New release: Burning for You

Series Pitch: If you like alpha males with soft centers who love hard and make love harder, then this series featuring New York City Firefighters is for you!

Author: Kaye Kennedy

Burning for You Release Date: January 17, 2021

Amazon Buy Link: https://amzn.to/38Sa9JH

ASIN: B08T82WDMG

E-Book Cost: $3.99 + Free on Kindle Unlimited

Print Book Cost: $13.99

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56365246-burning-for-you

 

Tagline: Sometimes, first love is better the second time around.

Short Description: 

Kyle and Allie had been best friends since they were four, but then he’d fallen in love with her. The night before she had left for college, he’d told her, and he never saw her again. He also never stopped loving her.

Sixteen years later, she’s back. Kyle wants answers, but she won’t let what had happened between them that fateful night destroy him, too. She fears the past will come back to burn them in the present, but keeping her distance is much easier said than done.

 

Extended Description:

Sometimes, first love is better the second time around.

Kyle

I was four when I met Allie Dupree.

Ten when I stopped thinking she had cooties.

Fourteen when I realized I was in love with her.

And eighteen when I finally told her.

 

Then I never saw her again. I also never forgot her. And my heart never let her go.

Sixteen years after she’d disappeared without a word, she’s back and there’s no way in hell I’m letting her get away again. Especially because there are still burning embers of what we had. And, at the very least, I think I deserve some answers.

 

Allie

Returning to New York had never been a part of my plan. But having to watch my ex-husband move on with his pregnant fiancée before the ink had even dried on our divorce papers had made staying in Michigan impossible.

 

The odds of running into Kyle Hogan in Manhattan were one in three-million. But sure enough, my first month back, I came face-to-face with the one person I’d never wanted to see again.

What had happened sixteen years ago had ruined my life, and Kyle can never find out that secret. I won’t let it destroy him, too.

 

Will their old flame be enough or will it come back to burn them? Again.

 

Excerpt #1: Kyle

“It destroyed me,” she whispered. “And I didn’t want it to destroy you too.”

I hugged her again because I had to. Despite all of the agony and anguish she’d gone through, she was protecting me. And that right there was why I’d loved her for twenty years, no matter how much I’d tried not to. 

 

Excerpt #2: Kyle

“What’d I tell you?” She muttered into my ear.

“You were right.” I squeezed her tighter. “Thank you for being my faith.”

“I’m not.” She rubbed my back. “You had it all along, I just reminded you.”

“No. You had it for me. And I had you.”

 

Excerpt #3: Kyle

“I love you, Kyle.”   

My chest warmed. “I love you, too.”

With her forehead still resting against mine, she sighed. “I don’t know how I got so lucky to have you as my best friend, and I know I don’t say it enough, but you mean everything to me.”

I squeezed my eyes shut because I knew then that we couldn’t risk losing that, no matter how much I wanted her to be mine. A best friend was exactly who she needed at that moment. I pulled back and kissed her forehead. “You mean everything to me, too.”

 

Excerpt #4: Kyle

The bell jingled when I opened the door to the liquor store and I raised my chin at the guy behind the counter before going in search of the wine aisle. Foil tops poked out two aisles down, so I made my way over there, assuming that they were champagne. As I turned down the aisle, my eyes caught sight of a familiar head of chocolate-colored hair and my feet froze to the tile.

As involuntarily as my breath, her name slipped out of my mouth, “Allie?”

She glanced up from the Chardonnays and her bronze eyes widened as she turned toward me. The bottle she was holding slipped from her hand and her foot broke its fall, preventing it from shattering. It had to have hurt, but she didn’t even flinch. She simply stared at me with her mouth agape as the bottle rolled under the shelf.

My blood drained to my feet as every last feeling I’d had for her since we were four came rushing back like they’d never left. Sixteen years ago. When she did.

I didn’t know if I should run away and scream, or run to her and pull her into my arms.

I wanted to do both, so I didn’t do either.

We stood in the wine aisle, neither of us making a move beyond staring in silence.

I was ten feet from the one that got away, and the sight of her told me what my heart already knew: she may have gotten away, but I had never let her go.

 

Trope List:

💚 Friends to lovers

💙 Second chance romance

💔 Angst

🔥 Slow burn

👨‍🚒 Man in uniform

💋 Steamy