Romance Book Junkies: Alterity cover reveal

Title: Alterity

Series: Alterity, Book 1

Tagline: Passion. Love. Music.

Author: Ashlynne Laynne

Publisher: Q-Rotic Press

Cover Art: Willsin Rowe

Genre: Romance

Sub-genre: Rocker, Interracial/Multicultural, Contemporary

From the award-winning author of the Progeny Series comes a different type of love story. Alterity is book one of a romance-based succession focusing on passion, love, and music.

A man struggling to gain his independence…

Every aspect of Austin MacKenzie’s life is governed by a generations-old code instituted by his Scottish forefathers. But rather than be groomed to take over the family empire, he struggles to free himself from the bonds of an arranged marriage to a woman within Scottsdale’s societal circles.

A woman simply struggling to survive…

Raised by a drug-addicted mother in one of the roughest parts of Phoenix, Liz Carlisle just wants a way out. A nursing student, she’s determined to make a difference and reach her ultimate goal of becoming a pediatric nurse.

With music as a common ground…

After a chance encounter at a band audition, Austin and Liz discover that they share a love of music. Despite their differences, an attraction forms that will alter their lives forever and rip their worlds apart.

Excerpt:

“I want you,” he confessed, deciding he was no longer able to maintain a reasonable amount of distance, “more than I want to draw my next breath. I can’t just be your friend anymore. My feelings go way deeper. Something’s happening between us. I know it’s only been a short time, but I can’t think straight. For the first time in my life, I’m free to imagine a future that’s so different from anything I’ve ever dreamed. I want you in that future.”

Speaking the truth, aloud, made things so much clearer.

Lifting her head from his beating heart, Liz made eye contact again, her gaze liquid and accessing. Placing his hand over her chest, she asked, “Can you feel that? This is what you do to me.” Her heart thumped against his palm, beating in a rhythm that closely mimicked his own. “I understand why we can’t make love, and I’m okay with waiting and taking things slow.” She paused, her stare tunneling deeper. “As long as we get there someday.”

He whispered, “Is breá liom tú,” against her lips, speaking the words he’d heard his father say to his mother hundreds of time. It was a tender term of endearment he didn’t speak lightly, because it meant he was surrendering a part of himself to Liz. The fact that he’d spoken it in the tongue of his Scottish ancestors meant more.

And he did love her, more with each passing day.

A smile turned her lips up, her expression filled with wonder and confusion. “What did you just say?”

“I love you.” The weight of inevitability crushed Austin’s chest just as surely as the relief of full disclosure caused his heart to soar.

Liz straddled his lap, her arms winding around him as she sobbed into his neck. “I love you, too, Texas.”

Austin crushed her to him, cherishing each inch of her skin with the pads of his fingertips. He was no longer in a state of alterity, because he’d unearthed that singular sense of contentment that only came from finding the other half of your soul. His heart was no longer lost because it was knit to hers, his whole world existing right there in her arms. Their mouths joined, accepting and tasting one another, and Austin was well aware that he was losing his way. Falling. Feeling. Compromising everything he’d ever been told for one tiny moment. He felt the commotion of his chaotic life calm to a crawl with each soft caress of her lips. Liz was stripping him bare, and he was bargaining eternity for the love of a raven-haired angel who was slowly taking him over.

Ashlynne Laynne is the author of contemporary romance and the award-winning erotic paranormal romance succession, The Progeny Series, as well as an accomplished songwriter and poet. She’s an avid horror movie fan, admitted vamp groupie, and lover of all things Celtic. A hopeless romantic, she’s always had a thing for the fanged ones and hot guys in kilts.

Ashlynne writes on the edge and combines erotica and romance in sensual tales that always feature heroes with heart. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, reading, and spending time with her family. She juggles the hats of wife, mother, full time employee and part-time writer, hoping to write exclusively in the future.

Ms. Laynne is an advocate of autism research and is currently working on a project to benefit the cause. She lives in the southern United States with her husband and son.

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Passion. Love. Music.

The Alterity Series is not your ordinary rocker romance succession, and Austin Mackenzie isn’t some caricature meant to epitomize the proverbial bad boy. His life is governed by a generations-old code that influences every facet of his existence. When he meets nursing student, Liz Carlisle, they discover a mutual passion for music and one another.

This series is contemporary romance intended for adults and contains adult sensuality, language, and themes.

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