{"id":32119,"date":"2013-05-15T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/?page_id=32119"},"modified":"2017-01-02T14:12:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T19:12:44","slug":"deadly-desires-dont-walk-away","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/bookshelf\/deadly-desires-dont-walk-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Desires (Don&#8217;t Walk Away)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously Published in one of the Mammoth Book collections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DeadlyDesires72dpi.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32109 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DeadlyDesires72dpi-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"DeadlyDesires72dpi\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DeadlyDesires72dpi.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DeadlyDesires72dpi.jpg?resize=100%2C150&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DeadlyDesires72dpi.jpg?w=432&amp;ssl=1 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Worlds collide as three bestselling authors deliver two tales of danger, suspense, and steamy encounters.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Walk Away<\/p>\n<p>by Shiloh Walker<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, former Army Ranger Ethan Raintree made one hell of choice\u2026keep on lying, or tell the woman he loved the truth. He decided to tell the truth, and she threw him out of her life. He never stopped loving her, not stopped wanting her. Celeste Harper finally had everything she wanted\u2014or so she thought. She\u2019d escaped her past. She\u2019d escaped her demons. But she couldn\u2019t escape herself\u2026or the man she\u2019d left behind all those years ago. Looking into his eyes ten years later, she realizes it\u2019s her turn to make a choice\u2014let go of that pain and take him back. Or walk away\u2026and face a future without him.<\/p>\n<p>Code Word: Storm<\/p>\n<p>by Sydney Croft<\/p>\n<p>The extremely secret Agency for Covert Rare Operatives is the only thing that stands between the human race and complete chaos. Now, two agents with special abilities, Annika Svenson and Creed McCabe, are sent to stop a man who has harnessed the power of the supernatural world. But Creed and Annika have a history that puts them at odds &#8212; and in closer, hotter contact than they&#8217;d like. In this ACRO story, which falls in the series timeline between Riding the Storm and Unleashing the Storm, Annika and Creed grow closer, despite their resistance. And with their lives are on the line, they find they must not only work together, but be together, or risk a terrifying fate that could consume them both&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CRJOLNO\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00CRJOLNO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=shilwalk-20\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>These two short stories contain hot guys, determined women and some sexiness. Please note&#8230;they have been previously published, but we did add some new material.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Will he come<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>She licked her lips and rolled onto her side, staring toward the door. She hadn\u2019t been prepared for this. The plain T-shirt she wore was nothing like the pretty little lacy things she\u2019d had when they\u2019d first gotten together.<\/p>\n<p>She had nothing better, either. Although she wasn\u2019t completely destitute, the money she had from her mother wasn\u2019t exactly enough to let her go shopping at Saks. Or even Victoria\u2019s Secret.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton had replaced silk and lace. She made do with basic and was fine with it for the most part. But just then, she wished she had better. Because she knew she wasn\u2019t alone any more.<\/p>\n<p>One second it was just her in the room. And then he was there. There was no sound. If she hadn\u2019t been staring at the open curtains so intently, she wouldn\u2019t even have seen the darker shadow before it was lost to the rest of the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>She eased up in the bed and waited.<\/p>\n<p>The only sound was her erratic breathing, but she knew he was in there. She could feel him\u2014a ripple of electricity dancing through the air, his gaze an unseen caress along her bare skin.<\/p>\n<p>Celeste held her breath and waited for him to speak, but the silence stretched on. Her heart raced within her chest and she squeezed her eyes closed, tried to figure out what in the hell she was doing, why she\u2019d opened the door, why she\u2019d left the curtains parted, why she was lying here like she was waiting for him.<\/p>\n<p>It came to her then. She <i>was<\/i> waiting for him. She had been waiting\u2026ever since she\u2019d been foolish enough to push him away.<\/p>\n<p>She needed him. He needed her.<\/p>\n<p>And it was all so very clear, clear as daylight. Clear as the longing she\u2019d seen in his eyes. The same longing she\u2019d felt echoed in her own. Longing\u2026for him.<\/p>\n<p>She was waiting. From the time he\u2019d walked away, even as part of her wanted to hate him, she had been waiting for him to come back.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d needed him to walk away at the time\u2014hell, she\u2019d <i>pushed<\/i> him away. He had to go before she did something, said something, she could never take back. She\u2019d needed the time to come to grips with who she was\u2014who her father had been. After he\u2019d died, just a few short weeks later, she\u2019d needed the time to grieve<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d needed the time to understand.<\/p>\n<p>To find herself away from her father\u2019s overwhelming influence.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a decade later, she could finally admit something else.<\/p>\n<p>She needed Ethan. She\u2019d needed him almost from day one. She could survive without him, but she didn\u2019t <i>want<\/i> to just survive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CRJOLNO\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00CRJOLNO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=shilwalk-20\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/books\/1115292678?ean=2940016439938\" target=\"_blank\">BN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/316399\" target=\"_blank\">Smashwords<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Deadly-Desires\/book-z9eMYL3nqUqAfSStuQyJ2g\/page1.html?s=uPbkp3IrJUmrAFPnz1Qadw&amp;r=2\" target=\"_blank\">Kobo<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/deadly-desires\/id649567437?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\">iBooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously Published in one of the Mammoth Book collections. 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