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It’s always a treat to welcome my friend Allie Ritch to the blog. Allie brings us the most fun books and this one is a winner. Leave a comment With YOUR EMAIL and you might take home a copy of Husbandry! Here’s Allie.
Husbandry by Allie Ritch – Three Times the Fun
Thank you for hosting me, Tara. I know you appreciate a beautiful boy, and today I’m here to focus on Fila’s three gorgeous men. I’m talking tall, muscled studs with piercing green eyes and glossy black curls a woman can run her fingers through.
If two heads are better than one, are three husbands better too? Fila’s grandmother always told her a woman needs more than one husband. After Fila visits Genetic Harmony Inc.—a special matchmaking service located on an Alternate Earth—she walks away with three perfect bioengineered mates: Chuck, Charles, and Chad.
They may be genetically identical, but her husbands have very different personalities. Although there’s plenty of hot loving, things get complicated outside of bed. Fila is only one woman. She’s outnumbered and, as a newlywed, hasn’t quite figured out how to satisfy everyone’s needs (e.g. Chuck’s yearning for children, Charles’s ambition at work, and Chad’s desire for family connections). To make matters more difficult, Fila’s outspoken mother is still angry that she wasn’t invited to the wedding. And Fila hasn’t even told her parents that she has three husbands, versus one who can’t settle on his nickname.
This is a story that has been floating around in my head for a long time now, and I’m thrilled to see it released by Loose Id. Husbandry is a light, mostly contemporary story (other than having an alternate version of Earth) with lots of scorching love scenes and interesting personal dynamics. Whether you like a man in a tool belt, a sharp suit, or casually elegant attire, you’re sure to enjoy Chuck, Charles, and Chad. These three give naughty calendars a run for their money.
Want to know more? Read on for a blurb and excerpt, and be sure to include your email address in your comment for a chance to win a copy of Husbandry.
Blurb:
After turning to Genetic Harmony Inc. for a husband, Fila Leonard doesn’t get just one man to meet her needs, but three! Chuck is the consummate handyman around the house, and he looks sexy in a tool belt and nothing else. Charles fills out a business suit to perfection and uses his alpha personality in the bedroom as well as the boardroom. As for Chad, he can seduce a woman in more than one language and turn even the worst cliché into a romantic fantasy.
Fila should be deliriously happy. Instead, she’s having a hard time juggling everyone’s needs. Chuck is cooped up at home all day and anxious for children. Charles is a workaholic, and Chad is angry she hasn’t introduced the three of them to her parents. Oh, yeah, and Fila hasn’t told Mom and Dad about her genetically identical spouses yet.
It’s not easy being a married woman, not even with three perfect mates.
Excerpt from Husbandry:
Charles kept coming, backing me up until there was nowhere else to go. He closed the office door in time to trap me against it. Once more, that wicked cologne of his wreathed through my brain, making me sway. I licked my lips, and he dipped his head to snare my mouth and trace the same route with his tongue.
He then brushed kisses across my cheek and nuzzled the hair behind my ear. “Yes, Fila.” His breath washed over my skin with every word. “You’re my woman. My wife.”
The click of him turning the door lock made me whimper. I didn’t mean for the sound to escape, but I was helpless when he stood this close. He smelled and looked so good, and I knew he’d feel even better.
“I’m yours,” I admitted. “But only as much as you’re mine.”
He sometimes forgot I was his match too.
“That sounds like an equitable arrangement.” He tried to play it cool, but his voice had lowered to an octave it only hit when he was really aroused. “You said something about me taking more time with you. Have I been neglecting my wife? Why don’t I take a break now and claim what’s mine?”
My lips parted, and I began to pant. Each breath pushed my breasts out so the tips rubbed his chest on either side of his dark silver tie. I was pretty sure the door behind me was the only thing holding me upright.
His lips grazed my cheek as he stepped back. He returned to his desk and sat in his chair behind it.
“Take off your clothes,” he ordered.
“Excuse me?” I felt a fiery blush blaze across my face.
Charles’s expression might have been carved in granite save for the lust I saw burning in his gaze. “I won’t repeat myself, Fila.”
“But…”
I looked around his small office, everywhere but at his too-intense stare. My gaze landed on the window. It wasn’t a large opening, but it looked across the street at several other office buildings, and it didn’t have any blinds.
“The window.” I pointed to it, though it was the only one in the room. “Someone might see.”
He returned a casual shrug. “I doubt it, but let them see. Your naked body is a work of art, Fila. You should be on exhibit.”
Had anyone else said this to me, I would have gone ballistic. Like so many other things, though, Charles got away with it. He made me so hot I couldn’t think straight, and my heart pounded with equal parts fear and excitement.
My hands shook as I reached back to unzip my dress. Because of the spaghetti straps, I hadn’t worn a bra. I was instantly bared as I let the top fall to my waist. My nipples were pebbled so hard they ached, and they rose and fell hypnotically as my breasts heaved. There didn’t seem to be enough oxygen.
“Drop the dress to the floor,” he commanded. “I want to see all of you.”
I wanted to obey; I wanted to please him. But I didn’t want the dress wrinkled.
The sound of my swallowing was overly loud. “I’m going out to dinner with Chad after this for our weekly date night.”
“Ah.” He seemed to understand. “Then by all means you must look your best for your husband. You may lay the dress over the back of the chair. What’s this? Bare legs?”
I slipped out of the dress and folded it gently over his visitor chair. Then I stepped out of my short heels and tucked them beneath. I’d worn stockings to work all day, but I hadn’t bothered with them tonight. It was hot out, and I planned to have a casual dinner with my husband. If I’d been wearing the sheer nylon now, I was sure it would have melted to my skin.
The silky brush of my panties as I slid them down my legs was enough to make my thighs tremble. I dropped them next to my shoes and straightened.
Charles’s gaze began a slow sweep of my body that sent tingles from my head to my toes. I’d never been so aware of my breasts and sex. The flood of juices spilling out of me was unstoppable now, making my curls glisten beneath the fluorescent lights.
“Well?” The word burst from me when I could no longer take the tension.
He cocked one black eyebrow and leaned back with his fingers laced behind his head. “Very nice.”
The silence stretched. His eyes, which had turned the darkest green I’d ever seen them, continued to eat me up.
I couldn’t stop trembling.
At last he reached up to unknot his tie, loosening it until it hung limply around his neck. “Come here. Climb onto the desk and lie on your back.”
The husky sound of his voice almost came as a relief. Then I registered his command, and a tiny glimmer of sanity returned.
“What if someone comes in? If they catch us, you could lose your job.”
Instead of persuading him, my argument made him chuckle. “Shows what you know about the good old boys who run this place. Seeing me screw a beautiful woman on my desk would only raise me in their esteem. They might even give me a bonus.”
My fists clenched as a tug-of-war raged inside me. His words both irritated and aroused me; they rubbed me the wrong way while creating another sort of friction. I was scared to death of being caught, yet the same adrenaline heightened my need.
“Do it,” he said, stoking me higher with his domineering tone. “Now, Fila.”
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