Budding archaeologist Rachel Young has huge goals. She wants to save her sister's life, find the relic her dad died to discover—and stay alive. Right. In the middle of a remote jungle with a secretive hot-as-hell pilot, armed thugs, and ancient clues. Oh, and she has to steel her curvy self for a ritual to appease the underworld’s Death god. A secret dark ritual is bad enough, right? No. This dark rite calls for a hidden altar, strong rope, and a cruel man... moreBudding archaeologist Rachel Young has huge goals. She wants to save her sister's life, find the relic her dad died to discover—and stay alive. Right. In the middle of a remote jungle with a secretive hot-as-hell pilot, armed thugs, and ancient clues. Oh, and she has to steel her curvy self for a ritual to appease the underworld’s Death god. A secret dark ritual is bad enough, right? No. This dark rite calls for a hidden altar, strong rope, and a cruel man. There’s only one man in the Caribbean island chain who isn’t obviously trying to kill her. Yes, Xavier, the pilot she can’t stand. But he makes her burn. Nobody told her archaeology could be like this. Xavier’s in his 30s and descended from the relic makers. Rachel’s worried about his secrets. His smoldering eyes say things she doesn’t want to hear. She’s a 22 year-old orphaned college student, freshly dumped. She doesn’t do love. No way she’s getting close to the most arrogant a-hole she’s ever met. This life-threatening quest is to get the Star Skull. That’s all. He can keep his big, rough hands and over-sized…ego…to himself. But she must submit to the relic ritual before Death takes Kit. This calls for being a tough action heroine. Good thing she packed her black satin corset and lots of panties. Stranded is the first novella-length episode of the Star Skull duet. This high-heat Rachel Young Relic Quest is for readers 18+. This New Adult adventure includes mature themes, intimate scenes, blunt adult language, heroine in peril, twisted acts, violence, Dark Fantasy, and other material for open-minded grownups. Not everyone is up for a cocky pilot, a guarded and experienced orphaned college student, machine guns, murder, mayhem, a vicious fight for immortality, betrayal and big men fighting. Oh, and all the detailed descriptions of muscular hot-as-sin Xavier will be too much for some readers. The man never puts on a shirt, and his skin-hugging jeans ride real low. This book is only for you if you’re ready for twisted, combustible, dangerous curvy explorer & older man love. Adventurous readers, get Stranded now. less
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