Spotlight & Giveaway: The Obsession by Nikki Sloane

Posted August 16th, 2019 by in Blog, Spotlight / 34 comments

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Nikki Sloane’s new release: The Obsession

 

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The Hale family is obsessed with status, power, and control. No problem is too big their money can’t solve.

Royce Hale manipulated me into giving him everything. My virginity. My hand in marriage. My heart.
 
And as soon as he got what he wanted, he callously sold me off for a cool ten million.
 
In the boardroom and the twisted game his family plays, he says the only rule is to win at all costs.
 
Yesterday I learned a painful lesson not to trust the prince of Cape Hill. Today I’ll destroy his carefully laid plans and show him just how badly he’s already lost.
 
All the money in the world won’t be able to stop me.

 

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from The Obsession 

The box was laced shut with a black satin bow.
Like a gift.
A cold draft rolled down my back, causing the hairs on my arms to stand on edge. One thing was certain; fear was inside the box. Macalister had no reason to give me a gift. If it was, it’d come with ulterior motives. Was his goal to tangle me in all his strings, like a spider’s web?
I hesitantly reached for the box, but Macalister put his spread fingertips on the lid, stopping me. “Not yet.” He lowered deliberately into his chair, pulled the box back toward him, and steepled his fingers together. “Do you like chess?”
I took a breath and considered my answer. The game we’d played with the marble pieces was over, but now a different, more strategic and dangerous one had begun, and I needed to make my moves carefully.
At least it wasn’t a lie. “Yes.”
His blue eyes warmed a single degree. “Good. I thought so. I’ve enjoyed teaching it to you immensely. So much so, I’d like to play a new game.”
My pulse kicked as a warning. “What kind of game?”
He paused to either drag it out or let the silence build my anticipation. “I want to teach you about pleasure.”
Everything in me went white and still. “I’m sorry, what?”
When Macalister leaned over the desk, I could practically taste his excitement. It was dark and wicked.
“We’re not supposed to speak about the initiation, and we won’t, other than to say it was clear that night my son had done you a . . . disservice.”
His eyes were electric. I couldn’t look away, like a person who’d touched a power line and the current kept them holding on, no matter how badly they wanted to let go.
“You’re young. There’s so much more to pleasure than you’ve been shown,” he said. “Young men are fools. They believe the point of intimacy is to rush to an orgasm—their orgasm. Older men have patience, both in and out of the bedroom. I’ve learned how to wait, how to control my body. I know how to take my time and appreciate every moment.”
“Uh—” Every muscle in me clenched, and I went rigid, but Macalister didn’t care how uncomfortable I’d become. He just pressed on.
“Foreplay doesn’t start when I have a woman beneath me. It begins hours before, or days.” His voice dripped with seduction. “Weeks, even.”
My chest heaved as I couldn’t catch my breath. Everything was spinning out of control. I wanted him to stop talking, but a sick part of me didn’t mind it so much.
“So, I’ll make my desires perfectly clear,” he said. “I’ll teach you, Marist. I have enjoyed being your instructor these past few weeks, and this would be satisfying for both of us. I have far more skill and experience than a man half my age. I’ll work to master your orgasms.”
“Oh, my God,” I breathed.
“I’ll enjoy watching what each one does to you, the way I make your body flinch, how I’ll leave you breathless and trembling. I’ll give you so many, I’ll savor it when you can’t keep count.” His smile was loaded with sin. “Yes. I will require that you count them.”
“Oh, my God,” I repeated in a rush.
I gripped the armrests of my chair, desperate to flee. But his voice was so powerful, it chained me to my seat. There was no other noise, not even the beating of my own heart. Macalister’s words were the only sound left on earth.
“Older men understand the way the world works. We know how to dress. What to eat.” His expression was beautifully perverse. “How to fuck.”
It was scary, what he’d said, but far more terrifying was the way my traitorous body responded to it. Heat pooled in unwanted places.
He put his fingers on the top of the box and inched it forward. “Open it.”
I used the last scrap of power left in me to speak, and it came out as a plea. “I don’t want to.”
One of the most famous Greek myths was Pandora’s Box. Pandora had been a mortal given a gift from the gods but told not to open it. Unable to keep her curiosity in check, she disobeyed them, and from the box sprang all the evils of the world, like death and sickness.
Whatever was inside the box before me, I was sure as soon as I opened it, I’d wished I hadn’t.
His look said I’d just turned down a once-in-a-lifetime offer, and I had better reconsider. “I’m giving you a gift.”
My hand trembled as I reached forward and tugged at the satin ribbon.

Excerpt. ©Nikki Sloane. Posted by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
 
 

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Meet the Author:

USA Today bestselling author Nikki Sloane landed in graphic design after her careers’ as a waitress, a screenwriter, and a ballroom dance instructor fell through. For eight years she worked for a design firm in that extremely tall, black, and tiered building in Chicago that went through an unfortunate name change during her time there.

Now she lives in Kentucky, is married and has two sons. She is a three-time Romance Writers of America RITA© Finalist, a Passionate Plume winner, a HOLT Medallion finalist, and couldn’t be any happier that people enjoy reading her sexy words.

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34 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: The Obsession by Nikki Sloane”

  23. laurieg72

    Intriguing! I want to know why he sold her off for do much money and to whom. Revenge is SWEET! I want to know what she plans to do and how she’ll celebrate when she wins..