Spotlight: The Reckless Union by Monica Murphy
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(Arranged Marriage, #3)
Publication date: August 16th 2022
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Our marriage may look like a fairytale, but outside forces threaten to tear us apart. Don’t they realize that nothing will keep me apart from Charlotte? Not my family. Not hers either.
What started out as a relationship in name only has evolved into something much more. Something deeper. And when Charlotte is taken from me, I launch into action, determined to rescue her.
She's mine. Nothing is going to stop me from being with her.
Not a damn thing.
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WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. Enter at your own risk...
Excerpt
Charlotte
I startle awake with a gasp, my eyelids heavy with fatigue when I barely crack them open to find I’m in an empty room. Taking in my surroundings, I note the cheap white blinds covering the single window, the bent ones letting in the waning sunlight from outside. I shift, tingles prickling along my legs. My feet. My lower half has fallen asleep, my butt killing me thanks to the hardwood floor I’m sitting on. Grimacing, I try to stretch my feet but the rope around my ankles cuts into my skin.
At least the tape isn’t covering my mouth anymore, I think as I take a deep breath. I swear Seamus did that only for the photos he took on his phone. The minute he was finished, he tore the tape off my face with a gleeful expression, his eyes dancing when I yelped in pain.
The asshole.
I have no idea who he could’ve sent those photos to. My family? My parents wouldn’t care. Not really. My brothers? They’re both so busy working deals and conquering New York City, I doubt they’d notice text messages with photos. Mom forgets to check her phone most of the time and my father lets his messages pile up to an ungodly amount.
Maybe he didn’t send those photos to anyone. Maybe he’ll use them later. Or he took them for his own personal pleasure. I don’t understand him, or know what makes him tick.
Does he plan on keeping me forever?
A shiver steals through me at the thought.
If he sent those photos to my husband, Perry will kill him when he finds us. He hates Seamus with every fiber of his being, as well he should. And you know what?
I do too.
Before, I didn’t. Everything that happened between us feels like a lifetime ago. Seeing Seamus the morning of my wedding had been a total shock to the system. Completely unexpected and downright surreal. When I first spotted him, I thought I was hallucinating. How could he suddenly appear in front of me on my wedding day? What are the chances?
I’m realizing there’s no such thing as chance encounters. Not in this situation. He planned it. Somehow, he found out about my impending wedding—it was public knowledge, of course he found out—and decided to make an appearance.
Why? To try and lure me back? And when that didn’t work, then he abducts me? Has he gone mad? Seriously, what he’s doing isn’t normal. Or sane.
I’m worried for his mental state, which means I’m also worried about…me. My safety. How is this going to end? I doubt he’s going to let me go easily.
Unease slips through me and I close my eyes. Remind myself I need to stay strong. I can get out of this—and get back to my husband. Perry is jealous of my relationship with Seamus when he shouldn’t be. What I had with Seamus was nothing compared to what’s growing between my husband and I. In Paris, with Seamus, I was a little girl with a crush.
Now I’m a woman who’s married and is slowly but surely growing to care about her husband.
If Seamus messes this up in any way, I don’t know what I’m going to do.
About the Author
Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance.
She is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere, along with their four cats and one crazy dog. She's a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to sometimes putting her characters through tough, angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.
Monica is also known as USA Today bestselling romance author Karen Erickson (http://karenerickson.com).
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