TAUGHT
CYPRESS
SPRINGS TRILOGY, BOOK 1
TARILYN SPARKS
MMF ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 08.06.18
BLURB
If two are better than one, then three must
be… perfection?
Out of housing options while she works to
complete her thesis, Kara Clarke sneaks into the drama building to spend the
night—and almost finds herself kissing a wrecking ball the next morning.
When she’s rescued by Jack Donoghue—the
fun-loving, sexy foreman of the crew responsible for demolishing the
building—he takes pity on her and takes her home to meet his boyfriend while
she figures out what to do.
Dr. Theo “Teddy” Whitman is
Grecian-sun-god-gorgeous, highly intelligent, and feared by all the students at
Cypress Springs College—especially his TA, Kara.
Although they both want to run the other
way when they realize who Jack is trying to introduce them to, Kara and Teddy
find a way to make peace once Teddy discovers the situation she’s in and Kara
realizes that he’s not as gruff as he pretends.
Kara feels safe enough to take the men up
on their offer to stay in their guest room. Besides, how much trouble could she
get into by staying with two gay men? Except… they aren’t gay. They’re not only
bi, they’re both intrigued by the sweet PhD student.
While Teddy helps his grad student finish
her thesis, Kara helps him—and Jack—learn how much fun it can be when you add a
third heart to your home.
This is the first in a
trilogy about three best friends finding their forever. Each book can be read
as stand-alone and definitely has an HEA. It is intended for audiences over 18
years of age since it includes scenes between all three characters in every way
you can imagine—and maybe a few more.
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EXCERPT
Teddy stood up and leaned over to kiss me. “And you
think you have nothing to contribute,”he said. I reached up and threaded my
fingers through his.
Kara’s eyes darkened. “Is it time for bed?” She
asked, her voice hinting toward what we all knew that meant.
That night, like so many nights since the night we
went bowling, Kara walked up the stairs to our bedroom, her hands in our hands.
We formed a chain, three in a row, her in the middle. For weeks, we’d done
this. Every night we made love, and she stayed in our bed and slept between us,
like she’d been there all along.
That night I lay awake long after she and Teddy had
fallen into gentle breathing and drifted off to dreamland. The drapes were
open, and the warm night air billowed the fabric framing the window.
I watched Teddy and Kara, sunken into the bedding
and spooning like old lovers. The breeze fluttered Kara’s hair, and Teddy
adjusted to pull her closer.
We made a great trio. And everything between us was
so good and easy. Why couldn’t it be like this forever? But thinking that way,
even hoping for it, was unrealistic.
All good things must come to an end, especially
flings with temporary house guests who were just getting ready to start their
lives.
The last thing Kara wanted was to be tied down to
us. She had her whole future ahead of her. Only an asshole would try to take
that away from her for his own selfish desires.
I inhaled as deeply as I could, steeling myself
against melancholy. I just needed to enjoy this time while we had it. It felt
so magical, I had to memorize it, soak in every detail, so I could remember it
always.
I looked out the window, trying to remember my
place in the universe. Trying to keep perspective on it all. High in the sky, a
waxing moon shone down on us. The moon would get larger before it would shrink
again. It worked in cycles, just like life did. I just had to enjoy this cycle.
After a moment, I squeezed my eyes and opened them
again, this time looking beyond the moon. There, deeper in space, in a larger
place than our solar system, glittered billions of stars. I knew they moved,
and I knew their light might be years old, but they seemed constant to me. More
constant than the moon. Maybe they only lived millions of years, but that was
almost like forever.
Maybe we could have Kara for the lifetime of a
star, and not just for a cycle of the moon.
But maybe that was too much to hope for.
I'm a fun-loving chickadee who's probably either cuddling my
precious kitten, dreaming about my latest book-boyfriends, or plotting my next
book about some lucky lady caught in the middle of a beefcake sandwich. I wrote
my first short story in a college English class, and have been hooked ever
since! Now if I'm secretly writing my own alpha male fantasies into my books,
well... you can't blame a gal for dreaming.
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