Spotlight & Giveaway: Mine to Keep by Rhenna Morgan

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Rhenna Morgan’s new release: Mine to Keep

She’s in way over her head.

 
Bonnie Drummond is from the wrong side of the tracks, raised in a family of liars and criminals. No matter how hard she tries to stay on the straight and narrow, she always finds herself sucked back into the family drama, forced to sacrifice everything she’s earned to protect her family.

But this time they’ve gone too far—crossed the wrong people—and to save them she’ll have to put her life on the line.

Roman Kozlov, enforcer for a New Orleans mafiya family, is the poster child for the life Bonnie is struggling to escape. But he’s also as alluring as he is dangerous, and it doesn’t take long for their lives to begin to mesh.

With Roman, Bonnie finds the family she never had.

As their race for answers heats up, so too does the budding romance between them. And with danger nipping at her heels and love threatening her heart, Bonnie must come face-to-face with her past if she wants to have a future.

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from Mine to Keep 

Off work at ten o’clock at night on a Tuesday. Talk about your foreign concepts.
Bonnie marched through the back door of André’s that Roman held open for her. The few days of low six¬ties they’d had over the weekend had given way to thick clouds and a never-ending mist that made the mid-forty temps feel more like zero.
Striding beside him into the employee parking lot, she ducked her chin deeper into her jean jacket and did her best to keep up. “You know, I’m fine staying until closing. My body’s used to late nights, and I didn’t even start today until two in the afternoon. Stopping at ten is like a half day for me.”
“You have worked enough.” The way Roman said it, Bonnie kind of got the impression he’d had a day from hell and needed some quality time vegging in front of one of the massive flat screens hung around his house. He opened the passenger door to his truck and held out his hand. “Now, we have some place to go.”
“We do?”
He nodded.
“Care to share?”
“I would prefer you get inside the truck where you’re not cold.”
She frowned at him, took his hand and climbed into the cab. “All right fine. Be tight-lipped about it.”
He shut the door behind her, but there was a tiny smile on his face before he disappeared around the back of the truck.
Mission accomplished.
She buckled her seat belt and bit back a grin of her own. Why she got such a thrill out of getting the big Russian sourpuss to lighten up she couldn’t say, but the last three days she’d made it her mission to do so. Mak¬ing him watch Desperate Housewives. Talking him into a late-night run to a coffee shop for a latte. Giving him grief for leaving the toilet seat in the downstairs bath¬room up. Of course, none of those things were really normal things she did or an issue for her, but it’d been fun watching his responses.
The strategy also did double duty in keeping her mind off the things Cassie, Evie and Ninette had said—all of which she’d decided couldn’t be right because there hadn’t been a single incident since Saturday that she could interpret as interest on Roman’s part.
Roman opened his door, situated himself and started the engine. The drive to his home in the Garden Dis¬trict wasn’t an overly long one, and the two times they’d driven it so far, they’d either had companionable silence, or Bonnie had done the conversational lifting.
This time, Roman barely made it out of the parking lot before he changed the game. “Tomorrow, we will go shopping.”
Bonnie looked at him. She couldn’t have heard that right. No man—especially one like Roman—willingly uttered those words to any female. “Huh?”
“Shopping. Be ready at noon. You need a new coat.”
She did? She glanced down the length of her at the tailored black slacks, white button-down and snappy black vest buttoned over it. Granted, her jean jacket didn’t look all that great paired with the standard-issue André’s uniform, but it wasn’t like she’d worn it in front of anyone. “Why? This one’s fine.”
“You’re cold.” He glanced her direction only long enough to add, “You will not be cold.”
God, this guy was a kick in the pants. Yeah, she knew he wasn’t literally ordering her not to be cold, but the weird pronouncements made her want to giggle. Not ribbing him a little when he made them was like passing up a chance to snuggle a purring cat. “I won’t?”
“No.”
“Hmm.” She waited a beat then said, “What if I like being cold?” She kept her head straight ahead when she said it, but she caught his scrutiny from the corner of her periphery.
He must have caught her smile before she hid it, be¬cause he harrumphed a second later and went back to staring out the windshield.
She chuckled and gave the guy a break. “Seriously. I don’t need another coat. In another month or two we’ll be back in the seventies. No point in wasting money.”
“Money spent on you is not a waste, and I will be the one spending it.”
Hold up.
What?
“I don’t need you to buy me a coat.”
He nodded and shifted his voice to that of a reason¬ably sound man. “As you wish. You do not need to.”
“Good. Glad we agree.”
“I, however, need to,” he said without missing a beat. “Therefore, you will be ready at noon, and we will shop.”
What. The. Fuck.
Were they arguing over shopping for coats? Seri¬ously?
Maybe he’d caught onto her game and had decided to turn the tables on her.
Yeah, that had to be it. He’d probably find a fishing show when they got home and make her watch it. Or force her to learn how to unload and clean one of those wicked looking guns she’d found neatly stored in vari¬ous closets around the house.
Actually…the latter option didn’t sound that bad. After her run-in with the dudes at her apartment, the idea of a concealed carry held a lot more appeal than it used to.
Regardless, if he wanted to play, she was ready. “Fine. Shopping at noon. Can’t wait. Maybe while we’re there, I’ll stop at one of those fancy makeup shops and see if they can do a makeover for me. Really change up my look. How’s that sound?”
She’d expected another grunt.
Maybe an outright refusal or a groan.
Instead, his voice softened, the tenor of it low and as thick as velvet. “You cannot improve perfection.”
Her breath caught in her throat and the quiet between them swelled to match the tight sensation behind her heart. She looked at him. “Did you…” Her mouth was suddenly too dry to speak and her mind short on words.
She swallowed hard and tried again. “I think that’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”
He glanced at her for only a moment, but the heat behind his gaze was enough to mark a woman for a life¬time. “Then the men before me were fools.”

Excerpt. ©Rhenna Morgan. Posted by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
 
 

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About Rhenna Morgan
A native Oklahoman, Rhenna Morgan is a certified romance junkie. Whether it’s contemporary, paranormal, or fantasy you’re after, Rhenna’s stories pack romantic escape full of new, exciting worlds, and strong, intuitive men who fight to keep the women they want. For advance release news and exclusive content, sign up for her newsletter at http://RhennaMorgan.com. You’ll also find all of her social links there, along with her smoking hot inspiration boards.

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NOLA Knights
Book 1: His to Defend
Book 2: Hers to Tame
Book 3: Mine to Keep
 
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