#HobbyCareerPassion: Amber Daulton with ‘Talent Untouched’ & New Release: Trevor’s Redemption ~ #RomanticSuspense #AHAgrp #Blog

Welcome to my weekly feature where authors share about the hobbies, careers, or passions of their characters.

I’m pleased to introduce today’s guest, Amber Daulton…

Talent Untouched

Hey, guys. What’s up? I’m Trevor Madero sitting with the awesome Alicia Dean to talk about my hobby, career, and passion. Two of the three I have.

My childhood was rough, but the one thing that got me through it was music. Listening to it, talking about it, playing it—didn’t matter. My next door neighbor was a jazz man and taught me everything he knew, even gave me my first guitar. For an angry, scared kid with daddy issues, jazz was the one bright light I desperately needed.

You see, my dad was an abusive prick. He’d get drunk and knock around me and Mom, then move on to my baby sisters. After he died, you’d think I would’ve been free and happy. Not so. Good ole Pops left the family in a bind, and I had to fix it. Don’t get me wrong. I’d make the sacrifice all over again to save my mom and sisters, but the choice I made set me on a dark path. I had to work for criminals to keep my family safe. Soon enough, I became one. Still am to this day.

Even though I perform at bars and clubs and have a decent following on my social media channels, I’ll never have the opportunity to turn my hobby and passion into a career. I have too many skeletons in my closet to let anyone dig into my past and find out what I do in the cover of night. It sucks. Really. I have a great singing voice and play a mean guitar—no arrogance intended—but my talent is wasted. Untouched.

Doesn’t matter, in the grand scheme. My life is as good as it’s gonna get. My girlfriend, Shea, is the most important person in the world to me. She sees me as a good man, and I would do about anything to make that true.

Anyway, that’s it. Music, jazz, guitars—it’s my passion, but it’ll never be more than a hobby.

Will the truth send her running, or will she fight for the man she loves?rt?

Blurb:

The danger and lies are more than she can handle.

Shea O’Bannon feels like a fifth wheel around her romantically paired-off friends, but there’s too much slime in the dating pool for her to bother with it. Then she sees her two-timing ex, Trevor Madero, serenading the mostly female crowd at a live-music bar. God knows trouble follows him around, but her desire for him rushes back in anyway. After he rescues her from a handsy drunk, temptation takes over.

Determined to prove he never stepped out on Shea, Trevor slides back into her life—and her heart—with forever in mind. Even with the wall he keeps up to protect her, his secret criminal life weighs heavy on his soul and drives a wedge between them.

When the truth comes out and his enemies target them both, they’ll have to fight for their love, or kiss it goodbye.

– Book 3.5 in the sexy romantic suspense series, Arresting Onyx.

Excerpt:

Shea moaned as Trevor kissed her. He was so game, thank God. His hands roamed over her breasts and down her belly as though they had a mind of their own. She gasped as he pushed up her dress and skimmed his fingers over her mound. A thrill shot through her. She clutched his damp, corded shirt and tilted her head back as she bucked against his hand.

Angel food, my ass.

Trevor circled her achy clitoris with his thumb, despite the silk barrier of her panties between them. “Sweet enough to eat,” he murmured as he licked the line of her throat.

Her spine stiffened. How she suddenly hated that word—sweet—but he was right. If she were anything like the other women in the bar, she probably wouldn’t have worn panties. His friends had shamelessly flirted with her, so it stood to reason some of the other men there would find her attractive, too, but Trevor getting into a brawl to protect her? Bah. That wasn’t low self-esteem rearing its ugly head, but the truth. She damn well knew she was pretty, maybe even hot on a good hair day, but gorgeous like Chanel or sophisticated like Mia? No way. Lord knew she didn’t have Belle’s attitude or Calista’s statuesque figure, either, and she was okay with that.

“Stop thinking so much.” Trevor trailed kisses along her jawline.

She blinked at him. “How did you know?” A flash of lightning lit up his wicked grin and the gleam in his dark, sultry eyes. Her heart stuttered.

“You’ve stopped moaning. You’re more rigid than a drill sergeant with new recruits.” He rubbed his hands down her bare arms. “You have goosebumps too. Lean back for me. I’ll set you on fire.”

As she reclined and narrowly missed jabbing the seat belt buckle against her side, she spread her legs as far as she could in the tight confines of the backseat. Her heels clacked against the driver’s side passenger door and foggy window.

He shifted over her with a grunt and unzipped his jeans. The thick shaft that protruded from the opening bobbed as he tried to find a place to rest his knees. His left leg then slipped off the seat and hit the floorboard, and he toppled on top of her.

“Oomph.” Air rushed from her lungs. Then she giggled at the scowl creasing his face. She pushed on his shoulders to help as he braced his hands by her head and hefted himself up.

“It’s too cramped back here.”

“I noticed. Where’s your rental car? Maybe the backseat will be bigger?”

His nostrils flared in a snort. “Across the lot. Straddle me, honey.”

Buy links:

Release Day – August 22, 2023

Only 99 cents for a limited time!

Universal – https://books.amberdaulton.com/trevorsredemption

Amazon – https://amzn.to/3WKxXqg

Barnes and Noble – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trevors-redemption-amber-daulton/1143581784?ean=2940160981512

iTunes – https://books.apple.com/us/book/trevors-redemption/id6449718746

Kobo – https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/trevor-s-redemption

Google Play – https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=AjbCEAAAQBAJ

Amber Daulton is the author of the romantic-suspense series Arresting Onyx and several standalone novellas. Her books are published through Daulton Publishing, The Wild Rose Press, and Books to Go Now, and are available in ebook, print on demand, audio, and foreign language formats.

She lives in North Carolina with her husband and demanding cats.

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