Over the Line by Lisa Desrochers Blog Tour!
Syn opsis:
The
USA Today bestselling author of Outside the Lines once again explores love on
the edge in an explosive new romance about obsession, betrayal, and a killer
attraction.
Lee Delgado never planned on falling in
love with the irresistible Oliver Savoca, son of a Chicago crime lord.
Considering that their families are rivals, she knew it could never work. And
now that both their fathers have been nabbed on racketeering charges, any real
chance at a future with the man she loves has been shot to hell. But a greater
blow is yet to come.
Not only does Lee learn that a contract is
out on her life, she has reason to believe that Oliver is behind the
devastating betrayal. Now she’s working closely—very closely—with Federal Agent
Sean Callahan to help bring her man down. But however she’s come to feel about
Callahan, Lee is still deeply, hopelessly, unabashedly in love with Oliver.
Where that fearless love takes Lee next is
beyond her control—but the risk is worth every beat of her heart.
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EXCERPT
I want Lee to know, no matter where she goes, I will find her.
At the thought of her betrayal, rage rises up and wraps like
an iron cloak around my heart, threatening to crush any bit of humanity left
there. I close my eyes and hold my breath until it passes.
And I see her as she was before everything that came after—that
first day of business law class at Kellogg, nearly two years ago.
She was starting her first year. I was in my second. I was
already seated near Angela Bagglio, who I had a passing interest in due to her
loose family ties to the Delgado organization. Her brother was a wiseguy
wannabe, little more than a glorified gofer within the Delgado machine. But I’d
discovered, sometimes it was the smallest details that led to the largest
victories.
When Lee Delgado sashayed into the classroom, I’d like to
say I was unaffected. I’d like to believe I was in complete control of
everything that happened then and after.
But I’d be kidding myself.
Her bright hazel eyes surveyed the room, and when they
caught for a second as they passed over me, I felt a shift in gravity itself.
There were times reading nuances in expressions and actions was all that came
between me and a slug in my head. That hitch in her perusal of the room left no
doubt she was aware who I was.
From that second on, I was helpless to take my eyes off her.
Her sandy brown waves cascaded over the shoulders of her
cream-colored silk blouse to an open collar that hung loose, revealing a hint
of cleavage. Her burgundy pencil skirt hugged the round curves of her hips and
ass and ended above the knee, giving me a glimpse of a pair of toned thighs and
calves. She had a killer body and knew it. I had to respect a woman who knew
her strengths and wasn’t afraid to use them to her advantage.
She took a seat in my row, but on the opposite side of the
classroom. I was barely coherent when the professor started lecturing. I
couldn’t tell you the first thing he said.
As she listened, she lifted a hand and combed through her
waves with her fingers, separating out a strand and twirling it around her
finger. A rush shuddered from my tailbone up my spine to my brain, and even
though I had no clue why, that was the moment I knew I wasn’t going to be able
to stay away.
The rest, as they say, is history.
If she thinks she can hide from me, she’s got another thing
coming.
Mob controlled gambling has always been a huge racket, with
better payouts because we don’t pay taxes like the legal betting sites. Back in
the day, bookies were involved and actual cash changed hands. Now nearly
everything is electronic. Bets are collected directly from our clients’ online
accounts and payouts are distributed back into them. Payout is calculated after
each event based on outcome versus the spread. It’s one of the parts of my job
that I truly enjoy. I’m always in the
program, tweaking and modifying. But, suddenly, the week before Christmas, two
days after Lee and I returned from our weekend in Aspen, I noticed the spread
didn’t factor anymore and our payouts went through the roof. I thought maybe
I’d screwed something up and tried to get into the program to check it. Ended
up throwing my laptop against the wall when my pass code wouldn’t get me in.
It took me the next two days, and the fact that Lee wasn’t
answering my texts or calls, to put together what had happened. Though I’m not
sure exactly how she managed it, I know it had to have been her who hacked into
my program and changed the payout ratios. I’ve looked at it from every angle
and there are no other feasible possibilities. And it makes sense. I had an
ulterior motive when we started hooking up, and I had no doubt she had one of
her own. But as we got deeper into each other, things shifted and I lost focus.
I let down my guard and gave her too much, and she took advantage of the
opening.
I knew I wouldn’t be seeing her over the holidays because
her siblings were all coming back to the family home in Wilmette, just outside
of Chicago, for Christmas. It took me another day to decide I had no choice but
to go there.
But when I got to the house, the place was swarming with
cops and Feds, and yellow police tape was strung across the pillars at the
front door. The reports the next day said it was believed the Delgados had fled
to Europe after a “gangland style attack” on their home.
The online gambling leg of our business has been bleeding
cash at the rate of nearly a hundred grand a month since Lee fucked with the
program. Every month it gets worse as word spreads of our big payouts. The guy
who designed and encrypted the program is dead; a casualty of my father’s wrath
when he made the mistake of telling Victor he’d corrected a system glitch that
had cost us a couple hundred grand over the first year of implementation. I’ve
done everything I can to break Lee’s pass code, but considering the illegal
nature of the account, and the fact that I couldn’t enlist anyone who might
report back to Victor what happened, my resources to resolve the issue have
been severely limited.
So I put my time and energy into another avenue. Finding
Lee.
Like everyone else in Chicago, I assumed that my father was
responsible for the contract on Lee and her family. I talked to his guys. Tried
to see if any of them had a bead on the Delgados’ location. I couldn’t find
anyone who was even looking.
So, as much as I dreaded it, I went straight to the source.
I was dead to my father. He’d made that clear. But that day,
for the first time since I’d crossed him, Victor looked at me with pride in his
eyes when he asked, “You purchase that special delivery for our friends up in
Wilmette?”
And that’s when I knew it wasn’t us. It’s also when I knew I
was a dead man unless I could find a way out of this mess on my own.
So I looked harder for Lee, dug a little deeper into the
Delgado family tree. I didn’t find her, but I managed to stumble on some other
useful information during my search. And then, finally, the stroke of luck that
led me here: Rob showing up in Chicago.
I’ve been able to keep everything under the rug since she
left, but underground betting has always been the Savoca business’s bread and
butter. If Victor or anyone else in the organization discovers the hemorrhage
of cash that our gambling ring has become, it’s my head my loving pop will want on a spike.
I told the guys I had some personal business in Vegas; gave
Al a direct order to park his ass at my apartment and not to move until I got
back. I took a flight to Vegas, and from there, traveled to Florida on an ID I
pinched off of a guy we rolled in Little Italy for not making book. He’s dead
now, courtesy of Al, so he won’t be divulging my alter ego to anyone.
My family doesn’t know this particular alias. They’d have a
hard time tracking me. Once I find Lee, things should move pretty fast. But I
have to find her first.
So here I am.
Review:
I loved Over the Line by Lisa Desrochers!!
I was completely drawn into this series from the first book Outside The Lines.
Throughout this novel, the characters of Lee and Sean will leave you in a state of happiness. Their interaction are filled with tension, romance, suspense and sexy moments.
I love a good forbidden romance and that is exactly what I got with this novel! Filled with betrayal, obsession and attraction.
This is definitely a must read novel!
4/5 Stars!
Review:
I loved Over the Line by Lisa Desrochers!!
I was completely drawn into this series from the first book Outside The Lines.
Throughout this novel, the characters of Lee and Sean will leave you in a state of happiness. Their interaction are filled with tension, romance, suspense and sexy moments.
I love a good forbidden romance and that is exactly what I got with this novel! Filled with betrayal, obsession and attraction.
This is definitely a must read novel!
4/5 Stars!
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