SAY YOU'RE MINE, Book 2 in the Fortunato Family series, is a steamy, opposites attract romance set in NYC.Skylar: I don't know what came over me but when my boyfriend stood me up...again, and I saw this guy—the one with tormented eyes and a shiner on his sculpted cheekbone—mangle his words in a crowded bar, I couldn't help myself. Now he figures I’ll tumble into his bed—because I kissed him without knowing his name.
But one kiss is all I'll take because he’d never go the distance for a woman with my issues.
Women love Fighting Finnegan Fortunato's body and he’s not complaining.
Finn: Actions speak louder than words and I’ve learned to let my fists do my talking. Women want my tatted boxer’s body more than romantic words I can never give them and that's the way I've always liked it. But when a sleek uptown woman knocks me out with a fiery kiss, everything changes.
Now I have to find the words to make her mine.
“There it was again. That feeling. Like someone was drawing a finger slowly down my spine. I shivered again. What was going on?
I twisted round, looking over my shoulder, instinct guiding me to the source of my—there was no other word for it—excitement—and just about stopped breathing altogether.
Not a what. A who. Right there.
Oh. My.
Tall, broad, and projecting a serious don’t mess with me vibe, he was behind me, standing in the other line of patrons fanning back from the bar, waiting to place their orders. A collared shirt and pants, both an elegant, unfussy black, clung to his massive shoulders and muscled thighs, accentuating a physique so flawless he could be a comic book super hero or a Renaissance sculpture come to glorious life. I swallowed, amazed at the speed and intensity of my reaction to a stranger. Steadying my breaths, I forced a mental shrug. Okay, so he was stunning to look at. Clearly, the guy worked out. Good for him and yay for me because this man was the definition of eye candy and there was no law against looking, was there?
But as much as I strove to present a put together, this is New York City and I see gorgeous men like you every day of the week vibe, my body did not get the cool-down message. Because this guy was different. Raw, rough around the edges and the complete opposite of the slick city guys who dominated this bar. He looked…real. Blood pounded hot and urgent under my suddenly tight skin. I locked my knees because all of the sudden I was lightheaded and totally capable of falling right off my heels just staring at his hands.
Those hands. Broad, prominently veined and capable of damage, I’d bet. Working man’s hands. Mesmerized, I tracked him as he methodically rolled the cuffs of his shirt up past his sexy wrists—exactly when had I ever found wrists sexy?—showcasing swirls of red ink mingled with the fine jet black hair of his corded forearms. Add shower-damp, cropped hair in the same ebony, yard wide shoulders and yeah, no wonder I couldn’t catch my breath.
I willed him to look directly at me. Into my eyes. So he’d see how he was messing with my equilibrium.
What’s your favorite way to combat stress?
My favorite way to combat stress is reading, of course. Sometimes I read via audiobook while walking along the Hudson River and that’s a double stress buster. Other times I combat stress with meditation or yoga or watching a favorite show like the Gilmore Girls.
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Even though this book features Fighting Finn Fortunato, a big, brawny boxer as its main male character, he’s an actual sweetheart, the original cinnamon-roll and when he meets his perfect match in the shy, talented, big-hearted, Skylar.
My Only One, Book One of the Fortunato Family series, is a friends to lovers, romantic suspense that’s chock full of feels.We grew up in side-by-side New York City tenements. Shane was my first friend, my first crush, and when he enlisted, my unforgettable heartbreak. When fate brings us back together after ten years, I’m in a world of danger. But I’m not a kid anymore and I know what I want. Shane and I have a second chance at forever and there’s no way I’ll lose him again.
Shane:
Brilliant, beautiful, bound for success, Esme was the girl next door and a temptation I had to resist. I was too old for her, but I couldn’t forget her. When we meet again after ten long years, she’s caught in the crosshairs of a deadly drug kingpin. But I wear a badge now. Nothing will stop me from protecting the woman who claimed me—heart and soul—so long ago. I’ll keep Esme safe or die trying.
Snowfire is a steamy, holiday romance in the Fortunato worldWhen Luca Fiero escaped his routine life in his family’s Hell’s Kitchen bakery, the cost was life-altering. These days, ex-con Luca values work and family and he knows all too well what he can never have.
There's only one thing best-selling, award-winning NYC author Charlotte O'Shay loves more than reading steamy, page-turning, contemporary romance.
Writing them.
Her writing has been called "intoxicating, emotional and irresistible." N.N.Light’s Book Heaven
Whether they're blue-collar or billionaires, Charlotte writes protective heroes who fall hard for the independent women who challenge them on every level.
Find your happily ever after in the city of dreams.
Book 0.1 FLING TO FOREVERBook 0.5 HOW WE STARTED Prequel - FREE
Book 1 - MY ONLY ONE
Book 2 - SAY YOU'RE MINE
Book 2.5 SNOWFIRE
Fall in love with the Fortunato Family of New York City. In this prequel to the Fortunato Family series and My Only One, a friends to lovers, romantic suspense, you'll meet Esme and Shane and their families.
Tropes: origin story, prequel, friends to lovers romance prequel, found family, unrequited love, longing, pining.
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Sounds like a book I will enjoy reading.
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