Book Name: The Need to Touch
Author Name: Brooke Johnson &
Natalya Parks
Author Bio:
Brooke Johnson:
Brooke Johnson lives in Louisiana
with her five girls, wonderful boyfriend, and many pets. When she is not
working on finishing her current degree, she can be found fishing, coloring, or
blowing bubbles with her kids. Just over a year ago, Brooke decided she wasn’t
going to back down from her dreams, and started writing full time. With the
encouragement of her family she is proud to be publishing her books for the
world to read.
Brooke started reading later in
life. Unlike many authors who have always had a special love for reading,
Brooke didn’t pick up a book until she was in her late teens. She remembers
wanting to find something to do with her mom, who has always been her best
friend. One day her mom was talking about a romance novel that she just read.
Not being interested in it all, Brooke gave in and read the book. She’s been
her mom’s reading partner ever since. They can now sit and talk, laugh and even
cry about all the books they have read over the years.
So, with great pride and honor,
Brooke is happy to thank her mother for encouraging her to not only read, but
to follow her heart, and write her own books. What started as simple poetry on
scrap paper, at the age of seven, is now a dream come true. Brooke started
writing but felt something was missing. When she started writing with Natalya
Parks, everything seemed to fall into place, and now here they are. Launching
books, and writing more. This may be the first you see of them, but Brooke is
determined that this won’t be last. Brooke is excited for you to meet their
characters, and fall in love with the men that they have spent many hours with
over the last year, just for you!!
Natalya Parks:
Natalya parks lives is Louisiana with her beloved dog,
Napoleon. Natalya enjoys spending as
much time as possible with her children and grandchildren.
Natalya has had an ongoing passionate love affair with books
since she was four years old. While her friends were getting in trouble for not
reading she was getting in trouble for reading. She was late for dinner, forgot
to do her chores, stayed up past her bedtime, forgot about homework and was
late for the school bus on many occasions; because she couldn’t put the book
down. Her most embarrassing moment
caused by reading a book occurred when she was in seventh grade. The school bus
pulled up to her stop and of course she couldn’t possibly stop reading. The
story was just too good. So with her nose still in her book she slowly made her
way down the aisle of the bus. She as she got to the top of the stairs she
tripped over an instrument case that was jutting out just a bit into the aisle.
Where she promptly fell head first down the stairs landing in a heap in the
dirt, her feet resting on the bottom step. Natalya was wearing a dress that day.
She has wanted to be a writer since she was a teenager but
never thought she could write anything good enough for someone else to want to
read. Her dear friend Brooke convinced her otherwise and literally dragged her
into the world of writing. Something she will be forever grateful. Now, not
only does she get to love and enjoy works by other authors but also those that
she has contributed to as well. Her mind still goes tilt, tilt when she thinks
about the fact that she is a published author. Dreams really can come true.
Author Contact:
Publisher: Cool
Beans Publishing and Editing, LLC
Cover Artist: Aj Corza
Blurb(s):
You can only
win someone’s heart once you’ve captured it.
Nineteen year
old Ryder Harrison grew up near a small town in Montana, working on the
family’s ranch and in love with his best friend, Landon Pennington. That was
until his Grandfather decided he needed to go to college in California. Ryder
promised his Mom before she died that he would finish his education. Staying
true to his word, Ryder packs his clothes, and heads to California, confident
that it would all be one big disaster. The only thing he hadn’t planned on was
meeting Bentley Carter.
Twenty year old
Bentley Carter has enough emotional issues to write his own ‘How to Cope’
manual. Surviving an abusive childhood, he made a personal promise to always
stay true to himself, and never let emotions overrule his common sense. Content
with his current life and friend with ‘benefits’, Ben is determined to not let
his new roommate affect him.
Uncertain about
their places in the world, and with each other, Ryder and Ben struggle to
understand the person who is not what they thought they wanted, yet who they
are unable to live without. Living in a sometimes cruel and unforgiving world
they are determined to embrace the reality of falling in love and the
challenges that follow.
Excerpt:
“Welcome to paradise!!” Ethan yelled
over the music.
All I could see was flesh, and hard
bodies. Hard everything. Everywhere I looked, half naked guys were dancing and
grinding together.
“Ry, honey, you okay?” Ben squeezed my
hand, pulling me out of the fog of lust.
I hadn’t realized I wasn’t blinking,
until my eyes started to water. Ben noticed my current state, smiled and pulled
me onto the dance floor. He had me turned and pressed against him so fast I was
dizzy. My hands trembled. He started grinding against me with his hands on my
lower back. The press of bodies around us didn’t allow for additional space
between us, and the music only encouraged our hips to gyrate.
I could feel his nipple rings through
our thin shirts. Our thighs rubbed together every time Ben wiggled his ass and
pressed his hips to mine. I growled in the back of my throat, holding him a
little tighter.
We’ve
been in the damn club all of five minutes, and I was about cum in my pants.
“Ben, I need a drink.” I leaned in to
speak directly into his ear.
He must not have heard me because he
pulled me closer, moving us to the rhythm of the music. Ben’s hard-on was
pressed my thigh. I made a mistake looking into his eyes. Their intensity was
magnified by the eye liner. I’d never seen anything so beautiful in my life.
Ben leaned into me, and I tightened my arms around his waist, wanting what he
offered.
Starting at the sensitive skin behind
my ear, he licked his way down to my collar before lightly biting me.
Or:
Ben
Two days since meeting Ryder and I was
considering changing majors.
It’s been thirty minutes since this lecture
began, and I couldn’t remember one word the professor said. The cause of my
distraction was chewing on his pen, two rows down from me. I groaned, and then
tried to cover it with a cough. My face felt hot as the girl next to me glared
in my direction. Why did he have to do
that with his pen? It wasn’t until everyone closed their books that I
realized I had stared ay Ryder through the entire lecture.
I
continually found reasons to spend time with him. So I shoved my stuff in my
bag and rushed out of the classroom. I was eager to run into him in the
hallway, maybe then I’d get him to talk to me.
I rushed past a bundle of people gathered in the
hallway. It wasn’t as though he was hard to find. Ryder was tall and solid
muscle; I bet he looked even better naked.
Ryder smiled as I fell into step next to him.
“So, what did you think?” I asked as we took the
stairs to our dorm room.
“It was okay. I could swear someone was watching
me the whole time.” Ryder said.
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