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Him, grabbing her from behind on the front porch when she returned from running. He clamped his gloved hand over her mouth, grabbed her around the waist, and hauled her through the door. Him, spinning her around and, with a backhanded slap, sending her reeling backward and crashing into the dining room table. Pain radiated from her hip and down her leg. He grabbed her wrist, pulled her forward, and squeezed her so tight to his chest that she couldn’t breathe. Pain along her jaw, she opened her mouth to scream in terror, but he clamped his hand down again, cutting off her air, and the scream rising out of her was lost in the back of her throat. Him, shoving her away. She hit her head against the wall and stars exploded on the inside of her eyelids. Pain in the back of her head. A large throbbing bump swelled under her skin.

Nothing but him and pain. And, oh God, more to come.

Forced into the bedroom. He held her in his tight grip, grinding his hips and hard arousal against her bottom, inciting even more fear.

He liked her scared.

She stood helplessly frozen. Tried to get her mind to work, think, tell her body to flee, but her limbs didn’t heed the wild thoughts in her head.

Him, snatching her belt off the dresser, pushing her onto the bed. She landed on her stomach, and his fingers dug into her skin, bruising. She curled up, tried to make herself as small a target as possible. The belt lashed across her back and buttocks, her screams disregarded, her thin tank top and nylon shorts no protection against the bite of the leather whip and metal buckle.

The dressing mirror smashed to the floor with a loud crack. He wielded a shard of broken glass, his lips pulled back in a feral smile. He slashed her thigh, tearing the flesh in a jagged line of searing pain. She screamed in agony. Him, sitting on her bloodied, welted back, pulling her hair. Hacking at it. She tried desperately to scratch and claw at the hands over her head. Him, shoving her off the bed and onto the floor with a resounding thud. Him, in a mindless fury, demanding over and over again, yelling at the top of his lungs,
“Say you’ll come back. I’ll stop. Say it. Say you’ll come back.”

Him, whispering in her ear, his knee grinding into her spine,
“You’re mine. Wherever you go, I’ll find you. You promised before God you’d be my obedient wife. ’Til death do us part. Death, Jenna. Say it.”
The last he said with such menace that his voice became calm as a flat sea.

Her whisper, softer than his gasping breath, broke into his raging mind when all her screams went unheard.

“Never.”

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Excerpt from
The Earl in My Bed
copyright © 2013 by Sharie Kohler.

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Adventures with Max and Louise
copyright © 2011, 2013 by Ellyn M. Oaksmith.

Excerpt from
Get There
copyright © 2009 by Megan Hart.

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Saved by the Rancher
copyright © 2013 by Jennifer Ryan.

ALL OR NOTHING
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EPub Edition MARCH 2013 ISBN: 9780062273864

Print Edition ISBN: 9780062273871

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