Published by T L Swan Publication Date: June 5th 2016
Pages: 140
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We've changed. Darker, damaged and unable to conform. My husband Joshua is dealing with the past the best that he can.....as am I.Nobody else can understand the language we speak. The trauma we have been through.But with the pain comes pleasure and happiness is our gift.#returntopoundtown
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STANTON BLISS is the final book in Josh and Tash’s story. I wasn’t sure there was any more drama these two could possibly get into, considering everything they’d been through in the previous books. But TL Swan find a few more things to put this couple through before they got their happily ever after.
The story picks up with Josh and Tash finally getting married. But in their rush to finish what their captors and tormentors tried to stop them from doing, neither one of them bothered to deal with the repercussions of everything they went through. And that brings me to my biggest issue with the characters. Tash is a psychologist, yet she barrels down these paths that had me wondering what she was doing and why. Then there was their friend Nicholas, who is also a psychologist,who often took his own sweet time stepping in to help Josh and Tash. It frustrated me. I understand not dealing with what they’d been through. And even as a professional, not able to deal with it. But I’d think someone close to them would push help on them rather than letting them bob around.
What I loved in this series was the secondary characters. And I was hoping with this last book, we might get a bit of closer on their secondary storylines. Adrian, Bridget, Abbie and Camaren all get a mention in the epilogue, but we don’t find out what happened out of those secondary storylines.
A satisfying ending to the series. After everything they’d been through, it was nice to see them settle into their family life. They truly had found their bliss.
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Excerpt
From my bed, I hear the front door open downstairs, the car keys hit the foyer table with force, then I listen as he takes the stairs two at a time. I feel a rush of excitement sweep through me.
My man is home.
Once upon a time, he trained to fight. Now his fight is daily. Mentally battling his demons and physically battling competitors at 6:00 a.m. every morning, I feel sorry for the poor bastards he fights. They don’t stand a chance. He’s changed. He’s darker, damaged and unwilling to conform. Joshua Stanton is dealing with the last six months the best that he can… as am I.
We have each other, we get it, nobody else can understand the language we speak or the pain we have been through. I lie still, trying to recover from our night, and yet he has been up and to the gym. I know why he does it; he’s trying to control the anger at what we have been through. He’s still furious, furious at himself for letting it happen, furious at Amelie for doing what she did, and furious at the press for feeding on our nightmare. He turns the corner into our room and his dark eyes drop to my naked body on the bed. He’s wet with perspiration and there’s a tangible force, a feeling of adrenaline pumping through his body out onto me where I lie. His t-shirt comes slowly over his head, and he drops his pants to reveal that beautiful rock hard body.
“How was your fight?” I whisper as my eyes lower to my name on his side.
He smiles sexily as he walks around the side of the bed, surveying me. He doesn’t answer as his hand drops to between his legs and he gives himself three slow hard strokes. My breath catches. He hasn’t said a word or touched me and yet, as always, just the sight of him makes me good to go. “You look exceptional, Mrs. Stanton,” he whispers as his hand continues to stroke his cock.
I hold my breath and open my legs just that little bit farther. Joshua cracks his neck hard as his dark eyes stay fixed between my legs.
His tongue slides over his bottom lip before he drops his head and begins to lick my inner thigh.
“Give me my breakfast. I’m fucking starving.”
I lay back and close my eyes. Mr. Stanton is here, like he is most mornings when he returns from fighting. The adrenaline in his system is through the roof and I’m the lucky girl he releases it on. Our sex is rougher and less controlled than it has ever been, but it’s also never been so hot. I’m putty in his dominant hands.
I crave his control over my body. I crave the way he takes what he needs without a care in the world.
His strong hands hold my legs apart and his hot tongue swipes through my flesh.
“Hmm,” he groans into me. My hands fall to the back of his head. ”Oh, you fucking taste good, my beautiful girl,” he whispers. I shudder immediately and close my eyes. If I watch him do that, I will come in five seconds flat. He starts to really eat me, dragging my body up and down his face. His sharp whiskers are grinding but it’s a pleasurable burn, a pain I have become accustomed to, the pain is my addiction.
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About the Author:
Tee Swan was born in Sydney Australia and is the author of Contemporary Romance novels, Stanton Adore, Stanton Unconditional and Stanton Completely.
Her new novel, Find Me Alastar is due for release in early 2016.
She studies Psychology and works for the Australian Schizophrenia Fellowship. When Tee is not working in the depths of mental health, you will find her daydreaming about her next story, writing, drinking coffee or hanging with her beloved husband and three kids in her sleepy beach side town south of Sydney.
Tee’s aim is to write steamy, tender love stories that stay with you long after you close the book.
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