Memories of You, an all new sexy second chance Stark Security novella from New York Times bestselling author J. Kenner and 1,001 Dark Nights, is out now!
Hollywood consultant Renly Cooper is fed up with relationships. His recent breakup with a leading lady played out across the tabloids, and the former Navy Seal is more than ready to focus on his new position as an agent at the elite Stark Security agency. Heโs expecting international stakes. Instead, his first assignment is to protect one of Damien Starkโs friends from a stalker. A woman who, to his delight, turns out to be one of his closest childhood friends.
After a foray into online dating puts tech genius Abby Jones in danger, she needs a bodyguard, and her business partner, Nikki Fairchild Stark, enlists help from Stark Security. When the assigned agent turns out to be her best friend from junior highโand her first crushโsheโs thrilled to discover heโs even more delicious now. She hopes one sexy night can turn into more, but Renly is firmly in the friends-with-benefits camp.
As the threat to Abby increases, she tries to keep her growing feelings for Renly at bay. But as the sparks between them burn even hotter, can they go from friends to lovers when the first order of business is simply to keep Abby alive?
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Excerpt
In the rearview mirror, I watch as he gets off the bike, then walks toward me across the lot. I get out and meet him at the rear of the car.ย
โI havenโt got a single quarter,โ he says. โDo you?โ
I laugh. โNot a one. But I do have a credit card.โ Iโm about to walk over to that side and start the system running, but he gets there first, sliding in his card and then grinning at me as the machinery starts rumbling.ย
This particular car wash has a hose on each side of the stall. Iโve always assumed that was so that you donโt have to drag a dirty hose over your newly cleaned half in order to wash the other side. Now I consider another purpose.ย
Renly apparently has the same thought, because I see the gleam in his eyes as he goes to the far side, then grabs the coiled hose, his hand poised on the nozzle.ย
โDonโt you even think about it,โ I say, going for my own hose.
His eyes widen, all innocent and guileless. โI donโt know what youโre talking about.โย
I burst out laughing. Then, still laughing, I pull the trigger on my own hose and spray him, accidentally getting him full-on in the crotch.
โSeriously?โ he says. โSweetheart, you are so going to pay for that.โ
โPhhbbt.โ I dance away from the spray he aims at me.ย โI would have thought someone in the military would have a faster reaction time.โย
He aims again, and this time manages to completely soak the T-shirt Iโd worn to work this morning. โHey!โ I protest. โThis is a genuine discount bin Old Navy T-shirt. How dare you defile it?โ
โWell, it fits you very nicely,โ he says, letting his eyes skim over me in what I know is an exaggerated leer.ย
I glance down, realizing that since I knew I was going to be the only one in the office today, I hadnโt bothered to wear a bra. Thatโs something I can usually get away with, but in a wet T-shirt, even my barely-B-cup breasts look pretty perky.
I roll my eyes. โPerv.โ
โI apologize for nothing.โ
Lita T’s Book Review: 4 Stars
Memories of You: A Stark Security Novella by J Kenner . This is the story of Abby and Renly. Once childhood best friends, they reconnect after Abby discovers she has a stalker. Abby has always been a tech geek. Now she works for a premier company where the owner is married to a guy who owns a security firm. Renly is no longer in the Marines. A accident on assignment has left him no longer able to serve. With a new job at a security firm he is shocked when an assignment has him protecting his old bestfriend. They haven’t seen each other since high school. Once inseparable, circumstances called life had different plans for the two. A cute tale about past friendship, past feelings and reconnection, while Renly tries to keep Abby safe. Initially I didn’t connect with the story. Not sure exactly what my issue was with this story initially but as I continued the story my feelings definitely changed. I liked both Abby and Renly. Their journey to reconnection was cute and I was happy for them. The discovery of the stalker was entertaining as well. I really didn’t see that coming. An enjoyable quick read. I give this story 4 stars.
About J. Kenner
J. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and #1 International bestselling author of over one hundred novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres.
Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, โchicklitโ suspense, urban fantasy, and paranormal mommy lit.
JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a โflair for dialogue and eccentric characterizationsโ and by RT Bookclub for having โcornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swoon for them.โ A six time finalist for Romance Writers of Americaโs prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy) and in 2017 for Wicked Dirty in the same category. Her Demon Hunting Soccer Mom series (as Julie Kenner) is currently in development as a television show.
Her books have sold over three million copies and are published in over twenty languages.
In her previous career as an attorney, JK worked as a clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced primarily civil, entertainment and First Amendment litigation in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as in Austin, Texas. She currently lives in Central Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and two rather spastic cats.
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