relationship survive
when it is founded on deceit? Can she prove her man is innocent? Can she escape
with her life and her love? Available in print and e-book formats.
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Hopeless Place Collection
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Sub-Prime
Two powerless
beings are swept together in a transient struggle for survival. Could the human
spirit transcend the brutality and indifference of their brief experience
before they are once again swept helplessly apart? E-book only.
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A woman on
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A woman, a
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Emma Calin was born in London in 1962. She currently lives in France.
She has been writing since childhood and has won numerous local, national and international prizes for poetry and short stories.
"Knockout! A Passionate Police Romance" is a love story set against a backdrop of international gambling corruption and deception. Interpol cop Anna Leyton finds herself torn between love and duty when her professional and private life intersects.
"Sub-Prime" is a prize-winning hard hitting short story about courage, exploitation and love. It is a raw and brutal exposé of the struggle to survive in the aftermath of recession.
"The Chosen" is a short story set in the extremis of everyday - an urban fiction with a twist.
"Escape To Love" is a novelette and a suspense thriller with a dash of romance. A woman on the run from domestic violence with no one but her vulnerable autistic teenage child as a companion, lives in isolation and fear. While her hand to mouth scenarios are played out in the shadow of a threatening suspense, a story of crime and love unfolds around her.
"Angela" a very short story, a sampler from the Love in A Hopeless Place Collection.
"Love in a Hopeless Place" is a novelette, a romance. A mature woman stumbles into a discovery of herself that she had never suspected. Her own desires and their uncontrollable consequences leave her no option but to go forward. Even as her emotional and sexual need drive her on, there are no certainties ahead. As her previous life crumbles behind her an unexpected and inappropriate ally appears from the rubble to help her onwards. Maybe now she will be free to explore her new world in which she is still an innocent?
"The Love in a Hopeless Place Collection" is a value 'boxed set' - 5 of Emma's gritty stories under one cover. Available for e-book readers from Amazon.
She has been writing since childhood and has won numerous local, national and international prizes for poetry and short stories.
"Knockout! A Passionate Police Romance" is a love story set against a backdrop of international gambling corruption and deception. Interpol cop Anna Leyton finds herself torn between love and duty when her professional and private life intersects.
"Sub-Prime" is a prize-winning hard hitting short story about courage, exploitation and love. It is a raw and brutal exposé of the struggle to survive in the aftermath of recession.
"The Chosen" is a short story set in the extremis of everyday - an urban fiction with a twist.
"Escape To Love" is a novelette and a suspense thriller with a dash of romance. A woman on the run from domestic violence with no one but her vulnerable autistic teenage child as a companion, lives in isolation and fear. While her hand to mouth scenarios are played out in the shadow of a threatening suspense, a story of crime and love unfolds around her.
"Angela" a very short story, a sampler from the Love in A Hopeless Place Collection.
"Love in a Hopeless Place" is a novelette, a romance. A mature woman stumbles into a discovery of herself that she had never suspected. Her own desires and their uncontrollable consequences leave her no option but to go forward. Even as her emotional and sexual need drive her on, there are no certainties ahead. As her previous life crumbles behind her an unexpected and inappropriate ally appears from the rubble to help her onwards. Maybe now she will be free to explore her new world in which she is still an innocent?
"The Love in a Hopeless Place Collection" is a value 'boxed set' - 5 of Emma's gritty stories under one cover. Available for e-book readers from Amazon.
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